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...and announcers not giving the players nicknames.

sportsline says he was ejected for hitting luna in today's game, but there weren't any hit batters earlier in the game...what happened?

no, he never brags on players or jumps on bandwagons.

i'm the first to admit that i've been very lucky over the past three days of fantasy baseball. i was fortunate to get out of the first round, and to say i've had good fortune w/ my SP's this week would be an understatement. but i'll take it. :D

your inspirational speech worked on howard. i can't believe how strong my pitching has been this week. three 8+ inning outings from three pretty average pitchers...

Aren't those things supposed to be calibrated daily? heh, we talked about that in evidence today. there's no way i'd rank ryu over pinto or nolasco...or hil...or gallagher...or marshall. that's a pretty odd comment from BA.

obviously, i would too. but it's never gonna happen for a few reasons. 1) baker refuses to accept the fact that the cubs are toast. and he will continue to refuse to accept it until the cubs are 10 out with 9 to play...heck, he may even hang in there at that point. 2) rusch followed up four turds with a gem in st. louis, and everybody knows that with dusty the good stays in his memory longer than the bad when it comes to veterans. 3) rusch has already launched a pre-emptive whine attack on possibly being sent back to the pen next season. so i can only assume he'll whine about getting sent there this season. and i don't think dusty or hendry want to have an iffy clubhouse...which is why farnsworth is throwing up zeros in atlanta instead of chicago. when rusch sucked it up for four starts and hill pitched well in AAA, i really had hope that rich would get 3-4 starts in september. at this point, i'd just be happy to see him get 3-4 innings.

you're not done. you have three starts from prior, oswalt and fatolo...they are all capable of having huge games. and my pitchers are all capable of having 'disaster' starts.

i'm guessing timlin gets a blown save too...but he gave up the lead in the 7th...does that still count as a BS?

last week i told jim tracy and jeff weaver they could go to hell. i now retract those statements. what a first day for me...my two starts got me 17 1/3 ip, 14 k's, 2 runs allowed, 2 wins, 2 QS, a shutout and a CG (would have been two if not for my arch nemisis jose macias... :puker: )...now that's the kind of production i expect when i throw studs like jeff weaver and aaron harang out there... 8-[ ...and i think my bullpen this week has already outscored my pen last week. if not for ibanez's crazy good night, it'd be 75-0 going into day two. but i'm far from resting easy because colon, prior and oswalt are all capable of 25 point efforts. and andruw is liable to jack out five hr's in three more games in philly. both teams have six starts left. db's should have a small lead going into tomorrow's action. eaton just missed a quality start, or his lead would be bigger. tim's gotta be loving a bullpen win...

by the way, dusty's double switch is going to work out fantastic this inning. since he took walker out (even though his spot comes before macias'), a ph will bat 2nd. then macias can make the final out. good thing hill didn't go out there and screw this beauty up.

he was warming earlier, but then dusty realized that he had TWO rookies warming up at the same time, and we obviously can't have that.

heh...walker out in the double switch, but macias stays in. wonderful. i want to see some rich hill.

I hate to break this to you, but after yesterday's games they have the exact same OPS... I think his point includes durability. I know, I was just pointing out that Nomar has been just as productive as Furcal this season when he's been in the lineup. (Despite his slow start and horrific injury.) Looking forward I'm not too concerned with Nomar's health. He's had a rough last couple of years, but more often than not in his career he's been able to put together a full season's worth of AB. Given that he's almost certain to take a cheap/heavily incentived contract this offseason I think he makes a lot more sense than Furcal does. If he's healthy that's great; we should have a very productive shortstop at realtively low cost. If not, Cedeno looks like he'll be at least a serviceable starter in the majors. Either way I like it better than making a huge committment to average production by inking Furcal. Oh, I agree completely. My preference is to go with a MIF of Nomar/Walker with Cedeno as the primary backup in place of Neifi. seconded. i'm also starting to come around and accept murton as the starting lf.

I bet you'd also want to strike my all-important fifth win, which raises my winning percentage above .200. :D yes. but you can count it on your own personal standings.

db coopers v. nsbb: only six starts for db this week with eaton being the only guy to double up...both of his starts come in good pitcher's parks. only three of his offensive guys have six game weeks, but all three of his relievers do. no huge hitter's park advantages for his guys, but he's got a bunch of games in texas. cy elarton looks to put up his second consecutive 35+ point week. nsbb gets seven starts, including two from carpenter. and since the book isn't out on cain yet, nsbb is throwing him out there in the heat of the playoff race. and of course the big decision was whether to throw bonds out there, and it looks like nsbb will at the expense of a gimpy damon or guillen. nsbb also showing some confidence in the rookie gomes, who i deeply regret trading to him at this point. no huge park factors here, but abreu and chipper get four games in CBP. galesburg v. tootielicious: ghs was fortunate to advance to this round. and i'm willing to bet that tootie is as happy about ghs winning as i am since would have had to face a 10 start tornado from buddiga this week. eight starts for ghs, but, as usual, most of them are from below average-average pitchers. ghs gets a host of arlington park games from tejada, blalock and teix (though tejada and blalock have been nothing special of late) and some MMP/miller park games from lee and overbay. only six starts for tootie, with glavine pulling double duty. he also pulls a tough draw w/ prior facing the cardinals. ramirez remains on the sidelines for tootie. andruw jones is on a tear, and four games in CBP should do nothing to slow that down. all three of his relievers have seven game weeks.

The last place team in the East did beat the 6th place team in the West by almost 80 points, though. :D I noticed these non-games are actually reflected in the league standings. NSBB is now shown with a 22-1 record. :( i second the :( ...that should be stricken from the record.

why do you have to 'blow' money? that's insane...especially if the objective is to keep neifi off the field. how about you just don't sign neifi? there, you just saved $2.5 mil to keep perez off the field instead of spending $30 mil. fine, he's above average (compared to other ss)...but when you compare him to guys that will get 4-5 year contracts, i'd say he's average. in other words, he's not worth what he'll get. why invest 30 mil+ and 4-5 years in a guy who can be outproduced by a cheaper nomar, who can then possibly replaced by cedeno at less than a million in 2006? you'd be wasting the cubs' top position prospect and spending $30 mil to get furcal. if you'd be wasting cedeno and spending tons of cash while getting arod or tejada for ss, fine...but furcal isn't that good.

even better when you consider that cain's two-hitter doesn't count since the cubs don't have a book on him. can we even be happy that they're winning? say they finish at or slightly above .500...doesn't that just make them think everything's fine?

and it looks like stewart has been taken out of the game. i gotta say, i've had some bad luck this season (2nd highest point total in the league, but needing a tie breaker to get in + having the 2nd highest point allowed in the league), but my luck has been nothing but remarkably good against you. in a regular season game, ayala had come in and pitched a scoreless inning in the sunday night game, cementing a victory for you. but then he went back out for a second inning and fell apart, and i ended up winning by a very small margin. then, this week, you lose sheff and griffey (two of your huge bats), and then ortiz and biggio take sunday off. now, you did get a ridiculous five save week out of dempster, but still i'd have to say i had the advantage luck-wise. PLUS, two teams screw with their rotation...giving me an extra start and taking one away from you. then your last hope is taken out after five innings in a blowout loss. and i'm obviously not trying to rub it in by typing it all out like that...i'm just trying to say i feel your pain, and i know i was very, very fortunate to win this week...assuming my math is right and i really am on top... **** Gardenhire. yep. it was a good battle and i got screwed by several organizations. had the Yankees not kept everyone in the dark on the Sheffield injury I might have been able to make a lineup change there, but it's not to be. good luck against Tootielicious. he's probably wiping his brow avoiding the 10-start monster! :) yeah, that would have been tough to overcome. i'm lucky in that he doesn't have a two start week from prior, oswalt or colon.

it's going to come down to Stewart's last ab, hopefully 2. he is 1-3, 2 k tonight for 0.5 pts. The score is 260-252. I think your total is around 257-258 for the week, so unless Stewart hits a HR or the equivalent thereof, Buddiga will lose. it would be brutal to lose a potential 10 start week. special thanks to the D-Backs organization for [expletive] Team Buddiga. and it looks like stewart has been taken out of the game. i gotta say, i've had some bad luck this season (2nd highest point total in the league, but needing a tie breaker to get in + having the 2nd highest point allowed in the league), but my luck has been nothing but remarkably good against you. in a regular season game, ayala had come in and pitched a scoreless inning in the sunday night game, cementing a victory for you. but then he went back out for a second inning and fell apart, and i ended up winning by a very small margin. then, this week, you lose sheff and griffey (two of your huge bats), and then ortiz and biggio take sunday off. now, you did get a ridiculous five save week out of dempster, but still i'd have to say i had the advantage luck-wise. PLUS, two teams screw with their rotation...giving me an extra start and taking one away from you. then your last hope is taken out after five innings in a blowout loss. and i'm obviously not trying to rub it in by typing it all out like that...i'm just trying to say i feel your pain, and i know i was very, very fortunate to win this week...assuming my math is right and i really am on top...

We would be stacked. stacked? i don't know that murton will be that much better than burnitz in his first full season. then you'd basically be comparing the cubs' carousel of lf against furcal, and furcal would have an edge (though not a huge one) there. i don't want furcal.

what a barn burner we have going here. i'm up 15, but my pitchers gave up 32 total bases (by my count). so the +7 from rogers QS will be negated and then some by that. plus, el duque's gonna get a loss here soon. i've got two ab's from tejada, three (?) from kent and one from burnitz left. you've got at least four from stewart tonight. the key is whether or not dempster can get his 16th save of the week today.

good to see that people consider my posting to 'coming out of the woodwork'...i'm pretty sure that's not a compliment. :D but yes, it is ridiculous that hill hasn't seen any action. but there's no way baker's going to take rusch out of the rotation after his start in st. louis. much like neifi's hot month, that start will buy rusch a minimum of ten more starts.

too bad murton can't hit righties.