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you have a 3 start advantage here on the final day down 22 points. if you get a QS from at least one of your guys, i think you'll win. Sheffield and Griffey's absence have killed this team... three start advantage? don't i only have a ONE start edge? johnson and el duque v. vazquez. and thank you, alan trammel, for taking johnson out after 5 innings and 68 pitches against the royals. that was the start i was needing 15 points out of. that's a big break for you... :evil: i'd be feeling a little better about things if shelton's good game wasn't being somewhat negated by monroe. i need vazquez to have a 1/3 ip, 6 h, 7 er start today in coors... You also have Kenny Rogers going today against the A's. The D'Backs have decided to go with a 6-man rotation, and are holding Vasquez out until tomorrow. That'll help if I advance, but it does me no good as they apparently send R. Ortiz to the mound today. Oh, and Ortiz is out of the lineup against Unit today in the Sox-Yankees showdown. wow, that's quite the turn of events. rogers is going on his normal rest, but they had an off day during the week, so i figured he wouldn't go til tomorrow. looks like the rangers skipped somebody while the dbacks added somebody. rogers sucks lately, but hopefully he can give me something. yeah, if i win the griffey and sheff injuries will be a major reason. and if you win the sheets injury and my bullpen's struggles will be a major reason. should be an exciting finish then. kent takes a lot of sundays off, so hopefully he can get that moustache groomed and get his ass on the field. [expletive], overbay's not playing today against oswalt.

what the....? i just checked the scoreboard and rogers is starting today?? and vazquez isn't??

you have a 3 start advantage here on the final day down 22 points. if you get a QS from at least one of your guys, i think you'll win. Sheffield and Griffey's absence have killed this team... three start advantage? don't i only have a ONE start edge? johnson and el duque v. vazquez. and thank you, alan trammel, for taking johnson out after 5 innings and 68 pitches against the royals. that was the start i was needing 15 points out of. that's a big break for you... :evil: i'd be feeling a little better about things if shelton's good game wasn't being somewhat negated by monroe. i need vazquez to have a 1/3 ip, 6 h, 7 er start today in coors...

I'll be around 20 points up heading into the final day, but you'll have a 3-0 starter advantage on me. It will all come down to how well those guys pitch for you. does it matter?

I wouldn't mind that.........I'd like to see more points for relievers too. They really don't have much impact at all as of now. relievers have a huge impact. there have been numerous games that i've won this year because my pen puts up 30 points to the other guy's 5. my pen's the main reason i made the playoffs... and if you want to see a more current example of a pen having an impact, check out the buddiga/GHS matchup right now...my pen has been outscored roughly 36-4. and i'm losing by almost exactly 32.

vargas is getting shelled and dempster seems to get about four saves a day. i'm starting to think this may be the end for the sanitizers...

do you really think the difference between a 4th/5th place team and a world series contender is the defense at ss?

Since the Cubs have Pie, Giles. However, we shouldn't get our hopes up for Giles, Damon or Burnett. Now Furcal is a possibility. A slim one, but a lot of the big market teams have good SS's, so maybe the Cubs get lucky. nomar's better than furcal...especially when you consider that nomar will be cheaper, possibly more productive and a short-term replacement. if you sign furcal, it's going to be for at least four years, so you might as well trade cedeno. IF Nomar healthy (HUGE IF), he's a better hitter. No doubt. His defense is awful though. Hopefully, the Cubs look @ the future for a change, and sign Furcal. Put Nomah @ 2b, w/ Hairston as the backup. i'm not convinced that nomar + furcal is better than nomar + walker. especially when you consider the huge contract furcal is going to get. Bring back Nomar to play SS and the likelihood of Neifi returning is a lot higher. Bring in Furcal and the Cubs shouldn't have to worry about someone going down for 80 games. giving 30+ mil to an average ss is a pretty stupid way to go about keeping neifi perez off the field.

who would that BP help be? i'm not about to trade a cheap, productive 2b and a cheap rookie whose value is at its peak for some flash in the pan set up guy who had one good season. even guys like remlinger and hawkins, who have had multiple good seasons out of the pen haven't panned out for the cubs. bullpen guys' numbers are so dependent on a small amount of innings, i just don't trust spending or trading big for a 7th/8th inning guy.

you really do have to be shocked that mcclain gets the call over macias. macias' PT has decreased of late it seems.

he's not fast, and he's not a cf, so he can't hit leadoff. duh. mcclain is brutal at 3b, by the way.

Since the Cubs have Pie, Giles. However, we shouldn't get our hopes up for Giles, Damon or Burnett. Now Furcal is a possibility. A slim one, but a lot of the big market teams have good SS's, so maybe the Cubs get lucky. nomar's better than furcal...especially when you consider that nomar will be cheaper, possibly more productive and a short-term replacement. if you sign furcal, it's going to be for at least four years, so you might as well trade cedeno. IF Nomar healthy (HUGE IF), he's a better hitter. No doubt. His defense is awful though. Hopefully, the Cubs look @ the future for a change, and sign Furcal. Put Nomah @ 2b, w/ Hairston as the backup. i'm not convinced that nomar + furcal is better than nomar + walker. especially when you consider the huge contract furcal is going to get.

i think if we've learned anything from this season, it's that patterson's a great choice for leadoff. at least cedeno's out there...i hope he doesn't have a tailing throw to first that costs the cubs the world series...

Since the Cubs have Pie, Giles. However, we shouldn't get our hopes up for Giles, Damon or Burnett. Now Furcal is a possibility. A slim one, but a lot of the big market teams have good SS's, so maybe the Cubs get lucky. nomar's better than furcal...especially when you consider that nomar will be cheaper, possibly more productive and a short-term replacement. if you sign furcal, it's going to be for at least four years, so you might as well trade cedeno.

you have to get the more productive bat...regardless of whether he is a power bat or a leadoff hitter. having a prototypical leadoff hitter isn't that big a deal. walker can bat leadoff. heck, if murton plays everyday, he can bat leadoff.

my plan for the middle IF would be nomar at ss, walker at 2b and cedeno as the 2b/ss backup (the role neifi played this year). however, if nomar wants to move to lf (probably the easiest defensive position to play outside of 1b), that'd be fine with me. the FA market for OF'ers is pretty slim, so to have him out there would be nice....then you'd only have to get one other OF'er (assuming you keep patterson). i could live w/ giles in rf, nomar in lf, cedeno at ss and walker at 2b. i don't know if i'd throw murton out there everyday quite yet. it'd be nice if you could see a month's worth of him playing everyday, but for some reason, the cubs feel the need to really get another month's worth of burnitz.

You were right about Cy Cain. :( three pitches, three outs after the hairston single. i think he stayed under 100 pitches. the cubs suck.

three pitches, three outs after the leadoff single. hilarious. good thing the kids didn't get in there and screw this one up for the cubs.

another friggin save for dempster...i swear, the cubs only win when it hurts my fantasy team.

dusty's quotes about cedeno's baserunning practically write themselves.

With the talk from Dusty a month ago of retirement, do you think the cubs let maddux walk? The Cubs have no say in the matter. did you not see the bold quote??? it appears maddux is giving the cubs an out...obviously with a buyout so which would you take, a buyout or maddux? depends on how much the buyout is and how hill and mitre perform in their last four starts of the season. oh wait, they're not getting starts.

how do you figure furcal will make nomar money? nomar will probably get less than he did this year, while furcal will probably get a four-five year deal for at least 8 mil/year. a .344 obp out of your lead off hitter is not all that good. i'd rather re-sign nomar and keep walker. cedeno is the primary backup at 2b and ss, keep hairston, don't bring neifi back.

luis gonzalez has played in something like 135 of the dbacks last 139 games...now he sits two games in a row...what gives?

i ain't exactly throwing gibson, koufax and ryan out there either... Well, Sheffield won't play today and is questionable for the weekend. I would think he'll play in some capacity this weekend considering winning the division probably rides on this series with the Sox. injuries have really hurt us both this week. my pitching staff is remarkably suckier w/o sheets in there, and you're w/o griffey and now possibly sheffield. i thought i'd be down by more than 8 when i checked it this morning...

does anyone else feel like the points for pitching could be altered somehow? it seems like now, your start either sucks (0-4 points) or is very good (15-18 points). i don't feel like there's a real middle ground. in reality, there is little difference between a 7 ip/4 er start and a 6 ip/3 er start. but in our league, the points difference is huge. the only way i can see to make the SP's points less extreme, but to keep the overall value of pitching, is to perhaps knock a QS from 7 to 5 points, but to increase the value of an inning pitched from 1.5 to 2.25. like it? hate it? hate me?