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i'm definitely getting the entire Xavier game. still getting used to getting the Ohio college coverage instead of PA coverage

when do games tip off?

outside of a horrendous WHIP in 2005, Marte has been money as a lefty setup guy. why would anyone suggest wasting him as a LOOGY?

did no one PM vance?

poorly paid weather nerds "poorly paid" and "weather nerds" usually go hand-in-hand well I hear about the poorly paid meteorologists from my dad. accuweather isn't known for paying ANYONE well unfortunately

maybe i'm thinking of David or Chris

Shut-up douche. says the guy with "cubbie" in his screen name Douche' I know...It's the only thing I could think of when I created a username. At least you tried to be creative. Take a gander at my username. Thrilling, aint it? yeah, but it wasn't always just Rob though, right? Do you have to be a premium member to change your user name? no, you just PM a mod and they'll do it for you

poorly paid weather nerds

Shut-up douche. says the guy with "cubbie" in his screen name Douche' I know...It's the only thing I could think of when I created a username. At least you tried to be creative. Take a gander at my username. Thrilling, aint it? yeah, but it wasn't always just Rob though, right?

i'm going to go out on a limb and say my dad isn't participating in the Accuweather league

Shut-up douche. says the guy with "cubbie" in his screen name

White Sox? seriously? we're lowering ourselves to this type of namecalling?

my team is a lot different than most other people's, which means i'm either brilliant or totally screwed

On the Orioles Hangout, some of the posters are proposing names like Votto, Bailey, Bruce, Cuerto, Encarnacion, etc. for Hernandez. #-o well considering that a few of those have been deemed "unready" to play at the major league level, i'm sure Dusty would love to have his GM ship them away for an overrated catcher

A - Alex Rodriguez B - Ryan Braun Manny Ramirez C - Magglio Ordonez Nick Swisher Derrek Lee D - Gary Sheffield Jason Bay Pedro Feliz Jeremy Hermida Hank Blalock WC - Edwin Encarnacion

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well he's officially a Buckeye. now I get to hear about what he is having for breakfast every day on local sports radio. joy

anyone else think he might opt for Michigan and jump into Rodriguez's spread option offense as a true freshman? what other QB options do the Wolverines have?

Ouch! i think that was a compliment, actually. you're not going to put him in the first tier (ie Victor Martinez, Jorge Posada, etc.) at this point in his career, so I think the writer was saying that outside of drafting a superstar catcher, you could do worse than Soto on your fantasy team

it shouldn't matter, the other guy is better. you keep saying it, but i haven't seen you try to prove it. i know, because i don't really know how to prove it. then how can you say so definitively that one guy is better than the other? i guess i shouldn't have said it with as much certainty, but i feel strongly that i am right about this. feel free to prove me wrong. Well, my first thought was that there's not enough information. My second thought is: it depends. If I was forced to hazard a guess, based on an "all things being equal"/league-average lineups and opposition, that the HR guy would "create" more runs, and thus be more valuable, despite creating more outs. I say that because even if tango's data is true and the HR guy K's all this other AB's, you don't subtract the run value of the K from the run value of the HR, because the run value of the HR is still there. This is where line-up "position" matters, because say, top-of-the-order guys who play a bunch of games are going to average close to 5 PA's a game, but if they're at the bottom, they're going to be closer to 4 PA's per game. by my rudimentary calculations, the HR guy ((162)(1.397)) is more valuable until the BB guy gets to 701 PA's (226.314/.323), at which point the latter begins to create more runs. I agree. I voted for the HR guy because the Walk guy's value is team dependent. the Walk guy may never be batted in. the HR guy is guaranteeing you at least one run per game. with him, you'll never be shut out.

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You already have Aramis Ramirez at third, and Jim Thome at UTIL. Were you really counting on Longoria to displace one of them? well, i'm not counting on Thome getting through the year without injury, and it never hurts to have trade bait. ultimately, i'm happy with the pick, as Longoria seems like a no-brainer "keeper" for next year if he's as good as advertised

because he's an attention whore?

ohio state ](*,) has the info leaked? no, i'm just assuming that he hasn't changed his mind. he said he's down to two schools; most people think it's o$u and um. his wikipedia page says that ESPN has reported the same. i don't think anyone wanted him at PSU besides his dad

ohio state ](*,) has the info leaked?