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and so begins another 16-12 season for DePaul

Total joke. Rotoworld's take is funny and accurate. Ichiro over Granderson? FTH?

Ceszuo Iztui?

i wouldn't if i were them (MIL)

wow, a CAREER OPS+ of 82. that's awful. CAREER .387 SLG and that includes Coors. jesus

could be, but how locked in are the non-BCS bowls to their conference/place of finish tie-ins?

Rob Dibble lives down there, and I heard him on XM a while back saying that one of the things that could truly help the Devil Rays would be to build a stadium IN Tampa Bay, instead of out in St. Petersburg. if they built a stadium in Tampa Bay, everyone would be awfully wet. Fans would probably prefer Tampa Unless they went with O_O's tennis court on top of a building theme! Build a bridge and put the stadium right in the Bay. two words: Hover Stadium

okay, here's a compromise: 1st/3rd base coaches can wear as much armor as they want, but MUST stay in side their coaches box

Rob Dibble lives down there, and I heard him on XM a while back saying that one of the things that could truly help the Devil Rays would be to build a stadium IN Tampa Bay, instead of out in St. Petersburg. if they built a stadium in Tampa Bay, everyone would be awfully wet. Fans would probably prefer Tampa

The Polyphonic Spree has almost enough members to field a 25 man roster

well no one thought A-Rod would get more than the 10/150 or so he was offered by the Mets when Hicks threw the 10/250 think out there out of left field

he is definitely growing, but he has some work to do as far as shot selection. he has to resist chucking up an 18 footer just because his defender is playing back What he really needs to do is to develop that shot. I bet you they are encouraging him to take those. He probably hits them all day in practice. Once he gets (if ever) that shot down and the defenders have to respect it, the floodgates are open to superstardom. that could be. that said, ben wallace definitely should NEVER take that shot

I'd rather they kept at least one of the teams there, preferably Miami. You can't really blame those guys for not wanting to go and support that team given the way their owners have treated it. If they had an owner who wasn't a jackass and would at least attempt to privately finance a stadium and not "Huizenga" the team after a WS, then people might start showing up to games and caring. Miami is a far better market than Tampa Bay, from what I understand. I used to have this cooky idea that the MLB should equalize the leagues to 15 teams per, until I realized that would cause a scheduling conflict. It went something like move the Devil Rays to Portland or Las Vegas, add them to the AL West, then move the Marlins to the AL East, then move Pittsburgh to the NL East. 5 teams per division, 15 teams per league. I'm not even really sure why I thought it was a good idea... OCD? It could still work out, logistically. You just have two interleague series per week, that's all. You let the Cubs open with the White Sox, or the Mets and Yankees, or the Marlins and Rays, while everyone else plays within their division. Every 7 weeks or so, your team plays an interleague series. You would still need a week devoted exclusively to interleague games, but it could still work. Only if you open up interleague to every team (a la the NBA). There is a reason that nearly every sport has even numbered teams in their conference structures

the yankees/sox fielding a major league all-star team >>>> TB fielding a minor league all-star team

he is definitely growing, but he has some work to do as far as shot selection. he has to resist chucking up an 18 footer just because his defender is playing back

i'm surprised about how passionate some of you are about this. thi seems like a total non-issue

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I agree, but I've been saying that for 2-3 years now. First with the Gomes/Baldelli/Kazmir/Crawford incarnation and now the Young/Dukes/Longoria one. They'll make the playoffs for sure in 2009 or 2010. I know Callis keeps banging the Rays in the WS in 2010 drum, I wouldn't go that far, though. Longoria/Price/McGee/Davis/Brignac is the best top 5 minor leaguers in any farm system in baseball. Sheesh. what is going to happen in '09 or '10 that will prevent the Yanks/Sox from spending $160M more than TB?

and he's said as much.

i'm pretty sure A-Rod ends up with the Angels. It's a good team, and the media scrutiny is like 5% of NYC

from what I remember, a lot of people hated the name "Devil Rays" when the team was formed (ironic since I'm pretty sure the name was picked in fan balloting)

I don't think Kansas or UNC will have many if any frosh playing serious minutes. I would also expect both to be around a lot longer than Gordon, Mayo, or Rose come tourny time. Kevin Love is the real key frosh. They I think all the teams mentioned will be Elite 8 teams, probably along with G'town. But I will go out on a limb now and say neither Kansas or UNC will make the final 4. that's a pretty big prediction at the start of a season. so much can happen. kudos if you're right though

And this adds to the discussion in exactly what way? wow, relax, just a joke

I don't want to take anything away from A-Rod's stats. He is a BEAST (except his RISP). My point is that the Yankees won without him, and save the 30 million for pitching!! This team won with Scott B at third and went to the series with Aaron F'in Boone. I feel it is time to go back to the winning ways of "THE TEAM" concept. 1998 Yankees, no 40 hr guys but were 125-50 (including playoffs)!!! If you took 2007 A-Rod and put him on late-90's Yankee teams, they would win 120 games

hey goony, do New Yorkers talk with as many exclamation points as YankeeFan here types?