Transmogrified Tiger

Wow. Apparently that sort of nickname is unacceptable, but only during the postseason? The names are tributes, sheesh.

What, no polo or badminton stories of your own to share? Ok, big shot. After being an All Conference keeper in middle school, I attended a high school with an established keeper. So, wanting to play immediately, I switched to center midfielder and was pretty good. Anyway, the first game of the playoffs in my senior year, I raced for a loose ball. Their sweeper, a Norwegian exchange student who I battled in an epic 5 set tennis match earlier that year, was going for it also. We struck the ball at nearly the identicle moment. However, a bone on the top of my foot fractured and I went down. The referee, with no medical training, grabbed my foot while I was on the ground. He bent it toward me, asking if it hurt, and I exclaimed, "F#%$ yeah, it hurts!" He then gives me a yellow card! Regardless, we won that game and I attended the next game in a case. The guy replacing me moved up from left fullback. The guy replacing him was a freshman. The freshman tried to clear an in-coming ball about 10 yards out from the goal by one timing it. The ball went of the outside of his foot and spun into the goal. We lost 1-0. Mostly because I broke my foot in the last competitive soccer game I ever played. (While I play some indoor now, its not nearly the same.) Now, one time in badminton, I had this shuttlecock... Haha. Consider yourself lucky, nowadays it's an automatic red for saying the magic word. Of course, it does take quite a bit of non-profane berating to get a card where I played.

What, no polo or badminton stories of your own to share?

Agreed. I got drilled in the face, except I actually got my hands on it(of course it still hit my face hard enough to bounce out for a corner). Didn't stop the nose from bleeding though.

Congrats on your success thus far Casey. Have you played 2B at all professionally? What positions do you feel comfortable playing?

As is your attempt at the word ascent.

I don't know about Hernandez. He's a similar offensive player, but I can't see us getting rid of Barrett's long term deal just to get someone who is a marginal upgrade. That said, I think Barrett can become better as a defensive catcher, due to him not catching throughout his professional career. IIRC Hernandez has had some injury troubles as well.

What convinces you that Speier wouldn't be any good? I haven't heard anything about him, good or bad.

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I dunno, there sure was a lot of angst when Choi was traded for Lee. And much of that was due to age/salary concerns. But you are right, Choi performed worse than expected, and Lee has obviously gone above and beyond anyone's expectations.

Since we're on the topic of grossly misrepresenting the other side of the argument, I wouldn't pay to see a team of Karros, Grudz, Neifi, Jose Hernandez, Hollandsworth, Hairston, and Macias.

Well, this means that Hairston isn't going on the 60-man. I wonder if this means they're hoping he'll be back for the playoffs if we make it.

Don't forget Rollins...and I would agree, the emergence of Cedeno makes spending 8M a season for 4 years on a guy whos gonna OPS mid 700s a dumb dumb move. I trust that Hendry knows this. After all he did put Ronny on the 40 man seemingly too early and look what happened. Cedeno is a Hendry boy and sans Baker is a virtual lock at starting shortstop in 2007. Nomar just built a house here, wants to return, and has every GM shaking in their boots because of his freek injury...theres no way he doesnt resign. I think rollins signed like a 4 yr. extension lately...but i may be wrong That was his point, that Rollins, in addition to Guzman, Renteria, and Cabrera, were overpaid when they got their long term deals.

Do you really think they don't realize that the fans are displeased without booing? With Dusty managing? It's not about Dusty. Players aren't stupid, I'm pretty sure they realize when they are not playing well(especially when they are getting crushed like the Arizona game), and therefore the fans are not happy with them not playing well. They don't need boos to remind them of that.

Do you really think they don't realize that the fans are displeased without booing?

I think it's funny that the "Not hot" Lee has better numbers in that selection than the "hot" Macias.

Especially since you live behind enemy lines, huh? I used to live in Saint Louis - ugh! God, I used get crap incessantly from all the Redbird fans at work. What a drag. Is that 'Elvis is Alive' museum still out there? Heh, I have no idea, I've only been in the area a month.

That's really not a fair distinction to make.

This immediately came to mind when I read the quote.

For as much as I hate his presence on the team, Neifi made my trip to Busch worthwhile. Highlight of the year easily for me.

Nothing like contradicting your own scoop.

Same thing with me. I drafted Javon Walker last year, cut him, then picked him up again. And I picked up Antonio Gates early in the year too.

How many teams in your league? Who did you pick first? Maybe it's me, but I don't like your team very much. *cry* No love for my RB's? There are ten teams in my league, and i drafted fifth. I drafted Holmes first, followed by portis, then Brady. Holmes has some injury issues. He's not a bad RB at all, I just don't know if he's a 1st rounder. He could work out great though. I've never been a huge Portis fan, and he was really disappointing last year outside the Denver system. After looking at it more, I guess it's not too bad. Portis will get you yardage, Holmes can help pick him up in the TD department. Pay no attention to me though, you'll probably crush me in the keeper league :wink:.

How many teams in your league? Who did you pick first? Maybe it's me, but I don't like your team very much. EDIT: Rotoworld on Stokley: Brandon Stokley will miss at least three to four weeks after suffering a dislocated shoulder during practice in Japan. Stokley could be out the first few games of the season as well. We buried Stokley out of the top 40 WRs because of durability concerns before this injury. He will only drop further in the rankings now.

Lee in July: .303/.381/.667/1.047