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I say no, unless you know many Cardinal fans who are still hung up and upset about him signing with the Cubs. Then, go for it, and wear it every time you are around them.

That happens when you have a very good team that has no real superstar and has a different hero each day. My fave is Geo. Given his offense, defense and emergence as a team leader, he is the rock that this team is built upon. He's just like Jason Varitek, except he's awesome instead of sucky.

http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/rumors/post/Phils-Marlins-add-gamesmanship-to-pennant-race?urn=mlb,109239 Apparently, the Marlins 1st and 3rd base coaches were standing way out of their boxes, and Manuel thought they could be able to read the signs better from where they were, so he complained to the umps. It's whining, but not that big of a deal. I wouldn't normally say anything about it. However, the Marlins then complained about Myers having a tatoo on his forearm that was "distracting" to the hitters. It never bothered them every other time he's faced them in the last 3.5 years since he got it, but they decided to complain tonight and force him to wear sleeves. It's probably a bit of one-upmanship, but I thought it was a pretty pathetic move on the Marlins part. Requiring coaches to stay in their designated areas is one thing, trying to mess with the other teams pitcher is another. Not that I had alot of respect for this Marlins team before that, but I have less now than I did before.

Mets and Brewers are choking dogs. Dodgers over AZ simply because they can't throw Webb and Haren at you 4 times in a 5 game short series.

How about would-be dumb moves...we did autodraft because everyone couldn't be online at the same time. I got Aaron Rogers and Joe Flacco for QBs. I got a great draw on RBs though. I was trying to package Rogers and Clinton Portis for Drew Brees, Ben Roethlisberger, or Carson Palmer. I'm happy right now that no one took me up on one of those deals.

No one else has a guy like Edwards on the bench, and everyone wants a Gore type of runner for a legit starter. I think I'm going to go ahead and do this, and sit Edwards this week. Hopefully, he'll at least look healthy against the Ravens D, and be ready for Wk 4.

I'm starting 3 RBs this week. Gore and Portis are two of them. Who should be the third...Julius Jones or Ernest Graham?

Even if Bradley gets hurt, Kosuke can back up RF while Reed/Pie plays CF. Plenty of good oportunities to keep guys fresh while not losing too much when your A lineup isn't out there. I like it from that perspective. I don't like it from a playing time perspective for Pie, he either needs to play everyday for at least half a season to see if he can adjust to this level, or he needs to be traded. I prefer the former.

They're playing Baltimore this weekend, so if I get him, I wouldn't start him until possibly next week at the earliest.

2 WR, 2 RB, and a slot that can be either. Oh, and if someone wants to move this from social, please do. I didn't even know we had a general fantasy forum.

I thought it would be a good idea to have a thread where people can post questions seeking advice for fantasy football leagues, so here goes. Anyways, someone in my league is offering me Braylon Edwards for Matt Forte. I've got Frank Gore, Clinton Portis, Julius Jones, and Ernest Graham in addition to Forte, so I've got some spare good RBs. I only have Jericho Cotchery, Larry Fitzgerald, and Brandon Lloyd at WR, so I'm not too deep there at all. The trade makes sense from a needs perspective, but the question is...is Forte giving up too much to get Edwards? I'm confident that Edwards will turn it around once his foot is 100% healed, but I'm wondering if I'm overpaying considering the guy wants a reliable RB badly. He doesn't want Jones and is unsure about Graham, and I'm not moving Portis or Gore. So that leaves Graham and Forte to make the deal with. Would you other fantasy gurus make that deal?

http://content7.flixster.com/photo/84/36/28/8436289_gal.jpg Maybe he needs to adapt this offseason training regimen...

Considering they are pitchers... I think Era is pretty good.

Demp Deaux?

Finishing the season with 2-3 appearances where you're pulled after two innings or so with elbow pain isn't going to do anything for his impending FA either. This may be the best thing as far as the Brewers chances of getting him to stay (though I still think it's unlikely).

It doesn't matter. Regardless of the answer to that question, Jocketty brought TLR to St Louis (so either he brought the players, or he brought the guy who brought the players), while Krivsky brought Dusty to Cincy. Accumulating the right players is one thing. Accumulating the right players and then surrounding them with someone who preaches a sound organizational philosophy and sets the conditions for them to succeed is something else. Give me the GM who accumulates the right players and puts a blind 6 year old in charge over the GM who signs Richie Sexson and Jose Vidro long term while putting vintage Dick Williams in charge(choose your manager here) Talent wins out, even in spite of a clueless fool like Dusty Baker in charger. Another example is to look at the Walks! thread under Cubs discussions. It's obvious our team is better because of the difference between Lou and Perry than Dusty and his crew. And yet Lou and Perry wouldn't have been able to make chicken salad out of the chicken Howry we ran out there in '06. Dusty's problem relating to the '06 team was that it was a team with his fingerprints all over it. If Hendry made smart acquisitions and didn't go with a bunch of hackers that fit Dusty's style they wouldn't have been epicly bad. Your examples are horrible. The best hitting coaches in the world couldn't turn me into an Albert Pujols-esque hitter. The best pitching coach in the world couldn't get Howry to dominate this year. Quit looking at individual extremes and look at teams (this is a team sport, last I checked). There's plenty of anecdotal evidence that will tell you that Lou, Perry, and the philosophy they're teaching has had a positive impact on the ability of our teams offense to get on base and score runs. Also, as far as Dusty and the '06 team, what about '04? All of Dusty's teams failed to live up to expectations except for a couple of months of the 03 team.

It doesn't matter. Regardless of the answer to that question, Jocketty brought TLR to St Louis (so either he brought the players, or he brought the guy who brought the players), while Krivsky brought Dusty to Cincy. Accumulating the right players is one thing. Accumulating the right players and then surrounding them with someone who preaches a sound organizational philosophy and sets the conditions for them to succeed is something else. Give me the GM who accumulates the right players and puts a blind 6 year old in charge over the GM who signs Richie Sexson and Jose Vidro long term while putting vintage Dick Williams in charge(choose your manager here) Talent wins out, even in spite of a clueless fool like Dusty Baker in charger. Another example is to look at the Walks! thread under Cubs discussions. It's obvious our team is better because of the difference between Lou and Perry than Dusty and his crew.

It doesn't matter. Regardless of the answer to that question, Jocketty brought TLR to St Louis (so either he brought the players, or he brought the guy who brought the players), while Krivsky brought Dusty to Cincy. Accumulating the right players is one thing. Accumulating the right players and then surrounding them with someone who preaches a sound organizational philosophy and sets the conditions for them to succeed is something else. Give me the GM who accumulates the right players and puts a blind 6 year old in charge over the GM who signs Richie Sexson and Jose Vidro long term while putting vintage Dick Williams in charge(choose your manager here) Talent wins out, even in spite of a clueless fool like Dusty Baker in charger. That's an extreme example. How do you explain 2004 then? That team was arguably better than this years. I agree that talent is more important. However, when you're talking young talent, like in Cincy, if you surround those prospects with people who have a poor approach to the game, it can prevent those prospects from developing. Look at how long we went without developing a solid positional prospect. It wasn't because we never drafted anyone with ML talent from year to year, it was the wrong organizational guys who weren't developing them. People with Dusty's philosophy can ruin them. Take Dunn for example, if he came up with Dusty as a coach, and he adopted that hitting philosophy (i.e. don't walk...), where would he be today? I was pointing at more than the manager with that comment, but the manager is certainly a major part of that equation. Talent is more important once that talent is developed, but that doesn't mean the manager and the rest of the organization has no impact.

It doesn't matter. Regardless of the answer to that question, Jocketty brought TLR to St Louis (so either he brought the players, or he brought the guy who brought the players), while Krivsky brought Dusty to Cincy. Accumulating the right players is one thing. Accumulating the right players and then surrounding them with someone who preaches a sound organizational philosophy and sets the conditions for them to succeed is something else.

Not really a double standard...the two are synonyms in Cubs speak.

He certainly wasn't Ed Lynch bad...I equate him more with Andy MacPhail. MacPhail got us going in the right direction from when we were a truly incompetent organization, top to bottom, but he wasn't the guy who was going to put us over the top. That's Krivsky...he'll ad some nice pieces, but doesn't have all of the answers.

Is he the anti-MVP now? they are scoring virtually .5 a run a game less with him and are on the brink of being out of it. his ops is virtually identical but his slg is way down and obp is way up. I know which way I'd rather have it but that would start a whole new discussion. If it weren't for Richardi and his panic induced rants I think Toronto would be the perfect place for him. That is a little odd. It suggests he is getting pitched around more in AZ than he was in Cincy. That tells you what the rest of the league thinks about AZs offense.

Replace Phillies with Mets, who are also faltering as they approach the finish line. The Phillies are a half game ahead of them now and looking like they're going to stretch that lead a bit before they let up.

I wouldn't mind it either, but I think there'd be too much temptation to leave him in longer unless his pitch count was already clearly too high (120+), in which the damage had already been done.

But it didn't say "Trib and Mariotti in talks". It was posted on Friday saying he'd start on Monday. That's clearly false. That's enough to say that his reason for leaving the Sun Times (print media is dying, need to be more 'net focused) was a totally bogus excuse. It's obvious that he couldn't tolerate working there when everyone else there hated him. He needs to move to LA where they welcome horrible writers like him with open arms.