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I will laugh at all the fans of the "home team" if this happens.

I'm trying to decide if I want the jersey or jersey t-shirt.

I got through, but they have the tickets broken into groups and you have to select from cerain ones and only one from the really good grouping that including tickets to the Friday game vs the Sox. I would have had to choose too many April-May games for it to be worthwhile for me.

I got it too.

Ok, this could get comical. Link.

It wouldn't surprise me since I heard it was McDonough that didn't like them and did away with them.

How depleted is the Houston rotation? It's Roy Oswalt and pray for four days of rain.

Ascanio got a C+ grade and rated 19 on his list of Braves prospects.

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cool. Hopefully by getting this up early, we should be able to get enough people lined up.

Terrelle Pryor has added LSU to the list of teams he's considering. I know we really probably aren't going to get him, but it's nice to get added to the list at this point. He'd be a huge addition to the recruiting class.

It was early November. I think it was November 3, but I may be off a day or so.

I figured as much...

Have you been talking to Ryan or Mike? Cause the Bayou Basher isn't a Cub any longer.

Probably a little of both. It would be nice if people picking will look at the intent and needs of the team. I'm guessing the war room function should help with whatever biases we might individually have.

Whoever helped by adding the new names to the first page, thanks!

The A's will probably now trade Street for a nice load of prospects, turn Devine into a closer, and then a year or two for now spin him off in the always inflated closer market.

Ok...here's the premise. We'll wait until after the combine, because that often changes grades for players and what-not. Right now, the idea is to do a RT draft if possible. If not, we'll schedule it for a few days with a pretty strict time-limit for picks. 1. We'll need at least one person for each of the 30 teams. 2.The first person will be the person of record for that team, but it might be fun to have a bit of a "war room" type of activity. We'll limit War Rooms to five per team. 3. War Rooms participants should share IM names and might want to form a private chat room to discuss their selections. It is reccommended that War Rooms take a vote on picks after the discussion and allow the person of record make the pick. If a consensus cannot be reached, the first person to sign up for each team will make the final decision. I'll try to update with war room participants as people sign up. New England:GoCubsGo! Indianapolis:CubColtPacer Green Bay:Flames24Rulz Dallas :Vance/IMB! San Diego:Raisin Jacksonville Cro Magnon Seattle Mhuber Pittsburgh:AI NY Giants Tennessee:Dew Cleveland Tampa Bay Reds44 Washington Minnesota Arizona Philadelphia Truffle Houston Rawaction Carolina:Andy Buffalo UK Cincinnati Rocket Denver MPC New Orleans:OleMissCub Detroit Cubweiser Chicago:Raisin,Handlebar McSkullet San Francisco Baltimore B_Wiggy NY Jets: Bhogg Oakland Soccer10K Kansas City Atlanta:The Golden Thunder St. Louis reggiemillerrules Miami Warpticon

Well, pick your war room. The Bears should fill up, but I bet there will be spaces in both Carolina and Dallas. But there is a spot in the Bears if you want it.

I'll start a new thread about the potential mock draft so that it doesn't get lost or clutter up this one.

I wonder if the Rangers would do Dempster for Byrd... :-k

Here's Muskat's response to a question about Dempster's role.

FWIW, Muskat says the teams are still talking as well. Link

It appears that former Cubs pitcher Don Cardwell passed away today at the age of 72. Cardwell threw a no-hitter as a member of the Chicago Cubs. Link

I'm in...I got the Bears. EDIT: :P Well, what I thought might be more interesting if there were numerous people who wanted the same team (though we'd probably have to set a limit at 3-4, is if they all agreed to be on real time, we could create a war room, where the 3-4 discussed the pick on IM before the designated representative made the pick. As part of the pick, they might include some of the discussions that led to the pick. It might be too much trouble, but I think it would be a lot of fun. And so, Raisin for the Bears, I got Cowboys, next...