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They just introduced everyone who isn't starting today, Dickey got by far the loudest applause Kiner will read the lineup Excited for baseball!

BTW, for these contests, have you guys ever thought about using google docs? you can create a form and have all these questions automatically populate a spreadsheet, from where you can easily get the winners. Things I wish I'd thought of...

But did Depodestanswer his question?

I lost my longer answer (thanks a lot blackberry!), in short I don't blame the MLBPA one bit for looking out for its own members at the expense of others, that's what a union SHOULD do. As for the minor leaguers, I don't really know what would happen if they unionized. A lot of it probably depends on the profit margins of minor league baseball. Is it still worthwhile for MLB teams to have a bunch of affiliates if they are forced to raise salaries and benefits significantly across the board, or do they cut bait with perhaps all but one team and see if the rest can even operate profitably without MLB paying their players and some other expenses. It would certainly shake up minor league baseball, but its hard to say how. My prediction is that if they ever unionized you'd see them quickly gain an increase in salary but lose about half their jobs (through MLB immediately ending their sponsorship of half the teams - what is now the lower minors.)

Predict the total regular season wins for each club: 1. ATL 89 2. NYM 77 3. MIA 85 4. WAS 83 5. PHI 87 6. CHC 71 7. CIN 76 8. PIT 70 9. MIL 82 10. HOU 61 11. STL 88 12. LAD 90 13. SF 93 14. SD 79 15. COL 77 16. ARZ 86 17. NYY 92 18. BOS 94 19. TB 86 20. BAL 74 21. TOR 83 22. CLE 75 23. DET 97 24. MIN 73 25. KC 70 26. CHW 71 27. OAK 65 28. LAA 95 29. TEX 96 30. SEA 68 Predict the division winners: 31. NL EAST: ATL 32. NL CENTRAL: STL 33. NL WEST:SFO 34. AL EAST: BOS 35. AL CENTRAL: DET 36. AL WEST: TEX Predict the four wild card winners: 37. AL 1: LAA 38. AL 2: NYY 39. NL 1: LAD 40. NL 2: PHI Predict the Playoffs: 41. NL wild card play-in winner: LAD 42. AL wild card play-in winner: NYY 43. AL division round winner 1: BOS 44. AL division round winner 2: TEX 45. NL division round winner 1: SFO 46. NL division round winner 2: ATL 47. AL champion: BOS 48. NL champion: ATL 49. World Series WINNER: BOS Predict the Awards: 50. Manager of the year: Bobby Valentine 51. AL CY YOUNG: CC Sabathia 52. NL CY YOUNG: Zack Grienke 53. AL MVP: Albert Pujols 54. NL MVP: Matt Kemp 55. AL ROY: Yu Darvish 56. NL ROY: Trevor Bauer 57. AL GOLD GLOVE C: Santana 58. AL GOLD GLOVE 1B: adrian gonzalez 59. AL GOLD GLOVE 2B: Pedroia 60. AL GOLD GLOVE 3B: beltre 61. AL GOLD GLOVE SS: jeter 62. AL GOLD GLOVE OF1: ellsbury 63. AL GOLD GLOVE OF2: markakis 64. AL GOLD GLOVE OF3: crawford 65. AL GOLD GLOVE P: cj wilson 66. NL GOLD GLOVE C: molina 67. NL GOLD GLOVE 1B: davis 68. NL GOLD GLOVE 2B: hudson 69. NL GOLD GLOVE 3B: polanco 70. NL GOLD GLOVE SS: tulowitzki 71. NL GOLD GLOVE OF1: kemp 72. NL GOLD GLOVE OF2: bourn 73. NL GOLD GLOVE OF3: carlos gonzalez 74. NL GOLD GLOVE P: Dickey Predict the League leaders: 75. AL wins: CC Sabathia 76. AL strikeouts (pitcher): Verlander 77. AL ERA: Verlander 78. NL wins: Halliday 79. NL strikeouts (pitcher): Kershaw 80. NL ERA: Bumgarner 81. AL HRs: Adrian gonzalez 82. AL Batting Average: pedroia 83. AL RBIs: pujols 84. NL HRs: braun 85. NL Batting Average: votto 86. NL Batting RBIs: kemp Additional Questions: 87. Which League wins the All Star game? NL 88. Who is the World Series MVP? Carl Crawford 89. Which team scores the most runs? Texas 90. which team scores the least runs? Houston 91. which team allows the most runs? Houston 92. which team allows the least runs? San Francisco 93. which team has the most wins in baseball? Detroit 94. which team has the worst record in baseball? Houston 95. which team has the best record of non-playoff teams? Tampa bay 96. will there be a no-hitter this year? (yes/no) YES 97. Which manager is ejected from the most games this season? Collins 98. will anyone hit for the cycle this year? (yes/no) NO 99. will Nymr83 actually come back and update us on the winners of this overly ambitious contest? (yes/no) no way

Deadline April 10th (yeah the season will start before that, but this is last minute so why leave people out?) I'll tally totals at the end of the year if anyone wants to play! -for win totals, 5 points for the exact number minus 1 point for each win away (no negatives, its 0 points if you miss a team by more than 5 wins.) -5 points for each correct division winner -5 points for each correct wildcard winner -5 points for each wild card play-in winner -5 points for each division round winner -10 points for each correct league champion -20 points for correctly identifying the world series winner -for Awards, 10 points each correct mvp/cyyoung/roy/manager and 2 points each correct gold glove -3 points for each league leader -1 point each for the "additional questions" section please copy and paste the below so that i can put them in excel easily Predict the total regular season wins for each club: 1. ATL 2. NYM 3. MIA 4. WAS 5. PHI 6. CHC 7. CIN 8. PIT 9. MIL 10. HOU 11. STL 12. LAD 13. SF 14. SD 15. COL 16. ARZ 17. NYY 18. BOS 19. TB 20. BAL 21. TOR 22. CLE 23. DET 24. MIN 25. KC 26. CHW 27. OAK 28. LAA 29. TEX 30. SEA Predict the division winners: 31. NL EAST: 32. NL CENTRAL: 33. NL WEST: 34. AL EAST: 35. AL CENTRAL: 36. AL WEST: Predict the four wild card winners: 37. AL 1: 38. AL 2: 39. NL 1: 40. NL 2: Predict the Playoffs: 41. NL wild card play-in winner: 42. AL wild card play-in winner: 43. AL division round winner 1: 44. AL division round winner 2: 45. NL division round winner 1: 46. NL division round winner 2: 47. AL champion: 48. NL champion: 49. World Series WINNER: Predict the Awards: 50. Manager of the year: (on edit, they name one for each league? i'm not re-numbering, guess either to be right) 51. AL CY YOUNG: 52. NL CY YOUNG: 53. AL MVP: 54. NL MVP: 55. AL ROY: 56. NL ROY: 57. AL GOLD GLOVE C: 58. AL GOLD GLOVE 1B: 59. AL GOLD GLOVE 2B: 60. AL GOLD GLOVE 3B: 61. AL GOLD GLOVE SS: 62. AL GOLD GLOVE OF1: 63. AL GOLD GLOVE OF2: 64. AL GOLD GLOVE OF3: 65. AL GOLD GLOVE P: 66. NL GOLD GLOVE C: 67. NL GOLD GLOVE 1B: 68. NL GOLD GLOVE 2B: 69. NL GOLD GLOVE 3B: 70. NL GOLD GLOVE SS: 71. NL GOLD GLOVE OF1: 72. NL GOLD GLOVE OF2: 73. NL GOLD GLOVE OF3: 74. NL GOLD GLOVE P: Predict the League leaders: 75. AL wins: 76. AL strikeouts (pitcher): 77. AL ERA: 78. NL wins: 79. NL strikeouts (pitcher): 80. NL ERA: 81. AL HRs: 82. AL Batting Average: 83. AL RBIs: 84. NL HRs: 85. NL Batting Average: 86. NL Batting RBIs: Additional Questions: 87. Which League wins the All Star game? 88. Who is the World Series MVP? 89. Which team scores the most runs? 90. which team scores the least runs? 91. which team allows the most runs? 92. which team allows the least runs? 93. which team has the most wins in baseball? 94. which team has the worst record in baseball? 95. which team has the best record of non-playoff teams? 96. will there be a no-hitter this year? (yes/no) 97. Which manager is ejected from the most games this season? 98. will anyone hit for the cycle this year? (yes/no) 99. will Nymr83 actually come back and update us on the winners of this overly ambitious contest? (yes/no)

1. First Mets hit of 2012 WRIGHT 2. First double BAY 3. First triple TORRES 4. First home run DUDA 5. First run batted in BAY 6. First stolen base TEJADA 7. First caught stealing/picked off TEJADA 8. First multihit game WRIGHT 9. First RBI sac fly DUDA 10. First sac hit (bunt) TEJADA 11. First infield single TORRES 12. First ground-rules double WRIGHT 13. First to draw a walk WRIGHT 14. First Met to strike out WRIGHT 15. First to hit into a double play BAY 16. First pitcher to get a hit SANTANA 17. Pitcher with first win RAUCH 18. Pitcher with first save FRANCISCO 19. Pitcher with first wild pitch SANTANA 20. Met player to commit first error DAVIS

70-92 last in the NL East. no playoffs

the doodle thing was a good idea. i filled out my availability. i'm in if its one of those days, and you can find a replacement if its not

Edgy DC wrote: For those of us who think they've really bolluxed up the system with the limitations they're placing on starting pitchers --- and the demands they're placing on relievers --- that's a sorry turn of events. It almost seems unthinkable that there wouldn't be a single active pitcher with 200, but yeah its a sign of the times and the strategy of having your best players pitch a lower percentage of your club's innings. Its arguably a stupid strategy, but its become universal.

Actually saw this on twitter as Dickey posted about it the other day, said he already felt lonely as the only active knuckleballer (is that true?)

ok, i'm as long as its on a night where i can make it to the auction.

Can that "feature" be turned off? I don't like the idea of the league forcing you to drop your best player

Prefer 5x5 over 4x4... No thanks on the more complicated system mentioned above. If I can see how my players did by looking at the box score on my phone I'm likely to be less interested as the year goes on. I'm firmly a "maybe" at this point... Waiting to see what the draft situation (logistics) will be and the keeper rules. If no keepers we should just go back for another season of yahoo instead of everyone creating an account and having a new website to check

I've never done an auction online, but for a NL only league with 10 teams and 24 spots it usually takes us about 8 hours offline to do our auction.

The perfect Metly solution to arguments with your significant other over whose family to spend Passover with: NEITHER!

You could have an auction for the starting roster and then snake-draft the bench?

Mets will be the only team in the NL East under .500

Keep your ENTIRE 40-man for next year? Sign me the heck up, I love deep leagues and I love leagues with long term keeper decisions. Let's do it!

I saw on twitter that he retired and the first thing I thought was how big a met-killer I remember him being... 6th in homers against and pretty good company!

Edgy DC wrote: This is among Boras' shiniest moments. Got to hand it to him. Prince's mansion should have a special shrine room devoted to Scott Boras This contract is perhaps the most insane i've ever seen... does anyone think Fielder has a chance at lasting that long with his body?

Why was St Louis stupid enough to build the stadium without ironclad gaurantees? If I were a municipality, I wouldnt pay for a stadium (I'd maybe go so far as to offer a tax break or supporting road improvements for privately financed one, but i'm iffy even on that), but if I were to build one, there'd be so many doomsday clauses that the franchise would be afraid to even mention moving, they'd have to gaurantee 8 home games per year for 40 years or face heavy fines if they reneg.

156 walks?? wow.

I wouldn't want to go Auction unless its in-person, if its online whoever misses the draft isn't going to like the results. You can use any site you want really, if Yahoo won't carry things over we can just post the keepers here and the commish can enter them pre-draft next year. I like CBS, I've heard good things about ESPN too. I'm cool with the keeper idea, but you need a lot more rules going in (who can you keep, for how many years, are there penalties), most of all you run into arguments surrounding keeper trades (or, as the contender not being helped will call them, "Dump Deals") that are better regulated ahead of time.

You take the number out of circulation so that you can take your time to figure out what you want to do. Because what you DON'T want is to hand the number to (for example) Lastings Milledge and have him turn into a homegrown all-star wearing number 8 and then you're looking to retire it for someone else. I'd open the number up now, or soon, though. Meanwhile, the news for Carter has gotten worse, they're saying today that there are new tumors and doctors are deciding whether to continue treatment.