metsmarathon

fair enough, though the clicking on the guy thing can use up the majority of your 15 seconds of bidding time... figured i'd throw it out there. ultimately i blame the interface. it could be so much better. so. very. much. i get that it's minimalist, and what not, but it's minimalism interferes with its functionality, imo.

ah, yes. it helps if i'm logged in. ... realizing that i'm arguing for a friend here, but is it right that muddy chickens is saddled with a phantom nelson cruz, the middling reliever from the turn of the millenium, instead of the real nelson cruz, the rangers outfielder most of us thought we'd bid for as we ran him up to $20? is it within the powers of the commish to nullify that acquisition? unless the guy who nominated him knowingly threw a turd into the water in the hopes of baiting the whole lot of us. in which case, that player should be saddled with the fecal nelson cruz. i mean, either way, lesson learned for us all - at a minimmum make sure the guy has a team and/or position after his name! and if the commish lacks those powers, whatevs. i just think it's the right thing to do. i mean, if that was jose bautista, somebody would be royally fucked.

we're not able to close the draft until he's got a legal roster are we? speaking of which, can you put the draft back on the schedule so that we can load up our respective watch lists, or does htat only happen once we're like 24 or 48 hours out?

i know m.e.t.b.o.t. would love to play, but that might raise some conflict of interest concerns: "trade me hanley ramirez for mike pelfrey, or i find out if you'll blend, toaster"

only guy i really reached for was kershaw so far, though given what we're paying for pitching, he might be a value. everyone else i got is fairly close to what i had them at. excet for pelfrey. my spreadsheet has him at, like, -$20 or so, but i think that could be a bit unfair.

i agree. i was hoping to be smarter than the average bear, but got sucked into some of the frenzy. at least i didn't get the other nelson cruz... (since it's the off season, will he be droppable at no cost, presuming we start the league on time?) that's certainly a good reason to get the draft finished up on tuesday - so if we have any serious regret over any of our picks, we can drop them. presuming that i have a correct interpretation of the rules, of course.

if you win, we all win

wuss

deathship... where are you...?

Edgy DC wrote: Hey! Guess who has a really awful theme song? [youtube]hw2HtRQ2U8Y[/youtube] Points for going for the "Miami sound"? I guess. If you like that sort of thing. good god it sounds like somehting i'd expect to hear at a disney parade, and not one of the better ones.

ugh. dh. ugly.

kid's got it down pat Dickeyface by twenny6point2, on Flickr

we need more mongers of things.

Benjamin Grimm wrote: Do we really think that people are more interesting when they're drunk? i probably less interesting when i'm drunk. booze makes me sleepy. or i keep on getting roofied. i think they'd be intersting to listen to over some drinks. whether those drinks be gin & tonics, bud lights, or shamrock shakes really doesn't matter much. as long as they're chillin' and bullshittin'

I never like the "It's no big deal, but it shows how tone deaf he is" arguments. The implication: "I don't think it's a big deal, but people dumber than me think it's a big deal." If you don't think it's a big deal, ignore it. If you don't think it's a big deal, challenge those who do. If you don't think it's a big deal, don't be bringing it up two weeks later. If you do think it's a big deal, don't wait two weeks. Tell me why I should care NOW!!!! i didn't care enough about it at the time to feel the need to impress my ambivalence upon those who seemed only slightly annoyed by something which was not really all that big a deal. i only felt the need to express that on this forum, indeed some people took some small issue with the helicopter. it only counters the argument that nobody gave a shit about the helicopter. some people cared. maybe not a shit's worth of care - perhaps a wet fart, i dunno. met fans certainly weren't cheering hte helicopter stunt. the issue is, though, not that it slightly, or even mildly annoyed some met fans. the issue is that there were hardly any mets fans rending their jerseys over the thing, and certainly there are no mets fans tarring their david wright bobbleheads a full two weeks later. on that i think we all agree. and so i ask, why bother with the story after two weeks, especially with the hamfisted attempt to use it as some sort of slight upon sandy alderson. it just fucking makes no sense. the hole thnig is so stupid it's infuriating.

the helicopter is needlessly showy, but how much did it really cost them to use it? and yes, mets fans complained about it at the time. right here in fact. in the madoff thread. it wasn't loud complaining, but more suggesting that the 'pons are tonedeaf and clueless. the real issue is, why hte fuck is klapisch harping on this as the biggest deal of the spring when it happened a full two weeks ago already? and what the fuck is that shit that collins gets a pass for climbing aboard hte helicopter, but sandy is expected to decline and insist they take a taxi instead. that's just dumb, and trying way too hard to find an angle. it's one thing to not be willing/able to afford to overpay a baseball player 100 million dollars. its another thing entirely to fuel up a helicopter that you're already leasing anyways for a trip to a basketball game. are we stupid enough to think that hte wilpons took a greyhound down to PSL instead of likely flying down on their own G-6, but they just blew the budget because they were overcome with linsanity? should jeffy be showing up to games in wrangler jeans and an ill-fitting old navy t-shirt, wearing brandless sneakers he bought from payless? please, bob, spare me.

me and the mini will be watching this game with rapt attention as i try to put him to bed tonight. i'll porbably only go an inning or two deep with him, saving hte rest for tomorrow night, and the night after, etc., etc.

Edgy DC wrote: And really, can we all commit to bringing one [crossout]sucker[/crossout] friend to the Crane Pool in the next month or two. This place is deader than an Egyptian tomb. Like, you can really tell when somebody goes on vacation. hey, i've dragged a cards fan, a sawx fan, and a philly fan into our [crossout]fantasy baseball league[/crossout] thing we're not supposed to talk about in the regular fora, and directed them to the site. maybe we can convert one of them...

and betamax. mmm, obsolescence...

he started it...

i don't think i want to know the answer to that question, as it would imply that everything right up until that frightening demarcation will get hte job done.

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howsabout instead of instituting the dh in both leagues, why don't pitchers learn how to fucking hit, and dh's learn how to not be fatasses. howsabout that.

ok, i've got the red sox fan in, and i've also got a phillies fan. sorry about that. not sure if my mets fan friend is interested yet.

two questions: do we need exactly 12 teams in the league to be viable? mind if i invite two other players who i think might be interested? one is a mets fan, the other a red sox fan. my other frined, mohawk red flyers, is good for either of the candidate draft dates, but prefers thursday 22 march, as do i.