Fman99

Six up, six down. Stayed home today, watching the game on the big arsed TV. Kids napping. All is well.

KABOOM!

Chan Ho ! Ha, MFYs, meet your 7th inning guy.

batmagadanleadoff wrote: My understanding is that the busts will be added to the Museum at a later date. I also heard that the Mets might add other artifacts in the future. Good, I've been wondering what Julio Franco was doing these days.

Highly recommended... free and allows you to manage all of your Yahoo FBL teams (I have 3).

Sox rallying against [crossout:h72tav80]Patrice O'Neal[/crossout:h72tav80] CC Sabathia in the 5th, now 5-2, 2nd and 3rd 2 outs. Fenway crowd waking up.

Am I the only CPF'er so baseball starved to be watching these teams play? It is a baseball game that counts, after all. Having said that, I was bummed to find out that ESPN2's feed was being blacked out in favor of the stellar (read: shitacular) YES broadcast of the game. These guys' Yankee love gushing (shame on you, Al Leiter, for even hanging out with these hacks) makes a guy want to find a torso, dress it in MFY apparel and then fuck it with an ax handle. 5-1 Yanquis, bottom of the 5th.

Wayne Hagin is a splendid listen in exhibition games that are going from bad to worse. While Sean Green was allowing a parade of Oriole baserunners this afternoon, he told a delightful story of how he almost missed the bus when he was broadcasting for the A's. Manager Billy Martin told him, "Never be late," and for 28 years, he said, he's followed that credo...until this morning, when the itinerary had been changed on him and the Mets' bus from St. Pete to Sarasota pulled away without him and he had to hitch a ride on the equipment truck, loaded by, among others, Tim Hume, brother of Tom Hume, the ex-Red. Even as Ed Coleman kept stepping all over the story, Wayne was engaging and gripping, throwing in details about Chris Majkowski calling him at 9:17 AM to tell him the bus left at 9:15, and how Madge is generally coming into the hotel late enough to hand him his USA Today while Wayne is waking up, and so forth. I knew Wayne made it to Sarasota because I was listening to him, but I found myself worried that he wasn't going to make it hours earlier. Just a swell blowout baseball tale, perfect for the last day of Spring Training when your team is getting clobbered. Hope he has no reason to fill air time that way the rest of the year. I'll say it again. Fuck Wayne Hagin right in his fucking fuckhole. I wouldn't trust this guy to call Fgirl filling a diaper without making a mess of it (pun intended).

Succinct and vulgar. I approve.

I'm going to not read it, not click on the link, and therefore have a higher quality of life than you dolts.

What a Port St. Pile of Port St. Shit.

It is my intention to vote after every game.

I'd boo the Marlins. Not the Mets. But that's just how I roll.

Edgardo Alfonso and Armando Benitez both sign with Newark Bears for 2010.

1st place 124-38 NL East Champs Win 11 straight playoff games, sweep MFYs to win it all

I love my team... most of my hitters are solid even for a mixed league and I have some real upside at the ass end of my rotation. I'm a little worried about my batting average but I've got solid numbers coming otherwise. Having done NL only before I prefer it, it's WAY harder than your 12 team mixed league vanilla league.

Watched the last few innings of this game after my weekly Saturday nap. Liked the Castillo dinger. Disliked the shoddy bullpen work... even the guys who didn't give up runs put a lot of runners on base.

Draft took just under two hours... I am happy with my team. A little thin on the last few hitters, and definitely weak on the back end of my rotation. Still like my chances. Pooed My HunterPence Round Pick Player Position 1. (4) Ryan Braun OF 2. (21) Jimmy Rollins SS 3. (28) Josh Johnson SP 4. (45) Hunter Pence OF 5. (52) Lance Berkman 1B 6. (69) Ryan Dempster SP 7. (76) Chad Qualls RP 8. (93) Ryan Theriot SS 9. (100) Hiroki Kuroda SP 10. (117) Colby Rasmus OF 11. (124) Chase Headley 3B,OF 12. (141) Dexter Fowler OF 13. (148) Chris Young SP 14. (165) Luis Castillo 2B 15. (172) Jonathon Niese SP 16. (189) Carlos Ruiz C 17. (196) Jaime Garc�a RP 18. (213) Matt Lindstrom RP 19. (220) Pedro Feliz 3B 20. (237) Juan Guti�rrez RP 21. (244) Blake DeWitt 3B 22. (261) Will Venable OF 23. (268) Sean West SP 24. (285) Dan Meyer RP 25. (292) David Eckstein 2B

Yeah, there will be an NL-only player pool, so even auto-drafting will choose eligible players. No guarantee that they'll be good, or healthy, just eligible. The bidding bucks works like this -- you get $1000 in play money to use all season. If you want a player that is on waivers (i.e., just added to Yahoo from the minors, or recently cut by another team), you bid as much of your money as you think the player is worth. It's blind bidding -- so you won't know if or how much any one else has bid for the same guy. At the end of the waiver period the highest bid gets the player. The bidding bucks can also be used as part of a trade I believe.

smg58 wrote: I'd say three hours if we work quickly, especially in the late rounds when the talent pool will be so thin that it will be one big crap shoot. I've never been in this deep of a draft, so I don't have much advice to give. Maybe towards the end look for matching halves of a platoon -- the righthanded half will generally only have value to whomever takes the lefthanded half (unless it's somebody like Jonny Gomes, who'll produce well in the AB's he gets). I also wouldn't worry about your bench. If you need to fill a spot due to an injured player, most likely nobody will begrudge you picking up the guy who takes his place. There may be exceptions, though. For example, I'd expect that Alex Cora will only have value to the person who drafts Reyes (and that's assuming Reyes misses Opening Day), but if you grab Beltran you may not be able to wait till the end of the draft to grab Pagan. It shouldn't take anywhere near 3 hours. Generally the time limit is 90 seconds per pick, but half of the people drafting will be ready to go within 5-7 seconds of coming on the clock. And the others will get mocked (by me at least) for taking the full time, given that this league is not for money and all.... I'd figure on being done by 9 PM EST. As for hints, I throw this out there -- ESPN MLB depth charts, per team, will help you figure out who the starters are for every NL team as well as the top 5 candidates for the rotation and their top relievers. http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/teams/depth?team=ari Pull down menu on the right to select the other NL teams. I copied those out onto a single spreadsheet and use it to find those guys late who will get a lot of at bats. In a single league it's important to maximize those guys who are going to play, even if they are .240 scrubs, because much of the stats (especially hitting) are counting stats and those runs/HRs/RBIs/steals add up. Relievers will be around late, though in a 12 team NL only league you may want to seek out at least one closer with a track record.

I think anyone and everyone doesn't like Meija in the pen this year.... well, anyone and everyone except the 2 voters here, and jerry and omar... maybe the 2 voters here ARE..... hmmmm: http://insider.espn.go.com/blog/tmi-mlb/post?id=1269 FanGraphs: Is Jenrry Mejia the next Joba? March, 25, 2010 By Joe Pawlikowski, FanGraphs I'll let you know if his mom ever sells me any meth.

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: Holy fucking shit, that's a catch. Good on you, Ichy. Beh. What's with that dumb little hop first? Endy Chavez it ain't.