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Most of the well-known ones are already common knowledge, and who knows who ends up staying with the old teams, but Pro Football Talk are running a complete list of potential free agents by position now. So far they have up all the offensive skill position players. http://www.profootballtalk.com/2009/02/07/...09-free-agents/

Is Matt Bush considered an infielder right now or is he still looked at as a pitching prospect? The last thing I remember hearing about him in 2007 was that he was throwing in the mid-90s and was still 21 years old until, of course, his elbow exploded. I don't think he's played at all in over a year now.

I counted at least 4 times where Kurt Warner removed his helmet while still in the field of play. That's 60 yards of field position those damn refs stole from the Steelers.

Got Gay?

And originally Wesley Snipes was going to be involved too. Just imagine...

Some analysts don't rank players until they have at least some professional experience under their belt. I haven't seen the rest of MLB.com or Keith Law's lists, but if he isn't ranked anywhere that's probably the case. I just found out that he ranks him 38th. He actually has him third place in the Pirates system.

Is it just the fact that he hasn't actually played a professional game that makes Pedro Alvarez rank so inconsistently on these lists? Baseball America had him as #3 overall behind the obvious top 2 and #1 in the NL, but MLB.com and Keith Law both didn't even list him top 25.

I just realized that every time Warner has played a full season he's gone to the Super Bowl. How is it possible that he didn't have another full year in that run somewhere? His starts by year go 0, 16, 11, 16, 6, 1, 9, 10, 5, 11, 16.

I actually had thought about this recently, not in relation to Jim Rice, but with Carl Yastrzemski. He hit a similar number of homers on the road, but if you look at every other number you can make a pretty good argument that his impressive totals are largely a product of Fenway Park.

I really haven't paid any attention to the whole Jim Rice debate, but someone please explain the differences that get Rice 76% and Parker only 15%. The biggest difference I can find is that one of them won 2 World Series titles and 3 Gold Gloves and that one is Dave Parker.

Apparently the reason he was released is that Outside the Lines are about to do a report on an incident in Atlanta during his 1 year suspension where he allegedly arranged another shooting outside a strip club. I think I remember it being reported for a second back when it happened, but it just kind of went away until now.

The Phillies go to Tampa in late June. Not sure why I know that.

Reed finished third. There was probably no way he was going to win after the first 10 games he had something like 20 tackles and 1 INT. He went nuts the last 6 games, but was definitely hurt by his name not even being in the conversation until near the end. James Harris LB Pittsburgh 22 DeMarcus Ware DE Dallas 13 Ed Reed S Baltimore 8 Albert Haynesworth DT Tennessee 5 Troy Polamalu S Pittsburgh 2

What an awful game this is. I guess we needed one after yesterday's were both fairly entertaining throughout. I don't have a good feeling about Baltimore-Tennessee next week either.

Did DeAngelo Williams get 0 MVP votes? He might have scored the quietest 20 TDs of all time.

Kurt Warner got the same number of votes for Comeback Player of the Year as Antonio Bryant? Didn't Warner throw for almost 3,500 yards and 27 TDs last year? In other NFL Awards news Victoria's Secret named Mike Tomlin the NFL's sexiest coach for the second year in a row. It was a close battle, but he just edged out Andy Reid.

Don't worry, I'm sure they'll find a way to talk about that Cowboys game for quite a while. Then they'll throw in some stuff on the Manning brothers.

Those crazy Yankees just threw another $700,000 at Kevin Cash. WHEN WILL IT END?

I guess this is maybe semi-related to the discussion. One thing I would like to see changed that I think could do a good bit of good is to make some major changes to the way international players are handled. I'm really not a big fan of them just being free agents as I believe that takes a bit of the sting out of losing out on draft picks based on signing big name free agents. Obviously the teams would like to have the draft picks to grab some of the top American players as well, but they probably don't miss it quite as much when they just signed a 16 year old kid from the Dominican who projects as a first rounder anyway. Of course teams like the Indians and Rays have done as well at building through international signings as anyone else, though.

Story of the game is the race to be the first back to gain more than 3 yards on a carry. Through the first 20 minutes it hasn't happened yet.

That's a change of pace. I was getting the White Sox World Series for about 2 weeks straight.

Ward averaged over 14 yards a carry for the game and it wasn't really even due to just one or two big runs. I didn't care who won the game, but I thought it would have been awesome if Jacobs went Jerome Bettis from the 1 yard line there after the Giants decided not to kick the easy field goal to win it.

Nice catch RW

Did Al Michaels say that was the first PI call on the Panthers this year? I swear that's what I heard. Is that even possible?

The Red Sox last offer to Teixeira was 8/176 ($22 million average) and the Angels haven't gone higher than around 160. The Yankees supposedly aren't in on this at all (at least yet). The Orioles or Nationals must have upped an offer to something ridiculous.