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C Dioner Navarro

SP Jair Jurrjens

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I'll be sticking with Kevin Garnett and Ray Allen as my main keepers yet again, with Captain Jack joining them. I never expected Stephen Jackson would end up being one of my keepers, though i never expected Kirk Hinrich would be mostly worthless all season either.

RP CJ Wilson

Chris Duncan, OF

I already drafted Escobar in Round 7.

2B Orlando Hudson

2B/3B/SS Yunel Escobar

OF Matt Kemp

RP Rafael Soriano

So why do we pick Johnson? Because he was so versatile, so intelligent, so unselfish, was such a great passer and had such great court sense and leadership abilities. Among all that, it is even understandable to forget for a moment that no player in NBA history has more assists. The Complete Handbook of Pro Basketball: 1995 Edition

Portland's record when James Jones plays 20+ minutes: 21-7 Portland's record when James Jones plays less than 20 minutes or not at all: 7-16 It was when James Jones started getting minutes that the Blazers offense suddenly came to life and they went on their 18 wins in 20 games run, and they've now lost 4 from 5 since he got hurt. James had become one of the most important parts of the Blazers, and with him gone for 3-5 weeks i doubt they'll be good enough to keep pace with Denver, Golden State and Houston in the race for the final playoff spots.

SP John Smoltz

I nailed the Girffin and Almeida fights, but the less said about the rest of my predictions the better.

Very enjoyable show, probably helped by the fact that i had talked myself into expecting everything other than the Griffin fight would turn out boring as hell. I had the opener 30-27 for Girffin, Tibau had the takedowns but Tyson was getting back up immediately every time and was practically tagging him at will on their feet. Almeida looked very good, surviving the crazy head spike and holding onto the choke, hopefully they reschedule Almeida/Belcher again sometime since that was the fight i was looking forward to the most from this show. Marquardt/Horn delivered a surprisingly entertaining fight, Boetsch looked like a beast with the front kicks, knees and just tossing Heath on his face like he was nothing, and Lytle just destroyed some guy who's name i can't remember in brutal fashion. Always fun when someone gets beaten so bad they end up taking down/pulling guard on the ref. Maybe the UFC decided to crack down on punches to the back of the head, that would be the only explanation for taking a point of Lesnar with no warning for just a single hammerfist, in the past they've let people get away with numerous repeated shots for the back of the head and almost never warned anyone, let alone taken a point away. Mazzagatti being shit would also explain it. As for Lesnar, he looked real good early with the explosive takedown and G&P, he improves his awareness on the ground and gets some good sub defence and Brock will be a force. I'd guess they'll do both Mir/Sylvia 2 and Nogueira/Werdum 2 next, with Brock getting some can with no ground game. After the first round of Sylvia/Nog i was already starting to dread all the 5 round Tim Sylvia borefests we were looking forward to, but thankfully Nogueira saves us all from that fate. Great comeback win for Nog, i just wish he'd do it without getting the shit beaten out of him first all the time.

Really don't like that trade for Portland. They do need to clear space for Fernandez and Koponen on the roster, but Outlaw/Jack/Frye for Devin Harris isn't the way to do it. If they were getting rid of Miles and/or LaFrentz's contracts in the process and Outlaw wasn't involved, maybe, but otherwise i'll be stunned if this went through. They've got a good thing going, no need to fuck with it right now.

5-4, good for the 1184th best score. Stupid Gonzaga/Grove/me for doubting Marcus Davis.

My keepers are correct. God i love having Hanley Ramirez for the price of the 20th round draft pick.

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The dream of winning the kkk Bowl/Bored Bowl/kkk Bowl again in succession ends in 6 straight losses. After Week 12 i really hit the wall in this thing.

Muhammad Ali Pamela Anderson Fidel Castro Dick Cheney Maurice Clarett Walter Cronkite Elijah Dukes Farrah Fawcett ***BEST BET*** John Goodman Charlton Heston Houston (The Porn Star) Houston (The Rapper) Houston (Whitney) Jack Klugman Pervez Musharraf Ariel Sharon Elizabeth Taylor Tina Turner Owen Wilson Amy Winehouse

Seattle Jacksonville Tennessee Tampa Bay Will probably be wrong about all four. Aside from the Titans i don't really care, nor does it matter since whoever wins will just end up losing in the Divisional round anyway.