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I thought that was how we normally handled it anyway. Draft moves on and he can re-pick whenever he shows back up. Not that it matters too much, we are only two picks away from another 18 hour delay/joke pick, so he won't lose out much if VX and Steak go. He'll have plenty of time to re-pick after that.

Really? No big deal on waiting for Yahoo, I am just surprised by the hate for the ESPN set up. I didn't have any problems with their football setup.

ESPN has their leagues available to sign up for now, if we want to go through them. That would give us a player pool, plus they do the free stat-tracker all year as opposed to just the first week that Yahoo does for free.

So does Joe McEwing go in this spot?

I don't think that is entirely fair. They got TO when he was on the market and attempted to get Randy Moss last year by all accounts. I just don't think that many top flight WRs typically come on the market and they won't overspend on a lower tier guy just for the sake of doing so (the Bernard Berrian, Antwaan Randle El types). The biggest problem they have is that they have just sucked at developing a top flight receiver, hopefully Jackson reverses that trend.

So what's the deal, are you so paralyzed by the anticipated mockery that you can't make your replacement pick?

Currently residing in parts unknown, Adam Dunn

Jason Bay

Now Krankor needs to pull a dick move and string MJ along for a few more hours, claim the time limit elapsed, then take Wieters himself.

Fine by me. Fransisco Liriano? Carl Pavano? Mark Prior? I seem to remember this too. I took Liriano in the 17th a couple years ago just to stash him for the year.

About 40 minutes. Is it a bad omen for the draft when the first pick gets Tice-d?

Can I suggest that we hold off on drafting any player that does not have 2008 stats until the start of the next odd numbered round following the player pool going up? It seems kind of shitty for the people at the top of the draft that they could miss out on somebody (let's be honest here, the Wieters sweepstakes) just because Yahoo happens to put their player pool up when somebody in the middle or the end of a round is up.

It isn't to work on his hips as much as they want him to learn how to defend a takedown. The Chris Clemons chokeslam on him in the playoffs showed he has no takedown defense.

It really doesn't sound too good. They had a doctor come on DNL last night when it first broke and his analysis basically came across as "Well....um...it hasn't spread to his brain so he at least has that." Let's just say I am glad nobody signed Sean McDermott away from the staff.

Phillies: Possible: Jimmy Rollins - Has a shot at 3000 hits if he sustains his hits/yr average from the past 5 years over the next 8 years (going into his age 30 season so it is not unreasonable), which would make him a lock. Gold glove caliber defense plus an MVP award. Chase Utley - Has a Jeff Kent career path to this point and provided his hip doesn't become a bigger problem, I don't see why he wouldn't end up with similar career numbers. Plus he plays better defense and isn't regarded as one of the biggest dickheads in sports (not that that should matter). Ryan Howard - I honestly don't see it. I don't think he will age well and will become more Mo Vaughn then Babe Ruth, but with 153 HRs, 431 RBIs, and 3 top 5 MVP finishes in his first 3 full seasons he at least gets in the conversation. In this era, probably has to get to 500 HRs, unless he racks up a couple more MVPs or rings. Doubtful: Cole Hamels - If he stays healthy sure, he has been declared a "big-game pitcher" which is half the battle with writers. But even hoping on putting a pitcher in the conversation before at least 1200-1400 innings is nuts due to the injury factor. Eagles: In: Brian Dawkins - Probably not a first ballot, but one of the best 2 or 3 safeties in the league before the Reed/Polamalu era, and has remained a very good player with flaws since. Possible: Asante Samuel - He gets the picks driving up the easy to look at numbers. The number of picks he has in postseason play, however, is what I think is really going to drive his train. I really don't know: Donovan McNabb - A Super Bowl ring makes this an easy yes, but outside of that I can see both sides which in my mind means a no. Doubtful: Brian Westbrook - He just isn't going to survive enough touches to get the numbers he needs. Tra Thomas/Jon Runyan - If they didn't play their whole careers together one might be able to make a borderline case, but being together they overshadowed the individual. There is no Tra Thomas or Jon Runyan, they have always been Thomas and Runyan. Flyers: Doubtful: Mike Richards - If they win a couple cups under his watch he will get a ton of the credit (more than he deserves probably) which will pump up his stock but otherwise he won't put up enough numbers.

So when is the "Chance to draft A-Rod" coinflip? We need to get JHawk, Matt Young, and Elgin Baylor (can't have a draft lottery without him) sitting at their podiums while Russ Granik pulls the name from the envelope.

So am I going to be the one steering the Kenny Britt train?

If we are allowed to make a keeper change, I would like to keep Chris Davis 1B/3B, Tex (FA) and swap out Francisco Liriano (Round 17). So Davis could just slot into the Round 17 spot.

By the sounds of it, it is Howard's dad steering the ship here. That is why I am resigned to the fact he is never signing a long term deal with the Phils. Would you consider trading Ryan Howard now where a team would at least control his rights for a couple more years (for the right return obviously) and sign Adam Dunn at probably 2/3rds of Howard's submitted figure to replace him (a figure that will only go up in the next two years)? Dunn is only 10 days older, Howard is a terrible fielder so no real downgrade there, and Dunn has a comparable bat.

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TSM Fantasy Football (the 18 team league) ID: 82718 password: TSM Giving in to Marvin's prodding in the baseball thread (albeit minimal as I was looking at it yesterday). Ignore the draft date and time as it is just a placeholder.

This game makes up for the past 15 weeks of mediocrity. It is all worth it.

Amazon wish list, pictures of the DVDs has made life much easier. My parents usually end up spend around $500 each on my sister and I. Probably more than they should, but my mom is a Christmas junkie, plus we had some less than bountiful Christmases for a 5 year stretch as kids. So I think she just likes to be able to buy gifts, she is the type that when her friend at work had kids she put them on the list to buy for like grandchildren. Beyond that, a few gift cards can add up in a hurry ($50 gift card from work, same from 2 different aunts, same from my sister, and one from myself that I bought as a just in case gift for my godfather who I ended up not exchanging with).

Well, we do have to gorge ourselves with enough stuff to cover us for the next 25 years when we get a title. The WS DVD is awesome, I have watched the first five minutes where the players read Jim Salisbury's day after column about 20 times. I gorged myself the day after, so the only Phils stuff I got was a mug, keychain, the SI commemorative issue, and a Cole Hamels bobblehead with WS trophy (it looks like Cole if he was a 40 year old pedophile). I basically just got a shitload of DVDs (all I really wanted): Bones S3 House S4 Big Bang Theory S1 Life S1 Always Sunny S3 Robot Chicken S1-3 Wall-E Iron Man Forgetting Sarah Marshall Dark Knight Office S4 Terminator: TSCC S1 MST3K 20th Then used gift cards to get The Wire: Complete Series Spaced: Complete Series Shield S1-4 Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog Daria: Is it fall yet? (Had $10 to blow and I always kept forgetting to pick it up)

I find it amusing that over on the HFBoards (the biggest bunch of puss hockey fans on the planet) that they are somehow defending Crosby punching a guy who was already tied up with someone in the back of the head and the taint.