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I guess if you are winning the field position battle, then they figure other teams are less likely to throw out of their own end? If you want him as a WR/return man just say so ("Hey, did you see what Devin Hester meant to the Bears, plus this guy can play WR", was that so hard). Don't try to feed the other garbage.

Being that we are now in draft week and all the rankings and mock drafts are in, what are you hoping for out of your teams' weekend. Round 1 pick 26: Meriweather/Nelson/Griffin, Greg Olsen I really don't care which safety is there, I'd be happy with any of them. If they are all gone and Olsen is sitting there it works as LJ Smith doesn't look like he is coming back in 08. Round 2 pick 57: Sidney Rice, Eric Weddle, Brian Leonard, Ben Petrick The Eagles already have plenty of recievers but if Rice is there at 57 you have to do it, Curtis/Brown/Rice/Baskett could be really good. If they don't go safety in round 1, Weddle would work. JJ would like his versatility. Leonard would be a great compliment to Westbrook and with his receiving ability you could put them out there at the same time and cause matchup problems. If they are gone and they haven't grabbed Olsen in the first, they have to address TE here and Zach Miller should be gone by here. David Harris appears to be moving up making it unreasonable to put him here. Round 3 pick 90: Brandon Siler, Tony Hunt, Matt Spaeth In that order depending on what they already filled in the first two rounds.

Are there really that many people beating the drum for Barber to get in? It seems to me that the pretty common opinion on him is that he needed 2 or 3 more years of his most recent performance to get in. Plus the lack of TDs really hurts IMO. Dillon is one of those Hall of Very Good players, who gets hurt be being a part of those Bungles teams. I'd still put him ahead of Barber. They are both going to get hurt by the other RBs that are going to be coming onto the ballot. Would you put either of those two in ahead of Marshall Faulk, Ricky Watters, Curtis Martin or Jerome Bettis (Bettis I think is overrated but with being 5th in rushing, being the lovable bus and the way his last season went, I don't think they will deny him the HOF)?

I find it hard to blame anyone for not scoring Pat Burrell on a bloop shot. The only guy on the team that runs worse is probably Leiber. If there is any question at all, Burrell IMO is the type of runner you plant his ass.

Wait- what? Was this a part of the WEEI joke? http://thebaseballcube.com/players/G/Micha...rciaparra.shtml

Yeah, if only I had remembered....or you know had an operational computer to be able to do it. Six of one, half dozen of the other there.

Nice job by the ref to boot Eager for basically telling him to fuck off. I heart Ben Eager. Thank god this season is almost over. After the 6-0 the Sabres will put up tomorrow I can just wait for the draft and FA (where they will overpay for Daniel Briere by way too much most likely) to roll around.

nice, up to 35 1/3 IP of 4 run baseball on the pine.

Just as a heads up, he may miss next week too. I think he is scheduled to make two minor league starts and be back 15th-ish. Not positive about that but look into it on Saturday if possible before setting your rotation for next week.

Could be worse, you could have 22 1/3 IP of 3 run ball sitting on the bench. I still can't believe there was no auto roster set up. Figures I finally got the home computer back on Tuesday a couple days too late.

I would be up for one if we did it all at once. As in everyone who is in shows up at one time and we run through it like a real time draft. Way too many headaches the way it happened the last couple years which is why I didn't worry about bringing it up again.

Since when doesn't Yahoo set a roster for you? Every other league the roster filled in with the earliest drafted players in their position and you edited from there. I figured I would at least be able to have that for this week.

I'm sorry, but I got to go with Curry on this one. That was the most pointless episode of the series I think I have seen. An episode about two characters I don't give a damn about, doing nothing I give a damn about all in an attempt to have an episode built around "OMG, there are Boone and Shannon and look they were at the hatch too, CALLBACKS YAY". Doing "fun" episodes around Hurley, Charlie and Sawyer are one thing since I care about those characters, this was just pointless IMO. Honestly, I really checked out on the show during the break, but have been trying to stick with it and there is about a 50/50 chance this was it for me. By the way, what was her master plan here? "Oh you aren't dead, just paralyzed so I can do whatever I want". MUWHAHAHAHA, I will steal the diamonds and make my grand escape to...the um.....oh yeah, nowhere. And if they have either of those two come back in any corporeal fashion, I swear I will never watch another episode of an Abrams show again and my previous season Lost DVDs are gone. They were buried alive, by the time Hurley and Sawyer get grave filled that is time enough for them to die. The ending was retarded in the first place, but whats done is done. Comment from the only other guy at work who still watches the show: "I watched about five minutes, saw a flashback of a character I don't know and decided I had other stuff to do"

If your DT situation is that desperate than Walker could be an upgrade. He is a maddening player. One game he'll be a force, then the next three he is on his back the whole game. With the Reagor signing, Walker became expendable. Spikes is terrific only because he should spell the end of Bow Tie Man. Other than that he is worth the risk for the price of Walker and an 08 pick (which I have seen rumored as a 7th rounder, which is nothing). Plus this fills one of the two main needs and frees them up to take Nelson, Griffin or Merriweather with their 1st round pick. Holcomb can serve his purpose as the no.3 this season before being replaced by a pick in 2008.

The Inky today had Danks named as the fifth starter with Floyd either in the bullpen or AAA.

Sorry guys, home computer crapped out over the weekend. Andrew Miller, P, Det

I think the value was just too much to keep him. It would have costs a 9th round pick, plus dropping him let SJ keep Matt Holliday. If the choice was him or mediocre players that is one thing, but keeping an injured Liriano and the expense of someone like Holliday would be a little too much into the future thinking.

Damn, Schaub made out well for himself. 3 yrs/~$20 million Full deal is 6/$48, but the $10 mil roster bonus before the 2010 season assures he is either a very good QB or getting cut that season.

What round was that though? I have never seen worse than a top 3 rounds of Ryan Church, David Ross and Wes Helms.

Sure, sounds different. Plus my last draft of the year can't be that awful NL only draft. Fucking computer restarting.

Francisco Liriano, P, Min

Fedoruk is teh finished. He never recovered from the Boogard fight. All of his other fights so far have either been him turtling (turtleing? turtleng?) or just grabbing and hugging until the refs broke him up. That was the first clean shot he has taken and that's that. The Flyers desperately need to pick up a legit heavyweight for next season with Orr, Jannsen and Laroque in the division. Eager is a good shit disturber, LHW fighter, but they need a heavy.

No chance on the Eagles. AJ Feeley is the backup. The coach likes him, he can run the system, and the talk is that when they brought him back he was promised the backup job from this season on.

Looking through a few mock drafts Landry at 10 might be cutting it close (except for Clark Judge who somehow had him at 22). At the very least it gives them a little more security if they can't make a bigger move for Thomas. It would be really hard to bail on Jackson already considering they used a 2nd on him last year. Maybe if Quinn falls into their lap they bite, but I can't see it for Carr.

The no.1 draft pick contract he has is what will probably keep them from getting any more than a 6th rounder, maybe a 5th to stretch it. He would be a pricey QB to bring in for some competition.