Cheech Tremendous

stormy: Gimmick Poster or Retarded? http://forums.thesmartmarks.com/index.php?showuser=11406

Link to nytimes.com article

Can't say that I can fault the Yankees for declining to offer arbitration now. The market for declining sluggers with no defensive talent is toast. Sorry to break it to you (you meaning: Manny, Griffey, Dunn, and Anderson).

http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=3898942

Wally Z, JJ Hickson and a couple of first rounders? Weak deal, but it's at least a framework for what they are looking for.

Favre announces retirement. Discuss.

They can go halfsies on it.

It cost the Red Sox $7 million and two good prospects just to get rid of Manny.

They also have $143 million committed for next year, which puts them in second place in spending by a good margin.

I've been busy, but this is too complicated for me to figure out who's left and ranked where to make a successful pick. It's constant checking and re-checking of past picks and keepers. There has to be a simpler way. Worthless. I take it getting a magazine and circling the guys that have been selected/kept is too challenging. A whole 20 minutes of work. Matt Young is out. We are ahead of schedule big time right now so I'm going to pause the drafting until we get a new manager. Can a mod real quick toss up the 1 spot available in the thread subtitle. The new manager will get to inherit Matt Young's single correct pick of Alex Rodriguez, and they will need to select a 2nd, 3rd, and 4th round pick and then be ready for the 5th round pick which will occur after JHawk's picks. Wow... Way to treat the players like crap. Not all of us can afford to spend $10 on a magazine of all things, and yet because your draft setp is an unorganized mess, the blame is placed on the first time player who is confused. Wow... just wow. Man, I hate to overdo this thing, but here it comes:

The Suns would definitely want more back than that. Not to diss David Lee or anything, but he's an expiring contract and a significant downgrade from Amare. They want to get back a blue-chipper that they can build around. It's just unfortunate that Steve Kerr might think that Tyrus Thomas or Andres Biedrins is that guy.

Team: C, 1B, 2B, 3B, SS, OF, OF, OF, Util SP, SP, SP, RP RP, P, P Bn, Bn, Bn, Bn, DL, DL Scoring: HR, R, RBI, SB, OBP, SLG W, K, SV, HLD, WHIP, ERA

Abreu, Angels close to deal

Careful. This is a difficult task for some. Oh, and Willy Aybar is taken

Can we just beat this thing to death so I can get all the laughs out? I'm dying here.

I don't know if it's sad or great that this thread has been the funniest thing on TSM in months.

.282/.368/.436 The PECOTA joke was in reference to the Angels prediction of 79 wins.

There were a couple of papers picking up on Abreu to the Angels. I guess the Angels FO didn't like those PECOTA projections too much and decided they might want to find a real hitter for their lineup.

Your fantasy sports frighten and confuse me.

Guys, this is hard: you could end up with Willy Aybar!

That's the first time I've seen someone bow out of fantasy sports because it's too hard.

I've been busy, but this is too complicated for me to figure out who's left and ranked where to make a successful pick. It's constant checking and re-checking of past picks and keepers. There has to be a simpler way. Make or steal a list of players. Grab a pen and open the first page of the thread. Mark off each player that has been taken. It takes 10 minutes.

Hint: His name rhymes with Rob Heron.

So this Amare trade talk is everywhere. Will he really be traded before the deadline? If so, where will he end up?