Failed Bridge

Usually when someone asks for who are upcoming free agents, they want to know players that their team would want. Rivers is likely the biggest QB on the "market" this post-season. And yet Rivers WON'T BE A FREE AGENT Grossman is most likely a cap casualty. Kyle Orton was a good QB in college and will probably continue to progress real well. Best QBs available in the upcoming draft are 1.) Matt Leinart (duh) 2.) Paul Pinegar 3.) Charlie Whitehurst 4.) DJ Shockley Drew Staton and Omar Jacobs are elligible but who knows if they come out early. I know Vince Young, Marcus Vick, and Brady Quinn have all said they're staying for their senior years.

I believe Steve McNair's contract is up after this year. Rex Grossman and Kyle Boller will both probably end up getting cut.

Not if its two versions of you. Face it Kotz, you're a dancer not a fighter.

I think both versions of you would fall in the fetal position hoping not to be hit.

like me!

he can't pad his stats more if he hands it off to James.

The Colts defense still sucks regardless if they win this game. They're still the same old Colts, they just run more to keep their crappy defense off the field.

Bengals defense is very young and still inexperienced. I'd say they need a bit more time and coaching before you can really judge them. Colts don't have much of an excuse though. If Big Ben plays in the Monday night game then the Steelers have a good chance of beating them.

I think the worst part of the dream is that Rowdy Roddy Piper was in it

Those two posters are already registered as bob_barron and Vitamin X.

I don't like this officiating crew. They're one of the most flag happy crews in the league (and the one that fucked up that game a few years back giving a team an extra timeout) along with the one where the head official is the black guy with the mustache.

I don't think its a good trade for Texas if Florida isn't picking up any of Lowell's contract. We'll see if Lowell has a bounce back season, but as of right now I just don't feel picking up his whole contract while giving up one of your better prospects along with Hank Blalock to get Josh Beckett is worth it. Just my opinion though.

good drive by Cinci here. They needed to do two things here. 1.) Score (duh) 2.) Give their defense a break by running the ball more they were able to do both there.

Cinci got fucked on that call. DB was playing the ball

hurray! I get the Indi/Cinci game. I was worried they were going to give me Jets/Broncos or Buffalo/SD because they're divisional games.

Ravens win

I hate these "icing the kicker" time outs. If he's a good kicker then he'll make it regardless.

Maddux threw a nice pass on his last attempt. He hit the guy right in the numbers. You just have to ignore the fact that it was a Raven's player he threw it to.

they broke Kyle Boller again

Jim Haslett had a shitty bye week. His son broke his leg, his daughter broke her finger, and he had to have the family dog of 7 years put to sleep cause it was suffering with cancer.

I'd be ok with moving Texiera back to third base and letting Adrian Gonzales take over at first base. With Josh Beckett now having oblique problems along with the blisters it would concern me. He just seems like fragile goods at this point. Is Florida going to be paying any of Lowell's contract, and if so how much? That might make change my opinion a bit.

1.) The Simpsons 2.) Seinfeld 3.) Married...With Children 4.) Arrested Development 5.) Cheers

Anybody else find it funny that a guy who spent his night posting on a messageboard is criticising somebody else for not leaving the house last night? I want a better ignore feature. I don't want to see that these people have made posts and I don't want to see their posts when I hit the Add Reply option. an improved search would be good too

When did I say Blalock was a better player than Beckett? I said they're about equal in value and a one for one trade would be fine. Blalock has issues with his power away from Texas, but that can change. Beckett has been on the DL 9 times in 4 years. Both are very talented but haven't been able to put everything together because of their short comings. Blalock has also played in a division known for tough pitching via the Angels, A's and sometimes the Mariners. Move him to the NL East which isn't as strong pitching wise as it once was and he'll do better. The only pitchers tht have given him trouble in that division are Tim Hudson and Billy Wagner (if he stays in that division). Tom Glavine might give him problems as well since he doesn't fair too well against lefties. He's not going to have to face Bartolo Colon (6-34 with 10Ks), Rich Harden (3-21 with 8Ks), Ricardo Rincon (3-19 with 4Ks), Kirk Sarloos (2-12), Barry Zito (6-29 with 7Ks), Shigetoshi Hasegawa (3-16), Jamie Moyer (7-32), Joel Piniero (5-36 with 13Ks). Now he might not put up great numbers at Florida but he should do quite well in the games he'll be playing at Alanta and Philli as both of those are launching pads. On to Beckett. He's got great stuff but has never stayed healthy enough to utilise it. As I said previously he's been on the DL 9 times in 4 seasons. Not to mention he's never pitched over 200 innings in a season and the closest he's come to that is 178 2/3ip this past season. Before that he had 156 2/3 in 04, 142 in 03, and 107 2/3 in 02. He did well in the 03 playoffs but Derek Lowe did very well in the 04 playoffs. You can't look at a small sampling and proclaim the guy an ace. Beckett needs to be able to pitch 200 innings and make 32-34 starts along with going into the playoffs. a one for one trade would have been fine for both as it gives them each a player with the potential (potential being the key word) to add something they've been missing (Florida with a young power threat that can compliment Miguel Cabrera, Becket a young pitcher that could be a legit ace if he puts the stuff together). I don't think Texas should have been willing to take on Lowell's contract and give up a fairly good prospect as well.

watch out Al, your scrotem's getting tugged on pretty hard here.