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I'm very interested in seeing if anyone ends up performing better than random chance.

Don't hold your breath waiting for any word about Trout's amazing 2013 season.

He's too busy blaming his bad NFBC draft performance on the "unfair" snake-draft format

http://www.ccsdesperados.com/?p=173

Request for a follow-up USA Today Mike Trout article by Ron Shandler please.

Humor is therapeutic.

Good call to at least bring it up Joe.

The guy has some reinforcements coming very soon. Go auto-team!

Great story Coz

He's already owned in every league so no need for hype. Maybe it's bragging, but either way, nothing matters until he gets called up, and succeeds despite this mega-mush bonanza.

That is always fixed by Sunday morning. He will be removed.

Early bird gets the worm

Jeff,

I remember liking your outfielder picks like Melky and Morrison during the draft- even while not being able to concentrate on your team dynamics- so now they seem even better. Nice job.

-Craig

I thought you guys were ESPN8 THE OCHO?

See you tomorrow- good luck.

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There is no such thing as luck. There is only adequate or inadequate preparation to cope with a statistical universe.

Robert Heinlein

Wow- never has a more incorrect statement been made. At 7:55pm on Sunday my family is 9th! Okay, maybe 8th, behind minor league boxscores, twitter, emails, rotoworld, mlb.tv, and my PC and Iphone.

Originally posted by DOUGHBOYS: Since we're on the subject of rule changes... I would like to bid on pitchers that have not thrown yet, but are scheduled for the upcoming week. David Huff is one this week and there have been others. I know they haven't been up yet and wasn't drafted by folks making ...

A loophole is a weakness or exception that allows a system, such as a law or security, to be circumvented or otherwise avoided. Loopholes are searched for and used strategically in a variety of circumstances, including taxes, elections, politics, the criminal justice system, or in breaches of securi...

I believe last year, with Fanexpletive, you could make your change in advance- you didn't need to wait until Friday, but unless your pitcher was still on the DL at 12:00 in the afternoon on Friday, that's what I meant by "on", then Fanball automatically backed out the change. Because it was so logic...

Glenn, the rule got about 95% there as far as being clearly written, but I actually think KJ Duke may be serious about offering to rewrite it. It says that the player has to be on the DL "by" 12 on Friday. If the word "by" was changed to "on", I think that would have been enough. It was meant to mea...

How is a "hurt" pitcher pitching? We can only take out pitchers who are hurt right? What else would the rule be for?

Using a DLed pitcher (Like as an extreme case, Strasburg) to AVOID part of a two-start week is a very well known strategy that people generally agree is slightly shady but in the realm of fair. Some people call it the "Gekko" or the "Gekko loophole", but whatever, its fair. Pitching two different pi...

Greg, I haven't read all of the new ESPN book yet but I was more interested in the newer stuff because I read "ESPN: The Uncensored History" a couple years ago, which was written in 2001, and it has tons and tons of pages about the early years and the starting of the station from the ground up, with...

Glenn, I just checked your draft board from that day and saw that you hit on Chacin and Pineda, and Ogando (pretend you kept him ) so since it was Main Event week one I was probably counting Pineda as risky too. Still, that's a great staff you put together, injuries or no.

Its nice that you got Wandy's second start if you were able to take out Harang. Still, reading about that- not getting changes saved, totally sucks. We've all done it at some point and its the pits. It feels like the whole world is conspiring against you. I often debate with other fantasy players ab...

Originally posted by Hells Satans: I've never seen a pitcher more unlucky than Brandon Morrow. 4 run inning today on 4 dinks and dunks and a stupid IBB (Farrell has proven to be an overmatched moron so far; who IBBs to set up a DP in the 3rd inning?). .342 BABIP last year and it's even worse this ye...

I have nothing against old-time baseball- in fact I love it, but a lot of what you are saying feels like it's what you are hoping rings true, so that old-time baseball is "better". Without examples, I'm saying nothing, so here goes: -Jose Bautista gets mad because he popped up instead of homering. T...

Ante is a super nice guy at live events.



Good luck man.

Yes, I know. That was satire.



The bot posts are pretty lame though.

Originally posted by : Real brain power on display. Thknas for that answer! , What is the hidden agenda behind that statement? Are you about to draft in a mid-season league and you are trying to get Hosmer to be drafted early or something? Please state all of your hidden agendas and your team's situ...