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I feel honored to be referenced! My first one! I now have a strong bias in favor of Fantasy Camp threads.

Mike

DOUGHBOYS wrote:No problem, Mike!
I'm tight on time tonight, so I'll give you all the gory details tomorrow morning

Thanks, Dan. No rush. I'll look forward to those "gory details" whenever you get to them. I appreciate you bringing some of us latecomers up to speed.

Mike

Dan, I have a request that, hopefully, would be of interest to others in addition to myself. While I've been playing fantasy baseball for some time, this only is my second year competing in the NFBC. Here, I am a relative newbie without much knowledge of what came before. While I knew a few of the ...

Dan, I have a request that, hopefully, would be of interest to others in addition to myself. While I've been playing fantasy baseball for some time, this only is my second year competing in the NFBC. Here, I am a relative newbie without much knowledge of what came before. While I knew a few of the c...

Wow! I'm guessing that to drop Trumbo you must either have an unbelievable team (including better 1B, CI, and five better OF) or due to strange circumstances HR and RBI no longer are a priority. Kind of wish I could add a Trumbo to a few of my teams (although I'm running out of cash in my two FAAB l...

I have Francisco Liriano on one of my teams. It's been a great ride. Tonight, however, I really need to put him down. Two innings, 11 hits and nine earned runs. What does it take to get yanked? Painful.

Mike

I could easily support this rule change. It would allow some form of pitcher streaming, but in that respect impacts all teams the same. It seems strange setting my lineups on Friday and being able to tweak my hitters to my heart's content but not being able to touch my pitchers at all. It also would...

You got to love fantasy baseball. Most of us watch as many games as we can get away with, research and rank players before each draft, and still there are surprises that hardly anyone saw coming. For instance, going into today's games: 1. Chris Davis, ADP about 125, leads all of baseball in homers a...

I dropped Everth Cabrera on two teams. If I had an extra slot for him, I would've kept him for the week just to make sure, but I've had a rash of injuries lately and needed the spot. Everything I've seen is that Everth Cabrera is going down for 50, so it seemed preferable to drop him over guys I rea...

Either that, or the Phillies, for once, score eight runs for Hamels but there is a huge rain storm at the end of the fourth inning with the Phillies up 8-0. Of course, either the game gets rained out (leaving us with no stats for the week) or the rain delay goes an hour or more and Charlie Manuel br...

So true. Sadly, I have Cole Hamels on several teams. Seems like every time he pitches well and is in line for a win, the Phillies' bullpen, including Papelbon, blows it. Don't get me wrong - I know this turned out to be a bad pick this year, and he did not pitch well at times, particularly in the be...

While I would love it if ARod was suspended for life, I can't see him not settling at the end of the day. MLB supposedly has overwhelming evidence and it is tough to see a court or arbitrator (or Bud) overturning a lifetime ban. From my perspective, his career basically is over. If he takes a deal a...

Outlaw - Thanks again for all of the updates. Do you know why MLB still is holding off announcing the suspensions? I would have thought that the suspensions would be announced prior to the end of the trade deadline. The rumors were that there will be suspensions of players who have not yet been name...

Greg - I love the Draft Champions format. I have six of those teams now and probably will have more next year. I especially enjoy being able to draft in November, December, January and February. The only downside, as I know you know, is when one or two perpetually slow and inconsiderate drafters rui...

The man does know how to make big moments. Man, they have missed Jeter! The only thing Jeter and ARod have in common is their current employer.

Mike

Getting them now for yesterday's game. Whatever the problem, it appears to have been fixed. Thanks.

Quick question: For some reason I never received the daily reports for each of my teams either Saturday morning or this morning and I'm trying to figure out whether they did not go out for some reason or if the problem is on my end. Thanks.

Mike

At the risk of sounding ridiculous given the way this year has gone, I think if Kemp finishes strong and healthy, he will be back in the second round. Clearly, his shoulder injury has hurt this year. But, if the power returns, and he gets another 6-9 months removed from shoulder surgery, he could be...

How's this for by-the-minute reporting: 2:08 p.m. - "Dewayne Wise (hamstring) has completed his rehab assignment with Triple-A Charlotte." 3:55 p.m. - "Dewayne Wise suffered a new right hamstring strain at Triple-A Charlotte and is out indefinitely." What? Boy, that was a dangerous hour and forty-se...

I heard that Braun's sample was 'tampered' with because when they put it on Selig''s desk he though it was his Apple juice and tried to drink it. I'm hearing its possible Bud may be spitting that sample back at Bruan and the dozens of other cheats as soon as this Wednesday and more than likley by J...

Here's an outside pick that some may think is too early. If we are in the early second round now, this is about the time I would consider taking Manny Machado for 2014. I need to see Puig "do it" for more than a month or so before I'm a believer this early, and I'm starting to get concerned that Har...

Completely agree with you on this one. Seems ridiculous that he would miss starting in a real game but then pitch an inning or two in an exhibition. Incredibly, my sense is that the Mets are the ones who are making this call. I would hope that, between the two, Harvey would rather go for a win in a ...

Thanks for the heads-up, but this sounds like bad news for us. Can't say you owe any of us daily posts, but we'll take and appreciate whatever you can do. I hope life changes again such that you can devote whatever time you want to the boards.

Mike

Dan - Interesting point about pitchers and hitters. If I'm watching a game where I have multiple hitters and they all go 0 for 4, I'm disappointed, perhaps annoyed if they had the nerve to make out with runners in scoring position, but rarely do I get emotional. However, I have a very tough time wat...

Have to say, Cobb showed me something the way he hung in there and competed. Not a good night, but it could've been much worse if he had given up after an incredibly horrible start.

Mike