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Originally posted by sportsbettingman:

MLB killed the goose that laid golden eggs.



Refusal to renew a license and greed got the beautiful backlash of losing their power to extort!!!



Gotta love it!



~Lance An excellent pithy summary.

The fragility of the modern day baseball player is beyond bizarre. Why does it seem that most of them are 50 times more brittle than the average person on the street? In football, I'm amazed that more people aren't injured. That sport is brutal. However, baseball is anything but. Setting aside pitch...

Thanks for the link Greg. This is great news. In my humble opinion, words are inadequate tools to describe the twisted greed that MLBAM has displayed in pushing this. The fantasy industry has created an instrument that, on the margins, has immensely increased MLB's profits and revenues. MLB should b...

Anyone else surprised the Cubbies have the best record in baseball? Yes, they can hit, they've got Zambrano, and a decent bullpen, but their 2-5 starters look shaky to me. Can they really keep this up?



KJ - aren't you a Cubs fan? Will this continue? Or will they slip back to .500 in due time?

Originally posted by rockitsauce:

The x factor is Griffey...can they find a team willing to take on his contract?



As a Bruce owner in multiple lgs, I'm hopin' for 20 hr's & 10 sb's. Seattle will.

Originally posted by Greg Ambrosius: quote:Originally posted by RoundTrippers: if its not the STARDUST than let it be the flamingo!!! The hell with playing these silly fantasy games. Instead, let's all just pool our money and build a Las Vegas casino with a sportsbook EXACTLY like the Stardust and f...

...if you saw any of these coming:



San Diego 15-27 - worst record in the NL

Colorado 15-25 - 2nd worst record in the NL

Detroit 16-25 - 2nd worst record in the AL(will be the worst after they lose the next 2 to Arizona)



If you called these, bravo I say, Bravo!

Originally posted by KJ Duke: quote:Originally posted by Liquidhippo: Well the Tigers have really turned it up a notch. They've improved their play to where they no longer look like the worst team of all time. Nope, at 16-23, they simply look like the worst team in the AL, this year. Give it up for ...

Well the Tigers have really turned it up a notch. They've improved their play to where they no longer look like the worst team of all time. Nope, at 16-23, they simply look like the worst team in the AL, this year. Give it up for De'troit! It's looking extremely doubtful that they'll get back to .50...

Originally posted by sportsbettingman: I freaking hate Blind Bidding for free agents. I wasted 200 this week...pure fear of being out-bid. Not that the guys I got aren't worth it...just that you never ever know what is enough each week. Two 101 bids, when two $1 bids would have won. ~Lance Lance, I ...

Originally posted by DOUGHBOYS: quote:Originally posted by Gordon Gekko: quote:Originally posted by UFS: No need to needle. LOL... I waited 7 weeks!! Keep Liriano. The 1 ER is something to hold on to for now. Nice climb yesterday..... How is that possible with Mad Max? LOL. Hopefully max can come ba...

Originally posted by BigHurt: quote:Originally posted by Liquidhippo: [QUOTE]If I bid $75 for a player and got outbid, say some guy paid $380 for him. Yet, you check and in every other league in the NFBC the max price he went for was $62. I'd say you did a pretty good job of appraising the market va...

Originally posted by sportsbettingman: Below are just the examples of players 25 dollars or more that would have been had for $1 (no runner up bids). This is just from the last three weeks. Add in all of the money above the bids with runner ups, and all the smaller bids etc...and you'd PUNISH the fr...

Originally posted by UFS: quote:Originally posted by Gordon Gekko: quote:Originally posted by UFS: quote:Originally posted by sportsbettingman: I bid $389. We'll find out in 20 min if it was enough. I bid more [/QUOTE]how much? [/QUOTE]$1. Greg changed to Vicory this morning. [/QUOTE]WooHOO!

Originally posted by UFS: quote:Originally posted by Liquidhippo: quote:Originally posted by UFS: quote:Originally posted by Liquidhippo: Vicory rewards those with this knowledge, where as the 'non-vicory' leaves it to blind luck. And no, it doesn't even out over time, as the I've seen the bizarre t...

Originally posted by UFS: quote:Originally posted by Liquidhippo: Vicory rewards those with this knowledge, where as the 'non-vicory' leaves it to blind luck. And no, it doesn't even out over time, as the I've seen the bizarre twists of FAAB fate last an entire season. Consistently being outbid a $1...

Originally posted by sportsbettingman: While I hate blind bidding...I do so because it's hard. :D I'd hate the +1 even more for the resons you mentioned. I'd bet there are more bids in the 80-120 range that have ZERO as the runner-up bid, than there are 80-120 bids with a runner up. Very frustrating...

Originally posted by UFS: quote:Originally posted by Greg Ambrosius: Yes, I know some folks think that they could have been smarter than the rest of their guys in their league by picking up Scherzer for $10 two weeks ago, but now you have to be smarter in the FAAB game. It's part of the contest, and...

Originally posted by RedRyder: quote:Originally posted by KJ Duke: quote:Originally posted by sportsbettingman: Another oddity in an event of this size is that there isn't 100% transparency as to who the main event primary owners are as listed in the main event overall standings. Once you send in yo...

I know!



Let's have live FAAB auction bidding once per week!

There's no question they CAN do this, its only a matter if they will CHOOSE to do this. As some have mentioned it would just involve additional code. True, it might involve a significant amount of programming by Stats, I dunno. As far as the complexity, that would only effect the programers. As for ...

Originally posted by ToddZ: Did you see Guillen at 1B? He's a better bet to stay healthy at 3B. I have seen Guillen at 1B, and to be honest, quite shockingly, he actually was adequate at 1B towards the end of last year. This year, the half dozen games I've seen, he played the position about as well ...

Interesting, what would really make me happy is if they moved Guillen to DH somehow. If Guillen would just be a little worse, like 'Alex Sanchez' worse, it would be comic relief watching him play defense, as it is, its just painful.

This is good.



More Auction options!?!?!?



Nice!

Quit teasing and tell us already!