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Just an FYI: Sportsline did an NL-only auction league this afternoon with 13 teams. I'll provide those dollar values tomorrow as well if you guys want them. Can't hurt, that's for sure.

Originally posted by Team Herron: What i dont get is the weekly award. HR4411, is pretty clear that to not be considered gambling it cant be based on the outcome of one event. $100k to the weekly winner sure smeels like gambling.....but you'd think Wal-Mart would have doe its diligence, so who knows...

We will draft seven reserve players including minor leaguers next week via e-mail. We'll then play this league out on CBS Sports.com. Remember that if any player gets traded out of the AL, you lose his stats going forward. No fun.

Here's the other teams: FANTASY AUCTIONEER C Jarrod Saltalamacchia TEX 11 C Curtis Thigpen TOR 1 1B Carlos Guillen DET 32 2B Dustin Pedroia BOS 14 3B Miguel Cabrera DET 46 SS Elvis Andrus TEX 1 CI Maicer Izturis ANA 7 MI Danny Richar CHW 3 OF B.J. Upton TAM 37 OF Luke Scott BAL 8 OF Joey Gathright K...

Originally posted by eddiejag: Greg can you post your team, would like to take a look at it. Well, Eddie, as you know in any of these single-league auctions, you always leave with a few holes in your roster. Try as I may in this one, I just couldn't get an infielder with value and my infield is WICK...

Originally posted by DOUGHBOYS: Thanks Greg, way over my head too. Lets just hope they can get it done. From STATS today: We are definitely going to look into building a better way of submitting bids, however, it may not be done in Java. I don't know that at this point I can give you an exact date o...

Originally posted by DOUGHBOYS:

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Any word from STATS on this, Greg? They are looking into this, but they have told me this would be a major programming change. I'm not a programmer, so I'll have to let them make this call.

Originally posted by Captain Hook: Nice prices - tell some of those guys we will save a seat for them in the $1300 AL Auction league! Yeah, it's easy to spend this fake money with nothing but bragging rights on the line. Worst of all, it was a league where you lose the player if he gets traded to th...

Here's the top bids in the CBS Sports AL Auction League: Alex Rodriguez $54 Miguel Cabrera $46 Carl Crawford $40 Grady Sizemore $37 B.J. Upton $37 Vladimir Guerrero $36 David Ortiz $35 Alex Rios $35 Derek Jeter $32 Carlos Guillen $32 Robinson Cano $32 Nick Markakis $31 Bobby Abreu $31 Victor Martine...

Okay, this auction was just downright crazy. A whole lot more money went to the top stars than I've ever seen in an AL-only auction. I chose to stay back and let the money flow, but eventually I had to jump in as 2-3 of us stayed back and I could see that I'd be in bidding wars for the second-tier p...

Originally posted by Sack:

Greg:





Sackofpotatoes ( one word please ) Just a typo on my part. It's correct on the hat!!

If you're an NFBC original member and you want your team name scripted on your hat free of charge, you must contact me before Feb. 15th to get this done. We'll then bring the hats to each draft city and hand them to you at Registration. Right now I have Rick Gromek working on the following hats, so ...

Originally posted by Red Sox Nation: Greg, Any update on when we should get it? Or can you provide the Krause TIN so that we can complete our taxes? Thanks I would assume they were mailed out on Jan. 31st. Give it a few days and if you don't receive them, let me know. But I would doubt we'd be late ...

Originally posted by DOUGHBOYS: BJ Upton going well before Brandon Phillips. Dan Haren at pick #49. Crawford at #18. All interesting. Liriano at #94. As each of these type of drafts pass, Lirano moves farther and farther up the board. There probably won't be a more scrutinized player during spring t...

Originally posted by Captain Hook: Santana going in the 2nd :confused: Nice grab for you Greg :D Not so good drafting by several others I will admit that taking Santana in the first or early second round of a 12-team draft is much easier than taking Santana in the NFBC. I never felt hamstrung by tak...

For our second issue of Fantasy Sports Magazine, we also ran a 12-team industry league with 12 industry writers, including Tom and myself. Here are the results of the early rounds: Round 1: 1 Alex Rodriguez (3B NYY), ESPN (Nate Ravitz) 2 Hanley Ramirez (SS FLA), Fantasy Baseball Empire.com (Jeff Bog...

I've added rounds 15-18 to the first thread. Enjoy all.

Tomorrow afternoon I'll be participating in a 12-team AL Auction League with other industry writers that will be hosted by CBS Sportsline.com. It's possible that they will have the results live and if so I'll post the link tomorrow. This should be a fun auction league as it's so early in the off-sea...

Originally posted by Ted's Cracked Head: This will be my second attempt at this baseball stuff. Last year I had no idea what I was doing and no plan at all (this was quite obvious to all in the league). This year I am following the same path to excellence. I will be all ready to draft with my Fantas...

Okay, glad to have 61 original NFBC members back for 2008!!! I knew it was a special class of owners!!

Originally posted by Gordon Gekko: quote:Originally posted by billywaz: Damn Virginia! :mad: I swear I am the last one to receive anything! billy - you'll get more out of the resources you've already assembled than any of those mags. [/QUOTE]Yeah, GG, that's not a nice thing to say! ;) Billy, you re...

Shawn, if you can produce this much banter on just introducing you as a live chat guest, I can hardly wait to see the traffic on Wednesday when you're on live!! See ya on Wednesday.

Originally posted by billywaz: Greg, Did the next 3 mags go out on Friday, January 25th? If so, I paid for them and have yet to receive anything. Thanks!! They actually went out on Tuesday. Give it another day and if you don't get it first thing next week let me know and I'll personally send them ou...

Originally posted by Captain Hook: Whatever happened to this very good idea? Greg/Tom, I don't even see it listed among satellite events for people to see and sign up for? Several owners have backed out since this was proposed, including those who proposed it for all the right reasons. It will not g...

Originally posted by CC's Desperados:

Greg, I'll give it a shot on February 6th. You're hired. I'll have Tom get you set up for next week. I trust we'll have some fun with this Shawn.