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All us guys drafting Indian players are losing ground daily by continously defending against the other teams power plays. This feel like a major penalty in Hockey, as Sizemore has been in the penalty box now for 4 days!

There are alot of teams with 7 games this week, maybe you have a 7-game outfielder on your bench and you could sit Sizemore. Just an idea.

During Sizemore's absense, I've seen my team drop from first to ninth. Remember when they used to begin the season around April 10th? That was back in the days when we had only two rounds of playoffs. They also had some dinosaurs called 'scheduled doubleheaders'. Imagine that!

I would never bench GRADY, loyal to the guy, I have a problem with the baseball schedulers why are they playing games this early in COLD WETHER PLACES when they should be playing in warm places? And why are they starting the season this early? Sure its unforeseen but they are aware of Global warming aren't they?

I start 3 Mariners and 2 Indians. I just wanted to say that out loud. My team was in 4th when the series started. It is now in 14th.

Agreed, if they move the season 2 weeks later, then my 2008 March Madness/NFBC trip won't be all screwed up. Ok, I am on board MLB. Start the season Sunday April 13, 2008, Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim @ Boston Red Sox, a re-match of the 2007 ALCS and the Sox can get their rings.

Sucks big time, i start 3 Clev and have lost 40 abs and moved way down in standards. Now I have LAA coming to Clev and have 2 starters there, weather doesnt look good for their games they say. Gee why not just throw in the towel in now since im spotting everyone 40-70 abs lost. With the hope of them being made up later in the year, crap if I even have those players on my roster whenever that happens.



Had this happen 2 years ago with injuries to 6 players in one week (Tues), lost 50 abs and could never recover from the lost of playing time and lost stats. Not looking good for next year, this kind of thing brings a person down, even if it is only week 2.

Miller-Time. The Angels and Indians were unable to switch home series, but the games will get played anyway, as the Indians will begin their home schedule on the road in Milwaukee. They'll then return to Cleveland for a weekend series against the White Sox. I am glad I kept Casey Blake in my lineup.

Indians have announced the Angels series will be played at Milwaukees Miller Park. They have a retractable roof.

Sizemore & Gullien have lost me a total of 36-40 ab's now when they play again in SEPT. will they be healthy or will they be benched for a game, I hate it too and it sucks, but we just continue to plug away it a LONG LONG LONG season.



All I am saying is that they should be starting the season later and in ALL WARM WEATHER PLACES! How do you make up a 4 game series? During the ALL STAR break?



Don't lose the faith baby!

I'm wondering why this question hasn't been posed in this discussion...



"Why can't we do daily line-up changes?"



I only lost about 20 AB's and 4 potential save opportunities in the Main Event, so I don't have much beef about what happened with the snow. On the other hand, if I were down 50 AB's like some other people, I would be pretty p.o.'ed. This is like having four or five players go on the DL at one time, which would definitely be the worst luck possible. You wouldn't be able to get those AB's back like you would with postponed games, but there is a great possibility that the player who was available when these games could have been played won't be available when they are played. So, say whatever you like about the situation, but this is just horrible rotten luck. Rotten horrible luck is one of those things that we should be protected against in a league like this.



That is one of the reasons that some of us prefer to have daily roster changes. Besides eliminating bad luck with the DL and postponed games, it gives you a better representation of what it is like to be a manager of a team. Weekly roster changes are more like being a general manager for a team. That is not close enough to the game for me.



With daily lineup changes someone could have switched the SEA or CLE players out with someone from the bench and they wouldn't be 35 AB's in the hole (just trying to pick a likely number there). That person is going to be penalized anyway because the player from the bench was already considered second choice. I'm not proposing that we change anything about the Main Event. However, I would like to see a satellite league offered with daily transactions. I think that everyone would be quite surprised at the interest in a league like that.

They are going to make up the games, no one is 'out' anything. In fact, if people had daily positions, they would have doubled up those slots and gotten more atbats than other people!!!



I have to agree with the majority on this board. Daily transactions makes the competition LESS strategic and more mechanical (.e. streaming hitters and pitchers(



The only people who can say the have 'lost' anything are people who have someone go down due to injury. Greg has done a great job about finding a compromise for people who lose players to injury by allowing Friday am changes.



I think the case is closed on this idea



spy

George



A lot of these games and "lost at-bats" are highly likely to be made up in the form of double headers. If daily moves were allowed, and you used bench players to play over the Cleveland/Seattle players, you'd likely get more than 162 games out of those positions.



Do you consider that realistic?

Cleveland's team using Milwaukee's stadium for some of their "home" games ... they should make a movie about that ... oh they did! That's what happened in "Major League" (of course they pretended that Milwaukee's County Stadium was actually Cleveland's stadium). I spent a few nights in the crowd singing "Wild Thing" during the filming ... good times ...

They better make these games up!



I just lost about 60 AB's between Ichiro, Beltre, Sexson, and Y.Betancourt! OUCH!

Originally posted by Spyhunter:

They are going to make up the games, no one is 'out' anything. In fact, if people had daily positions, they would have doubled up those slots and gotten more atbats than other people!!!



I have to agree with the majority on this board. Daily transactions makes the competition LESS strategic and more mechanical (.e. streaming hitters and pitchers(



The only people who can say the have 'lost' anything are people who have someone go down due to injury. Greg has done a great job about finding a compromise for people who lose players to injury by allowing Friday am changes.



I think the case is closed on this idea



spy I don't have any qualms about the current format. As a matter of fact, I wouldn't even have made the Friday rule change had it been up to me. I like the traditional format honestly. On the other hand, if I had my rathers... I would want to have daily changes because I think it takes more strategy. And, it allows you to have better control over your destiny.



Actually the point I think I was trying to make is that the majority of the boards here may not necessarily be the majority of the market. I was reading the gaming abstract in the middle of the Forecaster (I swear that I am not plugging Shandler here!!!) and it made a lot of sense about the future of the game. The percentage of "streamers" is growing.



All I'm suggesting is a satellite league to see how well it is accepted.

Originally posted by King of Queens:

George



A lot of these games and "lost at-bats" are highly likely to be made up in the form of double headers. If daily moves were allowed, and you used bench players to play over the Cleveland/Seattle players, you'd likely get more than 162 games out of those positions.



Do you consider that realistic? I agree... There is a great possibility that they will be made up. But there is also the chance that some may not, even though pretty slim. Daily moves just helps to eliminate that chance. Same with the DL.



Let's look at it like this though, there has to be a 162 game max at each position. Then it wouldn't matter if I doubled up during the season. As a matter of fact it may hurt me to double up right now. That's why I think there may be more strategy involved. And that seems to me to be more of a real-life decision that a manager would face. So, yeah, with a 162 gm max rule, I think it would be more realistic.



*Note: I said "think" and "may" here. I'm not claiming anything.

I like the present format no qualms but in this case scenario (HIGHLY LIKELY these guys will NOTplay in the doubleheader, probably be benched in one of the two games) They should allow you select the stats of one the best bench player you had (i.e. you had Ichiro in and had Kemp on the bench, than in these 3 games lost Kemps stats would be substituted) Just something to throw out there. I mean 4 games is a BUNCH of games!



[ April 09, 2007, 06:53 PM: Message edited by: GoBabyGo ]