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After I just gave you a compliment on the new name and all Anyway you'll be back to your old self in a minute.

QUOTE(Mr. X @ Feb 13, 2005 -> 11:09 PM) mmmmmm... lois Badass name change Mos

Badass Kap.

Lol, I didn't even know the grammy's were going on until seeing this thread. I can't stand award shows.

Greasy, you've been a hell of a poster and your going to make a hell of a mod

Of the top of my head he was a first baseman/outfielder at Pepperdine. Dont' remember that much about him, mainly because he really hasn't stuck anywhere with the org thus far. He did have a pretty good year with Great Falls last year and will definately be starting in Kanny at the start of the year and should get himself up to WS at some point. He was a pretty damn good player with Pepperdine though and is supposed to be a solid defensive player.

Ya, Honel is a confident guy, I can verify that. I alwyas thought it was the good kind of confidence, but I'm sure some of it got to his head. High draft pick, big signing bonus, you have to be really well grounded not to let it get to you. Good stuff Nick. I think this recent trade won't have a beginning of the season effect on the Barons lineup just because I think the Sox would be wise to start Owen at WS.

Ya, its mega lame. I was hoping to get it on League Pass but ABC blackout rules apply so the only game that can be seen is the Lakers-Cavs game. At least its a good game thus far.

On a sidenote, this also likely means like many others have said, that a veteran infielder is on his way.

Very good pickup in my opinion. The Sox have there OF pretty filled up right now so instead Kenny was able to turn and get himself a good future outfielder with a lot of talent. Obviously he's still very raw, but age regardless, it isn't like the guy has a few seasons in the minors so there is no reason to look negatively at his age. My guess is he starts at Winston Salem but he could very well get rushed to Bham, especially if Anderson starts the year in AAA. I'm assuming Sweeney will be in Bham.

Scottsdale is where the Sox will end up. Rumor is they are thinking about having two stadiums, even after they spend all this extra money on the new facilities for the Giants.

Ya, Coast to Coast is great. Haven't listened to it near as much as I did a few years back. But they've been talking about that creature forever and people are scared s***less of it (well some).

QUOTE(LowerCaseRepublican @ Feb 11, 2005 -> 03:45 PM) Exactly. f*** Canseco. He's just trying to boost sales of his book throwing out more names that he's pulling out of his ass. If he's got direct evidence of Player X, Y and Z using steroids then say so. But don't give the bulls*** of "I think he did..." and then proclaim that he did with no evidence to back the claim up. All this steroid talk and naming of random names reminds me of one thing... Are you or have you ever been a member of the Commun--er, a user of steroids? Maybe Canseco is a long lost relative of McCarthy.

Badass Kap...Congrats

QUOTE(Steff @ Feb 11, 2005 -> 02:57 PM) Making $$.. the American Dream. And what if he is telling the truth Jason.. ?? The reason I don't think its true is because this comes down to the boy who cried wolf. Canseco is broke and is doing everything and anything he can to make a little money. Larussa talked about it and said McGwire and Jose didn't even hang out and pretty much said the stuff was 100% BS. At least about Jose shooting him up. Then you have Canseco making this blatant accusations of actually shooting this guys up with roids and then later on he's asked and he goes I dont' remember, I may of done it once or twice for these players. My 2 cents is when it smells like bulls***, it is bulls***. I'm not saying these guys aren't juicing, I just think Jose has absolutely ZERO credibility at this point.

Thing is, I don't buy it. Not that many players are on roids, imo. I just don't buy the everyones on steroids approach that he seems to be taking. I guess we'll see what happens when the players named are interviewed and what there take is.

Canseco is a grade A asshole. I'm completely against Roids, but the only reason he's doing this is so his piece of s*** self can make some money on his book. f*** Jose, and I'm boycotting his book. The guys just throwing out accusations. He can kiss my ass.

Hey Dan, I guess its alright with me if we just went with 1 hitter and 1 pitcher mandatory and the other two as wild cards, but just to take a quick vote is that cool with everyone else?

I'm going to put in all the names of people who asked specifically to join this league. I am going to do it in a first come first serve basis so give me a few days to look back cause I know people posted this type of stuff in a few threads. I don't think there will be more then 1-2 openings, but you never know. And remember, there is going to be a 2nd keeper league as well. This one will start this year so just because you don't get in this one, you will still be able to get in the other one. Waiting List: WinningUgly SoxBadger

I just sent out a PM to all the members I had listed above. If for some reason you didn't get it, please tell me and I'll send you it out.

Definately Badger. I'm going to move this post to another thread where I'll create a list of people in line for this league. I also know another league will be started or at least thats what I'm hearing so everyone should be able to get their fix.

This is the teams that were in it last year (I still need to figure out who the last team was, so if someone remembers please tell me, otherwise I'm gonna be digging up through so much crap to find the list I printed out). Chisoxfn - Victory Danman Cheat Soxfan420 Heads Steff Aboz Supersteve Asshat Cy Young Porzio Kapkomet I'm not sure if everyone from this league is sticking in. I'm going to shoot everyone a PM just telling them to PM me there keepers and I'll post them here or for them to just reply here. This is going to be finalized next week though.

This thread will be closed a week from now and any team without keepers will be emailed by me (if I remember who the hell was in the league). If not, I will re-open the league to others. It will once again be a 12 team league based on a weekly lineup (not daily). Remember, you get 4 keepers and then were going to do a minor league draft. We need to conduct a date for the minor league draft and I'm going to offer a few Saturday suggestions sometime in the next week or so. So post your keepers in this thread. Unfortunately, I can't find my list of all the roster stuff. I know its somewhere in my house but I have no idea where. All my crap got moved when my dad got married and I can't find half of the stuff cause whatever I had laying around was basically put in some random spot. Remember, its mandatory to keep two hitters and two pitchers. Note, I dropped the keeper total to 4. My Keepers: Vladdy Guerrero Curt Schilling Francisco Rodriguez (K-Rod) Ivan Rodriguez God damn, I didn't realize it was so tough. I wish I could of kept my entire team. The way we will do this is we'll randomize the draft order and in the first 4 rounds, you must pick your keepers players. As far as the draft goes, the rule is we will draft 7 minor leaguers this year, and then 5 in each of the following years. You will have the rights to these players for 3 years and they won't have to be protected on the keeper list at the end of the seasons. They don't have to be on the active roster and those minor leaguers that have been drafted can not be claimed by another team. Registered Teams: Soxtalk Mallers (Chisoxfn) Flairs (Danman)

QUOTE(JUGGERNAUT @ Feb 10, 2005 -> 02:49 PM) -Cliff Lee has Contreras type #'s with less experience. -Milwood is moving to a more favorable hitters park than Philly. -Elarton washes out of COL but has respectible #'s in 1/2 a season. Sorry I don't but it. CC vs Buerhle : adv MarkB JW vs Garcia : adv Garcia KM vs Hernandez : even CL vs JC : adv Contreras SE vs JG : adv Garland (All of the AL hasn't even seen Elarton yet!) Just wanna say, Philly is a hitters park and the Jake is a pitchers park in comparison. No one is gonna tell me any different cause the ball jumps out of Philly's new ballpark.

QUOTE(AddisonStSox @ Feb 10, 2005 -> 02:43 PM) My list. 1. Yankees 2. Red Sox 3. Twins 4. White Sox (We have a lot of question marks fellas, sorry.) 5. Angels Any rotation with El Duque, Contreras and Garland is gonna have a lot of questionmarks in my mind. Garcia, and Buehrle are semi locks (unless health gets them) and then Garland will at worse put up the numbers he's been doing but with Contreras and El Duque you really have no idea. And Garland doesn't exactly put up great numbers, although I think he'll finally turn that corner this year (for the umpteenth year). Right now I think the Sox rotation has potential to be very good, but I wouldn't rate it too highly. However, I really like the bullpen. And I just want to note that my knock on El Duque is 100% health related.