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QUOTE (knightni @ Aug 31, 2009 -> 08:26 PM) Stafford's probably starting. They're still battling it out. Last I heard, Culpepper had an even chance. QUOTE (knightni @ Aug 31, 2009 -> 08:26 PM) Tim Hightower's gonna be a sleeper back this year. Agreed. I think he'll be great this year, but I expect a dropoff towards the end of the year when Beanie Wells should get more reps.

If Moore and Sabean don't take him, no one will. Honestly, I see no deals being done tonight. I like that KW is shopping PK as he's getting older and you don't want to wait until he's Thome's age. You actually want value back.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Aug 31, 2009 -> 03:43 PM) I think picking Cassel one round after Rodgers was an epic fail. Well the reason why I did that is because usually QB's will give you the most points on a given night, especially in ESPN fantasy leagues. His fantasy weight was more than the next available player, and I can play two QB's at the same time. I got Edwards as insurance just in case Cassel was done, and Culpepper as a 3rd stringer if needed. Culpepper may put up big numbers with Calvin Johnson IMHO, but if Stafford becomes the starter or if someone's on the scrapheap, I'll drop Culpepper in a minute.

Round: 1 ** (2) Cleveland Steamers - Michael Turner RB Round: 2 ** (23) Cleveland Steamers - Brian Westbrook RB Round: 3 ** (26) Cleveland Steamers - Greg Jennings WR Round: 4 ** (47) Cleveland Steamers - Aaron Rodgers QB Round: 5 ** (50) Cleveland Steamers - Matt Cassel QB Round: 6 ** (71) Cleveland Steamers - Eddie Royal WR Round: 7 ** (74) Cleveland Steamers - DeSean Jackson WR Round: 8 ** (95) Cleveland Steamers - DeMarcus Ware LB Round: 9 ** (98) Cleveland Steamers - Patrick Willis LB Round: 10 ** (119) Cleveland Steamers - Devin Hester WR Round: 11 ** (122) Cleveland Steamers - Tim Hightower RB Round: 12 ** (143) Cleveland Steamers - Tony Scheffler TE Round: 13 ** (146) Cleveland Steamers - Trent Edwards QB Round: 14 ** (167) Cleveland Steamers - Gibril Wilson S Round: 15 ** (170) Cleveland Steamers - Dwight Freeney DE Round: 16 ** (191) Cleveland Steamers - Panthers D/ST D/ST Round: 17 ** (194) Cleveland Steamers - Fred Bennett CB Round: 18 ** (215) Cleveland Steamers - Rob Bironas K Round: 19 ** (218) Cleveland Steamers - Luis Castillo DT Round: 20 ** (239) Cleveland Steamers - Anthony Henry CB Round: 21 ** (242) Cleveland Steamers - Brent Celek TE Round: 22 ** (263) Cleveland Steamers - Hakeem Nicks WR Round: 23 ** (266) Cleveland Steamers - Chris Henry WR Round: 24 ** (287) Cleveland Steamers - Daunte Culpepper QB Round: 25 ** (290) Cleveland Steamers - Shonn Greene RB Here's my squad. What do you guys think? 12 man league. QB, 2 RB's, 2 WR's, TE, 1RB/WR, 1OP, Team Def, 1DE, 1DL, 2LB's, 2CB's, S, K QB - Aaron Rodgers, Matt Cassel, Trent Edwards, Daunte Culpepper RB - Michael Turner, Brian Westbrook, Tim Hightower, Shonn Greene WR - Greg Jennings, Eddie Royal, DeSean Jackson, Devin Hester, Hakeem Nicks, Chris Henry TE - Tony Scheffler, Brent Celek TeamDEF - Carolina Panthers DE - Dwight Freeney DL - Luis Castillo LB - DeMarcus Ware, Patrick Willis CB - Fred Bennet, Anthony Henry S - Gibril Wilson K - Rob Bironas What do you guys think? It's an ESPN league.

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Aug 29, 2009 -> 05:14 PM) Well what I was thinking of is going a more drastic route where when you log into each site there are a list of forums, but all the same database. When you go to Soxtalk, the baseball sites are at the top, when you go to TalkBears, the Bears forum is at the top. The Off Topic is the same forum and everything and basically put each site just has its own unique skin but in its entirety we are talking about one massive site with customized graphics. I have no clue how possible this is, but it was my idea. Basically put there would be the following forums (plus or minus some): Diamond Club, White Sox, Future Sox, Trade Winds (When Needed), Bears, Bulls, Generic Sports Forum. If stuff got very popular, there could be seperate forums for each sport..ie a baseball one, a football one, a basketball one, etc. And the order of the forums just depends on the site you are on. Sounds great to me.

I won't say I'm glad Swisher is gone, but Javy yes which is weird considering I was a much bigger fan of Javy's. Regardless, I think a stronger case has been made for Kenny. The problem is for me that the players seem to play with their heads up their ass. Our good defensive players didn't have enough bat to play. Our offensive players have lapses or flat out suck defensively. Our pitching has looked much worse because of it.

Quite simply, who do you blame? KW, Ozzie, Cooper, Walker or the players. Pick one with a brief synopsis of why. Personally I say it's on the players. KW has done everything he can to put a really nice team on the field on paper. Ozzie really hasn't made any more mistakes this year than he has any other year and has been able to get more out of less players. Cooper has been Cooper, though he may need to work more with bullpen arms. Walker is still Walker, good or bad depending on who you ask. All in all, it seems like the players haven't had a sense of urgency.

QUOTE (santo=dorf @ Aug 29, 2009 -> 01:53 PM) Glad someone is listening to cryptville. Personally I didn't understand how people could keep posting about multiple topics in one thread, ask for a separate forum, and then never post in it (Bhawks, Big Ten board, Bulls board to an extent.) For going to the other boards I don't see how it is convinient to keep logging into separate boards as Rangercal mentioned. I like how the setup Motown sports. I also like when the NCCA BB tourney starts there is a separate sub-forum. Look how popular that is. I say give cryptville his wish. Agreed. If it was cryptville's wish, then give it to him. Take away the other sites or make people use them. Let's not have a site because people ask for them, and then not make them use them.

QUOTE (WCSox @ Aug 29, 2009 -> 02:09 PM) I disagree, and would add that some people here are wrong in thinking that it's OK to throw coaches under the bus in baseball. If JR and Kenny morph into George Steinbrenner, there will be negative consequences. Remember how Griffey and Maddux both nixed trades to the Yankees? You'll see the same thing when Kenny tries to trade for the next Jim Thome or Jake Peavy. And I want to make clear that I'm not against firing Greg Walker... as long as it's done for the right reason. Scapegoating Walker to "send a message" isn't the right reason. I'm pretty sure they didn't nix trades to the Yankees because of their coaches. Also, I'm pretty sure that more players have accepted trades instead of denied the trades because they were the Yankees.

QUOTE (Buehrle>Wood @ Aug 29, 2009 -> 02:05 PM) Jenks is certainly worth keeping around, even if we are overpaying. A closer who can't hold a 1 run lead is not someone worth keeping around if you have to overpay. PASS!

He won't get DFA'd. He'd get relegated to the bullpen, but he won't be DFA'd.

QUOTE (GreatScott82 @ Aug 29, 2009 -> 01:29 PM) Ramirez will be traded. We will have a new SS or 3B next year. I honestly think Beckham could be a great SS in this league. I don't see him going to SS. They'll probably keep him at 3B for the near future because they have no one else who can play there. Alexei may be going. I think Dye leaving, Quentin being healthy finally and in RF, and Beckham getting a full year at 3B will help tremendously.

I'm going to keep watching no matter what. If it's a blowout game though, I can't say I'll continue to watch though if it's past 7 innings. With that said, GET THE FKN JOB DONE!

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Aug 28, 2009 -> 08:58 PM) Linebrink pitched a scoreless inning? WTF? Told you guys. All Liney needed was confidence from me.

I think Line Drive Brink will get out of the inning. I will have confidence in him.

QUOTE (MHizzle85 @ Aug 28, 2009 -> 06:12 PM) As stated above, I also watched it. I assume it's not that great because they didn't want to shine any light on any of the guys currently in TNA or not with WWE. But, yes I agree that it should of been more in-depth. That's what everyone else speculates as well. Apparently, they also just use old Bischoff footage from when he was with the WWE for the interviews that he does in the DVD. What exactly happened to Bischoff and the WWE? How come he's not with them anymore?

Kazmir had a brutal May but has been coming on. Plus, he's still only 25. Great deal for the Angel and Rays for being able to sign their face, Carl Crawford.

I heard a review of the WCW dvd, my brother got it, but I haven't watched it. Anyway, it's a must skip apparently. They stole a lot of footage, verbatim, from the Monday Night Wars dvd and Starcade dvd. Also it doesn't get into depth the rise of guys like Sting or Kevin Nash. Doesn't talk about NWO Wolfpack as if it never existed(would've beeng reat to talk to how silly the NWO just became), and it didn't talk about the Dungeon of Doom which tried to end Hulkamania.

Well to me, I think if you click on the Bears thread, it should direct you to talkbears, if you click on the bulls, it should redirect you to talkbulls, ncaa football or basketball, same thing goes. Other sports thread should link you to "Other Sports" forum. I think it's a waste of server space to have all those independent sites, and then not make people post there for things pertaining to that site such as how Derrick Rose is a dummy in talkbulls, or how Jay Cutler is god's gift to Bears fans everywhere.

The question when pulling up stats, are the stats that good/bad because of the hitters he's working with or are the hitters that good/bad because they're working with Walker?

Hell yeah. You can tell the man was juicing. Hell, look at him while he was with WCW and then now.

Honestly, there's nothing wrong with that. Bradley strikes me as a guy who's misunderstood and is pissing off guys cas they're losing. That and he has sucked today.

QUOTE (Melissa1334 @ Aug 27, 2009 -> 06:27 PM) base clogging, homerun-bb-or k power hitters, me too. i agree. enough already with that The thing is, you need power hitters as well to win. Someone who's going to occasionally knock in 3 or 4 runs at a time. It gives you a great ability to come back on teams. Hell even the Rays got Carlos Pena who is the model for swinging for the fences. Old school type power hitter. I think people will realize how slow PK, Thome, and Dye once we actually get any hitter other than those 3. Billy Butler who is much chubbier than Konerko runs much faster. KW has already gone from the baseclogging minus those three guys and AJ. If you got a C who can hit though, you should be able to live with his non-track speed.

I'd like it if there was a link to all those other sites right at the top, so when i'm done with Soxtalk, I could go to TalkBulls. I think more people would go there which would encourage me to go there. I admit, I don't post there because it doesn't seem like there's much of a crowd.

QUOTE (SoxFanForever @ Aug 27, 2009 -> 05:08 PM) Why are guys like McNabb, Romo, etc. on these top QB lists yet guys like Carson Palmer and Aaron Rodgers. Palmer has had some very nice years prior to his injury plagued 2008. Rodgers showed to be a very capable replacement for Favre last year and will be given more opportunity to handle the offense this year for Green Bay. Romo has what I would consider one good year out of the three he has started. McNabb is good for around 20-25ish TD's between passing and rushing, has had issues staying healthy and usually ends the year with pretty pedestrian numbers when the year is over. Cutler, I believe to be a good QB (also I'm not a Bear fan) but we will see if he can do it with the Bears offense. I still think it is a bit early to judge him. I'd put Eli and Roethlisberger in the same boat. I think both of them get too much credit for their team's success. Both of them have top notch defenses and running games. Taking a look at their numbers and comparing it against the top tier guys really shows that they are a tier below. I like Palmer almost more than anyone else out there, but if the discussion is taking place today, Palmer has been injured all of last year, and when he got injured that one playoff year, he was never the same. Sucks too because I thought he looked like a hall of fame type QB. He was that damn good. Rodgers hasn't proved it to me yet. He's good, he's not elite yet. Cutler is closer than him IMHO. Roethlisberger is probably more overrated than Eli. Eli is the best of the third tier QB's to me, but would be towards the bottom in second tier QB's.