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If the Veteran's Committee really wanted to become transparent, they would release the votes of every member. It would be interesting to pinpoint who they voted for and did not vote for and then had them explain their rationale. I am not saying either way that they got it right or wrong, would just like to see the process opened more and subject to analysis. They seem like cowards now by not releasing their votes individually.

Just saying hello after taking a few months off. Good to see so many regulars like RockRaines and Head22 and many others still at it. I need to get caught up on the board, but really looking forward to this season.

Just as a follow-up. I actually found our original league constitution from 2001. At that time, we declared that total points would be the tiebreaker. Needless to say, we now will have one majorly pissed off guy, but I guess that is why they pay me the big bucks to be commish ;-) Although, I have taken knightni's advice and we are going to give the offender a chance to resign from the league as in the absence of an apology, we will have an open spot for next season.

Some good points to consider. We use the official NFL tiebreakers to set the playoff seedings and draft order for next year. For playoff ties, we will have a written system spelled out in advance next time. For this year, we also would not play any games under week 17 under our proposal. Essentially, Team A would play team B in week 16. Whoever wins that game would compare their week 16 score against the score of team C from week 16 as well. In a way, it is sort of a 3 team championship game. Of course, I have already been told to Go F--- myself by one of the guys involved in the tie already, when I told him about this plan. Fun times.

Near riot going on in my fantasy football league right now, so looking for some advice. Our semi-finals was held during Week 15 and of course, we had a tie game, thanks to Peyton Manning last night. Of course, we have no system in place to settle ties. Our first year in this league was 2001 and during that year we did have this happen and we went to bench points. At that time, everyone was required to have the same # of players at each position on the bench. This year, that is not the case, benches are flexible and the feeling by most in the league is that is really not a fair tiebreaker. Naturally, the guy who had the most bench points this week is going absolutely postal and flaming our league boards and accusing the Commish of the league (me) of having no F--ing balls etc.. This guy happens to be my brother as well. Yes. I know, how wonderful. The solution which we came to as proposed by another owner and implemented in his other league is to have a rematch during Week 16 of the two teams that tied. Once the winner of that game is determined, their score would be compared to the score of the other semi-final winner to determine the league champ. By the way, the other team in the finals is also me. Thus my reluctance to affect the outcome of the time game. Is this a fair way to decide the outcome? We really do not want to use total points or touchdowns or anything else as we did not declare it up front. Going forward, we will have a system in place in advance. Of course, the guy who wants to use the bench points is outraged and going nuts over this decision. It is his belief that a precedent has been set and it should not matter that we changed the the composure of the benches, even if he does have 4 QB's on it and has an unfair advantage etc... Thoughts?

Bring back Raines at first base and find a veteran to babysit Ozzie during games.

I voted too fast as I picked today. However, today was pretty much a must win and even if we lost Game #4, we still would have had 3 more chances to clinch. (Ok, that is a weak arguement)

Just realized they played during the day today. Outstanding Victory!

I would have given us 10 points for team as well, given how we just won our first World Series in 88 years last season and we are still 21 games over .500 as of their date and still in the running for the playoffs this year. Those 2 points would have moved us past the Tribe and into 7th.

Since Notre Dame plays Michigan State that night on ABC, I actually like this change. Especially if Fox makes it the national game down here as well.

I have not seen the replay yet, but it did look REAL close. Looked like the ump said tie goes to the no-no, but you guys say the slow mo showed him as out. Also, ESPN did break into the Sox game down here for the last half inning. Maybe they only kept the Sox and Boston on locally and switched the rest of the country.

This was a perfect no pressure situation to get him some work. Let's hope he starts contributing on a regular basis.

Good to see the White Sox looking dominate on ESPN for once. The game may have been on WGN locally, but it was not on the Superstation WGN.

After last night's game, I have more faith in these rankings. Only allowing 5 runs in 3 games to the Red Sox was impressive.

Reinsdorf sure has been right for the past 25 years about wanting to give pitchers the shortest contract that he can get away with.

QUOTE(NorthSideSox72 @ Sep 6, 2006 -> 02:31 PM) If it comes down to it, I'd rather see the Tigers in the playoffs than the Twins. We match up better against the Tigers. Agreed! I am not looking forward to that last weekend of the season. The way we are playing it might not matter for us.

Tiger needs to get a posse that follows him around on the course that cracks everytime he hits a shot.

I am not familiar with the area around the Astrodome or if it is close to anything else, so I would need more information before staying there. Good concept though, hopefully they can pull it off.

Mmmmmm... Scotch

Mark and Jeff need to team up and hold off Kasey. I would like to see them both in the Chase. I agree about the Golden Boys making the chase pleasing Nascar. Hopefully, they will not need to tweak the rules now that require that the #8, #20 and #24 always make the chase no matter what.

I am for it. Let's git er dun Sweeney!

Do all SoxTalk posters need to have a goatee as well?

Let's hope he gets it done today!