Wise Master Buehrle

Well aren't you being saucy today? I'd rather Reed get a year in AAA in and see if he can continue his torrid hitting instead of being hurried up to the Major League. I would love for Reed to hit .400 in Spring Training and make the team, but I just doubt it's gonna happen. One more thing, we have no use for Reed right now. Magglio and Lee will be themselves, Rowand is gonna be fine unless he injures himself again, because he's definately ready. I'd rather someone who's spent ages down in AAA like Borchard be our 4th OF instead of Reed rotting on the bench not getting any practice in when he could be at AAA fine tuning himself. No need to be a dick about it. :fyou

Reed can't be ready yet. Give him to the Knights for the year. Borchard I believe could, and I would also like to see Valenzuela.

25996.1 Reason No. 3 the Royals will win the division It's good to be located centrally By JOE POSNANSKI Columnist SURPRISE, Ariz. — The New York Yankees are annoying. They were plenty annoying five years ago, before they acquired Jason Giambi and Gary Sheffield and Alex Rodriguez and Kevin Brown and Javier Vasquez and Thor and the Wonder Twins and Achilles (out for the first three weeks because of a heel problem) and the DNA of Ted Williams and Casey Stengel's ghost and exclusive rights to the triple and so on. Yes, they are more annoying now. But, the truth is, in Kansas City, the Yankees are only that: An annoyance. The Yankees play in a whole different world: The American League East. When the Yankees go out and buy some new player, it's a lot like when a huge winter storm hits the Northeast. It's troubling, sure, but it doesn't really have much to do with us. The Royals are competing against four teams: Minnesota, Chicago, Cleveland and Detroit. That's it. That's the American League Central. And sure, you will hear people say that if the Royals were in the East they would be picked for fourth at best, and if they were in the West they would be picked fourth at best, but that doesn't mean squat. Hey if the Royals were in the Big 12, they would be favored to win it all. The Royals are in the American League Central. And in this division they can win. *** Starting pitching: 1. Minnesota; 2. Chicago; 3. Kansas City; 4. Cleveland; 5. Detroit. This is undoubtedly the Royals' biggest question mark. Of course, no team in the Central has much pitching depth. Minnesota has two returning 14-game winners (Brad Radke and Kyle Lohse) and a hot young lefty in Johan Santana, and all three were terrific down the stretch last season. Chicago returns the division's best starter last season, Esteban Loaiza, though few scouts believe he will repeat his success. Mark Buehrle pitched well enough in the second half to believe he will have a rebound season. After that, it's a lot of hoping. And then, it's the Royals. They need Brian Anderson and Darrell May to repeat their second-half success and for Jeremy Affeldt to stay healthy and become a dominant starter. If that happens — and phenom Zack Greinke is another wild card here — the Royals could have the best rotation in the division. *** Bullpen: 1. Kansas City; 2. Cleveland; 3. Chicago; 4. Minnesota; 5. Detroit. Much of the Twins' success the last couple of years was built around their bullpen. But now Eddie Guardado and LaTroy Hawkins are gone, and Joe Nathan, a 29-year-old righty with one career save is the closer. Chicago lost a bulk of its bullpen, too, and is now relying on Billy Koch to get his head together again. That leaves Kansas City, with the division's most versatile bullpen. They have four versatile righties to set up for Mike MacDougal, who for all his second-half troubles still saved 27 games last season, which is more than anyone else left in the division (MacDougal also finished the year with eight scoreless appearances). *** Infield and catcher: 1. Kansas City; 2. Minnesota; 3. Detroit; 4. Chicago; 5. Cleveland. The Tigers, with the addition of Pudge Rodriguez and Fernando Vina, have made their infield respectable, at least. Chicago has question marks all over. Minnesota will feature typically solid defense, though there isn't much power in this infield. The Twins will hope that rookie sensation Joe Mauer can step in and be a star at catcher. But the Royals have the best in this division by a pretty big margin. They have the reigning Rookie of the Year, Angel Berroa, at shortstop (and he hit a leadoff home run to kick off the Royals spring-training season Thursday), a four-time All-Star in Mike Sweeney at first base and a five-time All-Star in Benito Santiago behind the plate. Throw in a very solid Joe Randa and a second-base combo of Desi Relaford and Tony Graffanino, and this isn't particularly close. *** Outfield and DH: 1. Minnesota; 2. Chicago; 3. Kansas City; 4. Cleveland; 5. Detroit. A lot depends on the health of Juan Gonzalez. If he's healthy and puts up his typical numbers, the Royals outfield of Juan Gone, Carlos Beltran and Aaron Guiel rates with the best in this division. For now, though, you can't assume Gonzalez will stay healthy. The Twins' outfield of Torii Hunter, Jacque Jones and Shannon Stewart gives you everything — power, speed, defense, you name it. I personally ripped the Shannon Stewart trade last year, and I was plain wrong: The guy was the MVP of the second half last year. The White Sox counter with power. Magglio Ordonez, Carlos Lee and designated hitter Frank Thomas have a combined 717 major-league home runs. *** So there you go. Now you add up all the numbers, carry the one, add a dash of salt and then put all the data through my secret formula, and the division will finish like so: 1. Kansas City, 90-72. 2. Minnesota, 88-74. 3. Chicago, 83-79. 4. Cleveland, 68-94. 5. Detroit, 54-108. Voila. Royals win. City goes crazy. Ticker-tape parade. Then, of course, the Royals might have to deal with the Yankees and their billion-dollar payroll. We'll work on a different formula then.

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LMAO, box score. http://sports.yahoo.com/nhl/boxscore?gid=2004030515

How exciting! Man our pitching has been awesome so far. Keep it up!!

Mary Jane.

I just got paid 60 bucks yesterday too! I know what I'm spending it on...

To all: I'm looking for a top RBI guy. Possibly over 125 RBI. I have an abundance of good RP's, you could take one of them, and any other position player, and then throw in some other player of your own.

That bible one is the best! hahahahaha.

I'll probably buy it after you guys tell me how kickass it is. Definately don't want ASB again.

Damn political parties. Jackasses and Elephants is all it really amounts to. Go Nader. f*** the rest.

Rained out.

LMAO General - Cubs lose, time to panic. Subscribe From: woomadprizamcle 5:09 pm To: ALL (1 of 1) 82275.1 I'm freaking out. I can't believe our vaunted lineup scored only 3 runs. Our great pitchers gave up 9 runs. This is unacceptable. At least Jimmy Anderson was dominant, we could really use a left-handed starter in the rotation (even if it means going with a seven man rotation). This was still a very disappointing game, and I hope Jim Hendry will step to the plate (if you pardon the pun), and fix what we saw today.

Be prepared to be celebrating this quite a few times this year.

YEAH! 2 stances, Frank's stance, the default for everyone else! LMAO! That was the first game I ever got for my PS-X. HAHAHAHA! What memories!

BOO KELLY, BOO. Being clean cut is so boring!

Yeah, no one take these too seriously. Usually the teams ranked the worst wins.

HAHA!

I think so, I think I'm gonna sleep on this team for now. I have trade-bait-a-plenty with all those nasty relief pitchers I have. I'm hoping to pick up some more power for them.

Yup. Just random stats.

Not interested in Lee. He's too much of a Cub. My Sox fan bias gets me.

Huff is a keeper for me, guys, I'm looking for more guys LIKE Huff. I only have two players over the 100 RBI mark, and Huff is one of them. He is not on the trade block.

Note, these are just averages of all the stats of your team, some of the results might seem a little goofy. Runs: b****in Camaros: 85.7 Beer: 85.3 WSF's destroyers: 83.5 The Bones: 83.5 Yahtzee's Sox: 83.2 palehose: 83 Sonix: 82.4 DBAH0's Sox: 77.5 SS2k4s 16inchers: 73.7 White Sox in '04: 73.5 Canadian Iceburghs: 71 Tony's Sox: 66.3 Home runs: b****in Camaros: 23.4 White Sox in '04: 23 WSF's destroyers: 23 Beer: 22.6 SS2k4s 16inchers: 22.5 Sonix: 21.4 DBAH0's Sox: 19.8 palehose: 19.4 Tony's Sox: 18.5 The Bones: 18.3 Canadian Iceburghs: 17 Yahtzee's Sox: 17 RBI: b****in Camaros: 86.8 Beer: 83.7 SS2k4s 16inchers: 81 Sonix: 80.5 White Sox in '04: 77.6 WSF's destroyers: 76.5 DBAH0's Sox: 76 palehose: 75.9 The Bones: 75.6 Yahtzee's Sox: 74.2 Canadian Iceburghs: 69 Tony's Sox: 63 Stolen Bases: The Bones: 12.7 WSF's destroyers: 12.5 Beer: 12 DBAH0's Sox: 11.7 palehose: 9.8 Yahtzee's Sox: 9.5 White Sox in '04: 8.8 b****in Camaros: 8.6 Sonix: 7.3 Canadian Iceburghs: 7 Tony's Sox: 5.8 SS2k4s 16inchers: 4.8 Errors: Tony's Sox: 5.3 palehose: 6.6 b****in Camaros: 6.9 Sonix: 7 DBAH0's Sox: 7.4 WSF's destroyers: 7.7 Canadian Iceburghs: 7.8 Yahtzee's Sox: 7.8 Beer: 8.2 SS2k4s 16inchers: 8.4 The Bones: 8.8 White Sox in '04: 10.5 AVG: Sonix: .295 b****in Camaros: .294 Yahtzee's Sox: .294 The Bones: .290 Tony's Sox: .287 WSF's destroyers: .286 palehose: .286 DBAH0's Sox: .285 White Sox in '04: .276 Beer: .275 SS2k4s 16inchers: .274 Canadian Iceburghs: .272 OPS: b****in Camaros: .883 WSF's destroyers: .882 Sonix: .866 Tony's Sox: .856 SS2k4s 16inchers: .830 Beer: .825 Canadian Iceburghs: .823 DBAH0's Sox: .823 White Sox in '04: .811 The Bones: .809 Yahtzee's Sox: .803 palehose: .783 Wins: palehose: 11.5 White Sox in '04: 11 The Bones: 10.8 Beer: 10.6 DBAH0's Sox: 10.5 Tony's Sox: 10 b****in Camaros: 10.2 SS2k4s 16inchers: 9.7 WSF's destroyers: 9.6 Yahtzee's Sox: 8.4 Sonix: 7.7 Canadian Iceburghs: 7.5 Losses: Beer: 3.3 Yahtzee's Sox: 4.8 Canadian Iceburghs: 6.2 Tony's Sox: 6.5 DBAH0's Sox: 6.7 WSF's destroyers: 6.8 b****in Camaros: 7.4 Sonix: 7.8 SS2k4s 16inchers: 7.9 The Bones: 8 palehose: 8 White Sox in '04: 8.5 Saves: Canadian Iceburghs: 11.5 b****in Camaros: 8.4 The Bones: 8.4 palehose: 8.3 White Sox in '04: 8 DBAH0's Sox: 7.9 Sonix: 7 Yahtzee's Sox: 6.2 SS2k4s 16inchers: 6.1 Tony's Sox: 5.6 WSF's destroyers: 4.2 Beer: .6 Bases on balls: Yahtzee's Sox: 35.8 WSF's destroyers: 36.1 Canadian Iceburghs: 37.1 Tony's Sox: 41.8 The Bones: 43.3 SS2k4s 16inchers: 46 DBAH0's Sox: 49.8 White Sox in '04: 50.5 Sonix: 51.4 palehose: 52 b****in Camaros: 56.3 Beer: 68 Strikeouts: The Bones: 146.3 palehose: 136.7 DBAH0's Sox: 127.5 Beer: 127 b****in Camaros: 122.6 White Sox in '04: 121.5 SS2k4s 16inchers: 112.2 WSF's destroyers: 110.6 Canadian Iceburghs: 105.4 Tony's Sox: 104.1 Yahtzee's Sox: 103.8 Sonix: 99.4 ERA: Yahtzee's Sox: 2.31 WSF's destroyers: 2.95 DBAH0's Sox: 3.16 b****in Camaros: 3.21 The Bones: 3.29 palehose: 3.46 White Sox in '04: 3.69 Canadian Iceburghs: 3.75 Tony's Sox: 3.83 Sonix: 3.85 SS2k4s 16inchers: 3.85 Beer: 3.89 WHIP: Yahtzee's Sox: 1.11 The Bones: 1.15 DBAH0's Sox: 1.15 WSF's destroyers: 1.17 palehose: 1.19 White Sox in '04: 1.20 Beer: 1.20 Tony's Sox: 1.23 b****in Camaros: 1.24 SS2k4s 16inchers: 1.27 Canadian Iceburghs: 1.29 Sonix: 1.34

Actually, your team has a few solid players. You're probably better than you assume.