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QUOTE (RockRaines @ Jan 31, 2011 -> 05:49 PM) Ugh, what a huge pet peeve of mine too. Its really not that hard to pick up your dog's s***, in fact there are alot worse things during dog ownership than that. I especially hate people who just leave it there because there is snow. Guess what, snow melts, and your dog s*** is still there. prove it!

QUOTE (ChrisLikesBaseball @ Jan 31, 2011 -> 07:37 PM) http://www.rotoworld.com/content/playerpag...896&id=5292 Rotoworld states that Alexei will still play under his $2.75 million contract for 2011, and the extension is for the 2012-2015 seasons with the $10 million option for the 2016 season. Does it state how much he will make each year? I hope it's not backloaded.

So the contract ends when he is 34? Hope he doesn't decline too quickly into his 30's.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Jan 31, 2011 -> 10:15 AM) SNOWLOCAUST!!! QUOTE (JoeCoolMan24 @ Jan 30, 2011 -> 08:28 PM) SNOWLOCAUST!

SNOWLOCAUST!

QUOTE (bighurt4life @ Jan 30, 2011 -> 08:19 PM) If you look at Escobar's numbers through his career he is giving us some reason be believe that his hit tool is coming around. Early on a good fastball would knock the bat out of his hands, as he's gotten older his numbers have gotten better and better, and he has started to hit the ball with some authority hitting 6HR last season after having just one his first 3 pro seasons combined. He also just turned 22 so he played half a season at AA at age 21. His bat isn't as bad as some people make it sound. Also, didn't he hit like 5 HR in the AFL this fall? I realize it's the AFL, but 5 HR or whatever he hit is still impressive.

What's considered a rookie? Joined date, or first season they became active? Because I think I joined in like '07, but didn't start posting until the 2010 season. Not saying I'm the ROY, but if I don't win, I WILL set the streets on fire.

I'm a big fan of Bent Morel.

QUOTE (striker @ Jan 29, 2011 -> 09:28 PM) I can have it look however you want. Give me a week to update rosters and I'll get back to you. Ok, that should be good timing anyway. I figured like around Feb-5th-7th is the time to start this.

QUOTE (Jerksticks @ Jan 29, 2011 -> 12:52 PM) Yea, cmon we all watched Tank last year; we know he has as good a shot as anybody at being a MLBer. He put up good stats in limited time. Now i know you can say "wha wha small sample size" but he could have put up bad numbers but he didn't. He put up ridiculous numbers for a 20 yr old. Imagine if he put up horrible numbers last year, the talk would be different around here I guarantee it. .282 with 25 HR is not bad for a 20-year-old between AAA and MLB in 110 games.

QUOTE (Rowand44 @ Jan 29, 2011 -> 11:05 AM) Haha, I was at games 1 and 2 of the ALDS and game 2 of the World Series. Talk about amazing games to be at... I was at game 2 of the ALDS. Graffinino!

get widget ©HotelsCombined.com I'm not going, but it's the first countdown clock I found online, so I just went with it. Anyone know where I can get a Windows Vista one? I'd like one on my background. EDIT: Nevermind, I found one. It's pretty ugly, but it will do the trick I guess.

QUOTE (Rowand44 @ Jan 28, 2011 -> 07:23 PM) Ahh good point. I was in attendance for both of his postseason home runs, how could I forget the monster power hitter that man was? Wasn't one of his postseason HR's in Boston? You were there for that? EDIT: Apparently it was in Chicago. For some reason I've always thought we won that blowout game in Boston.

QUOTE (striker @ Jan 29, 2011 -> 07:57 AM) We should use my site www.fan-exchange.com. I store all of the info in a database and at the end of the year I use data from www.baseball-databank.org to score each individuals accuracy. I also upload zips, Bill James, cairo, chone, etc. so we can compare. Here are 2010 http://www.fan-exchange.com/mlb/predictionsteams.asp I have group competitions so it keeps soxtalk projections together. All I have to do is update rosters and we are good to go. Alright cool. But will it look like the SSS data page does, with everyone's predictions listed on one big page with a community average calculated out? That's what I most want to see.

QUOTE (qwerty @ Jan 29, 2011 -> 05:04 AM) Lucci has won a daytime emmy in her career. It's a a common misperception that she never has due to all of her nominations. Btw, it's pretty annoying that the spell check doesn't acknowledge the fact that misperception is a word. Too many of these awards are locks to have the same people nominated... the same people winning... year in, year out. I'm don't read the nonsense that takes place in the filibuster, so those awards are meaningless to me. The following three clearly change yearly. Other than those, i'm pretty sure i could predict 9 of the following 12 winners correctly. So.....you are saying these awards are like Gold Glove awards? Does that mean Jeter will sweep the show?

I'd like for us to copy what SSS does, and have a community projections thing for each player. Do a new player every other day, which means it would take 52 days in total (25 players x 2 days + division standings/awards x 2 days. Trust me, I got an A in Algebra). So basically, we should start it like a week before pitchers and catchers report. And it would look like this, for example.... http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=t6V...amp;output=html The way it works is you get a blank stat sheet to fill out, and then you submit your predictions, and it all gets added to a giant list like this. I don't think we need to delve into the standard deviations and all that, but I think having our predictions written down, and a community average would be cool.

QUOTE (QuincyStandback @ Jan 29, 2011 -> 04:17 AM) I was actually thinking the same thing. I bet after the first week when Dunn has 5 HR, we all change our predictions to 74. I know I will.

QUOTE (QuincyStandback @ Jan 29, 2011 -> 03:53 AM) You think Dunn will hit more than 40 HR's in the Cell? I do. I am counting on 43-46 HR from Dunn.

I like the Sox talent better overall, hell, I even like the Tigers talent just as much as the Twins, but it's all the fundamentals that the Twins do so well, and not hurting themselves that gives them the nod in the division in my mind. Plus, I've always had a thing for Gardenhire. Twins - 94-95 wins White Sox - 92-93 wins Tigers - 86-87 wins

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QUOTE (danman31 @ Jan 27, 2011 -> 09:42 PM) Keith Law put Sale at 67 in his rankings and didn't include any other Sox. A little low on Sale, but we know he doesn't like Sale much. He reasoned that he was a reliever and won't be a starter. Yep. I was expecting a slot around the 40's, but then I remembered it was Keith Law, so my hopes of seeing Morel anywhere in the top 100 were low.

QUOTE (nitetrain8601 @ Jan 27, 2011 -> 08:04 PM) I don't mind being banned. All the games I wish I could go online with, I can't such as MLB The Show or NBA2k because their servers suck. I don't play games online much either, but I do use Netflix and MLB.tv quite a bit.

QUOTE (flippedoutpunk @ Jan 27, 2011 -> 06:56 PM) that is pretty absurd.. the ps3 im using is the same one ive had since launch.. and ive used the heck out of it.. sometimes leaving it turned on for days at a time I'm still on my launch day system as well, although I had to pay $50 to have it repaired last month.

QUOTE (chw42 @ Jan 27, 2011 -> 03:27 PM) The point is that you don't have to haul your entire PS3 with you to play PS3 quality games. But you have to purchase the game twice, that's my point.

QUOTE (chw42 @ Jan 27, 2011 -> 06:35 PM) White Sox ZiPS projections are out: http://www.baseballthinkfactory.org/files/...cago_white_sox/ Uh-oh! Kotsay is back and he is getting nearly 300 AB!