Hooray for the end of the hostage crisis...

http://money.cnn.com/2007/04/09/markets/oil/index.htm?cnn=yes

A few weeks from now we'll be back around $2.30.   

Must really be rough to see a guy raised in Florida but living in Texas so far ahead of you in the standings.   

I've got one too many power hitting 1B's - anyone interested in Giambi or Delgado?  Either could be had for a similar player at 2B, OF, or a solid closer.

What can I say - the guy put together a very good team.  Imagine how big his lead would be if he'd actually used all those points.  I'm pretty happy with a second place finish though - I tied for third last year, so I'm headed in the right direction.   

For me getting my Lightning players in mid rounds is what did it - those two have been solid gold and there's no way I'll get them both next year like that...  Too bad it wasn't quite enough.  Better goaltending and a few defensemen, and a healthy Zetterberg might have been enough to pull it off.  Then again, Jason could have just used more of his games if I started catching up.

^ co-sign.

Okay, did I really draft this badly?!   Or is my average team just off to a horrid start?

Ortiz, Tejada, Wright, Ichiro, Zambrano, Webb, Giambi and almost nothing to show for it.

Surely my team isn't this bad.   

I finally found concept stormtroopers the other day.  Took a while.  For whatever reason I really like these with the new paint job.  I'm hoping to pick up a few more.

Hasbro will definitely need to be creative about their releases, and at some point I doubt we'll be seeing 60 figures per year, but there isn't any reason they can't keep going and going and going especially with EU, playsets, more background characters, resculpts, and the viintage line... there are tons of things left to do.  And if the video game figures do well, you can bet we'll get more of those in the future - even from past games.