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Community => JD Sports Forum! => Topic started by: Morgbug on February 7, 2013, 10:27 PM
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Come one, come all. We sure could use some new blood and it would be fantastic to have a ten team league.
League ID# 10461
password: berry
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I'm in, although I don't know why I continue to bother as I am destined to end my season in obscurity as I have the last five years...
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We need to recruit some people folks. Five just isn't enough to make it worthwhile IMO. Gotta be some friends you can drag in? Not Canadians though, they don't understand the game.
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Okay me and my buddy from high school that normally plays with us will probably join you.
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Me and 2 friends are joining. They both played with us before in different years. So we have at least 8 teams. I could probably easily add 2 more using my Facebook page if you want 10 instead of 8. I'll wait for feedback before offering slots to anyone else.
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Signed up.
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Me and 2 friends are joining. They both played with us before in different years. So we have at least 8 teams. I could probably easily add 2 more using my Facebook page if you want 10 instead of 8. I'll wait for feedback before offering slots to anyone else.
Unless anyone else feels different, I think we'll just use the two of you that have signed up since we're at 8 now which is a good size. That way if any other JDers join out of the blue there's still room for them. Do appreciate having you guys back.
I may actually miss the draft, or part of it anyway as I'll be coming back from Minneapolis that day.
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I can just about guarantee I'll miss it... I didn't realize you'd made it for Friday night.
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Well, I was going to make it, but I worked 20 hours yesterday, went home and slept for 3, and them came back in for another 10. So, I'm out for this draft.
Good luck gents... hopefully I can luck out with the auto-draft.
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I'm pleased with my team...would have liked more RP but oh well, vacation over FBI drafts I guess
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Scott your team sucks donkey balls.
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I've missed playing Fantasy Sports with you Matt :-*
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What do we have to do to get Bug or Pearson to pick up Francisco Liriano?
You guys waiting for a written invitation?
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I'm pleased with my team...would have liked more RP but oh well, vacation over FBI drafts I guess
I never got a chance to thank you for Chris Davis. :-X
Anyone have depth at 2B they'd like to trade?
Giancarlo Stanton, Nate McClouth, Zack Greinke, and Jon Lester are available.
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You're welcome ::)
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Well this might shuffle the deck quite a bit... (http://www.cnn.com/2013/06/05/us/sport-baseball-scandal/index.html?hpt=hp_t2)
(CNN) -- Major League Baseball is set to suspend some 20 players in the coming weeks due to a scandal involving performance-enhancing drugs, according to an ESPN report.
The network says it is potentially the worst drug abuse case in the history of baseball.
The league declined to comment to CNN, but confirmed that an investigation is in the works.
Baseball's highest-paid player, New York Yankee Alex "A-Rod" Rodriguez, as well as Ryan Braun of the Milwaukee Brewers are among those facing suspension, ESPN said, citing unnamed sources.
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Yeah, I thought about that when drafting and was wondering how smart a Braun pick would be. Turns out it may have been pretty dumb, but I've been pretty scuttled by injuries this year already with my 2nd, 3rd (half a season), 4th (looking at about two months total), 7th (six weeks to start the season) and 15th rounders all spending time on the DL, some of it considerable. Before dropping Cabrera tonight I had five guys on my roster on the DL. So if I lose Braun, I lose contributions from my first four draft picks for various reasons for considerable periods of time.
All that whining aside I'd still like to see sports in general cleaned up. Baseball and track & field are the dirtiest, to my knowledge but I'm sure there are many others. At least baseball keeps trying.
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I hear you... Bailey, Stanton, Grienke, Weaver, Henderson, and Cespedes have all spent time on the DL and Peavey will be there by the end of this week... I had 4 players hurt at the same time for awhile. I just hope Miguel Cabrera isn't involved... it would explain a lot if he was.
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I actually do hope Miguel Cabrera and Chris Davis met once a week to inject each other with steroids.
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We've all been jacked by injuries. Depth has played a role. And late round value picks/free agent pickups has been huge this season. My team actually has gotten better with Bryce Harper, Price, Crawford and Utley out. That defies all convention.
Here's another nugget. I have been playing fantasy baseball since age 12. Before the web. Drafts in our living rooms. Stats tabulated by hand with sunday's USA today. Stud hitters then were 30 HR guys. There were very few injuries! My theory: as steroids came into the game, when Sammy Sosa, Brady Anderson, Mark McGwire, Barry Bonds and Luis Gonzalez went nuts, the muscles got too big and put more strain on tendons and ligaments than is intended. Therefore more injuries. At first, everyone was saying the ball was juiced. That it was more tightly wound in the guts. But now we know better.
About Braun, he tested positive last year. He attacked an innocent man and claimed sample tampering and skated on a bull**** technicality. MLB is out to nail him this time.
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About Braun, he tested positive last year. He attacked an innocent man and claimed sample tampering and skated on a bull**** technicality. MLB is out to nail him this time.
No question he's guilty but I find when I let emotion affect my picks, it usually doesn't work out too well. So I opted for him on the chance they wouldn't nail him until most of the way through the season or after it was over. Nope, it appears not.
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I actually do hope Miguel Cabrera and Chris Davis met once a week to inject each other with steroids.
With Paul Goldschmidt as their dealer no doubt.
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I actually do hope Miguel Cabrera and Chris Davis met once a week to inject each other with steroids.
With Paul Goldschmidt as their dealer no doubt.
Well, Goldschmidt supplied Adam Jones and Yoenis Cespedes, who then dealt it to Davis and Cabrera for profit. Adrian Beltre was a mule.
Which is great. Because if your offense weren't such a huge pain in my ass, my lead would probably be 20 instead of 10, and this thing would be about over already.
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Which is great. Because if your offense weren't such a huge pain in my ass, my lead would probably be 20 instead of 10, and this thing would be about over already.
Yeah, they're keeping me afloat. They've been so good that I'm sort of expecting two or three of them to be involved in the steroid business.
My pitching has TANKED over the last week or two. I can't seem to get a guy to finish 6 innings with an ERA less than 7.00.
And when I do (Greinke) he's on my bench. Ever since inter-league started, I've had trouble.
Surely I don't have any pitchers on roids.
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Surely I don't have any pitchers on roids.
I heard Clemens is working his way back.
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There goes Braun:
Milwaukee outfielder Ryan Braun suspended for 2013 season (http://www.cnn.com/2013/07/22/us/ryan-braun-suspended/index.html?hpt=hp_t2)
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And no appeal. Guilty as hell.
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Twitter had fun with this today.
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And no appeal. Guilty as hell.
I though the headlines from the other day were that MLB was going to wait until the start of next season to hand down these suspensions. Do we know if the other 19-ish guys are going to go soon or if they just wanted to stick it to Braun after how it shook out last time?
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Awesome, not only have I lost Pujols for what seems to be the rest of the season, Molina is now on the DL for at least the next two weeks and possibly more. Not looking too promising for me to stay in second/third down the stretch.
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Was Pujols suspended as well? I confess to not really following closely. I knew Braun would go first but I'm curious who else goes.
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Pujols wasn't suspended. His foot was jacked up a few days ago. There really aren't too many stars being suspended for roids after Braun and A-Rod. The next biggest name is Nelson Cruz and after that the talent drops off to fringe-fantasy impact.
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A-Rod: 211 Game Suspension (http://www.cnn.com/2013/08/05/us/alex-rodriguez-future/index.html?hpt=hp_t1)
These guys all got 50 games:
Philadelphia Phillies pitcher Antonio Bastardo
San Diego Padres shortstop Everth Cabrera
New York Yankees catcher Francisco Cervelli
Texas Rangers outfielder Nelson Cruz
Padres pitcher Fautino De Los Santos
Houston Astros pitcher Sergio Escalona
Yankees outfielder Fernando Martinez
Seattle Mariners catcher Jesus Montero
Free agent pitcher Jordan Norberto
Detroit Tigers shortstop Jhonny Peralta
New York Mets outfielder Cesar Puello
Mets infielder/outfielder Jordany Valdespin
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Congrats Mr. Dressel, a rather dominating season I'd say. Well done.
Managed to mismanage myself to fourth. :-\
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Congrats Dressel, that was an impressive run!
I can live with a third place finish considering up until now, I hadn't finished higher than fifth.
Have a good off-season and see you guys next year!
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Nice job Matt. I just couldn't catch up.
Congrats. :)
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Thank you thank you it was a memorable season!! This was our tenth season doing baseball at JD and this was one of the 3 most memorable. Some of the highlights of the fantasy baseball decade:
1. 2006. Last day of the season, Ichiro Suzuki owned by my high school buddy Chris, homers and knocks Scott out of first place.
2. 2010. Not as happy. Brent employs the 1300+ inning trick and unseats me from first on the last day of the season. Memorable, but not as fun for me as the Ichiro deal.
3. This season. Big injuries to most of my top players overcome by free agent pickups for the biggest win on record, streak of 5 straight years of being bridesmaid in 2nd place SNAPPED.
See y'all for season 11 in March.
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Congrats Matt...#1 still stings
Kudos to me for dropping Chris Davis in the first week :)
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Oh yeah, thanks again for Chris Davis.
(Did I miss a couple of years? The first baseball that shows up in my Yahoo history was 2005.)
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2005 was first for me as well, though I only started fantasy sports in 2004 so maybe there were other years with other guys?
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Yeah Jeff and Reconsgt played early on before you guys.
Did Chris Davis go undrafted? I actually intended to take him, I usually had him in the past. Been waiting like 3 years for the breakout. He used to be 1B/3B/OF eligible with Texas but would hit like .200 and strikeout constantly. He was on my list though with the strong spring I just forgot to draft him.
Oh not for nothin, Davis is on steroids or GH or sumpin.