Tuesday (official)

if someone was crazy enough and somehow tracked how many posible points we have (counting the pts of the best posible lineup in our rosters for each day) I believe I'd end up with something like 200+ pts Pettite should be on waivers anyway, and there's where he's gonna go, if someone is interested

WTF? Aren't you forgetting who's actually winning this game?

:p [/b][/quote]If you're speaking of yourself, allow me to clarify:

I speak here of "winning" between JG and myself.

That does not, however, rule out the possibility of my beating you as well; It's just less likely - altho still possible.

*whew* I almost didn't play Schmidt today, but glad I did (26 pts) Too bad I also played Bedard (3) ...and Shields (-7) didn't help either... :rolleyes:

Lowe and Putz
Putz and Lowe

My bullpen is forgiven for yesterday's performance. :p

Oh. The battle for 3rd place. :rolleyes: :p

Posibly....we'll see; you never know.

After all, it's closer than you think.

(Hey, JG & TM....

I think JL just insulted you two. You gonna take that from him?)

It's close between me and DB, but it's not close between me and you, JG, or TM. That's not insulting them, it's just the truth.
JG is running out of SP. TM missed too many games played. And you've now fallen 500 points behind me.

Wednesday (official)

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can't argue with that

Thursday (official)

Well let's see... you've used 111 starts, leaving you with 52 with 59 days to go. That's almost a start per day among your 7 SPs. Technically, sure, you can reach the 52 starts. But you may need to take some unfavorable matchups to make up those games. Can you average 12.5 pts per start? Sure. Will you? We'll see, and you should hope so. However, I more see you "pulling a Plaw" like in Diamond Daily where you won't play in order not to get zero/negative points, so I'm thinking it's possible you might not get those 52 starts in.

On the other hand, in retrospect it is somewhat unfortunate that I've used 134 starts already, with only 28 left. However, you should be damn sure I won't be tossing the dice with any unfavorable starts from here on out. Sure, I'll still lose plenty, but my odds of having better games SHOULD be greater as I have the luxury of being more selective in my starts at this point.

This is kind of a whine. I wondered why Nick Swisher went form having Pujols like numbers in April and May, to hitting around .200 with no power the last 2 months. It turns out he caught some kind of illness in June, lost 15 lbs, and still hasn't regained his strength. Why did he continue to play while being sick, and why was it never reported?

No, I think that should count as a full-fledged whine. Is this something we vote on, Commish? :p

I better figure out who on my team is injured or not injured soon to get ready for the stretch run, because as we all know, "it's a lot closer than you think."

Without going into detail, I've checkd ahead and I'm completely confident that I will make it to 162 without any prblem and without any "unfavorable matchups".

Believe me, there is absolutley no chance whatsoever that I will have to deliberately fall short of 162 in order to avoid games in which I'm afraid of getting negative points.

After all I showed you in the past during the basketball season about how I manage that aspect of this kind of game, do you really have any doubts?

I will say this, though....

I'm very pleased that you've finally decided to stop breaking balls, acknowledged the fact that games in hand have value, admitted, in effect that you don't really have a

It really depends on your definition of "Close".

I can't speak for the others, only myself.

And all I'm saying is that it's "closer than you think".

Right now, I figure that adjusting for everything, you have about a 250 point lead on me.

That's closer than youthink 'cuz it's a lot closer than 500, and it's close enough so that if I get hot and you get cold in some combination i can still catch you.

Of course, if I get cold and you get hot, it could go the other way and you could beat me by 700-800.

Or, lemme put it another way:

Suppose you were an oddsmaker here, JL.

How much of an underdog to you make me?

If we were gonna bet, what odds would you give me?

I wouldn't take only 2-1, for example; I think I'm a bigger 'dog than that, but what is 2-1 really?

It still gives me a 1/3 chance of winning -- that's pretty significant, I think.

And I'm saying right now that you won't finish within 200 points of me. :p

I feel a bet coming on. :p

I feel gas coming on.

The hot air kind or... the hot air kind?

And I'm saying right now that you won't finish within 200 points of me. :p [/b][/quote]Well, at least you're acknowledging the value of "games in hand".

200 points....Hmmmm

Read what I edited into my post while you were writing yours.

As I said, if we stay even the rest of the way, I think you'll beat me by about 250 points.

But I also think that 250 points is close enough that with eight weeks to go i can still catch you.

Yes, I'm an underdog (obviously), but even if you want to make me a 4-1 or 5-1 dog, that's still gives me a fairly significant chance of beating you.

JL

That's a lot of pent up anger, TM. I haven't seen anger like that on these boards since I saw a couple of weeks ago someone threatening to kill another member for listing Michael Jordan as his most hated athlete. :p

well I didn't mean like I really wanted to kill JL

I just got pissed off because I regret the second after I dropped Lopez. I didn't know I wouldn't be able to pick him right back away. I just wanted to have Jhonny Peralta for one single day so I'd have a full team but for some reason Carl Crawford was given a day off, and, believe, Peralta never played anyway

even with the move to RFK Stadium, Lopez is still an elite SS hitter. and I got really mad because JL is the last one on the waiver priority. I should be able to pick Lopez back. (whine???)

Sorry about that, but when someone drops a Top 5 2B, and my 2B is on the DL, what do you expect me to do?

The reason you didn't get him back is when you drop someone, you have to wait for him to go through waivers before you reclaim him.

20-1.

I sure hope TM doesn't make that silly mistake again, for the benefit of the guy in First Place. :rolleyes: Nice play, Lou. Bastid. :p

I never thought I'd get him.

That Zambrano trade is really working out for me. Thanks a lot JG.