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Re: 2006 Baseball Challenge (Salary Cap Game)
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04/28/06 12:46 PM
04/28/06 12:46 PM
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J Geoff
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Originally posted by plawrence: I plead guilty to not knowing when to use "who" and when to use "whom". It's actually not that easy sometimes; in fact, some would like nothing more than to rid the word from our language. The rule I go by is: "Who" corresponds with "he" (subject) "Whom" corresponds with "him" (object) So a quick word replacement is one way to determine which to use... most of the time. "He gave the book to him?" "Who gave the book to him?" "He gave the book to whom?" I'm sure I get it wrong sometimes, though. That link has some complex examples I'd've gotten wrong.  And some people think it's pretentious - the same people who cannot use "we"/"us" and "I"/"me" properly... 
I studied Italian for 2 semesters. Not once was a "C" pronounced as a "G", and never was a trailing "I" ignored! And I'm from Jersey!  lol Whaddaya want me to do? Whack a guy? Off a guy? Whack off a guy? --Peter Griffin My DVDs | Facebook | Godfather Filming Locations
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Re: 2006 Baseball Challenge (Salary Cap Game)
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04/28/06 01:22 PM
04/28/06 01:22 PM
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J Geoff
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Seems it was all-or-nothing yesterday... Yesterday's Pitching Staffs (ESPN-wide)PS PTS %OWN
MIN 26 4.4 Third-most popular pick
NYY 25 3.6
COL 24 0.4
STL 23 8.5 Most popular pick; none of us had Ponson
CLE 20 1.3
TAM 19 0.2
BAL 9 1.5
WAS 4 0.6
TOR 0 2.0
PHI - 4 1.7
KAN - 8 0.2
BOS -21 7.3 Second-most popular pick
I studied Italian for 2 semesters. Not once was a "C" pronounced as a "G", and never was a trailing "I" ignored! And I'm from Jersey!  lol Whaddaya want me to do? Whack a guy? Off a guy? Whack off a guy? --Peter Griffin My DVDs | Facebook | Godfather Filming Locations
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Re: 2006 Baseball Challenge (Salary Cap Game)
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04/28/06 01:25 PM
04/28/06 01:25 PM
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J Geoff
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Originally posted by Beth E: Great, I'm a victim again today of the Curse of Pork. Sorry about that... 
I studied Italian for 2 semesters. Not once was a "C" pronounced as a "G", and never was a trailing "I" ignored! And I'm from Jersey!  lol Whaddaya want me to do? Whack a guy? Off a guy? Whack off a guy? --Peter Griffin My DVDs | Facebook | Godfather Filming Locations
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Re: 2006 Baseball Challenge (Salary Cap Game)
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04/28/06 03:03 PM
04/28/06 03:03 PM
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J Geoff
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IS ANYONE ELSE GETTING A FREAKIN' BLANK PAGE NOW?? I just spent like an hour setting my lineup and now it's freakin' BLANK (in both IE & Firefox), and I don't know if my lineup stuck or not.  Good ol' FUCKING ESPN!!! 
I studied Italian for 2 semesters. Not once was a "C" pronounced as a "G", and never was a trailing "I" ignored! And I'm from Jersey!  lol Whaddaya want me to do? Whack a guy? Off a guy? Whack off a guy? --Peter Griffin My DVDs | Facebook | Godfather Filming Locations
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Re: 2006 Baseball Challenge (Salary Cap Game)
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04/28/06 03:08 PM
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J Geoff
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Okay, it's back. Thank God my lineup took! 
I studied Italian for 2 semesters. Not once was a "C" pronounced as a "G", and never was a trailing "I" ignored! And I'm from Jersey!  lol Whaddaya want me to do? Whack a guy? Off a guy? Whack off a guy? --Peter Griffin My DVDs | Facebook | Godfather Filming Locations
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Re: 2006 Baseball Challenge (Salary Cap Game)
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04/29/06 08:35 AM
04/29/06 08:35 AM
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Friday's Scores & Saturday's Probables & Standings TM 1211 NYM (27) 55 1266 StL Carpenter 3-2 1.91
DB^ 1182 NYM (27) 53 1235 CWS Contreras 3-1 1.55
PL 1193 StL (-7) 23 1216 NYY Johnson 3-2 3.73
CC 1152 ChC (28) 64 1216 StL
GG 1139 Hou (-1) 45 1184 StL
JL 1100 NYM (27) 56 1156 NYM Glavine 3-2 2.78
DC 1068 NYM (27) 63 1131 NYM
JG 1064 ChC (28) 55 1119 StL
SC 876 NYM (27) 56 932 StL
LZ 855 Bos (06) 31 886 Bos DiNardo 1-1 10.13 (To the tune of "Let it Snow, Let it Snow, Let it Snow") Oh, the weather is really gloomy In the town they call St. Looey Taking Carpenter could be a pain Le it rain, let it rain, let it rain
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Re: 2006 Baseball Challenge (Salary Cap Game)
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04/29/06 02:22 PM
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J Geoff
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Originally posted by plawrence: (To the tune of "Let it Snow, Let it Snow, Let it Snow")
Oh, the weather is really gloomy In the town they call St. Looey Taking Carpenter could be a pain Le it rain, let it rain, let it rain Doesn't look good. ...but neither does Plaw's Johnson. :p P.S. Jeez, Plaw... Carlos Guillen... 2 HRs (17 pts) in 4 innings...  Bastid.
I studied Italian for 2 semesters. Not once was a "C" pronounced as a "G", and never was a trailing "I" ignored! And I'm from Jersey!  lol Whaddaya want me to do? Whack a guy? Off a guy? Whack off a guy? --Peter Griffin My DVDs | Facebook | Godfather Filming Locations
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Re: 2006 Baseball Challenge (Salary Cap Game)
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04/29/06 02:44 PM
04/29/06 02:44 PM
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and I almost kept him. decided to go with Adam Everett in the last minute before leaving home. if it wasn't for Johnny Judas Damon ( also 2 HR in 4 innings  ) it wouldn't be that bad for me. anyway, I knew my team would suck today. it was thee most difficult day to set up a team for me, with a lot of good pitchers in a lot of pitcher's parks.
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Re: 2006 Baseball Challenge (Salary Cap Game)
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04/29/06 02:46 PM
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J Geoff
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They've started playing in St Louis - hopefully they'll get the whole thing in...  ...unless it's a sucky outing!
I studied Italian for 2 semesters. Not once was a "C" pronounced as a "G", and never was a trailing "I" ignored! And I'm from Jersey!  lol Whaddaya want me to do? Whack a guy? Off a guy? Whack off a guy? --Peter Griffin My DVDs | Facebook | Godfather Filming Locations
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Re: 2006 Baseball Challenge (Salary Cap Game)
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04/29/06 03:28 PM
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Originally posted by J Geoff: ...unless it's a sucky outing! Thats no way for a radio personality to speak.
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Re: 2006 Baseball Challenge (Salary Cap Game)
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04/29/06 03:35 PM
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J Geoff
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I guess you don't listen to much radio then 
I studied Italian for 2 semesters. Not once was a "C" pronounced as a "G", and never was a trailing "I" ignored! And I'm from Jersey!  lol Whaddaya want me to do? Whack a guy? Off a guy? Whack off a guy? --Peter Griffin My DVDs | Facebook | Godfather Filming Locations
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Re: 2006 Baseball Challenge (Salary Cap Game)
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04/30/06 06:47 AM
04/30/06 06:47 AM
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Originally posted by Tony Mosrite: if the A's at Royals game get rained out, do I still get Reggie Sanders' points?? It was rained out, so you don't get his points. 
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Re: 2006 Baseball Challenge (Salary Cap Game)
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04/30/06 03:38 PM
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Originally posted by Don Sicilia: [quote]Originally posted by Tony Mosrite: [b] like you really mean the " "Ouch!  [/b][/quote]Yeah, really. Here I am....trying to be supportive of TM, a guy who I always said was a lot better player than he appeared to be because his scores were disguised and obscured by all his missed days, and I get accused of what? (What was I accused of here?) Insincerity? Geeeze......Who's more sincere than me?  :rolleyes:
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Re: 2006 Baseball Challenge (Salary Cap Game)
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05/01/06 04:34 PM
05/01/06 04:34 PM
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Without question, the big Fantasy Baseball story this year has been the inconsistency of the starting pitching, not only in this game but in the Yahoo game as well. Here's a commparison for the four of us who played last year - PL, JL, JG, and SC, and TM who started late and DM who isn't playing this year - at more or less of the same point last season: (Note: I'm not counting LZ because she really hasn't played more than 3 or 4 days or so.) Last Year This Year
W-L E.R.A. Pts. FPPG W-L E.R.A. Pts. FPPG
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PL 18-12 3.41 559 18.6 19-11 4.21 421 14.0
JL 23- 7 3.09 608 20.3 16-14 3.82 456 15.2
JG 21-10 2.95 573 18.5 15-16 4.49 339 10.9
SC 20- 9 3.29 551 19.0 15-11 4.18 359 13.8
TM 2- 2 3.50 52 13.0 21- 9 3.48 516 17.2
DM 19-10 3.49 528 18.2
DC 22- 8 3.66 479 16.0
CC 18-13 3.79 452 14.6
DB 20-10 3.96 436 14.5
GG 19-12 4.32 354 11.4 Everyone who played both years is doing considerably worse this year (except for TM whose sample size is way too small), and the only players who are doing as well this season as we kinda did last season are maybe DC and CC.
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Re: 2006 Baseball Challenge (Salary Cap Game)
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05/02/06 05:26 AM
05/02/06 05:26 AM
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Originally posted by ginaitaliangirl: Do I not have stats from last year because I joined late? Or is it because you don't like me?
I wanted the comparable period from last year, and you hadn't joined yet at this point. Using and comparing your first 30 or 31 games which came much later in the season would have been inaccurate, since you had a much greater body of work by each pitcher to go by and consider in making your selections. The fact that I don't like you has nothing to do with it. :p . . . . . . . . DON'T LIKE YOU???? How can you even suggest such an idea? You are my protege.....You will take over for me some day.....I'm trying to teach you everything about Fantasy Baseball that I know.
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Re: 2006 Baseball Challenge (Salary Cap Game)
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05/02/06 06:13 AM
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I got in touch with my contacts in Vegas and got an update on the odds of winning this thing. Here are the latest odds, along with the opening line: Opening Latest
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PL 1334 3-1 3-1 Holding steady as top pick
DB 1340 9-2 7-2 Now the second choice
GG 1300 10-1 4-1 Has proven her skill
JL 1259 7-2 9-2 132 point deficit hard to make up
JG 1231 4-1 5-1 160 point deficit harder to make up
CC 1322 15-1 6-1 Fading after strong start
TM 1391 20-1 7-1 Still must prove he won't miss days
DC 1283 99-1 50-1 Caught on, but will he stay the course?
SC 1070 ---- 150-1 Late start makes win almost impossible
LZ 974 99-1 300-1 May not stay, and not playing anyway TM is probably a great bet at 7-1, if you believe he won't miss any days....he already has enough of a cushion to miss at least one day, anyway..... JL and JG might be worth a wager if you think they can come back..... PL and DB probably not worth the short odds when you consider how close the people behind them are..... And, finally, you can't go wrong putting a coupla bucks on SC at 150-1.....you never know, he might hit a massive hot streak..... Want better odds than 4-1 on GG and 6-1 0n CC foreither to be worth a bet.....
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