Vegas Halo Fan

I'm tempted to just guess Yankees on all of them, and I will get at least 75 percent right.

That was my question. The only place I use it is at work, because our IT people have decided that it is our "official" browser. Of course, we're talking IE 7, because one of our proprietary database programs doesn't play well with any update past that. We had Firefox for a while, but they must have believed that it was working too well, so they took it away from us. As you can tell, we're on the cusp of advanced technology. One day we may even ditch Windows XP. When I started with my current agency in 2001, they were still using an MS-DOS based database program.

Uhhh....could you, like, shut up?

There is a guy I work with who overuses it to the point that I sometimes have to walk out of the room when he is talking. He uses it as an adjective for almost every noun he uses. He also injects the word "realistically" into conversations so often that it has become kind of a game among the rest of us to just throw it in for no reason when we are talking to each other.

I would be fine with both Vargas and Wilson signing. Would like to see Brian McCann sign, as he would be a huge upgrade at catcher, but I doubt that we will put out that kind of cash on a FA.

According to an article on Fox Sports, the Arizona Diamondbacks are expected to make a big run at Price as well. http://www.foxsportsarizona.com/mlb/arizona-diamondbacks/story/Expect-D-backs-to-aim-high-for-starting-?blockID=956729&feedID=3698

What I admire most about him is that he seems to be more about doing what is right, not holding the party line. Of course, the GOP can't have that kind of stuff, so he doesn't get invited to their events. They had rather have mindless parrots like Michelle Bachmann and Sarah Palin.

Had one of his baseball cards many years ago.

I'm thinking that they would want one or the other but not both, plus prospects. The Rays usually don't take on much payroll.

Plus Nathan is 38, and his production could go off the cliff at any time.

Good to know that this isn't the only fan base who believes that teams are lined up to trade their stars to us for whatever we care to offer.

Miami is just greedy. They already have The Greatest Angel Who Ever Lived, Jeff Mathis.

Vargas is certainly not an ace, but a guy who can keep a bullpen like ours out of the game is certainly valuable. I don't understand this thinking by the FO. It's not like we have loads to trade to bring in rotation guys.

The main anti-Semites in baseball are the guys who collect urine samples for PED testing. I don't believe that they test managers, so Ausmus is in the clear.

Maybe, but now we have signed both of them to ridiculous deals, and reality has set in.

If it's the National League, I still do the deal.

Yes, it was a minor league deal. Guess that Erick Aybar needs to start looking for another number to wear after MLB makes every team retire #2 when Derek Jeter hangs it up.

Or, we can go the other way and wind up with more Joe Blantons.

In my league #1, both of my tight ends are on bye weeks. There isn't much available on the waiver list, so I have to make a choice as to whether I should just accept zero out of the position for one week or try to make a deal. I will probably opt for the deal and keep Vernon Davis.

Normally he probably would have, but some potential buyers will be put off by his recent injury history.

Would love to see a seventh game, Boston leading the whole way until Carlos Beltran puts one over the green monster with three on and two out in the top of the ninth, then 1-2-3 go the Red Sox.

Appearances are very deceiving. That stuff is vile.

Good point. NL teams generally won't carry players who are total defensive liabilities, when an AL team might.

League One (autodraft): QB - Matt Ryan, Eli Manning WR - Demaryus Thomas, Austin Pettis, Chris Givens, Mike Williams, Greg Little RB - Adrian Peterson, Pierre Thomas, Maurice Jones-Drew TE - Vernon Davis, Brandon Myers D/ST - Green Bay, Tampa Bay K - Rob Bironas, Matt Bryant I am above .500 but struggling to keep this team afloat. Originally this roster had Ahmad Bradshaw as a RB, cut him and picked up Pierre Thomas off the scrap heap and have had decent results. I have a lot of WRs and RBs from poorly performing offenses. The years the Falcons and Giants have been having, with Matt Ryan and Eli Manning as my QBs, have not helped at all. My opening game was a tie - which is almost impossible to do. League Two (live draft) QB - Peyton Manning, Andrew Luck, Matt Schaub WR - Larry Fitzgerald, DeSean Jackson, Greg Jennings, Miles Austin RB - Jamaal Charles, Frank Gore, DeMarco Murray TE - Jason Witten, Jermichael Finley D/ST - Pittsburgh, Cincinnati K - Mason Crosby, Phil Dawson Matchups have killed me in this league. In my season opener, Peyton set an NFL record for passing TDs in a single game, I scored 157 points - and lost. I would have beaten any other team in the league by more than 50 points except the one I was facing. I had a second game with 136 points - and another loss, to the only other team in the league who would have beaten me that week. I have to figure out what to do with Jermichael Finley. He is unlikely to play again, and in a ten-team league there isn't much depth available on the waiver wire. I took Matt Schaub as a very late pick partly as insurance and partly hoping to shore up a relatively weak WR corps with a trade, but his awful performance and subsequent injury have pretty much killed that plan. Injuries have hit this roster hard as well, with three players on my bench out for the week.

The Al disadvantage is still there, but it is less pronounced than it has been. With the increase in interleague play, it isn't as if the AL pitchers don't pick up a bat all season until the World Series, like it used to be.