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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.

Fliers are fine when you're trying to build depth, not so fine when you're trying to build a rotation. Counting on guys who have been injured to carry the club sounds like a repeat of 2013.

No sooner did I post and pop back to my Facebook page when I found this. It is from a woman who was in my senior class in high school. To all my Facebook friends Several months ago I started out a new business with Damsel in Defense and it has been the worst decision I have made in a while So I'm asking you my friends to help me out and order something online from me this month soI can at least recoup the investment I made in this business I appreciate your help since no one in this company has even tried to help me. I expected to have a mentor who would help me find places to sell this and offer to teach me where to get leads but apparently they are only in this fir themselves and to recruit people just to out a feather in their cap and money in their pockets If you can order anything I would appreciate I here us the link (Not sharing the link out of respect for anyone reading this). Let me get this straight: You screwed up in a business venture. I gather that the stuff you are hawking through said venture is either not in demand, is not worth buying or there are so many people selling it that no one can make any money (Herbalife, anyone?). However, I can "help you out" by buying crap that no one wants so that you don't have to take a bath on your investment. Welcome to life. Sometimes we make mistakes that we have to live with. I went to the website just out of curiosity to see what it is about. It is self defense stuff marketed primarily toward women. They sell things like pepper spray and stun guns and related accessories. The website says that you can "start your own business for less than $200", although I am guessing that like most such borderline scams, they probably upsell you quickly to where the "real money" is (for them, not for you). My wife and I learned a hard lesson from such a venture. We did considerable research before investing and everything we found said that it was a legitimate business. Apparently things had just not caught up with them legally. They were sued by the government of Canada for fraudulent misrepresentation and within six months they were out of business. The way that you made money, apparently, was to dupe people into making the same mistake that you did, then you got a commission for recruiting them once they handed the money over.

I agree with what MT is saying about the political stuff. I had a sizable group of friends (about 20-25 eventually wound up in quarantine) who insisted on sharing every political article that supported their personal viewpoint with everyone on their friends list. About 95 percent of the time it was stuff I disagreed with, but even if it weren't I was getting quite enough political stuff elsewhere. I subscribed to a couple of pages during the election cycle but never shared any of them. I figured that most of my friends already know where they stand politically, and I was not going to dramatically change their political opinions by sharing an article on Facebook. I took said people out of quarantine about a month after the election, but there was a group of four or five who could not accept the fact that their guy lost in November and they set out to share every conceivable scrap of negative information about the president, true or not. The election is over, dude. Sharing that you still believe that he is a Muslim born in Kenya or comparing him to Hitler because of the Affordable Care Act isn't going to change the outcome. There is another friend who I had to quarantine for a completely different reason. We first became acquainted in elementary school. Even back then he liked to sing, and since I had been out of contact with him for the better part of four decades, I had no idea that he still sings. He quickly informed me, as well as everyone else on his friends list. Every day came posts of 8-10 audio files of his rendition of this song or that. He might find work playing in a bar with a small dance floor, but the recording companies aren't going to come calling. Ever. He might sound halfway decent if I were hammered to within a micron of becoming comatose, but I hope that he keeps his day job or else he will starve.

I was looking over our DL stints last year. March 31 - Ryan Madson and Andrew Taylor, 15 days. April 9 - Jered Weaver, 15 days. Andrew Taylor, moved to 60 days. April 14 - Erick Aybar and Kevin Jepsen, 15 days. April 19 - Alberto Callaspo, 15 days. April 20 - Mark Lowe, 15 days. April 30 - Sean Burnett and Peter Bourjos, 15 days. May 30 - Sean Burnett, 15 days. June 12 - Robert Coello, 15 days. June 21 - Jason Vargas, 15 days. June 27 - Tommy Hanson, 15 days. July 3 - Peter Bourjos, 15 days. July 28 - Albert Pujols, 15 days. August 10 - Howie Kendrick, 15 days. August 21 - Robert Coello transferred to 60 days. August 24 - Kevin Jepsen, 15 days. August 29 - Chris Nelson, 15 days. September 16 - Kevin Jepsen and Peter Bourjos transferred to 60 days. Last year was like a MASH unit.

Maybe we can void his contract for falsification of his application.

That may be setting the bar too high, Tank.

I see a couple of high pressure areas...

Very earthquake resistant, too.