Liger liger, pants on fire.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rectus_abdominis_muscle

@The Talented Mr. Dope Man: Thanks!

@chata: Hehe

check this :

http://www.neatorama.com/2011/12/21/frog-plays-video-game-avenges-himself-upon-human/

Although i didn’t know it was your bday weekend until this morning, i celebrated last night for you… horribly hungover today.

god bless delivery food.

Living life on the edge!

@Daniel: I don’t like Crawford anymore with the wrist issue.

@Steve: Aw

@chata: Latin-something

@royce!: Yeah, Young’s never gonna be a starter on the Rockies. He must’ve pissed off someone.

so , let’s say that this cuban rookie , yoenis cespedes , lies about his age ,
in order to get out of cuba , and says he’s 26 , when , in fact , he’s only 20 .

now , in order to enter mlb , he has to take up residency in the dominican republic .
while there , he hooks up with a buscone , who , in order to market him to
major league teams , lies about his age and says that he’s 19 years old .

do you have a glossary term for THAT ??

http://nzh.tw/10780274

By the way, I have Joey Bats, Tulo and Cano so it’s not like I NEED Pujols or Tex.

@birrrdy: no worries…

@Schmohawks Bob:that’s just painful to read…

I wanted to ask you the other day but forgot: If you prefer not to spend more than $30 on a player in auction leagues, don’t you feel like you’ll miss out on the entire top tier for 1B? Last year I had to spend around $35 for Fielder but still felt it was worth it to lock up the power.

Nick Markakis expects to ready for opening day, after undergoing “significant” surgery to repair a torn rectus abdominus muscle earlier this month.
“I’m feeling good,” Markakis said. “It’s a sensitive area where I got cut open and as far as pain-wise, I don’t have any pain. It’s just uncomfortable. It’s not being able to do certain things I want to do. It seems like a long recovery, but I know it’s going to be over before I know it and then we’ll be rolling.” Markakis added that he’s doing a lot of pool activity to strengthen his core and that he started to do some light jogging this week. Baseball activities can begin as early as five weeks after the procedure.

Thus my two questions:
(1) Are there factors you commonly consider when projecting a “next step forward?”
(2) How sure of it do you have to be to price that “next step forward” into your ranking, like you seem to have done with Longoria and Upton?

@chata: Thanks!

@charlie batch: He’s a deep league flyer. I’ll probably mention him when I go over flyers in March. Hard to get excited about A’s hitters much like Padres ones. 20+ homers, some speed, .240-ish average.

@birrrdy!: You’re not stuck with Tabata. He’s 23 years old and about to go 10/30/.280 which is Victorino numbers. Alonso is a huge get in a keeper. Phillips has maybe two years left in him counting 2012. The trade was solid. Don’t trade for Hanson.

To answer your question, yes, it’s a keeper league (NL only). And the elites rule the roost. Phillips has been a keeper the better part of the last decade. He’s no Braun, but he’s been a very serviceable steady keeper. That said, if Alonso is more like LaRoche than Adrian, then I just got hosed – he won’t be a keeper in coming years. You don’t have him as a top-10 1B in the NL (but he does appear to be in your top-15). And there are a lot of guys like Tabata in the draft, unless he becomes more like Bourne or Victorino. I’m still hopeful, and I don’t regret the trade. Phillips may get traded to the AL after this year, and he’s only got about 2-3 keeper years left in him. But your 20/17 prediction got me concerned.

Also, I am getting some trade offers for Alonso. Should I take them? I might be able to land Tommy Hanson ($18) straight up. Pitchers are inherently risky, though. If they get injured, they can be gone for years, possibly careers, and the risk is way higher than with stud hitters. Even Pujols comes back from broken bones in mere weeks! Nobody seems to want Tabata though. So it looks like I’m stuck with him to the draft.

Again, no regrets. Only Storen ($21) went back into the pool. But now my only pitcher out of 8 keepers is Santana ($3), with D.Hudson ($17) waiting in the wings if one of my hitters or Santana falls out. Should I ride with Alonso at $5 as my possible 1B of the future, or should I try to land Hanson? (and whip out the checkbook for Cuddyer in the draft?)

Current keepers are Hanley($31), Wright($26), Dee Gordon($13), Alonso($5), Tabata($7), Holliday($34), Hart($16), Santana($3), and we have $300 to spend on 10 Ps, 13 hitters (8 can be kept). THX!

Not to whine (yet here I go), but I don’t really like “Baha Man”. I, for one, had no idea who they were until someone mentioned the “Who Let the Dogs Out” song they’re responsible for staining my eardrums with.

Usually in these glossary competitions, the winning candidate usually makes sense to me. I can usually see that it’s clearly better than my submission (if I had one) or simply the best one that was offered. In this case I don’t think that’s so. No offense, royce (assuming you’re the REAL royce!).

“Onesie” is best in my opinion because it has a negative, non-masculine connotation. Any man who wears a “onesie” is automatically open for extreme ridicule. “Baha Man” conveys none of that.

Ok, I’ve said my piece. I bow to Grey’s greater wisdom (and fuller ‘stache). Have mercy on me, I’m an Oakland A’s fan. We just signed Jonny Gomes. Yay.

I’m gonna go on record here and shock the world: Royals with cheese win the AL Central this year. I know, I know… mighty words for a team that is used to wearing paper bags on their heads, but they’re certainly on the rise and every other team has fallen off.

Of course they’ll just be mincemeat for the Yanks or Rangers to devour in the playoffs, but I think the good folks in KC would shake their bootys (booties?) all winter long for a division title.

wait .

am sure some of you hormonal studs have your own “records” going .

but i think i deserve some sort of ‘categorical’ mention .

p.s. DON’T send me a trophy , please !

am in the middle of my 2nd slow mock draft of the off-season .

given my current “condition” , am lucky to get 5-6 hours of sleep per day ,
broken up into 3 naps …(some days , i only get one or 2 naps) .
anywho ,
often , i dream/think of my drafts while i’m napping .

doesn’t that make ME the ultimate fantasy sleeper , at least for this year ??