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nice trade noah, think that was a steal for you

merry xmas!

great trade for you, ben.

it doesn't bother me too much. for one thing it will keep these guys with crummy teams interested in the league. i know if i traded a bunch of my starters and ended up with a boatload of prospects and 2016/2017 draft picks that i'm gonna play for a few years and see what happens. also, the last batch of new owners did the same thing (more or less) and are pretty competitive now. iirc hard time and fixer upper were like 5 win teams and now they are fairly well positioned.

threatening to quit over kab's delayed pick is just laughably immature. it's february, who cares??? the JBJ thing i can sort of understand but at the end of the day it's JBJ. Nick probably should've just given JBJ back to the original owner, though. not because it's required by the rules or whatever, but because he's the commish and his team is insanely stacked and he dropped him anyway. offering JBJ for draft picks was just rubbing it in, imo. i've been targeting odorizzi for some time and snagged him for Aramis and Robbie Ray which i'm pretty psyched about. it's actually the only trade i made the entire offseason. usually my entire roster turns around this time of year...

agree with kab that you should stay away from those 16 year old intl "superstars in the making" bit the bullet on two of those in first 5 rounds of the inaugural draft - angel villalona and yorman rodroguez. apparantly those "can't misses" miss sometimes after all! people also go crazy over prospects in this league so if you get a college guy who throws a few good games people will trip over themselves giving you their team for him. just last year i think kab and i went back to back puig and wacha and iirc we both got really awesome value. so if you go the intl route it has to be someone who is ML ready like puig, tanaka, etc.

thanks guys. now if only i could win a game in fantasy football....

barring an epic collapse that would be slightly more upsetting than the one 3 years ago, it looks like i have this wrapped up after a super clutch performance by kennedy. mccann also came up huge, so hat tip to kab for his part in that. will probably look to get younger again this year and move guys like cano latos kennedy gardner and jannsen, so start thinking up offers!

survived billy buck's two-starter overload week and now i'll just look to hold on for dear life as my pitchers are dropping like flies and the ones who are healthy are turning into pumpkins.

so axelrod throwing 1 pitch and getting hurt was the worst possible outcome.

was REALLY pulling for Jake's Bravo's because 86ers has a ton of 2-start pitchers in the next two weeks. i've burned through all of my 2-start pitchers which has resulted in me picking up dylan axlerod and hoping for the best.

pulled a kab and was out of the country with limited access to the internet over the last couple weeks. was pleasantly surprised each night i was able to check in and was never completely comfortable until sale exited the game on sunday afternoon (i fully expected a no hitter or something crazy). but yeah, things are going pretty well in team name world right now. hopefully i don't peak too soon like i did a few years back. what's better is that DEM and TR got upset so my road to the title got that much easier. noah has been cruising through the playoffs too. buchholz looks like the guy i traded away a couple seasons ago so him + pineda makes for a pretty scary rotation. a few months ago my mouse was hovering over the DROP button for shoemaker and i changed to hector santiago at the last second instead. good idea huh

looks like our matchup is gonna go down to the wire, kirk. i have a nice lead but i see you're getting two starts out of norris and sale this week so that should close the gap (especially considering my only two-starters are kennedy and wada). seems like we both got unlucky with pitchers getting leads/wins blown too. your closers were outstanding last week. in other news, i'm obviously devastated that i dropped mike fiers. carried that guy all season long and let one shaky relief outing cloud my judgment. now he's just striking out everyone.

haha thanks and yeah winning the division was probably not the best outcome (though i think i win an extra $25 for it?) considering i would've played jake's bravos had i finished in second place. my team has been crushing the last month so i'll probably put up a stinker when it matters. good luck fending off my barrage of unlimited two-start crappy back-end-of-the-rotation pitchers.

thanks! i think you are way too low on your team. cuddyer should be back before playoffs and if you get through the first round you should have votto too. your SP is good but you don't have a lot of depth to stack 2-start pitchers. good thing about being the #5 seed is that i get to play jake's bravos in round 1 who is probably the worst playoff team. so i'm glad i passed you in the standings for that honor. just gotta hope for the best. i'm gonna have like 10 or 11 SPs (some of which are pretty crummy) come playoff time so there will be two-starts-o-plenty from team name. and nice job flipping montas for norris, that was a steal.