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Two things.  One, is there any interest in Bat Country fantasy baseball this year?  I believe Yahoo is including HGH Injections as a stat this season.

Two, I'm working on a scoring system that rewards terrible players.  Sort of a negative version of fantasy baseball.  I'd rather do rotisserie, with stats being strikeouts, GIDP, errors, and avg but Yahoo doesn't allow you to flip the avg stat so that bad is good.  So it's a point-based head-to-head system instead, with the batting scoring system:

• PA: 1pt
• E: 2pt
• CS: 3pt
• K: 2pt
• GIDP: 3pt
• R: -2pt
• H: -2pt
• RBI: -2pt
• TB: -1pt

And similar for pitchers. 

I'm looking for a few people to help me test out the scoring system this season.  Note that the draft is much less fun than a normal league (generally you pick a few guys that you think are going to suddenly get old or bad or pitch for the Rockies and have terrible years, then pick the rest of the mediocre players based on last year's stats), but it shines during the season when you're screaming for your pitcher to just walk one more run in.

I'd be up for it. I'm going to start another thread on the regular style Yahoo fantasty baseball league, but yeah, since I am the master of fantasy sports mediocrity, I'd be up for this.

Hacking Mass (http://www.baseballprospectus.com/hm/index.php?mode=rules) ftw.

Except HM has no draft, no league, no trading, and a single score per player.  But otherwise, THE SAME

I'll be up for the regular Yahoo! league again this year.

Go here (http://forums.f13.net/index.php?topic=12514.0).

Back to ye old top of the forum!

http://sports.espn.go.com/espnmag/story?id=3602337

Very interesting article I think. These guys were mostly fools not to sign him for one year. Smells like collusion to me.

I don't think they are fools. I think they showed some rare better judgement. Fans hate him, period. They wouldn't show up to games with him on the team. If the Braves had signed him, I would have boycotted the season, and I'm a HUGE Braves fan. It would have been a slap in the face to everything Hank Aaron was and is. However, it's not like they didn't desperatedly need the power. The Braves have nobody worth a damn at left field, and they dumped Texiera after it became obvious the pitching was all on the DL.

I think the owners know without a doubt that he's a cheater and a PR nightmare. His production isn't worth the hassle.

Fans hate him? He got a standing ovation every time he scratched his nose in San Francisco. As soon as he won a game for whatever team he ended up on, they would have been in the same boat.

Collusion is the only logical answer; if MLB owners were that risk-averse the game would be a completely different place than what we see.

Let me be clear. Fans OUTSIDE of SF hate him. SF fans are just dellusional and don't care that he ruined baseball with his shit. That's fan, the home field love is what it is. However, ask the average baseball fan what they think of Barry Bonds. The overwhelming majority are going to say that he's a cheating shitheel.

EDIT: I also left out the black fans who love him because he's black. Like Joe Morgan who can't shut up about him. He brings him up in more conversations than Madden talks about Farve.

I think you're giving people too much credit for caring about the "integrity of the game". Everyone knows that the number of steroid-using players is vast, pinning 'ruining baseball' on Barry Bonds is going overboard.

I disagree. If there is, without a doubt, the posterboy of the steroids era of baseball, it will always be Barry Bonds. He is the face of all that is wrong with the game. He didn't do it alone, but he's been the most outspoken, the most defensive, and also "broke" one of the biggest individual records.

Fuck that. Fuck Barry Bonds. No one should have signed him. It would have been pissing money down a hole, and he would have asked for way more money than he was worth. He can't play the outfield, and when he does, he sucks at it hard. So he's a DH at best, and a banged up DH with bad knees, a pisspoor team attitude and toxic hate from all of baseball. Signing him would have been foolish. And let's also not forget that except for 2002, he has been a major postseason choker.

He was asking for the league minimum I think?

Re: postseason stuff, the only answer is sample size. You can pull random 6 and 7 game samples out of any player's history that will look similarly mediocre.

No New York teams made the playoffs. I can honestly say that with the Braves out, that pretty much makes my season right there.

Now if the Red Sox could lose in the first round...

100 years of pain... over? PLEASE?

Yeah I am hoping for the Cubs to win just so everyone can shut the fuck up about it already.

Not so much on that one. I honestly believe they are cursed. When you get dominated that badly at home, it's just pitiful. I think if the Dodgers continue to play the way they did in that series against the Phillies, they are a lock for the World Series shot.

Yep, we're fucking cursed. Literally. The team that played in the regular season was not the same team as in the postseason. Shitty defense, shaky pitching, anemic offense. How does a team go in to a collective slump right at the exact wrong time?

FUCK. It burns like VD.

How 'bout them Rays.....

:D :D

Quite a meltdown tonight. Should have left Kazmir in.

Tampa needs to rebound. You can shake this off. Bad luck in a bad place. I'd rather win at home. Force those thoughts.

Hope the bad Tampa juju transfers from the baseball team to the football team. The Seahawks need all the help they can get Sunday night.

If Boston comes back and wins this their fans will be even more intolerable than they are now (if that is possible).

By help, I assume you mean a defense, a run offense and a healthy starting QB.  :grin:

If the Sox make a comeback win tonight, baseball is officially over for me. I refuse to watch two teams I can't stand play each other in the World Series.

Come on Rays, don't blow it now!

So, picks on the World Series?

I'm going with Rays in 6.

Phillies in 5.

I'm not really a baseball fan, but I'll say Rays in 7.  For the drama.

Rays in 7.

Lidge is just filthy.

I hate the Phillies.

Jason Werth looks so much like a current actor. But I can't place who it is. It's bugging me.

He looks like the character Danny from Caddyshack to me.

I should have put money down on this.

Indeed you should have. I wonder what the odds of suspended game in the 6th would have been in Vegas  :awesome_for_real: