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There's still 5 spots available in this league.

ATG13, you are already in the other league so you must wait until people who have not signed up for a league have had a chance to enter. If there is still open spots by Thursday at 10 PM then you can sign up for this one.

He's in the other league.

In.

More details about this contest will be available next week and there will be an official thread set up in the contests forum. This thread has been cluttered with other stuff unrelated to the contest so I am closing this thread now to avoid confusion.

I think I will since I know yeszir doesn't want to be associated with anything College Basketball.

Soriano's bitching right now about being moved from 2B to the OF so I wouldn't take the risk of him bitching about playing 1B, plus it's not as easy as everyone thinks it is just. Just ask our good friend Mr. Millar.

Soriano would be a terrible fit here. He is not the type of player the Red Sox are looking for right now. Big contract, free swinger, low OBP plus he would cost us some quality prospects to fill something which we currently don't need. Besides you're potentially blocking Pedroia and I'm satisfied with Loretta/Graffanino/Cora so this move makes 0 sense.

We have an ignore list. But let's get this back on topic and seriously end this conversation. The other thread was locked for a reason.

It's over. I think me and yeszir both got pissed off at the exact same time.

Alright I'm getting really annoyed right now. Sorry Crespo. See ya for now. EDIT: Damnit someone beat me to it.

Of course it didn't

If I remember correctly I had 3 of the 4 final 4 teams last year so I will own you once again.

As I said Yahoo fantasy games puts everyone in a group and then we can put all our brackets in and it'll keep score for us. So we basically have to do no work except put our bracket in.

If there is a contest it probably will be for a custom title or something of that effect as after the Super Bowl SFOC told me that he would not be interested in supplying cash prizes for a NCAA or NBA contest. That being said I think we should run a contest through Yahoo. Everyone can easily fill out a bracket and whoever wins would win the contest, I also know that they allow many people to enter the contest. So instead of picking teams everyone should just fill out their own bracket, all that would be left is to figure out what the prize would be.

Well I was just making a joke. It's first come first serve if anyone drops out.

Indeed. Good call. I must have seen that replay a thousand times.

Anybody's guess who will catch Wakefield Associated Press Posted: 31 minutes ago FORT MYERS, Fla. (AP) - The only predictable thing about Tim Wakefield's knuckleball may have been that Doug Mirabelli was behind home plate to catch it. Now the Boston Red Sox don't even have that. Mirabelli was traded to San Diego and now three offseason additions are competing for the job - or the burden - of trying to keep Wakefield's sinking, rising and frustratingly fluttering pitch from skipping to the backstop. "It will be a huge challenge," manager Terry Francona said. Jason Varitek caught most of Boston's games the last three years, but got a break every fifth game when Wakefield pitched. Mirabelli caught 92 of Wakefield's 96 starts in that stretch and the knuckleballer was 0-4 in the other four. But the Red Sox traded Mirabelli on Dec. 7 for Mark Loretta, who will start at second base, and began adding catchers - free agents Ken Huckaby from Toronto and John Flaherty from the New York Yankees, then Josh Bard in a trade that also brought starting center fielder Coco Crisp from Cleveland. With Varitek part of the U.S. team in the World Baseball Classic, scheduled from March 3 to 20, all three should get extra chances to compete for one roster spot. The ability to catch the knuckleball "does play a role," Bard said, "but I don't think it strictly depends on that. But if you can't catch it, that might eliminate you from the competition." All three have had very limited experience catching the knuckler, especially one of Wakefield's quality, since few pitchers throw it anymore. The best knuckleball baffles hitters with its movement but also is the toughest to catch. Wakefield, entering his 12th season with Boston, has confidence in all three, and his pitching isn't really affected by who is on the receiving end. "They're very good defensively," Wakefield said. "It's no adjustment for me. I've just got to throw the ball over the plate. I can't worry about who's back there." Sometimes, his pitch moves so much that it's virtually uncatchable. In the fifth game of the 2004 AL championship series, Varitek had two passed balls on his pitches in the 13th inning, but Boston beat the New York Yankees 5-4 in the 14th and went on to win the World Series. "Anybody would have had a problem that day," Wakefield said. "Dougie would have looked the same way." Huckaby was the first of the three to sign, agreeing to a minor league deal last Dec. 14. A few weeks later, he traveled from his home in Arizona to Wakefield's hometown of Melbourne, Fla., where Huckaby's mother-in-law lives. He spent about 18 days there as a head start in working with Wakefield. "It's tough," Huckaby said, "but the movement gets pretty consistent. If you can see it early enough, you can tell which way the rotation's going to take the ball and you can anticipate which way it's going to break, but there's that one out of 10 or 15 that kind of goes it's own direction and that's the one that chews you up." The 35-year-old Huckaby has been with eight major league organizations, starting with the Los Angeles Dodgers where he caught Tom Candiotti, who threw a knuckler, in the bullpen. Flaherty, 38, returns to the team he began his career with before moving to Detroit, San Diego, Tampa Bay and the Yankees. Last season, he was the personal catcher for a much different pitcher, fireballer Randy Johnson. "With Randy, it's pretty straightforward. What he throws is just harder and sharper than anybody else," Flaherty said. With the Devil Rays in 1998, he caught Dennis Springer, who threw a knuckler. "He didn't have a knuckleball like Wake has. This is the best that we've seen in this era and it's one of those things that you really can't prepare for," Flaherty said. He said Varitek and former Red Sox catcher and current first base coach Bill Haselman have talked with him about Wakefield, but "you have to experiment and find out what works for you." Bard worked out in the offseason with left-hander Mike Myers, who played the last two seasons with Boston before moving to the Yankees. He also got tips from Chris Bando, his former catching coach who caught Candiotti. Even Wakefield can't help much because he often doesn't know where the pitch will end up. "I can't explain to them how to catch it," he said. http://msn.foxsports.com/mlb/story/5360430

I think it'll be Flaherty just so they will have a schedule and that they will know Varitek will get every 5th day off.

Well this wasn't even about a team he was passionate for. Those were some good times with Empire .

Well I know at least one Yankee fan has offered up part of their genitalia as part of a sports bet on this site before.

Yeah that's what I want to happen too, but I don't think people and players will take it as serious because it's right after the World Series and I just thing that the general feeling is that it is more of an exhibition rather than a serious tournament.

I have a gut feeling that this tournament isn't going to be around long enough to have that happen.

Well he was unwanted by the Twins so I think that's what he means.

Um trying to start new conversation about a topic which is somewhat relevant and looking through old threads to see if there is a thread which talks about the topic he wants to talk about. This is turning into as Dane Cook calls it "A nothing fight" so let's just calm down and go back to posting.