Cocos Disciples

Good thing Xavier won. Nice game between Kentucky and Marquette going on. Halftime there. Also, Jeff Adrien, alum of my HS, is on the cover of SI!

Furcal is very available, looking for some pitching.

While I don't root for 2 teams in sports I really care about and have a hometown rooting interest, I find I'm rooting for 2+ teams in college basketball/football, since I don't have one particular team.

Manny's a pretty sporadic signer. Catch him on a good day and he'll sign for a while. Otherwise, don't even bother. I got tons of autographs at Camden last year. I find that like 20 minutes before the game when they're in short leftfield running and such, if you stand at the tarp they'll come.

By my count thats 30 guys, so 5 extras. I expect Brown, Aardsma, Lowrie, Corey and Moss to go down.

Good for them, sticking up for the coaches like this. I am very glad it got resolved, as I can't wait to see the games!

Means I know more about the teams/matchups, making it a more enjoyable tourney to watch.

Its a WIN WIN! WOOHOO!

I went pretty deep in studying the bracket/teams today, and I only came up with my 1st round picks. Anyways, here they are: East: UNC over Mt St Mary/Coppin State Indiana over Arkansas Notre Dame over George Mason Washington State over Winthrop St Joseph's over Oklahoma Louisville over Boise State Butler over South Alabama Tennessee over American Midwest: Kansas over Portland State UNLV over Kent State Villanova over Clemson Vanderbilt over Siena Kansas State over USC Cal State Fullerton over Wisconsin Davidson over Gonzaga Georgetown over UMBC South: Memphis over Texas-Arlington Mississippi State over Oregon Michigan State over Temple Pittsburgh over Oral Roberts Kentucky over Marquette Stanford over Cornell St Mary's over Miami Texas over Austin Peay West: UCLA over Mississippi Valley State BYU over Texas A&M Drake over Western Kentucky UConn over San Diego Baylor over Purdue Xavier over Georgia West Virginia over Arizona Duke over Belmont I'll edit with 2nd round picks (and beyond probably) tomorrow.

Colon hit 93 in his first spring start.

Quick thread recap request. Are we arguing over Billy Crystal's fanhood?

I lol'd

It's going to be Kobe, since he's never won it. Thats not saying he SHOULD win it, but I think he will.

PECOTA, which is most accurate, says this for Wang's 08 season: 4.37 ERA, 1.45 WHIP, 95 K/59 BB in 178 1/3 IP.

I made one on Yahoo. I'm gonna say anyone with 500+ posts here is eligible. Just post here and I'll shoot you a PM with the info. Also, post here with any suggestions for scoring etc. I'm open to any changes. Members thus far (Joined): 1. Coco's Disciples 2. YanksHater213 3. TheKilo 4. One Red Seat 5. mtbykr 6. BudLight

I'll do it. Just a sec.

Me too. I see a pretty significant regression from Wang this year. Certainly won't be a #1 pitcher, probably not even a strong 2. And in that kind of deal, Melky has to be expendable. But hey, whats past is past.

Love March Madness. Can't wait.

Could have had him for less, but obviously it's a great value for arguably the best closer in baseball.

Word, I missed the original categories post. I love it.

Whats with the scoring changes? Whats NSV?

http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=3276034

Works for me.

a) Where was it suggested that those 3 would start in the minors? We're not heavy favorites. Don't pull a Rodney Harrison here. The whole world hasn't counted you out.