jacksonianmarch

yeah, Hafner always drops in the drafts because he kills your versatility. That is why a guy like ARod should be a top 3 pick. Even though I despise him and this is from a yankee fan.

I think you have to go with ARod. Even though he is a puke and a choker, he is very likely to have a huge yr in what could be a contract yr for him.

what the vikings did with Hutchinson was put a clause in there that if he wasnt the highest paid lineman on the team, the entire contract was guaranteed. The Hawks had Walter Jones, so they were f***ed.

Sizemore is being considered by some to be the next great CFer and projects to hit 30+ HRs consistently while stealing 40+ bases, having 10+ triples and 30+ doubles as well as hit over .300 and walk 80 times. There are only a few player like him in the game. Ellsbury is not him.

I agree to a point. Ellsbury has mild projectable power. He may hit 10 HRs max in a season. He isnt like Brett Gardner on the yankees who may never hit a HR.

that is frickin classic.

I have started playing the minor league games on Allstar and it is a little better. What I may do is just edit teams as I play them and not do them fully. Something like just increasing the contact and power of everyone of their hitters. AS level pitching is tough enough to keep me in single digits, here is to hoping.

Tgov, Howard is under philly control for 4 more yrs i believe. He isnt going anywhere.

Ellsbury needs a good 2 months in AAA before he is ready. Think about it, instead of Coco, you could have Marte, Ellsbury and Shoppach on the MLB roster by June. That means dealing for Mirabelli would have been moot so you keep Meredith and have him closing. Hindsight.

bosox, if Schilling is 12-3 in the ALE at the break, then 15 mil a season would be a starting point. And in the NL he could get a Jason Schmidt type deal. If RJ can get 2 yrs 32 mil for sucking, how much can a younger Curt get for being good?

what they have now is a pretty good thing. You cannot penalize a kid for a lifetime for being stupid once. But if you get caught a third time, then the penalty should be lifetime ban with reinstatement hearings yearly and monthly drug testing.

that entire week is no good for me. Could we do it the monday after?

no kidding. BTW, just noticed a few new things. You can now user control slides. Infielders bobble the ball more and they actually have a drop on the transfer on DP's with the umpire doing the proper signal and everything, it is pretty cool. And if you fool the cpu on a pitch, lets say a curve when they are thinking heat, they have an out in front swing that makes them look real foolish. Its pretty nice. And the more you use a pitch, the more you get "comfortable" with it and your meter goes up. If you use the pitch and give up a hit, you get less comfortable with it. The 12-6 curve is the nastiest pitch in the game aside from the gyroball. If you have a pitcher who can throw it (I created Hughes with a dirty one) then it is essentially unhittable as it goes from what looks like the top of the strike zone down out of the zone. Walking is possible in the minor league games, I walked 3 times I think. Overall, gameplay is much better than last yrs, the only problem is that I created the entire yankee minor leagues and I am playing the cpu generated s*** players. I may need to slowly recreate the minors for every team, something I am not currently thinking of doing. But if you dont do it, you will win every AAA and AA game by a lot.

that is a great signing.

the running FB looks like a spiral coming out of the hand. It is strange.

also, if you create the minors you will more than likely want to play a few games. I typically play one game per day, either MLB, AA or AAA depending on who is pitching. Right now, I am starting a AAA game with Hughes on the hill and the next game I will play will be a AA game with Betances throwing.

yes I am. I am actually saving two copies, one as a master copy in case I want to play later and one to play. It is actually pretty cool. The work is very nerdy but the reward will pay off until 08 comes out. Okay, first game played on veteran setting, won 3-2 against Kazmir. Couple things. First off, hitting is much harder. The speed is amazing and the break is crazy, but that could have just been Kazmir and his filthy stuff Second, this game is very choppy on PS2. I do have a pretty old PS2, but it has never been this choppy with any other game. It is annoying but is not so much so that the game is unplayable. The choppiness is only while the ball is in the air, once a fielder gets it, it goes away. They still havent found a way to incorporate walks into the game. Guys who are supposed to be wild will go 3-0 on you and then become a strikes machine. My team is supposed to walk som 500 times this season and I couldnt buy one. I love the variable umpire, it works best with good pitchers. I got a lot of calls with mariano and wang, but got nothing with myers or farns. And the calling pitches is very big. It helps playing as Mo a lot. Mariano is so one pitch centered that he gets hammered in most video games. Not anymore. And the variable catcher makes you want to attack the hot zones more, something I was amiss at doing in the 06 version.

just finished putting the minors together. That was a f***ing chore. game time!