Jacoby_Ellsbury

Sooooo glad we spoonfed this guy a nice fat contract extension he didn't remotely deserve.

LeBron retracting that tweet is the only issue with it. Just stand by your words for once. No sensible person will blame you for laughing at those pissant fans and that f***tard of an owner as they writhe watching LeBron's 'supporting cast' flop around like a bunch of brain-damaged fish stuck by the Egyptian pyramids.

This has nothing to do with anything, but the whole 'respect for the game' initiative is such petty ********. ESPN (and Disney by extension, since they own the ESPN and ABC networks) is wrecking this league by turning it into a little league game with no contact or naughty words allowed. Good god.

Brett Cecil's on the block. Lefty starting pitcher I drafted for the hell of it. stats

RP Hideki Okajima, $2,750,000 Bill James thinks he'll rebound, so what the hell.

None of those are left, and I prefer to fill the closer/set-up/MR slots before cramping my brain over who's going to pitch mostly garbage innings.

Who said I was planning to keep Cecil in the first place? He's a decent starting pitcher who should never have lasted this long. If he ends up sticking around as a long man/spare starter, terrific. Either way, I don't see what the issue with making a spare starter a long man is. Their arms are at least used to pitching for longer periods of time. Most of the designated 'long men' in baseball blow ass anyway. And it's not like circumstances are ideal to begin with if you have to bring a long man into the game.

Well the Nuggets are never going to get equal value for Melo, or anything close. That said, if this went down, I'd applaud Ujiri. Not a bad package. If anything, Denver could get the last laugh here, considering how Melo's made them his prison bitch through all this. Billups, Rip, Melo, and Brook Lopez isn't going to win the Nets a title. They'd be lucky to get 1st round home court with that team, in a full year of play, let alone this season. They'd also be emptying just about all their tradeable pieces in this deal, limiting how much improving they can do until Rip and Billups are expiring contracts (and even then, you need actual prospects to go with those contracts, unless some other team is in a world of financial hurt and has something desirable). Meanwhile, in Denver, Favors has very high upside and could develop into a franchise player at PF. His lame stats so far are largely due to lack of minutes and Avery just horribly misusing him. Harris is a nice player who could easily be flipped elsewhere for something more useful to Denver (Batum?). Worst case scenario, you have a proven scorer next to Lawson. Morrow's nice. Unloading Billups is huge (unloading Harrington would be better, but doubt that happens). Keep your chin up RSFFL, this could end up like the Jason Kidd deal did for Dallas.

The Melo to NJ rumor has picked up quite a bit of steam in the past couple of days. http://sports.espn.go.com/new-york/nba/news/story?id=6005596

Righty then.

P Brett Cecil, $950,000

Lol I was so close to picking him. But I wanted Pudge's fielding.

C Ivan Rodriguez, $3,000,000

I can make my pick now?

Or him.

I don't even hate the Jets (I don't really hate or dislike any teams), but Ryan pisses me off to no end. Don't talk s*** if you're not even playing in the f***ing game. He's like Gilbert Arenas in coach form.

Rex Ryan is such a dolt. Why would you mouth off about Brady, of all people? I don't care about either team, but I want to see the Patriots win and Brady have a monster game just to shut that idiot up.

Hard to believe this is just about over.

OF Rajai Davis, $1,350,000 IF Alcedes Escobar, $405,500

Yep I planned to be around today but that's how the cookie crumbles. How many picks do I have to make?

Fine, I'll lay curses on both of you.

son of a BITCH

Michael Cuddyer, $8,500,000

That's right, I meant in a starting OF spot. But I guess it doesn't really matter in here.