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What about John Smoltz?

Gom would know what he's talking about.

You mean that the Dominican guy isn't good enough? Or that a South American guy wouldn't be good enough?

Forget about it, now concerning the topic at hand, I don't see why someone can have so much against Theo Epstein. It's not like he isn't trying or isn't making moves with the intent of making us better.

Did he finally make a post that was funny?

Every year when we vote on the "Post of the Year", there's always an asterisk that it will be second to this.

I'd be willing to bet that Dipre does, and if not, we can find where it is located.

Man, look at all of the sexual tension in this thread.

You'd be surprised how many women love guys with English accents.

Are you serious? I probably have more porn than most of the rest of you all combined. Not counting Gom of course.

Someone needs some toilet paper and a porno.

The only thing I'd add is that we probably shouldn't wait for Youker since he didn't make his last 4 picks. For the record, I'm not trying to skip Youker so that I can pick earlier, because I'm going to pass once it comes to me.

I might use it just to block your claim Whiskey.

I agree, however, I think that this is Part 1 of a many chapter sequence of events. If this was the only move made in the offseason and if the regular season began in a few weeks, then we'd be in trouble, but I think that this "move" is part of many moves to come and as such, should not be judged until the final process is complete.

And, it's the 19th pick (rather than the 16th pick) because there are 3 added picks to the first round because of not signing first rounders from last years draft. So it's the best first rounder you can get. And even then, that's because of a tie breaker with Oakland due to 2009 records.

The Red Sox do however, get the Tigers 19th overall pick and a very high supplemental round pick. At least it's something.

Does it ever?

It'd be worse than a bridge year. This past year was supposed to be a bridge year.

Sounds fine to me too, I don't plan on using the waiver wire, and I'm not sure how many owners are.

I have a bad feeling about this one.

I don't see the Sox matching that one.

Suns, you should however get ready to do powerrankings for the NFL draft, because we're almost at the final 4 here, so the NFL draft voting should begin shortly.

Haha no. You aren't in this contest, and this matchup had been decided a while ago. That's without even mentioning the quality of your voting...

I'm going to start off by saying a few obvious things. First, I think that Kilo has a better frontcourt (4 and 5) than Ytrb, and that Ytrb has a better backcourt (1 2 3) than Kilo. Also, while I'd give Ytrb the talent edge in more positions, I think that Kilo has a greater margin of disparity in the two positions that he wins (as in Kilo wins the PF and C position by a larger margin than Ytrb wins the PG SG and SF positions) I agree with WhiskeyBreath that it's not wise to start (or even draft for that matter) Yao Ming and I'd hesitate between Scola and Favors, although I'd like to think that in 3 years, Favors would be better than Scola. I think that the "no injury" thing does make Yao look a little better, but spending 17 million on him was not a good decision, and that single handedly prevented you from getting some other players. While I got my ripping on Yao out of the way, I'm also not a big fan of David West or JJ Redick. David West plays like LaMarcus Aldridge, and for a tough exterior, his game is soft. For example, he got out manned by Robert Horry vs. the Spurs in the playoffs (2008 I think). Redick has also been a flop since coming out from college, and the only thing he really has going for him is his FT% and 3 point%, and he doesn't get enough attempts to really make a difference in the game. However, that does give me a good segway to my main point. I believe that this series is going 7 games, and will probably be decided late in the game. With that said, in my opinion, 2 really important things in a game like that are Free Throws, and 3 pointers. (In addition to defense, don't worry, I didn't forget about that) I looked at the numbers for both teams, and while Ytrb has more people who I would consider decent/good 3 point shooters, Kilo has the best 3 point shooter of the lot (Anthony Morrow at a career 45.2%) In addition, some of ytrb's highest 3 point shooting percentages come from 2nd year players (Harden at 38%, Holiday at 36.5%) so I wouldn't be as trusting of those numbers since they are from a smaller sample size. As for Free Throws, I would also go with Kilo's team. Again, I did not factor Wall's or Favor's numbers since they haven't played enough to establish themselves. Yao is better than Horford here (83.3% to 75.7%) but Iguodala (74.9%) and Roy (80.1%) are a bit disappointing considering their star status, and considering that they are guards. Butler (84.9%) and Morrow (87.7%) have them beat here, and Reddick (88.6%) can factor in if Wall doesn't turn out to be a good free throw shooter. Only Landry Fields of the guards on Ytrb's team is shooting about 82%, and he's a rookie. With all of that said, and combining the fact that I believe that it's more important to have frontcourt depth due to foul propensity, injury risk, and trench warfare in close games, I think that Kilo's team would win in a 7 game series. I think that Ytrb's team is more talented and would probably have a better season record, but I think that Kilo's team has the pieces to win the playoff series. So despite the fact that I had voted for Ytrb's team over Kilo's team in the tiebreaker, I have to go with my gut on this one and I feel that Kilo's team is better built for the championship haul.