not my best offseason - i will sorely miss my usually IFA play

should have the flurry of signings in KP hit momentarily.

and..there it is. Im 90% sure my stupid signing was the guy tm was going after, knowing his needs.

got O.T. but missed out on the other guy.  I had him max salary with a $5mil bonus and lost out becuase I couldn't offer $10mil

Posted by dmurphy104 on 7/26/2010 3:26:00 PM (view original):
and..there it is. Im 90% sure my stupid signing was the guy tm was going after, knowing his needs.

Yep.  I bailed at about 45/50 mil total, stopped the madness, and settled for a light-hitting decent fielding stopgap. 

Was also trying for Nash Iorg for a while, but wasn't gonna give him more than 2 (maybe 3) years. 

So now I switch my attention to the trade market, if there is one.

The original 8 week time-line for Utley would be what, another 3.5-4?

Yeah, that sounds right.

Posted by bret2775 on 7/26/2010 3:29:00 PM (view original):
got O.T. but missed out on the other guy.  I had him max salary with a $5mil bonus and lost out becuase I couldn't offer $10mil

Bad, bad contract you gave Overtime McClain.

Did he prove once again that no one out-stupids him?

Posted by r0b0t on 7/26/2010 2:07:00 PM (view original):
As much as it's sometimes criticized, I think I like our world the most of any. There really is a great deal of parity and I can see a lot of teams with pieces that are putting them in position to win. It just seems like the talent in this league is better overall. It can't possibly just have better fake players, but it just seems like more teams have more talent, and even the worse ones have something viable.

I'm going through the league for b0t stove.

Hmmm...  I disagree with most of that.

I think it is more devoid of talent than most of my worlds, but I still theorize that it is due to age.

That being said, it is still easily my favorite world based on the "talent" of the major owners.

someone who knows how to do that ****, post his info.

But it is not nearly as bad as patrickm's travesty.

Posted by tisi29 on 7/26/2010 3:37:00 PM (view original):
someone who knows how to do that ****, post his info.

I went and looked after I asked, and well... it's bret.

Posted by tylermathias on 7/26/2010 3:31:00 PM (view original):

Posted by dmurphy104 on 7/26/2010 3:26:00 PM (view original):
and..there it is. Im 90% sure my stupid signing was the guy tm was going after, knowing his needs.

Yep.  I bailed at about 45/50 mil total, stopped the madness, and settled for a light-hitting decent fielding stopgap. 

Was also trying for Nash Iorg for a while, but wasn't gonna give him more than 2 (maybe 3) years. 

Yeah, I had a backup guy I was gonna switch my attention to, but he got signed before I could switch over. But, I like Daniels. He's very good defensively (18 + and 0 minus plays last season) and hit about 50-70 ponits higher than my other 2 options at ss. That was the only truly weak spot left in my lineup, and I think Im sitting in good shape now.

That Iorg signing was horrible. He declined a ton already. He will be worthless after 3 years.

I dont get Bret's signing of Mclain. He's not that good, and tying up 15 mil down the road in a $100 million cap league will hurt.