...please, people, treat the people who live above you with kindness and understanding. You don't know what they're really doing; you don't know what they're life is like; and you don't know how they feel about you. Give them the benefit of the doubt.

Lineups are taken from ESPN.com's Hot Stove League, stats from Baseball Reference. Because relievers seem to fluctuate a lot, I've just compiled numbers for each team's bullpen. I'm mainly doing this to create an easy reference for making predictions later on ( Read more... )

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Croffut and Lisman, we have already added you to our Wii.

This is in regards to the Alfonso Soriano deal we were talking about ( Read more... )

Snelling and Fruto traded for Vidro. Forgetting Fruto for just a second... a 24-year-old outfielder making league minimum who hit .250/.360/.427 in 96 AB and made $328,500 last year for a 31-year-old second baseman who hit .289/.348/.395 in 463 AB and is due to make $16 million over the next two years. A great hitting prospect who's entering his ( Read more... )

On ESPN's "Hot Stove League," Keith Law of Scouts Inc. ranks the Top 10 remaining free agents. He puts Gil Meche at #6 and Barry Zito at #7. This is clearly stupid. In seven seasons, Zito has pitched over 214 innings six times (his last six), and his ERA has never been above league-average. Meche, in six seasons, has never thrown more than 187 ( Read more... )

Wow. Stayed up so late playing Wii. Not this late, mind, but late. I'm still just into Wii Sports... I haven't even had time for Zelda yet. Oh mama. Also stayed up talking to wasted neighbor from down the street. He was from Buffalo. Like Rose always says, everyone has an upstate connection. Then there was the downloading of Final Draft and ( Read more... )

It's out. Freakin' Beakin out. Something that's been culminating since nearly a year ago, when I took over for Hyena because no one else wanted to. And now it's something published, something that makes people laugh. It's beautiful ( Read more... )

...of the four division series, zero of my predictions came true. And how. The teams that I predicted to win went 2-12. Wow. I mean, who would've guessed that Torii Hunter would miss that ball? That J.D. Drew would just keep his head down and run like hell? That Kenny Rogers would throw the greatest game of his life? It just goes to show ( Read more... )

Twins over A's in 5
Yankees over Tigers in 3
Padres over Cardinals in 4
Dodgers over Mets in 5

Twins over Yankees in 6
Dodgers over Padres in 7

Twins over Dodgers in 5

It would be nice, however, if the A's won the World Series.