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WIS V All-Time Baseball Draft: HARRRRRRRIFIC (2 Viewers)

There's incredible value on the board right now, too--the #3 season still available at the #9 slot.
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This is my favorite harrier shtick. I can't wait for the third best pitcher to be available in the tenth round, which harrier will draft for you, for your second round pick, of course.
 
There's incredible value on the board right now, too--the #3 season still available at the #9 slot.
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This is my favorite harrier shtick. I can't wait for the third best pitcher to be available in the tenth round, which harrier will draft for you, for your second round pick, of course.
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unfortunately, there will be no trading this time. harrier will be stuck with the 3rd overall pitcher in the 10th round.
 
Sweet, WIS and fantasy football talk in the same thread!!

So, what do you guys think of my keepers for this year?

I can only keep 3 players.

I am keeping Portis, Ronnie Brown and Santana Moss.

My team last year was sick. I won my league.

QB Hasselback

QB McNair

RB Portis

RB Brown

RB Moats

RB Morris

WR Holt

WR D-Jax

WR Chad Johsnon

WR Santana Moss

WR Eric Moulds

TE Troupe

K Reed

DEF Jacksonville

 
Sweet, WIS and fantasy football talk in the same thread!!

So, what do you guys think of my keepers for this year?

I can only keep 3 players.

I am keeping Portis, Ronnie Brown and Santana Moss.

My team last year was sick. I won my league.

QB Hasselback

QB McNair

RB Portis

RB Brown

RB Moats

RB Morris

WR Holt

WR D-Jax

WR Chad Johsnon

WR Santana Moss

WR Eric Moulds

TE Troupe

K Reed

DEF Jacksonville
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Personally, I would keep Holt instead of Moss...Holt has been a top 10 receiver 5 out of the 6 years...

Moss was amazing last year, but his track record is nowhere near as consistent...

You want as few question marks as possible with your keepers, and I think Holt has fewer than Mosss...

 
Sweet, WIS and fantasy football talk in the same thread!!

So, what do you guys think of my keepers for this year?

I can only keep 3 players.

I am keeping Portis, Ronnie Brown and Santana Moss.

My team last year was sick. I won my league.

QB Hasselback

QB McNair

RB Portis

RB Brown

RB Moats

RB Morris

WR Holt

WR D-Jax

WR Chad Johsnon

WR Santana Moss

WR Eric Moulds

TE Troupe

K Reed

DEF Jacksonville
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Personally, I would keep Holt instead of Moss...Holt has been a top 10 receiver 5 out of the 6 years...

Moss was amazing last year, but his track record is nowhere near as consistent...

You want as few question marks as possible with your keepers, and I think Holt has fewer than Mosss...
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I think I'd go with CJ. TRE loves him some CJ...
 
Yankee Stadium History

Only a year after they changed Baseball forever with the purchase of Babe Ruth from the Boston Red Sox, the Yankees made another buy that would forever change the way the game was watched.

On February 6, 1921, the Yankees issued a press release to announce the purchase of 10 acres of property in the west Bronx. The land, purchased from the estate of William Waldorf Astor for $675,000, sat directly across the Harlem River from the Yankees' current Manhattan home, the Polo Grounds, which they shared unhappily with the landlord Giants of the National League since 1913.

The relationship between the Giants and their tenant crumbled after the 1920 season when Yankee attendance boosted by their new slugging sensation doubled to 1,289,422. That was over 100,000 more than the Giants, who, in 1921, notified the Yankees to vacate the Polo Grounds as soon as possible. With their departure from the Polo Grounds now inevitable, Yankee co-owners Jacob Ruppert and Tillinghast l'Hommedieu Huston set out to build a spectacular ballpark of their own, Baseball's first triple-decked structure. With an advertised capacity of 70,000, it would also be the first to be labeled a "stadium."

Original plans of the architect the Osborne Engineering Company of Cleveland, Ohio had the Stadium triple-decked and roofed all the way around. An early press release, in fact, described the Yankees' new home as a field enclosed with towering embattlements, rendering the events inside "impenetrable to all human eyes, save those of aviators." But the initial, grand design was quickly scaled back with the triple-decked grandstand not reaching either foul pole. Contrary to the owners' wishes, the action would be more than visible from the elevated trains that passed by the outfield as well as from the buildings that would spring up across River Avenue. Fortunately, a purely decorative element also survived the project's early downsizing and would become the park's most recognizable feature. A 15-foot deep copper facade would adorn the front of the roof which covered much of the Stadium's third deck. It would give Yankee Stadium an air of dignity that no park has possessed -- either before or since.

The new stadium would favor lefthanded power with the right-field foul pole only 295 feet from home plate (though it would shoot out to 429 by right center). Though the left-field pole measured only 281 feet from the plate, righthanded hitters were neutralized by a 395-foot left field and a whopping 460 to left center. It would also be friendly to patrons, boasting an unheard of "eight toilet rooms for men and as many for women scattered throughout the stands and bleachers." (When the Stadium was remodeled 50 years later, it included more than 50 restrooms.) The club's executive offices would be moved from midtown Manhattan and located between the main and mezzanine decks with an electric elevator connecting them with the main entrance.

The construction contract was awarded to New York's White Construction Co. on May 5, 1922 with the edict that the job must be completed "at a definite price" ($2.5-million) and by Opening Day 1923. Incredibly, it was. In only 284 working days, Yankee Stadium was ready for its inaugural game on April 18, 1923 vs. the Boston Red Sox.

Officially, 74,200 fans packed Yankee Stadium for their first glimpse of Baseball's grandest facility while thousands more milled around outside after the fire department finally ordered the gates closed. Before the game began, John Phillip Sousa and the Seventh Regiment Band led both clubs to the flagpole in deep center field where the American flag and the Yankees' 1922 pennant were raised. Appropriately, Babe Ruth christened his new home with a three-run homer to cap a four-run third inning as the Yankees coasted to a 4-1 win.

Because it was widely recognized that Ruth's tremendous drawing power made the new stadium possible, it would immediately become known as "The House That Ruth Built." Later that season, the Stadium hosted the first of 33 World Series and the Yankees won their first World Championship over their former landlord, the Giants. Of course, as the Stadium became the stage for a staggering number of World titles - now totaling 26 - it also would become known as "The Home of Champions."

In its early years, when wooden bleachers surrounded the outfield, a grass slope approached the outfield walls from foul pole to foul pole. Outfielders, especially Ruth in right, routinely backed up the small hill to pull down fly balls. Atop the bleachers were advertising signs except for a lone, manually operated, wooden scoreboard in right-center field which was "big enough to record 12 innings for games played by every club in the two major leagues." Over the years, the board would be replaced by more modern models. The Yankees, in fact, would unveil the first electronic message board in 1959. By 1928, the Stadium was ready for its first major facelift as the triple-deck grandstand in left field was extended beyond the foul pole to its current termination point. The right-field grandstand was extended in 1937, allowing "upper-deck" home runs in both directions. With the '37 expansion of the grandstand, the remaining wooden bleachers were replaced by a concrete structure and the distance to center field dropped from 490 feet to a still-astronomical 461 feet.

Except for the addition of lights in 1946, the look of Yankee Stadium would now remain relatively the same until the winter of 1966-67. Then, under the direction of its new owner, CBS, the 44-year-old facility received a $1.5-million modernization, most of which was spent on paint (90 tons of it). The brown concrete exterior was painted white as was the by-now greenish copper facade. And all of the grandstand seats went from green to blue, a color scheme that would be retained when the Stadium was completely remodeled after the 1973 season.

On August 8, 1972, after years of debate about the future of the aging ballpark, the Yankees signed a 30-year lease with the City of New York which called for Yankee Stadium to be completely modernized in time for the 1976 season. After completing the Stadium's 50th-Anniversary season in 1973, the Yankees moved to Shea Stadium for two seasons while their home was almost completely demolished and then rebuilt.

The most striking change of the modernization would be the removal of the numerous, obstructive steel columns which supported the second and third decks as well as the roof. By "cantilevering" the upper decks and by lowering the playing field while increasing the slope of the lower stands, sight lines for fans would be dramatically improved. Of course, with the removal of the original roof, the Stadium almost lost its most-recognizable feature: the facade. But an innovative design concept included an exact replica of the facade atop the new 560-foot-long scoreboard which stretched across the rear of the bleachers. The board would also include baseball's first "telescreen," which could provide instant replays of the action by emplying a then-incredible "nine shades of gray."

Yankee Stadium's exterior changed dramatically, too, as three escalator towers were added, one at each of the Stadium's three entrances. And, with 10 additional rows of seats added to the upper deck, the already-grand Stadium would have an even more majestic look.

The remodeled Yankee Stadium opened on April 15, 1976 with the Yankees topping Minnesota 11-4 and, like its predecessor, would host the World Series in its inaugural season. The Stadium, in fact, hosted the Fall Classic in its first three seasons with the Yankees winning back-to-back World titles in 1977 and 1978.

Also held at Yankee Stadium...

As one of the world's most-prestigious addresses, Yankee Stadium has also been the home of scores of other sports, entertainment and cultural events. While the Yankees were on the road or out of season, the Stadium opened its gates to college and pro football, soccer, political assemblies, religious conventions, concerts and even the circus.

Boxing immediately found a home at Yankee Stadium with Benny Leonard winning a 15-round decision over Lou Tendler for the lightweight title three months after the gates opened on July 24, 1923. Until Muhammad Ali stopped Ken Norton on September 28, 1976, thirty championship fights have been fought at the Stadium, perhaps none more memorable than the one for the heavyweight title between Joe Louis and Germany's Max Schmeling on June 22, 1938. After suffering a knockout loss in the initial non-title encounter at the Stadium two years earlier, Louis now the heavyweight champ avenged his defeat with a stunning first-round KO in the rematch.

Football also became an immediate fixture at Yankee Stadium with the 1923 Army-Navy game inaugurating a rich history of collegiate and later professional football matchups. On November 12, 1928, with Notre Dame and Army locked in a scoreless game at halftime, the legendary Knute Rockne made his famous "win one for the Gipper" pep talk and the Fighting Irish went out and beat the Cadets, 12-6.

The New York football Giants also called Yankee Stadium home from 1956 through 1973 and, on December 28, 1958, played in what is widely recognized as "the greatest game ever played." With the NFL championship at stake, a crowd of 64,185 watched the Baltimore Colts tie the game 17-17 on a Steve Myrha field goal with seven seconds left. Eight minutes into professional football's first-ever "sudden-death" overtime period, the Colts' Alan Ameche crashed through from the one yard line, ending a contest that would help establish pro football as a major sport.

The Stadium was also an important stop for religious conventions with the conventions of the Jehovah's Witnesses the major outside activity each year. Beginning in 1950, the convention attracted as many as 123,707 people in a single day far more than any other Stadium event. On October 4, 1965 with the Yankees out of the World Series for only the third time in 17 years the Stadium hosted an event of worldwide significance. During the first visit to North America by a Pope, Paul VI celebrated mass before a crowd in excess of 80,000. Fourteen years later, John Paul II also made Yankee Stadium a stop on his tour of the United States.
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Harrrrrrr, can we get a vote on this? I think a small penalty is in order. This gives me a ####### rash.
 
Check out this stellar roster: (WTF was I doing?)

Nominated Gus Frerotte on purpose - Tre Player YTD Pts Bye

Boller, Kyle BAL QB 108.56 3

Brees, Drew NOS QB 226.94 10

Frerotte, Gus STL QB 171.94 9

McMahon, Mike MIN QB 80.82 5

Orton, Kyle CHI QB 89.96 4

Duckett, T.J. ATL RB 90.30 8

Fason, Ciatrick MIN RB 29.20 5

Gore, Frank SFO RB 90.40 6

Henry, Travis TEN RB 43.20 10

Lewis, Jamal BAL RB 128.70 3

Martin, Curtis NYJ RB (I) 113.30 8

Pinner, Artose DET RB 71.00 3

Taylor, Chester MIN RB 80.90 5

Toefield, Labrandon JAC RB 39.90 7

Burleson, Nate SEA WR 45.70 8

Houshmandzadeh, T.J. CIN WR 168.30 10

Lelie, Ashley DEN WR 101.90 9

Muhammad, Muhsin CHI WR 115.00 4

Wayne, Reggie IND WR 155.25 8

Gonzalez, Tony KCC TE 122.00 5

Vanderjagt, Mike DAL PK 128.00 9

Ravens, Baltimore BAL Def 171.00 3
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:lmao: You guys ever need a new owner, give me a call.

 
Yankee Stadium History

Only a year after they changed Baseball forever with the purchase of Babe Ruth from the Boston Red Sox, the Yankees made another buy that would forever change the way the game was watched.

On February 6, 1921, the Yankees issued a press release to announce the purchase of 10 acres of property in the west Bronx. The land, purchased from the estate of William Waldorf Astor for $675,000, sat directly across the Harlem River from the Yankees' current Manhattan home, the Polo Grounds, which they shared unhappily with the landlord Giants of the National League since 1913.

The relationship between the Giants and their tenant crumbled after the 1920 season when Yankee attendance boosted by their new slugging sensation doubled to 1,289,422. That was over 100,000 more than the Giants, who, in 1921, notified the Yankees to vacate the Polo Grounds as soon as possible. With their departure from the Polo Grounds now inevitable, Yankee co-owners Jacob Ruppert and Tillinghast l'Hommedieu Huston set out to build a spectacular ballpark of their own, Baseball's first triple-decked structure. With an advertised capacity of 70,000, it would also be the first to be labeled a "stadium."

Original plans of the architect the Osborne Engineering Company of Cleveland, Ohio had the Stadium triple-decked and roofed all the way around. An early press release, in fact, described the Yankees' new home as a field enclosed with towering embattlements, rendering the events inside "impenetrable to all human eyes, save those of aviators." But the initial, grand design was quickly scaled back with the triple-decked grandstand not reaching either foul pole. Contrary to the owners' wishes, the action would be more than visible from the elevated trains that passed by the outfield as well as from the buildings that would spring up across River Avenue. Fortunately, a purely decorative element also survived the project's early downsizing and would become the park's most recognizable feature. A 15-foot deep copper facade would adorn the front of the roof which covered much of the Stadium's third deck. It would give Yankee Stadium an air of dignity that no park has possessed -- either before or since.

The new stadium would favor lefthanded power with the right-field foul pole only 295 feet from home plate (though it would shoot out to 429 by right center). Though the left-field pole measured only 281 feet from the plate, righthanded hitters were neutralized by a 395-foot left field and a whopping 460 to left center. It would also be friendly to patrons, boasting an unheard of "eight toilet rooms for men and as many for women scattered throughout the stands and bleachers." (When the Stadium was remodeled 50 years later, it included more than 50 restrooms.) The club's executive offices would be moved from midtown Manhattan and located between the main and mezzanine decks with an electric elevator connecting them with the main entrance.

The construction contract was awarded to New York's White Construction Co. on May 5, 1922 with the edict that the job must be completed "at a definite price" ($2.5-million) and by Opening Day 1923. Incredibly, it was. In only 284 working days, Yankee Stadium was ready for its inaugural game on April 18, 1923 vs. the Boston Red Sox.

Officially, 74,200 fans packed Yankee Stadium for their first glimpse of Baseball's grandest facility while thousands more milled around outside after the fire department finally ordered the gates closed. Before the game began, John Phillip Sousa and the Seventh Regiment Band led both clubs to the flagpole in deep center field where the American flag and the Yankees' 1922 pennant were raised. Appropriately, Babe Ruth christened his new home with a three-run homer to cap a four-run third inning as the Yankees coasted to a 4-1 win.

Because it was widely recognized that Ruth's tremendous drawing power made the new stadium possible, it would immediately become known as "The House That Ruth Built." Later that season, the Stadium hosted the first of 33 World Series and the Yankees won their first World Championship over their former landlord, the Giants. Of course, as the Stadium became the stage for a staggering number of World titles - now totaling 26 - it also would become known as "The Home of Champions."

In its early years, when wooden bleachers surrounded the outfield, a grass slope approached the outfield walls from foul pole to foul pole. Outfielders, especially Ruth in right, routinely backed up the small hill to pull down fly balls. Atop the bleachers were advertising signs except for a lone, manually operated, wooden scoreboard in right-center field which was "big enough to record 12 innings for games played by every club in the two major leagues." Over the years, the board would be replaced by more modern models. The Yankees, in fact, would unveil the first electronic message board in 1959. By 1928, the Stadium was ready for its first major facelift as the triple-deck grandstand in left field was extended beyond the foul pole to its current termination point. The right-field grandstand was extended in 1937, allowing "upper-deck" home runs in both directions. With the '37 expansion of the grandstand, the remaining wooden bleachers were replaced by a concrete structure and the distance to center field dropped from 490 feet to a still-astronomical 461 feet.

Except for the addition of lights in 1946, the look of Yankee Stadium would now remain relatively the same until the winter of 1966-67. Then, under the direction of its new owner, CBS, the 44-year-old facility received a $1.5-million modernization, most of which was spent on paint (90 tons of it). The brown concrete exterior was painted white as was the by-now greenish copper facade. And all of the grandstand seats went from green to blue, a color scheme that would be retained when the Stadium was completely remodeled after the 1973 season.

On August 8, 1972, after years of debate about the future of the aging ballpark, the Yankees signed a 30-year lease with the City of New York which called for Yankee Stadium to be completely modernized in time for the 1976 season. After completing the Stadium's 50th-Anniversary season in 1973, the Yankees moved to Shea Stadium for two seasons while their home was almost completely demolished and then rebuilt.

The most striking change of the modernization would be the removal of the numerous, obstructive steel columns which supported the second and third decks as well as the roof. By "cantilevering" the upper decks and by lowering the playing field while increasing the slope of the lower stands, sight lines for fans would be dramatically improved. Of course, with the removal of the original roof, the Stadium almost lost its most-recognizable feature: the facade. But an innovative design concept included an exact replica of the facade atop the new 560-foot-long scoreboard which stretched across the rear of the bleachers. The board would also include baseball's first "telescreen," which could provide instant replays of the action by emplying a then-incredible "nine shades of gray."

Yankee Stadium's exterior changed dramatically, too, as three escalator towers were added, one at each of the Stadium's three entrances. And, with 10 additional rows of seats added to the upper deck, the already-grand Stadium would have an even more majestic look.

The remodeled Yankee Stadium opened on April 15, 1976 with the Yankees topping Minnesota 11-4 and, like its predecessor, would host the World Series in its inaugural season. The Stadium, in fact, hosted the Fall Classic in its first three seasons with the Yankees winning back-to-back World titles in 1977 and 1978.

Also held at Yankee Stadium...

As one of the world's most-prestigious addresses, Yankee Stadium has also been the home of scores of other sports, entertainment and cultural events. While the Yankees were on the road or out of season, the Stadium opened its gates to college and pro football, soccer, political assemblies, religious conventions, concerts and even the circus.

Boxing immediately found a home at Yankee Stadium with Benny Leonard winning a 15-round decision over Lou Tendler for the lightweight title three months after the gates opened on July 24, 1923. Until Muhammad Ali stopped Ken Norton on September 28, 1976, thirty championship fights have been fought at the Stadium, perhaps none more memorable than the one for the heavyweight title between Joe Louis and Germany's Max Schmeling on June 22, 1938. After suffering a knockout loss in the initial non-title encounter at the Stadium two years earlier, Louis now the heavyweight champ avenged his defeat with a stunning first-round KO in the rematch.

Football also became an immediate fixture at Yankee Stadium with the 1923 Army-Navy game inaugurating a rich history of collegiate and later professional football matchups. On November 12, 1928, with Notre Dame and Army locked in a scoreless game at halftime, the legendary Knute Rockne made his famous "win one for the Gipper" pep talk and the Fighting Irish went out and beat the Cadets, 12-6.

The New York football Giants also called Yankee Stadium home from 1956 through 1973 and, on December 28, 1958, played in what is widely recognized as "the greatest game ever played." With the NFL championship at stake, a crowd of 64,185 watched the Baltimore Colts tie the game 17-17 on a Steve Myrha field goal with seven seconds left. Eight minutes into professional football's first-ever "sudden-death" overtime period, the Colts' Alan Ameche crashed through from the one yard line, ending a contest that would help establish pro football as a major sport.

The Stadium was also an important stop for religious conventions with the conventions of the Jehovah's Witnesses the major outside activity each year. Beginning in 1950, the convention attracted as many as 123,707 people in a single day far more than any other Stadium event. On October 4, 1965 with the Yankees out of the World Series for only the third time in 17 years the Stadium hosted an event of worldwide significance. During the first visit to North America by a Pope, Paul VI celebrated mass before a crowd in excess of 80,000. Fourteen years later, John Paul II also made Yankee Stadium a stop on his tour of the United States.
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Harrrrrrr, can we get a vote on this? I think a small penalty is in order. This gives me a ####### rash.
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I'd post the History of Fenway Park, but that too is filled with great Yankees moments. And a blurb about 3 generations of Murphy family that has urinated on the same spot in the scoreboard.
 
Harrrrrrr, can we get a vote on this? I think a small penalty is in order. This gives me a ####### rash.
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I'd post the History of Fenway Park, but that too is filled with great Yankees moments. And a blurb about 3 generations of Murphy family that has urinated on the same spot in the scoreboard.
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:hophead: Sorry, this is in Harrrrrrrrier's hands now.

 
Harrrrrrr, can we get a vote on this?  I think a small penalty is in order.  This gives me a ####### rash.
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I'd post the History of Fenway Park, but that too is filled with great Yankees moments. And a blurb about 3 generations of Murphy family that has urinated on the same spot in the scoreboard.
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:hophead: Sorry, this is in Harrrrrrrrier's hands now.
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:shrug: Something HAS to replace the Picture Shtick

 
Anybody get offered his horrid $71 Randy Moss yet?

Yeah...pass.
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:hey:
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Randy Moss is going to have a big year this year.Cappy should be the only one talking here, by the way. I cashed in after beating the rest of you around last year--without RBs and with McNabb and Moss hurt.
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<----------- Champ
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Yeah, way to win with that 6-8 record.
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Way to loose to the team with the 6-8 record :thumbup:
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You got lucky at the right time. That's why FF is stupid.
 
Anybody get offered his horrid $71 Randy Moss yet?

Yeah...pass.
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Randy Moss is going to have a big year this year.Cappy should be the only one talking here, by the way. I cashed in after beating the rest of you around last year--without RBs and with McNabb and Moss hurt.
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<----------- Champ
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Yeah, way to win with that 6-8 record.
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Way to loose to the team with the 6-8 record :thumbup:
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You got lucky at the right time. That's why FF is stupid.
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Getting LJ for $6 was skill. Why the Priest owner didn't handcuff him at that paltry sum I'll never know. Who was the Priest owner in that league anyway??? :coffee:
 
Sweet, WIS and fantasy football talk in the same thread!!

So, what do you guys think of my keepers for this year?

I can only keep 3 players.

I am keeping Portis, Ronnie Brown and Santana Moss.

My team last year was sick. I won my league.

QB Hasselback

QB McNair

RB Portis

RB Brown

RB Moats

RB Morris

WR Holt

WR D-Jax

WR Chad Johsnon

WR Santana Moss

WR Eric Moulds

TE Troupe

K Reed

DEF Jacksonville
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You're dropping the #1 WR in the league? Insane.Keep Portis, Brown, and CJ.

 
Getting LJ for $6 was skill. Why the Priest owner didn't handcuff him at that paltry sum I'll never know. Who was the Priest owner in that league anyway??? :coffee:
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That's a pretty awesome deal. I think I paid $6 for Marshall Faulk. :bag:
 
Yankee Stadium History

Only a year after they changed Baseball forever with the purchase of Babe Ruth from the Boston Red Sox, the Yankees made another buy that would forever change the way the game was watched.

On February 6, 1921, the Yankees issued a press release to announce the purchase of 10 acres of property in the west Bronx. The land, purchased from the estate of William Waldorf Astor for $675,000, sat directly across the Harlem River from the Yankees' current Manhattan home, the Polo Grounds, which they shared unhappily with the landlord Giants of the National League since 1913.

The relationship between the Giants and their tenant crumbled after the 1920 season when Yankee attendance boosted by their new slugging sensation doubled to 1,289,422. That was over 100,000 more than the Giants, who, in 1921, notified the Yankees to vacate the Polo Grounds as soon as possible. With their departure from the Polo Grounds now inevitable, Yankee co-owners Jacob Ruppert and Tillinghast l'Hommedieu Huston set out to build a spectacular ballpark of their own, Baseball's first triple-decked structure. With an advertised capacity of 70,000, it would also be the first to be labeled a "stadium."

Original plans of the architect the Osborne Engineering Company of Cleveland, Ohio had the Stadium triple-decked and roofed all the way around. An early press release, in fact, described the Yankees' new home as a field enclosed with towering embattlements, rendering the events inside "impenetrable to all human eyes, save those of aviators." But the initial, grand design was quickly scaled back with the triple-decked grandstand not reaching either foul pole. Contrary to the owners' wishes, the action would be more than visible from the elevated trains that passed by the outfield as well as from the buildings that would spring up across River Avenue. Fortunately, a purely decorative element also survived the project's early downsizing and would become the park's most recognizable feature. A 15-foot deep copper facade would adorn the front of the roof which covered much of the Stadium's third deck. It would give Yankee Stadium an air of dignity that no park has possessed -- either before or since.

The new stadium would favor lefthanded power with the right-field foul pole only 295 feet from home plate (though it would shoot out to 429 by right center). Though the left-field pole measured only 281 feet from the plate, righthanded hitters were neutralized by a 395-foot left field and a whopping 460 to left center. It would also be friendly to patrons, boasting an unheard of "eight toilet rooms for men and as many for women scattered throughout the stands and bleachers." (When the Stadium was remodeled 50 years later, it included more than 50 restrooms.) The club's executive offices would be moved from midtown Manhattan and located between the main and mezzanine decks with an electric elevator connecting them with the main entrance.

The construction contract was awarded to New York's White Construction Co. on May 5, 1922 with the edict that the job must be completed "at a definite price" ($2.5-million) and by Opening Day 1923. Incredibly, it was. In only 284 working days, Yankee Stadium was ready for its inaugural game on April 18, 1923 vs. the Boston Red Sox.

Officially, 74,200 fans packed Yankee Stadium for their first glimpse of Baseball's grandest facility while thousands more milled around outside after the fire department finally ordered the gates closed. Before the game began, John Phillip Sousa and the Seventh Regiment Band led both clubs to the flagpole in deep center field where the American flag and the Yankees' 1922 pennant were raised. Appropriately, Babe Ruth christened his new home with a three-run homer to cap a four-run third inning as the Yankees coasted to a 4-1 win.

Because it was widely recognized that Ruth's tremendous drawing power made the new stadium possible, it would immediately become known as "The House That Ruth Built." Later that season, the Stadium hosted the first of 33 World Series and the Yankees won their first World Championship over their former landlord, the Giants. Of course, as the Stadium became the stage for a staggering number of World titles - now totaling 26 - it also would become known as "The Home of Champions."

In its early years, when wooden bleachers surrounded the outfield, a grass slope approached the outfield walls from foul pole to foul pole. Outfielders, especially Ruth in right, routinely backed up the small hill to pull down fly balls. Atop the bleachers were advertising signs except for a lone, manually operated, wooden scoreboard in right-center field which was "big enough to record 12 innings for games played by every club in the two major leagues." Over the years, the board would be replaced by more modern models. The Yankees, in fact, would unveil the first electronic message board in 1959. By 1928, the Stadium was ready for its first major facelift as the triple-deck grandstand in left field was extended beyond the foul pole to its current termination point. The right-field grandstand was extended in 1937, allowing "upper-deck" home runs in both directions. With the '37 expansion of the grandstand, the remaining wooden bleachers were replaced by a concrete structure and the distance to center field dropped from 490 feet to a still-astronomical 461 feet.

Except for the addition of lights in 1946, the look of Yankee Stadium would now remain relatively the same until the winter of 1966-67. Then, under the direction of its new owner, CBS, the 44-year-old facility received a $1.5-million modernization, most of which was spent on paint (90 tons of it). The brown concrete exterior was painted white as was the by-now greenish copper facade. And all of the grandstand seats went from green to blue, a color scheme that would be retained when the Stadium was completely remodeled after the 1973 season.

On August 8, 1972, after years of debate about the future of the aging ballpark, the Yankees signed a 30-year lease with the City of New York which called for Yankee Stadium to be completely modernized in time for the 1976 season. After completing the Stadium's 50th-Anniversary season in 1973, the Yankees moved to Shea Stadium for two seasons while their home was almost completely demolished and then rebuilt.

The most striking change of the modernization would be the removal of the numerous, obstructive steel columns which supported the second and third decks as well as the roof. By "cantilevering" the upper decks and by lowering the playing field while increasing the slope of the lower stands, sight lines for fans would be dramatically improved. Of course, with the removal of the original roof, the Stadium almost lost its most-recognizable feature: the facade. But an innovative design concept included an exact replica of the facade atop the new 560-foot-long scoreboard which stretched across the rear of the bleachers. The board would also include baseball's first "telescreen," which could provide instant replays of the action by emplying a then-incredible "nine shades of gray."

Yankee Stadium's exterior changed dramatically, too, as three escalator towers were added, one at each of the Stadium's three entrances. And, with 10 additional rows of seats added to the upper deck, the already-grand Stadium would have an even more majestic look.

The remodeled Yankee Stadium opened on April 15, 1976 with the Yankees topping Minnesota 11-4 and, like its predecessor, would host the World Series in its inaugural season. The Stadium, in fact, hosted the Fall Classic in its first three seasons with the Yankees winning back-to-back World titles in 1977 and 1978.

Also held at Yankee Stadium...

As one of the world's most-prestigious addresses, Yankee Stadium has also been the home of scores of other sports, entertainment and cultural events. While the Yankees were on the road or out of season, the Stadium opened its gates to college and pro football, soccer, political assemblies, religious conventions, concerts and even the circus.

Boxing immediately found a home at Yankee Stadium with Benny Leonard winning a 15-round decision over Lou Tendler for the lightweight title three months after the gates opened on July 24, 1923. Until Muhammad Ali stopped Ken Norton on September 28, 1976, thirty championship fights have been fought at the Stadium, perhaps none more memorable than the one for the heavyweight title between Joe Louis and Germany's Max Schmeling on June 22, 1938. After suffering a knockout loss in the initial non-title encounter at the Stadium two years earlier, Louis now the heavyweight champ avenged his defeat with a stunning first-round KO in the rematch.

Football also became an immediate fixture at Yankee Stadium with the 1923 Army-Navy game inaugurating a rich history of collegiate and later professional football matchups. On November 12, 1928, with Notre Dame and Army locked in a scoreless game at halftime, the legendary Knute Rockne made his famous "win one for the Gipper" pep talk and the Fighting Irish went out and beat the Cadets, 12-6.

The New York football Giants also called Yankee Stadium home from 1956 through 1973 and, on December 28, 1958, played in what is widely recognized as "the greatest game ever played." With the NFL championship at stake, a crowd of 64,185 watched the Baltimore Colts tie the game 17-17 on a Steve Myrha field goal with seven seconds left. Eight minutes into professional football's first-ever "sudden-death" overtime period, the Colts' Alan Ameche crashed through from the one yard line, ending a contest that would help establish pro football as a major sport.

The Stadium was also an important stop for religious conventions with the conventions of the Jehovah's Witnesses the major outside activity each year. Beginning in 1950, the convention attracted as many as 123,707 people in a single day far more than any other Stadium event. On October 4, 1965 with the Yankees out of the World Series for only the third time in 17 years the Stadium hosted an event of worldwide significance. During the first visit to North America by a Pope, Paul VI celebrated mass before a crowd in excess of 80,000. Fourteen years later, John Paul II also made Yankee Stadium a stop on his tour of the United States.
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Harrrrrrr, can we get a vote on this? I think a small penalty is in order. This gives me a ####### rash.
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GSTH loses his 24th round pick, and gets the only pick of the 26th round.I'd drop his ranking, too, but you can't get much lower than 24th.

 
Ugly Athlete Draft being butchered right now.  Sad.
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Is McGee not eligible? How is he still available?
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:thumbup: First guy I thought of when I saw that thread
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McGeeSam Cassell

Detlef Schrempf

That would've been my top 3.
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I could draft a contender solely via the Milwaukee Bucks of the 1980s. Terry Cummings

Alton Lister

Randy Bruer

Jack Sikma

and the showstopper, Paul Mokeski

 
Pinched nerve or cancer. That's about what I figured.

I hate fantasy football by the way. F'ing hate it.
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I haven't been keeping track. Are we drafting a team?
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It appears so. Heard a rumor we might actually select a player or two at some point but I've not seen any solid proof.
 
Ugly Athlete Draft being butchered right now. Sad.
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Is McGee not eligible? How is he still available?
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:thumbup: First guy I thought of when I saw that thread
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McGeeSam Cassell

Detlef Schrempf

That would've been my top 3.
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I could draft a contender solely via the Milwaukee Bucks of the 1980s. Terry Cummings

Alton Lister

Randy Bruer

Jack Sikma

and the showstopper, Paul Mokeski
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I hope Chris Kamen and Kirk Hinrich went 1-2.
 
Ugly Athlete Draft being butchered right now.  Sad.
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Is McGee not eligible? How is he still available?
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:thumbup: First guy I thought of when I saw that thread
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McGeeSam Cassell

Detlef Schrempf

That would've been my top 3.
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I could draft a contender solely via the Milwaukee Bucks of the 1980s. Terry Cummings

Alton Lister

Randy Bruer

Jack Sikma

and the showstopper, Paul Mokeski
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I hope Chris Kamen and Kirk Hinrich went 1-2.
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Pat Cummings Early 80's Knicks. That dude looked like someone kicked his ###.daily.

 
Pinched nerve or cancer. That's about what I figured.

I hate fantasy football by the way. F'ing hate it.
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Sounds like a case for House
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Another thing I hate.....that House guy. Whoever hurt him should have finished the job.
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He lost me when he gave up on banging Sela Ward.pic
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:goodposting: And not banging Jennifer Morrison earlier.
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:wall: He'll probably end up with the horse-faced hospital administrator
 
Stadium Pick: Shibe Park, Philadelphia, PA

It's perfectly tailored to my strategy. I can't tell you what that is, but rest assured that it will net me +75 runs at a minimum.

 
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Stadium Pick: Shibe Park, Philadelphia, PA

It's perfectly tailored to my strategy. I can't tell you what that is, but rest assured that it will net me +75 runs at a minimum.
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Just 75? Obviously you underestimate the importance of ballpark.I'm going 81-0 at Wrigley.

 
Stadium Draft

1. higgins - Ebbets Field

2. roadeyes - Coors Field

3. Doctor Detroit - Tiger Stadium

4. dirtyhalos - Wrigley Field (LA)

5. Koya - SKIP (by request)

6. Spartans - Wrigley Field (CHI)

7. Ulysses Norris - Seals Stadium

8. Sammy - Cleveland Stadium

9. DougB - Camden Yards

10. ThisGuy (GSTH) - Yankee Stadium

11. Mr. Pickles - Shibe Park

12. Tremendous Upside -

Player Draft

01.01- GWB/Bogart - Babe Ruth (1920)

01.02- Kraft - Babe Ruth (1921)

01.03- Rudnicki - Babe Ruth (1923)

01.04- mrharrier - Barry Bonds (2004)

01.05- Frostillicus - Rogers Hornsby (1922)

01.06- Hov34- Barry Bonds (2002)

01.07- SoCalBroncoFan - Barry Bonds (2001)

01.08- RnR - Ted Williams (1941)

01.09- Pumpnick - OTC

01.10- Eephus - On Deck

01.11- Notorious T.R.E. - In the Hole

01.12- Funkley/Norwood -

 
Ugly Athlete Draft being butchered right now.  Sad.
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Is McGee not eligible? How is he still available?
Click to expand...
:thumbup: First guy I thought of when I saw that thread
Click to expand...
McGeeSam Cassell

Detlef Schrempf

That would've been my top 3.
Click to expand...
I could draft a contender solely via the Milwaukee Bucks of the 1980s. Terry Cummings

Alton Lister

Randy Bruer

Jack Sikma

and the showstopper, Paul Mokeski
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I hope Chris Kamen and Kirk Hinrich went 1-2.
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Pat Cummings Early 80's Knicks. That dude looked like someone kicked his ###.daily.
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This guy would be a great pick too: http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/1360000/imag...te_1992_300.jpg
 
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