commish

i am going to reiterate my point that i think andy martin should have the right of first refusal on commish. yes, hes not in chicago and yes, his job probably entails actually work and not as much random surfing of the internet, but he did win the last fantasy league. andy or mike. while mike stole my first place trophy he did win so that should mean something. my only big problem with last years stats (although i did use it to my advantage) was that there were hits and average which are basically the same thing. yes, i know you can have a high average and not very many hits or vice versa but still, pick a lane. and i think rbis are not useless. if we used the standard 5x5 i would have no problems. i think we should keep the standard stats or come up with a novel formula. im not sure how novel we can get given the free yahoo parameters but as novel as possible. i also think we should have a keeper league using our players from last year. my team was really good and i had arod. i'm not going to hold my breath that pete will draft randy johnson first again this year. this years randy johnson is probably kevin millwood or aj burnett so maybe pete will draft one of those guys in the second round (ala jamie moyer).

the sox got all that money from winning the fucking world series. the investors finally decided to start re-investing their bags of money instead of putting them in 30 year T-Bills and War Bonds. 95 million dollars is right size payroll for a supposedly major market team that wants to win another world series and possibly draw 3 million fans this year. I know i have my 13 game ozzie plan. garland for less than 10 mil a year could be a steal in this post aj burnett/kris benson/jared weaver/carl pavano market. some chatter the sox could trade contreras and some other guys for tejada. while that would push the payroll over 100 mil the sox would be off the hook this year. And they have other hitters to protect Konerko and Thome. Dye can hit 25-30 homers again and the sky is the limit with Iguchi (ok fine, maybe 20 homers is the limit). Their starting outfield will be Brian Anderson/Joe Borchard/ Rob Mackowiak at center and Pods and Dye in the wings.

indians are going to choke again this year. like the whitesox did last year except for without the eventual world series sweep. indians and twins won't win 92 games. the sox will win ~149 games, give or take a few.