You know I love you, but I'm playing for keeps: Your 2011 Fantasy Baseball thread!

you have got to be kidding me.

i'm going away this weekend for my one-year anniversary and will miss the draft, which i missed last year because i was getting married.

i pre-ranked last year and all i have are players their own mothers would feel ambivalent about having as their keeper picks.

I love the "How to Prepare For and What to Do on Draft Day" articles that tell you to go to bed early, take vitamin C, eat fruit, and ask for divine intervention ('cause you surely will be fucked otherwise).

I remember reading a similar article advising people to stay sober if everybody else was drinking at the (presumably in person) draft. Just lolling at the thought of sitting there alone, intensely shuffling papers while everybody else chills out around you.

I guess when money is involved people take it a little more seriously.

my money league last year was won by my weird astros fan friend who drafted half the astros offense and traded all his decent players away for washed up veterans and dropped Mat Latos at the end of April much to my benefit

so yeah don't play fantasy for money imo

I get to do the draft today, AND I don't have explosive diarrhea! Today's going to be a great day!

I did a mock draft yesterday on yahoo, which was actually sort of fun although probably not very useful.

30 mins!

shit is not re-loading for me :(
gonna be funny who i get

my connection is fine now, does it not let you in once it starts? welp,

ive tried every link i could find for 20 mins & it wont load

http://baseball.fantasysports.yahoo.com/b1/18268/15/enterdraft

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that one doesnt even try to load

There was a problem

* You cannot enter the draft for this team. (Error #439)

these are the ones from the home page/draft central and wont load for me at all now. i guess the like 1m my internet was the exactly worst time

http://baseball.fantasysports.yahoo.com/b1/18268/enterdraft
http://baseball.fantasysports.yahoo.com/b1/18268/2/enterdraft

its ok tho guys

which team r u

77 active uzrs

you're actually looking okay

i did start to feverishly drag and drop for the while i had access

oh shitty dude - only checked the thread now.

meh i can work w/ these guys - plus i went out and ran some errands i was procrastinating on so ~w/e~ mister yahoo u can suk it

Good luck everyone!

I kinda thought I had a balanced team this year, unlike most years when I end up totally punting a category like SV or NSB and it ends up biting me in the ass, but now I'm looking at my hitters and realized I might be staring a .375 team SLG in the face.

one last time, just to be annoying - if everyone changes their "team slogan" to their ILX name it'll be way easier to track who is who

if you're into that kind of thing

Through a combination of managerial incompetence and Yahoo! inscrutability, I have ended up with four 2B-eligible guys, five 1B-eligibles, and no SS. Please make me offers. (Also looking for RP.)

Barry - i think i might actually be harder up than you with SLG!
will trade for tacos!

i have a lot of keeper eligible dudes this year - i think i went a bit overboard in putting the "***KEEPER!!***" marker by certain players in spreadsheet!

also, for some reason mixed up Eric Hosmer with the other KC infield prospect, Mike Moustakas. Moutstakas is expected to get significant playing time this year. Hosmer is behind Billy Butler, and is expected to drink beer with his minor league friends this year.

if Hosmer mashes at AAA they could bring him up and bump Butler to DH. probably smarter of them to wait until all their pitching is ready to come up too though.

ya - i have a shit tonne of keepers too. how attached are you to Dunn, Z?

pretty attached, because i don't really have an alternative at 1B. are you thinking of giving up butler?

Given my 1B surplus, maybe we can swing a 3-way?

maybe...though not likely tbh. I was pretty ok with dunn, actually (he was my first pick) - i'd have to get a mighty sweet deal to deal him away.

probably not going to even pay attention this year tbh, so the fact that i had to autodraft for a second year in a row and didn't really pre-rank too much isn't a big deal. done after this year, though.

xp this is the last time I suggest a three-way.

lol

lol adhd drug concerta advertising heavily on yahoo fantasy. they know their audience.

MONETIZING EYEBALLS

i would def be down with trading Butler - but ya, i can understand wanting to hang on to Dunn obv.
think i'd be better off taking a wait and see approach anyways. Butler, Weiters, Castro, Heyward and even Figgins should all slug a little better this year.
RIGHT?

Sweet Christ I had Chone last year.. Got him like 6th-7th round thinking I was so smug in drafting him.. =\

heh - ya. needless to say i'm praying for a bounce-back season (and 3B eligibility)!

Is there a way to manually input the waiver order, considering the fact that the draft actually was flipped due to starting in round 6?

i will have a look.

you guys kill me btw

fixed!

Thanks Thermo!

when do the waiver claims go thru

it says two days in the settings, so does that mean that the first claims will go thru tomorrow?

it should say on your team page when it will go through.

aight

Do we have to wait for the start of the season before guys are DL-eligible?

i'm going to put you on the DL in a minute!

wait i lost my unfair 1st pick and 1st claim due to the odd numbeer of rounds haha

i was not messing with anyone at draft, sat there for a minute waiting for it to start thinking i was 15th, never seen yahoo rejigger at the bell like that.

i love this from the "recent transactions" box:
Waiver Priority changed from 'old order' to 'new order'

YOU HEAR THAT? THERE'S A NEW FUCKING ORDER 'ROUND HEAH!