Official 2011-2012 MLB Hot Stove Thread

**Brisco Bold** · 27 Mar 2012, 11:50 PM

This... will be interesting.

**raystorm** · 28 Mar 2012, 09:16 AM

How is it possible that the A/Mariners game in Japan isn't televised? I was planning to wake up to some coffee, scrambled eggs and baseball. Mariners win 3-1 in extra innings. King Felix with 8 strong innings and Brandon McCarthy pitched well too.

**Brisco Bold** · 28 Mar 2012, 09:34 AM

Originally Posted by raystorm

How is it possible that the A/Mariners game in Japan isn't televised? I was planning to wake up to some coffee, scrambled eggs and baseball. Mariners win 3-1 in extra innings. King Felix with 8 strong innings and Brandon McCarthy pitched well too.

I thought it was just the Dark Lords of Rogers who'd decreed that Canadians weren't going to get the game. I didn't know the Americans weren't either. I was really looking forward to it.

**Brisco Bold** · 28 Mar 2012, 02:11 PM

Wait—does this mean we have to create a new thread now that the season's started?

**Gohron** · 28 Mar 2012, 02:35 PM

It's only temporarily started. Seattle and Oakland still have some Cactus League games scheduled I believe.

I also do a money fantasy league every year. It's a head to head points format and last year I scored second most points and watched my team grow cold right in time for the playoffs. I autodrafted last year but I picked a hell of a team this year and wanted to gloat a little bit:

C: Carlos Santana
1B: Albert Pujols
2B: Dustin Pedrioa
SS: Asdrubal Cabrera
3B: Michael Young
OF: Corey Hart
OF: Jayson Werth
OF: Logan Morrison
UTL: Jason Heyward
UTL: Nick Swisher

SP: Adam Wainwright
SP: Matt Garza
SP: Doug Fister
SP: Anibal Sanchez
RP: Craig Kimbrel
RP: Jonathon Paplebon
P: Andrew Bailey
BN: Justin Masterson
BN: Brandon McCarthy
BN: Edwin Jackson
BN: Mike Minor

I took a few gambles (especially on all of my OF eligible players) but I think I might actually win some money this year

**Brisco Bold** · 28 Mar 2012, 02:51 PM

Garza?

**Diff-chan** · 28 Mar 2012, 04:26 PM

That Dodgers sale is bonkers. It makes no sense.

And it pisses me off greatly that McCourt, that fucking crook who ran the team into the ground and treated it like a personal ATM, is walking away a billionaire. U-S-A! U-S-A!