Are You Ready For Fantasy Baseball - 2009?

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But one can also say it's ridiculous that the team with the biggest bankroll gets the "best" players.

Of course you can say it. You can say anything. But it's the policy of UEFA. It makes the Champion's League that much better and that is the major annual competition in Europe. In the world too. It has important cultural implications.

What happens when the "best" player, I assume from college games, doesn't wish to play for the team that picks him.

Why are you so reticent about doing a longish post explaining it?

I'm often told that my posts are incoherent and I read them over and they are just as simple as I tried to make them.

Maybe the American attention span snaps at more than a line and a half and I have to take the blame seeing as how Americans cannot have faults. And from what I understand of your major sports they deal in short plays with relaxing intervals to give voice to the sponsor. Maybe that's where you learn to only concentrate in quantum spurts.

Let us consider what the NFL would be had not Commissioner Bert Bell in 1936 acted to initiate a college draft with the order of selection based on the inverse order of the previous season's standings. Bell's thrust was to equalize competition, which is the be-all and end-all of what the NFL represents. Franchises should be enabled to improve themselves. They should not be locked into mediocrity, or worse.

Franchises should be enabled to improve themselves.

It would be a league of haves and have-nots.

With David Neft of New York City, one of the NFL's most eminent historians, I discussed my thinking. His judgment is similar to mine.

Neft advanced the point that players want to serve winning teams. Were college players free to choose where they could pursue their professional futures, inequities among the teams would be inevitable.

Manning, then, hit at what the NFL stands for

The draft's basis was acceptable to young Manning's father and to his brother, but not to him, and he worked his ploy. He was aware that the Chargers, having been involved in the Ryan Leaf matter, could not risk the public relations disaster that would have attended them squandering the ranking choice in the draft on somebody who could choose not to play.

but to do that would have been to chance getting nothing from the draft's No. 1 choice.

. The NFL is a lesser thing when its college draft is made meaningless.

He was saying that the Chargers were not good enough for him. There is no other way to view it.

The example you have established has shaken the foundations upon which it rests.]/quote]

Magee is no Darwinian judging from that. And he probably thinks he is.

Touchstones are important. Eli might be one.

Why should he go and live in a backwoods like San Diego.

And where would the NFL be had not Commissioner Bert Bell in 1936 acted to initiate a college draft? If you are going to consider that matter you really ought to do so and not just pass on as if nobody is noticing that you are not considering it at all. The NFL would have evolved to survive and prosper or gone under to allow something better to replace it. Like soccer say.

Suppose the best law graduates were directed to the worst law firms and, if one presumes a reverse operation, the worst ones to the best law firms.

They are trying to cover up a basic fault in your game because the forward pass renders it non-exportable and thus unable to strut the world stage and that being jingoistic and All American Ball Player type tough guy type about it somehow abolishes this flaw. And being allowed to handle the ball in a game called football is plain silly. Rugby players don't use their feet much in a game. It's almost all handling. And they have to use the back pass. It shows patience. The only "try" (a touchdown) here that shows impatience is a result of an interception.

So once you allow the forward pass and the handling of the football your game cannot help being as it is.

And with all the substitutes you allow every able-bodied male can be in the team, and their relatives and neighbours go to see them play and stuff some sat-fat and guzzle some bevvies, ...

... and most of them hardly run as far as one might run for a bus before giving up and with all the inevitable stop/starting to allow time for the sponsors and for the congregation to congratulate themselves on being American, and with the padding and the head gear the player's personalities being a bit alienated and all, and, I say, with all of that it's "provincial" and unsuited to globalisation tendencies.

Three of our top clubs are owned by Americans and another by a Russian. The Arabs have another. They meet people at the big matches.

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The draft's basis was acceptable to young Manning's father and to his brother, but not to him, and he worked his ploy. ...

What Eli's Dad and brother have to do with it I can't imagine.

They should get nothing for finishing last. Fancy giving them a better choice than 5th last. They should get relegated and the top team in the next league down replace them. They look like they are trying to protect a monopoly to me.

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. The NFL is a lesser thing when its college draft is made meaningless.

That's another assertion. It's donkey's years since I heard of this draft system and think it's as ridiculous now as I did then.

You see Tico--you can do it when prodded.

The NFL looks to be non-exportable. It's been tried here but it's no soap. And you should care Tico. It's really provincial not caring where the world is going. You could end up not caring about the UN. Or NATO.

My point about football being unsuited, selected out, for the global market is that it is costing you money and prestige.

And it's not "pansy diving". It's gamemanship. And there are a lot of genuine injuries.

Beckham and Ronaldo sell gear internationally like Tiger Woods does. Which of your football players can do that?

I hope you weren't trying to smear soccer as sissy. That would be a cheap shot.

I do not like some peoples use of rotating pitchers. I know it's allowed by the rules and I have the same ability to do so, but that just isn't in the spirit of fantasy play for me. You get a team and barring injuries or outstanding players becoming available you play the team you have.