I know this was brought up a little in the last minors thread but just wanted to get some more opinions about it.  

From Scott Lucas:

2010 Picks:

LHP Justin Earls (31st round)
LHP Kevin Johnson (42nd)
RHP Colby Killian (41st)
RHP Zach Osborne (9th)
RHP Ryan Rodebaugh (15th)
RHP Ben Rowen (22nd)

C Carson Vitale (38th)
1B Andrew Clark (13th)
2B Jonathan Roof (8th)
IF Kevin Rodland (34th)

OF Jared Hoying (10th)
OF Jason Kudlock (36th)
OF Ryan Strausborger (16th)

Promoted Players (2009 location in parentheses):

LHP Miguel de los Santos (Dominican Summer League, plus a few 2010 innings in Hickory)
RHP Ovispo de los Santos (rookie ball)
RHP Francisco Mendoza (DSL)
RHP Nick McBride (’09 pick, no experience)
RHP Denny Peralta (rookie)
RHP Randol Rojas (DSL)
RHP Tim Stanford (DSL)
RHP Johan Yan (rookie)

C Yefry Castillo (DSL)
C Kevin Torres (rookie)
2B Alejandro Selen (rookie)
SS Jurickson Profar (no experience)

OF Guillermo Pimentel (rookie)

Returning Players:

RHP Sam Brown
RHP Ben Henry

1B Clark Murphy
IF Daniel Lima (saw a little of Bakersfield in 2010)

Play begins Friday at Tri-City.

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Might as well put this up.  I think we have enough casual interest where this will get populated. 

Players Statistics

UNITED STATES
NO.	PLAYER	POS	GOALS	ASSISTS	POINTS	PENALTIES	PIM	SOG	PLUS/MINUS
28	RAFALSKI Brian	D	0(4)	0(4)	0(8)	0	0	0	0
20	SUTER Ryan	D	0(0)	0(4)	0(4)	0	0	0	0
15	LANGENBRUNNER Jamie	F	0(1)	0(2)	0(3)	0	0	0	0
9	PARISE Zach	F	0(3)	0(4)	0(7)	0	0	0	0
26	STASTNY Paul	F	0(1)	0(2)	0(3)	0	0	0	0
4	GLEASON Tim	D	0(0)	0(0)	0(0)	0	0	0	0
6	JOHNSON Erik	D	0(1)	0(0)	0(1)	0	0	0	0
81	KESSEL Phil	F	0(1)	0(1)	0(2)	0	0	0	0
12	MALONE Ryan	F	0(3)	0(2)	0(5)	0	0	1	0
16	PAVELSKI Joe	F	0(0)	0(3)	0(3)	0	0	0	0
3	JOHNSON Jack	D	0(0)	0(1)	0(1)	0	0	0	0
44	ORPIK Brooks	D	0(0)	0(0)	0(0)	0	0	0	0
32	BROWN Dustin	F	0(0)	0(0)	0(0)	0	0	0	0
88	KANE Patrick	F	0(3)	0(0)	0(3)	0	0	0	0
17	KESLER Ryan	F	0(1)	0(0)	0(1)	0	0	0	0
19	WHITNEY Ryan	D	0(0)	0(0)	0(0)	0	0	0	0
42	BACKES David	F	0(1)	0(2)	0(3)	0	0	0	0
24	CALLAHAN Ryan	F	0(0)	0(1)	0(1)	0	0	0	0
23	DRURY Chris	F	0(2)	0(0)	0(2)	0	0	0	0
54	RYAN Bobby	F	0(1)	0(1)	0(2)	0	0	0	0

CANADA
NO.	PLAYER	POS	GOALS	ASSISTS	POINTS	PENALTIES	PIM	SOG	PLUS/MINUS
27	NIEDERMAYER Scott	D	0(1)	0(2)	0(3)	0	0	0	0
6	WEBER Shea	D	0(2)	0(4)	0(6)	0	0	0	0
87	CROSBY Sidney	F	0(3)	0(3)	0(6)	0	0	0	0
12	IGINLA Jarome	F	0(5)	0(1)	0(6)	0	0	0	0
21	STAAL Eric	F	0(1)	0(5)	0(6)	0	0	0	0
2	KEITH Duncan	D	0(0)	0(5)	0(5)	0	0	0	0
7	SEABROOK Brent	D	0(0)	0(1)	0(1)	0	0	0	0
15	HEATLEY Dany	F	0(4)	0(3)	0(7)	0	0	0	0
11	MARLEAU Patrick	F	0(2)	0(3)	0(5)	0	0	0	0
19	THORNTON Joe	F	0(1)	0(1)	0(2)	0	0	0	0
8	DOUGHTY Drew	D	0(0)	0(2)	0(2)	0	0	0	0
20	PRONGER Chris	D	0(0)	0(5)	0(5)	0	0	0	0
61	NASH Rick	F	0(2)	0(3)	0(5)	0	0	0	0
18	RICHARDS Mike	F	0(2)	0(2)	0(4)	0	0	0	0
16	TOEWS Jonathan	F	0(0)	0(7)	0(7)	0	0	0	0
22	BOYLE Dan	D	0(1)	0(5)	0(6)	0	0	0	0
37	BERGERON Patrice	F	0(0)	0(1)	0(1)	0	0	0	0
51	GETZLAF Ryan	F	0(3)	0(3)	0(6)	0	0	0	0
10	MORROW Brenden	F	0(2)	0(1)	0(3)	0	0	0	0
24	PERRY Corey	F	0(3)	0(1)	0(4)	0	0	0	0

http://www.nj.com/entertainment/tv/index.ssf/2010/01/is_nbc_moving_jay_leno_back_to.html

TMZ suggested Leno at 11:30 might be a half-hour show, with Conan sliding back to midnight. But it's unclear what provisions Conan has in his "Tonight Show" contract about having to change timeslots, or about Leno returning to late night (with or without the "Tonight Show" name). He may simply decide his pride has been hurt enough and leave, though his struggles the last few months have no doubt made him a less desirable commodity for ABC or Fox than he was before he took over "Tonight."

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!!!!

I shouldn't be this excited for the Mavs beating such a crappy Bucks team but that whole game was such a clusterf starting with the third quarter.

And while Drew Gooden has done much to improve his stock with me, Barea is on notice.  Beaubois can't grow up fast enough.  

But Dirk really is the man.  This is the best I think I've seen him.  When he's on, he's on.  

Oh, and Brandon Jennings will be amazing but you knew that today you could get him to make some rookie mistakes.  He seemed to take missing that shot a little hard.  

I fixed the ignore script that I had working (briefly) on the last board.  For those that don't know, you can enter in the users that you want to ignore and then all of their posts automatically get replaced with a simple "Ignore" text. 

Unfortunately, it's not the easiest implementation but it's something that some people liked before so I figure I'd go ahead and post it.  It's obvious but it might need saying, you don't have to install if you don't want.

Requirements:

- Firefox (unless there are ways of employing javascripts in other browsers)

- Greasemonkey Add-on

Installation:

1) Install Greasemonkey here.

2) Go here to grab the script.  Should just be able to click the Install button and it should automatically do it for you.  Restart the browser just to be safe.

Here comes the tricky part - Setting the users you want to ignore

3)  Right Click the monkey icon and go to "Manage User Scripts"

4) Click on Manage User Scripts in the bottom right hand corner.  Now, at this point, a dialog box is going to open asking you to pick an editor.  You're going to have to navigate to a word processor (Word, Notepad, Wordpad).  Hopefully everybody can figure out where those programs are located on their computers.  Let me know if you are having trouble finding one. 

5)  Now go to the area identified in the picture below and add in the users you don't want (those users I have identified are in now way a reflection of how I feel about those people; just two people at random). 

I did pick Josey to point out that for users with a space in the name, you have to substitute the space for %20.  So, just add or subtract as many users as you want.  Just remember that you have to put quotes around the names and separate the names by commas (with the commas going outside of the quotes).

When you're done, save the script, close out of everything, and then refresh the page.  That's it.  Everything should work. 

Again, let me know if it's not working for you. 

(And even though I don't care, I'm sure people will remind me how much things like this sucks.  I can't wait).

Just announced on Sportscenter

Michael W. Smith reporting (he has 2 sources).  Will post links if I get them

Wow.  Did not see it coming

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Link

Pretty good article about what the Diamondbacks are trying to do to cope with the recession.  Some Moneyball stuff but more interesting is the focus on what the business side is doing

Nothing really ground breaking but the one that caught my eye: discount tickets.

Who's in charge of these things for the Rangers?  Ryan?  If we really are going to act like a small market team, we need to be doing some of these things.  Otherwise, the team is going to see a steep drop in sales.  DFWis doing a lot better than Arizona in terms of economy but the panic and fear will be there soon enough. 

Also thought it was funny that the hot shot CEO of the Diamondbacks got his start at the Ohio University Program that young Miles attends.

It seems to me that on this blog, there is this pervasive idea that once Mark Connor comes for a mound visit, only bad things happen. I have never thought of Mark Connor as good for anything and I remember participating in the boos last year when he would come out.

But, at least to me, it seemed like he wasn't so ineffective this year and people seemed to completely ignore the good outcomes and highlight the bad. Sometimes it seems people will boo his mound visit when the mound visit the LAST INNING proved to work out.

So I did some dirty work:

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really, Longhorn - think he'll be injured for the entire season?

BTW - in case you forgot, there's not supposed to be discussion in those projection threads.  thats why we have these.

as for Clueless's comment - dumb.

people are going nuts so far with incredibly optimistic projections.  I didn't realize so many people were so high on him

Almost like a mercy killing for this season.  In some ways, this is more palatable than another 7 game series playoff loss

Ok, so I went ahead and made a GreaseMonkey script where you can prevent the posts and diaries of certain users from showing up on your screen.  Obviously, nobody has to use this and I'm probably not going to use it for too many users (if any), but thought I would put it out there.  It's not so user friendly but I just did it in a night so if anybody wants to modify it and make it look prettier, easier to use feel free.  I'm also not really a programmer so it might not be the most efficient code.

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Keith Law did a pretty good rundown of the top 50 free agents.  I couldn't actually tell if the rankings reflected his thoughts or what the market valued them as (he ranks eckstein 15 but bashes him; ranks andruw jones as the highest CF), but the write ups are pretty good.  

It is Insider but they are doing a free preview

http://insider.espn.go.com/mlb/hotstove07/insider/columns/story?columnist=law_keith&id=3104954

Anybody have any advice, things I need to see, stuff I should look out for?

Sitting first base side so won't have the opportunity of sitting by scouts which I kind of wanted to do.  

just saw it on Baseball Tonight/Sportscenter whatever I'm watching.  Not sure this really affects anything in terms of trades but I'm not an expert on these things.

What the hell?  Any articles about him being bad at taking instruction or having nagging injuries, or not having as good of stuff as previously seen?

ERA:7.04
WHIP: 2.04
BAA: .353
K/9: 6.65
BB/9: 4.3

I guess I should be happy with the strikeouts?  Of course, he was born in 1989 and it's probably too early to make any judgments about him.  I would just like to know what's wrong.

66-63 beating kobayashi.  Adam will be happy.

I actually couldn't care less but felt it should be mentioned.

http://tinyurl.com/2wdj26

(Sharky weeps)

I really don't care but this is front page on ESPN and its ranger related and it hasn't been reported here so thought I would post it

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=2910661

I couldn't care less and kind of thought so anyway.

he's pretty close