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Good idea Done

Yadi Molina, Buster Posey and JPA pretty much top 3 in that case??

No way man. Gets on base too much.

True. Though they did get him at a 30M "discount"

Their top 5 is going to be killer What order would you put them in??

s*** Rangers are going to be good Hoped he would sign with a garbage team

Admin just made exactly that point in the mods forum and I agree 100% There have been useful points brought up over the last 24 hours, and we have learned some things, but it's enough now. New rules have been put up. We will lock the garbage threads that are mostly related to complaining and ban discussion and bickering. We will go back to doing our jobs. We will do what we think is best for the board. Over and out. Enough said.

New post in rules and bans sticky thread. Please read.

Please see sticky thread on rules and bans for new info

After some internal discussion, the mods have decided to go to a two level system for dealing with troublesome behaviour on the board Infractions will be given to posters who start showing disruptive behaviour. Personal attacks and other purposefully disruptive behaviour will generally be treated with the poster receiving an infraction as a warning that his behaviour is being watched but not yet deserving of a ban. A second infraction will be given if the problem is not immediately stopped. If the second warning is ignored a ban will be granted. (It's a baseball forum right? 3 strikes and you're out). This appears to be a more effective way of dealing with it than sending warnings via personal message which is what we have generally been doing. Immediate banning and/or account deletion will still be used for known repeat offenders who immediately start causing problems, and for those spamming the board with garbage threads. I think this will strike a better balance, giving the mods the ability to keep the board under control by WARNING otherwise good posters who are acting up and giving them a chance to stop, and BANNING complete garbage accounts/posters on sight. Thank you Twisted Logic for bringing this idea up yesterday. We are still actively discussing what types of things are infraction worthy vs ban worthy.

100% exactly true And I should have said 1 day Anyhow it's over. We are enacting new policies to help deal with the place more effectively Hoping bygones can be bygones. It DOES make it harder that the mods here are regular posters rather than anonymous beings. Definitively makes it more difficult.

No idea actually. I'll ask Spanky when admin unbans him.

I fully recognize that we have become very inconsistent in moderating and we are looking to improve on that. Banning Spanky but not Hward Roark (initially anyhow) last night Letting Moh You aggravate everyone but letting it slide because he wasn't being aggressive or making personal attacks Banning njh because he was the first to cross the (arbitrary) line I set when things were getting out of hand the other night Hang in there. We're working on ways of making it better.

Mods currently discussing a new system of infractions Ppl banned in the meantime by may have new system and unbannings as early as today/tomorrow Stay tuned

Yes

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Here are the comments that abomination is referring to. Guess Cashman doesn't like the FA or trade prices for starters either. Most likely he and AA are just trying to influence the market and drive costs down with posturing because they're both desperate to add a starter. - By Charlie Wilmoth [December 20, 2013 at 11:36pm CST] The Yankees are likely to bid for Masahiro Tanaka, if he's made available to them. But GM Brian Cashman suggests that the Yankees could also simply go with what they have in the back of their rotation, Jorge Castillo of the Star-Ledger reports. "We’re focusing solely on what’s available in the marketplace," says Cashman. "And also recognizing and restating that we might not get everything answered with an exclamation point or the comfort level that we’d prefer." After C.C. Sabathia, Hiroki Kuroda and Ivan Nova, the next group of names on the depth chart include Michael Pineda, David Phelps, Manny Banuelos, Adam Warren and Vidal Nuno. Given that Kuroda will be 39 in February and that Sabathia had a down season in 2013, it would be somewhat surprising if the Yankees headed into the season with their current collection of talent. Unlike much of the rest of the free-agent market, the starting pitching market remains relatively fertile ground, with Ervin Santana, Matt Garza, Ubaldo Jimenez and Bronson Arroyo still available.

He got in a late night pissing match with Howard Roark Agree, we need some news This place has become a s*** place to hang out the last few weeks, despite the fact that I like so many of the posters here. There's just nothing to talk about. One crazy week of signings and trades has meant almost nothing interesting has happened since. Need it spread out more!

Odds on anyone making a "Support to Spanky" thread today??

Think smaller

s***** thread was s***** anyway

I fell asleep early. LOL. What a s*** show this week has been. On a positive note, at least most of the bickering keeps ending up in this s***** thread.

So Spank got banned now did he? LOL. What a week.

Yeah I don't remember him schooling you... Um... Ever. (Pretty sure his stupid rants like this are 80% directed at you, boss)

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