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Happy Birthday Jimbo! Have you thought of a plan for succession when you're no longer of sound enough mind to run your fantasy teams?

If the season had been played he'd be creeping up on 2500 through his age-36 season. With the DH coming to the NL, 3000 was definitely in play if he maintained an average bat for a few more years. Probably not happening now.

King, please be nice to Jim when he's being dense.

Nick Markakis the latest to opt out. One of the worst things about losing this season is that it probably ends his bid for 3000 hits and removes all hope for the hilarity of Nick Markakis being inducted into the HoF.

This whole season is shaping up to be an absolute shitshow and they should probably just cancel it.

I wasn't sure because Mike Leake was hurt in ST, and the Rosses probably were too. And David Price still doesn't have a flag.

I've waived all free agents and removed the cap on IL size. I don't expect many claims given that nobody had maxed out their IL yet anyway. I also e-mailed Fantrax asking how they're going to be treating players who opt-out. Hopefully it's by giving them red flags.

Actually, I'm not sure that's true. Joe Ross, Tyson Ross, and Ian Desmond all have Red Flags. I'm not sure about Felix because it could be hidden under his green flag. I'm going to e-mail fantrax.

Damn, you're right. I saw Leake had a red flag and assumed it was because he opted out, but it's leftover from when he was hurt in ST.

I'm getting to the point where I don't really care if the season happens or not. Between opt-outs and a player missing probably a third of the season if they're infected, the season is going to be a farce.

I never read Fangraphs anymore, but baseball reference is a s***** alternative when it comes to looking up stats.

Here are the the red flag considerations as best as I can tell: - Red flags don't count towards your roster limit but we currently have 5 red flag spots available. - I'm concerned that teams will have enough injured players that not all of them will fit on their IL (including covid cases and people opting out due to covid concerns). - In LoD we have unlimited ILs, but we also don't allow adds of injured players. BORED isn't a paid league, so we can't prevent injured player adds. - Once a an injured player is no longer red-flagged, the owners roster is immediately illegal and they can't even move players around in their lineup. - I count 30 injured unowned guys, all of them shitbags. I'm proposing that we scrap the IL limit as a trial run. A few idiots will rush to pick up a bunch of red flag shitbags from FA, so we'd waive all FA's for 3 days before the change. Re-visit in the offseason to see if we want to go back to an IL limit. I don't think it's a major change, so I'll only put it to the vote if opinions seem split in response to this post.

I'm starting to think we should remove the IL limit.

It’s f***ing absurd. And even if you turn off add blocker to get rid of the yellow half-page banner, they still have pop up ads. What reputable site is using pop up ads in 2020?

Goddammit, you have to buy the $50US/year subscription to avoid ads on Fangraphs. Apparently their $20 membership isn't enough to let you avoid some of the most obnoxious ads on the internet.

Bauer also also said recently he's most interested in signing this offseason with a team that lets him go every four days. I'm guessing that several teams would oblige him if he's serious about only doing 1-year deals.

Don't turn this into the covid thread 2.0 please.

Also, I'm truly sorry Spanky. Please find it in your heart to forgive me.

Yeah.

I've never tried, but on the of chance there's an issue we can store a farm guy on the sheet for 2 months.

We’re at 14 because owners had the option to go 18 MLB and 14 MiLB at the preseason cut. We’ve always cut down to 12 at the mid season MiLB draft. This year we’re going up to 15 instead.

That is not a good looking man.

I’m going to lock this one up now.

I don't think anyone wants to get rid of the snark, s***-talking, and sense of humour that has kept us all posting here for the better part of the last 15 years. Up until 2016 or whatever, the insults never felt personal or vitriolic because they weren't. I'm hoping that the board is able to once again resemble it's pre-2016 self, and hopefully with an influx of posters as the team starts to win games.

I believe the future is bright for Big League Jew.