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WBC will be here soon.

yep and time to see all the rust come off these guys.

Im really interested to see how pudge showcases himself. this is his audition to play in 09. he better do good for his sake.

also interested to see how the US Team does this year. it looks pretty good with Wright,Pedroia,Jeter, and a host of others...but Domincan Rep is still awesome on paper.....I still feel like the Japanese will come up big like they did last year.

Originally Posted by integralsmatic yep and time to see all the rust come off these guys. Im really interested to see how pudge showcases himself. this is his audition to play in 09. he better do good for his sake. also interested to see how the US Team does this year. it looks pretty good with Wright,Pedroia,Jeter, and a host of others...but Domincan Rep is still awesome on paper.....I still feel like the Japanese will come up big like they did last year.

I think that it could go a long way for some free agents, assuming that they play in it. It could really sell their value playing in the WBC.

I hope the US wins it, but I think it will probably come down to DR and Japan, with DR winning.

I'm hoping it doesn't wear guys out like the last time.

Originally Posted by craven_fiend I think that it could go a long way for some free agents, assuming that they play in it. It could really sell their value playing in the WBC. I hope the US wins it, but I think it will probably come down to DR and Japan, with DR winning.

same here. I hope the US takes it but the other two are loaded.

Originally Posted by lordwow I'm hoping it doesn't wear guys out like the last time.

for our teams' sake me too. I dont want to go to opening day and seeing a tired Santana ,Wright,Beltran,Delgado,Reyes.....dam Minaya..the whole team is going lol.

Anyone else excited for fantasy baseball? I'm looking forward to Yahoo opening any day now

Originally Posted by lordwow I'm hoping it doesn't wear guys out like the last time.

They're going to work the hell out of Matsuzaka. Even their training regimen is very strenuous, and something the Sox have been trying very hard to get Matsuzaka off of. They're going to have to give him a light workload in the opening months of the season.

Poor Dice-K doesn't DO light workloads.

Originally Posted by dafoomie They're going to work the hell out of Matsuzaka. Even their training regimen is very strenuous, and something the Sox have been trying very hard to get Matsuzaka off of. They're going to have to give him a light workload in the opening months of the season.

I think that is why they got both Smoltz and Penny. I think it is going to be pretty much a 6 man rotation. Dice-K will get some benign "injury" early in the season and miss a few weeks

I'm looking forward to the season. I try to get to one Red Sox game a year, but with me living in Buffalo I don't get many opportunities. I usually head to Toronto to watch them beat the Blue Jays but couldn't make it last season. This year my goal is to actually see a game at Fenway. Use my vacation time from work to fly to Boston for a game. Hope to catch a Red Sox - Angels matchup. Usually a good rivalry. Tickets are impossible for Yanks/Red Sox, so I won't even bother.

Originally Posted by integralsmatic yep and time to see all the rust come off these guys. Im really interested to see how pudge showcases himself. this is his audition to play in 09. he better do good for his sake. also interested to see how the US Team does this year. it looks pretty good with Wright,Pedroia,Jeter, and a host of others...but Domincan Rep is still awesome on paper.....I still feel like the Japanese will come up big like they did last year.

Mets might be interested in Pudge.....

A few players will be showcasing themselves in the WBC. Pedro will also be trying to impress but even if he plays well, he will get hurt at some point this season.

The US lost to Mexico and Canada.... I have no faith in them. I just want the US, and Australia to lose out in the first round so Kazmir, Balfour and Howell don't have to pitch in the WBC.

The big issue American players have is there work regiment. Players from the southern hemisphere play year round. They have what is it called, Caribbean world series going on now. They Japanese team has been practicing together for awhile. The American team gets put together during spring training.

The Caribbean is not in the Southern Hemisphere. The Southern Hemisphere gets winter when we get summer. It's the people around the equator that can play year round.

I'm hoping the Dodgers just go ahead and sign Manny. They're a whole different team with him can win the West even without Penny and Lowe.

the dodgers could sign dunn, orland Hudson and wolf for the money manny wants. If manny caves and takes a 1 year deal or less money then what has been already offered to him, then dodger fans may see the selfish immature bitch that he is. There is no other teams interested in him. Why should the dodgers cave. No dunn is no manny ramirez, but u could get him for 2 years for a lot less money and put up solid numbers.

D'Backs sign Tom Gordon for 1/500k deal.

Adam Dunn strikes out way too much for any sort of money. I'd rather have the Dodgers put up big bucks for a true hitter instead of a Dave Kingman like "slugger".

O-Dawg as a Dodger? I just threw up in my mouth a little bit.

Out of the teams he has mentioned, the Mets would be the least vomit inducing. I wish the Diamondbacks kept him but that is the price you pay (or rather don't) for trying to field an inexpensive team.

He does deserve to get pizzaid though.

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/200...ids/index.html

Originally Posted by the article In 2003, when he won the American League home run title and the AL Most Valuable Player award as a shortstop for the Texas Rangers, Alex Rodriguez tested positive for two anabolic steroids, four sources have independently told Sports Illustrated.

Fun way to start the (pre)season for MLB...

Because more than 5% of big leaguers had tested positive in 2003, baseball instituted a mandatory random-testing program, with penalties, in '04. According to the 2007 Mitchell Report on steroid use in baseball, in September 2004, Gene Orza, the chief operating officer of the players' union, violated an agreement with MLB by tipping off a player (not named in the report) about an upcoming, supposedly unannounced drug test. Three major league players who spoke to SI said that Rodriguez was also tipped by Orza in early September 2004 that he would be tested later that month. Rodriguez declined to respond on Thursday when asked about the warning Orza provided him. When Orza was asked on Friday in the union's New York City office about the tipping allegations, he told a reporter, "I'm not interested in discussing this information with you."

Ugh