DylanBradbury

Haha, it turns out I did win. (No one's more surprised than me. Thanks for hoping I won! And you're right, it has been fun. Hopefully, we the NFL will avoid the strike, and I can conduct the league again next year. As for putting money on these picks, I don't think I'm that good! Thanks again for all those who participated, It's been a blast!

Thanks to all who participated! It's been a blast. Here are the final overall standings to determine the winner: If participants have the same number of games behind the leader, the participant with the most weekly wins takes the tiebreaker. If still tied, the member with the most overall wins takes the tiebreaker. Other standings are posted here.

Sure thing, your picks have entered in the spreadsheet!

...Of course I'd like to start this week's edition of Random Thoughts by wishing everyone here a Merry Christmas and I also hoped you all had a nice, quiet, relaxing day yesterday with your family. I hope you got all that you wanted and that you made someone else feel special too. I certainly did, and I hope you did too, Y4L! ...Just wondering though, I am sure all of you have seen A Christmas Carol on TV in one of its many versions, be it the Bill Murray version or George C. Scott or Alistar Sim or ad finitum. But how many of you actually read the book? Let me put it this way: you won't be wasting your time. I certainly have read it, and Y4L's right, it's certainly worth the read! (P.S. If you don't like reading, it's pretty short.) ...Well, enough of Christmas talk. It sure is nice to see MarkB back here after being gone for over a month. He is a huge part in what this website is. You're right about that! Welcome back MarkB! ...After this week there is only one more week of the football picks that we have had going on here. Dylan Bradbury is running it very well and I am very curious to see who is going to win this because I know it sure as hell isn't going to be me. I thought this week was the final week, but this year the final week is in January (i.e., all games take place January 2nd) Crazy stuff! ...Remember that actor that called himself "Sinbad"? What the hell ever happened to him? Tax issues, that's what happened to him. ...Hey Nick Johnson, I got a question for you. Who's going to be dumb enough to sign you this winter now that the Yankees are no longer in the picture? I bet they are really beating down your door. And if in case someone is knocking on your door, answer it carefully so you don't break your wrist again. Who cares about his wrist, he broke his ankle when he hear the door knock and stepped out of bed!

It's a rare time TSN is right. Last year, they claimed the Blue Jays had signed former Blue Jay Reed Johnson. Fans were joyous. When JP Riccardi had released Johnson a few years earlier, fans were angry. They went on to talk about how he had been drafted by the White Sox, and played for the Mariners and the Mets in his Major League career. It then occured to me that they had signed Jeremy Reed and not Reed Johnson. Needless to say, fans weren't happy with TSN.

Here's another link for it: http://onmilwaukee.c...einketrade.html In my opinion, the Brewers gave up way too much for Greinke. They traded their starting shortstop in Alcides Escobar, starting centerfielder in Lorenzo Cain, and two top notch pitching prospects for Greinke. When the Blue Jays inquired on Greinke, the Royals suggested we part with Travis Snider (or starting left fielder) and Kyle Drabek (potentially our fifth starter, and the main component of the Roy Halladay trade). Seems to me the Brewers gave up two arms and two legs when the Royals were just asking for one arm and one leg.

Perfect, thanks dude.

Of course, emath. Like I said in the PM I'm counting these picks. No worries. Just don't forget to predict a score for the Monday Nighter. Y4L, welcome back to the internet! ----------------------------------------------------------- Just to reiterate folks, I'm going to be running the picks from MLBMods (i.e., the schedule and standings will be posted there) but I am counting the predictions made at both sites (MLBMods and MVPMods).

Glad to see you make the migration over! :)

The schedule for week 13 is posted here at MLB Mods: http://www.mlbmods.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=379&p=2740#p2740

With the site coming to an end, I wanted to let you know I'll keep this up at MLBMods.

Overall Standings After Week 12 DylanBradbury 110-66 (12 weeks) rroy0824** 107-69 (12 weeks) DadOfTwins* 106-70 (12 weeks) laroquece* 105-71 (12 weeks) andy82** 103-73 (12 weeks) Maestro23* 102-74 (12 weeks) SeveredSoulX 100-76 (12 weeks) Yankee4Life 98-78 (12 weeks) ************************************************************** emath2432** 97-63 (11 weeks) ************************************************************** Alison* 86-58 (10 weeks) JoeRudi26** 79-67 (10 weeks) ************************************************************** SSebb30 20-12 (2 weeks) nusileidimas 16-16 (2 weeks) ************************************************************** rookie_rick 11-5 (1 weeks)

Week 12 Final Standings emath2432 (12-4)* andy82 (12-4) Alison (11-5) rroy0824 (11-5) SeveredSoulX (11-5) Maestro23 (10-6) DadOfTwins (9-7) DylanBradbury (9-7) laroquece (9-7) Yankee4Life (9-7) JoeRudi26 (0-16) *emath wins Week 12, based on the tie-breaker. Congratulations Emath!

Week 12 (After Sunday Games) Alison (11-4) andy82 (11-4) emath2432 (11-4) Maestro23 (10-5) rroy0824 (10-5) SeveredSoulX (10-5) DadOfTwins (9-6) DylanBradbury (9-6) laroquece (9-6) Yankee4Life (9-6)

Week 12 (After Thanksgiving Games) Alison (3-0) andy82 (3-0) DadOfTwins (3-0) DylanBradbury (3-0) laroquece (3-0) Maestro23 (3-0) Yankee4Life (3-0) emath2432 (2-1) SeveredSoulX (2-1) rroy0824 (1-2)

**********Week 12 Picks Closed**********

Thu, NOV 25 New England at Detroit New Orleans at Dallas Cincinnati at NY Jets Sun, NOV 28 Jacksonville at NY Giants Pittsburgh at Buffalo Tennessee at Houston Green Bay at Atlanta Carolina at Cleveland Minnesota at Washington Kansas City at Seattle Miami at Oakland Philadelphia at Chicago St. Louis at Denver Tampa Bay at Baltimore San Diego at Indianapolis Mon, NOV 29 San Francisco at Arizona (SF 24, ARI 23, Total 47)

Here is the schedule for Week 12: Thu, NOV 25 New England at Detroit New Orleans at Dallas Cincinnati at NY Jets Sun, NOV 28 Jacksonville at NY Giants Pittsburgh at Buffalo Tennessee at Houston Green Bay at Atlanta Carolina at Cleveland Minnesota at Washington Kansas City at Seattle Miami at Oakland Philadelphia at Chicago St. Louis at Denver Tampa Bay at Baltimore San Diego at Indianapolis Mon, NOV 29 San Francisco at Arizona -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Rules Reminder 1. Your entry (predictions) must be before the start of the earliest game in the respective week 2. You must underline and bold your predicted winners without predicting the score 3. In the event of a tie, the Monday Night Game(s) will be the deciding factor 4. Most total wins at the end of the season will decide the overall winner Monday Night Game(s) a. underline and bold your predicted winner b. predict your score (for example: Dolphins 27, Bills 10) c. the total of the score for both teams will be added together, in this case the total would be 37 d. the participant closest to the total score will win the tiebreaker Good Luck!

Overall Standings (Week 11) DylanBradbury 101-59 (11 weeks) DadOfTwins* 97-63 (11 weeks) rroy0824** 96-64 (11 weeks) laroquece* 96-64 (11 weeks) Maestro23* 92-68 (11 weeks) andy82** 91-69 (11 weeks) Yankee4Life 89-71 (11 weeks) SeveredSoulX 89-71 (11 weeks) ************************************************************** emath2432* 85-59 (10 weeks) JoeRudi26** 79-67 (10 weeks) ************************************************************** Alison* 75-53 (9 weeks) ************************************************************** SSebb30 20-12 (2 weeks) nusileidimas 16-16 (2 weeks) ************************************************************** rookie_rick 11-5 (1 weeks)

Final Week 11 Standings andy82 (13-3)* emath2432 (13-3) Alison (11-5) DadOfTwins (11-5) DylanBradbury (11-5) laroquece (11-5) Maestro23 (11-5) rroy0824 (11-5) SeveredSoulX (11-5) Yankee4Life (11-5) JoeRudi26 (10-6) *Andy wins Week 11, based on the tie-breaker. Congratulations, Andy!

Week 11 Standings (Pre-Monday Night Game) andy82 (12-3) emath2432 (12-3) SeveredSoulX (11-4) Alison (10-5) DadOfTwins (10-5) DylanBradbury (10-5) laroquece (10-5) Maestro23 (10-5) rroy0824 (10-5) Yankee4Life (10-5) JoeRudi26 (9-6)

Bye, DJ. :(

Fascinating. I don't remember where I saw it, but I remember someone saying that we know more about our moon than we do our oceans. Kind of sad when you think about it.

When I first started playing MVP, I ran into the same issues you did. Unfortunately, I don't think you can slide or move the batter in the batter's box using a keyboard. My solution would be to pick up a Logitech Dual Action controller. It's worked really well for me, and I find playing the game more fun with the controller than a keyboard.

**********Week 11 Picks Closed**********