2007 Frenzy RFA Commentary

[Popes]

Insects: that Stallworth spite bid is bulletin board material for our matchup this year. I've got your papal beatdown penciled in...

[Preds]

Originally Posted by Popes

Insects: that Stallworth spite bid is bulletin board material for our matchup this year. I've got your papal beatdown penciled in...

lol, if Frank didn't bump him, I woulda.

Depending how things shake out, I STILL might do my part to keep Donte in play. I like him a lot at that number.

[Preds]

Originally Posted by Popes

There's no action because the people at the front of the "match/decline" domino chain won't make a decision! We now have a giant chain going where all the most active bidders have money locked up and can't do anything else until they know what happens with the person in front of them. As I see it, we're all waiting on the Insects and maybe Opihi.

Once the Insects decide on LT, Preds can decide on Alexander, maybe giving them enough info to make a Harrison decision. However, Preds probably won't make a Harrison decision until they see what happens with Holt. I can't do anything until I see what happens with Harrison. Opihi may well be waiting to see what happens with Stallworth tonight to make a Holt decision.

The ball is also in Opihi's court because he can start the WR chain falling in his preferred direction. If he keeps Holt, Preds probably keep Harrison, and probably I keep Stallworth tonight. If Opihi lets Holt go, Pred probably let Harrison go, and I probably let Stallworth go. A word of warning to Opihi: your power to move things the way you want ends at 12:10am (Eastern) tonight! I'm not sitting around for 72 hours once my guy is up. I plan to make a decision on Stallworth right when he ends, pushing the dominoes in MY preferred direction ;)

Insects and Opihi, let's git r done! This 72 hour thing is driving me nuts.

:taz <-- me checking the website every 15 minutes and finding no action

, great post, not sure how I missed it. But you nailed it. The decision making is all inter-related.

I will clue you in on this much, I plan to keep Marvin...













I think. :p

[Preds]

I'm gonna start the ball rolling.

Buh bye Shaun, SORRY we ever signed you. Frank, 2900 is a great price, he just doesn't fit my plans. Have fun getting him back.

[Preds]

Hey Popes and Dodgers... SEE what you get for NOT checking in frequently this evening!



;)

[Popes]

Damn, I change my "board check rate" from 15 minutes to 1 hour - and it goes crazy :insane

Now we're cooking! And I can get back in the action...

[Amish]

There's the MN connection coming through!

[Preds]

YAWN


After all that bitching and moaining yesterday about things being slow, and folks debating their match/decline activities and whatnot, we got things rocking and rolling... and should have freed up some :bling for several of you to bid on the existing open RFA's, or put up some new players.

So....



Where is the activity today? I want entertainment! :dammit

:feedback

[Preds]

Maybe I should talk some SABRES hockey.

Game 2 is tonight at 7 at the HSBC arena. I'll be there again watching my boys take it to the Rags!

Television coverage for tonights game is on the Bull Riding network (for some reason they call themselves Versus).

Game 3 is 2pm Sunday at MSG in NY. It's also on nationally on NBC.

Tune in and watch the forthcoming 2007 Stanley Cup Champs!

GO SABRES!

[Nittany Dodgers]

Sabres is all good if Vanek rocks the house again. Other than that, all you'd get is a big yawn from me. This RFA period is more fun to watch than a non-local NHL game.

[Preds]

Originally Posted by Nittany Dodgers

Sabres is all good if Vanek rocks the house again. Other than that, all you'd get is a big yawn from me. This RFA period is more fun to watch than a non-local NHL game.

Tsk tsk, you REALLY don't know what you're missing. The Wiold play a boring style of hockey, whereas the Sabres are pure speed and excitment. Their games are vastly entertaining if your a fan of the sport.

ETA, even if you're NOT a fan of hoeckey, the Sabres are still a vastly entertaining team to watch. The NHL needs to market their brand of hockey, as it's really what they need to get fans back who got tired of yawning watching the trap.

[Nittany Dodgers]

Originally Posted by Preds

Tsk tsk, you REALLY don't know what you're missing. The Wiold play a boring style of hockey, whereas the Sabres are pure speed and excitment. Their games are vastly entertaining if your a fan of the sport.

I enjoy watching the wild. The style of game doesn't matter as much to me in the NHL. Coming from the state of hockey as I do, I'd much rather watch a high school or college game than I woudl NHL, Wild or not. Watching two good high MN high school teams gives you a great quality of hockey, minus all things stupid in the NHL, enforcers, fighting, etc etc. The Gophers, always being good, are always fun to watch. But the NHL? Lame. Until goons have no place in the NHL, I'll just stick to the Wild and deal with it with them, but as soon as they are out, I couldn't care less.

[smsmith40]

Isn't Hockey a girls game? All short skirts and pigtails?

[Nittany Dodgers]

Originally Posted by smsmith40

Isn't Hockey a girls game? All short skirts and pigtails?

You must be thinking of cricket.

Edited to add: or soccer.

[smsmith40]

No you're thinking of baseball, cricket for the kids on the slow bus

[Nittany Dodgers]

Originally Posted by smsmith40

No you're thinking of baseball, cricket for the kids on the slow bus

Wrong again. Baseball is what Americans did with yet another inferior european sport to improve it.

[Preds]

Originally Posted by Nittany Dodgers

Wrong again. Baseball is what Americans did with yet another inferior european sport to improve it.

I tend to agree with my friend across the Pond. Baseball sucks.

[Nittany Dodgers]

Originally Posted by Preds

I tend to agree with my friend across the Pond. Baseball sucks.

Coming from someone trying to sell me on the NHL, I'll consider my side vindicated.

[Preds]

Originally Posted by Nittany Dodgers

Coming from someone trying to sell me on the NHL, I'll consider my side vindicated.

[Amish]

Friday Night deadness???

[Amish]

Tis a quiet night, 8:07 Nice tip in by Drury!

[Amish]

8:20 - Hometown boy Vanek puts the Sabres in the lead!

[Preds]

Originally Posted by Midnightdew

8:20 - Hometown boy Vanek puts the Sabres in the lead!

:woowoo

Thomas Vanek once again does his Gophers proud! He was awesome in the 3rd.

Sabres didn't deserve this one after the 1st 2 periods, but when the woke up 24 seconds into the 3rd, you could smell the victory on it's way.

[Popes]

Originally Posted by Preds

After all that bitching and moaining yesterday about things being slow...

My bad. I was the #1 bitcher, then my money gets freed up and I.........do nothing. I'm reformulating my strategy. And, since I have the 1.2 pick and the draft is so close, I'm now content to get past the draft tomorrow and see where Peterson and Johnson go before I move.

[Popes]

Originally Posted by Nittany Dodgers

Watching two good high MN high school teams gives you a great quality of hockey, minus all things stupid in the NHL, enforcers, fighting, etc etc.

This is a day I never thought I'd see. Whenever Brian and I talk hockey, I'm so anti-NHL due to the fighting that Brian's the moderate one defending it ("it has it's place"; "it's much better than it used to be"). Nice to see you arguing my side for once! :clap

[Nittany Dodgers]

Originally Posted by Popes

This is a day I never thought I'd see. Whenever Brian and I talk hockey, I'm so anti-NHL due to the fighting that Brian's the moderate one defending it ("it has it's place"; "it's much better than it used to be"). Nice to see you arguing my side for once! :clap

Yes, I'll argue that it has its place, much like pitchers hitting batters in retaliation in baseball, but given the choice, I'd rather watch the version of the sport that it without such senseless violence.

Speaking of which, let's get back to football....

[Preds]

Originally Posted by Popes

This is a day I never thought I'd see. Whenever Brian and I talk hockey, I'm so anti-NHL due to the fighting that Brian's the moderate one defending it ("it has it's place"; "it's much better than it used to be"). Nice to see you arguing my side for once! :clap

See that's just it, the Sabres play the type of game you'd like. They're not about clutch & grab, fighting, etc.

They're about speed, finesse, great passing, awesome stickhandling, and athletic goaltending... all the best elements of the sport. Vanek fits in with them perfectly because these are all his assets as a payer as well (minus the athletic goaltending of course).

FTR, I also hate the slowed down clutch grab and fighting aspects of the NHL, I only came back when they changed the rules to open the game, and it is much improved (though there is still room for improvement).

[Popes]

Originally Posted by Preds

FYI Popes, a quick lesson on RFA bidding, keep in mind the team tendering the guy has a right to match any winning bid, so low balling a bid (or putting a player out at the tender as you did with Holt) isn't necessarily the strategy.

Originally Posted by Preds

Popes opens at the tender again!

Appreciate the explanation, but Brian fully trained me in (I hope). Both tender level bids were precisely what I intended and ended the way I'd hoped, without me getting the player. I was awfully surprised no one else bid on Harrison, though.

[Popes]

Originally Posted by Preds

I have to say Popes, your activity level has surprised me. Brian said you'd be busy and not here much the 1st few months. Guess that flew out the window.

Yeah, I really intended to let Brian do all this for me, but changed my mind due to a combination of how addicting it is, and my school work load surprisingly lessening a few weeks ago. A MAJOR project wrapped itself up without me having to put in the hours I thought I'd have to

[Amish]

Originally Posted by Popes

Yeah, I really intended to let Brian do all this for me, but changed my mind due to a combination of how addicting it is, and my school work load surprisingly lessening a few weeks ago. A MAJOR project wrapped itself up without me having to put in the hours I thought I'd have to

It's great to have you around! As this is what I've been doing the past 36 hours (checking posts)