I guess I will put my teams here. My first draft has been set up even though it is almost 2 days away and I have about the worst pick in the entire draft at fifth! I guess my only options there would include texiera, vlad, or santana. Only one of those 3 will be left and I doubt it will be vlad or santana. Manny may be there, but I dont like him or trust he will do great enough really. Maybe would draft him and deal him though.

My first big money team:

C- Varitek snd Pudge

1B- Berkman, Konerko, and Sweeney

2B- Giles and Freel

3B- Atkins

SS- Michael young

OF- Andruw, Vernon, Drew, Delmon Young. (then berkman and freel qualify also)

SP- Santana, Peavy, Mulder, Clemens, Mussina, Penny

RP- Benitez, Foulke, Retisma

My final 3 drafts are the 21'st, 26'th, and 28'th.

My first big money team:

C- Varitek snd Pudge

1B- Berkman, Konerko, and Sweeney

2B- Giles and Freel

3B- Atkins

SS- Michael young

OF- Andruw, Vernon, Drew, Delmon Young. (then berkman and freel qualify also)

SP- Santana, Peavy, Mulder, Clemens, Mussina, Penny

RP- Benitez, Foulke, Retisma

Only thing I dont like about this draft is Delmon Young. Eventually could be great but wont be starting with the big club unless somebody gets hurt or traded.

People keep asking for him. Unfortunately then they offer guys not even in the top 300 such as gathright.

lol The name of the league I made on CBS in my expensive league is welcome to the jungle and someone joined it and named his team paradise city.

He is in another of my leagues too. My league finally filled. Pretty nice. Still over a week from draft day and I managed to fill an expensive one. Now my last decision is whether to get in this other expensive one or stay where I'm at for my last team.

whichever you think is best. I cant make money decisions for you.

That wasnt a question. sigh.

I am having bad luck. Now in my next draft, I have the #7 pick. Last year I got a lot of 1's, 2's, and 3's, and now this year I have all these medium picks.

Thanks to people drafting sleepers earlier than usual and being scared to draft Soriano, I got a great draft out of drafting seventh.

C- pudge and pierzinski (kendall and lieberthall undrafted)

1B- Dunn

2B- Soriano

3B- Rolen and Atkins

SS- Tejada

OF- Bradley, Burrell, Drew, Francoeur, Taveras, Baldeli (gathright and patterson undrafted and may not be starters)

DH- David Ortiz

SP- Carpenter, Schilling, Schmidt, Bonderman, Kazmir, Clemens

RP- Billy Wagner and Keith Foulke

That's 4 players who have been taken in the first round of some drafts and I didnt take Clemens until close to 200 and Soriano was my fifth or sixth pick, I believe.

Great infield, OK outfield above avg SP. You might need a closer but I', sure you know that. Who's your ninth pitcher and second dh?

I personally think the starting pitching is beyond above average. Barring injuries, it will likely get the 8-10 in all 4 starting categories (possibly even several 10's). Four or five of those starters may very well be opening day team aces. Carpenter I didnt take till round 3 or 4. Schilling K'd a lot in a rehab start a day or two ago. Like I said I only need health.

Yes I indeed need a closer. And I agree the OF is not really spectacular. Although I am VERY high on drew and francoeur and mighty high on burrell. Taveras I needed due to desperation for speed. Same with Baldelli.

My extra UTIL slot is the extra outfielder I had listed there.

I only drafted 8 pitchers and will use FA for the ninth and a 10th to replace clemens.

I think I did great, frankly. I wasnt so high on Carp but his spring e.r.a. is 0 so I am back high on him. It's not often you can get ortiz AND tejada AND soriano AND carpenter all in the same draft.

I got rolen because my time ran out and I selected as it got to 0. He is so injury prone. But picked up atkins just in case.

I think bradley, drew, bonderman, and kazmir are going to break out. So it is going to turn out even better than it looks.

Picked up Sweeney and Matt Morris from FA. Morris good for a FA. It was either sweeney, corey patterson who wont start, or dan johnson. Also freel comes off waivers in a day or two but he is terrible this spring. I have baldelli and sweeney onmy bench. So that is what I have to work with, drop, keep, etc.

I have #2 waivers in both leagues.

This is ridiculous. My next draft, I have the #8 position. Unbelievable. Three drafts and havent even got a top 5 or 6 pick in a single one of them! So much for me ever getting arod or pujols this season. And I hate it when I can't have even 1 team with one of those! I am tempted to buy one mroe team, but at these huge costs I doubt

This is ridiculous. My next draft, I have the #8 position. Unbelievable. Three drafts and havent even got a top 5 or 6 pick in a single one of them! So much for me ever getting arod or pujols this season. And I hate it when I can't have even 1 team with one of those! I am tempted to buy one mroe team, but at these huge costs I doubt

This is ridiculous. My next draft, I have the #8 position. Unbelievable. Three drafts and havent even got a top 5 or 6 pick in a single one of them! So much for me ever getting arod or pujols this season. And I hate it when I can't have even 1 team with one of those! I am tempted to buy one mroe team, but at these huge costs I doubt I will. Thus I would only have one more shot.

Unbelievable. #5 pick. I am tempted to buy a fifth team for one last shot at a top pick where I can have arod or pujols, but I am paying out so much so far I hate to risk yet another!

What happened with the draft where you were picking 8th?

I'll post that one later. But you already know most of it I think.

This other draft is tonight. I can't believe I havent got a top 4 pick in ANY draft! Last year I got almost ALL #1 and #2 picks. Most years I gett crappy ones in most but at least 1 good one! I wanted to spread out different players on my teams, but I cant ever get arod, pujols, or teixeira.

Team 3 (pick8) (least favorite team)

C- Piazza and Liberthal

1B- Howard and Delgado

2B- Kent

3B- Glaus

SS- Reyes and Peralta

OF- Crawford, Gomes, Drew, Bradley, Gathright, Alou, Green (opens at coors)

SP- Carpenter, Rj, Beckett, Schilling, Wood (hurt), Liriano (reliever to start season)

RP- Jenks, Valverde, Ray

Team 4 (pick 5)

C- nobody

1B- Teixeira

2B- B. Roberts (doing well in ST with no injury probs)

3B- Cabrera, Ramirez, Glaus. (lol got enough 3B depth?)

SS- Reyes

OF- (obviously I have Cabrera there for now), Ordonaz, Wells, Giles, Anderson, Gathright. (pretty weak although cabrera tons of power and gathright tons of speed. I hate to risk miguel this year though. giles was an accident pick, wells looking great this spring and his age = breakout year age).

SP- Harden, Schmidt, Schilling, Kazmir, Escobar, Oliver, Garcia, Liriano (pretty great for 8 starters. I have TOTAL confidence in schilling and schmidt).

RP- Street, Guardado, Dempster

Out of my 4 big money teams, I have:

1. One in first place by half a point.

2. One tied for first place.

3. One a half a point out.

If I were to win those 3, I would win $10,500.

Soriano on pace for almost 60 homers and almost 40 steals with over a .300 average. Pretty nice so far for my #47 pick. And Aaron insisted he would drop way off this year. I try to tell people some of this crap they worry about doesn't matter much. Such as ballparks.

Also I am in first in those 3 leagues still and have been for a few days. Too bad I can't make the season end today!

As of today my teams are in first, first, second, second. The 2 second place teams are 5 and 1/2 and 11 out.

Now all 4 of my teams wre within 6 up and 6 down.

For the first time all season I am now in first or tied for first in ALL four leagues. I am ahead in 3 and tied in 1. So I guess if it ended today they would split the 1 in half and I would thus win $12,250 if it ended now. It is going to be a crying shame if I don't win at least 3 of those 4 when I have amde it this far.

It's finally happened. I am officially in first in all of them now, which would mean $14,000.

What's weird is in 1 league I am up by 12 and in another league the 7'th place guy is only 12 points behind me.