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~For those of you that are unaware ESPN as Deadspin put it went Nuclear on their fantasy game. Basically over the first week of the season any moves or trades that have happened in the league did not count, they reverted all rosters to the draft day roster and calculated the first week stats based on those rosters. I am currently in one ESPN league with my buddies just for fun, I have Arod thus I mauled the guy I was playing, and since it's the one league I don't have money invested in and the one draft I missed I didn't pay much attention to the faulty working of ESPN last week, but it is humurous.

~ESPN did redeem itself to me, aka a person who didn't care it was down anyway, I get free fantasy insider, which doesn't matter that much and a free prize football league for the fall, woo, whatever that means.

~How about Milwaukee drawing 19,000+ for the Indians game yesterday, that's a pretty solid number. I wonder what they actually charged for tickets.

~Speaking of the Cleveland snow, when/how do they plan on making these games up? They gonna do a double header just one random day when they have coinciding days off, do they even have another series in Cleveland?

~Jorge Julio sucks, he blew another one last night, ugh.

~Dan Wheeler takes over the closers role and yesterday comes in the 9th with a 4 run lead gives up 2 and who's warming up, Lidge.

~It's definately the high socks for Arod. Their magical.

~Cowherd is bring up the A Bomb from Arod call by Sterling as if its a big deal. Trying to gather a story from nothing, not working.

~If you're not watching Dice-K vs. King Felix tonight at 7 on ESPN2 or NESN you're an idiot... Or your cable company is still run by a bunch of douche bags who still blackout the red sox games even though you're not in a blackout zone despite the fact you have repeatedly called them and sent them emails informing them of their idiocy.

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