RockyRaccoon

New album from The Flaming Lips, "The Terror" is great. Couple moments where it gets a little over-indulgent, but generally, it's really good.

Also, go listen to the new Night Beds album "Country Sleep". It's amazing, seriously. Beautiful indie-folk music.

This might be a stretch, but what about Joe Walsh? I know he was in James Gang first, but they only really had one big album and I wouldn't be surprised if he sold more as a solo artist and then a bunch with The Eagles

Check out this song. Really nice song, one of the best on the album. Very personal song. The album is kind of disjointed, because you get songs like this, and then songs all about how awesome he is. It's weird.

New album form Tyler, The Creator is pretty good, has some great songs on it. Some not so great, but for the most part it's good, check it out.

I'm seeing scores. We started scoring yesterday

American Psycho with Huey Lewis and Weird Al

"Joker & The Thief"- Wolfmother (2005) "Under Cover Of Darkness"- The Strokes (2011) "She Owns The Streets"- The Raveonettes (2012)

1. Take a Walk - Passion Pit (2012) 2. Fistful of Mercy - Fistful Of Mercy (2010) 3. Don't Owe You a Thang - Gary Clark Jr (2012) 4. Beach - Mew (2009) 5. Maw Maw Song - The Joy Formidable (2013) 6. Queen of California - John Mayer (2012) 7. Do You Wanna - The Kooks (2008) 8. Mr. Bass Man - Johnny Cymbal (1963) 9. Long Gone - Syd Barrett (1970) 10. Missing You - John Waite (1984)

Actually, I was wrong, we start scoring tomorrow.

Since we start scoring tomorrow, I'm going to replace IP with Quality Starts right now. If I don't hear anything by the end of the night, we'll keep blown saves, we can change it next year.

I'm ok with getting rid of blown saves if everyone else feels the same. I'm also fine with replacing IP with quality starts. We do need to have pitching and batting equal though, that's a fairly standard rule throughout fantasy baseball, so we'll either have to replace BSs with something or get rid of a batting category

Also, Ray, OBP is On-Base Percentage. It's calculated by the following formula: (H+BB+HBP)/(AB+BB+HBP+SF) In essence, it calculates how good a player is at getting on base, whether it be through walks or whatever. There may be players who have mediocre averages, but great OBPs because they're really good at getting on base. An OBP of at least .400 is considered very good.

In regards to IP- The winner is the person with the most innings pitched, yes. The thought behind that is this: 1. A good pitcher will get a lot of innings, though yes, you will have mediocre workhorses out there such as Rodrigo Lopez who will log 190+ inning a year and do nothing spectacular, but for the most part, skilled pitchers stay in for longer and get more innings. Also, this prevents people from attempting to just get mostly relievers and nailing a really low ERA (though yes, raising the innings limit will fix that to a degree). Personally, I don't mind the stat, as I believe that a mark of a good pitcher is their ability to go deep into games. However, if the league would like to get rid of it we can, we just need to either replace it with something (maybe quality starts?) or get rid of a hitting stat to even it out. In regards to blown saves- this separates the Craig Kimbrels from the Brian Fuentes. When Brian Fuentes saves a game, he almost always gives up about three hits, a walk and a run or something like that, and then somehow manages to get out of the inning. However, he also has the chance to blow a lot of saves. You have to take into account the type of closer you're getting, whether they're actually good enough to get those saves or they get lucky. Take John Axford for example. Lead the league in blown saves last year, but also got 35 saves. I will acknowledge that it can end up in a fair amount of ties here and there but I don't mind the stat. Again, if the league would like to get rid of it, then we can, and we'll have to figure out something to balance it. In regards to the total innings limit- I would agree that it's low, I've thought that just about every time I've looked at it and just never got around to changing it. Would we like to set it to 20 or 24? I was thinking probably 24.

1. Walking Dead, The 2. How I Met Your Mother 3. Breaking Bad 4. Dexter 5. Psych 6. Colbert Report, The 7. Tosh.0 8. It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia 9. Game of Thrones 10. Boardwalk Empire

"Fistful Of Mercy" - Fistful Of Mercy (2010) "Take A Walk" - Passion Pit (2012) "Beach" - Mew (2009)

1. Down With The Shine - The Avett Brothers (2012) 2. I Will Wait - Mumford & Sons (2012) 3. Custard Pie - Led Zeppelin (1975) 4. Some Nights - fun. (2012) 5. Mean Monsoon - Dan Auerbach (2009) 6. Safe And Sound - Electric President (2010) 7. Short People - Randy Newman (1977) 8. Heaven and Hell - Black Sabbath (1980) 9. Flying High Again - Ozzy Osbourne (1981) 10. Unchained - Van Halen (1981)

Looks like everyone's in. I'm gonna set our status to "Ready". Should be autodrafted in the next day or so.

In case it wasn't made clear in the previous post, this is a head-to-head league. If there are any categories we would like to change, let me know and we can work that out.

Alright guys, so it's fantasy baseball time. I apologize for starting this so late. I'm only going to do one league for two reasons: 1. I don't like points and 2. I don't know how I would run points. Last year, Kevin kinda handed the points league over to me and I didn't have to do much. Here's the important info: League ID: 173600 Password: 1234 I assumed we'll be doing autodraft as per usual. I will let everyone know when I set our league to ready (most likely, it will be this upcoming weekend, probably either tomorrow night or Saturday). Sign up and let's get this going!

Also, finally listened to the new Bowie album. Good, not great. I enjoyed it, especially a couple of songs ("The Stars (Are Out Tonight)" and "Love Is Lost" specifically), but I wasn't wowed like I had hoped I would be.

I haven't listened to the new Phoenix album yet, does it really sound like The Strokes?

"Safe And Sound" - Electric President (2010) "Mean Monsoon" - Dan Auerbach (2009) "Down With The Shine" - The Avett Brothers (2012)

New album by The Strokes is fantastic, as per usual from them. Julian Casablancas proves how awesome his voice really is with a sweet falsetto on a few of these songs.

Instant play on the computer. Don't bother with the physical discs.