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By Tyson Rauch   As the NFL college draft approaches the anticipation builds across the country for all that are involved; the players, the teams and their fans. Many water cooler conversations include names like Ryan Leaf, Rick Mirer, Cade McNown, Akili Smith and several others as fans shake their heads at the selections from… Read more

By Gregg Hayim Being as I see the subject discussed about as often as I hear “This Is Our Countryâ€? played during an ABC televised sporting event, I figured hey, its March, I don’t have much else to do, why not throw another log on the fire? Over and over we toss the questions back… Read more

Fantasy Baseball with Mike Dietrich Hello all and welcome to the 3rd installment of our fantasy baseball column.  This week  we will review NL rookies to watch out for this year. New York Mets Mike Pelfrey is having a nice spring and will be a SP it is just a matter of when and not… Read more

Benjamin Franklin once said that only two things in life that are certain are death and taxes. I would like to mention a third: Inflation. Inflation is the perpetual rise in prices that results in depreciation over any length of time of purchasing power. By way of example, you would need about $1.82 in 2003… Read more

By Sperm Edwards People have a lot of revisionist history with regards to this FO’s acquisition of FA’s. Backtrack to one year ago. To start the ’06 off-season, there WAS no salary cap for ‘07. Nor were talks going well as late as the last week of February (allegedly). What you do with your current… Read more

By Sperm Edwards ESPN had us at about $21M under the 2007 back in January. Since then we’ve seen cuts (or upcoming cuts/trades) of: Barlow $2.9M cleared Teague $0.7M cleared Blaylock $0.6M additional (no savings) Hamilton $1.5M cleared Ramsey $1.7M cleared Kimo $1.4M cleared ————————————————– Total = $7.6M cleared = $28M under the 2007 cap… Read more

By Gregg Hayim I am not exactly sure what it is. Perhaps it’s the timing of when I began writing for this site. Smack down in the midst of a playoff run with enough thrill to evoke a rise from a slice of Passover matzah. Or possibly, it is the circumstances surrounding my own life… Read more

By Tyson Rauch Coming off their playoff appearance both the New York Jets and their fans head into the off-season full of excitement.  The teams play improved as the season progressed and it appears that with some quality personnel additions a better season can be achieved next year.  The question is where will this personnel… Read more

By Max I had some harsh comments for Woody Johnson when I received my season ticket invoice the other day.  After thinking about it some more, I felt my initial reaction was accurate.  There is no reason that ticket prices should have gone up as much as they have these past few years.  I understand… Read more

By Frank Barone How would you describe the ideal Eric Mangini player? Some of the character traits would be intelligence, strong work ethic, unselfishness and he would be team oriented, besides the athletic talent. You look at those traits and you see Brian Leonard, the Rutgers running back. Why did Brian Leonard come back for… Read more

By Sperm Edwards I’ve seen the Jets cap situation as being anywhere from $20-28M under the $109M cap for 2007. No outsider knows the number exactly, but I believe the figure is closer to $30M than $20M. Either way, that’s not all. We’re clearly going to make at least some roster changes. So who gets… Read more