It seems to me that on this blog, there is this pervasive idea that once Mark Connor comes for a mound visit, only bad things happen. I have never thought of Mark Connor as good for anything and I remember participating in the boos last year when he would come out.

But, at least to me, it seemed like he wasn't so ineffective this year and people seemed to completely ignore the good outcomes and highlight the bad. Sometimes it seems people will boo his mound visit when the mound visit the LAST INNING proved to work out.

So I did some dirty work:

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really, Longhorn - think he'll be injured for the entire season?

BTW - in case you forgot, there's not supposed to be discussion in those projection threads.  thats why we have these.

as for Clueless's comment - dumb.

people are going nuts so far with incredibly optimistic projections.  I didn't realize so many people were so high on him

Almost like a mercy killing for this season.  In some ways, this is more palatable than another 7 game series playoff loss

Ok, so I went ahead and made a GreaseMonkey script where you can prevent the posts and diaries of certain users from showing up on your screen.  Obviously, nobody has to use this and I'm probably not going to use it for too many users (if any), but thought I would put it out there.  It's not so user friendly but I just did it in a night so if anybody wants to modify it and make it look prettier, easier to use feel free.  I'm also not really a programmer so it might not be the most efficient code.

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Keith Law did a pretty good rundown of the top 50 free agents.  I couldn't actually tell if the rankings reflected his thoughts or what the market valued them as (he ranks eckstein 15 but bashes him; ranks andruw jones as the highest CF), but the write ups are pretty good.  

It is Insider but they are doing a free preview

http://insider.espn.go.com/mlb/hotstove07/insider/columns/story?columnist=law_keith&id=3104954

Anybody have any advice, things I need to see, stuff I should look out for?

Sitting first base side so won't have the opportunity of sitting by scouts which I kind of wanted to do.