Bonds in Yahoo?

[chefref22]

i'm in a keeper league on yahoo.we are doing a slow live draft on another site,then inputting the rosters.we voted on when to start drafting and decided to start february 4.we got the first pick done before we stopped because we didn't want to be halfway through the draft only to see bonds isn't in the game and we have to start all over.i know yahoo opens in mid-february,but that still doesn't necessarily mean the day it opens,we'll know exactly whether or not bonds will be in the game.a different site opened up a week and a half ago and we still don't have a definite answer on bonds.

so does anyone have any advice on what my league should do here/what your yahoo keeper league is doing about bonds or even if you might have a definte answer on if he'll be in the game or not??

thanks

[trevisc]

no one is 100% sure but espn has "San Francisco LF" and someone posted a response from Yahoo that said they didn't see any reason why Bonds wouldn't be available. I think it's the concensus here that either Bonds or his Stats will be available though.

[kentx12]

I believe if he is not there his stats will be.

[Fumbler]

Weird.

Sportsline has Bonds (name and all) in their player database.

[Transmogrifier]

The search function is a wonderful thing: http://www.fantasybaseballcafe.com/foru ... o&start=45


There's some on there about Bonds and "poison", about what to do in keepers, and even a response from Yahoo!--page four.

Enjoy!

[Guest]

In Yahoo fantasy football Lavar Arrington was not in the game for the same reason. So I would think that Bonds would not be in Yahoo. One option for you guys is to omit Bonds from your league, nobody can draft him and nobody can pick him up. Who wants that cranky guy anyways.

[wrveres]

Quik Update ..

today i set up our league site on TQ Stats !!

TQ Stats/ CDM / Rototimes are all under one umbrella and they are one of the biggies in "pay service" fantasy baseball!! BTW

Anyways, after setting up the site I started playing around with some of the cool tools on the site!! They have some great Java windows that make roster management easy. They also have a free trade evaluator (pffft) and a really neet inflation calculator.. oh yeah live stats too .... and it was only 89.00 for the season. Can't beat that. 7.41 per team. thats sweet. I get my veryown personalized watchlist .. to go along with all the cool toys rototimes already provides for free ...
7.41 per team ... WOW ..

oh yeah Barry Lamar Bonds ....
of course now the first thing i do is go to see if his name is there, right? I start poking around, another cool java window and low and behold, for 2004 CDM Baseball Barry Bonds in the game !!!!! Cool, now maybe people will shut up but I doubt it !!! Barry does not have a vendetta against anybody, I promise you that ..

oh and ya wanna know what name he was under ? ? ? ?


Barry Bonds

[Guest]

That is interesting, but in Yahoo football Arrington was in Yahoo at the time of my draft, sometime after the draft Arrington was no longer available in Yahoo. I mean we are talking Yahoo not TQ Stats/Rototimes.

[Purple Haze]

The search function is a wonderful thing: http://www.fantasybaseballcafe.com/foru ... o&start=45


There's some on there about Bonds and "poison", about what to do in keepers, and even a response from Yahoo!--page four.

Enjoy!

Great link..Thanks alot

[Arlo]

I agree with wrveres that there's reason to be optimistic, but I wouldn't put the issue to bed quite yet (and no, I'm not insinuating any vendettas here ). The Arrington business does provide a precedent where a player was pulled after initially being included.

I did notice that Bonds was notably absent from the recently released Upper Deck Vintage card set, though (a large release that includes everyone down to Bo Hart and Brooks Kieschnick), as well as the upcoming Fleer Platinum set. I wouldn't draw too many conclusions about Bonds' inclusion in fantasy ball from that, though.

I honestly have no idea what I'd do in a keeper draft, other than push the draft date back as far as possible. You could also simply make sure every owner is aware of the situation, and let them draft at their own risk, but this might lead to someone picking up a huge bargain if many owners pass on Bonds.