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Forecasting what might happen with those fancy trade exceptions this season: “Most years the NBA trade season is defined by the term ‘expiring contracts.’ This season, however, there’s a different phrase that might be at the center of big-name transactions: trade exceptions.
Trade exceptions can be created several ways, but large ones typically are created when a team acquires salary-cap space in exchange for trading a player. The team that receives the cap space then gets a credit — of the amount of the departing player’s salary in the current year of his deal or the first year of a new deal — that it can use in future transactions for a calendar year.” [Brian Windhorst/ESPN.com]
Ok, enough Browns talk for the day. Lets wrap this day up with some Indians news, seeing as how the Tribe gets their regular season started in just a few weeks already. I’ve made no secret of my general disgust with major league baseball and the way they continuously foster a system of complete competitive imbalance, but I’m such a sucker for spring time. The 5 foot snow piles here in Columbus are beginning to finally melt away, we’ve had our first successive days in the 50s this week, and hope springs eternal.
If you’re disgusted by the Indians’ opening series, (and aren’t we all) take heart that the Clippers begin their season tonight against in Louisville. If you didn’t see TD’s excellent team preview, do yourself a favor and 
Thanks to a huge second half that saw Beau Mills hit .327 with an OPS just shy of 1.000, the 13th overall selection in 2007 definitely lived up to expectations this season and 
Fausto Carmona should be thrilled and Eddie Mujica should simply be thankful that it is simply the way the rules are written. Mujica had a Joe Borowski Special, with a “BS” and a “W” next to his name in the box score.
