there's a calendar option. however, not all members have authorization to post events to the calendar. here's a list of key dates from the BoP I board:

Nov. 10: Free agent filing period ends.
Nov. 7-11: GMs meetings, Indian Wells, Calif.
Nov. 16-17: Owners meeting, Milwaukee.
Dec. 5-8: Winter meetings, Dallas.
Dec. 5-9: Players' union executive board meeting, Henderson, Nev.
Dec. 7: Last day for teams to offer salary arbitration to their former players who became free agents.
Dec. 19: Last day for free agents offered salary arbitration to accept or reject the offers.
Dec. 20: Last day for teams to offer 2006 contracts to unsigned players.
2006
Jan 5-15: Salary arbitration filing.
Jan. 8: Last day until May 1 for free agents who rejected arbitration offers to re-sign with their former teams.
Jan. 18: Exchange of salary arbitration figures.
Feb. 1-21: Salary arbitration hearings.
Week of Feb. 13: Spring training opens.
March 3-20: Inaugural World Baseball Classic.


Dec. 7: Last day for teams to offer salary arbitration to their former players who became free agents. If Club does not offer, then it loses all rights to negotiate with and sign the free agent until May 1st of the next season.

December 8: Major League Rule 5 Draft

Dec. 19: Last day for free agents offered salary arbitration to accept or reject the offers. If player rejects offer to go to arbitration, his former club may still negotiate with and sign him until January 8th of next season.

Updated important dates:

March 3-20: Inaugural World Baseball Classic.
April 2: Opening day: Cleveland at Chicago White Sox. ... Active rosters reduced to 25 players.
May 15: Hall of Fame Game, Cincinnati vs. Pittsburgh (Cooperstown, N.Y.)
June 6-7: Amateur draft.
July 11: All-Star Game (Pittsburgh)
July 30: Hall of Fame inductions (Cooperstown, N.Y.)
July 31: Last day to trade a player without securing waivers.
Sept. 1: Active rosters expand to 40 players.
Oct. 3: Playoffs begin.
Oct. 10: League championship series begin.
Oct. 21: World Series begins.


i'm not sure how many of the winter dates still apply. the general timeframe for MLB events does apply and those can be updated where applicable. those key dates were a "sticky" post on BoP. might be useful to have an updated list as a sticky in the forum. but it also might be useful to have whichever are the correct dates for certain events reflected in the calendar. i'm not sure how the calendar works. maybe there's an alert given upon log-in, like there is upon receipt of new PMs. then again, maybe it's overkill. :P

okay, you should be able to add events now. please feel free to do just that :P

i believe what it does is displays upcoming events on the main page, if i enable that. i'll go see about doing that right now...i think that would be kinda cool

if it's too much trouble to add the dates tho, let me know and we can just put the one you posted here as a sticky on the main forum, right?

thanks scuff!

i was able to add an event. so, i added another! then another! times were good.

but then i remembered that the first event i'd added was only a test event (the LCS do NOT begin today :P. however, i wasn't sure if events posted beyond today would appear, so i used today's date). indeed, events occurring within 30 days do appear. the LCS begin October 10th.

anyway, i couldn't delete that October 5th LCS event. now, unless one is tim mccarver and of the apparent belief that the yankees already are the 2007 MLB champions, the LCS do actually matter. as such, could you check deletion permissions and/or delete that October 5th event?

Go Tigers!

Edit: all good now with the deletion stuff.

Edit II: well, i populated the calendar a bit. i'm going to try to add some content to a few items, so they don't read as, for example, an event titled "world series begins" and the related post offers the detail "world series begins." call it a work in progress.

this calendar thing is pretty cool scuff - i like being able to see whole periods of time, such as the "closed period" for waivers.

i chose 30 days, but i think it will be more meaningful if it changes more often, so i'm gonna pull it down to 10. for now. you saw it listed down at the bottom of the page, right?

those blues keep showing up...gotta try 'n fix that...