The Wise Report: May 6, 2008 - Get Off Me

Well, OK all is fair in love war and blogging. I havent written anything in nearly 2 months and I have to admit thats my bad but here you go:

Fantasy Baseball has taken over my love of the game.

I have been playing Fantasy Baseball since pretty early in the Yahoo days, first in GF and now in Argyle I have been in competitive leagues since the beginning of high school. But up until this year the fantasy sport had not surpassed the real sport in terms of my love for the game. Everyone who plays fantasy understands that you start watching ESPN just to check and see how your guys did or you spend the 10 bucks on Yahoo! and get yourself stattracker (I overdrew my checking account to do this so you know I am a sucker for the constant updates) so that you don't have to worry about ESPN. But now I have immersed myself in fantasy blogs, and fantasy projections to the point that I know I shouldn't deal J. Morneau for M. Teixiera until June because Morneau plays better in April and May. This is killing my love of the sport. I can't watch a game without thinking about who I should of picked up or who I can drop and whether or not a long reliever is going to get enough spot starts to make himself valuable, this is killing me. Not that I should be complaining: I am currently holding down the #2 spot in the most competitive non-pay league in all of Fantasy Baseball with an, at-best, mediocre team. I am winning weeks by the skin of my teeth and looking at batter vs. pitcher analysis on Saturday and Sunday to determine who on my team plays and where my opponent will falter. To sum it up: I can name every closer for every MLB team and his most likely replacement off the top of my head- this is the kind of thing that I do with my time.

Rant Over.

NHL playoffs are in progress and the Isles need to either be contracted or make DiPietro read a book has anyone else heard him do analysis on VS. my god man you sound like an idiot.

Gordon's last post was on College Hoops, thats how long its been since I wrote.

Roger Clemens, Miguel Tejada, and R. Kelly are all sitting at a bar. Do you need a punchline?

Only 8% of players in the MLB are black but a black All-Star team could still beat a White All-Star team and a Hispanic All-Star team could beat both: just look at these lineups

White Guys: Team Honkey
C: Mauer
1B: Berkman
2B: Utley
SS: Michael Young (Tulo's Injured)
3B: Wright
OF: Holiday, Braun, Sizemore
DH: Morneau

SP: Peavy
CL: Papelbon

Black Guys: (I am far too white to insert anything here)
C: OK, Fine so Black Guys don't catch
1B: Ryan Howard
2B:Brandon Phillips
SS: Jimmy Rollins
3B: Chone Figgins
OF: Crawford, Soriano, B.J. Upton
DH:Prince Fielder

SP: C.C.
CL: Manny Corpas

Note: You may not think that these guys would win but with the exception of Ryan Howard, and Prince, every guy on this team is a threat to steal 2nd and 3rd

Hispanic Guys: (Once Again, Im too white)
C: V-Mart
1B: Pujols
2B: Polanco
SS: HanRam
3B: A-Rod
OF: Carlos Lee, Vlad Guerrero, Carlos Beltran
DH: Miggy Cabrera

SP: Johan Santana
CL: K-Rod

Note: This team is dirty and you would have a guy batting .350 in the 9 hole (Polanco)