On Saturday and Sunday I had a total of five starters going. After getting through the weekend with Gavin Floyd, Ben Sheets, Joe Saunders, Oliver Perez and Scott Baker combining for a 2.56 ERA, I had zero wins to show for it.
After a lifetime of aggravating seasons, I’m having a particularly hard time believing how pathetic my team is this year. After holding down the top spot with mirrors for the better part of the first 75 games in my NL-only league, I’m now dangerously close to the long good bye.
Once again everything I touch turns to maneur. I completed another dump-trade in my NL-only league in an effort to secure my annual second-place finish. I moved the indomitable Brad Lidge and a couple of Ring Dings for Greg Maddux, Aaron Harang and Rich Aurilia.
My main Kabuki, Hiroki Kuroda, who I egregiously did not recall from the DL last week in time for his seven-inning shutout of Houston, tonight recorded a complete-game, one-hit shutout of the Braves. I now need Kuroda and the rest of my starters to throw one-hit shutouts every outing (144 or so) for the remainder of the season to make up for my ERA and WHIP during interleague play.
In honor of Independence Day, I’d like to detonate a cherry bomb on my pathetic NL-only team.
At this point of the year, it is virtually impossible in my 11-team league to drop 13 points in a matter of two weeks, but that is exactly what I did.
Jeff and Greg flip the pigskin around for their first NFL mock fantasy draft, and not a moment too soon. With both of their baseball seasons careening into a dark chasm, the colicky couple need to be pacified, and fast. Neither of them have done a stitch of research for this draft, but they both believe that gives them a strategic advantage. Who the hell can predict anything in football? Not these two, but that’s not going to stop them from trying.
I’m being continuously knocked to the canvas in my baseball league, and I don’t know if I’m going to be able to keep getting up. On Tuesday night at some point, I fell into ninth place in my 10-team league. Ninth place! I was in third place a few weeks ago.
Jeff’s head is spinning after the NBA Draft and accompanying trades that will reshape the fantasy landscape. He sifts through the rubble in the latest installment of The Complaint Desk.
Jermaine O’Neal is in the news today, and the mere mention of his name turns my spine to jelly. The Pacers have apparently had enough and have shipped the Human Knee Strain to Toronto for T.J. Ford and a draft pick.
Jeff and Greg reconvene for another session of “On the Couch”, just in time for the NBA Draft. Follow along throughout the day on Wednesday and feel free to participate in the comments section.
