ILX Yahoo! Fantasy Baseball League 2003 -- Part 2 . . .

Holy crap, I'm bitter.

Felicity, there are plenty of other middle relievers in the sea. Let Al go. You're too good for him.

I adore how Prior always finishes his follow-though with a little mitt-on-the-hip "attitude," like a runway model striking a pose at the end of the catwalk. He's wonderful.

Surely the "Vulture" is a classic roto archetype? e.g., the Angels have a tie or a small lead in late innings, the previous pitcher gets in a jam, Bud Black brings in sinker-slider specialist Al Levine to induce the double play, Levine walks the other guy's baserunner in or somehow lets him score, erasing the lead, and then proceeds to close the inning, Glaus or Garrett Anderson either rally for a couple or don't but if they do the the next thing you know the line looks like Levine (W, 8-6), Percival (S, 35). Not bad for 15 to 35 pitches.

The Canseco pitching story makes me sad. But I liked the inning of perfect relief Steve Finley threw in the D-backs championship year one game when they were getting blown out by the Roxx.

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check your mail.

I am pleased that Prior is the #1 "Undroppable" pitcher on ESPN. If you try to release an undroppable player you get an error message. We shall become THE UNDROPPABLES.

I can't find a definition of what a Hold actually is?!? My interweb research skills are FAILLLLLLING.

http://espn.go.com/mlb/s/2000/0523/546788.html

There was some crazy game involving the Red Sox last year where they won by like ten runs, but some dude got a save. I think they were up by like 15 in like the sixth inning, and they brought in a bullpen guy who mopped up the last three innings. He gave up five runs or something. And he got credited with a save!

-- lawrence kansas (lawrence_kansa...), March 14th, 2003.

ooh lawrence.

Meanwhile, the Expos are the Reality League ChicksDigKs. Armas is 2-hitting the Cubs after 5 with 9Ks. Ouch.

http://www.toykeeper.com/cooperstown/Atlanta.jpg

The bottom of my rotation has kicked it up a notch with 'Grape' Appier and 'On Golden' Ponson giving the pockets a shot to move up in the standings.

I will make the post to remove the number of the beast.

gammons has a musical past. he was in bands (he played guitar) from the time he was in high school in western mass to the time he graduated unc in the late 60's. in his sunday baseball notes section of the boston globe he has a section where he uses song titles to name brief annecdotes from around mlb. he freaked me out when he used sebadoh's "as the world dies the eyes of god grow bigger" as a title to one of his articles. this was around 1993 so i can guarantee you not many people could've told you who sebadoh were let alone name any of their songs.

he must have kids with good taste or something.

(otto is in my *ahem* other league)

felicity, i love how your boy estes flubs throws to keep his ERA down... estes has the accuracy of steve sax ("FORE!") when not throwing from the mound.

i'm kind of embarrassed because i think the team that's directly in front of me in *your other league* (you make it sound like a secret child from an illicit double life or something) has been abandoned by it's manager.

i'm not sure my ego can take getting shallaced by random chance.

if he has no activity at mid-season, i'll boot him.

and hey, if anyone wants a ticket to tomorrows cubs/pirates game let me know. the guy i was supposed to go with (my boss, actually) just bailed so i have a free ticket.

The ceramic GM is cute. The real GM isn't as cute, but he started a season in equally asstastic fashion (y'know, where all those hittable pitches he threws got hit hahd), but he turned it around. Maybe he needs to get some "pitching help" (wink wink) from Don Sutton.

KKKKKKyle Farnsworth got me a hold pitching like a tee ball coach. Therefore, holds are klassik.

Have any of the Braves players ever seen winter before? They're dressed like Packer fans, w/out the cheese. They should lose for disrespecting the baseball gods and not Toughing It Out. Also, having Brian Litrell from the Backstreet Boys singing "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" for a Turner South promo - that's worth at least 3 circles of Hell.

Ahem, speaking of Vultures, I present Tim "15 pitches" Spooneybarger:

Florida  IP  H  R  ER  BB SO HR ERA
Beckett 5.0 6 2 2 3 7 1 3.29
Tejera 2.2 2 1 1 1 3 1 3.12
Nunez, V 0.1 0 0 0 0 1 0 10.80
Spooneybarger (W, 1-0) 1.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3.00
 
Pitches-strikes: Beckett 93-54, Tejera 46-31, Nunez, V , Spooneybarger 15-9

I care not for my 4-place drop in standings. I rule you all in strikeouts and wins.

Your words say one thing but your heart speaks another.

I've decided to tinker with my lineup til the cows come home.