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

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.

I will not deny that my heart longs for this . . . (reaching for ILB Championship Ring)

Dave R., you should trade Leee for Danny Graves because he needs to put the letter "C" in front of his current job description if you know what I mean, ha ha!

Well Graves is kind of a "loser" now, get it?

119 pitches in his second start, too? ?!?! ?!?!?!

In happier news, that's the way, Fischerspooneybaby. You can hold my lead any day.

Still not a W b/n Matty Mo and Pedro. Who knows what we doing.

But Luis Castillo ACTUALLY STOLE A BASE! Why, he's practically en fuego!

And my sympathies to you Johnson & Schilling owners, but, man, it's nice to see the D-Backs crap out early in the season. Bwah hah hah.

*sigh* I'll take solace in the fact that lots o' good players are doing poorly and the season is young, but time is getting nigh...

I tore my hair out last night watching the Indians lose to the Royals 1-0. Bottom of the ninth and Spencer trys to stretch a double into a triple and gets thrown out. I'm losing it. I need a (Desi) Baez (Jr)save to calm me down.

"It usually isn't the Cubs if something disappointing hasn't happened, and sure, enough, that's the case here. Now sure, Bobby Hill could have helped himself by having a great camp, but he was good enough to win the job last spring, last summer, and last fall. Why should a little bit of March yips change anything? Because the new sheriff in town probably needed to see something, in the same way that he's convinced that Mark Bellhorn's not good enough if he's only hitting homeruns or drawing walks. But again, perhaps far too predictably, a Dusty-designed team favored the graybeards. So Eric Karros and Mark Grudzielanek will play, although at least Hee Choi managed to hold onto a job-sharing arrangement at first. And then you've got a Cubs bench loaded with some of the scrubbier scrubs around, Tom Goodwin and Lenny Harris and Troy O'Leary, all years removed from utility, plus Ramon E. Martinez, who, like Goodwin, is another one of Dusty's guys from the Giants. You can almost sense the disappointment that Antonio Alfonseca wasn't healthy, so that Kyle Farnsworth could be flagellated for contributing to the unlamented departure of Don Baylor. Rod Beck had a good enough camp to make it, but having overcommitted to guys like Dave Veres and Mark Guthrie already, the Cubs were a bit hamstrung in terms of their choices in the bullpen. Should they finally find a partner to deal for Farnsworth, they'll have made space for someone appropriately old enough to not be mistaken for one of the batboy's fathers."

Yip!

But haha to whoever picked up Dempster after me.

Haha and Weathers gets the 2-inning hold but Benitez blows it AND Rocky Biddle gets the win in the same game!

Leee, you have to call him the Rockmeister.

Leee, always a pleasure doing business with you. Being a pedigreed former CDK pitcher always carries with it a certain guarantee of quality. I demand retractions from everyone who even contemplated vetoing the Lo Duca for Biddle trade for being too one-sided in my favor.

OMG, KKKKKKKKKKerry Wood threw a gem yesterday.

Maybe Zito just wants to fit in with the other Hall of Famer pitchers who have been stinking it up. He's impressionable. It's been worth it for the sweet extra Smoltz footage talking about what's wrong with Maddux on BT.