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

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.

Felicity, do you realize how many KKKKKKKs your team has right now? It's obscene.

'Grape' Appier, Vazquez, and Brian Anderson (who was just picked up in a fit of homeritis). 'Zippo' Leiter pitched another great game.

I'm seriously considering starting a Tim Couch bobblehead doll at third base.

This is the Pocket minute for April 14th.