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

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I know, I'm like Scrooge McDuck about the strikeouts. Like I'm sitting here surrounded by my big bags of "K"s.

― felicity (felicity), Sunday, 13 April 2003 23:54 (twenty-one years ago) link

Really, it's just the Cubs' rotation. The sad thing is I also kind of lust after Kerry Wood for my team. And Clement hasn't even turned it up yet. It's also wicked strange how having a high K-rate seems to go along with good WHIP, ERA and Ws, n'est-ce pas?

― felicity (felicity), Monday, 14 April 2003 00:01 (twenty-one years ago) link

(i didn't start wood yesterday! i forgot! GULP)

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Monday, 14 April 2003 01:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

At least you didn't pick up and start Ryan Dempster. Doh!

― bnw (bnw), Monday, 14 April 2003 02:07 (twenty-one years ago) link

I Love Baseball is like the poor, plain, neglected cousin to Yanc3y's $$$ league.

― felicity (felicity), Monday, 14 April 2003 03:25 (twenty-one years ago) link

Hey Felicity-- Your trade offer was totally fair but I couldn't justify messing with my team right now... if it ain't broke, etc.

― Aaron W (Aaron W), Monday, 14 April 2003 11:55 (twenty-one years ago) link

It's a big day for Pocket starters as I got three going today:

'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.

― lawrence kansas (lawrence kansas), Monday, 14 April 2003 12:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

My team continues to be an offensive juggernaut, but yesterday we got some decent starts from Lowe (whose blood blister appears to have healed), Wells and Day... vaulting our team ERA up to 9th place. But only in fantasy land could a team have 3 wins and 6 saves!

― Aaron W (Aaron W), Monday, 14 April 2003 12:06 (twenty-one years ago) link

Dropping Pokey Reese was another in a long line of genius moves on my part- he's got 5 errors already this year.

― lawrence kansas (lawrence kansas), Monday, 14 April 2003 12:15 (twenty-one years ago) link

Aaron W., good sportsmanship on your part, rowr. Just keep it in mind if anything changes.

― felicity (felicity), Monday, 14 April 2003 12:50 (twenty-one years ago) link

Will do! Just you wait... in a month or so when my team isn't batting .300 no more I'll be begging and pleading.

― Aaron W (Aaron W), Monday, 14 April 2003 12:54 (twenty-one years ago) link

here i sit, debating to trade the big unit for better infielders ... dum de dum ...

― maura (maura), Monday, 14 April 2003 19:18 (twenty-one years ago) link

gygax!, if possible, can you cancel my accidental dropping of E Burks? I meant to drop Counsell.

If you can't do it, or don't think it's right that's ok, too.

― lawrence kansas (lawrence kansas), Monday, 14 April 2003 19:30 (twenty-one years ago) link

Maura and I pulled off a pseudo-blockbuster just now! Wilkerson and Olerud for Stewart.

I kind of got rooked, but my team needed a shakeup.

― mark p (Mark P), Monday, 14 April 2003 19:41 (twenty-one years ago) link

Holy crap! How come I didn't know there was a player named Milton Bradley??

― Aaron W (Aaron W), Monday, 14 April 2003 19:43 (twenty-one years ago) link

ah, old Milton's a gamer. He's been with the Tribe for a couple of years.

― lawrence kansas (lawrence kansas), Monday, 14 April 2003 19:59 (twenty-one years ago) link

Vazquez stikes out the side in the first inning!

― lawrence kansas (lawrence kansas), Monday, 14 April 2003 20:03 (twenty-one years ago) link

How could you not know about Milton Bradley? Watch your Sports Center!

Vazquez stikes out the side in the first inning!

oh?

― felicity (felicity), Monday, 14 April 2003 20:06 (twenty-one years ago) link

i wuv this thread :)

i also wuv sunday nite baseball but living the wrong side of the atlantic means it doesn't get going til ONE IN THE MORNING, which is rub when one has to go to work on monday :(

i'm still toying with the idea of signing up to NASN (http:\\www.nasn.com), but ten squid a month seems a little excessive, and also means you don't get the fantastic channel five presenters who are v funny.

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Monday, 14 April 2003 20:06 (twenty-one years ago) link

ALSO, i need some kindly american to tell me which team to support, as it's all very well watching, but rooting for someone has to be better :)

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Monday, 14 April 2003 20:08 (twenty-one years ago) link

mitts off Vazquez, felicity.

― lawrence kansas (lawrence kansas), Monday, 14 April 2003 20:14 (twenty-one years ago) link

I wuv "stike"outs. At this rate VazKKKKKKez is going to shatter RJ/K. Wood's 20-K record.

Carsmile, wherefore nasn.com? Can't you follow games on Yahoo.com => Sports => MLB => Game Channel or ESPN.com Game Cast? Or is that TV?

Carsmile you should root for the Dodgers. They have a wonderfully distinguished history, the best radio announcer (Vin Scully) a great ballpark, the best uniforms in baseball, great weather and could really use some sincere overseas fans. Trust me.

― felicity (felicity), Monday, 14 April 2003 20:15 (twenty-one years ago) link

Carsmile-- Don't root for the Tigers!

― Aaron W (Aaron W), Monday, 14 April 2003 20:17 (twenty-one years ago) link

Oh and the Dodgers are unrepresented by fans on this board -- they will make your year exciting or misery but Fox, who owns them, spends enough on the Dodgers in salary so it's not like being a doomed Tigers or Orioles fan -- it will be worth your fandom. I like 'em ok but I have enough going on with the Cubs to really hoist the Dodger petard. Theset best is that as a Dodger fan you can get into excellent trash talking with Giants fans Leeee and gygax! (Hint: call them the "gnats" or "jints").

Did I mention the Dodgers have the best uniforms? How do they get their whites so white?

― felicity (felicity), Monday, 14 April 2003 20:18 (twenty-one years ago) link

Whatever you do, don't adopt the Yankees. You understand that's like suddenly becoming a Champions League football fan and adopting Manchester United, right?

The Dodgers would be more like Newcastle or Liverpool or some other team that is in no danger of relegation and occasionally wins but are not hated, overspending perpetual winners. Is there a famously long-suffering perrenial Premiere League team that doesn't get relegated but still never wins? That would be the Cubs.

― felicity (felicity), Monday, 14 April 2003 20:24 (twenty-one years ago) link

Dodgers do have the best uniforms.

― lawrence kansas (lawrence kansas), Monday, 14 April 2003 20:32 (twenty-one years ago) link

well yes, i realised the yankees was a no-no :)

sorry about rub link skills, nasn is a new satellite channel showing mlb, nhl and loads of college sport (nasn = north american sports network) oh and nascar too (yaaaaaaawwwwwwwnnnnn, and i'm a formula 1 fan). it's http://www.nasn.com obv. not entirely convinced it's worth the money, i imagine most of their subscribers are ex-pats and military types (and insomniacs) over here...

dodgers are also NL aren't they? can't be doing with this DH nonsense ;)

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Monday, 14 April 2003 20:36 (twenty-one years ago) link

"dodgers" is a good nickname too. God, think if the team you root for was called the "Magic" "Heat" "Spirit" etc...

― lawrence kansas (lawrence kansas), Monday, 14 April 2003 20:36 (twenty-one years ago) link

buh-leeve me, i hear enough of the dodger fandom in my reality baseball life f.

my dad is originally (and now) from los angeles and he gives me enough grief. most of my friends are dodgers fans.

and hold your horses, before you think i'm 100% behind the giants. i think i mentioned earlier that i hated the 1980s giants (will clark barf) but warmed when barry signed with them. (my favorite team in the 70s-early 90s were the Pirates.) one of my most hated players last year was a giant. his initials are Jeff Kent. i was never huge on dusty baker (or darren baker even!) giants pitchers are mediocre at best, their "stars" are ridiculously over-rated... very lucky.

the dodgers have been so mediocre in the past few years, i almost feel sorry for them. i do have some giants paraphenalia, but it's only in tribute to bonds. i have no respect for the management.

[i'm actually in a great mood right now, hard to believe]

― gygax! (gygax!), Monday, 14 April 2003 20:43 (twenty-one years ago) link

They are "Dodgers" as in the Brooklyn Trolley Dodgers, dodging their way between trolleys in Brooklyn but you can think of them like the 2-step UK Garrige Artful Dodgers if you prefer, innit.

Dodgers are NL yes. Double-switch or die! Jim Tracy's a gem of a manager, you'll enjoy him. Oh yes, you get Shawn Green and Eric Gagne, very exciting team . . .

See, the Dodgers and Jints have one of the Classic Rivalries in all of sports. Learn about Bobby Thomson and 1951.

― felicity (felicity), Monday, 14 April 2003 20:45 (twenty-one years ago) link

"dodgers" is a good nickname too. God, think if the team you root for was called the "Magic" "Heat" "Spirit" etc...

or even "the devil rays", what's that all aboot? maybe if i support the expos they'll come and play some games in london :)

gagne's the awkward looking closer with the funny beard, yes?

i shall ponder this a little longer i think, anyway, anything's better than supporting exeter city (curse you, hopkins and your persuasive ways, "just come to one game" he said, "what harm can it do?" he said, four games this season and scanning the results feverishly every saturday, and a future of trolling round non-league grounds is where it leads i fear...)

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Monday, 14 April 2003 20:51 (twenty-one years ago) link

pac bell is a great park though, i encourage all of you to visit.

― gygax! (gygax!), Monday, 14 April 2003 20:59 (twenty-one years ago) link

Gagne is French Canadian, and Green is Jewish, and they have Kaz Ishii whose Japanese, so you get all that multiplicity too!

― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Monday, 14 April 2003 21:25 (twenty-one years ago) link

Oh, and Nomo too! Between him and Gagne that's like two of the most fun pitchers to watch!

― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Monday, 14 April 2003 21:26 (twenty-one years ago) link

Ok, you asked for it, I am relatively indifferent to position players but anyway my All-Hott starting lineup:

C: Brad Ausmus
1B: J.T. Snow
2B: Bret Boone
SS: Alex Gonzalez
3B: Troy Glaus
LF: Brian Jordan
CF: Kenny Lofton
RF: Shawn Greene

I may have overlooked some but perhaps I will make adjustments as the season goes on.

― felicity (felicity), Monday, 14 April 2003 22:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Actually it occurs to me that CarsmileSteve probably should root for a team in the Eastern time zone if he wants to actually see some games in real time. I nominate the Expos, because of their poor pathetic homelessness and the fact that they have the best player in baseball in Vlad Guerrero, who yesterday almost threw out a runner at FIRST BASE! (yes it was the slothlike Mo Vaughn, but still - FIRST BASE!)

― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Monday, 14 April 2003 22:07 (twenty-one years ago) link

But Bret Boone's head looks like a bunch of grapes!

And no A Rod?!?!?

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Monday, 14 April 2003 22:14 (twenty-one years ago) link

Lofton?!?! Why I oughta....

― bnw (bnw), Monday, 14 April 2003 22:17 (twenty-one years ago) link

Yanc3y, how's your Jarrod Washburn? How much did you pay for your Jarrod Washburn? Did your Jarrod Washburn come with any accessories? Are you really enjoying your Jarrod Washburn?

Also, your ILB team sucks. How's Jarrod Washburn?

Sorry, bnw, but Lofton is adorable! He looks like a puppy! And he runs fast.

― felicity (felicity), Monday, 14 April 2003 22:19 (twenty-one years ago) link

I love Lofton too. He's poetry in motion. I was so excited when the White Sox signed him before the 2002 season. Then he got off to that amazing start, slapping the ball to all fields, stealing bases like he was 10 years younger. Then it all fell apart, the Sox stunk, and he got traded away. Still, it was a real thrill to see him patrolling center field in person a bunch of times.

― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Monday, 14 April 2003 22:23 (twenty-one years ago) link

Wow! Smiting Boonie brings out the heavy artillery!

My ILB team does not suck! I just haven't been paying attention. Things'll soon change.

And Washburn's first start was great! Thanks for asking!

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Monday, 14 April 2003 22:24 (twenty-one years ago) link

Lofton narrowly beat out Steve Finley for the starting CF job. Finley is a fox.

I dunno, Boonie just seems so lovable, like you wanna give him a hug. Haha I know, I was just waiting for an excuse to tease you about that. Guess who I'm going home to watchon WGN right now?????

― felicity (felicity), Monday, 14 April 2003 22:27 (twenty-one years ago) link

the sf giants last 5 center fielders over the last 3 years:

marvin bernard
ruben rivera
tsuyoshi shinjo
kenny lofton
marquis grissom

can you believe they made it to the playoffs!!!!!!?!?!?!!?!?!?!

― gygax! (gygax!), Monday, 14 April 2003 22:29 (twenty-one years ago) link

I can believe a lot in a world where Livan Hernandez can be World Series MVP.

I love baseball.

― felicity (felicity), Monday, 14 April 2003 22:32 (twenty-one years ago) link

did you see russ ortiz get rocked but cox left him in to hit and he homered?

― gygax! (gygax!), Monday, 14 April 2003 22:43 (twenty-one years ago) link

i mean, after he hit the homer, there was a new pitcher at the start of the next inning... crazy stuff... very dusty-ish.

― gygax! (gygax!), Monday, 14 April 2003 22:44 (twenty-one years ago) link

I have a man-crush on Shawn Green.

― bnw (bnw), Monday, 14 April 2003 22:50 (twenty-one years ago) link

I think I'm jinxing your boy Prior, f - he hasn't looked all that good this game. I apologize in advance.

― David R. (popshots75`), Monday, 14 April 2003 23:27 (twenty-one years ago) link

You trumped my waiver request for Abreu! Grrrrr......

― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Monday, 14 April 2003 23:29 (twenty-one years ago) link

COCKFARMING WGN!!!! WHERE IS THE CUBS GAME?

― felicity (felicity), Monday, 14 April 2003 23:52 (twenty-one years ago) link

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