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

How about some 2003 Reality League Predictions? Think fast!

NL
East: Phillies
Central: 'Stros
West: D-baxx
Wild Card: Cards

NLCS => Phils

AL
East: Los Yanqis
Central: White $ox
West: The Pitching Foxes A's

ALCS: => A's

A's in 6

Predictionies:

AL East: Yanks
AL Cent: White Sox
AL West: A's
AL Wild Card: Red Sox

NL East: Phillies
NL Cent: Cubs
NL West: San Frisco
NL Wild Card: St. Louis

I'd bore y'all w/ justifications, but not just yet.

NL East: Braves
NL Cent: Cards
NL West: DBacks
NL Wild Card: Dodgers

After I tell Yanc3y that it's OK to not pick the Braves this year.

God help me, the season has started.

(Surprise team of the year: The Blue Jays contend for the Wild Card slot through August.)

NL East - Braves
NL Central - Astros
NL West - Diamondbacks
NL Wildcard - Giants

AL East - Yankees
AL Central - Twins
AL West - A's
AL Wildcard - Mariners

A's over Giants, five games

AL
Yankees
Twins
A's
wc: Red Sox
narrowly missing playoffs: Angels

losses by Tampa Bay: 106 (.346)
MLB home run leader: Barry Bonds, 61

you heard it here first:

giants over twins 6 games

AL East - Yankees. Red Sox in 2nd, and they'll get the wild card; Blue Jays a close 3rd.
AL Central - Twins. I don't think there's a real contest there.
AL West - Athletics.

NL East - Braves.
NL Central - Cardinals, narrowly over the Astros.
NL West - Diamondbacks. Giants in the wildcard.

Series -- Diamondbacks take the Athletics in game 7.

Maura: Which is funny, because even the Bull Durham movie predates the actual Devil Rays team by at least ten years! They are Devo or something. God bless 'em and their fans and Sweet Lou Pinella.

road trip to wappingers falls, anyone?

anyway, my picks:

nl east - phillies. i just have a good feeling about this year.
nl central - cardinals.
nl west - dbacks.
nl wild card - cubs.
nl champs - phillies.

al east - blue jays.
al central - twins.
al west - athletics.
al wild card - yankees.
al champs - twins.

phillies over twins in 6.

okay, here's my rationale for you dingo butts:

rich aurilia batted in front of bonds in 2001. he had the best season by a SS not named A-Rod that year (thank you Bob Costas & EA Sports).

.324 ba, .941 obps, 206 hits, 37 2b, 37 hrs, 114 r, 97 rbi.

those are CLASSIC stats.

last year he got hurt but is healed and healthy but more importantly had to forfeit the the much-coveted spot in the lineup to jeff kent, who frankly is a marginal hitter when not in front of Bonds (don't get me started on his fielding).

so now back to 2003, aurilia's back in front of bonds.
this spring he's hitting:

.412 ba (21/51), 4 hrs, 17 rbis... talk to me at the end of the season I ANSWER TO NONE OF YOU FOOLS.

but seriously, i'm not being a homer, Bonds is as feared as ever (with good reason: have any of you seen him swing the bat this spring?????????????????????) i think aurilia will be seeing lots of meatballs proving Aurlia/Bonds to be THEE power hitting 2-some of the mlb this year.

f-
Bonds is my man, we go way back.

al east: skankees
al central: twins
al west: angels
al wyld: bo sox

cards beat cubbies and giants and bo sox (who beat yankees) = do not disturb my beautiful dream

Yeah, Aurilia was really great a couple years ago. And I am not being a homer either but Prior is the future. Admit it.

Ok who has Spooneybarger and what do you want for him.

Have you seen my lineup lately? We are all such homers. I want to claim Darren Baker off waivers.

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 ;)

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]

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.

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...)

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.

And no A Rod?!?!?

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

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

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!

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?????

marvin bernard
ruben rivera
tsuyoshi shinjo
kenny lofton
marquis grissom

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

I love baseball.

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

B-b-b-but the Giants have those French vanilla things! Endy story!

And wonderfully enough, we have son of Scully, Jon Miller who does a grebt Vin impression and out of all THREE of the Giants topnotch play-by-play guys (well, Joe Angel gets points for sounding like Jon Miller) is the best.

And what happened to Prior? This is upsetting! I wanted good baseball, and I get Glendon Rusch? Foul!

relatively close... this weekend i was within 100 miles but right now i'm about 500 miles away.

i have someone you should keep an eye on before he gets any HOTTER...

jesse foppert.

that is a very confounding factoid. and with that, i'm going to bed. we'll see tomorrow you on ILX FANTASY BASEBALL 2003 -- PART 2.

Jon Miller (of ESPN Jon Miller?) does regular Giants games? That's great. I wuv wuv wuv Jon Miller.

OK, here's the thing about the Jints uniforms: The french vanilla is cool but it is very arrogant of them to run around in the home uniforms without the names on the back. That p*sses me off! Sure, I hate the Yankees, but only the Yankees have earned the right to not put their names on their backs. The SAN FRANCISCO Giants are not the Yankees or event he New York Giants, I don't care about what happened at the Polo Grounds or whatever, it's lame.

Now the Dodger uniforms have something XXX-tra special that you can't see on television and you can't even see at a game unless you are super super up close like in kissing range and that is this: You know how the Dodger uniforms are so super bright blue on white and with the super-amazing RED number? (So American and baseball-ly, sigh.) Anyway the CRAZY part is that the super bright effect is enhanced ever so subtly because the STITCHING that attaches the letters, the "Dodgers" and the number to the uniform is NOT matching same-color (e.g. blue or red) but it is WHITE!!!! Contrast top-stitching that's insanity! They are the only team that uses WHITE to stitch the letters and numbers on.

Uniforms are very important. Next installment: Socks, or the Importance of Being Mike Remlinger.

ILX Yahoo! Fantasy Baseball League 2003 -- Part 3: Still going . . .