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True story: one of my childhood friends had a younger brother who was big into WWF or WWE or whatever that wrestling league was called with the Undertaker and so and so and such and such…yeah, it’s clear I didn’t watch it at any point really but that’s not the point of this story.  So it was the summertime and said friend and I along with our regular High School crew went out around our town of 5,000 to see what there was to see and do what there was to do.  After 10 seconds, we realized that ‘nothing’ was the answer to the previous ‘see/do’ commentary and headed back to his house.  When we opened the door, we were shocked to find his brother putting wrestling moves on a stuffed bear but that wasn’t the only segment that was awkward about this.  He was doing all of this with only basketball shorts and a Batman utility belt on with wrestling figures in all the belt pockets.  When he realized we were taking in his wrestling kabuki theater of horrors, he turned to us with the look of a man who knows he’ll never live it down and balled ‘what are you doing here?!?’ and girlishly ran to his room.  We literally couldn’t move for about 10 seconds as we stood and stared into the open space that once held one of the weirdest moments we wished we’d never seen in our lives.  And done, thank you for reading and I’ll see you next week!  Oh wait, this isn’t my personal blog I’m here to pick a hitter to roll with as the creeper of the week.  Ok, I’ll take Chris Nelson for $1000, Alex.  Daily Double!  Oh, that pun might actually hold into the next paragraph.  Wanna find out?  Well read on as we see more about Chris for 2013 fantasy baseball…

Well, if you’re reading this I assume you’re familiar with the term ‘Homeschooling’.  No I’m not referring to why there are pictures of you doing kegstands and making out with your mom on prom night on your instagram account.  I’m referring to our version of Homeschooling in which a hitter is comfortable at home versus on the road.  Well actually, everyone loves to hit where Chris Nelson calls home.  Of course, I’m talking of Coors Field, a place where every hitter gets drunk with power because they sure as heck don’t get drunk on Coors.  That shizz has like 2.5% alcohol and might actually be distilled deer piss from those Rocky Mountain waters.  But more to the point, in 300 career at-bats there in Denver, Nelson holds a career .320 average and has 6 HRs and 20 doubles. Why is all of this important?  Well, first off let’s get back to my Daily Double pun point: he might actually get to average one a day and hits low in a good lineup.  The chances of him driving in some runs while helping your average out for the week is pretty Rocky Mountain High because all 7 of his games this week are at home.  Not interested?  Well then your MI probably isn’t getting put in a sleeper hold by Dustin Ackley or Jason Kipnis.  Whatcha gonna do brother!?!  For a guy who’s less than 1% owned in ESPN leagues and only 8% owned in yahoo leagues, there’s solid value for people who need a bit of MI help for the week.  So go out and tap the Rockies, homeschoolers, NOT your moms.