Comments on: My Fantasy Baseball Team Sucks!

By: Rudy Gamble

Rudy Gamble — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 16:50:58 +0000

@Juice: ha. no worries.

We’ve got one more opening in a Fantasy Razzball league. E-mail me at rudy@razzball.com if you’re interested!

By: Grey

Grey — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 03:40:37 +0000

@and1mcgee: Crooked hats fo lyfe!

By: and1mcgee

and1mcgee — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 03:36:30 +0000

Chris Dickerson fo lyfe.

Rookie of the Year, BAYBAY!

By: Grey

Grey — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 03:32:33 +0000

@Baron Von Vulturewins: It is a lot of fun. I think it’s because no one has any preconceived notion as what to do. Like in one draft Lousy Castillo will go in the first round and in another he’ll go in the 5th round. Everyone’s draft sheet is headed with “Guys To Avoid” crossed out.

Jack Hananananan is a great late round flier. He’s the kind of guy that can pull out 300 ABs of pure, “Why was he given 300 ABs? Ask Geren.”

By: Baron Von Vulturewins

Baron Von Vulturewins — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 03:29:48 +0000

@Grey: If Chavez gets hurt again in Oakland and they go with Jack Hannahan at 3B, he should be the steal of the draft. The draft was kind of hilarious, like 9 people running around in a room knee-deep in shwizz, holding their noses and fishing around for gold nuggets they'd been told were buried there.

By: Grey

Grey — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 03:25:11 +0000

@Baron Von Vulturewins: That's a solid front line. They look like the French Army ready for battle. Marquis de Shat, for sure. An innings eater in Colorado. Blech!

By: HardLuckSchleprock

HardLuckSchleprock — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 03:21:48 +0000

Where was I when this started?

Oh well…………..

By: Baron Von Vulturewins

Baron Von Vulturewins — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 03:03:20 +0000

@Baron Von Vulturewins: Marquis in Colorado seems like a marriage made in hell.

By: Baron Von Vulturewins

Baron Von Vulturewins — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 03:02:39 +0000

@Baron Von Vulturewins: Quite happy with my starting five:

Sidney Ponson, KC SP
Radhames Liz, Bal SP
Jason Marquis, Col SP
Joe Blanton, Phi SP
Danys Baez, Bal SP

with Brian Moehler thrown in for bad luck. I wanted Garland but he got snatched up a few picks before me.

Once I figured out that the ESPN player lists were configured to league stats, and so actually listed people in order of crappiness, I felt much better. That, and when I remembered my password six minutes before the draft started.

By: Baron Von Vulturewins

Baron Von Vulturewins — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 02:59:54 +0000

@Grey: Just finished the Razz draft in Bizarro World. I had to "reach" for Ponson but I feel like he brings a certain miserableness that should infect the whole team. Also, I drafted Sean Casey, then someone told me he'd retired. That counts for something, right?

By: Grey

Grey — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 02:07:35 +0000

@big o: Laird will get more playing time potentially because Clement could be taking some in Seattle. Cabrera went in round 7, 63rd overall. A bit too early for him. He strikes out too many. @arussell1983: Ha!

By: arussell1983

arussell1983 — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 01:51:50 +0000

well this explains all those crazy ‘Percent Owned’ stats you find sometimes in ESPN. Its your fault!!

By: big o

big o — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 01:51:47 +0000

@Grey:
nice job on this draft .
couple of questions ….. did you consider johima over laird ?
where did daniel cabrera go ?

By: Grey

Grey — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 00:50:43 +0000

@cockyphoenix: An innings eater on a bad team is about the best you can hope for and man can he eat innings.

By: cockyphoenix

cockyphoenix — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 00:44:49 +0000

@Grey: depending on how long it takes for his inevitable tank and/or for the Royals to get fed up with his drunk ass that could be a huge steal for you

By: Grey

Grey — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 00:34:44 +0000

@Juice: Have you and Rudy made up yet? @cockyphoenix: I was pleasantly surprised Ponson lasted as long as he did.

By: cockyphoenix

cockyphoenix — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 00:29:29 +0000

You got Ponson! I named my team after him! And Baez too! Oh man I’m going to finally have some Orioles on one of my teams oh man.

Hello stepsister. Lookin mighty fine tonight

By: Juice

Juice — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 21:15:08 +0000

Is that Dustin McGowan in your pocket or you just happy to see me?

By: Grey

Grey — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 20:58:22 +0000

@Paulie Allnuts: Pelfrey may end up on the scrap heap for providing too much inverse value, but there's always a Matt Albers out there. His low Ks is what excited me though. @Juice: Snap, Rudy and you had it out! Escobar is worth is, still a little early on McGowan unless you have a DL spot burning a hole in your pocket.

By: Paulie Allnuts

Paulie Allnuts — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 20:55:49 +0000

@Grey – I forgot to applaud you on your selection of Luis Castillo, who has the amazing capacity to allow us Met fans to yearn for the halcyon days of Kaz Matsui.

By: Juice

Juice — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 20:51:26 +0000

@Grey: Is it worth picking up and stashing Kelvin Escobar and Dustin McCowan in my DL spots or they belong on your recently assembled Sucky team?

@Rudy Gamble: My apologies kind sir, I shall never overstep that imaginary line again.

By: Paulie Allnuts

Paulie Allnuts — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 20:42:11 +0000

From May 21 through July 25, Pelfrey made 11 starts. During that time period he was 7-0 with a 2.57 ERA, and allowed just 20 walks in 73.2 innings. Now it is true that late August and September were not so hot, but that is endemic on the Metropolitans

He has a low K%, but with a 98 MPH fastball, that should be rectified. As an optimistic Met fan, I project 16-19 wins. Then again, all Mets fans need to be optimistic; otherwise they would kill themselves.

But I do like the pickup of the Flying Aybar Brothers – it always seemed to me that their name was more apt for a trapeeze team then forballplayers.

By: agarthered

agarthered — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 20:09:39 +0000

Pelfrey???? What the…explain!! haha

By: Grey

Grey — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 19:42:31 +0000

@youngid: See comment #10

By: youngid

youngid — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 19:40:40 +0000

Hey, I couldn’t make my razzball draft (saturday night at 8:30, for some reason) so I had to leave the league. Are there any other leagues with openings? I need somewhere to implement my grit-based player rankings.

By: Rudy Gamble

Rudy Gamble — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 19:35:56 +0000

@Juice: To be fair, ESPN let us do our crazy point assignments for free where it would’ve costed on other services. (Sorry – my inner ombudsman requires me to write this)

@Hardcore Midget: Yeah, GIDP is good…was thinking at one point you just credit for any out that a player creates. But the more you customize, the tougher it is to implement in a free tool and the tougher it is to prep (i.e., who projects GIDP?).

BTW, here’s a good piece on GIDPs I read recently. More proof that Ausmus is the Bossmus!
http://www.hardballtimes.com/main/article/the-worst-thing-a-batter-can-do/

By: Grey

Grey — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 19:33:07 +0000

@Juice: Thanks! @Baron Von Vulturewins: I could see a case made to even draft Rios. I mean they're bad.

By: Baron Von Vulturewins

Baron Von Vulturewins — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 19:30:45 +0000

@Grey: I'm thinking I'll load up on my hometown Jays, so I can "root" for them again.

By: Juice

Juice — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 19:30:30 +0000

Looks like you assembled the worst fantasy team ever on the worst fantasy site ever, ESPN.

By: Grey

Grey — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 19:25:51 +0000

@Eric W: Ha! @bpasinko: The Padres are so money.