"It's A Long Fly Ball To Left" - The A2K Fantasy Baseball Thread

He's got a strong team ... a lot of former Ticomaniacs on his side (most of whom I'd like to have back ... except for Reynolds).

Ryan Reynolds plays baseball?

Is he shirtless?



Please tell me he's shirtless.

his stomach looks painful.

what are all those bumps...?

only two more days until the free agents are available. I am going crazy waiting...

The "Look Ma, no catcher" strategy worked just fine for Pantalones for a couple of years. He never made the playoffs.

the mariner moose will give Jesus at least 5 tries to be that guy...

I went long stretches with no second catcher last time.

it worked out ok.

I tried to limit the number of old guys on my team this time.

I hope for your sake Doc gets his heater back...

I got flummoxed about how fast the draft went (well, except for my turn) since it's been a while for me to attend it and so I while I was busy selecting who was still available that I had kept on my list re batters almost all of my favorite SPs flew on by. Then towards the end of the draft, my imac did its crashing number - that happens fairly often when have sports websites on, something to do with incompatibility of mac and flash. So, now I know what happens when I get the warning sign: you are disconnected to the draft. It took me something like five minutes to get back in. It kept going with my queue, even taking the one I had added as a playful afterthought, Brandon Allen, that I would have rethought if I had been watching.

So I was disappointed, bummer. On further review, I rather like the sand dogs, though I'll replace a couple of them. I think I'll keep Allen for a short bit. He has potential to be good, and potential to be way out of control for the foreseeable future.

Next year I'll fill in the queue beforehand, duh.

It moved FAST this year.

I did the live draft last evening, without doing much research. Usually I invite the players over for a cook out. I may delay that this year as I look at my roster.

Meanwhile, over on the Yahoo NCAA basketball thing, I am 48,359th out of some 3.7M players. I am in the 98th percentile. I think I beat Obama. Santorum beat us both, reportedly, in gun shooting and bowling.

free agent season has opened.

I got my players and am gonna head for bed. Y'all can go ahead and get yours now.

good luck, and may the best pitching staff win...

Go us!

Oh, I got mine.

We just got tix to see KC vs. the Red Sox on 8/26 (a 50th bday present for me). YAY!

cool.

hope you enjoy watching my royals win...

after further review, I think mebbe we need to change our team name to the padres.

we have Jesus, an Angel, and Salvador.

and a Francisco for good measure...

I'm going to watch the Rockies play the Sox tomorrow. Should be a beautiful day here in paradise.


50?!!!

Yep, I am turnin' 50 in Septembah.

Meanwhile ... Game On! We have baseball in Toyko!!! (This seems entirely strange ... the first game of the season is in the books [Seattle beat Oakland 3-1], and in about 6 hours I'm going to a Spring Training game here in Scottsdale ...)

The Squirrels/Padres are now in the lead in my matchup, after a tremendous first game by their Utility/Soon-to-be-Catcher guy, who went 0'fer, and in the process managed to earn a point for the bad guys just for walking up to the plate.

... and in what may be a recurring story, George leads the league in saves.

How weird to wake up to a game already played.

Puppy Ackley -- 2 fer 4 with a dinger, 2 ribs, and 2 runs scored...

good dawg!

gives a new meaning to night games.

I can't stay up that late on a school night...