2007 Fantasy Baseball Talk

Every year my twin brother and I have a fantasy baseball league with just the two of us. It's really weird, every year we alternate who wins.
1992 erik
1993 matt
2000 erik
2001 matt (I drop Bonds right before he goes on his monster 72 homer tear. whoops.)
2002 erik
2003 matt (I got married two months after our draft. I was distracted.)
2004 erik
2005 matt (I was leaving for London the day we had our draft. Another major distraction.)
2006 erik
2007 WHO WILL WIN? (I already have my excuse to lose this year. My wife is having a baby. He/she is due June 2nd)

This is the place where we will have our talk about the league. Feel free to listen in, or maybe even drop a comment.

Here's the draft results from April 1, 2007:

Matt's Mighty Mashers
1. Albert Pujols
2. Matt Holliday
3. Vladimir Guerrero
4. Manny Ramirez
5. Carlos Lee
6. Vernon Wells
7. Grady Sizemore
8. Victor Martinez
9. Garrett Atkins
10. Jose Reyes
11. Mark Teixeira
12. Michael Young
13. Robinson Cano
14. Derrek Lee
15. Sammy Sosa
16. Alex Gordon

Erik's Khans
1. Chase Utley
2. Ryan Howard
3. Miguel Cabrera
4. Carlos Beltran
5. Lance Berkman
6. Alex Rodriguez
7. Joe Mauer
8. Jason Bay
9. Miguel Tejada
10. Brian McCann
11. Bobby Abreu
12. David Wright
13. Justin Morneau
14. Jermaine Dye
15. Brian Roberts
16. Derek Punk Face II Jeter

Here's a depth chart from the draft:

Matt's Mighty Mashers
C: Victor Martinez
1B: Albert Pujols
1B: Mark Teixeira
1B: Derrek Lee
2B: Robinson Cano
SS: Jose Reyes
SS: Michael Young
3B: Garrett Atkins
3B: Alex Gordon
OF: Matt Holliday
OF: Vladimir Guerrero
OF: Manny Ramirez
OF: Carlos Lee
OF: Vernon Wells
OF: Grady Sizemore

Erik's Khans
C: Joe Mauer
C: Brian McCann
1B: Ryan Howard
1B: Justin Morneau
2B: Chase Utley
2B: Brian Roberts
SS: Miguel Tejada
SS: Derek Jeter
3B: Miguel Cabrera
3B: Alex Rodriguez
3B: David Wright
OF: Carlos Beltran
OF: Lance Berkman
OF: Jason Bay
OF: Bobby Abreu
OF: Jermaine Dye

So let me get this straight. You have an excuse for every year that you lost. That's uh, really interesting. It's too bad that this year your excuse for losing will be that Sammy Sosa hit 50 homeruns. SLAMMIN SAMMY SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOSA!

Wow. You already made two moves?

And you picked up Mike Piazza? You always gave me a hard time for picking up aging veterans. And now you go ahead and pick up the biggest dinosaur in all baseball. wow. Desperate times for the Mashers.

Did you hear the big news story? In Oakland, archeologists unearthed the oldest dinosaur ever found. After studying bone formations, archeologists believe this dinosaur was the slowest of all dinosaurs. Its right arm was greatly deformed making it impossible for the dino to throw anything farther than 40 feet. Its pea-sized brain didn't help its cause either. The Oakland Athletics were bizarrely interested in having this dinosaur be their catcher/DH for the 2007 season.

Be careful what you say Moose. Piazza could very well have a return to form in Oakland. His numbers were adversely impacted by having to play in Petco last year. That park is a power hitters nightmare.

However, if you look at his road numbers from last year and extrapolate them out over a full season (because Oakland is much friendlier to hitters), Piazza could have a big season.

YOU ARE HAVING A BABY? CONGRATULATIONS!!!!! from Laura K.

Let it be known that the Khans are leading from the first day 45-23 thanks in part to a 17-point performance from ex-Masher, Miguel Cabrera. On a side note, Sosa went 0 for 3 with a walk.

Adam Dunn would have been a nice opening day roster addition.

I dropped Sosa. You can have him now. I know you've been waiting.

whoa, after three days of games, we have a tie. 123-123. It's a whole new ball game.

I got Adam Dunn in the lineup today seeing as there aren't many teams playing today. Maybe we could have an old-fashioned slug out in Cincinnati shoebox. How about a Cubs victory with the score of 16-12. I think Derrek Lee should sit this one out. We don't want him to get hurt today. I'd be happy with three homers from Dunn.

It took you three days to drop your wunderkid, Sosa. What happened to plan of Sosa carrying your team to victory? Haven't you learned after all these years that you can't count on Sammy Sosaa? I hope he gets 11 homers this season and gets his knee ripped apart. I'd love to see Sosa stuck on 599.

On a side note, our teams have come out of the gate strongly. Botht teams have averaged 41 points the first three games of the season. Not bad considering the cold weather hitting the nation. I'm just waiting for 2007's Chris Shelton to arise.

So Adam Dunn is no longer listed as a 1B, just a a OF. I'll be curious to see how long you keep Dunn on your team. He's just such a weird player hitting JUST homeruns. Nothing else.

Dunn gone!

you're lucky i didn't start arod yesterday. 24 points. What can i do? i had cabrera at third who was the second best player so far this season going into yesterday's games.

after Sunday's games, the Khans now have retaken the lead

Oh let's keep track of the lead changes.

LEAD CHANGE 4/2
khans 45
mashers 23

LEAD CHANGE 4/4
khans 123
mashers 123
(yes, i'm gonna count a tie as a lead change)

LEAD CHANGE 4/5
mashers:
khans:
(something where the mashers are leading)

LEAD CHANGE: 4/8
khans: 255
mashers: 247

Nuts! I fell one point short of a tie
Khans 272
Mashers 271

I have an interesting infield today. Robinson Cano, Akinori Iwamura, and Khalil Greene.

i think the mashers will continue to have "interesting" infields for the rest of the season.

Let it be known that I picked up the great Geoff Jenkins.
4/10/2007

I have him slated to start tomorrow.

You know he's splitting time with Kevin Mench? This is the same Kevin Mench that hit a homerun in seven consecutive games. The same Kevin Mench WHO IS IN THE HALL OF FAME.. the University of Delaware athletics hall of fame, that is. This is the same Kevin Mench who has the biggest head in baseball. No, not for his attitude. But he has a freakin big head. Size eight.

Wikipedia says, "The consensus around Major League Baseball is that he has the largest head in the game, size 8. In fact, his teammates on the Rangers went so far as to create a green Shrek helmet for him to wear, although Major League Baseball would not allow him to do so. Mench's teammates in Milwaukee call him The Mighty Peking Man."

Will Geoff Jenkins be able to battle it out for an outfield spot against the 7-consecutive-HR-biggest-head-in-baseball-hall-of-famer?

Oh. And Kevin Mench looks really tough with his Philadelphia Eagles tatoo: http://www.the700level.com/2006/12/kevin_mench_has.html

that tatoo is lame. It barely looks like the Philadelphia Eagles logo. And why is it just floating above the barbed wire? Is the eagle caught in the barbed wire?

Cuz barbed wire is tough! Sheesh! Kevin Mench. tough. Kevin Mench with barbed wire--look out!

Now I want to attend a Brewsers game to heckle Kevin Mench and his barbed wire.

I say we all go to Milwaukee and watch the Cleveland Indians play some West Coast teams... the Mariners, the Angels, etc...

It's not every day you can watch teams play regular season home games in ballparks that are not their home fields.

They're actually going through with that? How many games will the Indians play in Milwaukee? That sounds cool. I'd like to go. I could even wear my Indians hat!

• Wednesday: Angels (LHP Joe Saunders, 0-0, 4.76) vs. Indians (RHP Jake Westbrook, 0-0, 12.60),
7:05 p.m. ET, at Miller Park

• Thursday: Angels (RHP Dustin Moseley, 1-0, 1.50) vs. Indians (LHP Jeremy Sowers, 0-0, 3.00),
1:05 p.m. ET, at Miller Park

I wonder how buying tickets will work. Who to call? Brewers box office? Indians box office?

I don't know who to call about getting tickets but I hear the tickets are only $10. That's a steal!!!

you wanna go tormorrow night, Mark?

Tickets are through cleveland indians.com. They show the seating in Miller Park.

You know of anyone else that wants to go? I doubt Andrea will want to go. She'll be too tired being pregnant and all.

LEAD CHANGE:
Mashers 297
Khans 294

know I know that I picked up Piazza again, but he's not showing up in my lineup today. Have you had problems with this?

I'd love to see Akinori Iwamura hit .458 for the rest of the season!

Ordinarily I would love to check out Miller Park and watch the Indians play the Angels... but I don't think it's going to work this week. First of all, the snow/road conditions would make it difficult and time consuming to get there. Second, I would have to arrange to leave work early to make it there in time for the game and I wouldn't be able to give much notice. Third, we have been busy getting everything ready for Addison's birthday party this weekend, and I don't think the wife would be too happy about me taking off to Milwaukee to see a baseball game.

LEAD CHANGE:
Khans 323
Mashers 321

LEAD CHANGE:
Mashers 259
Khans 343

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Whoa look at your outfield that is starting today: David DeJesús, Bobby Abreu, Delmon Young.

And now look at Akinori Iwamura!

are you a fan of Akinori Iwamura? I'm not sure.

Watch out for Delmon Young. He good. I couldn't pass up on DeJesus. He has 14 hits in the last week. Abreu has been hot, but I honestly not expecting him to do much of anything.

If you want Akinori Iwamura, here's your chance. I just dropped him for punkface Chipper Jones. Akinori. Nice hitter for a hitting streak, but not for our league. Just look at his game log. He gets one hit every game. That's it. It's as if he's done for the day when he gets his one hit. I need more production out of third base. His hits are mostly singles too. Akinori, I miss you, but have fun with Tampa Bay.

you have two empty starting roster spots today. You're slipping. I'm looking for a 51-15 victory today.

albert pujols is going to start a tear. He hit two homeruns yesterday. Albie (as one of my female coworkers likes to call him) hits enough for four players.

LEAD CHANGE:
Mashers 464
Khans 464

Man, I only got four points last night. That must be the lowest total ever for having a near-full lineup (I had 6 players starting).

Oh crap. I went to reply to your comment, and instead I clicked on the delete link. OOPS!

Here's your original comment, "You can not always rely on Darth Pujols... at least in April. Delmon Young is still going strong and Akinori is nowhere to be found. interesting."

And my reply was gonna be:
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LEAD CHANGE
Mashers 521
Khans 508

You went from 4 points one day to 57 points the next. That has to be the biggest swing ever.

LEAD CHANGE
Khans 583
Mashers 573

NEWS FLASH
I picked up Sammy Sosa. Your lead is not safe.

NEWS FLASH
To counteract your Sammy Sosa signing, I picked up Barry Bonds. My lead will expand to, say, 756 points in no time.

Now the question is, "who will drop their over-the-hill, steroid-pumping deadbeat first?"

sosa isn't even in your starting lineup for tomorrow! At least I have the nadz to start bonds!

Here's a tip to help you out. I normally don't set my lineup until the day of the game. That way I get the hottest players playing. I shared a tip, do you have one to share?

my tip? drop sammy sosa.

Mashers smash out 64 points! Is that a season high for one team?

LEAD CHANGE:
Mashers 877
Khans 875
Thanks to Sosa's two homeruns last night. If Sosa and Arod were elements in Rock Paper Scissors. Sosa would be Rock and Arod would be scissors. UTTER DESTRUCTION. (And Geoff Jenkins would be paper.)

Sosa hits another homerun! That's three homeruns in two days. Sammy's back!

d'oh sosa is only hitting .239 this season. Hrmmm.

LEAD CHANGE
Khans 956
Mashers 948

FYI, as the commissioner I just dropped all the players from the Tator Tots and the Performas. Now you are able to pick up greats such as:
Abraham Núñez (Phi - 2B,3B)
Neifi Pérez (Det - 2B,3B,SS)
Ángel PagánNA (ChC - OF)
Shin-Soo Choo (Cle - OF)

LEAD CHANGE:
Mashers: 1087
Khans 1056

Mashers smash out 66 points. A new day high.

I just picked up the sleeper of 2007: Ryan Doumit. Remember that name. It won't be hard at the end of this season.

Mashers 64 points yesterday!

Since Sosa got beaned in the head with a 94-mph fastball, he's gone 0-for-4 and 0-for-5. You could say that your dreams came true, moose. You were hoping that Sosa would bust his knee at 599hr and end his career. Well, he got plunked in the head at 595hr, and you know what happens when Sammy gets hit in the head. I'm dropping him. Besides, his average was so low, it's just like having an Adam Dunn.

Khans 61
Mashers 58.
SLUGFEST!

i wonder if yesterday's 61-58 score was the highest combined score ever. That's 119 points.

It's the first time this season I scored over 60 points. You've done it about, what, 5 or 6 times so far?

if i would have started Justin Morneau instead of Todd Helton, I would have had 75 points! crazy! Live it to former Masher legend, Todd Helton, to keep the Khans from making history.

"leave", not "live" on previous post. I'm stoopid.

Let me tell you, it sucks not having a great second baseman. Everyone out there is so standard. I thought Ian Kinsler was going to be incredible. But I heard on Fox that pitchers throughout the league have figured out how to pitch to him. Ian likes to lean over the plate, hence all the homeruns he's been able to hit. But when pitchers bust him on the inside, he does jack. Other than his game yesterday where he hit a homerun, he's been 4-for-38 in two weeks with no homeruns.

If there werent such a lack of talent at 2b, i'd drop him like a bucket of sand.

two words for you: CHASE UTLEY

Every tme I drive to downtown Elmhurst, I make sure that I drive on Utley Street on the way back in honor of the best 2B in the game today.

Carlos Lee almost scored more points than your team yesterday.
Carlos Lee: 21
Khans: 30

My 2B, Brian Roberts doesn't have a game today, so I was looking at my back up 2B. There sat Ian Kinsler with a 1/22 in the past week. For about five seconds I actually thought about just keeping Brian Roberts in the starting lineup for today instead of Ian.

You know what? Ian's sole hit in the past week was a homerun. What a jerkwad. I bet he's just swinging for the fences every time.

Since when was J.J. Hardy leading the National League in homeruns? Sheesh! He was just some dork you IM'ed me about.

The last time a shortshop was leading the league in homeruns this late in the season it was 1986 and the unstoppable Hubie Brooks.

Say hello to J.J. Hardy and say goodbye to your hopes of winning the league this year. Your lead is now down to 30 points.

You have Ichiro on your team? I laugh.

lead is down to 18 points now. The Khans are marching.

JJ Hardy will not defeat me.

I just thought for a moment you got 60 points yesterday and I got 28 points. But that's the number of transactions so far this year. I about flipped out.

if yesterday's points were 60 and 28, then I would have the lead. that woulda be so sweet.

Matt Stairs has four homeruns in the past week. That is hilarious for a number of reasons:
1) That he's still playing baseball
2) That a team would actually start him enough to hit four homeruns
3) That he would hit four homeruns.
4) He's Matt Stairs. Anything he does would be funny.
5) He did it for the Blue Jays. That's funny that there is still a Major League ballclup in Canada.
6) He stole one base so far this year. I would like to see that. That would be funny

7) Matt Stairs is a native Canadian.

Mark Teixeira is on the 15-day DL. I'm going to be invoking our DL policy where we can drop roster players when they get placed on the DL. So don't pick up Mark Teixeira.

That's the third roster player on my team that went on the DL. (Joe Mauer, Ryan Howard, and now Mark Teixeira). Granted I haven't started Ryan Howard at all. But Mark Teixeira had turned into my regular starting first baseman. Mauer was my starting catcher until he got hurt, too.

I pick up Raul Ibanez just for the short staff on Monday, and what does he do? He hits two homeruns getting me 24 points. :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-)

Now I just need a second basement. I'm tired of this revolving door at second. :-( :-( :-( :-( :-( :-( :-( :-( :-( :-(

FYI. I picked up Ty Wigginton of Tampa. He can play 1B, 2B, 3B, and OF. WHAT NO SHORTSTOP!? GET THAT BOY IN AT SHORT!

We have not had a 60+ game in awhile! Yesterday the Mashers got 60 points. Current score:
Mashers 2764
Khans 2682

your lead is down to 51 points

Mighty Mashers 2785 total points 21 points yesterday
Khans 2734 total points 52 points yesterday

so far I have made 98 transactions and you have made 49. That's exactly double!

my 100th transaction was made today.
i dropped NYM SS Jose Reyes for MIL OF Corey Hart.

HISTORY IS MADE TODAY! THE KHANS HAVE TAKEN THE LEAD WITH A 60-17 SMACKDOWN!

LEAD CHANGE
Khans 3058
Mashers 3035


It's been 53 days since there was a lead change. I wonder if that's the longest stretch ever.

HISTORY IS MADE TODAY! THE KHANS HAVE SCORED THE MOST POINTS EVER IN ONE DAY!

83 POINTS!

Khans 3272 83
Mashers 3198 33

Here's the lineup for the historic day
C
Joe Mauer
(Min - C)
^ @Det W, 11-1 1/3 2 1 0 0 0 1 4 0 0 2 13
1B
Ryan Howard
(Phi - 1B)
^ NYM,^ NYM L, 6-5; L, 5-2 0/6 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 2
2B
Chase Utley
(Phi - 2B)
^ NYM,^ NYM L, 6-5; L, 5-2 2/6 0 2 1 1 0 0 2 0 0 1 8
3B
Álex Rodríguez
(NYY - 3B)
^ Oak W, 2-1 3/3 1 3 1 2 0 0 1 0 0 1 11
SS
José Reyes
(NYM - SS)
^ @Phi,^ @Phi W, 6-5; W, 5-2 4/8 1 4 3 0 0 1 1 1 1 2 15
OF
Álex Ríos
(Tor - OF)
^ @Sea L, 5-3 2/4 1 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 6
OF
Carlos Beltrán
(NYM - OF)
^ @Phi,^ @Phi W, 6-5; W, 5-2 2/9 2 2 0 0 0 2 2 0 0 0 14
OF
Lance Berkman
(Hou - 1B,OF)
^ Col W, 9-8 2/5 2 2 0 0 1 1 3 0 0 0 14

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That's the number 83 shown 83 times

An easier way of seeing the 83 point day is a screenshot: http://www.spudart.org/etc/league/20070629khans-83points.png
It should be noted this was the craziest double-header for our league ever. Well, not crazy, but most productive. Usually our doubleheader days do nothing. But here, four players scored 15, 14, 8, 2 points.

The day before the Khans scored 39 points (chase utley 19 points) . And the day after they scored 34 points (carlos beltran 20 points).

Mashers blast back with 63 points!

We all know that the Phillies-Mets double header of June 29th is a historical event in the history of our illustrious fantasy league. Well, the first game of the Twins-White Sox doubleheader today ended with a 20-14 score. What will the second game have in store? What IS known is that the Khans have two Twins starting and the Mashers have zero.

I am so upset with the White Sox right now. HOW IN THE WORLD CAN THEY LET THE TWINS SCORE 20 runs in the first game of the doubleheader and then 12 runs in the second one? That is just totally pathetic. The White Sox are so entirely pathetic.

Mauer got 23 points. Mourneau got 37 points. THIRTY-SEVEN points. In one day. The White Sox should not be allowed to play baseball anymore. NO MORE BASEBALL FOR YOU!

New Commissioner's Note
As commissioner of the Maldre League Baseball, I hereby ban the Chicago White Sox from playing baseball ever again. If any of your players are facing the White Sox (especially in a double-header), you are NOT ALLOWED to start those players.

This rule is hereby declared official on 07/07/07.

I'm considering changing my team name from the Khans to the History Makers cuz my guys just keep breaking record after record.


One week ago, the Khans shatter the single day point record with 83. Just yesterday, the Khans shatter the same record again with 87! AMAZING! Maybe the new team name will be the Amazing Khans.

for the record:
Khans 3561 season points. 87 points on July 6
Mashers 3458 season points. 32 points on July 6

As a side note, this is the first time the entire season that a team has led by 100+ points.

the Mashers have always been Mighty.

We enter the All-Star break with the Amazing Khans leading the Once Mighty Mashers 3625 to 3524. That's a 101 point difference.

The Mighty Mashers are blasting back their way back after the all-star break with 63 points yesterday. POW POW POW.

That is my teams new motto: "POW POW POW"

wait. it actually should have exclamation points after each POW... "POW! POW! POW!" If i ever designed a team logo, it would have that as the tagline.

63 points is impressive, but it's not 83 or 87. pow.

You should pick up both Ryan Garko (Cle - 1B) and Paul Konerko (CWS - 1B). They are two of the hottest hitters in the past week. And they both have last names that end with "ko." That would be fun to have your last name end with "ko." Maldreko.

FYI, i'm blogging that.

Okay-ko

I have 11 of the 17 hottest players in baseball. You have only two. *insert sad circus music here*

first I lost Ryan Howard at the beginning of the season. Then I lost Joe Mauer for a couple months. Then, Mark Texieria was hot for about month and gets injured for 3+ months (still on DL). Now my team MVP, Chase Utley, is out for at least a month with a hand injury.

I might write Albert Pujols a snail mail letter asking him to pick it up.

With Howard, Mauer, Texieria and Utley on the DL... As Megatron said in Transformers the Movie of 1986, "Their defenses are broken, let the slaughter begin." And the Masher comeback has started with a 77-25 defeat last night. Just as five Constructicons merge to form Devastator; Five Mashers: Albert Pujols, Brian Roberts, Ryan Braun, Jimmy Rollins, and Carlos Lee all hit 10 or more points to form the Mashavator destroying machine. NAAAAAAAAAAAAAAR. All you have is Grimlock, Slag, Sludge, Snarl, and Swoop to attack the mighty Mashavator.

MASHAVATOR STRIKES AGAIN! This has to be the most deadly back to back strikes ever. 62-23. Now the Mashers are only 8 points behind. To think just a couple days ago they were 101 points behind.

watch out. I just picked up the human Dinosaur, Mike Piazza. He's batting 310 this year!

Grimlock, Slag, Sludge, Snarl, and Swoop always find a way to get the work done. I'm proud to have the Khans represented by the Dinobots.

Is perhaps Mike Piazza the new Grimlock of my team? Actually, Ryan Howard is more like Grimlock in terms of leadership cuz I'll probably be dropping Piazza in the next couple days. But it's funny to think of Piazza as Grimlock. I didn't read your Transformers reference when I made my human Dinosaur comment.

"Grimlock smash Decpticons!"

LEAD CHANGE!
Mighty Mashers 4436
Amazing Khans 4431
This is perhaps the latest lead change in the season ever!

LEAD CHANGE!
Amazing Khans 4483
Mighty Mashers 4465
Did you enjoy first place for one day?

LEAD CHANGE
Mighty Mashers 4561
Amazing Khans 4560
Back in first place, by a point, here to make a point.

Will the Khans catch up?
Mighty Mashers 4693
Amazing Khans 4645

Whoa. A double 60 day.
Mighty Mashers 66 (4792)
Amazing Khans 61 (4762)

LEAD CHANGE
Amazing Khans 4866
Mighty Mashers 4862

LEAD CHANGE
Mighty Mashers 4998
Amazing Khans 4990

And a 60+ point day. Is that the first time a team did both a lead change and 60+ point day? I think so! What a time in the season to do so! Mashers with 75 points thanks to Vlad's 20-point doubleheader today. He finally woke up and decided to do his job.

LEAD CHANGE
Amazing Khans 5146
Mighty Mashers 5111

75 points from the Khans. Thanks for Mark Teixeria for 2 homers and Raul Ibanez for homers and Arod had one for good measure.

The season is TIED with just one month left!
Mashers 5602
Khans 5602
Most exciting season ever!?

LEAD CHANGE
(not really a "lead change", but the Khans break the tie)
Amazing Khans 5653
Mighty Mashers 5644

Man! I'm just one point behind you. And the way i'm making transactions, I'm gonna catch up to you there too (176-95). (four more transactions today)

Mighty Mashers pull into the lead!
LEAD CHANGE
Mighty Mashers 5723
Amazing Khans 5715
Carl Crawford only got you one point yesterday. So me warning you about your missing outfielder only got you one point. Thankfully he did not hit 30.

What happens if the league ends in a tie? What is the tiebreaker?

I really should still have the lead by one point. I intended to start That Pena guy on Tampa Bay. He got 10 points. Ryan Howard got zero. I was working on my team, then Andrea dropped Olivia on my lap and I got distracted and never swapped out Howard for Pena.

You may talk about injuries to your team, but I'd rather have my star get injured for awhile and KNOW he can't play rather than having to deal with the poor performance of your top picks. Just look at three of my top four draft picks:
1. Albert Pujols
3. Vladimir Guerrero
4. Manny Ramirez
All petered out this year.

I have to disagree. Who's fault is it that Pujols, Guerrero, and Ramirez haved petered out? It's the fault of Pujols, Guerrero, and Ramirez. 100%.

Who's fault is it that I had Howard, Utley, Teixieria, Mauer and more go down with injury? Sometimes you can blame the player for poor conditioning, but most often injuries just happen and there's no one to blame. That's more frustrating. Pujols, Vlad, and Manny have no one to blame but themselves.

But when a player gets injured, at least you can free up roster space and pick up someone else. When one of your top four picks decides not to hit, you can't exactly just drop him.

good point

The Mashers now have just a one point lead with 20 games left.
Mighty Mashers 5978
Amazing Khans 5977

LEAD CHANGE
Amazing Khans 6040
Mighty Mashers 6024

n honor of September 11th, I declare that we are not going to include the points from yesterday's fantasy baseball, thus nuffifying the Khans 63 point masterpiece that propelled them into first place.

Also, did you notice that I'm going to overtake you soon in transactions? 186-122. Look out, buster.

LEAD CHANGE
Mighty Mashers 6197
Amazing Khans 6193
With the 48-22 victory yesterday, the Mashers pull into a four point lead with just 14 days left in the season!

Mike Scioscia is an idiot in the Duster Baker style. He benches his players when they are batting incredibly well. Garrett Anderson is 7-for-14 with one homerun in his past three games. And he gets the bench.

Anderson was given a routine day off on Sunday, the Associated Press reports. Recommendation: Juan Rivera started in his place. "Garret needs a day off," manager Mike Scioscia said. "He's been grinding it and I wanted to give him a day."

Uh no. When your player is batting .500 in the past three games, YOU KEEP HIM PLAYING!

Yea, i never understood that. So lame. If I were a player and I was tearing the cover off the ball, the last thing I'd want is to have a day off. The only thing a day off would do is cool me off.

Baseball is a game of repetition. No other sport compares to the level of repetition found in baseball. So why break the positive repetition of a player being hot by benching him? It's complete nonsense.

With 11 games left in the season and the Mashers up 49 points (6329-6280), the Khans are getting desperate and picks up PUNKFACE chipper jones. Oh dear, it's really getting down and dirty now.

For point of comparison.
9/16/2006: 6197-6193 Mashers over Khans
9/16/2007: 6098-5893 Khans over Mashers

4 points with 11 games left.

Oh you picked up Ryan Howard? Crap. I saw he hit a HR yesterday, but I assumed you already had him. I guess he's a Khan through and through even when you don't have him on your team.

9 games left:
Mighty Mashers 6408
Amazing Khans 6351
Mashers win yesterday 36-24.

57 points with 9 games left.

The khans crush the Mashers yesterday 42-18.
Mighty Mashers 6426
Amazing Khans 6393

33 points with 8 games left.

With seven days left, the Mashers expand their lead by 12 points, 41-29.
Mighty Mashers 6467
Amazing Khans 6422

45 points with seven games to go.

On the off-Monday, the Khans win 39-30
Mighty Mashers 6497
Amazing Khans 6461

36 points with five games to go.

Rick Ankiel? You picked him up? I thought your fantasy teams banned cheaters.

48-32
Mighty Mashers 6576
Amazing Khans 6529

47 points with FOUR games to go. Just four games!

What are we gonna do when the baseball season is over? They should have some sort of fantasy game for the playoffs.

what are we gonna do after baseball is over? we're gonna overly obsess over the extremely slow fantasy football season. One game a week isn't enough.

Khans creep closer.

51-23
Mighty Mashers 6599
Amazing Khans 6580

The lead is down to 19 points with three days left. This is life left on the Khans.

19 point lead? Oh brother. And now your team has momentum. I am very very nervous.

LEAD CHANGE!

Amazing Khans 6647
Mighty Mashers 6632

67-32

Only two days left and there's a lead change!
The Amazing Khans take first place the same day the Chicago Cubs clinch the Central Division Championship. What a historic day in baseball.

Paul LoDuca 1 points
Ryan Howard 9 points
Aaron Hill 7
Arod 17 POINTS!
Hanley Ramirez 10
Brian Hawpe 6
Nick Markakis 9
Carlos Beltran 8

technically that was 67-33. Man. I gotta catch up now. How does arod score 17 points? He's a yankee. I thought they were benching all their players.

The Khans extend their lead into the last game of the season winning 33-30.
Amazing Khans 6680
Mighty Mashers 6662

ONE game left, Khans with 18 point lead.

KHANS WIN THE 2007 CHAMPIONSHIP!
KHANS WIN THE 2007 CHAMPIONSHIP!

1. Amazing Khans 6705 25 242
2. Mighty Mashers 6687 25 178
(position, name, points season, points last day, transactions)

Are ya gonna make another board for the 2008 sesaon? spudart.org's server is down way too often.

Here's a summary of the points from 2007:

Mashers 297
Khans 294
Apr 11, 07

Khans 323
Mashers 321
Apr 12, 07

Mashers 259
Khans 343
Apr 13, 07

Mashers 464
Khans 464
Apr 17, 07

Mashers 521
Khans 508
Apr 18, 07

Khans 583
Mashers 573
Apr 20, 07

Mashers 877
Khans 875
Apr 27, 07

Khans 956
Mashers 948

Mashers: 1087
Khans 1056
May 03, 07

Khans 3058
Mashers 3035
Jun 25, 07

Mighty Mashers 4436
Amazing Khans 4431
Aug 04, 07

Amazing Khans 4483
Mighty Mashers 4465
Aug 05, 07

Mighty Mashers 4561
Amazing Khans 4560
Aug 07, 07

Mighty Mashers 4693
Amazing Khans 4645
Aug 10, 07

Amazing Khans 4866
Mighty Mashers 4862
Aug 15, 07

Mighty Mashers 4998
Amazing Khans 4990
Aug 18, 07

Amazing Khans 5146
Mighty Mashers 5111
Aug 21, 07

Mashers 5602
Khans 5602
Sep 01, 07

Amazing Khans 5653
Mighty Mashers 5644
Sep 02, 07

Mighty Mashers 5723
Amazing Khans 5715
Sep 04, 07

Mighty Mashers 5978
Amazing Khans 5977
Sep 11, 07

Amazing Khans 6040
Mighty Mashers 6024
Sep 12, 07

Mighty Mashers 6197
Amazing Khans 6193
Sep 17, 07

9/16/2006: 6197-6193 Mashers over Khans
9/16/2007: 6098-5893 Khans over Mashers
Sep 20, 07

Mighty Mashers 6408
Amazing Khans 6351
Sep 22, 07

Mighty Mashers 6426
Amazing Khans 6393
Sep 23, 07

Mighty Mashers 6467
Amazing Khans 6422
Sep 24, 07

Mighty Mashers 6497
Amazing Khans 6461
Sep 26, 07

Mighty Mashers 6576
Amazing Khans 6529
Sep 27, 07

Mighty Mashers 6599
Amazing Khans 6580
Sep 28, 07

Amazing Khans 6647
Mighty Mashers 6632

Amazing Khans 6680
Mighty Mashers 6662
Sep 30, 07

1. Amazing Khans 6705 25 242
2. Mighty Mashers 6687 25 178
FINAL