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.
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.
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.
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… Read more »
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 DeJes
s, 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.)