Top 40 Starters for 2016 Fantasy Baseball, A Recap
So, how’s everyone holding up without fantasy baseball every day? I don’t know what to do with myself! This week I wandered into a Starbucks and told the coffeerista about Aaron Sanchez for 2017....
View ArticleTop 80 Starters for 2017 Fantasy Baseball
One quick note, our War Room guy from last year has dropped out, so if you guys (maybe four girls) want a War Room this year, someone needs to step up to make it happen. I will take ready, willing and...
View ArticleFantasyDraft: Crack Open A Duff For Opening Day
Holy Shizz! I can't believe Opening Day is already here, it seems like a couple weeks ago I was opening up the 2016 season with Mad Max. I hope you all had a great off season, but now it's time to...
View ArticleFreeman Hits Ball 40 Acres And Runs Like A Mule
I wonder if Freddie Freeman has Fletch-like dreams where he pictures himself with a huge afro and his name is Freddie World B. Freeman. "He's actually 6-5, with the afro, 6-9. Pretty good hands,...
View ArticleAmbulance Chasers, Week 2: Bird Flu In Bean Town
I feel like I could list every Boston Red Sox player in my post this week. A bunch of their players came down with the flu, even the untouchable Andrew Benintendi, who apparently threw-up in the dugout...
View ArticleFanDuel: I Like My Easter Eggs Odorizzi
Hello, peeps! It’s the day before the most wonderful day of the year: it’s Chocolate Eve! Today, somewhere in a burrow far, far away, the Easter Bunny is busily laying his eggs and packing them into...
View ArticleBiking Bumgarner Bail Out a Big Bummer
There's no denying that Madison Bumgarner works hard. Well, he plays even harder. So it should have come as no surprise when news broke that the San Francisco ace was placed on the disabled list after...
View ArticleReally Thucks Noah Has A Thor Arm
As the old expression goes, you can count on three things in life, death, taxes, and Mets pitchers ruining your week/month/season with an injury of some sort. This is a slight update on the late 80's...
View ArticleEd-Rod Going Clear…. And The Top 100 Pitchers, Week 5
What you didn't think I was going to go full homer with my debut pitching profile? I mean, it's as if you don't even know me? Suffice it to say we've turned the keys to the Top 100 pitching ship from...
View ArticleSeverino Brown, The Ca$H Money Brothers……And The Top 100 Pitchers
We all have fears, no matter who you are, no matter what you've been through, you're scared of something. It might be clowns, maybe it's spiders, perhaps it's being strapped to a chair Clockwork Orange...
View ArticleA Karnival of Curves……. And The Top 100 Pitchers
Is there anything better than baseball on a rainy Saturday afternoon? You can't do any yard work, you know, because it's pouring, so you settle into your favorite chair, crack a beer, and you're...
View ArticleCharlie Morton The Salt Bae…….And The Top 100 Pitchers
Has there been any "sleeper" more hyped this season than Charlie Morton? It seems like we're constantly being reminded of the spike in velocity, the swing and miss stuff, the combination of swinging...
View ArticleThings Looking Sonny For Bizarro Grey Albright
Okay, this is weird, but Sonny Gray and I are complete opposites. Sonny Gray is in Bay Area, and it's Grey Albright in Los Angeles. Weather you like it or not, that's weird! Pun noted too! Grey...
View ArticleTwo-Start Starters, Week 9: (Ariel) Miranda Rights And Wrongs
I was originally excited to focus on Baby Thor Mike Clevinger in my first post taking over the Two-Start Starters for M@, but the rainout on Thursday threw everything out of whack. So, I had to pivot...
View ArticleVince Vaughnlasquez……………And The Top 100 Starters
Does anyone remember when Vince Vaughn was funny? It was a time long ago in a land far, far away, your wife was still dating guys wearing Armani Exchange shirts, and George W. Bush was using words like...
View ArticleWax On, Wax Off Dinelson …And The Top 100 Starters, Week 10
So let's just get this whole curse thing out of the way. Seems like every starter I've profiled since taking over this here gig has hit the DL, with lone exception being Luis Severino. Some how he's...
View ArticleTwo-Start Starters, Week 12: Take Your Chances with Francis?
Another week, another Clayton Kershaw start pushed to Monday. At least this week they moved the start before I wrote and submitted this article. If they move it again Saturday morning, then I will be...
View ArticleOne If By Land, Three If By Seager
Our Commissioner Manfred presses his intercom, "Please escort in the Guatemalan baseball stitchers." Manfred's secretary brings six men dressed in blanket ponchos and straw hats. Their leader steps...
View ArticleBeltre First Texas Ranger To Reach 3,000 Hits Since Chuck Norris
Adrian Beltre was promoted to the Dodgers the same year I moved to Los Angeles. I distinctly remember listening to AM sports radio a lot that summer, and, man, did people in LA hate Beltre. With...
View ArticleGodley Outadverbs Wrigley & The Cubs
The Book of Job says, "We will send out at least one email a day to all your contacts whether you like it or not." Shoot, I immediately see what I did wrong there. I Googled for a Bible quote, and...
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