Win some, Lose some, Either way Boras gets silly rich.

Well, here we are, only a couple of posts during the whole season that started out with so much promise. Guess running 9 teams (some straight into the ground) pretty much takes up all of my 'sit in front of computer and contribute nothing' time each day. And its kind of a lot as it is.

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Well, of the 9 teams, three are locks for the playoffs, two are on the cusp, and the other four are WAYYYY out. The team for which I have 'consulted' is a long shot to make the last spot of the playoffs. I like to pretend I'm an athlete and say canned athlete things about the up-and-down nature of fantasy, including but not limited douche:

'You know, at this time of the year, everyone's got bumps and bruises, but you've really got to deal with it the best you can and go out there and do your best'

Well, that's great, but in my biggest money league, BOTH David Wright and Hiroki Kuroda sustained concussions after being hit in the head last night. Bumps and bruises, okay. Day off here and there? Grand. Traumatic brain injury? Come on. Hoping Ian Stewart can heat up (or at least play more than two consecutive games) with Wright on the bench, and I dropped Kuroda for Jeff Baker at 2nd. Sorry, we've only got room for one concussion on the Face First Cat Eaters.

Plus, Stephen Strasburg, who apparently has ten elephants for a throwing arm (in the good way) was offered a record-breaking contract to sign with the Nationals who have been really very good lately. Great bats in that lineup no doubt, but their bullpen is horrifying. Strasburg is rep'd by Scott Boras, who also has ten elephants but that's just for conversation. Strasburg went 3000-0 in college with over 17 thousand strikeouts. No one has ever hit anything he has thrown. He's thirty feet tall. And apparently, without ever throwing a pitch, he'll be a 7-figure signing. Great! I'll give one roster spot to him, in hopes that he signs by tomorrow midnight. If he doesn't, he's an asshole, Boras is an asshole, and I drop him because he won't be eligible to keep if he doesn't pitch for me this year.

I have pulled a 'First to Worst' in the league that I commission. er. Whatever the verb is for this. And strangely, the guy in first has pulled a 'Worst to First'. Terrible. Well, I SO dominated last year (on the backs of Josh Hamilton, Carlos Quentin, Ian Kinsler, Nate McLouth, Justin Morneau, among others), that I kept them all (Kinsler's hitting .246 right now, though on pace for a 30-30 season, if he doesn't pull his spleen like he did earlier this season causing him to miss a few weeks-Quentin missed 50 games with Plantar Fasciitis, Hamilton missed about 6 weeks before his relapse and subsequent indiscretion at the bar with the young girls, McLouth, though traded to more favorable Atlanta, has had a couple good weeks, but recently left a game with a hamstring injury, and Morneau, well, he's still as awesome as ever). Plus I drafted Jake Peavy, who sadly developed cabbage on his uvula and has missed a million years. So in all, the VurpSharts are chalking this one up to bad luck. Rome wasn't built in a day, and Jim Rome isn't entertaining. Better than Dr. Laura, but really, who cares about your horse racing company.

Leading in the 'guys I used to work with and some other guys in Philadelphia' league, but the team has been tailing off, and I've been employing the 'pick up a two-start pitcher with a favorable matchup once in the next week' strategy, due to the loss of, again Jake Peavy. Here's the good news/bad news on Peavy. Good news, he'll be back in a couple weeks, just in time for the playoffs! Bad news, instead of pitching in quadruple A (NL West), he's in the AL Central (pretty nasty, actually). He hasn't thrown in a game in two months-ish, and do you really want to put him in there for a start, with the money on the line, in this situation? I probably will, but I'll grind my teeth every night that week.

'You know, it's a marathon, not a sprint'

Surprise, now it's a sprint! There are probably 3 weeks left in the regular season in most fantasy leagues, and it's getting mad hot, yo. I put a little more value on 2-start pitchers in weekly leagues, and less value on, say, my back up middle infielder. If there are some mid-season call-ups (your Bud Norris-Gio Gonzales types), or fourth starters on winning teams (Joel Piniero, Jason Marquis, Kuroda-wait until his concussion clears up) out there, definitely take a look. Chasing wins with your fifth starter ain't a bad call, but only if they're on a contending team with big balls in their lineup (Piniero represents the best-case of these, what with his WHIP under 1.2 and Mr. Bignuts (Pujols) himself, and the leagues' hottest hitter BY FAR (Holliday, .484-8 HR since the All-Star break) backing him up). He might blow up here and there, but he'll win more than he loses.

Plus I just got a whiff of football season. So there's draft prep for that, including mock drafts (I like to do maybe 15), reading all kinds of websites' info, and then of course pretending that their info is mine and posting it here. Holy shit, I've just used up all of my 'useless' time today. But it's Sunday! Whatever, Meg's still in bed. I'm hitting a mock.