Running the fantasy baseball pennant race is torturing me thread

Maybe it is eight seconds at a time, over and over again.

That's the tough thing about playoff time. Those shaky closers who are useful over the course of the season, like a Borowski or a Chad Cordero can really torch your chances with a couple of implosions. Cordero seems determined to cost me third place in my money league.

 

Fucking fuck Ryan fucking Howard!

 

This is what stinks about September fantasy baseball: I have Jeter and Posada and both are sitting because the Yankees already have clinched.

 

John Smoltz is killing me tonight.

 

Me, too, Zeke. And I'm very happy with the result.

 

So here it is, the last (scheduled) day of the season.

Looks like I need a miracle in my big money league. Pray...for...steals. And a shitty performance by Matt Garza. And two saves...ahh hell.

 

Oh yeah it's easy for you to root against me because you're up big in your league.

May Garza reek of fail so badly it overwhelms you wherever you are!!!

 

Well fuck. Guess I'm toast.

 

I've been winning the nine-person Certain Idiots Allowed rotisserie league for a few months now. The second-place team made a good run. I think only thre of us have actually checked the league in the last week . . . . . and the computer drafted my team.

In my work league (also rotisserie), I jockeyed for first for a while, then two weeks ago, got slotted into second. But dude in first has 15 years of MLB beat experience, so this soccer dork who drafted his own team is just fine with finishing second.

I also find that baseball is conducive to finding one's own strategy, not based on what the "experts" say. Hell, these are the guys who say "A-Rod will still be good!" and "draft a running back in the first round!!" and "Tim Duncan fills the sat sheet!!" Not sure what they say that isn't known by most sports fans anyway.

 

I'm in 5th place and need to gain 3 points to finish in 3rd place, but none of my pitchers are starting today, so I need to gain at least 10 RBI on the next guy and the team needs to hit beyond extreme today; team batting average is .280, would need to get up to .282 or so.

 

Indeed, indeed, Zeke, my boy.

I never will forget this team,
I wonder if it was a dream,
I remember how it made me crazy,
I remember how it made me scream,
Now I don't understand what happened to 1st place,
now boys I'm going to get you back,
going to win the '08 roto race,
cuz ...