I have a firm believe that my gloomy spring is a result of the earthquake in Japan. I have lived in northern California for what is now the 8th spring season. Never before have I seen the constant cold/rain/inconsistent weather we are currently getting. Meteorologist just keep forecasting rain. What a great job those guys have. Look at the sky and some weather maps. Make some shit up. Get a check.
I am really looking forward to baseball season this year. I was pretty depressed for most of last year for a large number of reasons and never got into the baseball season. I pretty much lost interest all together by mid-July last season. It figured to be the same this year, but I started planning for fantasy baseball early, started eating better and lost some weight, and got into a generally better mood. So I'm back.
I have tickets to the Oakland A's season opener on the 1st. They play the Mariners. We grabbed one of those family four packs for what came to around $62 for seats, drinks, hot dogs, and peanuts for all. And for being one of the first 32,000 fans, I get a free magnet schedule!!! YEAH! Pretty damn good deal considering the value of all of that is over $100.
So spring is kinda here where I'm at, I'm feeling better about myself and life, and baseball is here. Oh, and I just got an awesome new sofa and my kitchen is being renovated withing the next few weeks. Good times.
Tuesday, March 22, 2011
Friday, October 8, 2010
And one more
I'll leave this here as my reminder to not get so angry should LSU lose to Florida this weekend. Les Miles "is a car wreck that you can't turn away from". How true.
Football Friday
Tim Lincecum threw a gem last night for the Giants. As I had expected, it might take him a few innings to get going since he hadn't pitched in more than a week. Atlanta didn't get to him enought early and Lincecum got in a groove. A 14 strikeout 2-hit groove.
So here we go with my pics for some pertinent games: (home teams in bold)
College
#1 Alabama over South Carolina
#11 Arkansas over Texas A&M
#18 Michigan over #17 Michigan St.
Notre Dame over Pitt
Clemson over North Carolina
Oregon St over #9 Arizona
#10 Utah over Iowa St.
#14 Florida over #12 LSU
#13 Miami over #23 FSU
#16 Stanford over USC
NFL
St.Louis over Detroit
Indianapolis over Kansas City
Green Bay over Washington
Baltimore over Denver
New Orleans over Arizona
Dallas over Tennessee
N.Y.Jets over Minnesota
Wish me luck. Everyone have a great weekend.
So here we go with my pics for some pertinent games: (home teams in bold)
College
#1 Alabama over South Carolina
#11 Arkansas over Texas A&M
#18 Michigan over #17 Michigan St.
Notre Dame over Pitt
Clemson over North Carolina
Oregon St over #9 Arizona
#10 Utah over Iowa St.
#14 Florida over #12 LSU
#13 Miami over #23 FSU
#16 Stanford over USC
NFL
St.Louis over Detroit
Indianapolis over Kansas City
Green Bay over Washington
Baltimore over Denver
New Orleans over Arizona
Dallas over Tennessee
N.Y.Jets over Minnesota
Wish me luck. Everyone have a great weekend.
Thursday, October 7, 2010
Lynch, Dong Fregosi, and the Playoff No-Hitter
I've never been in a clubhouse of a Major League Baseball team, nor any other pro team for that matter. But I can imagine that hilarity like this is more commonplace that one might thing. Or maybe I'm wrong there.
While I was not exactly surprised, the no-hitter thrown by Roy Halladay last night was remarkable nonetheless. Only the second no-hitter in more than 100 years of postseason history by a guy in his very first postseason start. But it was thrown by a pitcher who has become one of the best in game in a season where everyone seemed to have a no-hitter or come close. The no-hitter just doesn't mean as much to me now as it once did. But congratulations to Roy Halladay on a remarkable feat.
Finally, Marshawn Lynch was traded from the toilet bowl if the NFL to, well, something better. I think. Seattle is better, and better because they now have Marshawn Lynch. He's a very talented running back both as a runner and receiver. I can see him carry the Seahawks offense with multiple 100 yards games and lifting Seattle to a division title in the wide open NFC West. Critics will say that he is more likely to be arrested again and fall out of the league altogether. That might have scared many teams away from trading for him over the past year.
Seattle is going through a sort of rebirth under first year head coach Pete Carroll. To a team that already seems to have good energy, Lynch only adds to that with his arrival. Lynch brings with him a resume that includes two 1,000 yard seasons in his first three years in the league and a 2008 Pro Bowl selection. He is stepping into a situation where inconsistency and poor performance has led Seattle to a 27 worst rush offense in the league and fourth worst in the NFC.
My gut feeling on Lynch is probably like many others. He is in a position to help a potential playoff contender right now. If he can avoid any further off-field problems and perform as expected, things look clear in Seattle. If not, then the many overcast days ahead in Seattle will look more gloomy for the young running back.
While I was not exactly surprised, the no-hitter thrown by Roy Halladay last night was remarkable nonetheless. Only the second no-hitter in more than 100 years of postseason history by a guy in his very first postseason start. But it was thrown by a pitcher who has become one of the best in game in a season where everyone seemed to have a no-hitter or come close. The no-hitter just doesn't mean as much to me now as it once did. But congratulations to Roy Halladay on a remarkable feat.
Finally, Marshawn Lynch was traded from the toilet bowl if the NFL to, well, something better. I think. Seattle is better, and better because they now have Marshawn Lynch. He's a very talented running back both as a runner and receiver. I can see him carry the Seahawks offense with multiple 100 yards games and lifting Seattle to a division title in the wide open NFC West. Critics will say that he is more likely to be arrested again and fall out of the league altogether. That might have scared many teams away from trading for him over the past year.
Seattle is going through a sort of rebirth under first year head coach Pete Carroll. To a team that already seems to have good energy, Lynch only adds to that with his arrival. Lynch brings with him a resume that includes two 1,000 yard seasons in his first three years in the league and a 2008 Pro Bowl selection. He is stepping into a situation where inconsistency and poor performance has led Seattle to a 27 worst rush offense in the league and fourth worst in the NFC.
My gut feeling on Lynch is probably like many others. He is in a position to help a potential playoff contender right now. If he can avoid any further off-field problems and perform as expected, things look clear in Seattle. If not, then the many overcast days ahead in Seattle will look more gloomy for the young running back.
Wednesday, October 6, 2010
MLB Playoffs and Moss to Minny
Major League Baseball playoffs start tonight. I tend to greet this event with a "meh" response. Television schedules dictate far too much and I tend to lose interest even when my beloved Cardinals are involved. But I am interested nontheless. But first:
In case you hadn't heard, Randy Moss was traded to the Minnesota Vikings for a 3rd round pick. The obvious for the Vikings is that they must win now. The bulk of their core is getting old and/or has an expiring contract in the next year or two. In trading for Moss, they finally decided to part with future draft pick to help win now. While many are expecting the Vikings to sign Moss to an extension, I would think that to not be so smart a choice. Not unless they want to deal with a huge new contract going to Moss with no one throwing to him after this year. That would be dumb.
For the sake of Brad Childress, the Vikings need to win now. He has invested too much of himself into this current team for it to fail. With the season ending injury to Sidney Rice, and the recurring injuries to Percy Harvin, the down field passing game of Minnesota has struggled and would have continued to do so. Moss will definitely help that. Plus, Moss and Brett Favre seem to really want to play on the same team as the other. So that has to count for something, right?
Well, Minnesota is playing on monday night this week against the J E T S, JETS, JETS, JETS!!! Darrell Revis is apparently back this week for New York. I'll put an over/under for Moss at 2 catches.
Back to baseball. There are four playoff series with three of them starting today. I'll go with Texas winning against Tampa Bay in 4 games. The Rays seem to play better on the road, and since they have home field in this series, I suspect that will play against them somehow. I'm really not interested in this series at all.
If I have a sleeper for this years playoffs, its the Cincinnati Reds. I really don't expect them to beat the Phillies, nor does anyone else. But the Reds ranked in the top ten in all of baseball in every offensive stat that matters (OBP, runs, SLG, ) so I think they might actually keep up with the Phillie pitching. And they tied for an MLB best .988 fielding percentage. And you can say all you want about the Reds mediocre pitching, but with extra days off because of television schedules, that bullpen can get worked all they want because they will all get an extra day off that they wouldn't have gotten during the regular season. So you know what, Reds in 5.
Minnesota Twins vs New York Yankees will also start tonight in the new open stadium in Minneapolis. Temps are expected to be in the 40's tonight. Should be interesting. The stat that everyone is throwing out for this one is how the Yankees (besides Cano/Swisher) are hitting much worse away from the launching pad of the new Yankee Stadium. And how besides Sabathia, no one else on the Yankee staff knows how to pitch. Let be honest here, Francisco Liriano is starting Game 1 for Minnesota. He has never pitched this many innings in a season, struggled down the stretch, and didn't exactly pitch that well in relief in last years playoff against this same Yankee team. Game 2 starter Carl Pavano has had solid postseason outings in the past. If Minny wins tonight, I say Twins in 5. If not, Yankees in 4.
I want to think that in the last year for Bobby Cox as an MLB manager, that he might go into retirement as a champion. But there are too many injuries for the Braves (Chipper, Prado, Jurrjens) and San Francisco pitchers are just too good. I am amuzed to see the likelihood of Barry Zito being left off the Giants postseason roster in favor of rookie Madison Bumgarner. I think its the right move. Especially is the Giants only plan to go with a three man rotation of Lincecum, Cain, and Sanchez. Giants in a sweep.
I'm not going to act like I'm that smart and pick past the divisional round. Particularly when I might have picked half of these series wrong.
In case you hadn't heard, Randy Moss was traded to the Minnesota Vikings for a 3rd round pick. The obvious for the Vikings is that they must win now. The bulk of their core is getting old and/or has an expiring contract in the next year or two. In trading for Moss, they finally decided to part with future draft pick to help win now. While many are expecting the Vikings to sign Moss to an extension, I would think that to not be so smart a choice. Not unless they want to deal with a huge new contract going to Moss with no one throwing to him after this year. That would be dumb.
For the sake of Brad Childress, the Vikings need to win now. He has invested too much of himself into this current team for it to fail. With the season ending injury to Sidney Rice, and the recurring injuries to Percy Harvin, the down field passing game of Minnesota has struggled and would have continued to do so. Moss will definitely help that. Plus, Moss and Brett Favre seem to really want to play on the same team as the other. So that has to count for something, right?
Well, Minnesota is playing on monday night this week against the J E T S, JETS, JETS, JETS!!! Darrell Revis is apparently back this week for New York. I'll put an over/under for Moss at 2 catches.
Back to baseball. There are four playoff series with three of them starting today. I'll go with Texas winning against Tampa Bay in 4 games. The Rays seem to play better on the road, and since they have home field in this series, I suspect that will play against them somehow. I'm really not interested in this series at all.
If I have a sleeper for this years playoffs, its the Cincinnati Reds. I really don't expect them to beat the Phillies, nor does anyone else. But the Reds ranked in the top ten in all of baseball in every offensive stat that matters (OBP, runs, SLG, ) so I think they might actually keep up with the Phillie pitching. And they tied for an MLB best .988 fielding percentage. And you can say all you want about the Reds mediocre pitching, but with extra days off because of television schedules, that bullpen can get worked all they want because they will all get an extra day off that they wouldn't have gotten during the regular season. So you know what, Reds in 5.
Minnesota Twins vs New York Yankees will also start tonight in the new open stadium in Minneapolis. Temps are expected to be in the 40's tonight. Should be interesting. The stat that everyone is throwing out for this one is how the Yankees (besides Cano/Swisher) are hitting much worse away from the launching pad of the new Yankee Stadium. And how besides Sabathia, no one else on the Yankee staff knows how to pitch. Let be honest here, Francisco Liriano is starting Game 1 for Minnesota. He has never pitched this many innings in a season, struggled down the stretch, and didn't exactly pitch that well in relief in last years playoff against this same Yankee team. Game 2 starter Carl Pavano has had solid postseason outings in the past. If Minny wins tonight, I say Twins in 5. If not, Yankees in 4.
I want to think that in the last year for Bobby Cox as an MLB manager, that he might go into retirement as a champion. But there are too many injuries for the Braves (Chipper, Prado, Jurrjens) and San Francisco pitchers are just too good. I am amuzed to see the likelihood of Barry Zito being left off the Giants postseason roster in favor of rookie Madison Bumgarner. I think its the right move. Especially is the Giants only plan to go with a three man rotation of Lincecum, Cain, and Sanchez. Giants in a sweep.
I'm not going to act like I'm that smart and pick past the divisional round. Particularly when I might have picked half of these series wrong.
Monday, August 30, 2010
Missing a round
After a long hiatus I am back to this blog. Football season tends to do this to me. Anyways:
In my commishioning (that is my word) of this past saturdays fantasy football draft, I missed a round. This is a keeper league and we were only drafting for 9 rounds since we had kept 7 from last season. Well instead of putting the team name stickers on the draft board in the boxes provided, I put them a line lower in the line provided for round 1. So when as we went along with our draft and we got to line 9, I began to think this is the last round. I think a few people were a bit confused and tried to point this out. I'm not too sure. If they tried, it wasn't all that convincing that I had screwed up so we just finished after "round 9".
Well on there I was on sunday morning, looking at the draft board and entering our picks into the manual draft entry tool on CBSSportsline. When I get to "round 9" on the board, I notice on the website that I am only in round 8. ?!? What happened here?!?! That is when I notice my mistake. Oh, shit!!! We still have a round to go. Well that's not gonna happen. So I do two things:
1. I edit the waiver wire to now reflect a who "would" have drafted next so we have a fair shot at our guy for the final roster spot. Which will be a bigger mess since CBSSportsline won't allow me to set the waiver wire to run more than once before the start of the season.
2. I send a message to all the owners telling them this happened because they didn't point out my mistake. I'm only one man...with 9 others owners present.
I didn't think it was that hugh of a deal anyway other than 2 teams not currently having kickers because they planned to draft them in the last round.
In my commishioning (that is my word) of this past saturdays fantasy football draft, I missed a round. This is a keeper league and we were only drafting for 9 rounds since we had kept 7 from last season. Well instead of putting the team name stickers on the draft board in the boxes provided, I put them a line lower in the line provided for round 1. So when as we went along with our draft and we got to line 9, I began to think this is the last round. I think a few people were a bit confused and tried to point this out. I'm not too sure. If they tried, it wasn't all that convincing that I had screwed up so we just finished after "round 9".
Well on there I was on sunday morning, looking at the draft board and entering our picks into the manual draft entry tool on CBSSportsline. When I get to "round 9" on the board, I notice on the website that I am only in round 8. ?!? What happened here?!?! That is when I notice my mistake. Oh, shit!!! We still have a round to go. Well that's not gonna happen. So I do two things:
1. I edit the waiver wire to now reflect a who "would" have drafted next so we have a fair shot at our guy for the final roster spot. Which will be a bigger mess since CBSSportsline won't allow me to set the waiver wire to run more than once before the start of the season.
2. I send a message to all the owners telling them this happened because they didn't point out my mistake. I'm only one man...with 9 others owners present.
I didn't think it was that hugh of a deal anyway other than 2 teams not currently having kickers because they planned to draft them in the last round.
Monday, November 23, 2009
The Finish
LSU blew it this weekend against Ole Miss...and I'm not much interested in LSU as long as Les Miles is still coach. I invest plenty of time/money into LSU sports, most notebly football, and right now I'm just not getting enough in return thanks to him. I've never really like him since day one, but it really is time for him to go.
Anyways, I would rather discuss fantasy here instead of anything else today. So here are my projections for the "Molly Ringwald's Pink Nipple" finish with three weeks to go and most of this weeks games already decided:
Current record Projected finish
Porkrind
*Tittsburgh Feelers 8-2 12-2
*Itouchdownthere 6-4 9-5
Donkey Punchers 5-5 6-8
Ragin Cajuns 4-6 6-8
Thunder Chodes 3-7 3-11
Rawhide
*Giant TD's 6-4 10-4
*Loose Stool Stallions 6-4 8-6
Cunt Punt 5-5 7-7
River Bourbons 5-5 5-9
The Machine 2-8 4-10
* Playoff teams
So there it is...
Anyways, I would rather discuss fantasy here instead of anything else today. So here are my projections for the "Molly Ringwald's Pink Nipple" finish with three weeks to go and most of this weeks games already decided:
Current record Projected finish
Porkrind
*Tittsburgh Feelers 8-2 12-2
*Itouchdownthere 6-4 9-5
Donkey Punchers 5-5 6-8
Ragin Cajuns 4-6 6-8
Thunder Chodes 3-7 3-11
Rawhide
*Giant TD's 6-4 10-4
*Loose Stool Stallions 6-4 8-6
Cunt Punt 5-5 7-7
River Bourbons 5-5 5-9
The Machine 2-8 4-10
* Playoff teams
So there it is...
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