DL

Since Cliff Lee is hurt I put him on my DL and picked up Mark Beurle. Of course, I did it AFTER he won his first game so I didn't get any points for him.

Opening Day!!!

My first game of the 2010 season:
Yankees 7 @ Red Sox 9

Yooooooooooooooooooooouk

Don't start here :P

I wish I could reorder my posts but I can't so start with the earliest post from today titled 'srsly'. Happy reading!

Tokyo Harajuku (JAMO)

And lastly, this is Mushu's team.

C Matt Wieters, Bal
1B Prince Fielder, Mil
2B Robinson Cano, NYY
3B Ryan Zimmerman, Was
SS Hanley Ramirez, Fla
2B/SS Brandon Phillips, Cin
1B/3B Ryan Howard, Phi
OF Jacoby Ellsbury, Bos
OF Ichiro Suzuki, Sea
OF Jason Bay, NYM
OF B.J. Upton, TB
OF Andre Ethier, LAD
UTIL Justin Morneau, Min
Bench Aramis Ramirez, ChC
Bench Kendry Morales, LAA
Bench Shane Victorina, Phi

P Tim Lincecum, SF
P Zack Greinke, KC
P Javier Vasquez, NYY
P Brandon Webb, Ari
P Joakim Soria, KC
P Ricky Nolasco, Fla
P Ubaldo Jimenez, Col
P John Lackey, Bos
P Andrew Bailey, Oak

I see trouble on the horizon for me again this year.

Let the games begin!

Draper Rawhide (RAW)

This is Fritz's team. He's my dog. He also has no thumbs but after you look at this roster you'll see he doesn't even need them:

C Joe Mauer, Min
1B Albertt Pujols,Stl
2B Dustin Pedroia, Bos
3B Pablo Sandoval, SF
SS Derek Jeter, NYY
2B/SS Ben Zobrist, TB
1B/3B Miguel Cabrera, Det
OF Carl Crawford, TB
OF Justin Upton, Ari
OF Adam Lind, Tor
OF Bobby Abreu, LAA
OF Nelson Cruz, Tex
UTIL Victor Martinez, Bos
Bench Adam Dunn, Was
Bench Lance Berkman, Hou
Bench Torii Hunter

P CC Sabathia, NYY
P Jon Lester, Bos
P Justin Verlander, Det
P Chris Carpenter, Stl
P Tommy Hanson, Atl
P Cole Hamels, Phi
P Wandy Rodriguez, Hou
P Clayton Kershaw, LAD
P Jose Valverde, Det

See what I mean?

Gotham Knights (GK)

This is Larry's team. He's made some changes already cause he is way more dedicated to this than I am.

C Brian McCann, Atl
1B Mark Teixeira, NYY
2B Placido Polanco, Phi
3B Alex Rodriguez, NYY
SS Elvis Andrus, Tex
2B/SS Brian Roberts, Bal
1B/3B Evan Longoria, TB
OF Matt Kemp, LAD
OF Grady Seizemore, Cle
OF Nick Markakis, Bal
OF Shin-Soo Choo, Cle
OF Johnny Damon, Det
UTIL Michael Cuddyer, Min
Bench Kevin Youkilis, Bos
Bench Carlos Lee, Hou
Bench Derrek Lee, ChC
DL Jose Reyes, NYM

P Felix Hernandez, Sea
P Dan Haren, Ari
P Adam Wainwright, StL
P Yovani Gallardo, Mil
P Josh Beckett, Bos
P Jonathan Papelbon, Bos
P Brian Wilson, SF
P Jered Weaver, LAA
P A.J. Burnett, NYY

He's got one hell of an outfield line up. His bench is pretty sick too. I think I'm in trouble, AGAIN.

srsly

Well folks (and by folks I mean Ben), it's that time of year again. The time of year when I say 'I'm really gonna use this blog thing this season". The time of year when I basically post twice and then stop completely. But this year is gonna be different! I promise to post AT LEAST three times before I stop.

It's also the time of year when my family (Larry, Fritz, and Mushu) reactivate our fantasy baseball teams. So far, Mushu (she's my cat) has beat me every year. I even tried to sabatoge her last year by giving her an all asian team. I gave up after I couldn't find her a third baseman and also because I felt a little bad about it. I mean, she has no thumbs, ya know?

This year we did mix it up a little bit though. Instead of drafting our own teams, we let ESPN do it for us. This is how my team looks right this second, i.e. before I've started trading anyone:

C Miguel Montero, Ari
1B Adrian Gonzalez, SD
2B Chase Utley, Phi
3B David Wright, NYM
SS Troy Tulowitzki, Col
2B/SS Jimmy Rollins, Phi
1B/3B Joey Votto, Cin
OF Ryan Braun, Mil
OF Matt Holiday, Stl
OF Jayseon Werth, Phi
OF Curtis Granderson, NYY
OF Adam Jones, Bal
UTIL Mark Reynolds, Ari
Bench Chone Figgins, Sea
Bench Josh Hamilton, Tex
Bench Aaron Hill, Tor

P Roy Halladay, Phi
P Cliff Lee, Sea
P Johan Santana, NYM
P Mariano Rivera, NYY
P Josh Johnson, Fla
P Matt Cain, SF
P Francisco Rodriguez, NYM
P Heath Bell, SD
P Jake Peavy, CWS

I can tell you right off the bat I'll be dumping Josh Hamilton and Francisco Rodriguez. Josh on principal alone (anyone who says the best part of the All-Star game is getting to 'testify' about Jesus then falls off the wagon a week later should probably not ever do an interview again) and Kiko cause I've honestly never seen him pitch for shit. Heath Bell is in that same boat so I'll have to look at his stats, and while Mariano is probably the greatest closer of our time he's coming to the end of his career and the 'pop on his cheese' is significantly less than it was even three years ago.

I'll likely also switch David Wright and Chone Figgins with each other, i.e. put David on the bench til we see how his injury from last year has healed.

Sadly I must admit I don't know who Miguel Montero is, nor Joey Votto, nor Adam Jones though the last one at least sounds familiar. Looks like I have some studying to do and some games to watch.

Any thoughts?

I'll post the teams I'm up against in the next three posts to keep them seperate. I'll also post how ESPN calculates the scores.