One 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 ArticleElvis Has Left The Building Twice
There is no truth to the rumor that Elvis Andrus stole his entire playing career from "Fats" Domingo, "Ivory" Roberto Kelly or Nate King Colbert. Elvis hits the covers off the ball better than Cam...
View ArticleSAGNOF Report: When The Hick Goes Down…
Y'all better be ready. (Gotta love some fantasy baseball puns that involve some Cypress Hill.) Well, even if you didn't like it, I did. So there's that. So A.A. Ron Hicks hit the DL with an oblique...
View ArticleFantasyDraft: Angels Currently in Blah Blah Land
Sometimes you make a pitch because of the pitcher's work. Other times, you make it based on the work of the team he's facing. Lukewarm suggestion, Adalberto Mejia, come on down! Really, I'm not...
View ArticleSafari So Good For Nat Gio
Allow me to paint a visual metaphor. A vetaphor. The entire league's pitching is cornered on the grounds of a wildlife preserve. A tiger, we'll call him Blister, stalks towards the league's...
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2018 Spring Training Positional Battles: AL East
The AL East is "big boy" baseball. Four teams from the division ended 2017 in the top 10 for home runs in all of baseball. The Yankees were first with 241, the Orioles were fifth with 232, the Rays...
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The NFL Sandlot
Last year some fellow co-workers and I decided it would be fun to join a flag football league. Seemed like a solid idea. Do some ‘team building’, get some running in, and enjoy a little competition....
View ArticleLeBron Ends Cleveland Shutouts, Kluber Throws ‘Em
Evidently, Corey Kluber made some sort of promise to the city of Cleveland too, and not just to Kl-Uber Drew Carey home any time he sees him drunk-wandering in downtown Cleveland. Yesterday, Kluber...
View ArticleSawx Turn To The O.G. Koji As Kimbrel’s All-Star Breaks Bad
*nervous finger tap* How many days without baseball? So, I can close my fantasy baseball team browser window without missing anything? Okay. *throws computer out window* What? Was there another...
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Ohhhhhhh, What’s That Snell?! …And The Top 100 Starting Pitchers, Week 18
I was all about some of that young prospect snell early in the season, ranking Blake Snell within my top-75 preseason ranks. He destroyed the Minors in 2015, then was a little iffy when he hit the...
View ArticleJankies! We’ve Solved The Case Of The Stolen Bases
In 1972, a young Polish man by the name of Stanley "Stash" Petrosky burst on the scene with the Pirates organization and stole 87 bases while pinch-running for the Single-A Long John Silvers. No...
View ArticleDraftKings: Discounted Zack and a Coors Stack
Last week I laid out some Men In Black references for you fine readers. Always one to double down whenever possible, this week, we need to break out our neuralyzers and forget all about Zack Greinke’s...
View ArticleRoyals Hustled By Minnedozier Bats
Holy shizzballs. That's not the Urban Dictionary definition of shizzballs either, which is when you shizz your grapes. That's shizzballs as in this is the greatest display of sexiness since a young...
View ArticleBaseman Turner Overdrive Is Takin’ Care Of Business
I blame Jonathan Villar, Dusty, Francisco Lindor and Rougned Odor, in no particular order. Those players and Dusty are the reason why I owned Trea Turner and dropped him. I mean, no one would be...
View ArticleWith Reyes, The Cards At Least Hold An Ace-High In Their Hands
This offseason I'm going to recap sixteen-after-twenty, then I'll go over the best rookies for next year, then I'll go into sleepers and, finally, the new rankings. Holy crap! We're already at the...
View ArticleCouch Managers 2017 Industry Mock Draft Recap, Rounds 1-6
Greetings, friends. I hopped over to the football side of things once last year's baseball season ended, but now I'm back. And apparently, I am such a disturbed individual that I am doing fantasy...
View ArticleTop 80 Outfielders for 2017 Fantasy Baseball
As we continue our 2017 fantasy baseball rankings, we head into the homestretch of ranking hitters. For those confused, homestretch isn't when you shoot up late at night, remembering there's a Dorito...
View ArticleCouch Managers 2017 Industry Mock Draft Recap, Rounds 13-18
Here we are, the third of four posts about the Couch Managers 2017 Industry Mock Draft. Previously, I posted recaps of rounds 1-6 and rounds 7-12. This post is for rounds 13-18. The final post will be...
View ArticlePoints Leagues: Reflecting On My Projecting
As I begin to prepare my projections and rankings for the 2017 season, I like to look back on the previous season's attempt to not only assess my work, but also to learn how I can do better next time....
View ArticleLeague of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Draft Recap
Before we jump right into this draft recap, let’s go over a little bit of background about the league and its details. This isn’t like the typical RCL 5x5 rotisserie league we often talk about in this...
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