I am in two leagues (besides the stupid online free leagues). One's for blood (and money), the other's for fun (and not so much money). Currently I'm in 3rd in the blood league (12 team 5x5 keeper draft league), and 4th in the 11 team NL only keeper auction league. The 4th place in the auction league is particularly frustrating because I have a $450 team in a $260 cap league that isn't doing SHIT. Schilling, Randy Johnson, Vlad Guerrero all on the DL and Shawn Green and Klesko and Larry Walker hitting like little girls. I won't even begin to tell you how much I hate Robby Stinkin' Alomar (who I have in BOTH leagues) right now.

Anyway, right now I'm talking to myself, but if anybody else has a team they wanna discuss or needs any advice, I'd be happy to discuss it --

Porker

Hi, my name's Porker and I am a fantasy sports addict. It has been 45 seconds since I thought about my fantasy baseball team.

I wanted to start this thread to see if there were any roto geeks like me out there looking for some bandwidth to waste about something that only has meaning to kindred spirits. To those of you that ain't in to it, GO BACK TO THE STOCK MARKET PAGE!!!

All right Porker, yeah I can relate...some guys at work got me hooked on fantasy sports a couple of years ago. I have the free leagues and then I have an ESPN.com league. Some serious players in that league. Best I can do is .500 but the 1st place team has a .590 winning %. But it still feels like I am getting my ass kicked.

I made the mistake of drafting Billy Koch for saves. He sucks...6 saves so far...I think he had 44 last year. Rocky Biddle has been a surprise though for me luckily. I also got Walker (4 HRs so far!!!) and Payton...the Coors Field strategy...that does not work. Then I got Bonds...35 RBIs jeeez???...even dress wearing Larry Walker has 40 RBIs.

I get my ass kicked every week in RBIs...I am down 1-0 every week before we start...with Bonds, Walker, Thome, Palmeiro, Aubrey Huff..thought I was set??? Well looking for 2nd half recoveries. Got Runny Hernandez...he is real useful...maybe he will be back in September!! Well I will go to TJ this week so I can forget this....maybe I should email Larry Walker and see if he can go along...might help his stroke.

rbi's... two guys that are red hot are Dmitri Young and Morgan Ensberg, and they were on the garbage heap a couple weeks ago. Might be guys that you can get cheap to help you. Also, Magglio Ordonez should turn into an RBI machine at some point this year, and whoever drafted him isn't getting what they bargained for and might just dump him cheap.

But if it's head to head, like it sounds, one category isn't gonna kill you. Not good to sacrifice strengths in head to head just to be average in a category you suck at.

Re: Larry Walker, I have him in just about every league too. He has been hurting, and then they keep yanking him around the batting order, usually behind Preston Wilson. His HR's are really down so far, but I hold onto him because he's capable of getting really hot and single-handedly rescuing batting average.

Nice job picking up Biddle. I ended up trading him a little too soon myself, fearing he would flame out at some point and lose the job. Koch has struggled, but the whole Sox team hasn't had that many opportunities. He won't get 44 saves again, but he won't be THIS anemic either.

How's your starting pitching? I just traded Matt Morris for hitting, and I think it's gonna kill me. Replacing him with a guy like Brad Penny is SUICIDE. But my hitting was really in a funk and I got Griffey and Hidalgo to help a little bit. Maybe Griffey will get hot and Penny won't suck too bad.

Porker,

I'm in two 12-team 5x5 leagues, one's an AL only league the other an NL only league. In both league we have keepers and an auction/draft every year. My NL team is currently in 4th in spite of the fact that I'm last in steals and have only one save for the year. I've got some bangers on offense and a couple of good cheap starters.

My AL team is another story. I've got the biggest bunch of underachievers in the league this year. Currently I'm in 11th and looking up a long-ass hill to 10th. Just to put this in perspective, Paul "Fucking" Konerko was supposed to be one of my studs this year - he's currently hitting .194 with 3 HRs and 15 RBIs.

Most owners actually play in both leagues and we get together every All-Star break and do a little drinking and trading. I'll probably have a fire sale in the AL and try to acquire some speed and saves in the NL.

BTW, don't count on Penny, I've carried his dead ass for so long it hurts. Who'd you get for Morris?

El_apodo: Your leagues sound like fun. I feel your pain re: Konerko, traded FOR him about a month ago from a guy who was about as upset as you and I both are right now. Huge disappointment. But actually, his shittiness started at the All-star break last year and just continued on to this year. He's carrying the 'next Frank Thomas' thing a little too far!

SB's are a tough category to dig yourself out out of a hole this time of year. Not likely to find a bunch of dudes in the free agent pool that can help, and trading for them hurts you in other categories unless you can trade a guy like Sammy or Edgar M who NEVER run for a well rounded player. Problem is that most guys aren't that dumb... Bobby Hill for the Cubs is in the minors, but is rumored to be traded soon. If you can stash him in an NL league he could end up helping, and watch out if he gets traded to the AL. Loser bench warmers that can help in steals if you have a total dead spot are Eric Owens in the AL and Shane Victorino or maybe Tom Goodwin in the NL. And they don't play enough to ruin your average, though they sure will try! I traded Pierre in my NL only league as I was desperate for pitching with BOTH Schilling and Randy J. (the Big UGLY) on the DL... Only cost the guy Kevin Millwood! Speed can be expensive to acquire.

Who are your best keepers, and are they cheap ones? The fire sale idea is always a good idea if you're not actually going to make a push and win the thing, but if you're SURE you're going to do that, you might want to get a bidding war going NOW as the number of contenders may dwindle the further into the season you go. The angle you play up is that your expensive studs 'are more valuable NOW as they will give you 2/3 of a season of value...'. Also, how many keepers do you get? And what's your salary cap?

I got Griffey and Hidalgo for Matt Morris. Re: Penny, I need him until Josh Beckett (another FLA LOSER!) comes back. Of course with MY luck he'll blow his arm out for good any day now and I'll be stuck with Penny all year.

Porker-

Wow you are a braver man than me trading Morris. For SP's, I got him, Oswalt (personally I think he is one of the best in NL when healthy,) Mulder, Brett Myers (he may flame out soon,) Ishii (ditto for him-high flameout potential,) then I picked up C.C. Sabathia, Ponson (this guy has 8 wins!) on waivers and have Runny Hernandez on DL (maybe he will be back some freaking day.) I would like to get another closer (maybe a Scott Williamson) but nobody will bite in my league.

Some of the teams in my head to head roto league like the closer strategy (horde 4-5 good closers and lock down ERA, WHIP and saves every week) and start fewer SPs but ones who get a lot of Ks. What do you think of that theory? I hope Koch comes around in second half. I also got Mantei but this guy is hurt all the live long day!

Dave

As I had a big lead in strikeouts already, the only thing I couldn't ultimately replace from Morris was wins, and it's a BIG dropoff from him to the next average pitcher. In a 5x5 league both Morris and Oswalt are poor substitutes for guys like Johnson and Schilling when healthy, and Prior may join that group soon. We're talking 100 K's difference between the AZ studs and the pack. Of course they're old and looking now to be injury prone, so someone is gonna have to take up the slack. I invested a lot in Kerry Wood sometime back thinking that it would be him, but he just doesn't have the killer instinct (or the team behind him like Zito has) that it takes. Someday he still might put it all together though. Until then, I'd trade pretty much my WHOLE TEAM if I was out of the race in a keeper league to get Mark Prior. That dude is awesome already and I don't see it stopping any time soon.

I have Myers too, and love what he has done so far. But for whatever reason young pitchers almost always drop off after the initial honeymoon period around the league. Myers has been a pitcher that has benefited greatly from the increased attention on the strike zone. His ability to work up and down with his curveball/fastball combo has let him post GREAT numbers so far for a guy most people got for NOTHING. But he's probably not THIS good.

Mulder in a 5x5 league must be driving you crazy. He has fewer K's than Eric Gagne. Eggshell skull Ishii's potential as a WHIP killer with all those walks would keep me from sleeping nights, and I tend to trade guys like that immediately after acquiring them.

Some pretty good pitchers have been getting LIT UP since interleague play started. And your boy Ponson looks better every start! He has been pretty damned good since he got KNIGHTED by the Dutch queen. It's a funny rollercoaster, fantasy baseball.

Street and Smith's isn't even close to the best fantasy guide available, but living in Mexico as I do, I didn't have a whole lot of options! But their rankings are fairly typical, even if they come out a bit on the early side and don't get the late signings/jobfights right.

Anyway, on their pre-season list of the top 25 closers, precisely FOUR have started the season as being even DECENT closers without either 1) SUCKING 2) Being injured 3) losing their jobs. Gagne, Smoltz, Guardado and Wagner. That's IT. After that, you're depending on guys like Benitez (who has actually been pitching well lately) and Sasaki (whose arm is held together with duct tape).

I tend to get my closers off the waiver wire, and trade a stud like Smoltz if I've got him for the guy without the big repuation that is looking like he can hold the job (a la Guardado last year, Biddle and Borowski this year). Closers lose their value quicker than any other position. They can wake up in the morning and be WORTHLESS. Actually I was glad in one league when Kelvim Escobar became merely WORTHLESS instead of DEATH TO MY WHIP AND ERA as he started the season.

Of course Kelvim just threw a shutout and the launching pad in Cincinnati, so maybe I shoulda held on to his 'worthless' ass!

Maybe it's just this funny year, though, as a whole lot of elite starting pitchers have either been hurt or underachieving as well. Makes me wanna concentrate on stud hitters more than ever, though.

Griffey and Hidalgo for Morris is a GREAT deal for you. I had Griffey last year - yikes - in hopes that he would have a great comeback this year. Unfortunately I traded him away over the winter.

The guys I play with are extremely savvy when it comes to picking players. I swear that one of our guys actually spend the winter going over stats from the Mexican and Puerto Rican leagues. As a result, there aren't too many sleepers available. So guys like Owens, Victorina and Goodwin are long gone. I actually have to scout AAA and AA ball so I can make educated guesses on which player a club might bring up. I know it's sick, but I live a long way from Mexico so I gotta do something with my time.

We can keep up to 15 players in each league. My NL keepers from last year were Mark DeRosa, Andy Fox, Gary Sheffield, Luis Gonzalez, Mike Lowell, Sean Burroughs, Kerry Wood, Adam Eaton, Kris Benson, Carlos Zambrano and Ray King. My AL keepers included Konerko, AJ Pierzinski, Tony Batista, Mark Texiera, Carlos Guillen, Tim Salmon, Dany Baez, Ugueth Urbina, Jamie Moyer, Jon Garland, Scott Schoeneweis and JC Romero.

I think since I'm basically out of the money in the AL I'm going to try and assemble an all-Hispanic team via trade. It'll be difficult with the turds I have but I'm just the guy to try. I recently started by trading Tim Salmon and Jamie Moyer for Juan Gonzalez and Freddy Garcia.

All hispanic team, I love it! Bet you don't have the balls to go after Escobar! Talk about a rollercoaster guy...

Your NL keeper list looks pretty impressive. Hard to believe you're not doing better, but then again, speed and saves are notoriously absent no that A. Fox is back on the trash heap where he probably belongs. Luis Gonz. stole base #4 tonight, though. Not too bad so far this year.

Does anybody have Justin Morneau yet in your AL league? Dude's a pretty damned good hitter from what everybody says. Twins have a glut of 1b/of/dh types, though. Just another guy to keep Bobby Kielty on the bench too much in my situation! Ugh!

Yeah the league leader and resident stats guru has him reserved right now. He seems to be the type of guy that the Twinkies tend to develop. As a matter of fact, he and Kielty are almost carbon copies.

Looking back now I shouldn't have kept Fox, but he was second in the league in stolen bases last year and you know how hard those are to come by. The thing that he and DeRosa provide for me is flexibility. In our leagues a player qualifies for a position if he plays one game there during the season. Both of those guys qualify at 4 - 5 spots. That helps a ton when I'm trying to deal with injuries.

One resource you may want to look at is

http://www.fantistics.com

These guys do online (and downloadable) projections prior to the beginning of the season and send out daily emails every day of the season keepin you up to date on who's hot, who's not, who's hurt, who's in the doghouse. The daily reports can actually be pretty funny at times. Well worth the 30 - 40 bucks I laid out for it.

BTW check out my NL outfield for this year, Sheffield, Gonzalez, Jim Edmonds, Cliff Floyd and Troy (I suck) O'Leary. And I just picked up Hillebrand and was able to dump Mo (strip club anyone?) Vaughn. And I just moved into 4th after a good night last night.

Well off to trade for some AL hispanics.

I THOUGHT I could top that outfield at one point earlier this season. I had Vladimir G., Shawn Green, Larry Walker, Juan Pierre, and Ryan Klesko. All charter members of 'Overpriced Underachievers 'R' Us' so far this year except Pierre, who I ended up having to trade for pitching when Johnson and Schilling got hurt.

I got all those expensive guys by trading my good keepers very early. I had Padilla, Clement, Odalis P., Dreifort and Eaton all signed for anywhere between $2 and $7. Of course I wrote off the previous season in mid-May to acquire all those guys. I figured it would be simple: Just trade the cheap keepers for expensive guys in their option years, and then sit back and laugh my way to the title. Instead I'm in 4th and going nowhere fast!

Hillenbrand went for $44 in FAAB funny money in our league when he was traded to the NL. Kenny Lofton and Colon went in the 60's last year! Guys just never add anybody all year and then dump all their free agent money on some shiny object when it comes along. Meanwhile, I blow all mine on losers like Jaret Wright and Kiko Calero, so I don't know what's worse!

The only pickup I've been lucky with this year is Brad Lidge. My bright shining success story!

And I dumped Ensberg as a throw-in in a trade in April before he started teeing off. I get the feeling this isn't my year!

Man, Dontrelle Willis is even hotter than my boy Kelvim Escobar right now! I had a chance to get young Mr. Willis a week ago in our mid-season rookie draft... And I took Teixeira instead. DOH!

Despite Borowski's uncharacteristic shitty outing blowing the win, Mark Prior's pretty damned good. 16 k's? SICK!

I offered half my 4th place team for him in my NL only keeper league and got turned down a couple weeks back. The 2nd place team didnt wanna give him up for a shot at a title this year. I can't really blame him.

But out of town so I havne't been able to keep up with the baseball stats. I got Hillebrand in our NL league for $36. Our league has a rule that if you spend more than $29 on a free agent and release him the next year you have to pay a $100 fine. But I figure that he's worth 36 so I'll probably hang on or trade him over the winter. It's a good thing he went on the DL right after I left town and was out of touch with the world for ten days. I'd probably been a little peeved. As it is, I can wait for him to get activated, maybe tonight!

Guys in our league get together during the All-Star game and usually trade our asses off. I'm sure my team will look significantly different after that!

Ouch on having to keep Hillenbrand at $36. That's gotta make him the most expensive 3B, yes? He doesn't have that kind of talent. BTW, he went for $44 in our league, but can be cut no problem.

If Hillenbrand's worth $44, I wonder what Juan Gone will go for if he actually reports to Montreal? I have already burned my free agent add $$, so he won't be heading MY way!

I've got Gonzalez in my AL league, don't talk about him taking the trade to Montreal.

I think MLB is actually planning on setting up shop permanently in PR. It seems as if this may be the first move of several in an attempt to assemble a mainly Hispanic team that will draw there. I lived in PR for a couple years many moons ago and those people are beisbal loco!!

Looks like you dodged a bullet w/ Juan Gone! Am sure that trades will really screw up some AL and NL only leagues like always this year.

DIE BRAD PENNY!!!

Lol, looking back at last year's comments, I'd KILL to have Brad Penny now!

I dropped out of my auction league because half the league quit and I didn't like the new commish. I'm still a LIFER in my BLOOD league, but am struggling as usual after a hot start. I just traded my old fave Matt Morris and my shot at any of this year's rookies (Matsui, Crosby, Greinke, Estrada, et al.) for Pedro Martinez. I am pretty well set in the middle infield (Thanks, CARLOS GUILLEN!!!) and pretty DESPERATELY needed the boost in K's with Kerry Wood having a sore pussy, err, uh, arm and taking the better part of 2 months off. Thanks, Kerry. And DUSTY for riding him like a $4 for all-night whore.

I got Morris in the offseason by trading Beckett for he and Mike Sweeney, who is hitting like a little girl lately. Beckett's been as injury prone as ever, but Sweeney has been really disappointing. The teams ahead of me in the league have guys like Durazo and Hatteberg eating my supposed STUD'S lunch, and it's especially killing me in OBP (we use that instead of runs). I am BURIED in OBP, and my only hope is that guys like Vidro and Sweeney get hot and that Larry Walker comes back soon and DOMINATES (haha).

Big day tomorrow -- our mid-season rookie draft. I desperately need a closer as Chacon has been too flammable to put in the lineup and Marte got passed over by the Japanese wonderboy. I'm staring at Frasor in the 2nd round, but might not even be lucky enough to get THAT LOSER.

OK, I've vented enough. Thanks for reading, if you've managed to make it this far. Anybody else have a team worth commenting on?

WHOA! HUGE trade for AL/NL only league types with Dotel and Beltran changing leagues. An easy 100 dollar FAAB bid on either of them, as both become instant impact superstars.

In my forBLOOD mixed league, though, the odds-on favorite just became a CINCH as the only category he was hurting in was saves, and he had both Dotel AND Lidge, and just added a good 20 saves for the rest of the year to his total. Lucky SOB!

As far as REAL beisbol goes, the Royals get ROYALLY fucked in a trade for primo talent yet again. OOPS.

This is an example of my luck this year: I need wins desperately, and, it'd be nice if my opponents stopped getting them as well. Last night I got a little lucky when Prior pitched well but left without a W. Of course Brad Lidge got the W after blowing a save, and he's on the team of public enemy #1. FUCK!

TODAY, I had Kerry Wood going, and the Cubs bats heated up to give him a 10-2 lead into the bottom of the 5th. Where numbnuts gets EJECTED 2 outs short of a win by hitting Jeff Kent (who owns Kerry) for the 4th hit batsman of the game and after Oswalt had already been tossed.

And THEN, Wilson Alvarez gets PASTED after being solid for the last month+ after he was put back in the rotation.

I'm loading up on 2-start guys this week in one last-ditch desperation shot to try and gaina few points in my weakest category, including the immortal WIL LEDEZMA. My team has been pretty good all year, but had some fucked up injury problems, though with guys like Griffey and Walker I really only had myself to blame for counting on them. That doesn't say much for Wood, Wagner, Ordonez and M. Giles, though.

Our season ends 2 weeks from today, just in time for a labor day football draft. I have an outside shot at 2nd place. Yesterday morning I thought I had DECENT shot at first.

Good luck pork-- I started alvarez tonight also trying to pick up more wins down the stretch. I'm currently in first by 3 points, hopefully my whip/era didnt take a beating by him. He won't be starting anytime soon for me!

Well, due to a huge hitting slump I blew any shot at 1st, but this FUCKING HURRICANE in FLA is fucking me over royally. Looks like I lose 3 starts this weekend, plus 1/3 of my hitting lineup in the Tampa/Det. series. HOPEFULLY I can hang on for 3rd and at least get my entry $$ back.

Keeper league draft's in 3 weeks. I'm almost as excited about THAT as I am for my upcoming Asia trip that begins the same day. Lol, it's my birthday too. Gonna be one helluva day!

I get a little shafted this year as I traded some draft picks last year for going for a title, and now I have a LOT of depth but gotta cut a bunch of quality guys that would be keepers for any other team in the league. We DO get to keep 15 players, though, so I guess I shouldn't complain too much.

Anyway, I can't wait for spring training games to begin. Gotta decide amongst a bunch of middle-tier starting pitchers like Buerhle, Maddux, Pettite and Radke to see which ones are going to be the best bets to round out my staff. Got a strong start in pitching with Pedro, Kerry Wood, Burnett and Smoltz already. Woulda been stronger, but I already traded old man Clemens for draft picks.

just drafted my 2005 team.

1. arod
2. shilling
3. delgato (long time fav or mine)
4. oswalt
5. rivera (did I mention I always go for pitching)
6. hudson (told ya)
7. h. matsui
8. c. lee
9. G. Anderson (he'll bounce back this year)
10. P. Wilson (ditto)
11 D. Baez (sure up some saves, all closers gone)
12. womack
13. uribe (had to fill 2nd/ss)
14. estrada
15. arroyo (back to pitching after fulling those holes)
16. wells (got the sox starting line up almost!)
17. urbina (lets hope he's traded)
18. durazo
20. Byrd
21. C. Floyd


(Message edited by donmarco on February 27, 2005)

Looks like a yahoo league, DM, and you did very well for yourself. Getting Schilling, Oswalt and Hudson is HUGE. And you were able to get a pretty damned good hitting lineup too by picking guys that were coming off injuries and by going after 4 category guys instead of guys that also give you steals.

Re: Red Sox and guys coming off injuries, not sure why you didn't go after Trot Nixon. His yahoo ranking is in the 400's or something.

(Message edited by porker on February 27, 2005)

I always liked floyd and took him over nixon. You picked up on my draft logic. While all the others were scoffing up OFs, I was grabbing the best pitching I could. Then I picked some multi cat big names coming off bad years as my guns. Arod, delgato, and matsui form a decent nucleus tho, so as long as wilson and/or anderson return to AVERAGE form, I should be in good shape. Then again I say that every draft

ya it was a yahoo league. Where u playing your keeper league?

Mostly guys from high school in So Cal.

We just had a bit of a schism as I mercilessly browbeat our weakest link into quitting the league. He kept saying stupid shit like 'but my job and kids don't allow me time to do stuff like attend drafts (he just blew one off last year with no warning or explanation. the commish picked his team) and set my lineup' but then defended to the DEATH his RIGHT to be in the league. We went to high school together and I love the guy to death, but he simply had to GO!

online league?

Jeesh - you guys study men waaaaAAAAaaaay too much. You'll be the two fags in PI watching the game instead of barhopping and/or fucking. Yeah, I'll be here in the US beating my meat mercilessly while you two stool pushers will keep sucking each others dicks and complimenting yourselves on a "job well done" with your beisbol bullshit. Waste of plane tix...

E

I've drafted via chat the last few years as commuting to the draft via Mexico isn't exactly convenient, but no, it's not really on online league (except for standings kept online). Almost missed last year's draft when I ended up in a Mexican jail on my birthday (long story).

Epi, when's your next appointment to get your balls waxed again?

It's not waxing - it's laser treatments. Finished quite a while back. When you hit LA in a week or so you're MORE then welcome to inspect the work.

Awful handy to not have a bush as it makes the joint look bigger. Unlike you, the Indo girls look at my kit and don't run in fear, just giggle...

E

Epi,

Go get tweezed, waxed, plucked, a manicure, a pedicure and leave us manly men to discuss how to pass our time in the states without going crazy.

Kerry Wood better not keep letting a 'sore pussy' interfere with his LONG-DELAYED ascent to greatness. I should probably dump his ass now for 40 cents on the dollar and just get it over with, but I remember the GREAT games all too well and I (and the Cubs) would settle for a relatively healthy 30 starts and 200 IP at the same level that he's been pitching at for the last 3 years. Those numbers weren't particularly SEXY, but the monster potential is.

But then there's the sore pussy problem...

If anyone wants to get in a league ,let me know

I'd like to hear more about joining another league, yes. My email's porquer@yahoo.com, or you can send me a PM here.

i would be up for it-- long as it is not yahoo (I'm already at the team max at yahoo).

My season may depend on 4 players in Chicago: I need Kerry Wood to come back and DOMINATE while Mark Prior mends his owie and/or sucks. Jon Garland has been CARRYING my team so far (lol, all the way to 3rd place!).

The 4th guy can single-handedly jump start my offense if he's healthy and on his game: Fat Frank Thomas. I'm pretty sure he's gonna disappoint...

Ohh to those AROD naysayers..

Alex Rodriguez he's just batting .331 and leading the AL in home runs, RBIs and runs. Like I said #s speak for themselves. Jeter can be his batboy.

Derek Jeter has proven himself to be a player that comes up big in big game situations. Note the playoffs and world series games of the late 90s

Alex Rodriguez and Barry Bonds have proven themselves to be chokers in big game situations. Where was Alex in games 5,6, and 7 last year against the Red Sox. He might as well have put his bat up his ass. Wait until the money is on the line and see if he performs this way. Not.

Great players come up big in big game situations. Derek Jeter is a big game performer and has proved it many times and he has character.

What about Adam Kennedy and Brian Doyle? You never answer that question.

ABOUT DAMN TIME

AROD STARTS EARNING SOME OF HIS BLOATED SALARY.

Lancer, your nonsense is just that-- go do a little post season stat reseach, then step up to the plate so-to-speak.

Max-- so can you name a player consistently outplaying AROD over his career that is wearing pinstripes now?

Jeter sucked it up worse than AROD in the playoff last year-- I suppose that makes him a BBS (bigger bloated shit). Jeter is playing his normal AVERAGE self all this year as well, u boyz need to take off your cheerleader uniforms and put on some pants.

Hey DM

Don't mince words - tell us how you REALLY feel...

E

what are sports without a little trash talking
welcome back ep!

Don Marco wrote the following:

Lancer, your nonsense is just that-- go do a little post season stat reseach, then step up to the plate so-to-speak.

Don Marco here are Alex Rodriguez' stats for games 5,6,and 7 of the ALCS against Boston last year which is the reference that I made in my post.

Game 5 - 4 at bats 0 hits 0 RBIs
Game 6 - 4 at bats 1 hits 0 RBIs
Game 7 - 4 at bats 0 hits 0 RBIs

So your great superstar in games 5, 6, and 7 had 1 hit in 12 at bats and no RBIs.

His batting average was .083 with no runs batted in. His contribution when the ALCS series was on the line was pathetic. I rest my case.

Porker wrote the following:

What about Adam Kennedy and Brian Doyle? You never answer that question.

Jesus Porker there are some players who are not superstars but who are money players who come up big in big game situations. Cornbread Maxwell of the Boston Celtics was one of those.

My point was that there are superstars who come up big in big game situations and Bonds and Arod are not in this category (at least yet) but Roberto Clemente who was a superstar was one of those who came up big in big game situations. This ability in my opinion is the definition of greatness and that is a great player who comes up big in big game situations.

Please don't make me quote Bonds post season statistics and further embarass you guys with the truth. Numbers do not lie.