It’s been a tough couple of weeks for baseball. Teams in the Midwest are losing entire series because of SNOW. (Even here in the East temps are topping out at a balmy 50 most days. And tonight there’s supposed to be rain! Argh.) The Indians are playing their Seattle series in Milwaukee, which is a bit counter-intuitive (isn’t Milwaukee NORTH of Cleveland? And thusly colder?) until you remember that Milwaukee has a dome. The media of course has been freaking out, but remember that a couple quick doubleheaders and the Indians and Pilots Mariners will be all caught up. What’s more annoying is that anyone with those players on their fantasy teams has been kinda screwed (I’ve been starting CC Sabathia every bloody day in hopes that he might actually throw the ball; no dice).
And speaking of fantasy baseball, our season is basically straight jacked at this point because ESPN’s IT department appears to be staffed with chimps. The statistics are all wrong, and entire rosters keep disappearing and reappearing randomly. ESPN’s solution to this is to WIPE OUT EVERYONE’S RESULTS and start over, by simply resetting our teams to our opening day rosters and calculating the last 11 days of results based on that opening roster. They’re simply discarding any roster moves we’ve made. Which is totally great because
- I’ve placed one guy on the DL and replaced another guy because I needed more pitching; all of that is gone and will have to be redone.
- In our league you can change your rosters every day, so most of us have been swapping starting pitchers in and out of the rotation in order to maximize wins and strikeouts; none of that will be happening.
This is the second time we’ve ventured from Yahoo for a fantasy league, and we won’t be doing it again.
And best of all, the Phillies are 1-6. ::openly weeping::
So, baseball’s in the dumps for me right now. But things are looking up! I ordered a copy of MLB 2007 “The Show,” a highly recommended video game which features the ability to create a player from scratch and move him through the minor leagues into the majors and hit baseballs with him! With his bat, I mean, not with, like, his head.
I loved how the ‘Stros stand with the Phillies was billed as “they’re not doing any better than us” here locally. And we both proved it. One of showed, the other didn’t. 🙁
As well, at least there’s Fantasy (doh!).