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[Carlos del Vaca]

In other pretend sports leagues... look who took over the #3 spot in hockey in the last week of the regular season.

(Me!  I did.)

[littlefallsmets]

Good Lord yes, play!

The more the merrier!

[melack]

A Pretend Sports league without Keith Hernandez is like a rail of coke without a nostril. But, you know, the good kind of coke. The coke we need. Keith, we need you.

[littlefallsmets]

Joooooooin us! Joooooooin us!

(Seriously, it is fun as hell and... becomes more fun the more teams there are. The more Pretend Baseball Teams there are, the less stars every team has and the more challenging the game is because you have to figure out which role-players will be good enough of what you can get.)

[melack]

There are also more options for hilarious trade requests.

[littlefallsmets]

Such as fleecing me for Lastings Milledge, just because I still can't get over the fact that the Mets gave him up for two guys who proved to be part-time players EVEN ON THE WASHINGTON EXPOS.

[Carlos del Vaca]

Such as fleecing me for Lastings Milledge, just because I still can't get over the fact that the Mets gave him up for two guys who proved to be part-time players EVEN ON THE WASHINGTON EXPOS.

Schneider was our #1 catcher.  Played about as much as any starting catcher in the bigs.

Church, yeah, he was a part-timer pretty much.

In hockey news, I scratched and clawed through the latter half of the season to get the #3 spot and a first-round playoff date with the last-place team.  Which is now kicking my ass.  Too perfect.

[littlefallsmets]

Well, The Schnide hits like a part-timer, anyway...

I mean, I don't care if you're a gold-glover, you can't hit under .230 and be a starting position player in the majors. A defensive replacement guy off the bench? Okay, fine... but a starter? I don't buy it.

ALSO: Dude's defense is also slowly falling off.

[melack]

My feelings on Mr. Milledge have been detailed at length. I'm going to avoid the temptation to jump into it again.

[littlefallsmets]

How many did we have in the league last year?

I'm shootin' for the goal of at-least two more teams than we had last year.

A lady-type Pretend General Manager or two would also be radical.

[melack]

Wombat to the rescue!

[littlefallsmets]

So I'm thinking I'll pull the trigger on the autodraft Friday night (3/21) so that everyone has the time to make their adjustments in case they've got any Red Sox or As on their rosters as the first two weeks of the season are going to count as one competition because there are so few games in that first week.

Any objections?

Also, c'mon. Four more teams! Four more teams!

[melack]

Sounds good. Also, good luck to anyone who gets John "Out For the First Month" Lackey.

[littlefallsmets]

...I just spent a good long while "excluding" from my pre-draft preferences every Brave, every Yankee and every Met that I don't consider a true Met so that I don't have to cheer for nobody I don't wanna cheer for.

Mets on my shit-list:

Church who I have dubbed "Platoon"... Castillo who I have dubbed "Gimpy McBanjo"... Delgado who I will alternately call "Delgono" or "Shitbird"... Schneider who I have dubbed "The Schnide"... Alou who shall be "Princess" because of his inability to sleep with a pea in his mattress without getting injured... Schoeneweis who I have dubbed "Horror Show" aaaaaaaand El Duque who will be called "El DL".

Oh my God, the Mets have a great 1-through-4 of the rotation, a great bench, a solid bullpen and... just the... creakiest, oldest, most injury-prone and suspect starting eight in the history of the game.

Everybody other than Reyes Wright and Beltran is either... beat to shit with injuries or not a legitimate everyday starter. Alou can't stay healthy, Delgado's done, Castillo can't stay healthy OR hit for extrabases, Church can't hit lefties to save his life and Schneider is just an embarrassment, the Mendoza Line is ashamed to be in the same room as him.

Ahhh. Fuck.

I need baseball, I am jonsing, I am still jonsing.

(C'mon... only eight Pretend Baseball teams? We had twelve Pretend Football teams. Where are you other four hiding?)

[Golfhaus]

(C'mon... only eight Pretend Baseball teams? We had twelve Pretend Football teams. Where are you other four hiding?)

I'm still on the fence. As much as I love baseball and am also jonesing for it (because racing's only on Sunday, there's not enough hockey on TV, and basketball is... well, you know), I know jack shit about individual players and whether they are good or not. If I sat down and listed every active baseball player I could think of, I honestly think 20% of my list would be players who are actually retired. I understand how fantasy football works, and that a hot RB who makes do on an otherwise shitty football team is still a decent player to have. I don't know if that's the case in fantasy baseball.