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[littlefallsmets]

I mean, I think a lot of what's going on is...

I think a lot of you guys have too many bench hitters and not enough bench pitchers.

How often are you going to use those hitters on your bench? Most players are only gonna have one travel day a week and... other than catchers... most of the players you're gonna have in a small league like ours, they're gonna be playing every start.

So you've gotta be pretty judicious about how many bench hitters to hold onto.

The marginal utility of having anything more than... 12 hitters, 11 if you have enough multi-position players to cover all your positions twice... is pretty small.

Whereas if you carry ten pitchers and six or seven of those pitchers are starting pitchers... you can cycle them through in your week and every one of them will provide SOMETHING that week...

Even if it is just the counting stats like wins and strikeouts, it is something.

Depending on how your players' travel schedules go and what kind of positional overlap you have, some of your bench HITTERS might get used... once every two weeks?

I dunno.

I just see a lot of you dudes carrying a lot of marginal hitters that you probably will rarely use whereas... if you took three minutes a day to plug in and plug out your starting pitchers that are starting that day...

You'd have significant bulk added to your pitching, in the very least and... if you're choosing well... a lot more innings to even out any fluke poor performances by one or two of your starters that week.

Just me, just my opinion here.

[Arachno-capitalist]

see i like to keep just a few good pitchers, because if they pitch well, thats it. The more pitchers, the more chances of someone getting a 17 era. Closers you need for saves and wins.

[melack]

Okay. Spring Training is over. Now is when the Zombie Reagans actually start playing for reals. Watch out, world! Watch out, braaaaaiiiiinnnnsss!

[littlefallsmets]

Okay, Zombies, but I've entirely shuffled my bench for more power and my pitching science is entirely tight.

So watch out. Even a Zombie goes down if you take off the head.

[littlefallsmets]

I think I eked out seven categories at the end there... good week, though, Muttonheads.

Need more home-runs, though. Hopefully my new waiver pick-ups will fix that.

[littlefallsmets]

Church and Schneider played the first quarter of the season way over their heads, no doubtsy-boutsy.

But Church is a concussion magnet and Schneider's coming down to Earth as we speak.

It's a game of the long numbers, not the short ones.

[littlefallsmets]

It's a... weekly head-to-head league.

If this was a all-season old-school roto-points set up, I'd...

(conveniently trails off)

[littlefallsmets]

Holy God, Phlogs, you almost had me completely murdered there for a second.

I got close to a tie for a week and... I've never been more proud of a 4-5-1.

Peavy being hurt reeeally dropped my ass.

Congrats, though.

[Arachno-capitalist]

I picked a bad year to follow the mets and track them with my team. People need to lose their jobs and not have money or sperm.

[littlefallsmets]

Luis Castillo + four year contract = hilarity.

Laughing at one's own pain is the only laughter for Mets fans this year.

Entirely washed-up players at second and first, left and right field can't stay healthy to save their lives, the catcher just can't hit at a major league level after a small hot streak to start the season.

Mets got three hitters and six automatic outs. It's... lovely.

[Lister]

Poor Mets, they're only .500.

Saturday I got to see two Padres pitchers make their major league debuts!  One of them gave up a 418-foot homer, and the other one took 48 pitches to get three outs.

Also: you can see Griffey's earring sparkle from the second deck.

[Carlos del Vaca]

Words I never thought I'd say or write:
I just picked up Cristian Guzman on my fantasy team.

[Carlos del Vaca]

Guess that Guzman thing worked out OK.  I believe 8-0 is what is commonly known as "an ass-whoopin'."

[littlefallsmets]

My pitching is doing a face-plant without having Peavy to pull down the ERA and the WHIP but I still eked out a win against the Ovens... well done, Ovens, very close.

This week, the Zombie Reagans which are... ironically... mostly on the DL.

Check your team, man, and update it... I would feel bad about taking the landslide this week without at least posting here that... hey, Zombie master, if you haven't checked your team lately, you might want to shuffle a bit. A lotta your team's injured.

[Carlos del Vaca]

Hole Camels, ladies and gentlemen!

Also, Elijah Dukes boned your mom.  Nats-Cardinals was frickin' ridiculous last night.