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Re: False Baseball for the New Generation
« Reply #60 on: April 07, 2010, 02:41:55 pm »
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Re: False Baseball for the New Generation
« Reply #61 on: April 07, 2010, 06:46:40 pm »
Iron Felix streams his starting pitchers, pass it down.
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Re: False Baseball for the New Generation
« Reply #62 on: April 08, 2010, 05:05:03 pm »
Well, duh.  My pre-draft rankings backfired horribly and I wound up with two starting pitchers who weren't starting the season either on the DL or in the minors.

Is this a breach of false baseball etiquette?  I can stop if people have a problem with it, but I've never done any fantasy sports outside of these TOUAMB leagues and nobody complained for the first three years, so I always thought it was just an ordinary strategy.
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Re: False Baseball for the New Generation
« Reply #63 on: April 08, 2010, 05:27:12 pm »
It's no breach as far as I'm concerned and I have dabbled in it from time to time. I'm just commenting on different strategies that I see, generally. It would be kind of boring if there was only way to go about it.
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Re: False Baseball for the New Generation
« Reply #64 on: April 08, 2010, 05:29:31 pm »
What the hell does that even meaning, streaming his pitchers?
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Re: False Baseball for the New Generation
« Reply #65 on: April 08, 2010, 05:45:12 pm »
It means that Don Drysdale Bert Blyleven wishes that he could give felix golden showers.

I think "churning," would be the more accurate descriptor, but I was too late to the game to coin any terminology.

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Streaming starting pitchers--picking pitchers of the waiver wire daily and dropping them the next for another pitcher--is one way to make up for weaknesses in the starting pitching you drafted.
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Re: False Baseball for the New Generation
« Reply #66 on: April 08, 2010, 06:13:55 pm »
But...but... how will your players build any team spirit?  Any comraderie?  Any esprit de corps, if you will?
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Re: False Baseball for the New Generation
« Reply #67 on: April 08, 2010, 06:19:11 pm »
Define "streams."  You mean, picks up a guy who's starting tomorrow, then tomorrow he dumps that guy in favor of someone who's starting the next day?

Yeah, you can do that.  I do it sometimes.  It's all part of managing your roster.
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Re: False Baseball for the New Generation
« Reply #68 on: April 12, 2010, 01:41:38 am »
Hey, here's a joke I made up after today's Mets-Nats game.  What did K-Rod say to Willie Harris?  "Fuck you!  FUCK you!  FUCK YOU!"

Ha ha haaaaaaaaa.  Frikkin' awesome.
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Re: False Baseball for the New Generation
« Reply #69 on: April 12, 2010, 01:38:18 pm »
Hmmmm.  Here I was miffed that I didn't have Roy Halladay's complete game, zero-earned run effort in my lineup yesterday.  But then, I won all the pitching categories except saves anyway, so no biggie.

Looks like I am the all-pitching, no-offense team.  But it's early days yet.
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Re: False Baseball for the New Generation
« Reply #70 on: April 12, 2010, 03:48:28 pm »
Quote from: carlosdelvaca on April 12, 2010, 01:38:18 pm
Looks like I am the all-pitching, no-offense team.  But it's early days yet.

And my pitching is weaker than Ukraine.  I thought I'd have the bats to make up for it but so far everyone seems to be asleep.
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Re: False Baseball for the New Generation
« Reply #71 on: April 12, 2010, 04:35:36 pm »
Tha sugah cameth pourin down on ash this week. Feel the burn, old man.
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Re: False Baseball for the New Generation
« Reply #72 on: April 12, 2010, 05:26:39 pm »
The Sturdy Thighbones weathered a crappy week from Justin Verlander, Mike Gonzalez (blech), Jake Peavy, and Javy Vazquez to pull out a solid victory over Heartattack and Vine.

I love the hell out of my lineup. Especially now that Gordon Beckham's second base eligibility has kicked in  It  may not have been too bright to assemble an AL-only starting pitching staff, though.
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Re: False Baseball for the New Generation
« Reply #73 on: April 12, 2010, 05:59:34 pm »
Of course it's a long season. Look forward to continued indignities this week, though.



Edit: Let the record show that this small bit of trash talk seemed to inspire an immediate Max Scherzer mini-meltdown.
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Re: False Baseball for the New Generation
« Reply #74 on: April 12, 2010, 07:59:56 pm »
Two beisbol things I've never seen before in this play:
http://mlb.mlb.com/video/play.jsp?content_id=7393789

1. Someone severely underestimating Juan Pierre's arm (who knew that this was possible?)
2. A third base coach running into fair territory seemingly to distract the cut-off man.

http://i1009.photobucket.com/albums/af214/earthshiner/what.jpg

Watch around the 1:00 mark:
http://mlb.mlb.com/video/play.jsp?content_id=7399911
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