I hadn't played fantasy baseball since 2006, the year I drafted Derek Jeter first overall and the other people in the league (one claimed his name was "Dave", sounded made up) said I was a fool. Then Jeter hit .343 and I won the league (I also had Johan Santana and Carlos Beltran, but I think Vinny from Jersey would agree that Chewing On Derwood Morris' Fingers doesn't win without Jeetah).
From 2007-2012 I skipped fantasy baseball season. I just didn't have time because I get so wrapped up in the NFL Draft.
Anyway, fast forward to late-April, 2013, and we have Lavelle Rondo Apologists, the first Derwood Morris-led fantasy baseball team in seven years.
Today was draft day in the Federal League at cbssports.com, and Lavelle Rondo Apologists had the fourth overall pick. The following is a running account of how it went.
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Tuesday, April 30, 2013
Thursday, February 16, 2012
Pirates, Please Don't Leave Without Taking This Pitcher With You
For Yankees fans, the biggest news of the off season has not been Jorge Posada's retirement, the trade for Michael Pineda, or it turning out that all of the those Mike Pagliarulo bobblehead dolls were counterfeit ("hey, this is Mike Blowers! I want my peanut shells back!").
No, as Spring Training begins we're concerned that this A.J. Burnett-to-anywhere-on-earth deal is not going as smoothly as we had hoped. A little over a week ago, the Yanks were working out a deal that would send Burnett to the Pirates in exchange for Pittsburgh eating some of the $33 million left on his contract and the Yankees eating a ham sandwich.
I don't know.
It doesn't matter what the Yankees were willing to eat, just that the Pirates were hungry for some 5 ERA, neck tattoos and 47-foot curve balls. The point was: someone was EAGER to take A.J. Burnett from the Yankees and my nightmares, and Vinny from Jersey's nightmares.
Now it seems the Yankees are quibbling over money, wanting the Pirates to take more than the $10 million they've offered or throw in top-level prospects. This has been a puzzling few days for me because I really thought the conversation would go something like this:
Yankees: "Hello Pittsburgh Pirates, what can we do for you?"
Pirates: "We'd like to trade for A.J. [phone disconnects, person on other line loses consciousness].
The staff at Offbase is here to help. The following is a list of Burnett trades we'd be willing to make if we were the Yankees.
1. A.J. Burnett to the Pirates for a case of hoagie rolls
2. A.J. Burnett to the Pirates for Trent Stevenson
3. Three-way trade: Pirates get A.J. Burnett, Padres get Murray Klein (12 HR for 2011 Bly's Bakery softball team), Yankees get a 1997 Pirates yearbook autographed by Midre Cummings
4. A.J. Burnett to the Henderson Valley 9-year old all-stars for a player to be named later
5. A.J. Burnett to the Indians for J.B. Arnett
6. A.J. Burnett to the Pirates for a goldfish to be named later
7. A.J. Burnett to the Kinsella family for the uncle that threw the kid off the bleachers
8. A.J. Burnett to the Royals for Glenn Gibson
9. Yankees get Taylor Garrison from Henderson Valley to complete an earlier trade
10. A.J. Burnett to the Orioles for B.J. Hernett
11. A.J. Burnett to the Orioles for some lettuce
12. A.J. Burnett to the Pirates for Midre Cummings
No, as Spring Training begins we're concerned that this A.J. Burnett-to-anywhere-on-earth deal is not going as smoothly as we had hoped. A little over a week ago, the Yanks were working out a deal that would send Burnett to the Pirates in exchange for Pittsburgh eating some of the $33 million left on his contract and the Yankees eating a ham sandwich.
I don't know.
It doesn't matter what the Yankees were willing to eat, just that the Pirates were hungry for some 5 ERA, neck tattoos and 47-foot curve balls. The point was: someone was EAGER to take A.J. Burnett from the Yankees and my nightmares, and Vinny from Jersey's nightmares.
Now it seems the Yankees are quibbling over money, wanting the Pirates to take more than the $10 million they've offered or throw in top-level prospects. This has been a puzzling few days for me because I really thought the conversation would go something like this:
Yankees: "Hello Pittsburgh Pirates, what can we do for you?"
Pirates: "We'd like to trade for A.J. [phone disconnects, person on other line loses consciousness].
The staff at Offbase is here to help. The following is a list of Burnett trades we'd be willing to make if we were the Yankees.
1. A.J. Burnett to the Pirates for a case of hoagie rolls
2. A.J. Burnett to the Pirates for Trent Stevenson
3. Three-way trade: Pirates get A.J. Burnett, Padres get Murray Klein (12 HR for 2011 Bly's Bakery softball team), Yankees get a 1997 Pirates yearbook autographed by Midre Cummings
4. A.J. Burnett to the Henderson Valley 9-year old all-stars for a player to be named later
5. A.J. Burnett to the Indians for J.B. Arnett
6. A.J. Burnett to the Pirates for a goldfish to be named later
7. A.J. Burnett to the Kinsella family for the uncle that threw the kid off the bleachers
8. A.J. Burnett to the Royals for Glenn Gibson
9. Yankees get Taylor Garrison from Henderson Valley to complete an earlier trade
10. A.J. Burnett to the Orioles for B.J. Hernett
11. A.J. Burnett to the Orioles for some lettuce
12. A.J. Burnett to the Pirates for Midre Cummings
Monday, September 5, 2011
Montero's Big Day
The Yankees and Orioles provided a four-hour lesson in how not to pitch today as the teams combined to allow 40 base-runners and New York hung on for an 11-10 victory to move 2 1/2 games up on Boston in the AL East. But the story wasn't about how much Brian Matusz stinks, it was about highly-touted prospect Jesus Montero.
Facing Jim Johnson in an 8-8 game in the fifth, the right-handed hitting Montero went the other way for his first big league home run, a no-doubt shot into the right field bleachers. Vinny from Jersey led the chants for Montero to come out and take a curtain call and the 21-year old obliged. Montero wasn't done. With the Yankees still clinging to that 9-8 lead in the seventh, Montero did it again, crushing a fast ball to almost the same spot in the RF seats for a two-run home run. Curtain call No. 2.
It's really, really early in Montero's career, but so far things have gone well. In four games, he's 5-for-13 (.385) with today's two home runs and three RBIs, and he looks comfortable at the plate. And it'd be easy to say "well, he hit two home runs against the Orioles; the Orioles smell like someone threw up in a sweaty tube sock," and you'd be right. But Johnson has been one of the better relievers in the American League and Montero took him deep twice.
Montero could also be forcing his way onto the Yankees' hopeful post-season roster (they haven't clinched anything yet), which means these last few weeks of the regular season may be the last time we see Jorge Posada and Jorge Posada's ears in pinstripes.
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