Week 12 - Hot or Not?

Week 12 Results

• The Boowahs 574.50 def. Brian's Team 445.67
• Mark's 477.67 def. Cano can go 396.17
• Nolan's Team 455.50 def. #CSATT 338.00
• Tom's Team 414.17 def. The Kekambas bitch 373.67
• Let Drake Stay!!!! 403.00 def. Marty Weeds 381.50
• Springfield Isotopes 385.33 def. Shane Falcos 383.83

Week 13 Yahoo Rankings

1. Brian's Team (10-1)
2. Cano can go (9-2)
3. The Boowahs (6-5)
4. Nolan's Team (6-5)
5. The Kekambas bitch (6-5)
6. Mark's Team (5-6)
7. Springfield Isotopes (5-6)
8. Tom's Team (5-6)
9. Marty Weeds (4-7)
10. #CSATT (4-7)
11. Let Drake Stay!!!! (4-7)
12. Shane Falcos (2-9)

Who's Hot ?

• Nolan's Team - has won 3 of last 4 games & only lost that 1 game by half a point. Has showed great consistency in player research - knocking him up to 4th place.
• Mark's Team - has won 3 of last 5 games and has been continually putting up big numbers. Beat the 2nd place 'Cano can go' last week.
• The Boowahs - Powering himself up to 3rd place with a league high 29 roster moves! Beat the #1 place Brian's Team last week giving Brian his first loss (and also a great first blog from the first place leader himself).
• Springfield Isotopes - Went from starting the season off at 11th place and has buckled down to win 5 games, bumping the team to 7th place. Anyone else notice the correlation between the Papelbon Award league leader 'Springfield Isotopes' jumping them up 4 spots in the rankings?
• Shane Falcos - Grinding out a huge 2nd two weeks ago, Shane Falcos suffered a tough loss last week - losing to 'Springfield Isotopes' by 2 points. Tough loss, but this team is on the rise and the manager knows he has a lot of winning to do. We'll call this the opposite side of the June Swoon, where all the loser teams in the league win like the Twins. 
• Cano can go - Just the 2nd loss of the season last week to Mark's Team after winning 7 matchups in a row. Steady 2nd place, just 1 loss behind the 1st place leader.
• Brian's Team - Winner of a league high (and also his first) 10 games, suffered first loss of the season last week to a rising 'The Boowahs' team. Maintains a league high in points with 5,375.15. The next closest opponent has 4,906.02 points - Utter Domination. 

 

Who's Not ?

• The Kekambas bitch - Started and maintained his position at 3rd behind a top 2 dominant force. Has since slipped to 5 and although holds a positive record, is trending towards the .500 winning percentage. 
• Marty Weeds - Unfortunately this was my pick to click at the beginning of the season to make a run and win the title. I think this manager is looking towards the future in how he himself will be of high value in the Majors (Congrats on the next step in your career Jack!) as a fantasy player, and not giving his fantasy team the true love it deserves. 
• Tom's Team - Started in the top 6 of the power rankings and is now trending towards the bottom half.  2-2 in the division, however, only behind Brian & Mark's Team.
• Let Drake Stay!!!! - Too much head-banging, rocking out to Pearl Jam, not enough devotion to the week-by-week lineup. We get it - you're getting married, your fantasy team is sending an S.O.S.
• #CSATT - I am not entirely sure Sean knows we are in a fantasy baseball league. I picture him coming home one-drunken-night with a bag of snappy dog stix in hand and reporting live to our fantasy draft, only to remember nothing the next day. Ultimately forgetting he is apart of this league. In fact, this may be the first time in history where we see a player show up to draft night, only to forget everything that took place - even drafting Jorge Soler

  

 

 Game of the Week

I was originally going to make the game of the week 'The Boowahs' beating the first place ranked 'Brian's Team', but Brian already did a write up on that. This week's Game of the Week is 'Springfield Isotopes' vs. 'Shane Falcos'.

Just when we all thought 'Shane Falcos' was going to make that next step in the season and win 2 games in a row, we get a heartbreaking loss to Springfield Isotopes, compliments of Trayce Thompson.

Thompson posted a batting average of .000 last week! Not one hit! His week point total wound up being -8.00 points. Got to be crushing for this manager as he is on the right track.  He would have been better off not playing anybody and taken their 0 for the week, like Joe does with 'The Kekambas bitch'. Bonus: Jeff Simardjuh only got him 1 point this week - serves you right for drafting that jerk.

This is the really tough part for Shane Falcos - they possessed the AL player of the Week in this loss.

AL Player of the Week

Carlos Correa - Manager: Tim | Team: Shane Falcos

Correa scored 6 runs, 4 doubles, 3 home runs, & 9 RBI's to go along with 21 total bases in last week's matchup vs. Springfield Isotopes. This has got to be the deafening blow to this team's demise as they simply cannot get it together.

 NL Player of the Week

Charlie Blackmon - Manager: Mark | Team: Mark's

To no surprise, it's gonna take your NL Player of the Week to put up 90 points against 'Cano can go' in order to win. Blackmon scored 9 runs, 8 singles, 5 home runs, to go along with 9 RBI's. Talk about a huge week - also contributing heavily to beat the 2nd place ranked team.

A Note From Brian - Your 1st Place Leader

I was asked a couple weeks ago by Lifetime .225 Hitter to discuss my dominance in the league and why that's going to continue. I have been dominating every single one of you bastards and in no way, shape, or form do I plan on letting up the gas pedal. There has simply been too much of a score discrepancy in these first 10 match-ups to get into further detail, so I will focus on the recent.

One of my most recent beat downs was at the remorse of Let Drake Stay!!!! To sum it up nicely, this was the reaction we got from Harry after the final score was posted Sunday Night.

I decided to wait to write this until playing Pat to shit on him the most, and believe me, I still plan on doing that. While I may have suffered my first lost this week, I'm still #1.

Let's have a live look at Pat as he enjoys this win

 Only to have my team obliterate him out of the Playoff Race with a steel chair in the coming weeks

Before I get into details on why I'm still the best, (I know some of our readers don't have a long attention span) - I am going to give you a a few quick points as to why Pat sucks:

1. A shitty commish who blames others for his problems

2. Making 28 moves doesn't make you good. (Just as Rick Hahn)

 

3.The kid's first kegger put him to sleep 

Now we get to the part where Pat probably stops reading because there were too many words, or he had to pee again.

I do believe the rough week the Cubs & I had is no coincidence. We're two teams that have been playing above and beyond everyone else and we were due for a "down" week. That's baseball for ya..

Pat gave 'The Boowahs' the 'Little Giants' "One time" speech and they produced. Great job, Pat. Only problem is you did this in June and not September. Kid went all in, won, and realized that he still has the shortest stack at the table.

'The Boowahs point total of 574.50 is the most this season. So if that's any indication on how to beat me, one can take away that your whole team has to play out of their minds in order to do so.

Pat can enjoy his one week of success and James Shields giving up less than eight runs in the first inning.

The best part is, he's still in a three-way tie for 3rd.

Classic White Sox mix-up (thinking you have a shot at winning the division and getting into the post-season). Haha, funny.

Pat, like the Sox, will continue to think they're in it because they beat the best team "one time."

Remember the key component of the 'Little Giants' speech? They lost the other 99 games.

Enjoy this Win while it lasts!

Week 11 Roundup

Week 11 Results

• Brian's Team 539.83 def. Let Drake Stay!!!! 426.83
• Shane Falcos 493.00 def. #CSATT 442.33
• The Boowahs 461.50 def. The Kekambas bitch 321.33
• Cano can go 460.67 def. Nolan's Team 460.17
• Marty Weeds 448.67 def. Springfield Isotopes 435.17
• Mark's 405.00 def. Tom's Team 340.33

 Week 12 Yahoo Rankings

1. Brian's Team (10-0)
2. Cano can go (9-1)
3. The Kekambas bitch (6-4)
4. Nolan's Team (5-5)
5. The Boowahs (5-5)
6. Mark's (4-6)
7. Marty Weeds (4-6)
8. #CSATT (4-6)
9. Springfield Isotopes (4-6)
10. Tom's Team (4-6)
11. Let Drake Stay!!!! (3-7)
12. Shane Falcos (2-8)

A few quick notes from week 11 Matchups before I get to the game of the week...

- I think it is safe to say Joe took the week off, putting up a week low 321.33 points. I think somebody also needs to do a well-being check on that CBS reporter. Who knows if Joe murdered that guy or not? Midas whale call it a career ender for broadcasting, maybe perhaps even the dude's life.

-Brian's Team continues to roll tide, winning his 10 straight game without a loss. Pretty impressive stuff I might say. I hear that Brian is in the works with a new segment to be featured on the blog on how every other manager in this league is inferior to his team, which he proudly refers to as the 4th reich.

-Marty Weeds with a big win to stop Springfield Isotopes hot streak, ultimately keeping him in 7th place. Mark's low score win of the week with a total of 405.00 takes down Tom's Team 340.33 who has been on a recent decline. Huge props to Shance Falcos for getting his 2nd win in week 10. Let's hope it does not take him another 5 weeks to grab his 3rd.

Game of the Week

 

 Absolute Barn Burner! The start of the week I had Beltran and Beltre both injured. It looked as though, without a shadow of a doubt that Nolan was going to beat me, and beat me big this week. However, Both those guys came back from injuries (I'm sure they told their coaches they needed a few days off, being as the veteran ball players they are) and had a great end to the week. We both went in on Sunday having one pitcher start each, with Nolan having the only Sunday Night Baseball player on his team in the likes of Dexter Fowler. Only thing is, Fowler got injured the day before and did not play. I wound up winning the week by 1/2 a point. That's less than what you get for a strikeout!

There was a lot of shit talking, a lot of back and forth, a lot of tears, and at the end of the day - the better manager took home the cake. It's as simple as that - I am actually glad this loss happened for Nolan, as he sure as hell better know his place in the league as the baby back bitch. 

That moment you think you can steal a win from Cano can go

Not in my house

AL Player of the Week

Josh Donaldson - Manager: Nolan - Simply adding fuel to the fire here. With two AL players of the week in a row now (previously Chris Davis), I find it fitting that Donaldson had a monster week - putting up 84.00 points, resulting in a tough loss. 

 

 

  

NL Player of the Week

 

Freddie Freeman - Manager: Brian  **Please tune in to the POW to see just how dominant this player was for Brian last week.**

Papelbon of the Week 6/23

As mentioned in the Week 11 Round up, this week's winner for the POW Award goes to Freddie Freeman. Now, some of you may be wondering 'hmmm, what did Freeman do to deserve this gritty award'? The answer is Nothing. The reason he did nothing is because Brian sat him on the bench!

That is how good his team is. I actually had a conference call with Manager Brian last week in which he told me he was going to make this move and still put up the most points for the week (which he did with a whopping 539.84 points - next closest # was Shane Falcos @ 493.00).  This is the first time in this award's history that the award is won solely based on the Manager's play. I actually feel bad for Harry. Not only was he the 10th victim in Brian's assault on the league, but he also fell victim to Brian's Cold Blooded play to sit Freeman.

Freddie Freeman put up 86.00 points, which would have put this team into the 600 point range. Absolute savagery on Brian's part, as I am not sure we have seen this level of cockiness since Sean received a full scholarship to punt a football 35 yards.

Probably fumbled on this play, check out that hand placement.

PS: Brian submitted his own POW award nominee, which does not take the cake, but deserves an honorable mention to say the least. I do not have an answer as to how he got there, but I do know that there may have been one to many keg stands on Pat's agenda Saturday Night.

POW Award Count 

• Springfield Isotopes (Roughned Odor, Johnny Cueto) - 2 
• Let Drake Stay!!!! (Manny Machado) - 1
• The Boowahs (Noah Syndergaard) - 1
• Brian's Team (Freddie Freeman) - 1

Pearl Jam of the Week 6/23

Hey guys,

Sorry about missing the Jam of the Week last week, it was pretty hectic. 

Today I am going to talk about my favorite performance of a very popular song. This song is so popular and loved by a lot of casual PJ fans. Personally, I do not like this song and hope I don't hear it when I see them live in concert. 

 

Of course, I am talking about "Betterman". Not that I think it is a bad song, but I have just heard it so much that I am pretty sick of it. Why am I having it be the Pearl Jam of the Week this week? Because it just so happens that this song performed at Lollapalooza 2007 is not only the best version of the song but it is also my favorite PJ live moment I have ever been a part of. 

 

 

Eddie lets the crowd sing the first part of the song. You can't tell by the video, but when the crowd started to sing, it was so loud and clear that I had goosebumps for sure (See if you can hear a high school sophomore from St. Ignatius going insane :) . 

 

What makes it most special to me was this was the concert that started it all. This was concert #1. After seeing #13 a couple weeks ago, I can assure you I will never get tired of seeing Pearl Jam live.

Here is "Betterman (Live from Lollapallooza 2007)" by Pearl Jam

 

 

I couldn't find the full version of the song but this is the best part. 

Here is my other favorite version of the song

 

Letter From The Comissioner's Office

Good evening too all the managers of the Nation league.  I wanted to check in with everyone because I have a couple of questions for all the managers. 

1. First question, since I yes I am admitting it; I did screw up the settings.  With that being said would you guys be okay with just a 25$ entry fee or what throw some ideas out there if not that’s totally fine with me seeing that Timmreck is 9-0 (That’s right Timmreck I make the rules here.

2. Second question, what are your guy’s opinions on the owner with the best record at the end of the regular season taking home some money which was brought to my attention by one of the owners in the league.

3. Third question I wanted to ask you guys is or if you guys are willing to put the money down (the 25$) I was thinking whoever were to have the best record would be awarded 50$ and the first, second, and third place winners finishing with cash (1^st $120, 2^nd $70 and 3^rd $60).   

Any questions please contact the commissioner's office

Patrick E. Quinn

Papelbon of the Week 6/16

The winner of this week's POW Award goes to Johnny Cueto from team Springfield Isotopes. This is the second win for Springfield Isotopes originally winning the first POW Award for the Roughned Odor punch on Bautista's fat face. Let's take a look as to why Cueto is winning this cherished award this week shall we..

Here we see Cueto develop his trademarked 'Shimmy Shimmy 

 Now, this is not the reason why. We see Cueto develop this shimmy as a competitive advantage to throw off the opposing hitter's while in the batter's box. It is all about timing when you are at the plate and this is clearly something that would piss most of us off. Let's now take a look at why he is taking home this prestigious award..

Absolutely lethal quick pitch! Are you kidding me? I have no idea how batter's can stand this guy - and that is why he is taking home the Papelbon of the Week.


POW Award Count

• Springfield Isotopes (Roughned Odor, Johnny Cueto) - 2 
• Let Drake Stay!!!! (Manny Machado) - 1 
• The Boowahs (Noah Syndergaard) - 1

Week 10 Roundup

Which Nation Manager most closely resembles Rod Beck? (answer at end of blog)

Week 10 Results

• Brian's Team 542.33 def. Tom's Team 308.67
• Nolan's Team 457.83 def. Springfield Isotopes 386.17
• The Boowahs 442.83 def. Marty Weeds 381.83
• Cano can go 421.40 def. The Kekambas bitch 401.17
• Let Drake Stay!!!! 324.33 def. Shane Falcos 311.00 

Week 11 Yahoo Rankings

1. Brian's Team (9-0)
2. Cano can go (8-1)
3. The Kekambas bitch (6-3)
4. Nolan's Team (5-4)
5. Springfield Isotopes (4-5)
6. #CSATT (4-5)
7. The Boowahs (4-5)
8. Tom's Team (4-5)
9. Mark's (3-6)
10. Marty Weeds (3-6)
11. Let Drake Stay!!!! (3-6)
12. Shane Falcos (1-8)

The Kekambas bitch learning: free agent pickup & ability to alter lineup may end up being this manager's downfall..

Remember last week when I pointed out Joe made his first pickup of the season when he snagged Jameson Taillon off the waiver wire ? 

 

Ya... Well, it turns out Joe decided to sit him this week and Taillon went on to throw 8 scoreless innings on Tuesday earning him roughly ~25.00 points. That must be tough knowing that this is probably the first time Joe has altered his starting lineup the whole season, as he decides to sit the prime prospect in advance of him throwing an absolute gem!

Jameson Taillon takes no-hitter into 7th in brilliant second start 

WHAT AN IDIOT!

Here's a live look at Joe being interviewed by CBS News as to why he made this decision that may ultimately lead to a detrimental decline in the standings. 

I actually witnessed the interview live, keep in mind the empty beer cup (my theory as to why Joe was so angry  that this reported decided to ask him why on earth he would sit Jameson Taillon this week.)

 Here was Joe's response: "Hey buddy, are you my therapist? Take a walk" 

The reporter actually took a walk to fetch this guy a beer, really sad stuff if you think about it.   

 

AL Player of the Week

Chris Davis - Manager: Nolan - Dominant performance from the Left Handed Slugger

Davis hit .368/.462/1.211 with five home runs and 10 RBIs in six games as the O's went 3-3 on the week against the Royals and Blue Jays.

NL Player of the Week

Jon Lester - Manager: Brian's Team - Dominant performances from the Left Handed Fireballer 

"Lester was superb to start the week against the Phillies on June 6th. He went eight innings and allowed four hits and no runs while striking out nine Phillies in a Cubs victory at Citizens Bank Park.

Sunday Lester managed to duplicate the feat on Sunday against the Braves. While he did allow an unearned run in the first inning the lefty was solid the rest of the way as he struck out seven batters and scattered five hits in the Cubs’ 13-2 win over Atlanta at Turner Field." source
In each victory, Lester didn’t yield a single walk to the Phillies or Braves. For the month of June, Lester is 3-0 with a .38 ERA with 26 strikeouts compared to zero walks.

 Bartolo Colon Broke James Shields

James Shields before the Bartolo Colon HR: 8 starts, 52 IP, 3.12 ERA
James Shields after the Bartolo Colon HR 5 starts, 24.1 IP, 7.77 ERA

Hope this doesn't affect the Manager of Team Marty Weeds' credibility. James Shields Sux, just like Adam Morrison.

Answer: Pat