Comments on: UmpBump’s Week 10 Fantasy Results

By: Danny O

Danny O — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 16:42:29 +0000

Sarah, you’re probably aware of this, but you might wanna start thinking Plan B on Soriano. (The Braves are currently on Plan R when it comes to pitching.) He has had a persistently sore elbow ever since coming off the DL. He won’t be pitching in consecutive games anytime soon, and they gotta start thinking about disabling him again as it has been too painful to pitch for most of this week.

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By: Alejandro Leal

Alejandro Leal — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 21:41:18 +0000

Lindsay, this is Fantasy Baseball. The boy has this kind of a line:

W1 SV0 K5 ERA1.50

He’s hot.

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By: Lyndsay

Lyndsay — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 21:19:24 +0000

Alejandro – Josh Beckett, hot? really? have you been watching replayed games from last year or something?

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By: Scott Ball

Scott Ball — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 19:10:59 +0000

I might have to do some stretching here before I write about my team this week, because I might just pull a muscle patting myself on the back. At the conclusion of Saturday’s games, I was winning only one of the pitching categories (S) and trailed Pirates in ‘08! (Bryan) by a score of 7-4. Realizing that W, K, ERA, WHIP, and K/BB were within reach, I decided to grab a couple of spot starters. Thanks to Justin Masterson and Armando Galaragga’s 2 wins, 8 Ks, and solid ratios, I ended the week sweeping the pitching categories and with an 8-4 win to keep me within spitting distance of first place. My offense, however, has been struggling somewhat… to that end I pulled the trigger on another trade, sending the Big Unit and Adam LaRoche to Ania for Justin Morneau. I’m happy to say this is the second trade this season in which someone has expressed their concern over the fairness of the deal…

HOT: Masterson & Galarraga (thanks for the spot starts, guys, don’t let the door hit you in the ass on the way out!), Prince Fielder, my bullpen

NOT: AJ Burnett, Jason Bergmann

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By: Kirk Miller

Kirk Miller — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 17:56:34 +0000

When is a 9-3 loss satisfying? When you were facing an 11-1 loss going into Sunday morning, and you still hang onto the 6th seed, that’s when. My offense got destroyed, I was out of it from Monday on pretty much, when he got 10 runs, 3 HR, 8 RBI, 25 TB, and .541 OBP, and my team managed just 3 runs, 1 HR, 3 RBI, etc. Then on Tuesday his team drove the dagger in with a 6, 4, 9, 29 outburst which made the outcome never in doubt. Milton Bradley made sure of that!

His pitching was dominant all week as well, thankfully Ervin and Wandy gave me a couple nice Sunday performances to salvage a split in pitching categories. So, I’m under .500, but still in the hunt for the championship bracket, while I am licking my wounds, I still feel confident about my chances.

Hot: No one on offense really. Ervin Santana, Wandy Rodriguez, and Jonathan Sanchez all pitched well though.

Not: Everyone on offense, and James Shields, Jesse Litsch, and the dudes I dropped on the pitching side.

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By: My Pet Goat

My Pet Goat — Thu, 08 May 2008 19:53:08 +0000

This conversation is moot until inter-league play. Right now you’re analyzing statistical incest.

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By: How do you spell retard?

How do you spell retard? — Thu, 08 May 2008 19:41:42 +0000

The reason the NL dominates can be broken down inot a simple equation.

Dominantness= # of Chase Utleys ^ # of Pat the Bats

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By: Paul Moro

Paul Moro — Thu, 08 May 2008 15:22:46 +0000

So I notice that David Pinto, writing over at The Sporting News, has just tackled this question from a slightly different angle, but I think his data and conclusions support my view, namely, that the NL teams are using younger players than the AL teams, and that the younger players they are using are better than the young players the AL is using.

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By: Zvee Geffen

Zvee Geffen — Wed, 07 May 2008 15:09:25 +0000

Don’t forget DC and Philly! There’s a reason the Amtrak Boston-to-DC corridor is the only profitable passenger rail line in America. If you look at one of those maps of the US at night, you can easily see where the population centers are. Yes, plenty of other states have huge cities, but the sprawl from Boston to Pittsburgh to DC is pretty uniformly intense. Nonetheless, any benefit we gain from greater media coverage I would readily trade for less traffic.

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By: Paul Moro

Paul Moro — Wed, 07 May 2008 15:01:29 +0000

Nick, when you mention Soto as the best catcher, don\’t you mean \"so far in 2008\"?

And Melissa, I know very well that the east coast gets more media coverage. I wouldn\’t call it \"bias\" (that\’s a totally different conversation). Players and teams get more attention for many reasons. Bigger media markets, more convenient time zone, bigger revenue stream. The AP, Reuters, ESPN, Time Warner/Sports Illustrated, are all located in the NY tri-state area for a reason. So yeah, the east coast (more notably the BOS-NYC corridor) gets far more attention than the rest of the country.

But I just disagree that this is the reason why so many people think that the AL is the better league. Hell, I couldn\’t care less about the Yankees-Red Sox rivalry. But the fact remains that since 2000, the National League has a 955-1059 record in interleague play.

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