Week 20 Review

Snot on the Ball DEF Jobu’s Hats for Bats 5-3-2

The drama Blog was hoping for with this matchup was pretty much gone with Jobu’s mini-skid over the past few weeks. With the win, Snot became the first team to clinch a playoff spot officially, since unofficially they clinched after they started the year with 9 straight wins. Jobu took the 3 prime offensive stats, but dropped all 3 pitching % stats for the 4th time in the past 6 weeks. Since week 15, Jobu has won 3 of the 18 possible pitching % stats. Jobu’s team era has gone from 3.403 after week 15 to 3.793 today. Blog’s not sure how bad that really is, but it’s not great. Due to Jobu’s mini-skid (one win, one tie in the past 5 weeks), they have opened the door to 3rd place, as they only sit 4 games up on the Regs. Jobu and Regs will meet in week 22, and all Regs wants… is a chance…

> Stud of the Week: First there was Jorge Cantu, than there was Melvin Mora. Snot is now the 3B Whisperer. Did you know Melvin Mora has 42 kids or something? 9/3/13/0/.563

> Dud of the Week: Jobu’s manhood, as it’s been skewered by a wedding ring this week. Blog would like to know just one thing: who schedules a wedding just before FBL playoffs? There are only 5 weeks when a wedding should be scheduled: The Monday after the Super Bowl until the 2nd week of March. That’s it. Now, Aaron Heilman’s 11.57 era isn’t pretty, but the 11.57 K/9 is very nice, and the save makes it tough to pick him over Adrian Gonzalez: 0/0/0/0/.190.

Karma Kameleons DEF Bounty Hunters 7-3

The most drama right now in the CPL is the 3 way battle to squeak into the playoffs between KK, BH and Longball. With KK’s big win, they now sit in the driver seat with a 2 game lead over the other 2. If KK claims the playoff spot, they can look at their 15-4-1 record against Bounty Hunters as the key to their… (Blog doesn’t want to call it success… um, their un-failure? Yeah, that works.). Karma put up very good ERA and WHIP, but there must have been a lot of ground balls because their K/9 was only 5.73. Karma didn’t hit the ball terribly well, but BH put up 38/5/31 for the week, so it was good enough. The next 2 weeks will be very interesting. Longball has the easiest schedule, and KK has the toughest, but Longball and BH will square off against each other next week. 2 of these teams are going to wish they had sold some players for picks come August 31.

> Stud of the Week: Dustin Pedroia’s been really good all year: 10/2/5/0/.414

> Dud of the Week: BH will need more production from Brian McCann to make any noise these next weeks: 1/0/0/0/.250.

Legends DEF L.L. Longball 6-4

Longball, despite their sweet team photo, has now dropped 4 weeks in a row and as noted above, needs to get in gear to sneak into the playoffs. They finish the season with the RED HOT BOB’Z BOYZ and Bounty Hunters, so they should have the clearest path to the post season, but stranger things have happened, like keeping Pedro Feliz on the Bench even though each team has 2 DL slots… Did you know Pedro Feliz is on the Phillies? Apparantly, it’s a disgrace for a Phillie to sit on the DL. Phillies don’t get injured, they just get ‘respites’. Legends tied their own record with 64 RBI. They’ve also seen their vaunted rotation get smacked around pretty good the past 4 weeks. They’ve lost ERA and WHIP for 4 weeks in a row, and now Josh Beckett’s numb… not good. and… didn’t you used to be Felix Hernandez? How long before Seattle shuts down their ace…

> Stud of the Week: Manny being Manny was pretty good, but Willy Taveras won SB all by his lonesome 7-4: 2/0/1/7/.435

> Dud of the Week: Ryan Howard apparently drives in runs just by the power of his swings and misses. He hit .083, but did get 6 rbi, so that saves the dud spot for Mike Jacobs: 0/0/3/0/.107

Regulators DEF Swine Nine 6-3-1

First of all, this should have been 7-2-1. Regulators had WHIP won before the Sunday night game, but got greedy and left Grant Balfour in the lineup on the chance he could vulture a win and take wins for Regs. Of course, Balfour finished the game with a 9.00 whip, and Regs whip went up .05 pts, giving the category to swine. To summarize: Regs was leading 7-2-1, wanted to win 8-1-1, but only won 6-3-1. Let that be a lesson to you all: The Fantasy voodoo will get you if you get greedy. Nuts. Regs is still the hottest franchise in the league right now. they haven’t lost since week 11, but they were dealt brutal news for the 2nd week in row. MVP candidate Ian Kinsler was reported to have a sports hernia, which, if you think of it, is the worst thing in the world. There’s a chance he could be back, but losing Crawford and Kinsler in back to back weeks is very, very sad. Swine pulled off the biggest trade of the year in their preparations for next year. Yippee.

> Stud of the Week: Alex Rios FINALLY had a decent week: 8/1/5/2/.423

> Dud of the Week: Jeremy Hermida did not: 1/0/0/0/.056


BOB’Z BOY’Z TIED Papi’s Space Cadets 4-4-2

For the first time this season, BB has gone 3 weeks without a loss. It’s been quite the learning experience for the rookie, and that’s all Blog has to say about that. Papi pretty much has the #5 seed locked down, and if they miss the playoffs, it will be the biggest collapse in the history of life. They finish the season against Swine Nine and BOB’Z BOYZ. Rough. One category they won’t win is saves, that is, unless Matt Capps can save 6 games a week. Blog has a homework assignment for the league this week. That assignment is to just admire Aubrey Huff. As of 8/20, he’s ranked 23rd, and is 81/27/87/2/.302. He’s the 7th ranked CI in the league. Ahead of guys like Morneau, Teixeira, Chipper and Miggy Cabrera. Unreal. In 2003 and 2004, Huff was relevant, but he’s been brutal the past 3 years. Huff fantasy owners just hope that whatever supplement is fueling this resurgence is not detected until he retires.

> Stud of the Week: Javier Vazquez was dealing: 2/0/0.56/0.63/10.13

> Dud of the Week: The Jose Lopez magic has ended: 1/0/1/0/.050.
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Team of the Week: Karma Kameleons gets props for their un-failure.

Player of the Week: Melvin Mora. If Mora’s last name was Jones or Smith, Melvin would sound a whole lot lamer.

Pitcher of the Week: BB needs to trade Javier Vazquez!!!