And just like that, there are no more undefeateds in the 2009 season. In 2008, there were 2 undefeated teams heading into week 8, when Snot defeated Bounty Hunters. Snot finally dropped a week to Legends in week 10. This year seems to be oozing mediocrity. Take out the flukey week one blowouts and we'd be looking at 9 teams within a few games of each other (sorry BH). I think that this season is shaping up to be a tooth and nail dog fight down the stretch just to make the playoffs. All of this should make Snot very happy as they try to milk everyone's top picks by offering the waiver pick ups we all wish we'd have grabbed. As for this matchup, the Boyz finally got a solid week across the board as Sabathia, Cain, and... wait for it... Scotty Baker all posted solid outings. BB also sat the #42 overall pick, Big Game James Shields against the Red Sox. Blog usually believes that if he's on your roster, you gotta play him, and blog was almost proven accurate as Shields crusied through 5, but in the 6th, he saw he ERA jump to 9, and the Boyz were vindicated. How often has THAT happened in the past 2 years?? If the Boyz can ever get production from Berkman and Sexei Alexei, watch out. As for the Howitzers, it's no secret that Blog's not been overly impressed by their fast start, but they still sit just 1.5 games out of the #1 spot and 10 games ahead of the Regs for third in the CAN division. The wheels haven't completely fallen off yet, but when you're relying on the trio of Millwood, Maine, Maholm to get you winning numbers... yeah... ouchy...
Stud of the Week: Not a lot of studliness here, just some very solid performances. We'll go with Miguel Tejada, who has changed dealers and is now productive again: 4/2/11/0/.367
Dud of the Week: The leading contestant for most disappointing keeper of 2009 is Dan Uggla. He's getting stiff competition from plenty of others (Berkman, Upton, Ordonez, Atkins, et al), but Danny's doing terrible. 1/0/1/0/.095
No Longer Papi (This needs to be fixed... asap) DEF Regulators 6-4
With the numbers Regs put up in week 5, they would have defeated every other team in the league besides the Kameleons (who are rolling). Alas, PSC/NLP probably should have gotten out of week 5 with at least an 8-2 score. There have been 3 60 RBI weeks so far, and the initials have 2 of them. Evan Longoria has emerged as the true threat to THOR's throne of FBL dominance. The dude with the pretty name is a beast who can mash. Too bad the same can't be said for David Ortiz. He stinks, and even though it happened in week 6, Ortiz takes the ribbon as the first 1st Rounder to get the ax in 2009 (50 points and a toaster oven to anyone who knows the first 1st rounder axed in 2008). Initials may have some bumps due to injury (Youk) and roster reshuffling coming up, and their pitching is still pretty suspect, but they're currently sitting pretty atop the league. The Regs are finally getting healthy with Hamilton due back soon, but they just can't seem to combine the pitching and hitting for a full week.
Stud of the Week: Hardy (no, seriously, look!) and Crawford both had excellent weeks, but come on... The Pretty One was awesome again: 7/4/14/1/.333
Dud of the Week: Remember when we were talking about disappointing keepers? Magglio Ordonez: 0/0/1/0/.000
Karma Kameleons DEF Snot on the Ball 6-3-1
The best team over the past 2 weeks, edging PSC/NLP by 1/2 a game, is the Kameleons, and there is one secret to their success: Johnny flippin Damon. Was EVERYBODY on that 04 Sox team juicing?? Can't we get Papi and Varitek back in touch with their 04 connections? Damon has become a slugger in the wiffle ball field they call Yankee Stadium. KK doesn't care where he hits the bombs, as long he keeps it up (Blog lays 4-1 that he, um, doesn't). KK has also been able to benefit greatly from the refound awesomeness of Justin Verlander. He's been striking out everybody. Not bad for the 104th pick. Let's see who went ahead of Verlander: Matt Capps (103), Alex Gordon (102), Pat Burrell (101), Kevin Slowey (100). I could keep going. That could end up being a good pick. It also looks like Ryan Zimmerman has found his groove as well... all this and KK is still on the outside of the playoffs looking in. Snot just want to trade anywhere from 3-6 quarters for your 1 dollar bill. How about that Todd Helton!!
Stud of the Week: Johnny Damon: 7/5/15/0/.419. ooph.
Dud of the Week: Kyle Lohse missed the KK happy train: 0/0/11.32/2.03/6.97
Jobu's Hats for Bats DEF Bounty Hunters 6-4
Make that 4 60 RBI weeks thanks to Jobu's 62. I'm too lazy to do the research, but I'm betting that the 36 RBI differential between's Jobu's 62 and Bounty Hunters 26 is probably the biggest ever. Not just in CPL history... in FBL history. THOR was mighty pedestrian this week, but luckily for Jobu, he had 2 OF's playing the 'try to top this game'. Carlos Beltran and Ryan Braun combined for 7 HR and 22 RBI. That meant that the Bounty Hunters entire team had only 4 more RBI than 2 of Jobu's OF. Toss in the 5 Jobu's 2B Brian Roberts gave him, and BH didn't have a chance. The BH offense is 'str-ug-gil-ling', and it's not going to clear up any time soon since they've lost Aramis Ramirez's arm after it fell out of the socket. There was pitching in this matchup, but the only notable thing was that BH posted a 10.07 K/9, which is more than 2 full strikeouts per 9 better than his previous 09 high. Does this mean that BH has good pitching? maybe. Does this mean that BH should try to move some of that pitching for hitting? 26 RBI...
Stud of the Week: Ryan Braun barely eeks out Beltran: 8/3/12/1/.458
Dud of the Week: There is a definite dud trend happening here... Garrett Atkins: 1/0/1/0/.056
Swine Nine DEF Legends 7-3
Swine has had a very nice beginning to the season. In week 5 they posted a 63 run total which is the current high for the season. They also slugged 16 HR which should win most weeks, and did win in week 5. Legends has not had as good a start to the season, though they did post 62 runs and 15 HR. See how fickle this game can be? Legends lost 7-3, but was 2R, 2HR and 2K's from winning 6-4, which is better than winning 7-3, unless you're Snot. I don't have much else here. Nice weeks for Bay, Dunn and Fuentes (4 saves) for Legends and a very nice week for Johan, but the best belonged to:
Stud of the Week: Hanley Ramirez. Finally. What a line: 11/4/7/3/.533. Welcome back.
Dud of the Week: Brandon Inge? You mean he wasn't going to keep up his Johnny Bench pace? 1/0/1/0/.143.
Player of the Week: It has to be Hanley. Man what a sweet line.
Pitcher of the Week: Zack Greinke. Keep in mind he lost a 4 hit CG: 1/0/0.53/0.59/7.94. He was ranked top pitcher by yahoo last week, though i do love him very much. I just want to comfort and nurture him and make sure he doesn't go wacko again.
Manager of the Week: Bobz Boyz gets their first win of the season giving RH their first loss of the season.
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