Baseball Prospectus | Fantasy | HACKING MASS 2004
I finished 138th out of 1312, so just barely missed my goal of being in the top ten percent. I blame two players: Ty Wigginton, for being almost decent until traded to the Pirates, and Adam Bernero, for being so bad that even the Rockies couldn’t use him. The real secret to this game is finding two pitchers who will be horrible but whose teams are stupid or desperate enough to leave in anyway. That’s 200 points right there.
Team MVP, Shawn Estes (also an All-Star and the most popular pitcher). But I’m proud of my Tike Redman pick.
It’s a silly game, of course, but it does illustrate one reason why the Braves were so good this season: they didn’t have any major drags on the lineup. The highest-ranking Brave was Mark DeRosa, 50th, and I think the only one in the top 200.
Billy Koch was just released by the Marlins. Maybe Leo can work the magic on him?
I finished 382nd. At one point I was in 161st place. Joe Kennedy killed me. What a year he had. I struggled to pick between him and Jason Jennings and chose wrong, that would have been a huge swing. It also hurt me that Fernando Vina only played a couple of months due to injury. He was one of my most valuable players until the injury. Cesar Izturis’ breakout didn’t help matters either.
When watching A-Rod’s “play” last night in the eighth inning of game6, did y’all instantly think, as my wife and i did, “hey, robert fick!”
Wonder if the Yanks will hold A-Rod out of the next game and cut him after the season to save face like the Braves did Fick. 🙂
Somehow I doubt it. Of course, the biggest difference is that Braves fans immediately condemned Fick and wanted him out, while Yankees fans whined and screamed “Unfair!” Of course, Braves fans aren’t a bunch of drunken, classless, losers who depend upon a sports team to be the only thing that lifts their miserable lives above the level of the vermin that crawl all over their closet-sized apartments.
Not that I am bitter.
The difference, and I think it’s a significant one, is that Fick was already out when he pulled his stunt, and it wasn’t even a tag play. He was simply out at first. ARod’s wrist slap, while nothing to be proud of, was in the effort to dislodge a ball on a tag play. If he’d been more subtle, he might have gotten away with it.