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zappaisgod
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Warning to all fantasy baseball victims
#9951355 - 03/11/09 12:12 PM (14 years, 10 months ago) |
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No, it isn't that you have no chance of beating me, although that is self-evident. It is that if you do not show up for the draft or complete a pre-draft ranking edit you will end up with Alex Rodriguez in the first round. Funston's got him at 37 and that seems about right given his steals will probably just about evaporate, he's going to miss a fifth of the season and he still might get hurt. I'm not telling you who to draft I'm just giving you a heads up so you don't sleep through it and end up like Madtown, abysmally last with no hope, before June.
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Re: Warning to all fantasy baseball victims [Re: zappaisgod]
#9951569 - 03/11/09 12:56 PM (14 years, 10 months ago) |
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If I hadn't used all my moves up you wouldn't have had a shot. I would have utterly dominated you.
If you really want to win, draft Cliff Lee with your first pick. All the experts are doing it.
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zappaisgod
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Re: Warning to all fantasy baseball victims [Re: robbyberto]
#9951730 - 03/11/09 01:26 PM (14 years, 10 months ago) |
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robbyberto said: If I hadn't used all my moves up you wouldn't have had a shot. I would have utterly dominated you.
If you really want to win, draft Cliff Lee with your first pick. All the experts are doing it.
Yeah yeah yeah, but you did and I won so you fucked up and I didn't. I'm pretty sure I even warned you about burning your moves. How about this? If you hadn't used all those moves early you wouldn't have come close. And you picked Jimmy Rollins with the 4th pick. I picked 5th and I said to myself I have a real man of genius drafting in front of me. Players you left on the board; Jose Reyes, Pujolz, Wright, Holliday, Cabrera, Howard.
If my starting pitching staff hadn't melted into injury hell it never would have been close.
This isn't really for you or OMR or Matt or any of the veterans. I think there might be a one or two neophytes who have no idea how Yahoo drafts work. And I'm going to fuck one of them up real bad. Hehehe.
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Re: Warning to all fantasy baseball victims [Re: zappaisgod]
#9951918 - 03/11/09 02:00 PM (14 years, 10 months ago) |
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Any recommended resources for drafts? I'd be willing to shell out a few bucks but there's gotta be good shit for free.
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Re: Warning to all fantasy baseball victims [Re: zappaisgod]
#9951935 - 03/11/09 02:05 PM (14 years, 10 months ago) |
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It was my first time playing. I was looking at his overall production of last year, which was ridiculous across the board. I have a much better idea of how to draft. It wasn't that bad of a pick.
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zappaisgod
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Re: Warning to all fantasy baseball victims [Re: robbyberto]
#9951986 - 03/11/09 02:19 PM (14 years, 10 months ago) |
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It was an atrocious waste of a first round pick and I got hard when you made it.
jewunit, go to the site. Click on Draft Central. Then click on Draft Analysis and also Pre-draft Rankings. Go to the league home page and read the articles on the right side. Go to the Players page and check out where they rank according to Yahoo. If you get all nutso, ESPN also does some fantasy ranking shit. I don't use them but you can if you want.
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Re: Warning to all fantasy baseball victims [Re: jewunit]
#9951989 - 03/11/09 02:20 PM (14 years, 10 months ago) |
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jewunit said: Any recommended resources for drafts? I'd be willing to shell out a few bucks but there's gotta be good shit for free.
Just go to Borders or something and look around, ESPN puts out draft guides that are really good.
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Re: Warning to all fantasy baseball victims [Re: zappaisgod]
#9952014 - 03/11/09 02:26 PM (14 years, 10 months ago) |
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Whatever. It was my first time playing, and at the time of the draft I had almost no knowledge about how to play. And you still barely beat me on a fluke run by Felipe Lopez. Congrats.
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zappaisgod
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Re: Warning to all fantasy baseball victims [Re: robbyberto]
#9952026 - 03/11/09 02:27 PM (14 years, 10 months ago) |
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Huh?
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Re: Warning to all fantasy baseball victims [Re: zappaisgod]
#9952039 - 03/11/09 02:29 PM (14 years, 10 months ago) |
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Can't read?
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Re: Warning to all fantasy baseball victims [Re: zappaisgod]
#9952663 - 03/11/09 04:20 PM (14 years, 10 months ago) |
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I HATE YOU, AND NOT BECAUSE YOU'RE RICH.
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zappaisgod
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Re: Warning to all fantasy baseball victims [Re: robbyberto]
#9953002 - 03/11/09 05:07 PM (14 years, 10 months ago) |
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robbyberto said: Can't read?
Yeah, I can read, douchenugget. What the fuck are you talking about?
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zappaisgod
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Re: Warning to all fantasy baseball victims [Re: Madtowntripper]
#9953013 - 03/11/09 05:09 PM (14 years, 10 months ago) |
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Madtowntripper said: I HATE YOU, AND NOT BECAUSE YOU'RE RICH.

My work here is done.
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Re: Warning to all fantasy baseball victims [Re: zappaisgod]
#9955619 - 03/11/09 11:07 PM (14 years, 10 months ago) |
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I know. I made the mistake of drafting Ervin Santana in one of my other leagues not realizing he is opening the season on the DL
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zappaisgod
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Re: Warning to all fantasy baseball victims [Re: KillerPicklez]
#9957213 - 03/12/09 09:03 AM (14 years, 10 months ago) |
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Update:
The auto ranker for Yahoo now has just moved Rodriguez down to 39 so you no longer have to worry that laxity will get you stuck with him in the first round.
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Madtowntripper
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Re: Warning to all fantasy baseball victims [Re: zappaisgod]
#9957427 - 03/12/09 10:04 AM (14 years, 10 months ago) |
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I can't believe you warned people.
You've gone so soft.
-------------------- After one comes, through contact with it's administrators, no longer to cherish greatly the law as a remedy in abuses, then the bottle becomes a sovereign means of direct action. If you cannot throw it at least you can always drink out of it. - Ernest Hemingway If it is life that you feel you are missing I can tell you where to find it. In the law courts, in business, in government. There is nothing occurring in the streets. Nothing but a dumbshow composed of the helpless and the impotent. -Cormac MacCarthy He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God. - Aeschylus
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zappaisgod
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Re: Warning to all fantasy baseball victims [Re: Madtowntripper]
#9957582 - 03/12/09 10:38 AM (14 years, 10 months ago) |
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I have actually been very nice for both of the last two years. The first year I gave anyone who asked a post draft critique and some other private advice and last year I'm pretty sure I warned some people that they were burning up their transactions too fast for little reason. This year, I'm going to be a good bit meaner, for instance to whattheheck who I sandwich with my picks. He is getting nothing he needs. And don't think for one moment that this was altogether a public service announcement. My motives are highly questionable. HAH. Bitches.
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Re: Warning to all fantasy baseball victims [Re: zappaisgod]
#9957602 - 03/12/09 10:43 AM (14 years, 10 months ago) |
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zappaisgod said: My motives are highly questionable. HAH. Bitches.
Your motives are always highly questionable.
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Re: Warning to all fantasy baseball victims [Re: THE KRAT BARON]
#9974870 - 03/15/09 03:19 AM (14 years, 10 months ago) |
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-------------------- A society whose whole idea is to eliminate suffering and bring it's members the greatest amount of comfort and pleasure is doomed to be destroyed -Thomas Merton
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whattheheck
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Re: Warning to all fantasy baseball victims [Re: whattheheck]
#9974873 - 03/15/09 03:19 AM (14 years, 10 months ago) |
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When's the draft?
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