So after a 7-week hiatus, the fantasy updates return. Some would say the break was a strategic ploy on my behalf to stem any embarrassment that might arise from my cataclysmic fall from 1st to as low as 6th place last week, but I can assure you all that wasn’t the case (funny, something tells me none of you believe me). Anyway, back to the present– the league has kind of been turned on its head (or ass, depending on your point of view) with our favorite reader (Yeah, we’re biased. Big whoop, wanna fight about it?), Behjota, and Mashing Maters rising from 5th and 8th, respectively, to claim the top two spots, while my very own MatsuisImaginaryWife and the Quahog Homers have plummeted from 1st and 3rd since our last update and now find ourselves fighting for a playoff spot (I’ll just say this– I’ve won four, yes FOUR, fantasy baseball championships coming out of the 6-spot. Try sleeping with that on your mind tonight, BehJota and Mashing Maters.). And as if that didn’t provide enough drama four you, the top-two squads duked it out last week for first place, with BehJota holding off a late charge from Mashing to capture an all-important 8-5 victory.
And to round out the rest of the staff for all you SC Fanboys (and girls) out there: Chuck Wipple’s VIVA LA WHITE GIRL is holding onto 6th at the moment, and MFH, who is the odds on favorite to win the “Most Original Fantasy Team Name of the Year” Award finds himself four-and-a-half out of the last playoff spot in 7th. Consiglieri is not a heterosexual and, consequently, abstained from partaking in our Fantasy League. Not that there’s anything wrong with that, of course.
One other thing before I close out the update– kind of a blanket Fantasy observation/subtle Yankee-bashing. Remember when SS used to be baseball’s glamour position? As of today, there are only 6 of them who rank in the top 100 according to Yahoo: Hanley Ramirez (17), Miguel Tejada (should be tested for HGH and comes in at 23), Jose Reyes (28… never thought I’d say this, but I kinda wish the Yankees’ shortstop “sucked” as much as he did), Rafael Furcal (71), Mike Young (76), and Cristian Guzman (99… probably shouldn’t even count, but it’ll help drive home the following…). Notice any glaring omissions? How about The Captain (ranked 190th) and J-Roll (219). Now to be fair, both guys were on the DL for a while, but in Jeter’s case he’s likely going to fail to reach 200 hits for the first time since ‘04, and if he keeps this up he’ll register the fewest number of doubles in his entire career (as of today he’s projected for 22). And all of this seems even more bizarre considering he stands to notch the fourth-highest RBI total of his career (81) at his current pace. So basically Jeets is having the most unproductive productive season of any player since ‘06 A-rod. Weird.
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