Whose blog is this again?

Remarkable - I clicked on an ad on a blog I read, and thanks to the power of cookies, it drove me to my own blog...which I had completely forgotten I had.

Last seasons fantasy baseball ended with me in 4th place, out of 8 teams. Sadly, that's the best I have finished in that league in years. I did however, finish in a virtual tie for first in fantasy FOOTBALL, thanks to Peyton Manning, Jamal Lewis, Torry Holt, Deuce McAllister and the ultimate waiver pickup, Anquan Boldin. That was an insane year, and I was clearly helped by two guys failing to pick up Boldin and the fact that Week One was my worst week of the year.

Back to the here and now...this year's Fantasy Baseball is a new challenge. Two teams split up, so we have now have a more regular ten team league. We added the very cool option of a two-round AL draft to start it out. I ended up with two Blue Jays, Carlos Delgado and Roy Halladay. Delgado has been almost useless to date - he's batting under .230 with little power, etc. I'm terrified he's going to go on the DL any day now. That's where Halladay already is - but hopefully just for a two start stint to rest up...hope, hope. When healthy, Halladay has been great.

My team is in 8/10 place. What's insane is the teams above me look so fragile that I can't understand why I haven't soared past them. Erich's Haile Pack'n F.S. - no, I don't know what that means either -- starts Tony Womack, Dave Roberts and Daryle Ward. He has no closers, having opted to punt that category. Bryan's Dawn of the VanBuren has a starting pitching staff that has John Thomson as its ace and is rounded out by T.J. Tucker, Todd Van Poppell and Tim Redding.

I honestly have no idea how I'm behind this team.

Typically, Jon and Otto are up at the top, but so is Barmak, proving last year's rise wasn't a fluke. Barmak has had the luck of...well, not the Irish. Is there such a thing as the luck of the Iranian? His team HAD Bonds and Beltran, with a pitching staff of Schmidt, Clemens, Clement and Nomo. Things have turned a bit...he made two separate trades, one with each brother Dorfler, and god knows if it will work out. All I know is he essentially gave up Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens for Armando Benitez, Odalis Perez and Ken Griffey, Jr. My allergy to all those last three players makes me weight the deals towards the Dorflers...all I know is when you trade away the best offensive player in the league - perhaps ever - and one of the top ten pitchers of all time (even if he is a prick), I'd personally want to get back more than a gimpy has been fuckstick named Griffey and a closer who has been way outperforming his abilities, plus Odalis.

But that's just me. And I'm in 8th and Barmak's in first, so what do I know?

More to come, probably in the political variety. There's so much shit out there I need to vent about...