February 6th, 2010 by jzak
Ryan Braun was pretty awesome last season, smacking more than 30 homers and setting a career high with 20 steals.
But if you don’t draft him in 2010, that isn’t a bad thing.
Sure landing Braun or Matt Kemp would be very sweet in any fantasy format, but you can survive nicely without them, draft studs at [...]
February 3rd, 2010 by jzak
Derek Jeter is the Hallmark greeting card of fantasy shortstops.
And that isn’t a good thing.
You see, Hallmark is the crème de la crème of greeting cards, according to some. From birthdays to bah mitzvahs, if you want to show that you truly care, only a Hallmark will do … or so the commercials insinuate.
And, of [...]
January 29th, 2010 by jzak
When I was 15 years old, while camping with our local Boy Scout troop, I met the dumbest person on the planet.
It was 12-year-old who had just finished using a Coleman propane cook stove. Within seconds of turning it off, he decided to touch the burner, jumping back and screaming in pain a split second [...]
January 15th, 2010 by jzak
The other day, I was watching the cartoon “Wow Wow Wubbzy” with my five-year-old daughter.
If “watching” is the right word.
I was more glancing at the TV while wondering what ever happened to children’s entertainment in the past 20 years.
How in the world did we go from He-Man, Thundercats, Voltron and even the Smurfs to Wow [...]
November 5th, 2009 by jzak
Two weeks from Friday, most standard fantasy leagues will see the come and go of their trade deadline.
And considering that most fantasy trades take time to develop, now is the time to really assess your team and determine if you need to make some moves.
Notice that your team is weak at a certain position? Lacking [...]
October 30th, 2009 by jzak
I was about to walk out the front door of The Daily Item office building the other day when I noticed the Incredible Hulk’s little brother perched on the step.
Everything about the guy was huge: Huge biceps, huge tattoos on his biceps, huge bulging wall-like structure where his neck should have been. He wore a [...]