Think sliced bread, indoor plumbing and Chia Pets are special? You ain’t seen nothing yet. We’re on the verge of experiencing something truly amazing in 2010 and beyond. There’s a new stable of able running backs in the NFL, and you can thank an opportunistic bunch of rookie 2009 backs for giving us what will be quite a [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
At a different site recently, someone asked me who the hot young sleeper catcher was for 2010. A player they could target in the mid to late rounds and avoid the drafting firestorm that would surround the truly elite at the position. And, for the first time in my fantasy career, I found myself giving [...]
Wasting is terrible. I hate wasting time, money or beer. But there are few things I despise more than wasting a high pick on a fantasy quarterback. It’s completely unnecessary. Looking at a draft list from last year, Kurt Warner was picked in the 17th round, Philip Rivers was picked in the 15th and Aaron [...]
So much for the spot start advice Sunday. Los Angeles’ John Lackey allowed 10 hits in seven innings, but K’d 10 to get a W. Meanwhile, San Francisco’s Barry Zito got rocked for 10 hits and seven runs in 3.2 innings. Cleveland’s Carl Pavano, my top pick, was very much not a Ninja. He gave [...]
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