Top 10 Second basemen: 2009

Hey, it’s yours truly far from booty and we’re back for part three of our draft strategy portion of the show. Today we are dealing with second basemen even though this is the No. 3 installment. Planning makes a great Web site or something. But hey we don’t get paid, so read on and good luck or Godspeed or something.

He’s a champ, but still can’t post

Newspaperman and FreeSanJose wrote about their experiences of falling in love, because they love each other. If you were subjected to their banter for the past two weeks about fighting for the championship … you would understand why. This is the last installment of FreeSanJose and Newspaperman squaring off verbally against each other in the fantasy World Series. It didn’t turn out how The Jon envisioned. Instead of a straight-up mass of insults and barbs and one-upmanship, it turned out to a big lovefest. Newspaperman skipped around saying how great FreeSanJose and was the Pollyana we all know him to be. And what did FreeSanJose do? He let Newspaperman get away with this?

This site needs The Jon and FreeSanJose to face off for the title next season. Seeing how The Jon is in rebuilding mode, it doesn’t look like it will happen, but anything is better that Final Countdown and Al Gore videos. Amatuer … well, here we go.

Championship: The Final Day

The final day is here, and The Terror Returns has taken a good-size lead, but it’s far from over. Or is it?

Championship: The Final Countdown

This is it. The final weekend of the fantasy baseball season, and No Gimmicks Needed and The Terror Returns are neck and neck for the championship in TheBaseballStars League. Who will win it? Not even the owners of the two teams are sure.

Dustin Pedroia: Keeper Status

What Dustin Pedroia has done this season has been nothing short of remarkable, and if you’re in a keeper league and happen to own the hottest hitter in the game, then you should be considering him as a long-term player.

Now Pedroia does not fit the mold of an automatic keeper. His status really depends on your league settings and how your keeper team in constructed. Clearly if you’re a power-first squad, keeping Pedroia will not make a lot of sense. But consider the following when you sit down this summer and pick your keepers.

Through Sept. 3 Pedroia was leading the American League in hitting with an average of .333, leading the league in hits 191, and was the top-rated second baseman in the American League according to Yahoo’s player rankings.

Four Bagger: The Stretch Run

There’s nothing like a good ol’ ass-kicking to rekindle one’s passion for fantasy baseball. Fortunately I was on the giving end of this badboy.

Thanks to the efforts of Grady Sizemore and Vernon Wells, I was able to annihilate our very own ‘Oz this week 13-0-1 guaranteeing my spot in the playoffs, and almost solidifying my rank as the No. 2 seed in the TBS league playoffs. We’re still a week away from the post season, but things are looking good, and that first-round bye is looking better than ever.

On a mission from … Day 1

So in this week’s These things to be true, The Jon said The Jon would try to write everyday since this is now TheBaseballStar.com. So here we go and stuff. First up to bat is Adam Dunn, the most oxymoronic fantasy player of all time. He is the antithesis of the type of player The Jon drafts. Hitting in the .240s while being a league leader in homers with 32, he is everything The Greatness hates about risk/reward players. H2H league success is dependent on reliability, and Adam Dunn is not it.

Still, if you have the right team, Dunn could just very well be your team’s MVP. Confused? Well, let’s go down memory lane … as if you had a choice.

Stuff I didn’t know…

I’ll admit, I like to break my bouts with silence with a good ass-whuppin’ of one of my fellow Stars. This week, Poidog was the recipient of my belt. And like my dismantling of Oldpaperman, this had something to do with strategy.

Poidog originally planned on playing seven starters against my five starters and two relievers. I noticed this late Sunday and opted to go with an extra starter. Poidog apparently noticed and tweaked his lineup to match mine. Bad move.

The Jon knows these things to be true: Week 14

So Newspaperman is down on playing fantasy football. The Jon searched far and wide to try to peak Newspaerman’s interest back in another fantasy sport The Jon has dominated. The best option was this video in a field of a lot of blond and er … silicone participants. Hey you can always count on a token minority girl on such Web creations as Fantasysportsgirl. Seeing how TheBaseballStars are all minorities, the quasi/unkown/asian, latina host suffices.

Unfortunately, there were no videos of Manny Ramirez or Grady Sizemore to share. We all know Newspaperman’s affliction with Grady (Newspaperman, this does not give you the right to walk around crying in your Superman Underoos), but apparently The Jon was all over Manny’s Planters peanuts or something a couple of months ago before the season started.

But The Jon digresses … let’s talk baseball fools.

The Jon knows these things to be true: Week 10

This doesn’t come easy. Newspaperman tried this week to emulate The Greatness known as The Jon, and his result was less than astronomical. He was writing something about Chase Utley, took some obscure lyric that didn’t even match and posted a Geto Boys video. Newspaperman. Son. Stick to David Wright and Grady Sizemore. Leave the videos to The Jon.

So why the Summertime video? Have you seen the baseball scores this week? Offense is running wild, dun. Temperature’s rising. It’s summer.

Summer brings crazy offensive numbers. Plus Will Smith is having a new movie coming out called Hancock …

You see that Newspaperman?

Will Smith, Hancock, Movie, Scarface, Al Pacino, white women dancing.

Those are tags son.

That drives up traffic to our site. When was the last time the Geto Boys have been in the news?

Let’s talk baseball, shall we?