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.

The Championship: Week Two, the beginning of the end.

The Jon has likened Newspaperman and FreeSanJose, the two combatants in the World Series of the State League, to Daniel LaRusso and Mike Barnes of the Karate Kid III. Much of the first week was back and forth, and for four days, Newspaperman (Larusso) had control. Then FSJ came storming back.

And now it all comes down to this. Sudden death.

Four Bagger: Dog Days of Summer

The summer is supposed to be the time of year where baseball rules the roost. Unfortunately I’m spending too much time thinking about work, and fighting the internal urge to actually sign up for fantasy football. For the record, I wish I could just walk away from football all together. It’s just not that fun, really. But fact of the matter is that so many of my friends are involved in it that I can’t possibly quite it all together. Gah!

Hey Newspaperman …

Tigerstyle. Tigerstyle. TTIIIIIIIGERstyle.
There are many moments in life when you realize that you are getting old. You see The Jon used to have the system. The Jon would drive bumping around town with the beats powered by two amps popping from the trunk while throwing the “Time to scare old white people at a stoplight with The Geto Boys second album joint” look.

But that The Jon is gone. The Jon has now been replaced with Jo-wAn who drives his two daughters to swimming lessons in a minivan while listening to Steely Dan. At least it is not Josh Groban, then Jo-wAn would really need to wear a skirt.

Today it was too much. The Jon needed to be released. The Jon threw out the Steely Dan CD and was set to grab the RZA’s greatest hits. But there was still those two kids hanging all over The Jon’s arm ….

Dropping Liriano? You’re making a mistake

Just looking at my fantasy teams and see a note from Yahoo indicating that Francisco Liriano is being dropped in thousands (14,000) of leagues today after news that the Twins lefty is headed back to Triple A. Seemingly that has sent owners into a frenzy looking for a replacement. Here’s the way I see it: Liriano wasn’t even supposed to be back in the majors anyway, so anything he has done to this point doesn’t count.

Hey Newspaperman …

Hey the Michael Jordan of fantasy baseball, how ya like these stats from your boy Francisco Liriano?
0.2 innings pitched, 81.00 ERA and a 12.00 WHIP. What, you couldn’t play Wandy Rodriguez? What about Luke Hochevar. You’re reaching son, in a bad way. The Jon can say whatever he wants. Newspaperman hides when he gets called out and is probably somewhere blubbering with the crying snot all over his Buzz Lightyear pajamas holding a gold foil Liriano card saying, “Why? Why?”

Oh, and as always, your team sucks. Peace.

Fantasy baseball frustration: The Thrill is Gone

It’d be easy for me to sit here and piss and moan about how Justin Verlander’s 7.00 ERA and three losses have disppointed me beyond belief. How it’d made me look at Verlander in disgust. How it’s made me think of trading him to someone for a guy who can help me right now. How Verlander is overrated, as TheJon would say. But truth is I’m not disappointed with Verlander.

Which BaseballStar are you?

So to get a better understanding of how TheBaseballStars differ, lets play a little game shall we? The fun begins with pitching, or which type of pitchers each individual BaseballStar goes for when creating a team. It is a vision of what the perfect pitcher is so to speak.
The game is figuring out which BaseballStar you are most alike in terms of which pitcher you go for when selecting your team.

The Jon fully expects you to read this post and spend one second saying you are like The Jon, Newspaperman (heaven forbid), PoiDog (you sheep), FreeSanJose (get anger management classes), or The Oz (MIA). So why the Roy Halladay video? The Jon thought you would never ask …

Hey Newspaperman …

Now you gotta realize, Newspaperman stole Francisco Liriano from The Jon in our draft.
Liriano was The Jon’s rookie keeper two seasons ago and The Jon held Liriano on his bench all of last season just for the chance at having the pitcher with the best slider in years to play for The Greatness. But alas, all good things must end, and The Jon dropped Liriano last season to keep Fausto Carmona thinking Liriano would be available in the second to third round of our redraft. So what does Newspaperman do?

Another victim of the hype: Roy Oswalt

Francisco Liriano. Two seasons ago, he was the hottest pitcher in baseball and possessed the best slider in baseball.
The guy was real talk. Every pitch in his arsenal had that zip. That extra kick that hasn’t been seen since the 1999 version of Pedro Martinez.
And then it happened, the exploding arm trick. It seems Liriano’s best slider ever caused too much movement and he went this side of Tommy John.
of course the jon had him. He fell into the category of the rookie keeper in the jon’s SLO and San Jose league named after respective college alumnus. And this is where the sordid tale of the jon went against all of his natural championship instinct. The Jon has just pulled a deal in the SLO league to secure Liriano as one of his keepers. Oswalt was traded for an 8th round pick so Liriano could be a keeper. A bad deal all the way … or was it?