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.

The Jon knows these things to be true: Week 15

With the All-Star game this week, fantasy baseball heads into a short week with a smidge of games Thursday followed by three days of a normal schedule. In honor of the shotened week, The Jon is going to chill on The Jon’s Monday Morning Diatribe and keep it short. It reeks of “a video history” combined with “which baseball star are you” around here. So here it is.

First up is the Jon with Ice Cube back when he was good with Dead Homiez. The title is The Jon’s team with something like four straight losses and a current 7th or 8th place standing. This is nothing new. The Jon’s teams are always a trial in patience. It still sucks, and The Jon might not look at fantasy baseball for a couple of weeks.

The Jon knows these things to be true: Week 5

The Jon has been gone for a week and you have seen the true beauty of this site. The Oz has stepped up, Newspaperman wrote some stuff and FreeSanJose made an appearance. A day late mind you, but he still showed. PoiDog on the other hand hasn’t. After reading some intelligent writing, there is always room for mindless, rah-rah banter.

But we can forgive the guy, can’t we? PoiDog has been salivating over the Iron Man movie since it was announced two years ago and has been indisposed. Sorry, all Silver Web Surfers aside, The Jon only knows of only one Ironman and he is down below.

And, uhhhh …. you have to click on the read more under the video to get to the rest of this riveting reading.

But enough of all of that Jibber Jabber. Now onto baseball, shall we?

The Jon knows these things to be true: Week 4

Injuries. That is what Week 4 is all about. Newspaperman and FreeSanJose actually tried to step to The Jon and point and scream about scoreboard? Injure The Jon?
Well, FreeSanJose didn’t, that’s because he can express it on a different level and doesn’t wear a polka dot dress like Newspaperman does. Fantasy baseball is devoid of perspective. It is all about how your team did the past week for the novice fantasy baseballer.

Take a look at FreeSanJose and Newspaperman. Novices they are not, but they love the scoreboard. When they have won championships, they have always been the top dog in the standings. They have not suffered or came into the playoffs as one of the lower seeds only to win it all … twice.

The Jon has. Perseverance, fools. And as for dogs, go ahead and kick The Jon while he is down. Let’s get going and move ahead to Chipper Jones …

The Jon knows these things to be true: Week 3




Another week, another win. The Jon is not used to this. The first couple of weeks of any fantasy baseball season has always been mired by frustration, bad pitching, lack of power and draft picks gone bad. Not the case this year. Three first round picks in the first round have a way turning history around. Not to sound all Newspapermanish, but things look good so far.

But it is only three weeks into a fantasy season, you can always plan and should to improve your team. Are you in the middle of the pack or at the bottom? You should know what your needs are.

If you are at the top, now is the time to play in into the other manager’s fears and take ’em for all they are worth. With that being said, let’s look at the week it was.

The Jon knows these things to be true

The Jon needs it to be a month from now. The Jon needs to draft. The annual first opening of the fantasy magazine on The Jon’s throne has already happened and it twas glorious. But as we head into Opening Day and a full day of beer and baseball, The Jon knows these things to be true (just like the headline … oohhhh).

Fantasy Baseball and Hannah Montana … Thank You!

What do these two things have in common? Well, according to The Sporting News fantasy magazine, everything. Look, The Jon likes the mag, he uses it. Respects it even. But when some hump writer feels that it is funny that some snot-nosed singer can be an intro to third basemen rankings, he’s a filippin’ hack.