The Jon knows these things to be true: Week 7

A lot of funny things happen when The Jon gets drunk. Most of the time The Jon yells out “the Jon needs sushi and Asahi.” Or “hey, let’s stay up all night and watch a Star Wars marathon.”
The Jon has never said, “The Jon is going to blog.”
But here The Jon is.

And for some reason, The Jon thinks this Gorillaz video is tight and … well, you try writing in the beginning throes of a headache. It’s baseball time …

The Jon knows these things to be true: Week 6

As journalists, we are trained to write a certain way. We have to be factual. We have to have a developed argument. We have to follow certain rules. The act of writing itself comes with its guidelines too. If you want to write a book, it has to be done a certain way, or like a certain author.

The Jon tries to forget all of that when The Jon gets on this site.

Communication is changing. Writing is changing. The days of newspapers being the main source of information is long gone. That is one of the reasons why we started this site. Sports is changing.

We are still fans of our respective teams, but now it is more important that we follow our own individual players for our fantasy teams.

The Jon is huge Yankees fan. I only have Jorge Posada and Phil Hughes on The Jon’s team. Newspaperman fawns over the Red Sox. He does not have one Red Sox on his team.

Hence the video … and for personal reason that we will get to in a very short version of this week’s segment. Let’s get started … Click on this

The Jon knows these things to be true: Week 2

Should The Jon’s Panzer Dragoon edit have his finisher as the Fish Stretch Sleeper or the Super Rana? This is what the Jon could be deciding right now instead of serving The Jon’s loyal readers with another edition of “The Jon knows these things to be true.” It is probably a good thing The Jon isn’t playing Fire Pro Wrestling returns. When The Jon gets anal retentive about finishers in video games, it isn’t a good thing.

PoiDog knows of this. The Jon has called PoiDog many a time during WWF No Mercy’s heyday for the N64. “Hey PoiDog. Do you think my Cools edit would be better off with a Forward Front Russian Leg Sweep?”

The Jon’s a loser. let’s talk fantasy baseball: Week 2. Shall we?

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 …

The Jon knows these things to be true: Week 1

Don’t worry, we’ll get into Stephen A. Smith, but first … after months and months the waiting has finally paid off. The first week of baseball has ended and along with it has brought many revelations. Still recovering from a Monday that saw The Jon exert zero movement except for The Jon’s patented beer elbow, here are some of the observations from the first week that has garnered a mention on these hallowed pages, ie. there is no real topic that The Jon has to write about, so subjects will be divided up for easy perusal.

Offense sucks during opening week
It’s true. Out of the top 10 players selected in most fantasy drafts, only Chase Utley and Hanley Ramirez have had strong weeks.

Three hours, 20 teams, 480 players

Never in my fantasy lifetime did I think I’d have to seriously think about drafting Cla Meredith.

This afternoon I participated in the largest draft in my 10 years of fantasy baseball, and it got off to an ugly start when my computer decided not to allow me into the online draft room.

Draft advice: Top 20 Starting pitchers

Every league has a pitching guru. Not to toot my own horn, but more times than not, I proudly proclaim that mantle. Once upon a time, I insisted on keeping five pitchers. But even I know that’s not a sound strategy. I prefer to take one or two studs early and fill in my staff with high-upside hurlers on the young side of 30 who are capable of becoming dominant. I’ll leave low-WHIP, low-ERA, low-K, low-risk guys for someone else. Our rankings largely reflect that philosophy. Although The BaseballStars had a pretty wide level of varience — some of our top-10 pitchers didn’t even appear on everyone’s top-20 list — I would feel perfectly comfortable following this list straight down.