Draft Results: No Gimmicks Needed

Two weeks before the season started, TheBaseballStars held its annual draft for the “State” league. It’s a 7×7, 10-team, head-to-head keeper league where owners keep five players and a prospect. All five of ‘Stars are in this league. Below is the analysis and results of team “No Gimmicks Needed.” In case you’re wondering, the team is in fact named after Chris Candido (pictured here) whom I felt had one of the coolest monikers ever.

Top 10 shortstops: 2009

OK, so it easy to rank shortstops. And it is cliché to list the big three and feel all important. We don’t do that here at TheBaseballStars. By now you should get a feel of how we operate. The Jon ranks guys by how he would draft then and shoves it in the face of fantasy writers that live and breathe off of stats and hype. FreeSanJose hates the Yankees and will always lean on the side of the power hitter. Newspaperman, in his quest to be universally loved, is the textbook fantasy baseball ranker. PoiDog? When he does decide to write, he usually has a beer in his hand and the other hand in his pants.
And do you know before Hanley Ramirez became the guy, the most famous Hanley was from the video DWYCK? Man, mid-90s rap gear was tight. Bikinis in the ’90s … umm no.
So heh heh heh heh heh heHanlee, Hanlee Leroy you need to read on and good luck or Godspeed or something.

Rebuilding A Franchise: A rebuttal

Go ahead and read Newspaperman’s 1,000 word diatribe on how he rebuilt his team in our bush-fantasy league.
It is a study on what good fantasy managers do when their team sucks in a keeper league. Now Newspaperman’s case hardly ever happens. Newspaperman on paper had a viable list of keepers with the flagship being Chase Utley … but here’s the dealer. He was willing to trade Utley. Granted, it is well known Newspaperman sees The Jon as a hero, someone to emulate if you will and he went into this season by stealing The Jon’s mindset … blow your team the hail up. And it all started with his b.s. trade of Cole Hamels and Ryan Braun for a first round pick.

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.

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?

Hey Newspaperman …

Newspaperman, this is your lucky day. With the recent ruling by the California Supreme Court which in essence overturns the ban on gay marriage, Newspaperman can now live his dream: He can marry David Wright. All of those love letters and naked photos Newspaperman has sent to David Wright hasn’t gone for naught. There is now an end goal in sight: Nuptials.

The Jon dedicates this video to Newspaperman who has already created an account on youtube called mrsdwright5 and he wrote this in response to the one of many David Wright videos: omg i love him so much! he is so gorgeous! 🙂

And if for some inexplicable reason David Wright spurns Newspaperman’s advances … there are a whole lotta Newspaperman to go around …

Newspaperman: The Karate Kid video history

It all started simple enough. Newspaperman in the deep throes of watching one of his many sweethearts have a good game, e-mailed The Jon. In this case it was Joey Votto’s three homer game Wednesday. This is a rough quote:
“Monster, baby. Monster. Three jacks in three at-bats, four RBIs, three runs, a walk and a stolen base. I have to change my panties!”

It was then The Jon finally pinpointed who Newspaperman reminded The Jon of.

Daniel LaRusso. Yes, you read that right, Daniel-San.

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.

Saving the best for last

I’ve said it before, but this could be my best draft yet.

The long road to the 2008 season came to an end Sunday when I participated in the final of my four drafts, and it could have been the best one of the year.

The was the grand finale: TheBaseballStars league – a 10-team keeper league in which all five of TheBaseballStars participate. This is my version of an expert league, where I feel my fantasy skills are truly tested.

Anyway, I entered the draft without a third and seventh round pick, and with the following keepers: Jose Reyes, David Wright, Grady Sizemore, Justin Morneau; Justin Verlander, and Yovani Gallardo.

Here’s what my team looks like today.