It’s 8:13 p.m.
I take another look at my
fantasy lineup on Fantrax and all looks good. Green stars, green asterisks, I’m
golden. Time to go do something around the house.
A minute later, a text comes
in from a Crox: “Keuchel scratched. They say
illness but rumors are spreading.”
“Yeah, OK,” I thought,
knowing that it was less than a minute before first pitch.
It had to be a joke, but I
took to Twitter anyway.
Tick tock, the clock turns
to 8:15 p.m.
It’s game time, it’s
confirmed and it’s too late to adjust. Fortunately, roster-wise, this didn’t
kill me. I did bench Hosmer due to the tough matchup, but Keuchel’s
disappearance didn’t hurt me.
Could you imagine being one
of the millions of daily fantasy players who spent top dollar for a 9-0 pitcher
with a 1.67 ERA? They all had to be screwed. Wasted money.
One minute. That’s all it
took. He was Gone in 60 Seconds, and unlike Memphis Raines, fantasy owners
couldn’t act as quickly as he did when he realized the Mercedes keys were
tainted.
Fortunately for me, I was
able to move him to the DL when Cespedes came off, but I still have a pair of DL
eligible players on my active roster. It’s been brutal this year. And of course, as I edit this and get ready to hit publish, Cespedes hurts himself again.
Right now, on DL from a
pitching standpoint, I have a damn good starting five in MLB — Dallas Keuchel,
Danny Duffy, Aaron Sanchez, Eduardo Rodriguez and Carlos Rodon. Yes, I know,
Rodon hasn’t been all that great, but hey, you’d take him as your No. 5, right?
Despite all the injuries, I
have to pat myself on the back; I’ve made some good waiver moves to put myself
in a position where I’m just 5.5 games behind the Steaks in the National League
with the JLB’s second-best record.
All things considered, I
can’t complain … too much
Choo just doesn’t stop
It doesn’t matter what you
do, you just can’t stop Choo from being in the upper-third of the American
League.
He trades Max Scherzer
before his Cy Young year, no problem.
He trades David Price, no
problem. He trades Felix Hernandez and Robison Cano, no problem. He trades
Clayton Kershaw and Noah Sydnergaard, no problem.
I could go on and on, as you
all know, and the same final statement would come up — it’s never a problem. He
just knows how to win.
And ever since he took down
the Outs in Week 5, he’s been on a win streak. Six straight wins — nothing too
spectacular, but all by at least 2 wins and as many as 5.
It’s got him — or as Parker
would write it, GOTT HIM — in first place of the American League at 100-88-32,
4.5 games ahead of Big Ol’ Country. The Gamblers, who is the last team to beat
Choo in Week 4, is tied for third with the Sex Panthers, and the Bombers and
Crox Sox are not too far behind.
It’s quite the log-jam at
the midway point of the season.
We've officially moved into the second half where interleague play comes at us in full force with six straight weeks of matchups of American League vs. National League.
Then, it's the five straight weeks of division play.
If this log-jam continues through interleague, man will those final five weeks be fun.
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