Daily Archives: May 4, 2007

Posted by Dan

Something I found interesting, that you may not have seen anywhere since it is just not being covered, is that Red Sox Hero Daisuke Matsuzaka pitched terribly today vs Seattle. 5 Innings, 7 Earned, 1 K, 5 BB. The interesting part is that it is not on the ESPN page, or, if you click on “MLB” it’s not on the MLB Front Page either. I don’t care and will gladly go without constant “Dice-K” updates, but if he had pitched well, I’m sure it would be the ESPN Main Headline, giant picture and constant Baseball Tonight Updates from John Kruk. The only reason I even found out he pitched terribly is because I wanted to see how a couple of guys did in that game for fantasy purposes.

Also, in the same Fantasy Football Draft lottery as Stev-o, I lucked into the 11th pick for the second year in a row. Looking way ahead, and overstepping my bounds by writing about Fantasy Football, I dont mind picking there. I obviously miss out on LT, Stephen Jackson and Larry Johnson, but I can get two guys who I have in my top 14 which is pretty good. I mean, I made the playoffs last year taking Randy Moss (Rd. 3) and Daunte Culpepper (Rd. 6), so I think that proves my fantasy prowess. Either that or totally disproves it because I drafted those guys in the first place. You decide.

Posted by Steve

I don’t even feel like I should talk about the Brewers right now, as if acting like they aren’t playing great will make it continue. As you were, Wisconsinites. Nothing to see here… Just the same old crappy Brewers. We’re just messing around.

But anyways. It scares me to think that the Brewers already have the best record in the bigs, and they have the Pirates and Nats coming to town. I keep thinking back to last year’s eight-game losing streak which included sweeps by each of these two teams.

On the other hand, it’s a different year and a different team. I like the pitching match-ups this series, and three straight lefties should get Bill Hall going again. There’s no reason to think J.J. Hardy won’t continue to mash either.

I’m expecting to see Good Dave Bush tonight at home coming off a poor start.   Turnbow and Cordero are rested, but it would be nice to give the rest of the pen a day off.  Seven strong from Bush, then Turnbow and Cordero sounds about right to me.

In other news, add Mike Piazza to the list of walking-wounded players on my fantasy team.  With two more injured players than DL spots, I was forced to drop Piazza.  Whatever.  At least I just won the first pick in our fantasy football lottery (LT! LT!).