I said a bad "day" but being in last place for a few days will get you 10 moves awfully fast too

Still not bottom. Basking in my first week glory here

I'd be at the top of the moves list by now even if I was in 1st.

Pending Trade

BA gets:

Nick Markakis (Bal - RF)

BL gets:

Justin Verlander (Det - SP)

Per my trade policy, I approve trades the day after I receive notice. Since the notice was received in my email box at 11:57 pm, I will approve the trade today and they players will be in your line-ups tomorrow.

I'm gonna have to re evaluate all the scouting work in my organization: I tried to reach for Verlander 'cause I thought he was going to bounce back for sure; I dropped Josh Willingham and banked my money on Johan Santana in the BBC game.

it turns out that Verlander was tagged for 6 ER and Willingham hit a grand slam off Santana. plus, my other SP is in line for another loss

As you said before, baseball is a looong season. The early part of the season players are still getting into a rhythm, especially pitchers. I wouldn't worry about the top players. I had CC Sabathia a year or two ago and he had the worst first month of any player (almost -100 through his first few starts) but ended up being one of the top fantasy scoring pitchers by the end of the season.

JL - I have a number of good 2B. Take a look to see if there's anything that makes sense.

I'd love to have Zobrist, but I don't know if you'd trade him.
Stewart and Beckham aren't much, if any, better than what I have.

Yahoo has some funky scoring tonight. Adam Jones was just caught stealing 2nd base in the 1st inning, and Yahoo charged him with 2 CS.

That happens from time to time. I had a batter once that had about 38 points for the day. I got excited until I realized it said he had something like 16 AB's. Everything was multiplied.

It kills me when I see players being picked up off the wire that make me think "That guy was available??" I guess I need to come up with a new way of searching.

you talking me about me picking up zito?

no comment

So far today I'm 0/42 in AB's. Not one hit. I have two players still going, but it's not looking good.

God's Offal is the cream, huh? We'll see...

He was near the bottom a day or two ago I think. That's what I like about the early part of the season. One big day and you jump to first place.

I thought of JG for some reason when I read this update for Granderson...

Nice catch! lol

At the rate you and 'God' are burning up your game starts, you'll both be out of SP in August.

I wish we had one or two more bench spots. Wish I thought of it before the season started so we could have had a good preseason debate

Wouldn't be too realistic since real teams only have 25 players.

Then we should expand our bench by 15 spots on September 1st

Sure. Whatever. I plan to be comfortably in 1st by then.

My team has 3 hits and 4 double plays so far tonight. Ughh.

on the other hand I am the king of the no decisions. I have the fewest wins of everybody (8) and yesterday I had 3 GS and 3 no decisions

My Kendry Morales (12) vs my Yanks... wasn't sure who I was jinxing. Guess it was NYY.

Don't look down.

What? You gained all of 6 pts on me?

I love the trash talking this early in the season

Yes, and several pitching starts since you used up 3. I now have 5 in hand.