LABRing for Tout, or Touting LABR?
Maybe I should preface this article with the thought that through a couple of weeks of play, virtually every team I own sucks. As in lower-end of the standings sucks. …
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Standings Scrambles
I admit to being both a control freak and somewhat compulsive, which to many of you might smack in the face of the laid back Berkeley Zen hippie personna I …
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We Are Getting Old
The fine hitter and wonderful human being Rusty Staub passed away on Thursday at the age of 73, three days shy of what would have been his 74th birthday on, appropriately, …
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Pre-Season Thoughts and Machinations
Gad, what a wild conglomeration of weeks, peppered with four games at the Cactus League culminating with the American League LABR auction, after which I shot to Pt. St. Lucie …
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On Death and (Somebody Else) Dying
NOTE: Steve Moyer’s friends in the fantasy and baseball industries have begun a GoFundMe to help support his daughters, Harmony and Mary, who face college and adulthood without their pop. …
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Where the Mock am I?
It is getting to be crunch time. Later today I get to participate in the League of Alternative Baseball Reality (LABR), and The Great Fantasy Baseball Invitational is currently ripping …
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We Have Been Waiting for You!
First, as is my wont when writing about current events rather than baseball, I am sorry that despite the beginnings of spring games, the events in Parkland this past week …
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Mock Becomes Best Ball Becomes Real
I do a lot of mocks and, invariably, someone among the group will say, “let’s play this out” — words that make most of us in the industry shudder. Not …
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A Week Without Fantasy (Almost)
As noted, Diane and I beat it back to Maui for the past week, mostly to make up for last year when we came for a somewhat delayed honeymoon that …
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Fantasy Draft Schizophrenic Blues
The topic of today’s tome is so personal — and confusing to me — that I kept thinking about the issue, and then I would begin doing other things. You …
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From Micro to Maxi-Brew
Those of us who have virtually every Star Wars line committed to memory will remember Grand Moff Tarkin telling Darth Vader The Empire will “now crush the rebellion with one …
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The Strange Paths to Rebuilding
The beauty, I suppose, of rebuilding is that when the process works, tis truly a thing to behold. When the Rays years back deconstructed and pioneered, rebuilding via youth while …
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