Christmas Comes on St. Patty’s Day in Vegas
Christmas came on St. Patrick’s Day, and while Santa brought me some cool gifts (Clayton Kershaw and Christian Yelich), he also left a whole lot of coal (Chris Davis and …
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Domingo Santana Might Not Find a Starting Job, But We Found His Biggest Fan
I don’t like commenting on other teams’ picks, but I’ll make this one exception. Saturday night it was raining in Southern California (don’t tell Albert Hammond), so I decided to …
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Offense Rules the Day in the Memorial Magazine Draft League
I was invited into the Memorial Magazine MLB 12-team auction league. This is an “expert” league run on the CBSSports.com platform. The league was full of sharks, including CBS Sports’ …
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ADP: A Deceptive Process
I admit it. I watch. I sneak a peek. I check it out. I’m not embarrassed about it at all. It’s a guilty pleasure. I also know, however, that it’s …
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Moving On Up: Catchers No Longer Automatic End Game Selections
Clearly, Taylor Swift doesn’t play fantasy baseball. Her most recent song, End Game, goes like this, “I wanna be your end game; I wanna be your first string, I wanna …
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Kenley Jansen: Fantasy Gamechanger
With the eighth pick of the third round of the NFBC Main Event, I select … Kenley Jansen, relief pitcher for the Los Angeles Dodgers. A relief pitcher in the …
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Quarterbacks are King in the NFFC Playoff Challenge
So, with the Eagles upset of the Patriots Sunday, the NFL season is over. With it, the NFFC Playoff Challenge has ended as well. The Challenge had 1419 entries. I …
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He’s Not Really a Doctor
Glenn “Doc” Rivers was a pretty decent basketball player. Not a great player, but he did ok, earning one All Star appearance (scoring nine points), averaging between 10 and 16 …
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Never Draft Tight Ends and Quarterbacks Early. Really???
If you’ve read any fantasy football blog, or listened to any fantasy football “expert,” you’ve heard the adages, “Never draft a tight end in the first five rounds,” and “Never …
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NFFC Playoff Challenge – Challenges Ahead
If you didn’t accurately pick neither a New England/Jacksonville AFC Championship game, nor a Philadelphia/Minnesota NFC Championship game, don’t feel bad. You are not alone. Las Vegas correctly picked four …
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NFFC Playoff Challenge
It’s been a while. My last Outside the Box column was posted back on March 3, 2010. In that column, I wrote about, among others, Michael Bourn, Raul Ibanez, Nyger …
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