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If you're a fantasy geek, you'll hear it eventually: "you're not a real fan." You may get it from a buddy when you root for an arch rival's slugger -- because he's on your squad. Or maybe from the local radio host who hates all thing related to computers.

I pretty much summed up my feelings on how fantasy baseball warps your ability to enjoy major league baseball last year . Here's what I thought then:

I still root for the Dodgers and Angels (I'm an O.C. transplant), but not like I once did. I root for me, and "me" in this case is an amalgation of a twenty-five man roster cherry picked from all of Major League Baseball. Pundits across the land cry out in despair that "fantasy baseball has ruined fandom." Pishtosh, I say. What ruined fandom is greedy, selfish, dumb as mud players, and greedy, selfish, sneaky as all hell owners. Who is going to root for any of these franchises under these circumstances? Not me, and probably not you. At least, not like we used to before the cynicism of the modern era descended upon us.  read more »

Tags:
fantasy baseball players that are hot
· cold
· and who to add right now.

• Jeter has earned a monument at new Yankee Stadium.

Additionally, Supermodels around the world are collecting money (from their food allowance) to have Derek's dick bronzed and placed in the fashion district.

• From the Library of Congress here is Branch Rickey's scouting report on Don Drysdale. It is also a reminder about how much typewriters sucked.

• It could not be an complete football off-season without a Chris Henry arrest. Tuesday Pedro goes down, yesterday Chris Henry gets arrested, what next another Rocky film?  read more »

Move by Major League Baseball leaves roster up in the air

Jay Gibbons got a 10-day reprieve yesterday when Major League Baseball delayed his suspension, giving MLB and the Major League Baseball Players Association more time to reach an agreement on revisions to the sport's drug policy.

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Where can a serious fantasy player look for sleepers?  In the first of an indeterminately-lengthed series, I am going to look at specific situations on various teams to see if a reasonable determination of sleeper status can be discerned.  The first will be the New York Yankees firstbase situation.

At $21MM, one could assume Jason Giambi would be the natural leader for 1B.  Of course, one would be wrong.  With a similarly unsettled situation last season, Giambi did not get the twenty appearances at first to quailfy there for 2008 fantasy baseball drafts.  Don't expect anything different in 2008.

As a result of Giambi's inability to play 1B this year, the Yankees brought in two former Astros, OF Jason Lane and 3B Morgan Ensberg.  Both a right-handed hitters with on-base skills and HR power.  In this day and age when those two skills are so valuable, why are they cast-offs?  They can no longer do much beyond that.  Its' either a HR, a BB or an out with the equation tilted too heavily towards the third result.  read more »

Continuing on with the week that was and is . . .  read more »

Cognos, an IBM company, and the world leader in business intelligence and performance management solutions, today announced that the Major League Baseball Players Association (MLBPA), the collective bargaining representative for all active Major League Baseball players, has selected IBM Cognos TM1 Executive Viewer to help analyze data. (PRWeb Mar 28, 2008)
Read the full story at http://prweb.com/releases/cognos/baseball/prweb811914.htm

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