As the season comes to its quarter post, I was looking at ESPN’s Fantasy Baseball Player Rater, a tool which uses some undefined algorithm to compare all players – hitters and pitchers – together to determine overall fantasy value based on a 5X5 roto scoring system. Whether you agree with specific positions or not, let’s [...]
I heard Cream’s “Crossroads” the other day, and was blown away all over again by the vitality of their performance. So I started thinking about the live recordings I still get a thrill from every time I hear them. Crossroads – Cream: Recorded live at Winterland in San Francisco in 1968 for the Wheels of [...]
My current Gotham WebHounds team is as competitive a roto team as I’ve had in my eight seasons in the Greater Eastside Rotisserie Baseball League (GERBL), with my offense performing particularly well. Pitching has been tough up to this point though, as my ace, Dan Haren, has suffered from playing for a Diamondbacks team that [...]
We’re a month into the 2010 baseball season, and the Yankees are looking fairly solid. The team is sitting in second place in the AL East, behind the insanely hot Tampa Bay Rays, and all the signs are looking positive. Robinson Cano is the primary story so far. He’s really taken the next step towards [...]
