Tuesday, March 30, 2004

First, notes on two other people's weblogs.
If as has been rumored, the Nielsen family is one of New York's traditional 'five families', Mike is a lot trouble.

Joe found googlism again, and while I didn't it interesting the first time, because asking it "who is Dwight Kidder?" doesn't produce a meaningful result, I forgot to try "Who is DEK?" which will produce much more interesting results, because 'dek' appears to be an actual term in some languages. Look for yourself. However, the one that demanded I look it up, just to make sure you folks aren't writing me into some bizarre form of quiz bowl death porn, was the phrase "dek is stored naked and packetless", I'm so glad to see that's actually something to do with Pretty Good Privacy, though that's obviously not pretty good enough. Don't even think about it. DON'T!

Now then.

It's suck league time again. Those of you who don't know the rules, think of it as combining fantasy baseball, with lowball poker. The goal is to put a lineup out that is as bad as possible, and doing as many bad things as possible. But of course if your players get benched, injured, or sent to the minors, they can't score for you, so it's a constant game of how far they can fall before they blow out.
I still have 2 Free Agents to sign in Waivermania, but this is pretty much what I'll be going with. I lost the exact order due to sorting, but this is roughly it.

Your 2004 Pittsburgh Sparrows (It is, without a doubt, the worst team you've ever heard of. But you have heard of it.)

Cesar Izturis SS LA
Cory Lidle P CIN
Luis Rivas 2B MIN
Jimmy Haynes P CIN
Michael Tucker OF SF
Tino Martinez 1B TB
Dan Wilson C SEA
David Bell 3B PHI
Kenny Lofton OF NYY
Jack Wilson SS PIT
Darren Oliver P FLA
Tony Womack 2B STL
Wes Obermueller P MIL
Juan Rivera OF MON
Juan Encarnacion OF LA
Danny Haren P STL
Steve Trachsel P NYM
Victor Martinez C CLE
Chan Ho Park P TEX
Chris Carpenter P STL
Shingo Takatsu RP CHW
Jose Lima P LA
Rob Mackowiak 3B PIT
Reed Johnson OF TOR
Marlon Byrd OF PHI

Only real interesting bits of this were that I really wanted to get shortstops this year, as I almost want to say that overall bad shortstops are less plentiful than bad second basemen. Then I got a bounty of them. I'm still a little amazed I was able to grab Capt. Jack Sparrow Wilson and Womack in the 10+ rounds. I really lucked out in getting getting David Bell, who I figure might be them millstone around the Phils. I know I'm really weak in OF, in that I really don't have an absolute sink out there, unless Lofton completely bombs out, and then he'll just get replaced. I also may have gone overboard with starting pitching, but I sort of figure either Lima or Carpenter will get shuffled back to the pen.

So the opening lineup would be:
C: C. Wilson
1B: T. Martinez
2B: Rivas
SS: Izturis
MI: J. Wilson
3B: Bell
OF: Tucker, Lofton, Rivera, Encarnacion (Mackowiak goes here, once he gets certified at OF, which is likely to happen in April due to injuries to Jason Bay.)
UT: Mackowiak, Womack, V. Martinez
SP: Lidle, Haynes, Oliver
RP: Takatsu, Lima?, Carpenter?
P: Park, Haren, Obermueller (Rule number 1 of suck league, use as many starters as you can, because you'll never hit the the innings limits.)

Hmm... I'm strong(weak) on starting pitching, strong up the middle, strong at 3rd, and hoping for a Tino collapse at 1st. Beyond that, I still need relievers, and I still don't know if I can easily put the best outfield out there.

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