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Ball on a Budget Fantasy Baseball Week 2

Roc — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 18:54:04 -0000

1. Strapping Young Lads (Sveet)        13-6-1
2. Sacrifice Blunts (bejaman)              12-6-2
3. Trailer Trash                                       12-7-1
4. Tropicana Thunder                            11-7-2
5. The Sarasota Q's (SRQman)           9-10-1
6. Liquid Swords (Joshua Downie)     8-10-2
7. The Miffed Nuts                                   8-11-1
8. Schwings (Roc)              8-11-1
9. Exxtremmes               7-10-3
10. Spare Change            8-11-1
11. PelicansInPinstripes (B Ray)      8-11-1
12. twenty5psi               8-12-0

Week 3 Schedule:

Schwings 0 Match
Up

The Miffed Nuts 0
PelicansInPinstripes 0 Match
Up

The Sarasota Q's 0
Exxtremmes 0 Match
Up

Spare Change 0
twenty5psi 0 Match
Up

Strapping Young Lads 0
Sacrifice Blunts 0 Match
Up

Tropicana Thunder 0
Liquid Swords 0 Match
Up

Trailer Trash 0

Week 2 results:

Ball on a Budget Fantasy Baseball (Formerly Known as the DRaysBay B-League) Week 1 Results

Roc — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 06:24:43 -0000


1.	Strapping Young Lads (Sveet)	8-2-0
2.	PelicansInPinstripes (B Ray)	7-3-0
3.	Sacrifice Blunts (bejaman)	6-4-0
4.	Liquid Swords (Joshua Downie)	6-4-0
5.	Tropicana Thunder	5-3-2
6.	The Sarasota Q's (SRQman)	5-5-0
7.	Spare Change	5-5-0
8.	twenty5psi (twenty5psi)	4-6-0
9.	Exxtremmes	3-5-2
10.	Trailer Trash	4-6-0
11.	Schwings (Roc)	3-7-0
12.	The Miffed Nuts	2-8-0

Keeping with the tradition of copying the other league, im gonna start posting the rankings and other notes every week.

Sorry I'm a couple days late. I changed the name of the league so that there wouldn't be any confusion between the two leagues.

Week 1 High Score:
Strapping Young Lads 8-2

Week 2 Matchups:

Schwings vs
The Sarasota Q's

PelicansInPinstripes vs
Trailer Trash

The Miffed Nuts vs
Spare Change

Exxtremmes vs
Strapping Young Lads

twenty5psi vs
Tropicana Thunder

Sacrifice Blunts vs
Liquid Swords

ESPN is reporting Cutler to Bears

Roc — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 21:42:45 -0000

ESPN is reporting Cutler to Bears

Broncos get 2 first round picks and Kyle Orton
Bears get Cutler and a third round pick

DRaysBay Fantasy League 2

Roc — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 04:21:24 -0000

DRaysBay Fantasy League 2

Everyone can play! Rules are currently generic, but will definitely be changed according to everyones preferences.
Draft tentatively scheduled for Sunday March 8th at 8:30pm.

League ID: 118271
Password: boss

Jagodzinski Hired as Offensive Coordinator

Roc — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 20:32:48 -0000

From ESPN.com

Former Boston College head coach Jeff Jagodzinski, fired for interviewing with the New York Jets, has landed an NFL job with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

The Buccaneers named Jagodzinski their offensive coordinator on Thursday.

This is a key hire for new Bucs head coach Raheem Morris, who is only 32 and has a history on the defensive side of the ball. Jagodzinski was instrumental in the development of Matt Ryan at Boston College and has previous NFL experience.

Before becoming the head coach at Boston College, Jagodzinski was the offensive coordinator for the Green Bay Packers in 2006. He coached an offense that featured quarterback Brett Favre, 1,000-yard rusher Ahman Green and 1,000-yard receiver Donald Driver.

Boston College was 21-7 in his two years at the helm.

Information from ESPN.com's Pat Yasinskas was used in this report.

How does everyone feel about this hire?

Pat Yasinskas is Confused

Roc — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 00:19:57 -0000

A recent article by Pat on ESPN:

"Tip to Gruden and general manager Bruce Allen: You messed up in one huge way this season. If you were going to enter the Brett Favre sweepstakes (and we know you did), you HAD to get him. You didn't and it ruined Garcia and, ultimately, your season. Decide early on if Donovan McNabb or Matt Cassel is your flavor of the month. Then go out and make certain you get him."

This is just another example of ESPN milking the ratings machine that is Brett Favre.

-Favre, coming into this season, was a great quarterback that would put fans in the seats. The front office noticed this and went after him. Sure, Garcia had a great season last year, and it is unfair that he did not get the praise he deserved, but the NFL is a business. In my job my boss should always be on the lookout for better and more efficient workers that could replace me, and it is my job to prove to them that I can be successful. If Garcia was "ruined" because he felt unloved, it is his fault for not being mentally tough enough by not getting over it.

-Garcia is mentally tough. He rose all the way up from the Canadian Football League. He managed to become a pro bowler after having two horrendous seasons in the wastelands that are Detroit and Cleveland. And most impressively of all, he had to deal with and eventually won a playoff game with TO.

-Unbelievably, Pat blames the Favre dilemma as the reason this season ended in a historically bad fashion. There are many, many reasons why we lost four straight games: coaching, run defense, forgetting how to tackle just to name a few. But Allen and Gruden trying to sign a hall-of-fame qb is obviously not the reason we are counting down the days until the Rays start playing a little earlier than expected.

MLB Network to launch on new year's day

Roc — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 23:56:30 -0000

MLB Network to launch on new year's day

Starting at 6pm. Channel 159 (744 HD) on bright house.

It's Kinda Like Picking Up an Extremely Hot Chick and Then Finding Out She Used to Be a Dude... the Morning After

Roc — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 15:01:53 -0000

A couple days ago I got an email. Not just any email, but one that promised to bring happiness, joy, and dancing fiddle cats.... I won the ALCS ticket lottery!!!
So today i woke up at 8am, skipped class, and patiently waited until 9am for the opportunity to buy tickets. 8:56am rolls around and i double check my internet connection, battery life, and index finger flexibility (for ultimate mouse-clicking ability). 9 o'clock rolls around, i insert my password and click search. Nothing is available in the upperdeck. 9:05am and i searched best available for two tickets for both games 1 and 2. After that failed, i even tried splitting my request. Still nothing.
Rather dissapointed, i called the trop and asked to speak with a manager of ticket sales in order to find out if there was a glitch or something. He informed me that both games were sold out.
Im sure this has happened to other people. I think the number of people that won the lottery and the number of actual seats available was at a very unfavorable ratio. The manager wouldnt give me an exact number, basically because "he didnt want to give me an answer that wasnt true". I dont know, this whole thing seems shady.

So i think the point of this post was:
a) it made me feel better
b) the hope that one of you will feel sorry for me and sell me tickets.
c) the hope that one of you will feel sorry for me and give me tickets.

tickets?

Roc — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 16:11:18 -0000

tickets?

Anyone have tickets at or around face value? thanks!!!! GO RAYS

Im Coming Out

Roc — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 16:46:51 -0000

The Rays fan base has seen a rather large jump this season. Higher attendance, better TV ratings, and merchandise sales are all evidence of this. Tampa Bay has become proud and excited about this team. All of this has led to national media, opposing team’s fans, and even lifelong Rays fans cry out about bandwagoners.

A bandwagon (band′wag′ən) fan is one that has been loosely defined throughout history by one or more of the following criteria: a) One who has no ethical, moral, or valuable reason to be alive. b) A human which had severe daddy issues as a child, is unable to make friends, and therefore follows a herding mentality that always shadows a winning team. And finally c) One who has direct ties and contributes to animal cruelty, starving children in Africa, and "premarital sex is evil" propaganda.

These are the people who never went to a game before this year. The ones who would point and laugh when you walked into a bar with your green and blue rays t-shirt. These supposed "fans" were the ones so apathetic about this team just last year that they wouldn't have even noticed if the Rays packed up and moved to Las Vegas.

Hi. My name is Dino and I am a bandwagon fan.

In my opinion, there are two types of bandwagon fans. The first are those who will stop cheering for the Rays whenever they return to mediocrity and/or fall from the national spotlight. The second type are those that previously just didn't care about baseball and/or the Rays and have fallen in love with this team. I’m sure many of you would agree that regardless of how fans become fans more is always better. Sure, we may not know much about previous Devil Ray's (besides that they mostly sucked), and we probably don’t even understand 25% of what is going on during a game. Still, a season like this can turn an average sports fan that appreciates success into a diehard Ray’s supporter for years to come.