Here it is Purple Rows first fantasy baseball league of the year. This is a Head to Head league, which is a different format than the ones that Jeff usually manages. The other settings to this league are really up to the community who decides to join. You can find the current settings here, but again all of this can be changed. This fan post is a place to discuss the details of the league.

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I felt like I should write something about this thanks for reading.

It was late Friday night and I was finishing watching the Rockies lose to the Phillies and I started thinking I haven’t done anything really stupid in a while. I had promised myself I WOULD make it to one of Ubaldo’s starts this season and it was beginning to look like I was running out of opportunities. Now my job is weird and unless I plan months ahead it’s tough to get a weekend off, but sometimes I randomly end up with a day off like last Saturday when Ubaldo was pitching. So of course I was thinking I have to drive to Philly. The problem is that I live in Cleveland and it’s about an eight hour drive to Philly, which would have been ok except I had to be at work at 8 am on Sunday. If I went through with this I would be driving to Philly just to watch the game and getting back to Cleveland at around 2:30am on Sunday. I posted the question should I go on the row as if I could expect to get reasonable advice from hard core Rockies fans who were probably thinking about driving in from Denver. Four hours later I was in a hotel room with a turquoise blue toilet and a bed shaped like an upside down rainbow somewhere on the Pennsylvania turnpike. I didn’t sleep well, but I was kept wide awake on the road by meditating on the brilliance of a 100mph fastball with movement. I got to the park five hours before the game started. At other parks that I have been to like Oakland or Kansas City that have stadiums surrounded by nothing except tailgating I have been good at getting invited by some random people to share a beer and some food. At Citizens Bank Park it is too hot to tailgate in July and they don’t allow it anyway so I was stuck is some crappy Irish bar with a bar tender whose underwear was sticking out of her very short shorts and a blue moon. I was still incredibly excited; this was my first Rockies game in over a year. I go to a lot of other baseball games almost like its routine sometimes, but there is something incredibly special for me about being at a Rockies game. I got butterflies in my stomach as I watched a few Rockies players play catch before the game similar to the ones I had when I went to my first game at Mile High. There actually were rumors flying around the stands, “I don’t think we can win today this guy is 15-1 and unhittable.” I was smiling and completely unprepared for what was about to happen.

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I know Jabberwocky or Jeff does a league every year, but I'm impatient. I started a league for those of you who want to do a fantasy league this year just for fun on yahoo. here is the link to the specifics of the league but everything can be changed so if your interested just leave your email and I will invite you. Hopefully it will be a lot of fun and really I'm just typing this to fill the words long commitment

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