SB Nation User Blog: grudz96

ARE YOU READY FOR SOME FOOTBALL???

grudz96 — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 16:39:53 -0000

The All Star break is here and the baseball season is just past the halfway point and still there is a lot of summer yet to go. I was hoping that at this point the Royals would be five games in front of the Central Division. I am doubtful that is going to happen. With a big sigh, I will again wait for next year. Yahoo has the fantasy leagues ready to go and I have a break between all the grand kids softball, soccer, AAU basketball, and swimming competitions to get this done. Lets get this party started.

Last season we discussed a keeper league so I have created one with all the same settings as we had last year. I have it set up with 10 teams. If there is enough interest it can be expanded. The draft will not be until August 15th so we have some time to discuss any changes we might want to make. The league's name is: RRFBKLYR1.

I have also created a totally fun league with no commitments and I hopefully a high level of entertainment. This will have an auto draft on August 16th. I have set it up as a 10 team league but that too can be expanded. All you have to do is sign up and rank your players and you are done until the season starts. Simple, right? The name of the fun league is: RR's PowderBlue League

Here is the Keeper League's sign up info:

League ID#: 203524
Password: blue

Here is the Fun League's info:

League ID#: 203610
Password: blue

Good Luck and if you have questions just drop me an email. Grudz...

Two down and four to go!!!!

grudz96 — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 15:22:19 -0000

The Royal Review Fantasy Baseball Keeper League has completed the first two months of it's inaugural season. With all the discussion before the draft about the new teams having an unfair advantage and that the real life draft order would weaken the league's winning teams, the standings prove all of that wrong. Leading the way is the maniacal Marbot Crush returning from his 7th place finish of last season. Focs is 5.5 games back in second place (first pick in the draft.) Mr Daddy is in 3rd followed by NYRoyal and his revolving door team in 4th. They are 7 and 7.5 games back of the Crush. One new team in the top 4 does seem to validate the draft type and order. From 5th to 20th only 11 games seperate the teams in the win column. So, I think it is safe to say that we have parity in this league. Now if someone could crush that MC Hammer team we could all breathe a little easier. I hope all the managers are enjoying the league and will stay active throughout the remainder of the season. Suggestions for next season would be to expand the rosters to 25 players so a team could pick up rookies before the come up to the bigs. Also, we may put a cap on the number of moves a team could make in a season. If you have any other ideas just let me know. Good luck ... and remember for summer fun...Crush the Crush....

RR Keeper League YR2

Rank	Team	W-L-T	Pct	GB	Last Week	Waiver	Moves
1.	Marbot Crush!	63-29-4	.677	-	9-3-0	3	12
2.	Focs	58-35-3	.620	5.5	5-7-0	15	22
3.	thats Mr. Daddy to u	57-37-2	.604	7	9-3-0	19	21
4.	NYRoyal	55-36-5	.599	7.5	7-5-0	20	77
5.	Rock Chalk Baby	47-42-7	.526	14.5	9-2-1	16	13
6.	Gordo's Cowboys	48-43-5	.526	14.5	4-7-1	6	14
7.	RaefzillaHamFighters	46-45-5	.505	16.5	7-4-1	1	21
8.	JasonM	46-46-4	.500	17	8-2-2	12	21
9.	TrumanRoyal	45-47-4	.490	18	2-10-0	13	15
10.	the dudethangers	45-49-2	.479	19	2-9-1	2	25
11.	Grudz96er's	44-49-3	.474	19.5	10-2-0	17	42
12.	Sisquatch Kids	43-48-5	.474	19.5	9-2-1	5	6
13.	L2R Jalapeña Hottiez	41-49-6	.458	21	3-9-0	4	-
14.	RR's Huberites	40-49-7	.453	21.5	6-5-1	7	31
15.	Stuckinstl12	42-51-3	.453	21.5	2-9-1	14	10
16.	Randa's Rampage	41-51-4	.448	22	5-5-2	11	11
17.	JQ's Sluggers	38-48-10	.448	22	2-8-2	18	12
18.	GoBabies!!	42-52-2	.448	22	3-9-0	10	8
19.	AxDxMx's RoyalLosers	39-53-4	.427	24	5-5-2	9	20
20.	Matty486	36-57-3	.391	27.5	5-6-1	8	22

REMINDER: RRKL YR2 draft is this Saturday.

grudz96 — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 20:50:57 -0000

This is a reminder to all the managers that the RRKL YR2 draft is Saturday, March 21st at 8 pm CT. You should be at the draft no later that 10 minutes prior to the start time. If there is any chance you may not be able to be online during the draft please prerank your players. The keepers are listed below by team. You will have to do your own draftsheet as Yahoo doesn't handle that yet. I will be there to disqualify any picks of players that our on the above keeper list. The first six rounds will consist of the new managers making their first six picks and then each original manager's keepers will be listed in the last part of the first six rounds of the draft. On the seventh round everyone will start to draft the remaining free agents. This is how the yahoo keeper system works. I have locked down the teams so nothing will be able to be changed until the draft concludes.

I have my fingers crossed that the draft will go well and that the season will be fun and entertaining for everyone. Good luck and Go Royals...

RR Keeper League Draft Order for 2009
Draft Date: March 21, 2009
Draft Time: 8:00 pm. CTUSA

1. astroph2004
2. TrumanRoyal
3. rockchalk
4. GoBabies
5. AxDxMx
6.   Matty486 119-149-40
7.   RR's Fun Bunch 126-154-28
8.   gordonrules 119-145-44
9.   Daddy de los Royales 129-153-26
10. Grudz's Bar & Grill 126-152-30
11. Sisquatch Kids 137-127-44
12. Loyal2s Gobstoppers 134-142-32
13. JQ's Sluggers 126-147-35
14. Marbot Destroy! 142-137-29
15. Hoch 146-133-29
16. Randa4Life 144-132-32
17. stuckinstl12 161-122-25
18. thedude925=awesome 150-118-40
19. NYRoyal 155-117-36
20. RaefzillaHamFighters 175-109-24

KEEPER'S 2009:

Grudz’s :

1. Dustin Pedroia (Bos – 2B)
2. Alexei Ramirez (CWS – 2B,SS,OF)
3. Jermaine Dye (CWS – OF)
4. Joe Nathan (Min – RP)
5. Jensen Lewis (Cle – RP)
6. Jake Peavy (SD – SP)

Matty486 Keepers

Joe Soria KC P
Pete Fielder MIL 1B
George Sizemore CLE OF
Frank Carmona CLE P
Alexis Gordon KC 3B
William Butler KC 1B

RoyalsReview

1) Lance Berkman
2) Josh Beckett
3) John Lackey
4) Jeremy Bonderman
5) Hanley Ramirez
6) Derek Lee

Gordon Rules

Ethier (LAD-OF)
Longoria (TB-3rd)
Nolasco (FLA-SP)
Chamberlain(NYY-SP)
Arrendondo (LAA-RP)
Ellsbury (BOS-OF)

RoyalDaddy

Geovany Soto- C
Jose Reyes- SS
Mark Teixeira- 1B
Jon Lester- SP
Cliff Lee- SP
Fransisco Rodriguez- RP

Sisquatch Kids

1. Miguel Cabrera (DET)
2. Josh Hamilton (TEX)
3. Shane Victorino (PhI)
4. Adrian Gonzalez (SD)
5. Dice-K (Bos)
6. Ryan Dempster (CHI)

Loyal2

1) Santana
2) Mauer
3) Youkilis
4) Uggla
5) C. Perez
6) Masterson

JQ..aka.. Jim Quinn

David Ortiz DH (Boston)
Jason Bay OF (Boston)
Roy Oswalt SP (Houston)
Adam Dunn DH (Kansas City)
B.J. Ryan RP (Toronto)
Troy Tulowitzki SS (KC West)

Marbotty

1. BJ Upton
2. Braun
3. St. Drew
4. Greinke
5. Harden
6. Papelbon

Hoch

Alex Rodriguez NYY-3B
Tim Lincecum SFG-SP
Ian Kinsler TEX-2B
Carlos Lee HOU-OF
Mike Aviles KC-2B,SS
Carl Crawford TAM-OF

Randa4life

1. Jimmy Rollins- Phi – SS
2.Vlad – LAA – OF
3.Man Ram – LAD OF
4.Brian McCann Atl C
5.Ben Sheets – Mil – SP
6.Brad Lidge – Phi – RP

StuckinStl Keeper

Brandon Webb—ARI—P
Mariano Rivera—NYY—RP
Carlos Pena—TB—1B
Chase Utley—PHI—2B
Alfonso Soriano—CHC—OF
J.D. Drew—BOS—OF

thedude925

Chad Billingsley
Albert Pujols
Carlos Quentin
Felix Hernandez
Brian Roberts
Carlos Beltran

New York Royal

Matt Cain SF – SP
Edinson Volquez CIN – SP
Matt Holliday OAK – OF
Justin Morneau MIN – 1B
Ichiro Suzuki SEA – OF
Garrett Atkins COL – 1B, 3B

(Winner and Still Champion RaefzillaHamFighters)

David Wright (NYM – 3B)
C.C. Sabathia (MIL – SP)
Roy Halladay (TOR – SP)
Francisco Liriano (MIN – SP)
Scott Kazmir (TB – SP)
Matt Kemp (LAD – OF)

UNI Baseball

grudz96 — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 23:52:24 -0000

The team and their supporters are giving it the old college try to raise $1,200,000.00 before April 12th, 2009. They have created a website to take pledges towards this total. http://supportunibaseball.com/ If you have a few spare coins rolling around in your pocket and want to help them out go online and make a pledge. Keep college baseball alive... if we could lose baseball at UNI we could lose it anywhere.

Overload 4th thread.....

grudz96 — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 22:05:26 -0000

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It's time....boys and girl... Year 2 of the RRKL

grudz96 — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 17:48:09 -0000

I have got the league up and running on Yahoo as of today. The following teams and managers need to register their team names in the league before Feb. 21st. (New managers remember to use your RR name in your team name) I will send all teams listed below an email with the sign up information regarding the league.

RR Keeper League Draft Order for 2009
Draft Date: March 21, 2009
Draft Time: 8:00 pm. CTUSA

Yahoo has made life a little simpler with some new bells and whistles regarding Keeper leagues. Once you have registered your team I will list your keepers and the draft order.

In defense of Gordon...

grudz96 — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 18:59:31 -0000

Even though it was far below zero, I decided to go down to Des Moines and see the Royals Caravan when it was at the West Des Moines HyVee. It was cold as hell out but that didn't stop some diehard Royals fans from coming out to see the players. It was not a big turnout and I thought it would be canceled. For some unknown reason HyVee stuck the Royal's table up front of the store by the doors so everytime they opened the Royals got a blast of Iowa winter in their faces. I was in line about 20 minutes and got Gordon's signature and even got to talk to him for a litte while. He was pleasant enough and we talked about Nebraska and the College World Series. He said he felt better about this year's team but said that the division improved and would be tougher this year. After that I went into the cafe for coffee. When I came out Gordon was laughing and joking with three boys about 9 or 10 years old and their dad. He signed each kids poster, their hats, and the one kid's Gordon jersey. About 30 minutes later they packed up and headed south.

From what I saw if he were going to be the usual jock asshole that would have been the perfect time to do it. Anyone who travels in weather like that and gets blasted by the cold for several hours to sign a few autographs is okay in my book.

Okla. St. versus Iowa State...

grudz96 — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 03:36:07 -0000

If the post players play like the have the three games we don't have a chance. No matter how many threes that Lacy and Ezell rain in if we can't start to control the boards it is going to be a long season. Wieben and Anderson seemed to have digressed from last year. Both seem to be going through the motions. With Ross still a little gimpy that leaves Nisleit and she hasn't played a good game yet either. I had very high hopes for this team with all the veterans coming back but if they don't improve the lackluster play in the paint we are going to see a lot of carnage in the conference. I hope Coach Bill can kick some butt and move this team along. Go Clones...

OT: What did you get for Christmas?

grudz96 — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 19:37:56 -0000

Did Santa come through for you this Christmas? Did that special someone in your life deliver with presents? Or, did you end up with a tie, sweater, or socks?

Santa (me) splurged this Christmas and replaced my computer, stove, and refridgerator. They said consumers should spend and I took advantage of some very good sale prices. My kids and grandkids surprised me with upgrades to my newly purchased computer. I now have an huge flat screen monitor to save my aging eyes and the maximum memory to let me make mistakes at warped speed. Oh, and I now have a turtle compliments of my 6 year old grandson. We named him Buddy, because he eats things one at a time just like his namesake Mr. Bell. I think there is a strong family resemblance.

RR Keeper League Yr2

grudz96 — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 19:53:23 -0000

Now that the holidays are safely behind me and I can start to concentrate solely on baseball season. Only 68 days until the pitchers and catchers report... It is a late start this year because of the WBC. I know that all of you in the Keeper League are on pins and needles for the order of our March 21st draft. Here it is:

RR Keeper League Draft Order for 2009
Draft Date: March 21, 2009
Draft Time: 8:00 pm. CTUSA

Remember to include part of your RR screen name in the name of your team. This makes it easier to hassle anyone who isn't keeping up with their managing duties and to construct voodoo dolls for the leaders. The Royal rule does not apply to this league. Since this is a big league with large rosters, I would suggest a little bit of homework be done before the 21st.

I will post the Yahoo league ID and password as soon as the Yahoo Baseball season starts. Good luck to all in the upcoming draft and season.