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March 24, 2008

Roast Beef League 2008

After a frightfully disappointing 2007 fantasy baseball experience (finishing third after losing in the playoffs due to a statistical tie), i'm back again for more grinding humiliation...this time in a 12-team, full player universe, head-to-head league.

"How did the draft go?" you're probably asking yourself...well, here's how Invisible Ham fared:

• Round 1 - Jose Reyes
• 2 - Brandon Phillips (really? Is that because "who?" rhymes with "round 2?")
• 3 - Victor Martinez
• 4 - Justin Verlander (Arg..."staff ace")
• 5 - Nick Markakis (Arg...outfield ace)
• 6 - Tim Lincecum (because Francisco Lllllliriannnno was snatched up...and hurt all last year...Lincecum was a great mid-season pickup last year, but I feel like he's a rough 6th-round pick this season)
• 7 - Adrian Gonzalez (I think I googled his name in the news during the draft and found some teen-marriage drama story)
• 8 - Alex Gordon (I feel happy about this. Grady Sizemore is too old.)
• 9 - Jason Bay
• 10 - Delmon Young

With 13 rounds remaining, I signed off (because, as with all online drafts, it was soooooo sloooow) and left the Yahoo-mind do the picking for me...so this is actually sort of news to me:

• Round 11 - Yovani Gallardo (I think he's on the DL)
• 12 - Manny Corpas (Awesome, my first closer is on the Rockies)
• 13 - Matt Capps (He's got hot-fries, right?)
• 14 - Josh Fields (I honestly don't know who he is...White Sox? Crooning adult-contemporary balladeer?)
• 15 - Adam Wainwright (I did some research, and I guess he's the Cardinal's ace...which maybe says more about the Cardinals than it does for my luck.)
• 16 - Eric Gagne (Wow. Possibly the worst pick ever. He's already chomping at the waiver-wire bit to be dropped.)
• 17 - Tom Gorzelanny (no idea, but with a name like that, he's got to be a five-tool breakout season waiting to happen)
• 18 - Jeff Kent (Albert Belle was NA, Otis Nixon was stolen a round prior)
• 19 - Evan Longoria (Even though he'll probably start in the minors, this I am pleased about this. Is he dating Tom Brady?)
• 20 - Jay Bruce (Comedian? So a baseball player walks into the late rounds..."Ouch!")
• 21 - Jason Giambi (Is Eric Gagne available?)
• 22 - J.R. Towles (The finest linen provider in the Metro-Akron Area)
• 23 - Jason Bartlett (If I recall, I eagerly picked him up two years ago as a "savvy sleeper pick" and he turned into a ".240 hitter" who spent much of the season "hurt.")
  

Clampants | March 24, 2008 12:40 PM