BBFL Week 3: Is the Walrus For Real?

Monday, April 26 2004 @ 09:52 AM EDT

Contributed by: Coach

Three teams are bunched within a game of first place in the Alomar division. My own Toronto Walrus, by virtue of a hard-fought 7-4 decision over the Springfield Isotopes, holds down top spot for another week; we're content to be playing .722 ball so far. AGF made up a lot of ground with a 9-1 thumping of Baird Brain, and the Horse Field Hammers continued their great start. Last year's cellar-dwellers defeated Garces_not_on_roids 7-5; Geoff has a lot more support for Barry Bonds in his lineup that the Giants do. Big move of the week was the Eastern Shore Birds, who swatted Red Mosquitos 10-1 to vault into a sixth-place tie.

The Alomar standings:

  #  Team                     W-L-T     PCT   GB
  1  Toronto Walrus          25-9-2    .722   -   
  2  AGF                     23-9-4    .694   1  
  3  Horse Field Hammers     25-11-0   .694   1 
  4  Chatsworth Halos        23-13-0   .639   3 
  5  hannibal's cannibals    22-12-2   .639   3 
  6  Eastern Shore Birds     21-14-1   .597   4.5   
  7  gashouse gorillas       21-14-1   .597   4.5 
  8  Billie's Bashers        20-15-1   .569   5.5   
  9  Baird Brain             19-15-2   .556   6  
 10  K-Town Mashers          16-17-3   .486   8.5 
 11  Thunderbirds            16-17-3   .486   8.5  
 12  Mebion Glyndwr          17-19-0   .472   9 
 13  Springfield Isotopes    15-19-2   .444   10  
 14  Red Mosquitos           15-20-1   .431   10.5 
 15  Moscow Rats             14-20-2   .417   11 
 16  Austin Senators         12-19-5   .403   11.5 
 17  SABR Magicians          12-23-1   .347   13.5 
 18  Reykjavik Fish Candy    11-23-2   .333   14 
 19  Garces_not_on_roids      9-27-0   .250   17 
 20  Jick's Rays              8-28-0   .222   18

That was quite a battle this week; Mike H. had a stellar 72.2-7-1-2.72-1.17-2.67 pitching line, but somehow I managed to win three of those categories (IP, SV and K/BB) which made the difference in the match. I want to thank my MVP, the Carlos Delgado we all know and love, for his .478 .536 .783 effort. About time, big guy. With Jim Thome (.278 .480 .778) and Raffy Palmeiro (.450 .538 .700) also mashing, this was the first week I was completely happy with my corner-the-1B-market strategy. Considering I just cut Chad Fox to make way for Torii Hunter coming off the DL, it's obvious who my LVP was, although Offerman's job is now hanging by a thread. As always, I'm open to trade offers. A similarly talented SP, SS or OF might get you one of my 1B.

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