BBFL: Where Do 600-Pound Gorillas Sit?

Monday, May 19 2003 @ 09:18 AM EDT

Contributed by: Coach

On top of the standings by eight games, after a 10-2 chest-thumping of Red Mosquitos. To maintain hope, the rest of us should compare Snellville's Gashouse Gorillas to the New York Yankees -- you know, the former 18-3 "greatest team ever" that has since come back to the AL pack at a 9-13 clip. For now, the Jones boys are cruising along at 34 games over .500 and a .702 win percentage, and they play the 19th-place team this week.

Billie's Bashers, in second place after a 10-1 victory over the slumping Garces_not_on_roids, could play the Red Sox role. Springfield Isotopes and Baird Brain, currently third and fourth, can be Oakland or Seattle. My Toronto Walrus team, back to fifth after getting clobbered 9-3 by the Chatsworth Halos last week, is starting to look a little like the K.C. Royals.

Unlike the majors, just passing the 1/4 mark of their campaign, Yahoo head-to-head leagues are nearly 1/3 finished the regular season. Remember, our tournament starts after August. The big league games in September will decide our champion, and anyone who finishes in the top six after 22 weeks could win the coveted T-shirt. Here's where we stand after seven HtH matchups:

 #  Team                    W-L-T    Win %  GB 
1 gashouse gorillas 58-24-2 .702 -
2 Billies Bashers 48-30-6 .607 8
3 Springfield Isotopes 47-32-5 .589 9.5
4 Baird Brain 46-32-6 .583 10
5 Toronto Walrus 44-35-5 .554 12.5
6 AGF 44-36-4 .548 13
7 Hannibals Cannibals 42-37-5 .530 14.5
8 Sub-Urban Shockers 41-37-6 .524 15
9 Mebion Glyndwr 43-40-1 .518 15.5
10 Nation Builders 41-40-3 .506 16.5
11 Reykjavik Fish Candy 39-42-3 .482 18.5
12 Moscow Rats 37-41-6 .476 19
13 Chatsworth Halos 38-43-3 .470 19.5
14 Eastern Shore Birds 39-44-1 .470 19.5
15 Red Mosquitos 36-43-5 .458 20.5
16 Jicks Rays 35-44-5 .446 21.5
17 K-Town Mashers 37-47-0 .440 22
18 Geoffs Grumpy Group 34-47-3 .423 23.5
19 Garces_not_on_roids 27-54-3 .339 30.5
20 Thunderbirds 26-54-4 .333 31
I'm accepting that the loss of Tony Armas, who was off to a great start, will be hard to overcome. Not that I'm desperate, but I took a chance with Dontrelle Willis, a very exciting prospect rushed to the Show about two years too soon by an organization known for ruining young pitchers. I will also trade Cliff Politte (who really needs a nickname) for a good starter, or Billy Wagner for a very good one.

Last week, I sent Jay Gibbons to Mebion Glyndwr for an upgrade at SS (Cabrera over the Marlins' Gonzalez) and a setup man (Stewart) with a good K rate. I tried to get a starter for Gibbons, but Gwyn held out for Aubrey Huff, one of my few productive hitters. In the other recent deal, Chatsworth moved Richard Hidalgo and Gil Meche to Jordan's Sub-Urban Shockers for Bartolo Colon and Carlos Pena. A Beane-like move, Gideon -- Pena was a Shocker for less time than he was with Oakland.

I'm grateful that Mussina will make just one start for the Isotopes this week, and still waiting for the aliens to replace this impostor with the real Jason Giambi.

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