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W-A-M-C-O embarrasses The Commish and Glyndwyr wyns again.
Barfield leader is a Tool.
Wedding Singers sing "We Are The Champions" (this week).


ALOMAR DIVISION

New-to Alomar W-A-M-C-O punished would-be challenger Austin Senators 9-1-2 to vault into a three-way tie for first. Mebion Glyndwyr and Billie's Bashers maintained their grip on first for another week. The Thunderbirds had the fourth-best roto performance in Alomar history and jumped from last to ninth in just one week.

Rank
 TEAM W L T PCT GB
1 Mebion Glyndwr 17 6 1 .729 -
2 Billie's Bashers 16 5 3 .729 -
3 W-A-M-C-O 16 5 3 .729 -
4 gashouse gorillas 16 8 0 .667 1.5
5 the mighty midgets 15 8 1 .646 2.0
6 Schroedinger's Bat 15 9 0 .625 2.5
7 Chatsworth Halos 14 10 0 .583 3.5
8 Reykjavik Fish Candy 13 9 2 .583 3.5
9 Thunderbirds 12 11 1 .521 5.0
10 Edmonton Decepticons 12 12 0 .500 5.5
11 AGF 11 12 1 .479 6.0
12 Toronto Walrus 10 14 0 .417 7.5
13 Austin Senators 9 13 2 .417 7.5
14 Horse Field Hammers 9 14 1 .396 8.0
15 Slippery Pete 9 15 0 .375 8.5
16 Jays Ehs 8 15 1 .354 9.0
17 hannibals cannibals 8 16 0 .333 9.5
18 Homer Jays Simpsons 7 15 2 .333 9.5
19 Ghost Man on Third 7 16 1 .313 10.0
20 Eastern Shore Birds 6 17 1 .271 11.0

BARFIELD DIVISION

The 1-Tool Wonders took top honors for the week by defeating the Jicks Rays 10-2-0 and hopped over the Burlington Mazsters for first place. The 7-5 Gnomes and Bashers staged one of the weaker offensive battles in memory; 19 RBI, a .320 OBP and .386 slugging percentage were sufficient for a "W."

Rank
 TEAM W L T PCT GB
1 1-Tool Wonders 18 5 1 .771 -
2 Burlington Mazsters 17 7 0 .708 1.5
3 Dr. Z's Hot Men 16 7 1 .688 2.0
4 Bodell's Bashers 16 8 0 .667 2.5
5 Pohnpei Papayas 15 8 1 .646 3.0
6 Magic 9 15 9 0 .625 3.5
7 Moscow Rats 14 9 1 .604 4.0
8 Vancouver Cyphers 12 9 3 .563 5.0
9 Lubumbashi Posse 11 11 2 .500 6.5
10 Baseball North 11 12 1 .479 7.0
11 K-Town Mashers 11 13 0 .458 7.5
12 The Sweaty Guys 10 12 2 .458 7.5
13 Middleclass Elitists 10 13 1 .438 8.0
14 Angry Gnomes 10 14 0 .417 8.5
15 European Wannabe 10 14 0 .417 8.5
16 Cooney Islanders 9 15 0 .375 9.5
17 Jick's Rays 9 15 0 .375 9.5
18 team junior felix 9 15 0 .375 9.5
19 MulReduxMonkeymen 5 17 2 .250 12.5
20 Pistol Nine 4 19 1 .188 14.0

CARTER DIVISION

The Garth Iorg Gremlins drilled Adjustable Chuck 11-1-0 to compensate for last week's 3-9-0 mark. Chuck endured a terrible offensive week including a Carter-worst .256 OBP and bottom-five all-time tallies in runs and average. The Wedding Singers stand alone in first after mauling the Dangercats 7-3-2.

Rank TEAM W L T PCT GB
1 The Wedding Singers 18 4 2 .792 -
2 TheTremblingWilburys 16 7 1 .688 2.5
3 Sexy underpants 16 8 0 .667 3.0
4 Hammie's Rollies 15 7 2 .667 3.0
5 Big Game Hunters 14 9 1 .604 4.5
6 Garth Iorg Gremlins 14 10 0 .583 5.0
7 The Shining Force 14 10 0 .583 5.0
8 Blocked Youngsters 13 9 2 .583 5.0
9 Benji's Sister 13 10 1 .563 5.5
10 Brock Crackaz 12 12 0 .500 7.0
11 Chico's Bail Bonds 12 12 0 .500 7.0
12 Anarchist Archivists 11 12 1 .479 7.5
13 BSL Blue Sox 10 12 2 .458 8.0
14 @$$kickers 9 13 2 .417 9.0
15 dangercats 9 13 2 .417 9.0
16 Roseneath Rockets 8 16 0 .333 11.0
17 Scottish Dunces 8 16 0 .333 11.0
18 New Jersey Stratuses 7 15 2 .333 11.0
19 Team Balla 7 17 0 .292 12.0
20 Adjustable Chuck 5 19 0 .208 14.0

Notes

I encourage BBFLers to post their own impressions each week. You know your teams, matchups and interesting battles better than I do.

Roto stats coming soon, and perhaps better standing/stat displays.

Posted by Lucas on Monday, April 17 2006 @ 09:11 PM EDT.
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Skills - Monday, April 17 2006 @ 09:45 PM EDT (#145325) #

The New Jersey Stratuses were forced to deal with another disappointing week. After nearly coming out with 6 wins, they lost Wins and RBIs at the last moment at the hands of a  vulture Win by Gary Majewski and a Pujols by Albert Pujols. The Stratuses, who thus far have been carried by their pitching (C. Zambrano, Webb, Lackey, Blanton), hope that their pathetic hitters (Sweeney, J. Jones, Ellis, D. Young) can at least rise above the Mendoza line and avoid retirement/benching.

"The I can't belive you're actually this worthless, so I keep you in the lineup" award goes to Mike Sweeney, for being absolutely worthless. He has managed to get hit several times however.

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Joseph Krengel - Monday, April 17 2006 @ 11:11 PM EDT (#145333) #

You know, I expected to struggle a bit out of the gate, but this is ridiculous. My pitchers are crippled with injury/ineligibility, but my bats are where I am scratching my head. Veritek with a .353 SLG, Scott Hatteberg with an OPS of .660 (which is miles ahead of Brian Anderson, who has an OPS of .400). Felipe Lopez is my only player with a SLUGGING% over .430.

But I'm not panicking. I am however entertaining offers for Dave Navarro.

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Jacko - Tuesday, April 18 2006 @ 01:02 AM EDT (#145343) #
It will be an interesting Week 3 for the Euros and Cooney Islanders.

Pending league approval, we've just swapped Buerhle for Hafner.  And we're playing each other this week.

My second week was more or less sabotaged by Verlander's awful start and a near perfect pitching week by the Burlington Mazsters.  Also, they somehow managed to outscore me in runs 38-30, even though I killed them in the OPS categories to the tune of 251/345/471 vs. 195/284/372.  Weird week.

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Gitz - Tuesday, April 18 2006 @ 01:40 AM EDT (#145344) #
Obviously it was difficult to give up Hafner, especially in this kind of league, but he was in his walk year, I needed pitching, and my slugging percentages have been well over .600 each of the first two weeks, without Chad Tracy or Kevin Mench doing a darn thing.

This is a trade I would not have made if we used total strikeouts as opposed to K/BB ratio, incidentally. But as it is, this is as close to even up as you can get: an elite hitter for an elite pitcher. Kudos to us, Jacko!

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King Rat - Tuesday, April 18 2006 @ 05:55 AM EDT (#145348) #
Now that's more like it.

The Rats had a great week last week, beating the MonkeyMen 9-2. This week, it's the Rats and the Rays in a showdown of the Teams with Four-Letter Names Spelled R-A-(Something)-S. On to the Week 2 Awards!

This week's Delgado Award for excellence in hitting goes to recent signing Ty Wigginton, who scored five, drove in nine and hit .318/.400/.864. He narrowly beat out Justin Morneau and longtime Rat outfielder Frank Catalanotto.

The John McDonald Award for ineptitude at the dish goes to Juan Rivera, who hit .105/.150/.203 while scoring and driving in a run apiece. Last week's winner, Scott Podesednik, made another run at the award, as did last week's Delgado winner Omar Vizquel.

The Roy Halladay (2003 edition) Award for excellence in pitching is split this week to Brandon Webb and last week's winner, Jonathan Papelbon. Webb threw eight innings in a winning effort against Houston, giving up just one earned run while striking out three and walking none. His WHIP for the week was 0.88. Papelbon had three saves in three innings, giving up just one hit and no walks while striking out two.

The Roy Halladay (2000 edition) award for flammability on the mound goes this week to Chan Ho Park, who actually wasn't terrible, just mediocre, in a week the Rats collectively pitched very well in. He gave up four runs in five innings with a WHIP of 1.60 and a K/BB ratio of 5.00.

Bring on the Rays, and, as always, Beware the Rats

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MulRedux - Tuesday, April 18 2006 @ 07:58 AM EDT (#145350) #

Another drubbing this week as the Monkeymen are eaten alive by the Rats 2-9-1.

Positives included two stolen bases from Nick Johnson, a big day from waiver wire pick up Ryan Church and the continued resurgence of Hank Blalock. Wilson Betemit has also been a very capable fill in for the once great and current M*A*S*H regular Nomar Garciaparra. Tom Glavine some how managed to strike out 11 batters and Mike Maroth's irritated elbow led to seven strong innings and a win. Chad Orvella was also called up and can hopefully fortify a sketchy pitching staff. You know you're in trouble when you're counting down the days for BH Kim's return for the DL.

Ugliness was an 11.25 ERA from Gil Meche who I insist on picking up at least once if not twice a year. Matt Diaz proved useless and was dropped. Shea Hillenbrand is supposed to net my team 80 and 80 and has a lot of work to do to get there. Week one hero Jose Castillo didn't touch home plate once. JD Drew limped his way to a .333 slugging percentage and, finally, Mike Cameron and Aubrey Huff continue to irritate me by being injured.

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Pistol - Tuesday, April 18 2006 @ 08:16 AM EDT (#145352) #

My pitching was awful in the first week but otherwise my team has been decent.  And yet I'm comfortably in last place.  Last year I was one of the 'luckier' teams.  This year I suspect I'm going to be at the top of the unluckiest teams.

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Jonny German - Tuesday, April 18 2006 @ 09:04 AM EDT (#145354) #
The K-Town Sheltons recovered nicely from a first week whupping to post a 9 - 3 victory and find themselves in the middle of the pack.
 
MVH: It's Shelton's until he gets bored of it. His AVG and OBP cooled to a believable .375 / .375 last week, but his SLG remained stratospheric at .958. That should have netted him more than 4 runs and 7 RBI. Close on his heels was Austin Kearns at .360 / .360 / .800, 4 runs and 8 ribs.
 
LVH: Rondell White scored a run. That's right, a run. Nothing else to report. Buncha zeroes. Granted, he spent most of the week on the bench. I don't regret that.
 
MVP: Bargin Bin Brian Bannister! He's no Aaron Heilman, but he collected 2 wins in 12 innings with a 1.50 ERA and a 1.17 WHIP. Tim Worrell was dominant in collecting 3 saves as I once again overkilled that category 6 - 0.
 
LVP: Dan Miceli's 1 save was accompanied by a 12 ERA, 1.67 WHIP, 0.50 K/BB. With Benitez coming off the DL, any chance the Giants might be willing to send Worrell to Tampa Bay?
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3RunHomer - Tuesday, April 18 2006 @ 10:01 AM EDT (#145359) #
My Birds are getting crushed in the early Alomar season. Aramis Ramirez, Mighty Casey Kotchman and Bobby Crosby are swinging the bats like constipated ducks, and it's killing us. But I'm going to try something new for me and actually display some patience -- maybe we'll heat up with the weather.

PS - off to a great start in week 3 ... Nate Robertson and Jose Valverde have already ruined our pitching rate stats for the week. Thanks guys!



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Hamboy - Tuesday, April 18 2006 @ 10:22 AM EDT (#145360) #

In Carter division....

Hammie's Rollies were able to steal away 3 offensive category (no thanks to Mr. Bonds, who had .182/.438/.273 line with 0 runs and 1 rbi to boot), despite the roster hitting collective .180 and change in final day.  However, with amazing recovery in control by Lilly and 6.1 shut out innings by Hennessey, Rollies were able to steal 4 pitching category.  Despite spot starting, Rollies just could not catch up with Chico's Bail Bonds in innings pitched.

Can somebody please tell Xavier Nady to stop hitting?  I'm having hard enough time swallowing pre-season trade, in which I sent Nady away for DL-ing Riske. 

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Wedding Singer - Tuesday, April 18 2006 @ 11:20 AM EDT (#145363) #

I certainly can't complain about the Wedding Singers start in the Carter Division - but I fear that it may soon come crashing down. Yesterday, I had terrible outings from Robertson, Meche, Putz and Valverde, which has put me in a deep pitching hole this week. My offence has been carried by a red-hot Mike Barrett, Chavez, Helton and a great start for Hanley Ramirez. Shawn Green is absolutely killing me right now, after I acquired him in a preseason trade.

I'm always interested in dealing if anybody in Carter division is looking to shake things up a little......

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