JUST RELAX! June 19, 2008

The fantasy baseball season, like the real one, is hitting it’s traditional midpoint. And frankly, it hasn’t been very pretty for my two teams. We’ve been up and down. At some points way down. Right now they’re both doing better, but both still have more wins than losses. But it’s okay. I have some great [...]

Glutton For Punishment May 28, 2008

So what’s a guy to do when he can barely juggle all the demands on his time already?….take on a second fantasy baseball team of course. Seriously managing just one team requires 2-3 hours per week at a minimum.
Here’s how it happened. A photographer named Nate at WFSB needed a 12th team for a “Head [...]

A SOLID DRAFT? March 21, 2008

Every year, we think we do well in our draft, but by the end of the season, usually fewer than half are still with our team!In the league we’ve been in the past 19 or so years, we get to keep a majority of our players during the off season … and hold a “supplemental [...]

FINALLY! February 14, 2008

The Super Bowl is over. The ground remains ice encrusted. But Spring is here! At least, in our minds. At least, for baseball fans.
Pitchers & Catchers are reporting to Spring Training. Time to put this Clemens stuff into the background and concentrate on what’s really important: The 2008 MLB season! Not to make light of [...]

The Besthoff Report December 20, 2007

It’s a chapter of baseball history many of us want to forget, for many different reasons. As a member of the news media, for being asleep at the switch, or just turning a blind eye, as a fan, for doing the same thing…and as a fantasy baseball manager, for reaping all the benefits of the [...]

Torre Tug-O-War October 12, 2007

Even though baseball’s playoffs are still in full swing, us fantasy leaguers are keeping a close eye on the pending off season moves by teams.
Right now, more often than not, those moves involve baseball managers — something that doesn’t affect our players a whole lot unless you get one of those Dusty Baker types that [...]

WINDING IT DOWN, WINDING IT UP September 26, 2007

Well, the baseball regular season is almost over. My team, The Scorpions, were never in the hunt this year (since I decided to rebuild the team in my super-competitive league, one where you can keep up to 80 percent of your roster from year to year). We had some notable victories and disappointments as far [...]

WINDING IT DOWN August 6, 2007

Because fantasy baseball’s playoffs must take place during Major League Baseball’s regular season (so all the team’s players are playing), my league is down to its final two weeks.
And my team, The Scorpions, is way down, too. After looking like we might finish out of the cellar, the team has sagged in recent weeks, with [...]

The long wait finally paid off June 29, 2007

Progress!
The long wait finally paid off. For close to a year, we’ve had James Loney on our roster. AAA player for the Dodgers with a lot of promise to make the Majors. He had 9 RBI in a game last season during a late season callup to the Majors. Then [...]

SATISFACTION May 28, 2007

Every once and a while, I actually get to watch my players play. Last night was an example.
Cleveland was playing Detroit on the Sunday Game of the Week on ESPN and my newest player, Tribe pitcher Fausto Carmona, went a strong seven. Then, in the ninth, my closer comes in the game, Joe Borowski. Then [...]