Week 1 just about in the books. Pretty happy to beat jaysblue with Lawrie and Ortiz missing the whole week.

W1 matchup with Dinger is pretty <damn exciting, coming down the wire to see if I can scratch out a tie or even the outside chance at a win.

I thought I had the tie wrapped up, but true-grit Cardinals style Jon Jay came through late to give him the lead. Now it's all riding on the Sunday night baseball game and whether Erick Aybar can score one run for the tie, or hit a HR for the win!

Alternately, if he wants to pitch an inning of relief and net me a hold, that'd also be just nifty.

e: actually, an 0-4 with a R might not do it.

Anyhell, I forgot to include the part about asking if anyone else's W1 is riding on this game?

10 people have voted in the latest poll on Yahoo. It's pretty close (6-4).

If you haven't voted, then do it already. Show some responsibility you pilgrims.

If anyone wants a long-term catcher, Wilson Ramos is 25, healthy, and raking. I'd be amenable to a few options:

- packaging him with Walker for a 2B upgrade
- packaging him with stuff for an OF upgrade
- packaging him with a SP for a SP upgrade

<Damn, I had a nice lead coming into the weekend but you've made it a nailbiter. Hopefully Aybar puts up an 0-fer and Mike Trout goes 5-for-5 with a couple HRs and SBs. I need a career game from him in L1. :(

I can still hit double digits this week if Pujols has 1 more RBI than Berkman. My patchwork pitching staff was alright this week. I didn't even need Wainwright today and if they didn't blow 3 holds I'd be there in that stat too. 11 SB's are a little excessive...anyone in the need of speed in the OF, they should look me up.

The trouble with this scenario is that you wouldn't have met them at all unless it was with ~ 25,000 people and a whole swarm of security guards around you at the RC. Of course you wouldn't feel bullied in that environment, but the reason for that has nothing to do with your fictional mettle.

walk it off!

"Of course you wouldn't feel bullied in that environment, but the reason for that has nothing to do with your fictional mettle."

We all feel bullied at different times in our lives.

"i think he's implying that ghey people are sissies or something. which makes sense because all ghey people are tall, skinny, white dudes with a great sense of fashion but absolutely no strength or fight instinct. the sheer possibility of a ghey man being able to bully someone is about as likely as emilio fielding a ball cleanly at second base."

Homophobia is fun!

"Homophobia is fun!"

I have nothing against it.

Well, I think any kind of bullying is pathetic, ghey (honestly, why is this a banned word?), bi, or straight. It just seemed that he was implying that it's more pathetic if done by a ghey person.

actually i was sarcastically stating pretty much exactly what gibbers was thinking

Sorry, sarcasm doesn't translate well over the Internet. :p

true.

And I said it before, if 4 ghey guys were berating me, I don't believe I'd feel that I was being bullied, unless there was some sort some sort of assault or weapon involved.

Agreed, I find it difficult to feel both bullied and aroused at the same time.

Gibbers doesn't enjoy "casual" sex.

Dammit, I was so close to sweeping Spanky. A couple times on base and three more strikeouts would've done it. He had a pretty good week too, I would've beat just about everyone by at least 11-3.

What? I thought you had all 14 categories locked up?