One Out of Three: the Ultimate Fantasy

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Greg Oden looked as good as Udonis Haslem on a bad day; in fact, I dropped him for Udonis Haslem!  Highlights included my free-agency pickup of Eric Gordon for Russell Westbrook and Shaquille O’Neal playing like someone told him the year was 2002. 

I did better than I had in football, but sadly there is no prize money for fourth place.

BASEBALL-$100.00

 In order to not only get my $320.00 back, but actually make some money along with gaining the respect of my peers, I have to win baseball this year. 

I knew going into the draft that the sure fire way to get it done is by doing the opposite of what I had been doing with the previous sports, which was playing it safe.  Sure, playing it safe can get you to the playoffs, but without a few risk/reward guys that could potentially pan out to be just “reward guys,” your ultimate future is unknown. 

It was no surprise to anyone in my basketball league that my brother won it all because he drafted Yao Ming in the late second round.  While we laughed at him at the draft for the headache he was going to endure for the inevitable 55 game season that Yao will probably play, he knew that if he didn’t take him he’d feel equally dumb, mainly because if Yao was to suddenly not be “the always injured guy” the payoff would be extraordinary.   

With that said, my baseball team is as follows: C-Joe Mauer (risk), 1B-Miguel Cabrera, 2B-Dustin Pedroia, 3B-Evan Longoria, SS-Derek Jeter, OF-Bobby Abreu, Hunter Pence, Torii Hunter, Util-Chone Figgins, B-Alex Rodriguez (risk), Mike Aviles, Mark DeRosa, Delmon Young, and Jim Thome.  SP-Brandon Webb and Josh Beckett, RP-Jonathon Broxton and Brian Wilson, P-Ricky Nalasco, Brett Myers, and Joel Hanrahan. 

NOTE* There you have my 2009 Baseball Team, now if anyone out there has a line on a guy I should trade for, drop, or pickup please by all means I am listening.  

Remember 1/3 is all you need to become the big winner, good luck to all of you who are playing fantasy baseball this season. Please feel free to share your team via comment.

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