Sunday, February 27, 2011
Fantasy Baseball Leagues-The Bigger, The Better
As Co-Commissioner of a 20 team fantasy baseball league, I find it difficult to understand how a 10 team league could be any fun. Every team would be stacked with all-stars. Where's the strategy? It's true that it's hard to find 20 managers who are active, but it can be done. We've done it in ours. It makes it a lot more fun because there's just more activity and buzz happening on the league message boards and draft parties are lots of fun and you can always seem to find somebody interested in talking trades with you. We've had to go through a process of weeding out some inactive managers over the years, but believe it or not, we've got a waiting list of friends who have asked to be in our league. That keeps everyone active because they know someone is waiting to take their place if they don't manage their team. If you are currently in a 10-12 team league, I highly encourage you to expand and reap the benefits.
Spring Training Has Started
It is awesome to see the ticker on ESPN displaying baseball scores again. This has been the longest off season of my life. I think mostly because I was awaiting the birth of my first child, which happened in February. My buddies in my fantasy baseball league have been lamenting along with me that this off season has nearly been unbearable.
Chipper Jones has been doing some running and sliding drills and the knee feels fine he says. I'll be able to relax a little more when he charges a slow chopper, fields it, plants and throws and his knee doesn't explode into pieces. Honestly, any time he plays this year is icing on the cake. After all the injuries in his career, I'm just thrilled that he's still playing at this point. Now I can watch the Braves and Chipper this summer with my daughter. She's a baby and won't know who he is, but when she's older I can tell her that she did in fact watch him.
I'm excited about the new look Braves. I think this team can compete and should be a lot of fun to watch. Not having Melky Cabrera on this team ups the fun factor by 478%.
Chipper Jones has been doing some running and sliding drills and the knee feels fine he says. I'll be able to relax a little more when he charges a slow chopper, fields it, plants and throws and his knee doesn't explode into pieces. Honestly, any time he plays this year is icing on the cake. After all the injuries in his career, I'm just thrilled that he's still playing at this point. Now I can watch the Braves and Chipper this summer with my daughter. She's a baby and won't know who he is, but when she's older I can tell her that she did in fact watch him.
I'm excited about the new look Braves. I think this team can compete and should be a lot of fun to watch. Not having Melky Cabrera on this team ups the fun factor by 478%.
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