Once again, my fantasy season is rumbling along quietly in the background. I like being involved in a competition, but I find it difficult to get too wrapped-up in it. I’ve ordered a paperback copy of Sam Walker’s \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Fantasyland\u00e2\u20ac\u009d, so maybe reading that will encourage me to take a deeper interest. More likely it will put even more distance between hardcore fantasy fanatics and myself, a part-timer at best. It’s meant to be an entertaining read though so I’m looking forward to its arrival through the letterbox any day soon.<\/p>\n
Despite my modest level of interest, I still find myself going through a few of the standard Fantasy emotions. <\/p>\n
This time last week I was reading about B.J. Upton’s minor injury that reportedly would only keep him out of action for a couple of days. I decided not to trade him out of my line-up and then he was put on the D.L. As I don’t currently have any bench players, that’s one spot in my line-up that has been producing nothing more than zeroes for the past week. Considering Upton was such a steal price-wise, I’m probably going to have to be a bit creative when making my changes this weekend.<\/p>\n
I’ve also lived through the frustration that has been Matt Cain’s 2007 so far (as much as an A’s fan can be frustrated by a Giants pitcher not winning, anyway). He’s not pitching poorly, as his 3.31 ERA shows, but due to some bad luck and a lack of run support he has only been left with a 2-6 record. Hopefully he can start turning things around tonight, although it will be a tough task against Dice-K and the Red Sox. As Matsuzaka is also in my Fantasy rotation, at least one of my guys won’t be able to get a win tonight. <\/p>\n
Knowing my luck, both will get knocked out early and finish with a pair of no decisions!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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