White Russians of Twitter
Last year I joined one of Chris’s fake baseball leagues and deemed the exercise worthy of repetition this season. I will participate in the same league with Chris’s friends and some of their ladies, and I put together my own league made up of all friends from Twitter. Last year, my draft strategy was pick hot dudes, Iowans, and people with interesting names or stories, and I did pretty well. This year, I paid attention to stats because I wanted to have a balanced team and last year I had no speed. I GOT SPEED NOW, BITCHES. Stolen bases err’where. My only other strategies were to try to pick up people who did well for me last year, get at least one Cardinal (Carp), keep my boy Dan Haren, and avoid Cubs (wasn’t able to).
Announcing the 2010 White Russians (Vers. STL Twitter League)
- C–A.J. Pierzynski
- 1B–Kevin Youkilis
- 2B–Brian Roberts *returning to White Russians from 2009 squad
- 3B–Alex Rodriguez
- SS–Jason Bartlett
- OF–Bobby Abreu
- OF–Michael Cuddyer
- OF–Michael Bourn
- Util–Jose Lopez
Bench
- Carlos Quentin
- Juan Rivera
- Adam LaRoche
- Jermaine Dye
- Eugenio Velez
Pitchers
- Chris Carpenter
- Dan Haren * returning to White Russians from 2009 squad; also my MLB mancrush
- Jonathan Broxton * returning to White Russians from 2009 squad
- Chad Qualls
- Matt Garza * returning to White Russians from 2009 squad
- Billy Wagner
- Francisco Liriano
- Ted Lilly
I had third pick of the draft, and I took A.Rod, but I think I need MOAR POWER, and I’ll probably make some trades with my pitching staff once things start to shake out.
So, people of the interwebs, what say you on this incantation of my team? Got another draft in a week; could use some advice.
(On March 23rd, 2010 at 2:31 pm)
Kind of reminds me of how I picked my March Madness bracket last year- cool universities in cool cities. I didn’t get very far.
(On March 23rd, 2010 at 5:11 pm)
It’s an A-Bomb…..from A-ROD!!!
#yankeeswintheyankeeswin