watching expired appliances align

during the next six months you're going to have to put up with the occasional random thought about my rotisserie baseball team. but you're getting the perspective of someone who is just now warming up to the world of fantasy sports. it's going to be slow going at first, but as i surge from the middle of the pack to first place things will get much more exciting.

the brooklyn fantasy league draft was sunday. dan seems to think i did okay, but i just ran the numbers. discounting the fact that projections at this point are probably completely off the mark and that i'm just trying to become a stat geek after reading moneyball, it looks like i'm going to need some serious help. the outcome doesn't look that promising for me.

if i plugged in all the correct values in the correct spots, i've got jamie winning the league by 9 points over dave nelson. coming in third (a full 20 points behind jamie) is mooney. i'm in the lower middle of the pack, tied with dan but just four points away from Matt (which would mean a tie for fourth, and one point behind third). i've got no obvious weak spots, but i am feeling like the third grader who just walked home with a report card covered in "needs improvement" comments.

my current team name is "the parking garage." and, creative guy that i am, the photo that accompanies my team is of (wait for it)... a parking garage!

i'll try to keep this baseball talk to a minimum over the course of the summer. three years ago i wouldn't have let this fly. it's ridiculous that i'm now wrapped up in it. but if i could survive the stress of sunday's draft, then i've got the fortitude to place in the top three this season.