TruffleShuffle

Why? His brother has a 6.64 ERA. If he has another couple of solid starts, I don't know why they would send him down and keep throwing his crappy brother every five days.

No surprise, the minute I pick him up on my fantasy team, he gives up a couple of runs. I have to admit, I'm a little concerned about the run support he'll receive, because the Angels' offense kinda sucks.

I wasn't aware of the character issues with Drabek. Are the concerns legitimate? If so, I'd go with Kershaw as well.

I thought very, very strongly about it, but figured I'd wait and see how he did in his next start. Most people in my league follow the majors very closely but don't know as much about prospects, so I figured I'd be safe taking that approach.

OK that's 5 for Stubbs... on to the Dodgers. They have a deep, strong system and can afford to go for a higher-risk pick who will take longer to develop. I'll say Kyle Drabek.

Tossing another gem tonight, after shutting down the Orioles last outing. So far in the bigs he's thrown 13 innings, given up 5 hits and 3 walks, and struck out 13. Welcome to my fantasy team, Jered. Not a surprise that he's dominating, given what he showed in the minors and in college, and also the fact that he has a deceptive delivery that is going to be really tough for opposing batters the first time they see it.

I'm voting for Stubbs every time until he's picked now... so, Drew Stubbs.

Drew Stubbs... the Mariners can't hit for crap.

I'm pretty sure the Cubs could fill up a significant portion of the "busts" category.

He hit 4 HRs in over 400 ABs last season, hit only 20 XBHs and had only 33 HRs in 1450 ABs coming into this season. I think the Cubs can be excused if they think that his performance this year is a fluke, given his track record.

Imagine if I win both contests? I'd be like the Nostradamus of baseball. I don't know if I'm winning the other one, but I did pick the Cubs to be crappier than anyone else, so I've got that going for my picks.

Hey, at least he has an excuse, unlike Teixeira.

Me and the guy who has been following right behind me for quite some time have the same A-group hitter (A-Rod), the same two B-group hitters (Dunn & Pujols), two of the same C-group hitters (Bay & Delgado) and the same Bonus hitter (Thome). So between me and him, it comes down to: Me: Giambi, Swisher, Gomes, Helton, Huff TrueBlueCubFan: Berkman, Beltre, Holliday, Wilkerson, C. Jones

Dude, Jack Wilson's line is 312/349/462/812. His career line is 266/306/374/680. I'm not sure that you can really ask for much more from him.

Trade the entire organization for him. I'd probably do that too... I think he's worth more than every player in the Cub organization, collectively.

I checked everything over with my spreadsheet and it looks like we're on the same page now. I found 5 errors, 2 of which were on my end. I think you're short a home run for three people, but it happens that the three people you're short on are the three people who have Jason Varitek, so I'm guessing you just didn't add in his HR from last night. Otherwise, I think our spreadsheets match up now.

I demand a recount

That whole team can rake. Rios is breaking out this year, Glaus has lots of pop, Catalanotto, Overbay and Hillenbrand are all good hitters for average... even Molina hits well for a catcher.

By the way, I love that three of the eight position players in tonight's lineups - regular starters, mind you - still have single digit walk totals. That's 50 games into the season. Boy, I can't figure out why the offense sucks!

if you're left handed, you can be clinically dead and have a roster spot on even a high salary team. Just look at Rusch. He's been dead for 8 months now. Norm Charlton and Jeff Fassero are the posterboys for this phenomenon.

I can't believe this bum still has a job. He was horrible in both 2003 and 2004, and then had a fluke ERA under 4.00 last year despite an awful WHIP and a bad strikeout rate. Apparently as a middle reliever, all you need is a pulse to hang around on a low- to mid-salary team.

Let me know if any of mine were wrong.

Not going to hold my breath waiting for this to happen...

By the way, nobody thought it odd that Scott G.F. went from 97 HRs to 137 HRs in five days?

Through "early" games of 5/29: 150 TruffleShuffle 146 TrueBlueCubFan 140 Serena 135 Jazz 134 DCNashville Garwilly 133 XZero77 132 Outshined_One J-Shils 131 UMFan83 130 RocketSauce Mizzou Sherwood921 129 Scott G. F. 128 soccer10k 126 wade NCCubbieFan bukie SeldomSeen 125 KarenMac Vinestal IMB! Bob's Keeper 123 Southpaw19 122 sethuel1 ndistops 120 VanceTheCubFan SouthSideRyan jd6762 119 118 Treeman rawaction Cubbies75 117 tadowdaddy TheDude 116 115 MrWood 114 113 112 MarkPrior'sCalves reggiemiller rules 111 Marco4 srbin84 110 Aramis Fan DJAXXFAN 109 CubsinNC 108 TransmogrifiedTiger RoastTheD---Goast 107 Pistolcub42 106 otis89 103 Mark_R 101 Flames24Rulz Joe_Cub 99 Guancous Dobson Derwood 98 HHHBK21 95 sandberg23 88 cubfanfromoz 84 Ublink 73 HawkCub Perfect Score: Group A: David Ortiz (14) Group B: Albert Pujols (25), Ryan Howard, Adam Dunn or Carlos Lee (17) Group C: Alfonso Soriano (18 ), Morgan Ensberg (17), Jason Bay (16) Group D: Jonny Gomes (14), Nick Swisher (14), Bill Hall (12), Matt Holliday or Chris Shelton (11) Bonus: Jim Thome (20) TOTAL (195) Southpaw, add in the following HR totals from today: Thome: 20 Dunn: 17 Konerko: 15 Murton: 4 Walker: 3 Then we'll be on the same page and can figure out where the discrepancies are...