First of all, allow me to apologize for the crappy baseball post from last week and for the lateness in this post. Geez, I expect better from myself. I mean, I understand when ESPN or Fox Sports has shoddy coverage over an event, but we here Josh’s World do not accept lackluster reporting when it comes to fantasy baseball…leagues that Josh is in.
Anyways, I am pretty excited about this past week. It could not have worked out better for me. Taking on my wife, while we were on vacation in Florida. Do you think I was nice and reminded her to set her lineup everyday? Well, okay. Yes. I did do that. I mean, she just presses the “start active players” button.
It was a good win for me and I am just happy to be back in the championship. Crazy to think that a few weeks ago I did not think there was a chance of me making the playoffs.
I will be facing off against Adam2. He defeated Gideon 6-3. It was a fairly ugly match. One oddity is that Gideon had six stolen bases…and lost that category. Adam2 had 11! I will not be able to compete with that number. Also, since neither person streamed pitchers, they have crazy low strikeouts. My team would have beat them both combined. And yet Adam2 had more wins than me, how weird is that?
I think we are fairly even. I may give my team a little advantage because it seems like I have a few guys who are hot at the moment, but that could change this week. We split the two times we played each other this season, I won 10-2, then he beat me 7-4.
Down in the consolation bracket, Offord defeated Jason 9-3 to capture 5th place! Technically this is not the consolation bracket. It would be the bottom of the championship bracket. Whatever.
In the real consolation bracket, Ryan beat Matt 8-3; while Pat took out Sean 7-5. Ryan and Pat square off for 7th place. Sean and Matt are going to fight for 9th. Dustin triumphed over James for 11th place.
Finally, we have Lindsey taking on Gideon for third place. No matter the outcome, I think this is a success for her.
One quick note. Over in Pat’s league, Offord and I have been on a collision course all season to meet in the finals. Fortunately, things worked out perfectly and this what will happen this week. I finished the regular season with a 150-98-16 record. I was 21 games behind Offord (172-78-14!). Ryan was in third and about 14 games behind me. I have the chance to win both leagues, which would be a pretty great accomplishment.
