Yup, you heard it right.......Yogi Bera, the former baseball player who is probably better known for his random quotes that live on through the ages, was NOT talkin' about baseball. He was talking about basebal. Allow me to illustrate:
1.) "This is like deja vu all over again."
This time of year, first-year law school students around the country are saying this exact thing as they realize that they have to buckle down, turn off the TV's, bust out the notes, manufacture the outlines, and and to some good old law school studyin', something they did (to the extreme first semester). Take it from me firsthand, It IS like deja vu all over again.
2.) "I'd find the fellow who list it, and if he's poor, I'd return it." This is a classic line about finder's law in property, where the system tries to incentive people to give people back the stuff that they lost.
3.) ____Law school _ is 90% mental ----- the other half is physical. Not sure what this meant about Yogi's math skills, but law school IS only 90% mental......one might think it's more, but there's also the making of outlines (lots of typing), the physical endurance of studying day and night, the discipline not to overeat: a lot of things go it it.
4.) "If you come to a fork in the road, take it." The book Getting to Maybe is recommended reading for all incoming law tudents, and it breaches this very fact: Law school is all about finding 2 ways to interpret an issue, and going down that fork to explore all the possibilities, then going down the other fork. Right on, Yogi.
5.) "It was impossible to get a conversation going; everyone was talking too much." Gunners, gunners, gunners. Gunners in law school don't stop talking; to the detriment of everyone else.
6.) "If you ask me anything I don't know, I'm not going to answer." Sadly, this is one that Yogi got wrong. Or at least, he's giving really bad advice because the worst thing on law school exams is not to answer w/ anything. First off, most of the tests are open-book, so if you look hard enough even during the exam you can find stuff, and secondly you ALWAYS say SOMETHING......never just say nothing cuz there's always points to be had.
7.) "In ____law school_____, you don't know nothing." Truer words have never been said. Paraphrased: "You think you know, but you have NO IDEA!"
8.) " If you don't know where you're going, you might end up somewhere else." Especially in the deep, dark, mystifying channels of property law. You could be in the land of nuisances one moment and suddenly find yourself talking about takings, way off the beaten path. Take a deep breath and sort it out, man.
9.) "We made too many wrong mistakes." -- I guess applies to crim law: (mistakes of fact, mistakes of law.) Although, admittedly, this quote was a bit of a stretch. I had to get to 10, right?
10.) "It ain't over till it's over." Sadly, it's true: the first year of law school is definitely NOT over, and there's a lot of work to do. It's seemed like forever, yet forever's about to end. (Take THAT, Yogi! That's my own quote about law school!)
Fantasize on,
Robert Yan
Saturday, April 25, 2009
Saturday, April 18, 2009
Is Law School like Hogwarts?
Recently I was talking to a dude, apparently a big Harry Potter fan, and he was like, "dude, law school is so much like Hogwarts!" and I'm like, "word!"
Therefore, lemme start a thread on how law school is just like Hogwarts. For those of you who have been deprived of a childhood enough to not be acclimated to the best-selling Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling, Hogwarts is the School of Witchcraft and Wizadry, attended by Harry Potter and his friends Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger, headmastered primarily by one Albus Dumbledore, facultied by Severus Snape..........
1.)
Hogwarts: Sorting Hat sorts all the incoming first-years equally into different schoolhouses: Gryffindor, Hufflepuff, Ravencaw or Slytherin.
USC Law School: The Head of Admissions (or Dean of Admissions, I'm not sure which) sorts all incoming students into 3 different supersections: A-D, E-H, I-L.
* In addition, this comparison has further weight because the people you get sorted with into the same house become your friends and the people you talk to the most......you see them all the time, whether it's living together (at Hogwarts) or taking all the same classes together at USC Law.
2.) Pictures on the walls of important figures
Hogwarts: Live paintings of ghosts, former headmasters, important mythical figures, etc.
USC Law school: paintings of former deans of the law school as you move up the stairs to the library. They are also "live" in that every time you walk past a painting it's as if that dean's eyes follow you, making sure you are up to no mischief.......
3.) Hogwarts: The Forbidden Forest, where students like Harry Potter go anyway
USC Law school: The path near the bookstore where you're forbidden to ride bikes or skateboards, but where people ride their bikes and go on their skateboards anyway.
4.) Hogwarts: Defense against the Dark Arts Class, teaching defensive techniques to block spells, charms, curses, and jinxes cast by other wizards
USC Law school: Legal Professionalism Class, teaching defensive techniques to block malpractice suits filed by other lawyers against you.
5.) Hogwarts: Use of enchanted broomsticks is taught to first years only in Hogwarts, to help young witches and wizards embrace the primary tool of their trade.
USC Law School: Use of legal writing is taught to first years only at USC Law, to help young aspiring lawyers to embrace the primary tool of their trade, the ability to file a motion to dismiss.
6.) Hogwarts: Student life consists of: Students sit at their own House table and eat and socialise, or finish homework. During breakfast, owls bring in the students' post, things like the Daily Prophet
USC Law school: Students sit with members of their own section and eat and socialize, or complain about how much homework they have. During lunch, magical spirits stuff students' mailboxes with things like the Law school journal.
7.) Hogwarts: There are nine known secret passages in and out of school.
USC Law School: the 3rd-floor walk from elevator to where you turn in your legal writing assignments is a long and maze-like contraption, full of false exits and looping turns. There are also obscure staircases that no one use that lead to nowhere.....word is, people have lost their way within the building and been trapped forever.
That's it for now........If any readers would like to add to my list, please comment or email me. I hope to compile many more comparisons throughout my time at law school. It also gives me more incentive to re-watch and re-read those Harry Potters. Happy times!
-Fantasize on,
Robert Yan
Therefore, lemme start a thread on how law school is just like Hogwarts. For those of you who have been deprived of a childhood enough to not be acclimated to the best-selling Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling, Hogwarts is the School of Witchcraft and Wizadry, attended by Harry Potter and his friends Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger, headmastered primarily by one Albus Dumbledore, facultied by Severus Snape..........
1.)
Hogwarts: Sorting Hat sorts all the incoming first-years equally into different schoolhouses: Gryffindor, Hufflepuff, Ravencaw or Slytherin.
USC Law School: The Head of Admissions (or Dean of Admissions, I'm not sure which) sorts all incoming students into 3 different supersections: A-D, E-H, I-L.
* In addition, this comparison has further weight because the people you get sorted with into the same house become your friends and the people you talk to the most......you see them all the time, whether it's living together (at Hogwarts) or taking all the same classes together at USC Law.
2.) Pictures on the walls of important figures
Hogwarts: Live paintings of ghosts, former headmasters, important mythical figures, etc.
USC Law school: paintings of former deans of the law school as you move up the stairs to the library. They are also "live" in that every time you walk past a painting it's as if that dean's eyes follow you, making sure you are up to no mischief.......
3.) Hogwarts: The Forbidden Forest, where students like Harry Potter go anyway
USC Law school: The path near the bookstore where you're forbidden to ride bikes or skateboards, but where people ride their bikes and go on their skateboards anyway.
4.) Hogwarts: Defense against the Dark Arts Class, teaching defensive techniques to block spells, charms, curses, and jinxes cast by other wizards
USC Law school: Legal Professionalism Class, teaching defensive techniques to block malpractice suits filed by other lawyers against you.
5.) Hogwarts: Use of enchanted broomsticks is taught to first years only in Hogwarts, to help young witches and wizards embrace the primary tool of their trade.
USC Law School: Use of legal writing is taught to first years only at USC Law, to help young aspiring lawyers to embrace the primary tool of their trade, the ability to file a motion to dismiss.
6.) Hogwarts: Student life consists of: Students sit at their own House table and eat and socialise, or finish homework. During breakfast, owls bring in the students' post, things like the Daily Prophet
USC Law school: Students sit with members of their own section and eat and socialize, or complain about how much homework they have. During lunch, magical spirits stuff students' mailboxes with things like the Law school journal.
7.) Hogwarts: There are nine known secret passages in and out of school.
USC Law School: the 3rd-floor walk from elevator to where you turn in your legal writing assignments is a long and maze-like contraption, full of false exits and looping turns. There are also obscure staircases that no one use that lead to nowhere.....word is, people have lost their way within the building and been trapped forever.
That's it for now........If any readers would like to add to my list, please comment or email me. I hope to compile many more comparisons throughout my time at law school. It also gives me more incentive to re-watch and re-read those Harry Potters. Happy times!
-Fantasize on,
Robert Yan
38 days until spelling bee
Watching Game 1 of Bulls-Celtics. My law school buddy who's a huge C's fan says they'll give us 1 game, 4-1. I beg to differ. "Giving a team a game" is like a slap in the face: it's like a teacher giving you a B+ "for good effort." I would hope the Bulls are in it more for just effort. Well, it's tied 75-75 in the 4th quarter.
Is it me, or is the broadcast crew sending it to Nancy Lieberman way too much?
Love the new Albert Pujols/machine commercial. Sometimes I wish I had that option w/ certain people: 1. Eliminate 2. Deny. Ha.
So I got a message today from a very important reader, and the message I got from it was, "You haven't been writing about the spelling bee that much!" I looked back at my posts real quick, and it's true, it's been like 40 days since I posted any of that content. Ask, and you shall receive. I apologize, cuz I'm on a somewhat different countdown: the days to my law school finals. (that'd be 16 days). But I'll suck it up.
I'm often reminded of how difficult spelling is. Yesterday our crim law class was talking about homicide, and I'm constantly getting tripped w/ whether it was "homocide" or "homicide." most of the words I know like that have the prefix "homo" so I ultimately settled on that, and good thin I'm not in the national spelling bee, because I'd been out and lookin embarrassed while doing it. (Btw, embarrass is another word i'm always 2nd-guessing). It's funny, I read "homicide" probably 10 times a day, but ur just so used to glossing it over and taking it for granted, when u actually have to spell it it's like, "I don't remember this!" Urg. Just imagine trying to spell spelling beasts like "flibbertigibbet" or "colcannon" when you've only seen it once or twice in your life! (or maybe none!- gulp).
Update on possible spellers in this year's bee:
Sidharth Chand will be back at the national spelling bee this year. Here's the story:
http://www.dailytribune.com/articles/2009/03/16/news/doc49be4d9a93048168621784.txt
Seemed like he got an easy winning word in "cauterize," so maybe he didn't get through the toughest bee in the word to get through to the nationals.....but he'll be ready. Man looks like he published 6 books on microscopic arthropedic surgery since last year. 2nd pla
Kyle Mou spelled "nectarivorous" to advance to the national bee this year, (8th last year), out of my home state, Illinois: I gotta tell you, there are some SMART people in Peoria, IL. Don't let the midwest swang fool you.
There's a new star rising in Canada. I'm always intrigued by spellers coming from Canada, because not only do they advance out of their own regional contests, but they have their own national spelling bee before the U.S. "national spelling bee." I dunno how big the Canspell Spelling bee (Canadian bee) is over there, but I presume that the U.S. "National Spelling Bee" is bigger because it draws contestants from all over the world. The U.S. Bee, I think, is more of a "All-English-Country-Speaking Countries" Bee, or maybe a "Universal Bee," not just about the U.S. Plus it's covered by ESPN w/ nice montages, storylines, and Erin Andrews, so I'd say there's more pageantry and excitement about ours.
So far, I don't think there have been any national spelling bee winners from Canada. (last year Anqi Dong was supposed to be a favorite but my dad walked into the room for the first time to see me watching the bee, and as soon as that happened anqi went down. I'm telling my dad to stay away from me May 26-28 this year).
Anyway, Canada's new star: Laura Newcombe, 10-year-old from Toronto. Wasn't in the national spelling bee last year, but seems like a stud. Checked out some of the words that knocked other spellers out in the 52-round contest: not bad. Laura also beat out some other top Canadian spellers: Veronica Penny and Emily LaFleur, who both made it to Round 5 last year of the nationals. Not bad.
O here's the link: http://www2.canada.com/national/features/canspell/index.html
Dunno how the Canadian bee works in terms of getting a bid to go to Washington, D.C., but I would imagine the top 8 spellers from CanSpell, at least, would get in. So watch out for Laura + other Canadians: they can be rather dangerous in the field.
Fantasize on,
Robert Yan
(P.S. more spelling posts to follow as we get closer to the day. Apparently Roseville, CA also has its own countdown in anticipation of Josephine Kao's time to shine, and I agree w/ that.
Is it me, or is the broadcast crew sending it to Nancy Lieberman way too much?
Love the new Albert Pujols/machine commercial. Sometimes I wish I had that option w/ certain people: 1. Eliminate 2. Deny. Ha.
So I got a message today from a very important reader, and the message I got from it was, "You haven't been writing about the spelling bee that much!" I looked back at my posts real quick, and it's true, it's been like 40 days since I posted any of that content. Ask, and you shall receive. I apologize, cuz I'm on a somewhat different countdown: the days to my law school finals. (that'd be 16 days). But I'll suck it up.
I'm often reminded of how difficult spelling is. Yesterday our crim law class was talking about homicide, and I'm constantly getting tripped w/ whether it was "homocide" or "homicide." most of the words I know like that have the prefix "homo" so I ultimately settled on that, and good thin I'm not in the national spelling bee, because I'd been out and lookin embarrassed while doing it. (Btw, embarrass is another word i'm always 2nd-guessing). It's funny, I read "homicide" probably 10 times a day, but ur just so used to glossing it over and taking it for granted, when u actually have to spell it it's like, "I don't remember this!" Urg. Just imagine trying to spell spelling beasts like "flibbertigibbet" or "colcannon" when you've only seen it once or twice in your life! (or maybe none!- gulp).
Update on possible spellers in this year's bee:
Sidharth Chand will be back at the national spelling bee this year. Here's the story:
http://www.dailytribune.com/articles/2009/03/16/news/doc49be4d9a93048168621784.txt
Seemed like he got an easy winning word in "cauterize," so maybe he didn't get through the toughest bee in the word to get through to the nationals.....but he'll be ready. Man looks like he published 6 books on microscopic arthropedic surgery since last year. 2nd pla
Kyle Mou spelled "nectarivorous" to advance to the national bee this year, (8th last year), out of my home state, Illinois: I gotta tell you, there are some SMART people in Peoria, IL. Don't let the midwest swang fool you.
There's a new star rising in Canada. I'm always intrigued by spellers coming from Canada, because not only do they advance out of their own regional contests, but they have their own national spelling bee before the U.S. "national spelling bee." I dunno how big the Canspell Spelling bee (Canadian bee) is over there, but I presume that the U.S. "National Spelling Bee" is bigger because it draws contestants from all over the world. The U.S. Bee, I think, is more of a "All-English-Country-Speaking Countries" Bee, or maybe a "Universal Bee," not just about the U.S. Plus it's covered by ESPN w/ nice montages, storylines, and Erin Andrews, so I'd say there's more pageantry and excitement about ours.
So far, I don't think there have been any national spelling bee winners from Canada. (last year Anqi Dong was supposed to be a favorite but my dad walked into the room for the first time to see me watching the bee, and as soon as that happened anqi went down. I'm telling my dad to stay away from me May 26-28 this year).
Anyway, Canada's new star: Laura Newcombe, 10-year-old from Toronto. Wasn't in the national spelling bee last year, but seems like a stud. Checked out some of the words that knocked other spellers out in the 52-round contest: not bad. Laura also beat out some other top Canadian spellers: Veronica Penny and Emily LaFleur, who both made it to Round 5 last year of the nationals. Not bad.
O here's the link: http://www2.canada.com/national/features/canspell/index.html
Dunno how the Canadian bee works in terms of getting a bid to go to Washington, D.C., but I would imagine the top 8 spellers from CanSpell, at least, would get in. So watch out for Laura + other Canadians: they can be rather dangerous in the field.
Fantasize on,
Robert Yan
(P.S. more spelling posts to follow as we get closer to the day. Apparently Roseville, CA also has its own countdown in anticipation of Josephine Kao's time to shine, and I agree w/ that.
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
Roto studs
I'm constantly enamoured with roto studs: those guys you're just dying to have, who you know would make your season, who the thought of someone else getting their hands on him makes you cringe: yea, that kind of stud.
This year, there were some true fantasy basketball studs. Here they are, with brief blurb about what they did that made them so studly:
1. CP3: 2nd straight year of dominating stats. 50% FG is the most amazing, I think. You would think that people would try to stay away from him in the passin lane, yet he still gets 2.8 STL's per game, more than Mehmet Okur, Rasheed Wallace, and Dirk Nowitzki get combined per game. Think about that.
2. LBJ: ah, the 77.9% makes me a fan again.
3. Dwyane: Even got the 3-pointers going this season, truly a 9-cat guy: contributes in EVERY SINGLE stat category.
4. Kobe: Right where he should be, all year every year.
5. Nowitzki: steady as a rock.
6. Ming: It's amazing what a healthy season can do. He is such a beast with the %'s, counterbalancing a guy like kidd or baron davis.
7. Pau: Pre-season ranked 19th, but very solid game, had less pressure and chance of injury playing with kobe.
8. JKidd: I would say Renaissance season, but he seems to put up renaissance numbers every year. Somehow cut down his turnovers to a very reasonable 2.3 Per.
9. Granger: I will try everything in my power to get him next year.
10. Durantula: See Granger. Really came into his own this season; that's what fantasy basketball is: upside in a player. Love to see a guy like that blossom. And not regress: looking at you, Rudy Gay.
11. Billups: back playing in his hometown, still stellar skills.
12. Ray Allen: Rock of a fantasy player in a relatively unstable season for the C's.
13. Chris Bosh: I wouldn't be surprised if he stayed in the 10-15 Yahoo! rank for rest of his career.
14. Brandon Roy: quietly led Blazers to first playoff appearance in a while, I was in love with him his rookie year.....I see good reason why I was.
15. Troy Murphy: Fitting to round out the list with an All-American white boy from Indiana: not larry bird, but he was sick this season on a offensive juggernaut of a team, especially being from an ADP of 80.
There you go, folks. NBA season ends wednesday, I get to see some Chicago Bulls playoff action! (they might finish w/ a winning record!)
Fantasize on,
Robert Yan
This year, there were some true fantasy basketball studs. Here they are, with brief blurb about what they did that made them so studly:
1. CP3: 2nd straight year of dominating stats. 50% FG is the most amazing, I think. You would think that people would try to stay away from him in the passin lane, yet he still gets 2.8 STL's per game, more than Mehmet Okur, Rasheed Wallace, and Dirk Nowitzki get combined per game. Think about that.
2. LBJ: ah, the 77.9% makes me a fan again.
3. Dwyane: Even got the 3-pointers going this season, truly a 9-cat guy: contributes in EVERY SINGLE stat category.
4. Kobe: Right where he should be, all year every year.
5. Nowitzki: steady as a rock.
6. Ming: It's amazing what a healthy season can do. He is such a beast with the %'s, counterbalancing a guy like kidd or baron davis.
7. Pau: Pre-season ranked 19th, but very solid game, had less pressure and chance of injury playing with kobe.
8. JKidd: I would say Renaissance season, but he seems to put up renaissance numbers every year. Somehow cut down his turnovers to a very reasonable 2.3 Per.
9. Granger: I will try everything in my power to get him next year.
10. Durantula: See Granger. Really came into his own this season; that's what fantasy basketball is: upside in a player. Love to see a guy like that blossom. And not regress: looking at you, Rudy Gay.
11. Billups: back playing in his hometown, still stellar skills.
12. Ray Allen: Rock of a fantasy player in a relatively unstable season for the C's.
13. Chris Bosh: I wouldn't be surprised if he stayed in the 10-15 Yahoo! rank for rest of his career.
14. Brandon Roy: quietly led Blazers to first playoff appearance in a while, I was in love with him his rookie year.....I see good reason why I was.
15. Troy Murphy: Fitting to round out the list with an All-American white boy from Indiana: not larry bird, but he was sick this season on a offensive juggernaut of a team, especially being from an ADP of 80.
There you go, folks. NBA season ends wednesday, I get to see some Chicago Bulls playoff action! (they might finish w/ a winning record!)
Fantasize on,
Robert Yan
Saturday, April 11, 2009
Fantasy baseball begins
First off, congratulations to the North Carolina Tar Heels for winning the mother of all tournaments, the NCAA tournament 2009. I guess all they need to do is play a Big Ten team in the final, and they're golden (see Illinois, 2005).
Anyway, main idea of this post is: DON'T PANIC about your fantasy baseball team! For many nascent managers and noobies to the game, this is probably the toughest week of all. The culprit? The sample size. Most teams have played just 4 games, maybe even 3, but traditionally managers tend to freak out and think the worst of their best player, and the best of the worst players on the free agency list. I'm here to say, the MVP of fantasy sports in the first 4 games WILL NOT be the Fantasy MVP of the whole year, and you gotta STICK TO YOUR GUNS on the players who you drafted at the beginning of the year. Especially Ryan Howard, man, you KNEW Ryan Howard was gonna get off to a bad April. Everyone and their mother knew that. If you have him, stick w/ him. Through all the 0-for-4's with 3 K's.
Exhibit A:
Emilio Bonifacio- star of "Baseball Tonight," Brad Evans fantasy columns, and casual conversations between fantasy baseball managers, this guy's name has popped up more than the gophers in the "bop the mole" game you used to play at Chuck E. Cheese. Yes, he has 2B/3B eligibility, Yes he's the #1 fantasy player in Yahoo! right now, but NO, he will not be this good throughout the year. As I am writing this, managers around the country are watching videotape of Emilio, exposing his weaknesses, writing down that they gotta bring the corner infielders in on him to prevent the bunt single, and basically diminishing his value. This reminds me of when Jay Bruce got hurt last year, had 4 or 5 great games, I unleashed him for Aubrey Huff, and then Bruce turned back human.
Marco Scutaro: ranked 6th in Yahoo! sports right now, the man has never reached 10 HR's in a season, never reached 80 runs scored, never hit above .280. Don't panic here and make rash moves.
On the flip side (heavy hitters who are starting off slow)
Jose Reyes is 4-of-16 with 1 run and 1SB. Obviously, not that great. Just think, though, if he had this 4-game stretch from July 27-July 31st while u were on vacation in Tahiti, you would furrow your brow slightly (if that) and then go back to drinking your pina colada, or whatever floats your boat.
Jimmy Rollins: 2-for-18. Same deal. There's no way this guy fails to score 100 runs and hit 20 HR's if healthy, so take a deep breath.
Prince Fielder: Well, actually, I dunno about this one. Seems counterintuitive for a guy to be a vegetarian but look like he's made of hot dogs. I'm biased cuz I've never owned him, probably never will.
So the moral of the story is, it's early. If anything, look at other teams' rosters, look for guys like Reyes and Rollins, Jason Bay, David Ortiz, and throw some ridiculous trade offers at them. If not, whatever. No skin off your bones. If there's even the slightest chance they're willing to nibble, pounce like the fantasy baseball tiger you are.
Speaking of tigers, Tiger Woods making a Saturday charge at the Masters? Let's hope so, or else sunday's coverage will be full of "chad campbell marching up the 18th in pursuit of his first championship." Eck.
Anyway, main idea of this post is: DON'T PANIC about your fantasy baseball team! For many nascent managers and noobies to the game, this is probably the toughest week of all. The culprit? The sample size. Most teams have played just 4 games, maybe even 3, but traditionally managers tend to freak out and think the worst of their best player, and the best of the worst players on the free agency list. I'm here to say, the MVP of fantasy sports in the first 4 games WILL NOT be the Fantasy MVP of the whole year, and you gotta STICK TO YOUR GUNS on the players who you drafted at the beginning of the year. Especially Ryan Howard, man, you KNEW Ryan Howard was gonna get off to a bad April. Everyone and their mother knew that. If you have him, stick w/ him. Through all the 0-for-4's with 3 K's.
Exhibit A:
Emilio Bonifacio- star of "Baseball Tonight," Brad Evans fantasy columns, and casual conversations between fantasy baseball managers, this guy's name has popped up more than the gophers in the "bop the mole" game you used to play at Chuck E. Cheese. Yes, he has 2B/3B eligibility, Yes he's the #1 fantasy player in Yahoo! right now, but NO, he will not be this good throughout the year. As I am writing this, managers around the country are watching videotape of Emilio, exposing his weaknesses, writing down that they gotta bring the corner infielders in on him to prevent the bunt single, and basically diminishing his value. This reminds me of when Jay Bruce got hurt last year, had 4 or 5 great games, I unleashed him for Aubrey Huff, and then Bruce turned back human.
Marco Scutaro: ranked 6th in Yahoo! sports right now, the man has never reached 10 HR's in a season, never reached 80 runs scored, never hit above .280. Don't panic here and make rash moves.
On the flip side (heavy hitters who are starting off slow)
Jose Reyes is 4-of-16 with 1 run and 1SB. Obviously, not that great. Just think, though, if he had this 4-game stretch from July 27-July 31st while u were on vacation in Tahiti, you would furrow your brow slightly (if that) and then go back to drinking your pina colada, or whatever floats your boat.
Jimmy Rollins: 2-for-18. Same deal. There's no way this guy fails to score 100 runs and hit 20 HR's if healthy, so take a deep breath.
Prince Fielder: Well, actually, I dunno about this one. Seems counterintuitive for a guy to be a vegetarian but look like he's made of hot dogs. I'm biased cuz I've never owned him, probably never will.
So the moral of the story is, it's early. If anything, look at other teams' rosters, look for guys like Reyes and Rollins, Jason Bay, David Ortiz, and throw some ridiculous trade offers at them. If not, whatever. No skin off your bones. If there's even the slightest chance they're willing to nibble, pounce like the fantasy baseball tiger you are.
Speaking of tigers, Tiger Woods making a Saturday charge at the Masters? Let's hope so, or else sunday's coverage will be full of "chad campbell marching up the 18th in pursuit of his first championship." Eck.
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