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Another week, another win. The Jon is not used to this. The first couple of weeks of any fantasy baseball season has always been mired by frustration, bad pitching, lack of power and draft picks gone bad. Not the case this year. Three first round picks in the first round have a way turning history around. Not to sound all Newspapermanish, but things look good so far.

But it is only three weeks into a fantasy season, you can always plan and should to improve your team. Are you in the middle of the pack or at the bottom? You should know what your needs are.

If you are at the top, now is the time to play in into the other manager’s fears and take ‘em for all they are worth. With that being said, let’s look at the week it was.

Check this guy out

He had two homers on Sunday. He has been on fire. Time to give credit where it is do … Ryan Doumit, come on down.

Psych.

Of course the player getting the accolades is Chase Utley. While managers were slobbering all over Hanley Ramirez, David Wright, Jose Reyes and Jimmy Rollins, it has been Utley who has proven The Jon true.

The Jon said Chase Utley could be a 2nd or 3rd overall pick and the masses laughed.

The Jon said Utley was putting together the best season of all time for second baseman in 2007 before he got hurt and people ignored The Greatness just like they ignored how great Nap Lajoie was.

So what has Utley done? He has just hit 8 homers with 17 RBI. Stuff like that.

He plays second base. He gives you outfield numbers in the second weakest position in baseball. The Jon was right. Don’t make The Jon use a Hannah Montana reference again. Thank You!

This week on Baseball Tonight

Wait, there wasn’t Baseball Tonight this week. The NBA Playoffs are here! ESPN is showing the games! Who needs baseball highlights! Exclamation points!

So just picture The Jon on Saturday trying to catch any type of glimpse of baseball highlights on any of the ESPN channels and all there was on TV was Lebron James doing that stupid hand powder thing.

Then they had to show one of his late game baskets and The Jon was further subjected for about six times in a span of an hour to the same Cavs cheerleader that had a hard time trying to get on the court only to put on a plastic smile once she got on the court.

Hey, she was Asian. The Jon didn’t know there were Asians in Cleveland.

After that we had the Spurs-Suns 2OT highlights that was being compared to the Celtics-Suns 3OT finals game by John Barry.

C’mon dude. It’s called hyperbole, look it up, moron.

It was so bad, the only Baseball Tonight was on Sunday morning with John Kruk, Steve Phillips and some other random white guy. Kruk was on, it was watchable.

The NBA, not too much.

Earth calling

So C.C. Sabathia and Erik Bedard are having their troubles. Sabathia is a earned run machine, while Bedard is being Bedard and seeing some DL time. Your No. 3 and No. 4 overall pitchers heading into this season’s draft folks.

Chipper Jones and Purple Lips have strained quads. Chipper is coming off one of the best fantasy weeks ever. Four homers and a .500-plus average can do that. Of course they get hurt on Sunday and their status is not clear. Both say they hope they won’t miss any games. So that means they can play their next game or be placed on the DL. Adjust your lineup accordingly … wait.

Ummm, Cliff Lee is 3-0 with 20 Ks and a 0.40 ERA.

Yahoo Message board fun

So The Jon feels like Jimmy Swaggart up in this mug. You see to promote this site early on, The Jon and Newspaperman became spammers on the Yahoo baseball message boards. We even got 800 hits in one day.

Whyand how? Because we actually answered questions better than most of the “UR TOOPID MAN> YO TEAM SUCJK IMO LMAO HAHAHAHA”

But page hits can be addicting and we were on those boards every day until our eyes started to bleed answering questions like this actual post:

does this trade have a chance at being accepted?
12 team h2h keeper..the guy is looking for speed..
i give figgins/rios i get arod/sheets…does this have a chance?

After answering these moronic posts, we just started to answer yes/no with a link to the Web Site.

Then one of the people that came on this site and asked us for advice started crying about us and there was a backlash. That’s fine. Now the board has a bunch of people that have to bump up their posts because nobody responds to them. Yeah, 800 page hits and we are doing a disservice. So to honor that, let’s take a look at some real posts:

just drafted, wondering if i should look for anything

c-i. rodriquez
1b-c. pena
2b-c. figgins
3b-y. escobar
ss-h. ramirez
of-c. crawford
of-p. burrell
of-v. wells
util-j. hamilton
bn-g. sizemore
bn-a. dunn
bn-a. hill

I know its pretty sick but should i package any of my OF depth for something?

RE: your full of sh!t.must be a 4 man league

Another one:

i give UP i get
Jake Peavy Prince Fielder
joba Chamberlain josh Beckett
Adrián González Wandy Rodríguez
is this a good trade

RE: whos getting who be specific idiot

More:

is this a good trade for me I give Derrek Lee and Magglio and i get Jason Bay and Papi

RE: DONT DO IT YOU DUMB ASSHOLE .. YOU GETTING RIPPED OFF

OK, one more:

the jon, newspaperman where ru?

OK really:

A-Rod or Reyes?
Who is ranked in terms of actual value?
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RE: stop plugging your stupid website.

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