THE JON: Founder and the most successful fantasy baseballer in the group. Favorite players owned, Vladimir Guerrero, Ichiro, Johan Santana and Roy Halladay. 
He loves you and he loves fantasy baseball. Favorite team, the Red Sox. Spends his day drawing hearts around Mr. David Wright and Mrs. Newspaperman Wright. 
THE OZ: Has been a buster ever since winning TheBaseballStars inaugural season. Favorite team, the A's. Best keeper, Alex Rodriguez. 
FREESANJOSE: The sworn enemy of The Jon, FreeSanJose is the most versatile of the group when it comes to team strategy. Favorite team, the A's. Best keepers, Chase Utley and Ryan Howard. 
POIDOG: Makes the playoffs every year. Has never won a title. Favorite team, the A's. Best players, Jake Peavy and Miguel Cabrera. Still crying over the Dan Haren trade.
The Jon sure feels sorry for Chipper Jones, Yunel Escobar, Magglio Ordonez and Felix Hernandez owners. All went down this week with injuries.
The Jon can’t imagine how it would feel like to have all of those players on one team in an H2H league going against an arch-rival that you literally and wholeheartedly abhor … wait The Jon can.
After a 10-1 shellacking to FreeSanJose, the only solace The Jon can find is Ichiro’s 5-for-5 performance Sunday that allowed The Jon to grab one point … but that’s besides the point. Let’s talk baseball shall we?
Further clarification
Now most bleeding heart fantasy owners would stand high and mighty on some washed out soapbox if four players went down to injury.
You know the whole “You didn’t beat me at my best” fare.
Well, FreeSanJose was already handing it to The Jon. His pitching was a high K, low ERA block party. While The Jon’s staple of pitching was amateur night along the lines of the botched car bombing of Ace Rothstein.
The Jon ain’t no whiner.
The Jon got beat.
Bad.
To FreeSanJose.
Or in other words (this video has a bad word, but The Jon is too old to know the lingo these kids talk today for that acronym to say this video has an expletive. The Oz knows, but he is whipped …
Guess who
Who leads the league in hits? Christian Guzman and Ian Kinsler. Pretty random to be sure.
Who leads the league in average with runners in scoring position? David DeJesus. Now he has bruised ribs. Just when you thought you could play him. Screw it, The Jon is. That’s how bad The Greatness is hurting in RBI.
Who leads the league in stolen bases? Willy Taveras. Yeah, he has 36 and a .248 average. Enjoy.
OK then, who has the most stolen bases with a .300 average? Johnny Damon (.317 and 13 SB = playable) Ryan Theriot (.317 and 13 SB = Punch n’ Judy).
Which two pitchers have 120 innings pitched and 100 K’s? Cole Hamels and Roy Halladay. FreeSanJose, let’s just say we were both wrong. You hate Halladay, The Jon hates Cole Hamels. Ebony and Ivory or something.
Who leads the A.L. in wins? Joe Saunders and Cliff Lee with 11. See Christian Guzman and Ian Kinsler above.
Who went 5-for-5 this week? Why Derrek Lee and …
OK, so
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Yeah this is short
But The Jon has to wrap it up. The Jon has some mystery ailment that visits The Jon every other week. Let’s just say The Jon is afraid to eat and almost passed out at the hospital due to dehydration while in the middle of a blood test. The Jon’s skin is sensitive … purple needle bruises have ensued … so
ESPN, sucks. Baseball Tonight sucks. Fernando Vina sucks. That stupid “take me out to the ballgame” promotion/contest on ESPN sucks.
But The Jon would still work for y’all.
The Jon hasn’t forgotten the No. 4 Best Baseball Movie Ever. It’s coming, just realize The Jon is afraid to eat turkey. OK?
If you can’t beat em’
This week’s music is from Common. Sure, his “Finding Forever” album is like a year old or something, but The Jon always hates Common’s stuff when it first comes out.
That’s because Common is ahead of his time and it takes a year for The Jon to come around. And this video is compilation by youtuber Timo710 … you see he actually spent time processing information in the Information Age. So Timo710, you can embed by request all you want. Thanks for the hard work.
And of course, good luck this week, fools
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