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05/26/2009 2:44 PM ET
Mehring Monday 5/26: It's a Fantasy
By Chris Mehring / Wisconsin Timber Rattlers
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 The Baltimore Orioles were forced to go on an unprecidented 117 game road trip to accomodate Mehring's fantasy team at Camden Yards.
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NOTE: I know that it's Tuesday, but it's the
first day of the work week after a holiday weekend. So in my mind, it's a
Mehring Monday. Of course, in my mind it's always a Mehring Monday.
One of my biggest pet peeves is when people talk
about their fantasy teams...Football, baseball, NASCAR, whatever. One of the
questions I get the most is What do you do on the bus for long trips? In
today's Mehring Monday, I will answer that question with a pet peeve. Because on
yesterday's trip from Beloit to Dayton, the staff selected our Pursue the
Pennant teams.
If you are unfamiliar with Pursue the Pennant, it
is like the old Strat-o-matic games, except instead of cards and dice, a
computer will do the computations and give you the results. I prefer this type
of baseball computer game to the video games where you need to hold down three
buttons and move left to throw to first. Plus, years in the radio booth have
ruined my hand-eye-coordination.
The respective GMs and managers are Jeff Isom,
Chris Hook, Matt Erickson, Aaron Hoback, Jake Marx, and myself. We selected
teams based on the 2008 Major League stats and went to work about an hour into
the bus ride.
Since this is Mehring Monday, this column is
about my team. I can't worry about someone else's team.
Somehow, I lucked into the first pick of the
draft. We had to pick a stadium first. I went with Camden Yards in Baltimore. To
stock my team I went with mainly with straight OPS selections for hitters and
GO/AO ratio for pitchers.
Based on last year's statistics, if you had the
#1 pick in the draft who would you select? Well -- since two weeks ago -- when
Jeff got the disc in the mail, I said that I would take Albert Pujols if I had
that #1 pick. I didn't waver.
The draft took quite awhile, but all six of us
have a roster of 25 players. I'm not going to give you my whole roster, but this
is what my Opening Day Lineup will look like.
Curtis Granderson CF
Chase Utley 2B
Albert Pujols 1B
Ryan Braun DH
Nick Markakis RF
Aramis Ramirez 3B
Stephen Drew SS
Carlos Quentin LF
Russell Martin C
Roy Oswalt SP
The rest of my starting
rotation is:
Mike
Mussina
Mark
Buehrle
Aaron
Cook
Chad
Billingsley
And I can use either Joakim Soria or Jose
Valverde as a closer.
I like my chances. Who do you like in the pursuit
of this pennant?
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