Weekend Wrapup

This is going to be quick. I went to the Cards Game on Friday and then followed it up with the Presidents concert at Taste of St Louis. We then went to Dubliner and Lucas Park. Saturday was a blowoff day. I thought I would stay in but ended up going to Soulard. The night was boring but we did have an interesting experience in the Grove at White Castles that night. Sunday was a waste….I’ll leave it at that.

I am still steaming from the bad managerial moves I made over the weekend and the week. The fantasy baseball championship was mine to lose and I didn’t even realize it. I had been losing 6 to 8 since last Sunday. For some reason in my head I thought I had to win two categories to tie it up. I totally missed that I just needed to steal one 1 win to tie it up 7 to 7. It wasn’t till halfway through Sunday that I realized this plus I discovered that I had the tie breaker locked up which was ERA. To go back at step, I would have totally changed my strategy a week ago. I knew going into the series, that my pitching was my strong point and my hitters were in a huge slump. Through the first week, I was winning every pitching category by a good margin except wins (which I was getting blown out in). If I would have only realized at this point, I would have recognized that I needed to win only one hitting category. I tried for assists but couldn’t keep up. Even with playing two infielders in the utility position and 1 in the OF position. I should have just picked all the OF eligible infielders available and locked up the category. But that is where I didn’t mess up in the end. Saturday night, I picked up all the pitchers that I could so I could win Ks and maybe catch up with wins. I woke up Sunday to see my opponent did the same thing. I was actually surprised by this because he had not picked up pitchers the whole series. I checked his team at 11:45 and they were all in his lineup so I played mine. It didn’t even cross my mind that he would wait till the last minute and pull them. Unfortunately he did. We were at a 7 to 7 tie and I had a slim lead in walks and had 7 pitchers going. Once I realized this, I pulled 3 but I still have 4 already going. Unfortunately, I had one pitcher throw 2 walks in a row before getting pulled and another through a walk almost at the same time so I lost the category by 1 stinking walk. To make it even more close, I made a late run at both stolen bases and runs. My team stole 4 bases to get within 1 and I actually thought I had a chance because I had a guy that picked up the day before who had a bunch of steal that week going in the late game. Unfortunately he sat out. So in a two week series, I lost the match-up because I was one shy in a couple different categories in which I only needed one. I would have won if I would have sat all my pitchers from the start.

On the football side, I should win if I hit my projections tonight but my team is a disaster. My defense scored a lot more than my offense but I do have my best player going tonight. I cant decide if I should drop a bunch of my offensive players or not.

I am looking forward to the huge week of St Louis sports. The Blues have their home opener on Thursday. The Tigers also play Nebraska on Thursday which is game that will pretty much define their season outlook. The Cards open up the playoffs this Wednesday and Thursday. Hopefully their bats will turn it around. Luckily we are playing the Dodgers who have been pretty dreadful themselves and who we also dominated this year. Unfortunately, I might miss the first two games. Game 1 because Ill be on a plane back from San Antonio and Game 2 because Ill be in CoMo for the MU game.