Your 2011 The Good Phight Fantasy Baseball Participants

by FuquaManuel on Feb 28, 2011 10:54 PM EST in Fantasy Baseball League

After careful deliberation, I have selected the participants for this year's TGP Fantasy Baseball League. The response to this year's call for applications was overwhelming and I quite enjoyed reading your haikus. You once again illustrated why The Good Phight is widely considered the most poetic Phillies blog on the innernets. One applicant put it best:

The Good Phight: stats, verse

Express themselves freely and

Hold hands in public.

If your name is on the list below, congrats! Soon you should be getting an invite to the league at the email address that you used to register your account here. If you don't, let me know.

Re-ups:

j reed

RememberThePhitans

Jose and the Contrarians

Wet Luzinski

Walcott

Cormican

LondonPhillie

BudVugger

ThinMountainAir

After the jump, the n00bs...

Teh N00bs:

EREX21

Phrozen

dannijd

LeepinLizardz

Trev223

PhilsandThrills

CoburnsCuddleBuddy

FeartheTurtle

FuquaManuel

If you made the cut but are having second thoughts or are thinking that you might not be able to stay involved for the whole season, please let me know ASAP so I can fill your spot with an alternate. Once everyone has joined up, we will discuss stat categories, draft times, league rules, etc.

To those who didn't make it: thanks for applying. I'd like to find a way to start up a second league, as there were more than enough applicants to fill one. Please indicate in the comments if you are still interested in playing and I will try to put something together.

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I never get picked for nothing

by SportingFanaticism on Feb 28, 2011 10:56 PM EST reply actions

Would have helped to apply.

Pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will.

by FuquaManuel on Feb 28, 2011 11:03 PM EST up reply actions

Definitely interested in being in the “Island of Misfit Toys” league.

by Eaglesadvocate on Feb 28, 2011 11:10 PM EST reply actions

Otherwise known as the sixers roster league

by SportingFanaticism on Mar 1, 2011 9:42 AM EST up reply actions

THANK YOU!! In all caps.
I’m so stoked for this season!
You have no idea.

Training for the Phillies 5K Run on March 26th. Hoping I don't embarrass myself :-)

5K training blog: In play, run(s)

by LeepinLizardz on Feb 28, 2011 11:11 PM EST via mobile reply actions 1 recs

Alright! Thanks so much for the acceptance. I’m pretty stoked to give fantasy a try; I’ll be diligent if often terrible at this.

by Trev223 on Feb 28, 2011 11:17 PM EST reply actions

I was a rookie last year and I can’t believe how much fun it was. Really. I thought I would suck, but it turns out I’m a fantasy geek TO THE MAX. I think I’m going to use all my free time from now until Draft Day to read up on sabermetrics and the nuances of Rotiserrie style play. I’m positively giddy. Yay guys!

Training for the Phillies 5K Run on March 26th. Hoping I don't embarrass myself :-)

5K training blog: In play, run(s)

by LeepinLizardz on Feb 28, 2011 11:32 PM EST via mobile up reply actions

Best of luck to this year’s managers. I might reapply next year, but life circumstances precluded any attempts by me to bring down the average skill level of the league this year.

Bob.

by The Dark on Feb 28, 2011 11:17 PM EST reply actions

I’d love to join the B League!

by RodeoJones on Feb 28, 2011 11:42 PM EST reply actions

im still in

sign me up for the second league

by Joe Nolan on Feb 28, 2011 11:45 PM EST reply actions

in for B league

by Nikk.m on Mar 1, 2011 12:11 AM EST reply actions

double: fantasy

Use your screen names, and
keep your mitts off Werth. He’s mine.
(Let the games begin.)

by Wet Luzinski on Mar 1, 2011 12:13 AM EST reply actions

Keep Werth. I’ll take Morse,
Francisco, Valdez, Eckstein.
MVPs: Grit. Clutch.

Training for the Phillies 5K Run on March 26th. Hoping I don't embarrass myself :-)

5K training blog: In play, run(s)

by LeepinLizardz on Mar 1, 2011 12:27 AM EST via mobile up reply actions

FA boards, late night
laughs. Never claimed, full-on fail -
Fucking Jeff Francouer

by j reed on Mar 1, 2011 4:57 AM EST up reply actions 4 recs

FTW. All your haiku are belong to j reed.

I am not a witch.

by RememberthePhitans on Mar 1, 2011 7:22 AM EST up reply actions

A winner is you, j reed.

Training for the Phillies 5K Run on March 26th. Hoping I don't embarrass myself :-)

5K training blog: In play, run(s)

by LeepinLizardz on Mar 1, 2011 9:35 AM EST via mobile up reply actions

thanks FM for the commisshunin.

by Wet Luzinski on Mar 1, 2011 12:18 AM EST reply actions

A B league would be cool

"Who's Been Eatin' Hummus" DJAX

by howard is better than pujols on Mar 1, 2011 12:51 AM EST reply actions

Bueno.

"I remember being three and I wanted to be a baseball player, that's all I ever really wanted to be. That and Spider Man." -Raul Ibanez

by Jose and the Contrarians on Mar 1, 2011 12:57 AM EST reply actions

THANK YOU

Looking forward to being a part of the league this year!!!!

by dannijd on Mar 1, 2011 1:19 AM EST reply actions

Approaching the beginning of Year 3 on this blog…

Cheers to another solid year of arguing with FM, being wrong 85% of the time, staying in the air conditioning on summer nights in Northeast Philadelphia with a couple of beers, talking to people who have a greater appreciation for stats than i will ever have an appreciation for or ever have the ability to understand half of the stats

Good times, am ready for more

inter arma enim silent leges

by CoburnsCuddleBuddy on Mar 1, 2011 2:08 AM EST reply actions

B Leage

sounds good to me! i’m interested.

by BwH_ on Mar 1, 2011 4:22 AM EST reply actions

bs

lets make a second league

soundcloud/kennymproductions check out my music affiliated with hungry entertainment
ive been gettin money since barkley played for us - cassidy

by phillyeaglesfan on Mar 1, 2011 6:10 AM EST reply actions

Seconded.

by Ant on Mar 1, 2011 10:33 AM EST up reply actions

This is starting to look like 3 leagues.

by Cormican on Mar 1, 2011 1:27 PM EST up reply actions

INVITATION EMAILS WENT OUT

If you are on the list but did not get one (n00bs), let me know, and I will check the email address. If the email address is still good, you may need to check your spam filters and let the stuff from CBS go through.

I also sent a general “to everyone” email to confirm the same for the non-n00bs.

I am not a witch.

by RememberthePhitans on Mar 1, 2011 9:06 AM EST reply actions

Apparently the email address associated with my username is from my yahoo account that I have not used in several years and can not reactivate. If I give you another email address can you send the invite there?

BOILER UP!! 2010-2011

"You can commit no mistake and still lose. That is not a weakness. That is life." - Jean-Luc Picard

by EREX21 on Mar 1, 2011 9:24 AM EST up reply actions

Send that to FM’s email address, and he’ll send it on to me. Don’t post it here.

I am not a witch.

by RememberthePhitans on Mar 1, 2011 12:14 PM EST up reply actions

Thanks. I was going to ask if there was a more private way to do it. On the way.

BOILER UP!! 2010-2011

"You can commit no mistake and still lose. That is not a weakness. That is life." - Jean-Luc Picard

by EREX21 on Mar 1, 2011 1:33 PM EST up reply actions

Good luck y’all. I can never keep my attention long enough at the beginning and end of the season. The curse of working in education.

by WanderingMoses on Mar 1, 2011 11:36 AM EST reply actions

That would be with fantasy baseball season, not the actual season. The latter, I never have a problem keeping up with.

by WanderingMoses on Mar 1, 2011 11:37 AM EST up reply actions

Interim manager role for “extra credit project.” Given you teach theology, you could call it, “Virtual Church of Baseball: Operationalizing the Theology of Annie Savoy vis-a-vis the Cult of Base Ba’al.” EZ assessment: By end of school year:

Team Wandering – rank 1-3: A; 4-6: B; 7-9: C; 10-12: D; 13-18: F.

by Wet Luzinski on Mar 1, 2011 9:31 PM EST up reply actions

That’s absolutely brilliant. It’s ironic too, I use Bull Durham as an example of a non-theological religion when I am trying to define the concept of religion for the students in my comparative religions class.

Worshipping Ba’al got the Israelites in hot water with the Lord, but I think the Lord would make an exception for Base-Ba’al…

by WanderingMoses on Mar 2, 2011 9:14 AM EST up reply actions

I hope my fellow leaguers are prepared for another full season of my unrelenting mediocrity.

by Cormican on Mar 1, 2011 1:30 PM EST reply actions

Alright, I’m ready to go. Let’s hope I’m not as cursed with injuries as my football team was.

by FearTheTurtIe on Mar 1, 2011 2:11 PM EST reply actions

Sign me up for the B league

by chase8008 on Mar 1, 2011 5:10 PM EST reply actions

phightin phils fantasy all star league

to all snubbed. i will host the phightin phils all star fantasy league at espn. to all interested no haiku needed just a simple im in.

soundcloud/kennymproductions check out my music affiliated with hungry entertainment
ive been gettin money since barkley played for us - cassidy

by phillyeaglesfan on Mar 1, 2011 5:31 PM EST reply actions

I’m working on putting a second league together, everyone. Hold off on this for now.

Pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will.

by FuquaManuel on Mar 1, 2011 5:38 PM EST up reply actions

http://games.espn.go.com/flb/leagueoffice?leagueId=100754

soundcloud/kennymproductions check out my music affiliated with hungry entertainment
ive been gettin money since barkley played for us - cassidy

by phillyeaglesfan on Mar 1, 2011 5:39 PM EST up reply actions

just let me know all i have to do is send an invite by email and youre in

soundcloud/kennymproductions check out my music affiliated with hungry entertainment
ive been gettin money since barkley played for us - cassidy

by phillyeaglesfan on Mar 1, 2011 5:51 PM EST up reply actions

Yeah, my waiting on young players to break out strategy from last year didn’t really go as well as planned. Matt Weiters and Billy Butler, you are both dead to me

by Walcott on Mar 1, 2011 5:49 PM EST reply actions

I did that too, but I stashed Mike Stanton and Jeremy Hellickson on IR until they got called up. Not that it worked out. If we lose the ability to stash on IR, I’ll probably avoids Rooks like the plague.

by Cormican on Mar 1, 2011 9:28 PM EST up reply actions

Austin Jackson, suckas.

Too bad he and Cabrera were the two shining gems in the mass of suck that was my team…

Bob.

by The Dark on Mar 1, 2011 9:36 PM EST up reply actions

Yeah, I’d be inclined to do the same. I definitely reached on a bunch of my picks based on potential, but only a few panned out as I’d hoped (Brett Gardner, Gaby Sanchez).

by Walcott on Mar 2, 2011 11:27 AM EST up reply actions