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✖! what are you doing with your team? Buck Farmer?!

FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Wednesday, 7 April 2021 17:14 (three years ago) link

If you have a problem with Buck Farmer you have a problem with me

, Wednesday, 7 April 2021 20:42 (three years ago) link

(I'm trying to pick up potential vulture saves)

, Wednesday, 7 April 2021 20:43 (three years ago) link

saves aren't even a stat on their own in our league! Buck Farmer!!

FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Wednesday, 7 April 2021 20:50 (three years ago) link

oh, i have a new team name if anyone wants to give it a good home: Fedde Gott Fingers

FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Wednesday, 7 April 2021 20:52 (three years ago) link

yeah but saves are easier to hunt for than holds

, Wednesday, 7 April 2021 22:22 (three years ago) link

late on this but Will, my team name is currently:

BillyChildishBambino

#dokeepup

Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Thursday, 8 April 2021 03:18 (three years ago) link

Aw I could've sworn I checked to see if Hampson was available last night

, Thursday, 8 April 2021 20:34 (three years ago) link

He’s doing well? Drafted him last year with high hopes but he was a serious let down.

FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Thursday, 8 April 2021 21:07 (three years ago) link

You're welcome to Byron Buxton, who for the first year since he came up is on neither of my fantasy baseball teams. By letting him go I have freed him to be really really good at baseball

Kompakt Total Landscaping (Will M.), Sunday, 11 April 2021 19:49 (three years ago) link

Received with open arms 💪 thank you!

francisF, Monday, 12 April 2021 16:39 (three years ago) link

Well I give up. Max Fried died on me yesterday. Plesac and McCullers imploded today. This fantasy season has gone about as good as the last year of my life. I give up.

FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Thursday, 15 April 2021 01:19 (three years ago) link

Warning to any fans of Casey Mize: i have added him to my team, be ready for his arm to fall off or a piano to fall from space and land on him. apologies in advance.

FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Friday, 16 April 2021 14:36 (three years ago) link

april isn't even halfway over!

i keep telling myself with my >6 team ERA!

Kompakt Total Landscaping (Will M.), Friday, 16 April 2021 18:03 (three years ago) link

you can't win your league in the first month, but you sure as hell can lose it!

FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Friday, 16 April 2021 19:11 (three years ago) link

trying to think of a better mize-centric team name than You Can't Hide Your Lyin Mize

, Friday, 16 April 2021 23:24 (three years ago) link

Real Meyez RealMize Real Miez

, Friday, 16 April 2021 23:24 (three years ago) link

Then this one I just came up with will be of no help to you: Skubal Drew

FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Saturday, 17 April 2021 00:08 (three years ago) link

every time i read "skubal" my brain goes "from the bottom of the skubal, cackalacky to new yawk" which is probably too long

, Saturday, 17 April 2021 02:10 (three years ago) link

A criminal Mize
is ball I
ball I've every thrown

francisF, Saturday, 17 April 2021 13:28 (three years ago) link

ever*

francisF, Saturday, 17 April 2021 13:28 (three years ago) link

Mize da B'y

Kompakt Total Landscaping (Will M.), Monday, 19 April 2021 19:19 (three years ago) link

so yahoo is beta-testing longer team names. I've signed us up. I'll let you all know when we can all finally rename our teams the text from entire novels.

FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Monday, 19 April 2021 19:35 (three years ago) link

hey maybe i can at least use my full team name, including the parenthetical

na (NA), Monday, 19 April 2021 19:46 (three years ago) link

ok guys. our team name limit is 30 characters! go to town, and since it's in testing lmk if you experience any weirdness and i can let the yahoo dev team know.

FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, 20 April 2021 15:21 (three years ago) link

worked for me

na (NA), Tuesday, 20 April 2021 15:22 (three years ago) link

yes, i see you really thought that one through.

FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, 20 April 2021 15:37 (three years ago) link

ha, i happened to be in there before you posted and thought i would go ahead and try

na (NA), Tuesday, 20 April 2021 15:43 (three years ago) link

perfect length for my team name, but i was getting used to the fire emoji i had to save space 😕
it doesn't display the full length when i'm on the My Team page, btw

francisF, Tuesday, 20 April 2021 16:08 (three years ago) link

mobile or desk/laptop?

FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, 20 April 2021 16:55 (three years ago) link

and is it just truncating, with the "..." at the end? it's showing up fine on both my phone and desktop.

sorry for the questions, part of signing up for the testing was providing feedback.

FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, 20 April 2021 16:58 (three years ago) link

ok, so my last post seemed to have disappered, anyway,

I was wrong actually it puts the last word "Jeffress" on a second line on my team page on desktop

francisF, Tuesday, 20 April 2021 20:47 (three years ago) link

utterly broken!

https://i.postimg.cc/SxQBGgMp/image.png

, Tuesday, 20 April 2021 23:47 (three years ago) link

How are your keepers doing?

Juan Soto - IL for 2 weeks (?)
Adalberto Mondesi - IL for ??? Hasn't swung a bat since spring training
Kyle Tucker - Mendoza OBP(!), enjoying a 0-14 slump including 3 games in Denver
Nick Castellanos - started red hot but currently SUSP for flexing after scoring post-HBP (didn't touch anyone, had his hands behind his back)
Matt Olson - verrrrry slow start but I have nothing to complain about at all (except for a CS today)

Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Thursday, 22 April 2021 02:28 (three years ago) link

Lindor: SLG .195
Albies: SLG .333
Bryant (my lone ray of sunlight, in his final keepable year): SLG .623
Pearson: DL, working his way back
Soroka: DL and, i quote, "not good"

keeper hopefulls... Robles: SLG .255; Kelenic: NA; Plesac: imploding with a 6.75 ERA and finally max Fried: DL with an 11.45 ERA.

my team is a disaster wrapped in a catastrophe.

FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Thursday, 22 April 2021 05:06 (three years ago) link

nola - excellent
giolito - very good except for his one terrible start against boston
baez - pretty much as expected - very low avg/OBP but good HR producer and surprising source of steals
alonso - slow start but the mets have only played like half their games so far
paddack - pretty good, trending better in his last couple of starts, still has a very dumb haircut

the keepers have not been the problem for me, my high draft picks have not been producing to expectations

na (NA), Thursday, 22 April 2021 13:22 (three years ago) link

Just noticed that yahoo! may have paywalled the little clickable info box next to each player's name?

Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Thursday, 22 April 2021 16:01 (three years ago) link

They’re working fine for me right now. Just the new tools have been paywalled from what I can tell.

FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Thursday, 22 April 2021 18:08 (three years ago) link

i have my 5 keepers from last year and a few new options:
MACHADO - awesome as always
GALLO - .455 OBP, not much else
JIMENEZ - :(
FLAHERTY - doing a lot better this year, I'm relieved
MAY - gamble paid off so far (he's starting and excelling)

GLASNOW - I picked him #1 overall and it was not a mistake
BUXTON - HOLY $HIT this guy is 26 :D
AROZARENA - not too awesome so far

francisF, Thursday, 22 April 2021 23:22 (three years ago) link

Fuck you people and your successful picks!

FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Friday, 23 April 2021 00:11 (three years ago) link

not #1 overall, but #5 in the draft (Glasnow)

francisF, Friday, 23 April 2021 01:06 (three years ago) link

My keepers:
Luis Castillo: Awful start. 7.15 ERA, under 7.5 K/9.
Mookie Betts: Missed some games, fine but not the tier I want from Betts.
Nolan Arenado: Also not playing to his full potential but not a disaster.
Wander Franco: I didn't draft him to play in 2020. Or 2021. Or maybe 2022. So... no surprises?
Zac Gallen: Seems like he's doing a great job for X's team! Traded for Strasburg (lol injured. Two starts, I missed the lights-out one and got tagged for the terrible one) and Rizzo (a couple of poor weeks and so far one good one)

Also drafted for potential keeping:
Trent Grisham: Mashing when he's not on the IR.
Pablo Lopez: four starts, only one (real) bad one. Excited!
Ha-Seong Kim: at this point droppable.
Cavan Biggio: .281 OBP for a guy I drafted hoping for a killer OBP. hahahah
Dinelson Lamet: Lol drafted on the IR, got back, pitched two innings, IR.

COOL SEASON WILL

Kompakt Total Landscaping (Will M.), Friday, 23 April 2021 20:00 (three years ago) link

the good news keeps rolling for my team...

Counsell said Yelich "has hit a plateau." Is going back to Milwaukee for MRI.

— Tom (@Haudricourt) April 24, 2021

FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Saturday, 24 April 2021 17:37 (three years ago) link

well, i chose a good day to pick up cedric mullins.

j.q higgins, Tuesday, 27 April 2021 01:25 (three years ago) link

Damn, nice one.

OTOH I have one (1) single today in 20 ABs. I've been incredibly lucky this season... I was wondering when the wheels were gonna fall off.

Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Tuesday, 27 April 2021 02:46 (three years ago) link

last night I had a K:BB of 26:0 until May walked one guy to cap it off

francisF, Tuesday, 27 April 2021 04:15 (three years ago) link

holy cow!

j.q higgins, Tuesday, 27 April 2021 10:48 (three years ago) link

Two players on my team had 7 RBI games in the past week!

Unfortunately, both were benched at the time :(

NoTimeBeforeTime, Wednesday, 28 April 2021 12:24 (three years ago) link

you benched Vlad?!

FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Wednesday, 28 April 2021 16:33 (three years ago) link

I mean if you don't want him...

, Wednesday, 28 April 2021 17:31 (three years ago) link


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