NORTH PARK LEAGUE: March 2009

More below on the player pictured on the right, but regarding our NPL league members……

How did these 11 baseball gurus do in their fantasy football leagues this past season? Let’s tell ya what we know…….

RICH (Vulcans) said he did not have any fantasy football success this year, but maybe he’s just being modest……

BIG O (Pittsburgh O’s) had the rare out of the money finish in the Spare Room League but says he’s looking for big things in 2009 baseball.

BOB (Big Train) is a Baseball only guy when it comes to fantasy, but give him a football betting game and he’s usually collecting the greenbacks.

EDDIE (Bulldogs) I am told did not strike gold in the BMC leagues but had a good time with Eddie Jr. out in Vegas in the big money league. And that first year out there is a learning experience.

PIFFY (69’ers) didn’t have any picks that clicked in the Sand Pit or Spare Room Leagues this year but he had an in the money 3rd place finish in the seven sport – 12 month MOASP fantasy league which concludes every year with the Super Bowl.

RAVEN (Rock Cats) had another profitable finish in the Sand Pit with his 4th place finish as money back for John in that league is a yearly event.

DAVE (Kooperstown Kids) scored a 3rd in the Sand Pit and the Steelers Super Bowl 43 victory slipped me past Piffy for 2nd place in the previously mentioned MOASP League.

JOHN F (Owls) captured a league championship in the Highmark Fantasy Football League and is looking for a carry-over to baseball.

BIG DADDY (H-Bombs) didn’t win a football league but nonetheless he had some great success in the pigskin sport with a 2nd and a 3rd place finish in the two BMC 12 team leagues.

TONY (Bulldogs) like J-Schom also had a good run in football, with a 4th in the BMC and a 2nd place finish in his rookie campaign of the Spare Room League.

HARV (Lockhorns) meanwhile had a fantasy football season for the ages. Two league championships in one year. Yes, first place money in the Spare Room and the Sand Pit, a league by the way which in 2009 will kick off its 30th consecutive fantasy football season. This gives Harv the mythical title of …..

Will that success roll into the 2009 NPL for the Harvster????

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In other off-season items, we now have that new Penguins coach – Dan Blysma.

Some are calling him a look-a-like for the Noah Bennett character (also referred to as – “Horn Rimmed Glasses”) from NBC’s HEROES.

And speaking of look-a-likes…………. With Robert Morris going to the NCAA’s it will be a busy time for RMU Sports Information Director Marty Galosi.

Galosi is long known for his resemblance to Subway’s Jared Fogle. Although these days Jared is running in elite circles. It was recently reported that Jared now travels in the jet set with an entourage of eight people.

Who knew that Subway’s Jared rolls 9 deep???

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Hey - don’t know if you’ve checked this game out on ESPN.com, but I have to say that I’m somewhat addicted to the “Streak for the Cash” game which you can find about halfway down on the right side of their home page. Gambling anyone????

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And what’s the story with Stephen Strasburg, the college pitcher pictured with the Current Quote?

Well, it seems the H-Bombs have laid claim to having “Discovered” him!!! This college pitcher at San Diego State is 6’ 4”, 225 lbs and it sounds like he’s the real life Sidd Finch. Last year he had a 23 K game and this year he has struck out 58% of the batters he has faced with a fastball that is REGULARLY clocked at 100 to 102 MPH. Another scout says he is already better than A.J. Burnett and he’s a lock to be the #1 pick in this year’s amateur draft in which the Washington Nationals have the 1st pick. But of course he is represented by Scott Boras and Seattle has pick # 2 if the Nats can’t work it out. Sounds like he’s a can’t miss kid, but then again so did Mark Prior when he came out of USC. But in any event, congrats on the “discovery” Big D!!!

What's Tony have to say about this?????????

If you see from the Blog Archives, in March of 2008 we did "The Bat."

And now from an NPL reprint from back in 1998, we do....

"THE GLOVE"

It’s made of leather. But in the right hands it turns into gold.

It snags, scoops, traps and surrounds.

It commits robbery.

Little kids sleep with them. So do some big kids.

It’s the first thing you look at after you miss a grounder.

It’s the only thing between a pitcher and a concussion.

It turns two. And sometimes three.

It makes hot dogs. And snow cones.

It can make you a hero. Or a goat.

It’s as good for swatting flies as it is for shagging them.

It’s where you hide the ball on the hidden ball trick.

Some players go through their whole careers with the same one.

When you spit on it, it doesn’t mean you don’t like it.

It’s the last thing you store away after every season. And the first thing you pull out before the next one.