Strasburg wept.
And so did his keeper league owners.
The right-hander who seemed sent from above -- the one you mortgaged the first half of this season on just to be sure you drafted him in your keeper league -- appears to be headed for Dr. Lewis Yocum's operating table. (Think of him as the Nationals' personal Dr. James Andrews.)
Hopefully you were preparing for this possibility from the firs...
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Today's Morning Buzz is a double shot of espresso, because diaper duty and such postponed yesterday's post, but there's plenty of news to cover, so let's get to sippin' that fantasy Joe.
TRAGICALLY HIP
So who had anyone other than Old Man Favre as the first Vikings player to need hip surgery this season?
Yeah, me neither.
But unless your league has ample IR spots, you'll want to knock Vikings...
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 We figure no self-proclaimed fantasy sports expert worth his or her salt would pass up a chance to prove his skills, so we jumped at the chance to join the Sports Page Network's Fantasy Football Challenge.
This is a league of epic proportions -- 32 teams with 31 roster spots for each team, including a coach -- so you'll have to know your stuff well enough to uncover a few gems deep in the draft.
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A few thoughts from my first football draft of the season, for which I was woefully unprepared (see my last post about dirty diapers and you'll understand):
• No rush for running backs. The days of drafting RBs in the first two rounds are over, as far as I'm concerned. In fact, if you're picking later than No. 8, you might not even want to pick one in the first two rounds. There are so few slam-...
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 The smattering of followers this blog picked up in its infancy might be wondering where we've been the past couple of weeks. I mean, what kind of fantasy sports blog totally bails in the middle of the MLB trade deadline and can't even muster a post about Brett Favre coming back? (Although to be fair, we did have a post about Favre kind of sort of maybe thinking about not coming back, in which we t...
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