Looking foward to looking back at a baseball draft in the books!
Written by TiVo on February 28, 2006
Hey party people,
Just a short update today. If you've been enjoying the recent Rotogods resurgence and started to wonder where we've been the past couple days ... well, we drafted our main baseball league on Sunday afternoon.
Of course, it didn't go off without a hitch. The hairbrained idea to start letting people make their picks four days early and some subsequent drooling-idiot level miscommunication led to three days of bitching to the commissioner for a solution, and then about it after he made it.
That was all old news by the time we really began drafting on Sunday, and since that time at least four Rotogods have taken on the annual tradition of cold-bloodedly honest post-draft analysis, which we will share with you in the coming weeks.
Although our main league, The Matrix, is a 7x5 -- the Ks, errors, pitcher's strikeouts and runs may skew the values held by the 4x4 junkies out there -- there's still value in looking at how we drafted. Which prospects are people a little too high on? We'll tell you where Rickie Weeks, Zach Duke and Jeremy Hermida are being taken. We'll also help you get a grasp on which positions are more shallow than a porn director.
Look for our full draft to be released sometime in the next day or so, followed by the sort of team-by-team breakdown you won't see anywhere else. Yeah, those other sites might have you feeling all warm and fuzzy about the team you just drafted. But if it sucks, the Rotogods will have you scared shitless.
In the meantime, please enjoy our position rankings so far. And if you need something to pass the time until your baseball draft, and you just aren't that into NASCAR leagues that start after the second race, try a death pool. It's sick, but it'll amuse you until A-Rod comes off the board. We share our picks in Rounds 2-5 below.
Rotogods.com spring baseball articles:
Center fielders (a position ranking by Worm)
Third basemen (Dr. Furious)
First basemen, but only the really good ones (Xach)
Shortstops (Father Time)
Second basemen (Xach)
Ryan Howard vs. Jorge Cantu: a tale of two keepers (Xach)
and
Worm's numbers system gives us preseason revelations
Rotogods death pool, Year 2
ROUND TWO:
1. Ape: Manute Bol, age 44
2. El Amin: Rick Flair, WOOOOOOO! (age not provided by idiot twin drafter)
3. Beagle: Ashley Olsen, age 21
4. Fool: Earl Woods, age 73
5. Junky: Ronnie Biggs age 77
6. Xach: Jack Abramoff, age 46
7. Fadda: Jake LaMotta, age 85
8. Ricky: Liza Minelli, age 59
9. Worm: Boris Yeltsin, age 75
10. Tendah: Les Paul, age 90
11. Kenji: Fidel Castro, age 79
12. TiVo: Dick Cheney, age. 65 (DOB: 1/30/41)
ROUND THREE:
1. TiVo: Michael Jackson, age 47 (DOB: 8/29/58)
2. Kenji: James Brown, age 73
3. Tendah: Patsy Ramsey, age 49
4. Worm: Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, age 39
5. Ricky: Kirk Douglas, age 89
6. Fadda: Peter O'Toole, age 73
7. Xach: The Dalai Lama, age 71
8. Junky: Patrick Moore, age 83
9. Fool: Stephen Hawking, age 59 (Jan. 8)
10. Beagle: Mary Kate Olsen, age 21
11. El Amin: Haleigh Poutre, age 11
12. Ape: Ayman Al-Zawahri, age 44
ROUND FOUR:
1. Ape: Damon "Kool-Rock Ski" Wimbley, 38
2. El Amin: Ricky of Rotogods.com (age not provided by idiot twin drafter)
3. Beagle: Salman Rushdie, Age 59
4. Fool: John Tenta (aka Earthquake), age 42
5. Junky: Natalie Holloway age 19
6. Xach: Kurt Vonnegut, age 83
7. Fadda: Jimmy Carter, age 81
8. Ricky: John Goodman, age 53
9. Worm: Phil Rizzuto, age 88
10. Tendah: Jack Black, age 36
11. Kenji: Osama Bin Laden, age 49
12. TiVo: 50 Cent aka Curtis Jackson, age 29 (DOB: 7/6/76)
ROUND FIVE:
1. TiVo: Dan Rooney, age 73 (DOB: 7/30/32)
2. Kenji: Keith Richards, age 62
3. Tendah: Michael Moore, age 51
4. Worm: Henri Dutilleux, age 90
5. Ricky: John Madden, age 70
6. Fadda: Walter Cronkite, age 89
7. Xach: Bill Russell, age 72
8. Junky: Estelle Getty age 82
9. Fool: Kay Yow, age 63
10. Beagle: Scott Weiland, age 39
11. El Amin: Bob Cousy (age not provided by idiot twin drafter)
12. Ape: Warren Buffett (age not provided by idiot twin drafter)
