Bucco Ties
As with most fantasy leagues (and really with the great majority of life's endeavors) the quality of the league is dependent on the people involved. And we have some good peoples. My thought is to introduce them all gradually by describing their actions and, in a way, letting them introduce themselves through their own words in e-mails that I will cut and paste into this forum. Biographical info will, of course, be dispensed as necessary to understand certain comments either they - or I - make.
One such instance where a little bio is necessary is happening right ... now.
The owner of the team Operation Shutdown (one of the founding teams in the league and a holder of one of the not-so-sought-after seats on the Commissioner's Panel) is a hearty fan of the Pittsburgh Pirates. Though he hedges that affinity with a nearly equally hearty adoration for the Boston Red Sox (apparently he grew up near both Pittsburgh and Boston ... yet still turned out almost normal), his tickets would be behind the Buccos dugout should those two teams ever meet head to head in an October contest (Grapefruit League games don't necessarily count, and the game we both attended at Fenway last season - with two other owners in the league mind you - only marginally more so, though Joe Table did punch out Billy Mueller in the ninth to preserve a 2-0 Bucco shutout. Geleaux, the moniker of this owner for the purposes of this blog, may or may not have been standing in one of the old concrete aisles at Fenway as this happened waving his Buccos ballcap).
Anyway, knowing what you now know about Geleaux, you can imagine his dismay when he sent this e-mail this morning, copying a headline from what I presume is a Pittsburgh-area paper:
Holy shyte. Throw the draft strategy out the window, again:
Duffy slowed by shoulder
Chris Duffy will be the designated hitter today and will not play center field until Monday because of a previously undisclosed left shoulder injury.
General manager Dave Littlefield said the injury dates to last season and a catch Duffy made against a wall. He called the move to not start Duffy right away "precautionary."
Well, what can I say. This is disappointing on many levels, not the least of which is that - as anyone who saw Duffy play last season knows - this could set back the development of good young defensive centerfielder with a propensity to lace doubles into the outfield gaps. Not to mention, the Buccos fan base is about to hang themselves. Luckily for them they are almost all also Steelers fans (including Geleaux) and can take heart that Troy Polamalu and Hines Ward are absolute beasts. It's also disappointing because, as you can read from Geleaux's e-mail above, he was considering the Duffer as a late round draft pick this season. Though the members of the league do have a running joke that Geleaux drafts/picks up many many Pirates (he had Duffy, Doumit, Perez, Duke, Maholm, Eldred and Salomon "The Beast" Torres at various times throughout last season), Operation Shutdown has had plenty of success (upper division in each of the two innaugural seasons).
As Geleaux characterized the development in a later e-mail:
Complete disaster. If it has been bothering him since last season how is it suddenly going to be better tomorrow? Disaster.
Fortunately the Furmaniak tore up Manatee Community College pitching yesterday, so there is some hope.
That "hope" Geleaux writes of is, of course, J.J. Furmaniak. Find out more about J.J. at this site discovered by Geleaux during his daily search for Bucco blogs: http://jjfurmaniak.blogspot.com
One such instance where a little bio is necessary is happening right ... now.
The owner of the team Operation Shutdown (one of the founding teams in the league and a holder of one of the not-so-sought-after seats on the Commissioner's Panel) is a hearty fan of the Pittsburgh Pirates. Though he hedges that affinity with a nearly equally hearty adoration for the Boston Red Sox (apparently he grew up near both Pittsburgh and Boston ... yet still turned out almost normal), his tickets would be behind the Buccos dugout should those two teams ever meet head to head in an October contest (Grapefruit League games don't necessarily count, and the game we both attended at Fenway last season - with two other owners in the league mind you - only marginally more so, though Joe Table did punch out Billy Mueller in the ninth to preserve a 2-0 Bucco shutout. Geleaux, the moniker of this owner for the purposes of this blog, may or may not have been standing in one of the old concrete aisles at Fenway as this happened waving his Buccos ballcap).
Anyway, knowing what you now know about Geleaux, you can imagine his dismay when he sent this e-mail this morning, copying a headline from what I presume is a Pittsburgh-area paper:
Holy shyte. Throw the draft strategy out the window, again:
Duffy slowed by shoulder
Chris Duffy will be the designated hitter today and will not play center field until Monday because of a previously undisclosed left shoulder injury.
General manager Dave Littlefield said the injury dates to last season and a catch Duffy made against a wall. He called the move to not start Duffy right away "precautionary."
Well, what can I say. This is disappointing on many levels, not the least of which is that - as anyone who saw Duffy play last season knows - this could set back the development of good young defensive centerfielder with a propensity to lace doubles into the outfield gaps. Not to mention, the Buccos fan base is about to hang themselves. Luckily for them they are almost all also Steelers fans (including Geleaux) and can take heart that Troy Polamalu and Hines Ward are absolute beasts. It's also disappointing because, as you can read from Geleaux's e-mail above, he was considering the Duffer as a late round draft pick this season. Though the members of the league do have a running joke that Geleaux drafts/picks up many many Pirates (he had Duffy, Doumit, Perez, Duke, Maholm, Eldred and Salomon "The Beast" Torres at various times throughout last season), Operation Shutdown has had plenty of success (upper division in each of the two innaugural seasons).
As Geleaux characterized the development in a later e-mail:
Complete disaster. If it has been bothering him since last season how is it suddenly going to be better tomorrow? Disaster.
Fortunately the Furmaniak tore up Manatee Community College pitching yesterday, so there is some hope.
That "hope" Geleaux writes of is, of course, J.J. Furmaniak. Find out more about J.J. at this site discovered by Geleaux during his daily search for Bucco blogs: http://jjfurmaniak.blogspot.com
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