TWIDCBA: Week Eight

In Russia, baseball plays you.

Savage Sickos 369 @ Jackanapes 234.5
One week after putting on a cock-crowing show on the back of the season's second-highest scoring output, the Jackanapes suffered whatever the opposite of the bends is with their parallel-constructed second-lowest scoring output, as Chipper Jones, Randy Johnson and Brett Myers combined for...1 point. Combined. In toto. Despite another poor outing from Erik Bedard, the SaSi's other starting pitchers were able to pick up the slack by garnering at least one win per pitcher, although not much slack was needed given the competition. The SaSis are on a league-high 2 game winning streak, and back in first place in the Immovable Objects division.


The Consummate Bastards 336 @ All the wrong Cubs 360
Given the opportunity, ATWC made the most of it: 18 more AB than the CoBas gave them just 1 more hit, but larger advantages in RBI (35-24) and runs (31-25). Meanwhile, for the CoBas, their extra pitching afforded them the chance to score an advantage in strikeouts (59-39), but also to give up more ER (27-16). The recently released Khalil Greene & Jeremy Hermida combined to go 1-36 in an absolutely Jackanapian performance, thus explaining their releases. ATWC, on the other hand, will gladly ride the wave of whomever it is performing under the guise of Randy Wolf and his team-high performance.

• Randy Wolf 3-year average: 91 IP, 5-4, 65 K, 4.55 ERA
  "Randy Wolf" 2007 numbers: 66 IP, 6-3, 71 K, 3.40 ERA

Must be a full moon.


Slipstream Starlings 328 @ Not So Fragile Flowers 357
Did Jack Cust score more points in the one week before he was picked up by NSFF than he has in the two weeks since joining the team? Yes. Did it matter? No, although it could've gotten real ugly real quick with the SliStars cranking out 13 HR and 55 RBI on the week. Thankfully for the NSFF, the SliStars pitching was just as offensive, with a 6.94 ERA and only 23 K in 46 IP. The starters for NSFF didn't need to put their counterparts on the SliStars to shame (and they didn't), but they received an ample supply of help from Joe Borowski and Billy Wagner, with 6 saves between 'em. Next up for NSFF: the oldest starting rotation to ever grace the DCBA - Schilling, Clemens and Glavine.

Festivus Miracles 316 @ The Darned Sox 315
Eric Chavez leads the FMs to victory and he gets shown the door in appreciation. I tell ya, baseball is such a business nowadays, no loyalty at all. In a stress free loss for TDS, at least they can't look at their bench and wonder 'what if' they made this move or that to screw themselves out of a win; the bench was mercifully unproductive. Not as unproductive as the bullpen, however, which suffered a 7-0 whitewashing at the hands of FM's Hoffman/Nathan duo.


Da Infidels 312 @ Naps 312*
"In the event of a tie in a weekly matchup, the team with the home-field advantage gets the win." DI can't win for tying, as their old, familiar area code - and the first instance of the aforementioned rule needing to be applied in 3+ years - comes back to bite them in the ass (202 wouldn't be a good score, to be fair). A week after upgrading at 3b with the $4 pickup of Troy Glaus (7 pt.), it turns out that the jettisoned Scott Rolen (20 pt.) could've provided the margin of victory. You win some you lose some. To be gentle, I won't amend that. The Naps, in an otherwise unremarkable performance, lost their second reliever to elbow surgery this year. Historical note: Mark Prior was their first round draft pick in 2004, and it's been all downhill for him since then.