FACT OR FICTION 2008, ROUND 3
featuring the SBL president-in-training Kip Corbett and, of course, ME!
1) THE NEW-LOOK FLESHY FUNBRIDGES GOT
THE BEST OF THE THREE-TEAM TRADE THAT WENT DOWN THIS WEEK
Kip: fact, duh. jon biddle might be to one
game this year, all the rest of the trade involved them gaining people. the other two teams lost people. I have no idea who zack kaikis is, but he can't be
worth a lee nespor.
Nate: Fact. B.Frank gets the
ringer when took from him in the draft, which has to give him a little chubby,
but I think there’s little doubt Rando came out on
the long end of the stick. He gets Lee Nespor, who is one of the best longball
shooters in the game with tons of experience.
Outside shooting and experience were unquestionably the two biggest
problems on his team. The cherry on the
sundae was a former player of the year finalist in Wareham and the choco sauce was Pat “the Pierogie”
Lackey, who will probably only show up once but is without a doubt one of the
most talented and best loved players in the league.
2) THE MOST SURPRISING STATISTICAL CATEGORY (STATEGORY) LEADER IS TIM MARTIN,
WHO LEADS ASSISTS WITH 3
Kip: fiction. the laser cats are ridiculous this year, the only thing
surprising is that they actually missed three shots that needed tipped back in.
Nate: there are three stategories that have an unlikely leader at this time. Besides Martin on assists, Mike Moroco is not only winning psyche-outs, but pretty much
dominating. And Aryn
Christman with the league lead
in dumb things? Wtf. At first glance Martin would seem to be the
least likely, sitting in front of Shernisky and Tomko
and Frankovich, but when you consider that the
opposing defense will undoubtedly focus their efforts on stopping Tomko and Shernisky, it makes sense that he’d be able to find enough
holes to get some tip-ins. It’s unlikely
he’ll finish the season atop that category.
I’m gonna go with Moroco. Not so much for doing it, but how
devastatingly he’s beating down the rest of the SBL.
3) LEE NESPOR (96 HOMERS) WILL BEAT OUT JON OLSAVSKY (98) AND MIKE MOROCO (91)
TO BECOME THE 4TH SBL PLAYER WITH 100 JACKS
Kip: fact. well it depends, if jon and lee
both show up this week and someone makes light of the situation, then i think jon will probably win
because he's closer. other than that, it’s a toss up.
Nate: Fact. Assuming Jon doesn’t show up, which is what
we’re all expecting, I picture Lee banging at least 4 this week. He’s on a new squad, and captain Rando has never been shy on pulling the trigger on solo
homers. Expect Lee to be raining, and he’ll
probably only need a small percentage of his shots to fall to get the
mark. Mike won’t be there this
week. But make no mistake,
it’s only a matter of time til Mikey
overtakes both Lee and Jon.
4) NO TEAM WITH A WINNING RECORD WILL LOSE THIS WEEKEND
Kip: fact. oatcake
- fleshy and
Nate: Fact. This is one of the more interesting weekends
in baseketball lore.
All of the good teams play all of the bad teams and even the two .500 squads
are facing off. I’m absolutely refusing
to go out on a limb in any way, and I’m taking the favorites to win every time,
which will put a significant amount of seperation
between the best and worst teams in the league.
However, if my picks are wrong and the lesser squads are able to knock
off some of the big guns, instead of seperation we’ll
be back to square one and this season will be anybody’s game.
5) KATIE KELLY SHOULD GET A DUMB THING FOR TRYING TO CHANGE THE NAME OF HER
COURT FROM ‘JAILBAIT GYMNASIUM’ TO ‘PRINCESS PALACE’
Kip: fiction. I’ve
been thinking for some time now that, when get corporate sponsorship we might
have to clean up some of the names we have for things. although,
princess palace is a horrible name.
Nate: Fact. Fact, fact, fact, fact. Fact.
I’m thinking
we just go ahead and name Kippy’s court
6) BOB SPOHN OF THE LASER CATS IS, AS OF NOW, THE MOST IMPROVED PLAYER IN THE
SBL
Kip: fact, no
question.
Nate: woah, big guy. I don’t
know about ‘no question’. First off, is
Bob Spohn even the most improved player on his own
team? Tim Martin was a fill-in last
season with a .333 average, no assists and four double plays. In roughly the same amount of at-bats this
year, he’s well over .500 with 3 assists and 12 double plays. Bob is definitely improved, in all areas but
double plays, but to say this is a no brainer is
pretty ridiculous.
Also, I bet
Derek Lockovich and his .200+ raise in batting
average has something to say in this one.