[Mikey]

Solly, you suck.

Go.

[The Jewish Cunthead]

I still can't believe I almost blew an 11-3 lead to Army. We were tied 6-6-2 (one of the ties was losses) as Sunday was wrapping up. He would have won the ERA tiebreaker so I needed a miracle. Enter Rockies-Cards. He had Lohse going for the Cards and was the losing pitcher on record as the Rockies took a 4-3 lead into the 9th. The Cards had 1st and 3rd with 1 out. A tie game gets Lohse off the hook and I lose. This is what happened.

espn.go.com/video/clip?id=4509737&categoryid=2521705

[Mikey]

Advancing to the finals on such shenanigans is grounds for forfeiture. Concede now. In related news, Kuroda got rocked by the friggin PIRATES today to give you the early lead.

In unrelated news, Kuroda's probably my best pitcher available this week with Johan done, Carp traded to some bum, Lester drilled with a line drive, Z cut because he's being saved for Game 4 and decided to post a 15 ERA for the past month or so in retaliation, and about a half dozen other screwball things to happen to my staff this year - some of it my own doing.

Also, you were supposed to post "Go now?" You should lose for that oversight, too.

[The Jewish Cunthead]

Kuroda's your best pitcher and you're giving ME shit?

[Lucky]

Sept 28, 2009 14:45:27 GMT -5 Mikey said:

Advancing to the finals on such shenanigans is grounds for forfeiture.

Says the guy who won the division on a tiebreaker.

[Mikey]

Well, had you been able to beat me this year, Clucky...

And Solly, you still have Jose JoseJoseJose Jose Jose on your roster. I'm shaking in my boots.

[The Jewish Cunthead]

Yeah well, he's still day-to-day.

[Mikey]

YOU are day to day.

[Mikey]

MILLWOOD BITCHES!!!

[The Jewish Cunthead]

FUCK A MILLWOOD

I wish I had Carp's HR and 6 RBI today but I'll take my 9-4-1 lead heading into Friday.

[Mikey]

It's getting INTERESTING going into the weekend.

[The Jewish Cunthead]

Sorry, make that 10-4 going into Saturday...

[Mikey]

Yeah, but there are 10 points still up for grabs... 8 of the ones you lead and two of the ones that I have.

I don't think steals and saves are going anywhere, and I doubt you catch me in holds and me catch you in offensive K's. But I've at least made AVG, OPS, ERA, and WHIP competitive... and it's still a toss up. I'd give you a 62% chance of winning this thing at this point.

[The Jewish Cunthead]

I learned my lesson against Army last week. This is going down to Sunday afternoon, that's for damn sure.

[Mikey]

Good work, Solly... my bats woke up way too late for it to matter. Kudos to my waiver wire weekend staff for keeping things interesting. 2.15, 0.99, 25 K's over 29 innings on Sunday. But when your team hits .387/1.072 to rally on the last day and LOSES ground, you know it's not your day.

Two Finals losses in three years... I'll take the money, but damn.

[The Jewish Cunthead]

Seemed like all of my moves worked out. Picked up Ordonez and Bautista last night as insurance and they go 6-9 with 2 HRs.

[Lucky]

Congrats to Solly.

Equal congrats to everyone who had a good season and didn't choke to all hell. Looks like Mike nabs 2nd and I'll figure out the tiebreaker for 3rd although I believe its ERA which means Army would grab the 3rd place prize along with the regular season prize. GM wins the Consolation Bracket and the right to the 1st pick in the 2010 Draft, so I guess something worked out for him with all those deadline moves.

I'll contact all you guys by the end of the week about payments. Gotta settle some stuff up. If you haven't heard from my by the weekend remind me but hopefully your checks will go in the mail no later than next week.

Congrats everyone. In case you needed reminding minor league rosters are now locked until next season. You can trade picks or players (including minor leaguers) and keepers will be declared sometime around February. Give me time to catch up and clean the fed up like I do every year.

[Sparty]

Can someone explain to me how I won the consolation bracket. I thought I was done after I lost in the first round.

[Lucky]

The Consolation setup in ESPN is kind of retarded. Its not actually a bracket. The bottom 6 teams get paired up in tiers. 7vs8, 9vs10, 11vs12. The loser of each matchup falls down a level while the winner moves up (or stays on the top level if he was 7/. So, the Loser of 7/8 (you) faces the winner of 11/12 in Rd 2. Whichever one of them wins gets into the final game.

Its a screwy system mainly because ESPN doesn't intend it to be a playoff. It worked better in Yahoo because they run a consolation bracket, but ESPN sees no point and simply does it to keep the other teams active. I don't think anyone's actually ever broached the issue before but I suppose if we wanted to we could run our own bracket next season.

[Jack Quinn]

I would MUCH rather do a bracket. I had to ask Sop last night who won because 4 of the teams in the losers consolation thing went 2-1, one went 1-2 and one went 0-3

[Lucky]

Unless anyone else objects I'll add it to my To Do List for league changes this winter. Should be no more difficult than me keeping track of it on paper and then editing the matchups every Monday.

[Jack Quinn]

Does this mean that the two highest seeds in the losers bracket (7 and would get first round byes?

[The Jewish Cunthead]

Oct 5, 2009 18:44:58 GMT -5 Jack Quinn said:

I had to ask Sop last night who won

I did.

KISS THE RING, BITCH~!

[Jack Quinn]

you're welcome

[Lucky]

Oct 5, 2009 19:03:25 GMT -5 Jack Quinn said:

Does this mean that the two highest seeds in the losers bracket (7 and would get first round byes?

Yes. I guess that would work out as the 2nd round being #7 vs #10/#11 and #8 vs #9/#12.