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 ) Anything To Say to your competitors?
-I know Fatty had a medical issue but perhaps we should get Eben checked out . HIs signature on my baseball clearly looks like early onset Parkinson’s
+I know Fatty had a medical issue but perhaps we should get Wilson checked out . HIs signature on my baseball clearly looks like early onset Parkinson’s
 === Commish’s Take: ===
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 ) Favorite moment of Rockem 17 Draft?
-Eben sitting by himself with zero draft material and still drafting a halfway decent team.
+Wilson sitting by himself with zero draft material and still drafting a halfway decent team.
 ) Anything To Say to your competitors?
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 ) How would you rate your draft (feel free to create your own scale)?
-Bagel-less. I mean for real. Jeff had set the precedence for years and then just stops without telling anyone? Its like if Vig decided not to get drunk and fall asleep or Eben started pronouncing players names correctly. I just don't know what to think anymore. Also, I spent most of the time texting picks to toothless Don, so really had to pay attention. Should have just gotten blind drunk with the rest of you.
+Bagel-less. I mean for real. Jeff had set the precedence for years and then just stops without telling anyone? Its like if Vig decided not to get drunk and fall asleep or Wilson started pronouncing players names correctly. I just don't know what to think anymore. Also, I spent most of the time texting picks to toothless Don, so really had to pay attention. Should have just gotten blind drunk with the rest of you.
 ) One pick you were stoked about, One you should have changed?
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-(and nervous)
+(and awfully nervous)
-Seriously, Rockem 27 he will be drinking scotch and milk for his ulcer at this rate. On a side note, say what you will about Cena, but that is one of the top 5 entrance songs of all time. Essentially going pitch pitch with a JD Degree in-between BK locked down the west coast pitchers and CG’s (Update: whoops that Bum is broken again) so he waited on pitchers….and drafted a bunch of average? If BK doesn’t get 12 in Avg I will be shocked with Turner (Update: whoops Red Beard is broken again) Rendon, DJ, Xander (BK’s Bouncing Boy), Belt and Didi...shockingly the most wanted man in Rockem this year. If Mig Cab (Placeholder for the future injury update) returns to form there is another 300 bat.
+Seriously, Rockem 27 he will be drinking scotch and milk for his ulcer at this rate. On a side note, say what you will about Cena, but that is one of the top 5 entrance songs of all time. Essentially going pitch pitch with a JD Degree in-between BK locked down the west coast pitchers and CG’s (Update: whoops that Bum is broken again) so he waited on pitchers….and drafted a bunch of average? If BK doesn't get 12 in Avg I will be shocked with Turner (Update: whoops Red Beard is broken again) Rendon, DJ, Xander (BK’s Bouncing Boy), Belt and Didi…shockingly the most wanted man in Rockem this year. If Mig Cab (Placeholder for the future injury update) returns to form there is another 300 bat.
-Unfortunately, there isn’t a whole lot of pop in ‘dem there bats. I see BK on the waiver wire/trading block a fair bit this year as he tries to make up for that. Also once you get past the big two in the rotation, things are a bit dicey, I know he is a good catholic and all, but Godley? I am not sold on Berrios, but do like the late grab of Salazar.The bullpen cart seems to be running on a bit of empty as well. It should be noted that when looking at Yahoo’s in house predictions below they hated BK’s Offense but gave him the best staff by a lot...so much so they put him in the top third. Do I agree?
+Unfortunately, there isn’t a whole lot of pop in ‘dem there bats. I see BK on the waiver wire/trading block a fair bit this year as he tries to make up for that. Also once you get past the big two in the rotation, things are a bit dicey, I know he is a good catholic and all, but Godley? I am not sold on Berrios, but do like the late grab of Salazar.The bullpen cart seems to be running on a bit of empty as well. It should be noted that when looking at Yahoo’s in house predictions below they hated BK’s Offense but gave him the best staff by a lot…so much so they put him in the top third. Do I agree?
-**Prediction:** Bottom Third.  No. This team just doesn’t get me excited and he has to be on the bottom one of these years right?!?! (I know I know, slow and steady and he will probably eat for free, fucker)
+**Prediction**: Bottom Third. No. This team just doesn’t get me excited and he has to be on the bottom one of these years right?!?! (I know I know, slow and steady and he will probably eat for free, fucker)
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-**Ocean’s Blyleven:**
 ) How would you rate your draft (feel free to create your own scale)?
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 ) One pick you were stoked about, One you should have changed?
-I was psyched to get Adrian Beltre in the 9th round.  I think last year’s poor numbers dropped him a bit too far.  Or perhaps I was still riding my old man love of David Ortiz from a few years back.  Nobody’s ever done.
+I was psyched to get Adrian Beltre in the 9th round. I think last year’s poor numbers dropped him a bit too far. Or perhaps I was still riding my old man love of David Ortiz from a few years back. Nobody’s ever done. Speaking of Old Man Love! (gross) I was ready for Tim Lincecum as my last pick from the first round. Wanted to bookend my draft with over-the-top, promo-level, lead-ins! Less comedic, more strategic picks were there on the final swing for sure.
-Speaking of Old Man Love!  (gross)
-I was ready for Tim Lincecum as my last pick from the first round.  Wanted to bookend my draft with over-the-top, promo-level, lead-ins!   Less comedic, more strategic picks were there on the final swing for sure.
 ) Whose team are you most impressed with?
-Heading into the draft I really thought you NEEDED one of the big 4 SP’s on the board to compete.  As evident by my first round! Looking at the finished products though, I think some folks did nice jobs without ‘em.  Jay Moon’s team looks solid. And can Birdie THREE-PEAT!?!?!? I think he can!
+Heading into the draft I really thought you NEEDED one of the big 4 SP’s on the board to compete. As evident by my first round! Looking at the finished products though, I think some folks did nice jobs without ‘em. Jay Moon’s team looks solid. And can Birdie THREE-PEAT!?!?!? I think he can! Of the folks who got one of the big 4 – Kershaw and BK and The Klube and Fatone will be noisy fo’ sho’.
-Of the folks who got one of the big 4 – Kershaw and BK and The Klube and Fatone will be noisy fo’ sho’.
+) Unfortunately we had a last minute cancellation and we all feel sorry for him, the draft was lesser because of his absence…but what really happened to Fatone??!?
-) Unfortunately we had a last minute cancellation and we all feel sorry for him, the draft was lesser because of his absence...but what really happened to Fatone??!?
 Went to Key West by mistake.
-) As we approach middle to late age for all of us...is the draft finally getting too long? Should we look into Pace of Draft rules?
+) As we approach middle to late age for all of us…is the draft finally getting too long? Should we look into Pace of Draft rules?
-Never.  I hope to see the drafts get longer.  As the years roll by and we all spend less and less time with each another, what a marvelous opportunity to not look at a clock.  And in an era where the game itself is being molested to fit into a speedier format for advertisers and millennials alike, we remain timeless.
+Never. I hope to see the drafts get longer. As the years roll by and we all spend less and less time with each another, what a marvelous opportunity to not look at a clock. And in an era where the game itself is being molested to fit into a speedier format for advertisers and millennials alike, we remain timeless. Rockem Sockem is pure baseball.
-Rockem Sockem is pure baseball.
 ) Favorite moment of Rockem 17 Draft?
-Haha…  Gotta be the balls!   That gracious act by Donald McNally will forever be tied to Kip Winger and Rockem 17.
+Haha… Gotta be the balls! That gracious act by Donald McNally will forever be tied to Kip Winger and Rockem 17. All signatures were on POINT! Everybody walking around to get ‘em signed was GREAT! And I really loved when LINES started to form for people!?! So. Much. Fun.
-All signatures were on POINT!
-Everybody walking around to get ‘em signed was GREAT!
-And I really loved when LINES started to form for people!?!
-So.  Much.  Fun.
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 ) Anything To Say to your competitors?
-Love you all.  And, in case any of you missed it on draft day, I’m totally gonna get the first completely signed baseball when I head back west.
+Love you all. And, in case any of you missed it on draft day, I’m totally gonna get the first completely signed baseball when I head back west.
-**Commish’s Take**:
+=== Commish’s Take: ===
-//**“It's the learning fuckin' nothin', Al, that keeps me young”** //
-Do you really need to read this? Didn’t you hear me insult him all draft? This team sucss...wait a second...Maybe you should read this...as Bobby sang…
+**“It's the learning fuckin' nothin', Al, that keeps me young”**
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 Even though that song makes me think of Wilson every time I hear it, this year it pertains to Mike. During the draft it kinda became a bit, but when doing this preview I started to come around on the man’s squad…that sounds dirtier than it should. While the Max pick is still a tad shocking things seemed to fall into place after that. Sanchez Springer Cuz and Myers (Mike’s Bouncing Boy) will all put up numbers if they aren’t exactly sexy.
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 ) How would you rate your draft (feel free to create your own scale)?
-A 7.5 on the diabetes sugar test (3-5.5 is healthy). For I spent the entire draft fielding questions about whether or not I had Parkinsons Disease. Bull started it. Tom later leapt on with comparisons to Michael J. Fox, and so it goes. "One-Foot-in-the-grave Wilson," and all that. I was shakin worse than Jack White. The night before, rather than eating food, I arrived in The Big Apple and didn't take a bite, but instead immediately met the Commissioner in midtown and tied one on. Then, instead of dinner, we went to Billymarks and doubled the knot. The next morning, instead of inviting me to breakfast, like women do, the Commissioner instructed me to meet him back at Billymarks for a beer. Then I went to Long Island City and started drinking. In consequence, the early hours of the draft are a casserole of faint memories of sticking to a plan I never made while desperately trying to hold a jumping pen still and sign baseballs, like post-cirrhosis Mickey Mantle. In short, I don't think this was the draft that gave me Parkinsons. I think this was the draft that gave me Diabetes. And here's the thing…totally worth it. Most of the time when I return from Rockem the diseases I'm worried about are not treatable. Instead, all that nerve-frayed shaking rounded up to my all-time-favorite draft roster. I haven't heard of 90% of my players. Who the hell is the wonderful and unstoppable Tim Anderson? Who drafted him? The shakes! That's who. And between having my best-performing pitching staff to date (two weeks in, anyway), despite not having drafted a pitcher early, I'm thrilled. This very well may be the fantasy draft equivalent of The Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant–in that nobody lays it out like a dying man.
+A 7.5 on the diabetes sugar test (3-5.5 is healthy). For I spent the entire draft fielding questions about whether or not I had Parkinsons Disease. Bull started it. Tom later leapt on with comparisons to Michael J. Fox, and so it goes. "One-Foot-in-the-grave Wilson," and all that. I was shakin worse than Jack White. The night before, rather than eating food, I arrived in The Big Apple and didn't take a bite, but instead immediately met the Commissioner in midtown. Then, instead of dinner, we went to Billymarks. The next morning, instead of inviting me to breakfast, the Commissioner instructed me to meet him back at Billymarks for a beer. Then I went to Long Island City and had more. In consequence, the early hours of the draft are a casserole of faint memories of sticking to a plan I never made while desperately trying to hold a jumping pen still and sign baseballs, like post-cirrhosis Mickey Mantle. In short, I don't think this was the draft that gave me Parkinsons. I think this was the draft that gave me Diabetes. And here's the thing…totally worth it. Instead, all that nerve-frayed shaking rounded up to my all-time-favorite draft roster. I haven't heard of 90% of my players. Who the hell is the wonderful and unstoppable Tim Anderson? Who drafted him? The shakes! That's who. And between having my best-performing pitching staff to date (two weeks in, anyway), despite not having drafted a pitcher early, I'm thrilled. This very well may be the fantasy draft equivalent of The Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant–in that nobody lays it out like a dying man.
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 ) Whose team are you most impressed with?
-Don's. Either, of course, but actually McNallys. I think his team's got legs this year. He took a Winstonian amount of time on a few of those picks. We'd start to habitually yell at Jeff, only to spot an empty seat and then look over to see Don frantically staring at a computer screen, belaboring critical decisions. That happens when people get pregnant. Critical decisions come slower, sex gets better, you start stressing over space and color schemes like some coked-up interior designer from the 80s, and undergirding every thought is the notion that some erections can cost you upwards of a half-million dollars. That changes a man. It upends his thinking. And if one's Rockem team has historically been a loser, it follows that screwy hormones will change one's approach and foster a winner. You want to turnaround your Rockem team? Knock somebody up. (For further reading, see Birdie). 4) Unfortunately we had a last minute cancellation and we all feel sorry for him, the draft was lesser because of his absence…but what really happened to Fatone??!? He stopped into a church, he passed along the way. He got down on his knees, and he began to pray. California dreaming. In truth I can't say what happened to Fatone. Inference, in his lone case, would only insult the possibilities and undoubtedly come up short. For I know what happens when I'm with Fatone. We all do. Sit on that for a minute. What happens when he doesn't make it is likely the stuff that would make Hunter S. stay in for the night.
+Don's. Either, of course, but actually McNallys. I think his team's got legs this year. He took a Winstonian amount of time on a few of those picks. We'd start to habitually yell at Jeff, only to spot an empty seat and then look over to see Don frantically staring at a computer screen, belaboring critical decisions. That happens when people get pregnant. Critical decisions come slower, you start stressing over space and color schemes like some coked-up interior designer from the 80s, and undergirding every thought is the notion that some erections can cost you upwards of a half-million dollars. That changes a man. It upends his thinking. And if one's Rockem team has historically been a loser, it follows that screwy hormones will change one's approach and foster a winner. You want to turnaround your Rockem team? Knock somebody up. (For further reading, see Birdie).
+) Unfortunately we had a last minute cancellation and we all feel sorry for him, the draft was lesser because of his absence…but what really happened to Fatone??!?
+He stopped into a church, he passed along the way. He got down on his knees, and he began to pray. California dreaming. In truth I can't say what happened to Fatone. Inference, in his lone case, would only insult the possibilities and undoubtedly come up short. For I know what happens when I'm with Fatone. We all do. Sit on that for a minute. What happens when he doesn't make it is likely the stuff that would make Hunter S. stay in for the night.
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 ) Anything To Say to your competitors?
-You will be having the victory dinner this year in Washington, DC, at an establishment called Archibalds. Fair warning, it has no champagne room. However–and to paraphrase the study tapes my mother once bought me in middle school–"Where there is a will, there is a way. And where there is a will, there is an A (which stands for Archibalds, where I will see you on the first weekend of December)."
+You will be having the victory dinner this year in Washington, DC.
 === Commish’s Take: ===
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 Ahh but old habits die hard and old names are tough not to call out in a draft room. Sally Perez? Kinsler? Zimmerman (Wilson’s Bouncing Boy) returns home, drafts Pham high but are those stats repeatable? Perhaps the most interesting thing is Wilson's one man closer run. This could make him very active on the trading blocks (looking at you two McNally and Vig). Then again he may need a starter more if Lester, Price, Porcello and Sabathia all pitch their age…
-**Prediction: **Top Third. Somehow I think this team sneaks into the fight for free eats…I am not quite sure how…but I think there is a bit of magic here. Now the real question, will Eben take off his jacket at dinner? or will he just wear his midtown uniform:
+**Prediction: **Top Third. Somehow I think this team sneaks into the fight for free eats…I am not quite sure how…but I think there is a bit of magic here. Now the real question, will Wilson take off his jacket at dinner? or will he just wear his midtown uniform:
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 ) Whose team are you most impressed with?
-Eben, impressed with the closer drafting strategy….lets see if it pans out this year
+Wilson, impressed with the closer drafting strategy….lets see if it pans out this year
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 === Mike Ryniec Guest Preview: ===
-The older I get, the more I realize that there are very few good things and very few bad things in life. Mostly, it’s just how you look at all of it. The jagerbomb is either half full… or… you probably put too much red bull in it. But I digress. So how do I see Shawn’s team? I see it like this, of course! PREVIEW: Was that a draft? The Commish really outdid himself this time… Perennial single category contributor Dee Gordon in the 3rd round. Yikes! I love SB’s as much as the next guy but you can get them from folks who can also fill up the stat sheet in other meaningful ways. Follow that up with one-year-wonders like Justin Smoak and a non-C eligible Kyle Schwarber to round out an overall ho-hum squad.
+The older I get, the more I realize that there are very few good things and very few bad things in life. Mostly, it’s just how you look at all of it. The jagerbomb is either half full… or… you probably put too much red bull in it. But I digress. So how do I see Shawn’s team? I see it like this, of course!
+PREVIEW: Was that a draft? The Commish really outdid himself this time…
+Perennial single category contributor Dee Gordon in the 3rd round. Yikes! I love SB’s as much as the next guy but you can get them from folks who can also fill up the stat sheet in other meaningful ways. Follow that up with one-year-wonders like Justin Smoak and a non-C eligible Kyle Schwarber to round out an overall ho-hum squad.
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-How about that pitch… Justin Verlander’s renaissance was a delight last year, particularly in the postseason, but 4th round seems early… way early. After Greinke, we get to the likes of Michael Wacha and Chase Anderson? Oof! Gonna be some kinda year for Shawnee. PREDICTION: Bottom Third. Dare I say, last in the whole crazy thing. OR! maybe it looks like this…. PREVIEW: Was that a draft! The Commish really outdid himself this time… The opening back-to-back bats will be a race to the NL MVP – Bryant and Rizzo are ridiculous enough WITHOUT that 2B eligibility on Tony! Getting monster stats from a tough position, always a plus. Follow that up with players finally putting it all together like Trevor Story and the sexiest man alive Yasiel Puig to round out an overall woop-woop squad.
+How about that pitch… Justin Verlander’s renaissance was a delight last year, particularly in the postseason, but 4th round seems early… way early. After Greinke, we get to the likes of Michael Wacha and Chase Anderson? Oof! Gonna be some kinda year for Shawnee.
+PREDICTION: Bottom Third. Dare I say, last in the whole crazy thing.
+OR! maybe it looks like this….
+PREVIEW: Was that a draft! The Commish really outdid himself this time…
+The opening back-to-back bats will be a race to the NL MVP – Bryant and Rizzo are ridiculous enough WITHOUT that 2B eligibility on Tony! Getting monster stats from a tough position, always a plus. Follow that up with players finally putting it all together like Trevor Story and the sexiest man alive Yasiel Puig to round out an overall woop-woop squad.
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-How about that pitch… Doolittle and Davis are tops, with Andrew Miller along for supreme ratios and a vulture save or two for good measure. Maybe more if Cody Allen slips at some point. Watch out! Gonna be some kinda year for Shawnee. PREDICTION: Top Third. Dare I say, first in the whole crazy thing. * this review inspired by my top-notch analysis of Giancarlo Stanton definitely going anywhere between the first and seventh picks. In our league? Who the heck can predict anything!
+How about that pitch… Doolittle and Davis are tops, with Andrew Miller along for supreme ratios and a vulture save or two for good measure. Maybe more if Cody Allen slips at some point. Watch out! Gonna be some kinda year for Shawnee.
+PREDICTION: Top Third. Dare I say, first in the whole crazy thing.
+* this review inspired by my top-notch analysis of Giancarlo Stanton definitely going anywhere between the first and seventh picks. In our league? Who the heck can predict anything!
 **Commish Prediction**: Top Third, I like these guys and think they got a real shot. (insert Major league they're still shitty here)
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 Kluber Archer Hamels have potential to challenge Tom for the best big three if Cole is back in form while Riverio and Iglesias add up to a decent bullpen. This preview started with me pinning Vig’s hopes on Bellinger, I will end it by saying I think Fatty’s team is tied to Whit Merrifield (Fatone’s Bouncing Boy). If he matches last year or even exceeds I think Fatty has a shot for free eats…but I am not betting on it.
-**Prediction: **Middle Third. Just don’t see enough stick from the Left Coast Guinea. **Yahoo Rankings:** So now Yahoo does their own predictions, You can see the full info here but I broke it down and added it up below: {{:rockempred.png?nolink&980x398}}Yahoo thinks the Best O: JV, Moon, Worst O, BK, SPD
+**Prediction: **Middle Third. Just don’t see enough stick from the Left Coast Guinea.
+**Yahoo Rankings:** So now Yahoo does their own predictions, You can see the full info here but I broke it down and added it up below:
+{{:rockempred.png?nolink&980x398}}Yahoo thinks the Best O: JV, Moon, Worst O, BK, SPD
 Yahoo thinks the Best P: BK (a lot), D Mac Worst P: Bull (by a lot), Bird