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Let Me Get This Off My Chest

May 18th, 2008 · No Comments

Hi! Long time no bloggy blog.
I just want to check in and point out that the Milwaukee Brewers : Coke 2 :: A real fucking baseball team : Coca-Cola.
Ryan Braun, today, after getting swept by the Red Sox:
“I almost felt like this series, we didn’t expect to win,” Braun said after the 11-7 defeat that […]

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Tags: "blown" managers · "blown" players · Is Betancourt pitching 200 innings? · L A S T · Managers · Napalm · Ned Yost · The Audacity of VORP · Vomit · better than gottsegens · courtesy flush

Projections *

March 18th, 2008 · 5 Comments

Courtesy of Nine Bo Jacksons, I present to you projected results for the 2008 La Ruina season (* excluding Total Bases, OPS, K/BB, and Blown Saves). You can find an explanation for how these results were tabulated at the link, and I’m pretty sure the 2008 individual projections came from RotoAuthority.

Congratulations to Justin (Made […]

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Tags: Draft · I guess the draft doesn't really matter · I think I'm going to win the league this year · Last · Managers · Over/Under · Players Actually Drafted · Portents · Shmota · laruinametrics

2008 La Ruina Draft Results

March 16th, 2008 · No Comments

Keepers are listed in the first three rounds of each team’s draft. Live serpentine draft started in Round 4 with The $3600 Suit picking first and Franklin Comes Alive picking last.

The $3600 Suit (Alex), The Audacity of VORP (John), In PECOTA I Trust (Tony), Made In The Dark (Justin), Bandera’s Mullet (Joey), Rayburn (Bleak), […]

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Tags: Draft · I'm gonna need for you to come in and Draft on Saturday · Managers · Team names · start preparing for fantasy football now

La Ruina Managers Part II: The Utah Chapter

March 15th, 2008 · 2 Comments


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Tags: Managers · Mullets · Rolling Stones · Utah

La Ruina Managers: Part I

March 10th, 2008 · 6 Comments


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Tags: Arrested Development · Brewers · Do Something · Draft · It Just Happened · Keepers · La Ruina Productions · Managers · Ned Yost · Ridiculous · Terrible

Ladies and Gentleman, Your La Ruina 2008 Keeper Rankings…

March 6th, 2008 · 9 Comments

Nature or nuture? This age old question has never been more relevant than it is in La Ruina 2008. It goes to figure that the team with the best keepers should have a nice head start towards making their dream of winning the greatest fantasy baseball league of all-time come true. That […]

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Tags: A lot of these players should have been kept · Draft · How To Be Last After The First Round · I think I'm going to win the league this year · Keepers · La Ruina Press · Managers

La Ruina Draft Tip: Use Visine

March 1st, 2008 · 3 Comments


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Tags: Do Something · Draft · Managers

K-Talk: Blue Magic’s 2008 Keepers

February 27th, 2008 · 6 Comments


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Tags: It Just Happened · Keepers · Managers

Great Moments In La Ruina History: Getting Thrown Out of Yankee Stadium

February 26th, 2008 · No Comments

Kenny reminded me of a great moment in La Ruina history: July 21, 2007 - Getting ejected from Yankee Stadium and then sneaking back in.

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Tags: Disrespecting everyone · Dump · Good Try! · Managers · Yankee Stadium

Top Ten Things I Learned Last Year: By John Crimmings

February 26th, 2008 · No Comments

10) Adam Dunn sucks.
9) Jimmy Rollins is a player worth owning.
8 ) Ryan Freel is not a player worth owning.
7) I should have kept Fausto Carmona after one of the six times I added him.
6) Keepers are valuable.
5) If you make enough trades people will forget your totally hideous […]

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Tags: Distressing News About Your Keeper · Draft · Editted · I "Wrote" This "Myself" · Managers

Expect The Same Turnaround From Me

February 24th, 2008 · No Comments

It’s not fantasy baseball related, but I just wanted to take a moment to point out that my alma mater, Drake University, beat #8 Butler University yesterday to move to a phenomenal 24-3.
To put this in perspective, Drake’s basketball team has been truly awful for the last 20 years. That they’re now one of the […]

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Tags: Managers · Other Sports · Shameless Plug

K-Talk: Draft Day Panic 2007

February 23rd, 2008 · 6 Comments

Okay, I have a confession to make (this feels like I’m Eli Sunday at the end of There Will Be Blood). On draft day after the second round…I panic. It’s true. All the reading, excel spreadsheets, tiers and charts all go out the window. I see red. It all happens so […]

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Tags: Baseball Prospectus · Draft · It Just Happened · Keepers · Last · Laster than Last · Managers · Pecota · Strategy · Terrible · There Will Be Blood · trades