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How are your team(s) doing?

Are they a lock for the playoffs? Are they in contention or are they way out of it?

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1st place in my keeper league. By quite a bit. I'm just hoping my guys don't go cold in September.

Dead last in the other league I'm in. Can't buy healthy pitching or hitting.

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Comfortable 1st place. Held it all year outside of a 2 week stretch in late June.

Would like to beef up my OF, but can't find a suitable trade partner. All of the also-rans don't check in on their teams to see my trade offers to them, and others are simply dumb and reject them (maybe why they are languishing in last). No one likes to potentially boost the guy in 1st all season anyway.

I did make two bad bailouts this year though. Dropped Alex Gordon after a short cold stretch, figuring he was regressing back to semi-normal. Didn't happen. Also bailed on Soria when he looked like he was toast. Stupid Royals.

I picked up on enough of other people's bailouts though to make it up (D. Hudson, Aramis Ramirez, Kelly Johnson, etc.).

now firmly in 1st in the dynasty league I'm OCD about. Just had a matchup against the team I was tied for first with and satisfyingly whipped ass 8-1-1.

my other leagues are hit and miss. I have some really good teams with really bad luck who are in the bottom half of the standings and some mediocre teams with good luck who are in the upper half of standings. The frustration of h2h fantasy baseball.

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The one I'm in last in was supposed to be a league with people here...I checked it on a monday and no draft was scheduled and there were five teams. I checked it that friday (busy week) and the league had drafted and was a public league. I tried to keep up for a couple months, but had 9 guys on the DL at one point, and after I came back from my honeymoon I was in last by about 15 points. I went after it pretty good for about 3 weeks and couldn't make a dent in the deficit.

Could've been me not checking in Popeye.

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Dude, I had Matt Joyce right before he got hot and Daniel Murphy. In a 20 team league. I dropped them both.
FML.

On the upside, I got Storen for Volquez. I'm in 10th right now out of 20 teams, top 8 make it in. 2 games back of 8th. I face the 2nd place team this week and control my destiny for the most part. I basically have to go .500 from here on out until the last week where I have to win big vs the 19th place team.

I was bailed out on the waiver wire, though. Beltre went down, Freese was waived. I had the 11th claim. I was able to get Freese. Not a bad replacement.

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In a keeper league, I'm 6th out of 14 teams. I have beaten or tied the top 3 teams in the league at least once.

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That experience should prove invaluable next season.

I'm like 5th in my league, I'm not even sure. I had the discipline to keep my number of baseball teams to 1 this year, hopefully next year I can get to 0.

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Much respect for the 3rd winningest manager in MLB history. Enjoy your retirement.

I would wager than Scott Rolen has a higher pain tolerance than almost anyone on this board.

Dave McKay is an extremely genuine and cool guy.