Wow.  Looks like I'm in for a doozy of a ride in one private league.

I've played with this guy in baseball last year, then football.  He is very competitive, which I like.  But he can be a bit nasty, especially with the smack talk.  I don't get into it with him; I just compliment him on his competitiveness and leave it at that.

But yesterday was something.

He is the commish in this league, and he set up some crazy categories.  There are 8 in the hitting realm, and 9 in pitching.  The pitching slants towards starters, what with "complete games", "shut outs", "no hitters", and "perfect games" as part of the mix (yes, there are many ties in the standings).

So he's been frustrated, because no one will trade him for one of his 8 relief pitchers.  The one trade he did manage to pull off got voted down by the league because it was so lopsided.  I am in terrible shape with relief pitchers, but don't want to strengthen his hitting just so I can get  a few saves.

So he blew up yesterday.

Seems another guy asked for offers, and he wanted to send the guy Bobby Abreau, Health Bell, and John Axford for………..Matt Holliday.  When the other owner politely said no, he started calling everyone in the league every name in the book.  

We, apparently, are idiots because we wouldn't want to see him get one of the best hitters in baseball for chump change.

It will be interesting to see where this goes from here…….

Yes!  What is it with the strategy of "this guy sucks so you should trade him to me."?  I have run into that one a lot over the years.  Do guys know that they sound, what is the word, well, "stupid" when they make that argument?

And of course, in their logic, since your stud player "sucks" so bad, they send you 2 or 3 guys who suck worse than him.  As if MORE garbage is going to make it right?

Yes, gotta love guys like that.  Makes certain leagues that more interesting.  My only concern in this league is the guy is the commish; who knows what he could pull?

Hmmmmm, thought I'd get more response on this post….

Well, I let him know how I feel.

There is one woman who plays in the league…she happens to be in 1st place…and I happen to be playing her this week.

So he posts on our match-up "go get the b**** aardvark!"

So I wrote back, "Why ask me?  Why don't you just change the rules again to get what you want?"

I didn't think that would phase him too much, and I may have been right as he responded with "maybe I will"  -and-  "Jealous?"

The 'jealous' one I couldn't let slide, and this being smack talk and all, thought I'd send him this one: "Jealous?  I'm not the one acting like a 5 year old throwing temper tantrums because I didn't get my way.  The only thing you left out was 'it's mine, mine, MINE!!!"

I'm kind of expecting my team functions to be frozen any day now, lol.

Yes, that is the first thought (to contact yahoo).  But I've played on yahoo for 5 years now and have seen this before.  Others have told me they contact yahoo, but they just write back and say since it is a "private" league (as opposed to their public ones), there is nothing they can do.

It's o.k., I'll just do everything I can to win the league and show them how it's done, lol.

Actually, another guy came on and said he thought if the 2 sides were fine with the trade, it should not be voted on.  I actually agree with that; I actually get frustrated that you have to wait 4 or 5 days for the darn deal to go through.  I pointed out my only issue was changing the rules 2 months into the season (and I left out "for the sake of one individual").

Oh, and I went up 8-5 on the 1st place team tonight….

Bones said:

Yes, that is the first thought (to contact yahoo).  But I've played on yahoo for 5 years now and have seen this before.  Others have told me they contact yahoo, but they just write back and say since it is a "private" league (as opposed to their public ones), there is nothing they can do.

It's o.k., I'll just do everything I can to win the league and show them how it's done, lol.

Actually, another guy came on and said he thought if the 2 sides were fine with the trade, it should not be voted on.  I actually agree with that; I actually get frustrated that you have to wait 4 or 5 days for the darn deal to go through.  I pointed out my only issue was changing the rules 2 months into the season (and I left out "for the sake of one individual").

Oh, and I went up 8-5 on the 1st place team tonight….

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That's the way to do it!  Just go win the damn thing.  A buddy and I played in a league together a couple years back, and this one guy we didn't know criticized EVERY pick we both made.  Literally.  So we started to fire back at the guy…and wouldn't you know, we finished 1-2 in the league!  That shut that guy up…..

O.k. Bob, I'm on it.

Finished with a 5 and a half game lead for the #1 seed yesterday.

8 teams make the playoffs, but the 8 seed is not paying attention (he got in ahead of 2 guys who were…fantasy is brutal sometimes).  He has some key guys on his bench, so I should advance to the semi's.

There, I could meet up with the commish.

Will be interesting…..

PS:  Oh, this is the league where the commish cancelled my Randy Wolf for Chris Perez trade.  Sure hope it comes back to bite him!