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Week 10: What the what?

	t			h			p			Manager	Team
1	Dave	2.714	1	Dave	2.500	1	Cory	2.667		Arthur	I give up
2	BJ	4.500	2	Marcley	3.500	2	Dave	3.000		Max
3	Dean	4.571	3	Michael	3.625	3	Dean	3.500		Marcley
4	Marcley	4.857	4	BJ	4.625	4	BJ	4.333		BJ
5	Cory	4.929	5	Dean	5.375	5	Paul	4.333		Keith
6	Michael	5.071	6	Keith	5.750	6	Max	6.000		Paul
7	Paul	5.214	7	Paul	5.875	7	Marcley	6.667		Dean
8	Keith	7.143	8	Cory	6.625	8	Michael	7.000		Cory
9	Max	7.429	9	Arthur	8.125	9	Arthur	7.333		Dave
10	Arthur	7.786	10	Max	8.500	10	Keith	9.000		Michael

Such a shame, Max’s year had so much potential. Yet again he fell short last week hitting .217 with a measly 21 RBIs and 2 Saves…wait, what was that? He actually beat Dave? Well CONGRATULATIONS Max you had an AMAZING week!

This is the transcript of the actual text thread between Max and I this weekend

Michael: 1:18 PM Sunday (immediately after checking the box score Sunday morning and seeing Max should have picked up a pitcher for the day) ‘You didn’t add a pitcher for today?’

Max: (no response….typical Max)

Michael: 10:10 PM (after seeing the final score that he was gonna beat Dave) ‘Dude. Did you beat Dave?’

Max: 10:43 PM ‘idk’

This is our Max, Ladies and Gentleman

Without further ado I bring you the recaps for the week. Also, the name changing was cute for a week, but cmon guys. Let’s put a wrap on it. With one exception that you will see below, only because it worked

Brian and Josh, let’s call them Brosh for a bit, see how it feels, beat Ketih last week. But hey who hasn’t. jk jk. Brosh’s pitching has become fairly elite. Looking at the week to week stats they have three hiccup weeks bot other than that they have been nearly untouchable on the pitching side. Keith’s team is beginning to drift a bit. I haven’t heard too many rumblings of trade offers nor do I see much activity on the waiver wire, I guess next year is coming early for Mr, Keith.

Paul put a hurtin on Arthur hitting 13 HRs with a .290 avg and a sub 3 ERA. Paul is currently in that mix of 6 teams that is basically all the same right now in the ranks. Consistency will be the key moving forward. Arthur continues to just not quite be able to get it done. We won’t draw any major conclusions today but it feels damn early to be quitting, guys.

Marcley edged out Meyer last week. I would point out that Josh Marcley decided to share some photo love over the weekend with a beautiful shot from the outfield of Yankee Stadium so he had some good Karma to take into the weekend. In reality, he won because Meyer couldn’t hit a lick this week. .230 AVG, 65 Ks (which actually won that category, yuck). Marcley also pitched fantastically with a 2.36 ERA, he limited his starts either incredibly smartly going up against the number one Floored pitching staff or he lucked into it (my money is on this one because it looks like he should have grabbed a starter for Sunday. The big takeaway is neither gained much in a key showdown, these are two very good teams right now that are vying for positioning.

Dean topped Michael because Michael’s offense sucked. Michael’s relatively good SP was ruined by some bad bullpen stats and Dean was able to take advantage. Dean didn’t have a stellar week by any means but hitting .297 is nothing to shake a stick at (btw does anybody know what the hell that means?). Dean’s horse SP will be tough to crack any week, but there was some room this week that Michael just wasn’t able to be good enough to beat. My takeaway here was actually an observation I had mid week. With as tight as the middle 6 teams are right now (and maybe even throwing in Dave too), every matchup is key. Why I bring this up is the off-balanced schedule we have in the league. Michael’s last 4 weeks in this unbalanced schedule lead to him the top 4 teams in the standings. Not a good draw for Smyth.  He will need to start beating some good teams soon or else his late schedule will likely keep him out of the playoffs.

For the grand finale, MAX BEAT DAVE. This is pretty cool, I won’t ruin it by talking too much about it. Max wasn’t even really paying attention last week so he shouldn’t get too much credit, but all the more reason why this matters. Dave has been showing some cracks lately. He lost to Paul a few weeks ago, Gerrit Cole may be badly injured, Jeurys Familia is far from an elite closer right now, etc. Idk, maybe I’m seeing more into this than there is, but the gap between Dave and the field is not as wide as it was a month ago and like it appears in the ranks. Props to the league for staying vigilant.

Monster of the Week: I’ll take a reader submission, Chris Davis his 5 HRs for Brosh this week en route to a good win for them. It was a down week for offense as a whole, so why not. Slight nod to Max for his Wil Myers trade, he’s going for it, who else wants to take a chance?

Max of the Week: didn’t see much and I’m late to pick up Buddy from boarding, Cheers