Funk

DOUGHBOYS · Post by **DOUGHBOYS** » Tue Jun 08, 2010 2:55 am

We've all gone through them...Over the course of day to day action over six months, all of our teams go through funks. Here are a few examples of what happens when a team is dealing with bad times...

Your starting pitchers always seem to face the Yankees or Red Sox or on the road at Philadelphia or Colorado

With runners on first and second, the manager has your player sacrificing

Your best base stealer seems to only get singles with a runner on first

Your closer is used in a non-save situation

You have so little faith in your closer that you hope he comes in with just a one run lead vs the home team, knowing that two runs should be the most he can give up

After mulling over which of two players to start right up until the deadline, the one with the great stats is on the bench

Your best pitcher faces your best hitter, and walks him

Your hitter is robbed on a diving catch by one of your own players, and he gets hurt on the play

Your runner on first is forced out by a hitter who eventually scores

Your hitter hits a Grand Slam, the game is washed out in the third inning

While your hitter is lauded by the announcer for moving a runner from second to third, you roll your eyes

Your hitter is set to face Suppan, Bush, and Wolf, only to miss the series due to the birth of a child

Despite your pitcher getting lit up for six runs, he leaves with a four run lead after the fifth inning, only to have the bullpen rob him of even the win

After going 0-4, your catcher finally gets a hit in the ninth, and is promptly replaced by a pinch runner

Your pitcher is bumped from his Thursday home game vs Kansas City, only to face the Yankees at Yankee Stadium on Friday

Your closer's team has a strange habit of winning games by four runs

Quahogs · Post by **Quahogs** » Tue Jun 08, 2010 3:32 am

And I don't seem to notice this stuff in May, but it sure happens EVERY DAY in September !

good list dough

Raskol · Post by **Raskol** » Tue Jun 08, 2010 5:01 am

Don't forget about the always-enjoyable having your pitcher drill one of your hitters, who gets hurt and misses the series in Colorado. The pitcher, meanwhile, gets tossed in the fourth with the bases loaded. We all know what happens next....

ToddZ · Post by **ToddZ** » Tue Jun 08, 2010 5:32 am

You see a team has scored 12 runs and you check the box score to see your guy went 0-5.

Your starter gives up 8 runs in 4 IP, but you see in the line score the team committed 2 errors, so you begin to hope.....nope, all 8 earned.

Dub · Post by **Dub** » Tue Jun 08, 2010 6:22 am

or your pitcher blows a lead and is taken out after 4.2 innings with bases loaded and all come into score or worse, none come into score and the pitcher who recorded that final out gets your win.

or they take out your best SP after throwing 8 scoreless only to have your closer blow the win, if its not your closer- he records the win of course.

Dub · Post by **Dub** » Tue Jun 08, 2010 6:25 am

or big lead after three and there is a rain delay and they do not bring back your pitcher

Cooperstown · Post by **Cooperstown** » Tue Jun 08, 2010 6:39 am

You release that AAA stud that's been tying up a bench spot all year, only to see him called up the next week; a la Andrew McCutchen last year.

Hawk · Post by **Hawk** » Tue Jun 08, 2010 6:54 am

Watching a bullpen blow an 8th inning 8-1 lead for one of your starters.....

MichiganFantasyTeam · Post by **MichiganFantasyTeam** » Tue Jun 08, 2010 7:27 am

Having one of your pitchers on our bench (Max Scherzer)...get called up from the minors on Sunday and strikeout 14 guys. Then, every other time you start him, He gets Rocked and CAN'T STRIKEOUT Betty White!

KJ Duke · Post by **KJ Duke** » Tue Jun 08, 2010 7:36 am

Originally posted by MichiganFantasyTeam:

Having one of your pitchers on our bench (Max Scherzer)...get called up from the minors on Sunday and strikeout 14 guys. Then, every other time you start him, He gets Rocked and CAN'T STRIKEOUT Betty White! B White is having a career year.

How about a little positivity in this thread?

Kudos to the Washington Nationals for bringing Strasberg up for a 2-start week against PIT and CLE!

Navel Lint · Post by **Navel Lint** » Tue Jun 08, 2010 8:50 am

Originally posted by KJ Duke:

quote:Originally posted by MichiganFantasyTeam:

Having one of your pitchers on our bench (Max Scherzer)...get called up from the minors on Sunday and strikeout 14 guys. Then, every other time you start him, He gets Rocked and CAN'T STRIKEOUT Betty White! B White is having a career year.

How about a little positivity in this thread?

Kudos to the Washington Nationals for bringing Strasberg up for a 2-start week against PIT and CLE!

[/QUOTE]Or....

Having the stud minor league pitcher you held on the bench for 10 weeks come up and get two starts against Pit and Cle. Only to watch him get lit up rookie style twice because he is just a rookie and not Superman.

DOUGHBOYS · Post by **DOUGHBOYS** » Tue Jun 08, 2010 9:59 am

Originally posted by KJ Duke:

quote:Originally posted by MichiganFantasyTeam:

Having one of your pitchers on our bench (Max Scherzer)...get called up from the minors on Sunday and strikeout 14 guys. Then, every other time you start him, He gets Rocked and CAN'T STRIKEOUT Betty White! B White is having a career year.

How about a little positivity in this thread?

Kudos to the Washington Nationals for bringing Strasberg up for a 2-start week against PIT and CLE!

[/QUOTE]Not meant to be a positive thread, but we can turn things around for when our team is going through the 'Can do no wrong' phase...

Your pitcher leaves the game after shutting down a team and with a big lead, one of your hitters that has been shut down all day hits a three run homer off the reliever

Your hottest hitter keeps coming up with the bases juiced and less than two outs

Your pitcher leaves the game two runs down, but his team rallies and gets him a W

The Jeter Rule- Your hitter hits a ball that you would call an error, but the official scorekeeper calls it a hit

Your hitter isn't in the starting lineup, but later pinch hits a home run

The Markakis op - You have an average base runner but he piggy backs a speedster on double steals, giving him, 'mirage steals'

The Blum Plum- Hurting for a positional player at a certain position, you reach for a bottom of the barrel player for a buck, and he hits like gold for two weeks

Having no confidence in your starter, you throw a reliever that doesen't close. He gets two wins

The one out save

Turning a walk into two sb and a run

Duchscherer-Maine

Having a pitcher like Duchscherer who says that his hip feels like it did before surgery last year and not a pitcher like John Maine who throws 82 mph and swears he's fine.

Your hitter, an umpire with the strike zone of a stamp

Your pitcher, an umpire with the strike zone of head to foot

Needing wins at the end of the year, your closer gives up a homer, k's three batters, and gets the win when his team scores a run

You get home and see that your pitchers team got beat 7-1

But looking at the box score, he threw seven innings of one run ball with 10 k's, while his relievers gave up all the other runs

Frozen Tundra · Post by **Frozen Tundra** » Tue Jun 08, 2010 10:47 am

For those who like the play by plays, here's some gems that will test your sanity:

if you're desperate for power, you must love this line:

-X flied out to deep center

My hitters get that e a few times a day.

If instead you have a shaky closer, this sequence could make your evening:

- X walked

- Y walked, X to second

- Z walked, X to third, Y to second

Next up, Albert Pujols (or Brooks Conrad)