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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

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



good list dough

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....

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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!

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!

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.

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

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)