Week Three

Another week, another 7 days spent wondering when Mark Teixeira, Gary Sheffield and David Wright will hit the ball with any authority. What these three are doing to me and thousands of other losers just like me is borderline criminal.

Wright was my second round pick, and Teixeira my third (he slipped all the way to #30 overall - in a KEEPER LEAGUE!). That they have, to date, combined for 7 RBI and ZERO home runs is not just troubling, it's deadly.

This week may have been their worst so far. Wright and Teixeira combined to go 8-44 with 2 RBI. That's a .181 average for those of you still reading. Somehow it gets worse, though. Add in Rafael Furcal and it becomes:
12 - 75 with still 2 RBI (.160 avg)
Add in Gary Sheffield and it gets worse:
14 - 93 with 3 RBI (.150 avg)
May as well toss in Piazza to get to rock bottom.
16 - 109 with 4 RBI (.146 avg)

That's half of my offense, which was outperformed by my opponent's catcher for fuck's sake:
Michael Barrett: 8-21, 4 HR, 10 RBI

This is killing me. Great weeks by Hafner and Bonds are completely wasted by these five deadbeats dragging me down like a Nicolas Cage haircut.

Thankfully, the moron I was playing started Jeff Francis twice in Colorado, and despite losing BJ Ryan, my bullpen is holding together nicely, so I was able to salvage some of the pitching categories.

This is getting to be a broken record, but my team is going absolutely nowhere until Wright, Tex and Sheffield heat up. I'm so used to it after three weeks that it's hard to that angry about it. Maybe I'm just tired, but I've started considering any outfield outs they make to be small victories.