Wednesday, January 31, 2007

Trot Nixon: Death Dealer

I am very amused by any article that starts off with a paragraph like this:
"Trot Nixon, I've had enough. I give up. You win. Your quest to completely destroy the hopes and dreams of fantasy owners is complete. Apparently, I underestimated your ability to scuttle the best-laid plans of fantasy owners. Apparently, three injury-riddled, ineffective seasons wasn't enough for fantasy owners to have soured on your once-lauded potential. Oh no, Mr. Nixon, you weren't satisfied with simply wasting what looked to be shaping up as a solid career. Nosireebob, you had to go and sign a free agent contract with the Indians, taking two potential fantasy sleepers down with you."
The sleepers the author refers to are Ryan Garko and Shin-Soo Choo, who must now split time with our hero. In fact, there's currently seven players on the Indians (Nixon, Choo, Garko, Casey Blake, David Dellucci, Jason Michaels, and Franklin Gutierrez) all of whom will have to share left, right and first. Good luck trying to estimate those splits. The good people at Roto Authority tried, and they barely got out alive.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I'm sure the kids in Atlanta just love us... We can always use a new rival.