at least one of my teams won this weekend

My fantasy baseball team. After a humiliating finish in 3rd last year, I was eager to reclaim my rightful spot atop the fantasy baseball mountain. The view is just so much better.

I'd like to thank the following players who were with me the whole way:

• David Wright - I drafted him 6th overall and he had an amazing 5-stat year, finishing as the 2nd best player according to yahoo.
• Alfonso Soriano and Mark Teixeira - somehow I was allowed to grab these guys 19th and 30th overall. They finished 75th and 18th overall (Soriano missed over 50 games due to injury, but finished 8th overall if you go by averages).
• Russell Martin - 155 games games played means not having to waste a roster spot on a back-up catcher.
• Chad Billingsley, James Shields, and Ben Sheets - drafted in the 9th, 10th, and 12th rounds,they game me ace stats all year long, vindicating my decision to take hitters with my first 8 picks.
• BJ Ryan and Brian Wilson - drafted in the 13th and 15th rounds, and converted a combined 73 saves. I got another 61 saves from free agent pick-ups Jonathan Broxton, Jon Rouch, Saloman Torres and Jensen Lewis, allowing me to win the saves category. That's why you never ever draft a closer in the early rounds.
• Corey Hart - pretty good overall year (20 homers, 23 steals), but would have been better had you not OPS'd .437 in September.

I'd also like to thank...

• JJ Hardy and Stephen Drew - for putting up decent stats at shotstop, lessening the blow of mega-bust Troy Tulowitski.
• Milton Bradley - for giving me MVP-numbers for about 200 AB's.
• Jack Cust - I only played you for three games, but you hit a homer each time. Nice.
• Shin-Soo Choo - for having an awesome name and keeping my team afloat for the last month while the rest of my hitters were struggling.
• David Ortiz - I loved randomly acquiring you for the last day of the season.
  

No thanks to...

• Troy Tulowitski and Nick Swisher - 130 combined at-bats for these guys and they give me a whole 24 hits, 2 homers and 9 rbi.
  
• Evan Longoria - never could figure this guy out. His tendency to only play well when he was on my bench forced me to let him go for my own sanity.
• Ryan Ludwick - I can't believe I dropped you.
• Rich Hill and Clay Buchholz - what the hell happened to you guys?

By the by, sorry I was gone for so long. Insanely busy times here at Locke HQ.

PECO is an agent of satan

First off,

Woo hoo!

But secondly, the Philadelphia Electrical Company is a true Whore of Babylon. They cut my power with one minute left and the good guys down by one. What do I do? Hope the power returns momentarily? Dash off to the Widener library? It was Sophie's Choice. So I wait. The power flashes on for a split second, then nothing. I'm royally humped. Whatever happened in the drive, I missed it. So I drive to Widener, get in range of their wireless, all while really wishing I had a phone with internet, and see that we won. Yipee! But still mad at PECO. I read some Crim Pro by scented candle light, and finally I get some power just before 9pm, and here we are.