Derek Jeter Leads Yankees to Victory with Dramatic Walk-Off Intangible

Derek Jeter led the Yankees to an exciting, come-from-behind victory over the Orioles last night with a dramatic, walk-off, bases loaded intangible. It was the shortstop’s 1,148th career game-winning intangible, extending his major league record.
Jeter came to the plate against Baltimore closer Chris Ray in the bottom of the ninth inning with the bases loaded, two outs and the Yankees trailing 6-3. But seconds later his unmatched intangibles cleared the bases and had New York celebrating an exciting win before a roaring home crowd.
“It was amazing to see,” said recent Yankees acquisition Bobby Abreu. “I’ve long heard about Jeter’s intangibles and how his true worth can’t be measured by his somewhat pedestrian numbers, but this is the first time I witnessed it with my own eyes. It’s still unclear to me exactly what happened. I remember him going up to the plate. There was maybe a pitch or two and then a great flash of light shot out of him and filled the sky. Then the next thing I knew everyone was celebrating at home plate. It was totally surreal. But great, because we really needed the win.”

Friday Follies!

Sorry for the lapse. Going to make today's extra special. Maybe add a little horseradish sauce to it.

		Team	Total	Bats	/Slot		Arms	/Start	Week
1.		Mudville Nine	14442	7316	7.00		7126	25.59	1993
2.		Sonic Death	14150	6997	6.70		7153	25.69	2009
3.		EVIL EMPIRE	14044	7228	6.92		6816	24.48	1715
4.		Wizzard of Ozz	14020	7114	6.81		6906	24.80	1883
5.		The Congregat	13974	6832	6.54		7142	25.65	1777
6.		Bru Cru	13769	6963	6.66		6806	24.44	1823
7.		Banana Slugs	13537	6255	5.99		7282	26.15	1583
8.		Little Leaguer	13229	6779	6.49		6450	23.16	1682
9.		Florida Pirates	13106	6929	6.63		6177	22.18	1877
10.		Mac & Zack A	12695	6584	6.30		6111	21.95	1577
11.		Columbus Mad	12194	6222	5.95		5972	21.45	1591
12.		Rosies Angels	11785	6024	5.77		5761	20.69	1363

Two weeks can provide a little more to look at. The big news is SDM's run. He averaged over 1000 points a week. While his bats regressed his arms more than made up for the decline. He leap frogged into second place which Evil seemed to have a lock on. Sonic had a great two weeks but you have to mention Mudville's ability to consistently put up good numbers. There is this big pack running their guts out just waiting for Mud to trip up but he doesn't.

Sonic jumped into second on Arms. Banana is still way out in front. SDM gained .12 points. Pretty good even for 2 weeks.

Well it looks like everyone is down on bats. I am sick of that number swinging one way and then another. I can't figure out why. So if your down this week take heart. Mud is still tops in this category (as well as the one that counts).

Mud just keeps right on rollin'. Sonic is in the passing lane and breaking out of the pack. I am checking my tire pressure by the side of the road. Can Sonic use him momentum to catch Mud? Will Evil right the ship and get on the right track or keep fading? Will I ever write a good Follies? ... The only place to find out is here.

What a boring week

I hate the All Star game. But now it's over and we can get back to baseball as normal.

		Team	Total	Bats	/Slot	Arms	/Start	Week
1.		Mudville Nine	12449	6261	7.02	6187	26.03	438
2.		EVIL EMPIR	12329	6239	7.00	6089	25.62	441
3.		The Congrega	12197	5976	6.70	6221	26.18	515
4.		Sonic Death	12141	6065	6.80	6076	25.57	651
5.		Wizzard of O	12137	6133	6.88	6004	25.26	373
6.		Banana Slugs	11954	5435	6.09	6518	27.43	577
7.		Bru Cru	11946	6099	6.84	5847	24.60	446
8.		Little Leaguer	11547	5964	6.69	5585	23.50	345
9.		Florida Pirate	11229	5956	6.68	5272	22.18	500
10.		Mac & Zack A	11118	5724	6.42	5364	22.57	403
11.		Columbus Ma	10603	5467	6.13	5135	21.61	325
12.		Rosies Angels	10422	5241	5.88	5181	21.80	369

Sonic had a great week, thanks to a 101 point outing by Bedard. He comes in top of the 'star shortened week', while Columbus came in last. Mudville maintained his lead over Evil while his brother (ozzie) dropped down two spots. Sonic made the big move up going from 6th to 4th. Bru dropped two spots as well. Basically the 3 through 7 spots all changed while the rest stayed exactly the same.

Mudville raised his bats average the most this week (.10). Banana came in second with .07. Mudville took the lead in this category passing Evil. 6.59 is the average so you can see where you fall.

Sonic blasted his way to the arms average lead. Advancing .75 points to a total of 25.57. This was quite a significant gain. No one came close. Banana still holds the lead by a large margin. I am closest to him but I am 1.25 behind. To put that in perspective there are almost 5 other teams within 1.25 of me. He is dominating this statistic.

Mudville and Evil are setting pretty nice up there while the rest of us are jockeying for position. If this week is any indicaiton, Sonic is primed for a move toward the top.

Fireworks and Duds

Hope you had a nice week with the 4th and all. Been a busy week for me. I'm afraid my 'rooting' time has been cut back and as you can tell my team has suffered as a consequence.

		Team	Points	Bats	/Slot	Arms	/Start	Week
1.		Mudville Nine	12011	5924	6.92	6087	26.69	912
2.		EVIL EMPIRE	11888	5975	6.98	5913	25.93	1031
3.		Wizzard of Ozzie	11764	5902	6.90	5862	25.71	1045
4.		The Congregatio	11682	5716	6.68	5966	26.16	786
5.		Bru Cru	11500	5859	6.85	5641	24.74	817
6.		Sonic Death Mo	11490	5830	6.81	5660	24.82	844
7.		Banana Slugs	11377	5152	6.02	6225	27.30	906
8.		Little Leaguer	11202	5722	6.69	5480	24.03	856
9.		Florida Pirates	10729	5727	6.69	5005	21.95	794
10.		Mac & Zack At	10715	5444	6.36	5271	23.11	841
11.		Columbus Mad	10278	5242	6.13	5039	22.10	952
12.		Rosies Angels	10053	5063	5.92	4990	21.88	705

A little more movement this week. Mud has maintain his level of excellence. Consistency has been his forte. Evil and Ozzie BOTH moved up a slot and I dropped TWO! I am in the process of building miniature versions of my pitchers so I can torture them like they do me. PLUS, Columbus passed Rosie!!! Worst week was had by Rosie while best week was had by Ozzie. Both Ozzie and Evil had extraordinarily good weeks.

I think I may have found the anomaly that had jacked my bat stats. I use the Royals schedule to count the days into the season but they didn't play the last day of May so it would appear to me that only 30 games were played in May. Now I actually know that there are 31 days in May but I was just looking at the schedule. So it appears that everyone's numbers are down this week. Actually if we look at the numbers Ozzie is the only one that maintained his average from last week. The rest of us fell back... some more than others....

Starts would have the same problem. We are all down this week. At least I think we are because I got tired of looking and just kind of gave it a cursory glance. You know, mailing it in.

I would give a short synopsis of where teams are heading at the moment but it would basically involve saying a lot of negative things about myself and I am not secure enough today to venture down that road. So to sum up... you all stink.