Friday the Third! (spooky music)

It's cranky Friday. So sit down and shutup.

		Team	Points	Bats	Slot	Arms	Start	Week
1.		Mudville Nine	15130	7725	6.97	7405	25.08	688
2.		EVIL EMPIRE	14982	7707	6.96	7275	24.64	938
3.		Sonic Death M	14974	7466	6.74	7508	25.43	824
4.		Wizzard of Ozz	14947	7567	6.83	7380	25.00	927
5.		The Congregati	14915	7323	6.61	7592	25.71	941
6.		Bru Cru	14464	7397	6.68	7067	23.93	695
7.		Banana Slugs	14174	6572	5.93	7602	25.75	637
8.		Florida Pirates	13921	7354	6.64	6567	22.24	815
9.		Little Leaguer	13921	7216	6.51	6705	22.71	692
10.		Mac & Zack A	13340	7038	6.35	6302	21.34	645
11.		Columbus Mad	12861	6563	5.92	6298	21.33	667
12.		Rosies Angels	12626	6458	5.83	6168	20.89	841

Mud finally stumbled. The league rejoices. (and although reports to the contrary, I did NOT put that banana peel on the track). This basically just squashed the upper five teams. The first five are almost within 200 points. It is a testament to Mudville's success so far that he can have a horrible week and still maintain a 150 point lead.

As far as position, Sonic and Evil swapped positions as well as Little Leaguer and Florida Pirates. The top is getting tight. Still anyone's ballgame.

The bats number acted normal for once. Some up, some down. It looks like 7 is the pinnacle. Like a .400 batting average. Hard to do. Of course if I had played ball it would have been pretty easy (joke). Do something for me, next time you go into a batting cage try a new grip. Slide your top hand (right hand for right handed batters) up about 8 to 10 inches. Hold it like that in your stance and as you swing let it slide down to your other hand. I haven't tried this in a batting cage but it sure feels like you have a lot more control and can generate more batspeed initially. I was just swinging a bat when I tried it. Just remember when guys are making 100's of millions of dollars using this technique, you heard it here first.

The arms number acted normal as well. Ozzie jumped .19. I guess the big news is Mud dropping .49. Banana also dropped .40 but he was so high it still didn't knock him out of the lead.

All in all a good week. Mud got bogged down. The upper teams got a little closer. The bats and arms numbers looked good. And Bonds went down with a career ending injury.

Well almost a good week.