For reference, here’s the fantasy baseball team I drafted:

  • C Mike Napoli
  • 1B Joey Votto
  • 1B Mike Jacobs (bench)
  • 2B Brandon Phillips
  • 3B Aramis Ramirez
  • 3B Adrian Beltre (bench)
  • SS Jimmy Rollins
  • OF Bobby Abreu
  • OF Matt Holliday
  • OF Carlos Quentin
  • OF Jermaine Dye
  • OF J.D. Drew (bench)
  • DH Jim Thome (bench)
  • SP Erik Bedard
  • SP John Danks
  • SP Jeremy Guthrie (bench)
  • SP Rich Harden
  • SP Derek Lowe
  • SP Chris Young
  • RP Brian Fuentes
  • RP Chris Ray (bench)
  • RP Joakim Soria

Today, I dropped Mike Jacobs and picked up Kevin Gregg after the closer decision announcement came out.  I also picked up and stashed Troy Glaus in one of my DL slots.  I’m shopping J.D. Drew and may look to trade Beltre at some point to try and bone up my pitching (or a better catcher).  Overall, I felt that the draft went relatively well, despite my rather weak starting pitchers.

Of course, we won’t actually know how successful my season will be until the real season starts in a week.

I had a dream last night that I had built an Iron Man-like suit and was flying down the hallway of an old apartment my parents and I lived in when I was a kid.  It was quite strange.

I played Fallout 3 until about 3 AM last night.  That was too late.  I haven’t even bought the Pittsburgh expansion yet!  I do plan to, though, so that I can stand in a ruined Point State Park and shoot mutants.  It was my dream in Pittsburgh, but…the apocalypse never happened.  Oh well.  Maybe one day.

You know, I never thought I’d have one of those guy friends who’s “that guy.”  But now that I think about it, my co-worker Jerome is kind of like “that guy.”  And that’s cool with me.  Like, the movie I Love You, Man just came out.  Looked kind of funny, but would I really see it on opening weekend?  If I’m Jerome, the answer is OH YES.  That guy.  He’s great.  He and his scruffy Euro-face.

I don’t think Jerome reads these.  I guess we’ll see!

I’ve been playing the recently-released EA DS game Henry Hatsworth in the Puzzling Adventure, which is a great title and an addictive game, but I’m not sure how much I actually like it.  I want to keep playing because I want to see what additional powers I get, but the levels and action get a bit repetitive and dying – although there isn’t a large penalty associated with it – is annoying when it’s because I’ve been suddenly surrounded by enemies.  In other words, the difficulty seems a bit manufactured instead of natural.

It’s no Professor Layton, that’s for sure.  Here’s some Professor Layton fan art I found on the Internet:

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