Injuries

During this baseball season, I haven't spent much time blogging about my fantasy baseball team, called, what else, ChicksDigTheLongBall.

Quite frankly who in this spacious world we call the internet would care about my fantasy baseball team. Maybe the 13 other fantasy baseball owners in my league would, but that number is probably overstated as several of them don't care about their own teams.

The reason I'm subjecting you to the world of fantasy baseball today, instead of the things that people care most about, bashing John Tomase, pics of hot chicks, cool toys and great music, comes down to a single word - injuries.

I need to vent about the injuries that are happening to the players on my team, because this is getting ridicioulous.

My top overall pick - Jake Peavy on DL, elbow injury (never a good thing for a pitcher), second pick David Ortiz (whom I traded Hanley Ramirez to get - how's that looking now?), possibly out for the season. My starting outfield - Vernon Wells, Brad Haupe, Josh Willingham - all on the DL. The one saving grace is despite the injuries I've been able to trade away Haupe and Ortiz for some quality players (Xavier Nady, Carlos Pena, Ryan Ludwick, Johnny Cueto).

That would be like the Red Sox losing Josh Beckett, Ortiz, Manny Ramirez, Jacoby Ellsbury and J.D. Drew to injury.

The best injury of all, while not a lengthy one - but a good one nevertheless, Carlos Guillen missed a couple of games because of???? - hemorrhoids.

C'mon, you're going to go to Jim Leyland's office and tell your skip, "Skip, I can't go today. My ass is killing me."

"Put some cream on your ass and get it the hell out of here and out onto the field. Let me finish my cigarette in peace."