Baseball fan, Chinstrap Ninja questions traditional fantasy 5×5 setups, likely to get stoned or beaten
Over at Chinstrap Ninjas, I beat down — cut up, if you will — the standard 5×5 that sits on the counter of fantasy baseball like a stale loaf of bread.
Time for a change and I’ve got some suggestions. Here’s an excerpt:
While innovation in baseball moves along at the pace of a dead snail — the designated hitter was a good idea. Shut up — fantasy players don’t need to fall into the same pattern. In fact, I think the standard 5×5 should be assassinated. That’s right. Get rid of it. We don’t need homers and runs and RBIs and stolen bases or average. They are old numbers from ancient times.
Yes, these are the numbers the Baseball Writer’s Association looks at when they are thinking of electing people to the Hall of Fame. Then again, this is the same group of jackasses that haven’t allowed Pete Rose or Mark McGwire into the Hall. (Steroids were not illegal during McGwire’s career, and apparently everybody including Mickey Morandini used them. And Rose racked up all his best-in-MLB-history hits before getting caught betting on baseball).
To read the whole column, click here.
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