The General Has Been Demoted to Lt. Col

Wow, was this another great week for The True Guru. Another dominating win over a East Coast adversary. My good friend and co-host Patrick was the victim. I was nice on the show, but this board is for the fun and some trash talking, so I get to gloat at least for this week! ;)

9-0-1! Come on Patrick, you have to admit that your bullpen strategy has failed, and will not recover and "even out" over the rest of the season. I think 6 weeks is a good sampling and if you were 30-30 I'd say give it another shot, but you are 16 games under .500 and in last place in your division.

The reason you are demoted until further notice is your plan, though brilliant, has majors flaws and can easily be flanked. The first flaw is when you pitch such few innings, every run and hit hurts allot more then if you settled in with 50+ innings.

If you get popped say 2-3 times out of 20 innings its going to hurt and you will lose. This week you were popped at least 3 times and finished with a 6.40 ERA !

Secondly, you failed to recognize that your opponents can match you inning for inning and with a little good fortune pick up middle relievers and outperform you.

Come on Pat, it will happen more times this season, you know it will!

As for my strategy I hand picked my starts based on match ups and got the success I expected, and my three closers performed awesome. Once I commanded wins and strikeouts I didn't need to pitch anyone except closers, so I benched them. Think about it, brilliant.

Then there is offense, which you drafted a bunch of great players, but no SP's. Sorry, but there are 4 areas to a team, starting pitching, bullpen, offense, and bench. You are getting screwed on 1/4 the battle going into any match and giving up 20% of the possible categories. You can't do that just because you drafted a good offense early.

Many offensive guys bust, so you put too much dependency on your bullpen to hold the team together and while you spent the mass majority of your 11th round+ picks grabbing pitchers, I spent that time getting sleepers and a deep bench like Kelly Johnson, Youkilis and Willingham. So that is why I shut you out this weak. It wasn't luck at all, you were out-played and out maneuvered my friend, by The True GURU.

And just to note, if this were a standard ROTO league I'd have you after week six 6-3-1.

Answer that one Lt. Col.