The Wakefield Mistake

I just now realized why you guys were ragging on me about starting Tim Wakefield last Sunday. Up until this point I thought we were making a big deal out of it to patronize Rob, kind of how the crowd goes nuts when the lousy kid on the Little League team finally reaches base via a dropped third strike.

Now I can see that I had all the pitching categories locked up heading into Sunday, and starting Wake was all risk, no reward. In a vacuum it was a good spot start but under the circumstances it was really dumb.

You guys may not have realized how often I have done stuff like this in this league. There is a laundry list of mistakes. I've started guys I shouldn't have, and I've accidentally sat my aces a few times.

The big to-do about Wakefield kind of woke me up. Now I am going to pay special attention to Sunday strategy. In the past I pretty much just set my lineups as normal. I can be kind of a slow learner. Anyway, thanks for alerting me to this lapse in strategy! If nothing had been said I would've kept doing it. I'm not an expert - just a guy with a website who's in a lot of leagues and enjoys it a little too much.