Barry Being Barry

Yesterday I had one of the worst fantasy days of all time.  My men (and I use that word “men” loosely) combined for 0 HRs and a sickening 36 ERA.  36!  Not even at my very, very worst in slowpitch softball have I ever even approached a 36.  The day started ugly with Kerry Wood getting his ass handed to him, snowballed with an atrocious performance by Fernando Rodney and then crapped the bed with Joel Hanrahan’s “what the hell just happened” 8th inning of muerte.

Normally those three things would be the worst things that I would read online in the course of any given day but THIS STORY probably takes yesterday’s cake.  The fantasy bullpen meltdown actually drove me away from sports for the evening, meaning the Dodger game was skipped in favor of downloading weepy guitar chords that I promptly clumsily butchered.  The real loss there was I didn’t get to see Barry Zito pitch, which bums me out.  Zito has long been one of our favorite pinatas but these last few games have actually been fairly nails and were it not for an exploding bullpen of his own last night he would have picked up a Win.

G Slim (remember when he used to post on here?  I don’t.) and I have had a few conversations about Zito’s career arc and we seem to have reasonably decided that in fact he was never really *that* good and had one great season (2002) and a few good ones mixed in (01/03), so he is essentially Kevin Milwood with more durability and the claim to have bagged Alyssa Milano (TWITTER FOLLOW ALERT).  Sure that contract is still an easy target but it’s not like it’s his fault that Sabean threw those dollars his way.  What’s he going to do, turn down the money?  Good to have you back, Barry.  And yes, I added him on my fantasy team (and dropped Kevin Milwood).