For Those About To MOCK: Yahoo! Fantasy Baseball Launches on Thursday
by Kyle Lobner on Feb 6, 2012 5:00 PM CST
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PrintIf you've been around the site long, you know that I'm personally not a fan of fantasy baseball. In fact, I spend a fair amount of time during the season making fun of many of you for the volume of time/energy/emotion you devote to your fake teams.
With that said, I know a fair portion of you are passionate about fantasy baseball so I agreed to pass along this message from Yahoo! Sports.
- Yahoo! Sports is the leading fantasy provider and home to the #1 Fantasy Baseball game available – all for free! It brings fans closer to the game and players they love with free live scoring, mock drafts, mobile apps, over 80 scoring categories, live and offline draft apps, and tools to manage your keeper league.
- Yahoo! Sports now offers the fantasy fanatic an even more competitive way to play, Pro Leagues are here! Join a Pro League for $20 or $100 and compete to win cash prizes. For those who dare to put some skin in the game.
- Yahoo! Sports Fantasy Baseball '12 is easy and fun to play for the rookie or veteran fantasy user.
- Yahoo! Sports Fantasy Baseball provides fans with top-notch information, resources, and expert advice.
- Yahoo! Sports provides pre-draft advice clips to help you draft the best team possible. Fantasy advice is also available throughout the season with bi-weekly video clips and weekly radio coverage on the Fantasy Freaks (every Friday 8pm-10pm ET).
- Fantasy baseball is the original social network, it is the way friends stayed connected over America’s pastime no matter where they were, Yahoo! Sports continues the tradition by letting fans talk smack talk, check'in, and chat on newly launched message boards.
- Game opens 2/9/12 – get ready to play ball!
Yahoo! Fantasy Baseball supports SBNation for its commitment to furthering America’s hardball obsession. As the #1 Fantasy Baseball game, players can count on Yahoo! to provide all the research, stats, live scoring, video highlights, and mobile apps to make this season the best yet. Game opens 2/9/12 – Sign up!!!
EDITOR'S NOTE: This is a sponsored post from Yahoo!.
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On a related note, I will be doing my fantasy rankings for MLB Soup using FantasyPros.com's software.
This is the same software that Yahoo! writers are using, and my rankings will be available for comparison alongside theirs on FantasyPro’s website. Is it wrong that I have Pujols ranked as the 4th best 1st baseman?
Depends.
Does your scoring system dock points for being a self-righteous a-hole?
"fortunate, but also lucky"
by Ted Simmons Speed Camp on Feb 6, 2012 5:15 PM CST up reply actions
Their rankings can be found here:
Yeah, fantasy baseball is pathetic. I mean...
… oh, hold on. Someone just sent me a trade offer in my dynasty fantasy football league… I’ll finish my thought later…
"fortunate, but also lucky"
by Ted Simmons Speed Camp on Feb 6, 2012 5:15 PM CST reply actions
Wait, CBS was the really shitty one from two years ago.
Yahoo is mediocre. I still like ESPN the best.
Yeah, CBS was the awful one.
I’m indifferent between Yahoo and ESPN. I do kind of prefer Yahoo’s naming convention of one 30 character field as opposed to two 15 character fields on ESPN.
Applying pop culture to Brewers discussions since 2009, earning the nickname of "Our Little Abed".
And when does this league happen?!
Don't sweat the petty things, and don't pet the sweaty things.
by Grim Spandango on Feb 6, 2012 7:42 PM CST up reply actions
I'm sick of it.
I haven’t used it for baseball, but I got overridden in trying to banish it from my FF league. Then everybody hated it during the season. I used to use CBS Sportsline and really enjoyed, but that was a long time ago and don’t really know it anymore.
Yahoo is superior
And I’m not just saying that because it gives me a fake shiny trophy for each of the leagues I’ve won.
by Acheron on Feb 7, 2012 11:38 AM CST up reply actions 1 recs
I love that if Kyle has to do a sponsored post
It’s almost always with a hint (or, in this case, more than a hint) of snark.
Stick it to the man!
It's like Uecker's read of the add for the Wisconsin Dental Association back when they sponsored Brewer games....
Instead of reading “The sign of a dentist who cares” he read it “The sign of a dentist……. who cares?”
"fortunate, but also lucky"
by Ted Simmons Speed Camp on Feb 6, 2012 6:23 PM CST up reply actions
"back when they sponsored Brewer games..."
Ha! Maybe that’s why they stopped.
...BRANDONJENNINGSSUX!!!
by TwoShoesMcGooze on Feb 7, 2012 9:23 AM CST up reply actions
There's no way I could do a straight-up promotion for fantasy baseball with any level of credibility.
I’ve spent way too much time making fun of it in the past. I do recognize that many of you care about it more than I do, though.
Now that's great tasting chicken!
CBS Sports is the best site but it costs a buttload of money.
ESPN is sufficient.
by TexTexington on Feb 6, 2012 6:10 PM CST via mobile reply actions
You can play on CBS Sports for free
I don’t know if you can set up your own league for free, though.
Contributor on Brew Crew Ball, Commissioner of Prognostikeggers, Owner of a broken sarcasm detector
irreverent approaches to fantasy baseball
2 of my friends and I, back during the ’08 season, decided to start a private league with whimsical player choice.
My one friend tried to get an all-redhead team (and had to compromise with blonds.)
My team was entirely guys under 6’ (had to fudge on some of the pitchers, but most of those listed 6’0" pitchers aren’t.)
The third person had got called into work on the draft night so everything was autopicked.
Of course the person who autopicked and didn’t make a roster change or lineup change ALL SEASON won the league.
Sounds like my fantasy basketball team last year when I drafted only white guys.
Of course, there aren’t enough white guys in the NBA to make up a whole team, so I resorted to drafting guys that were half white, but it was good enough for 2nd place.
"People ask me what I do in the winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring."- Rogers Hornsby
BCB 2011 Fantasy Football Champion- Kriegers
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