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Rundown 5/9/2017

Baseball, the horses, "Playoffs Playoffs" and much more. Like LOL's favorite rapper says "Better late than never, but never late is better", here is this week's edition of the RunDown. 

Tower literally tried to kill me yesterday suggesting a 16 mile bike ride, in a seemingly obvious move to take me out before winning back to back to back LOL championships. Didn't work legends, like we say here in LOL you can't coach grit. I am gritting out this blog post with tender loins and tired legs.

Horses

Would have had about the same luck picking Papanick in the Derby this weekend. His father was a mudder, his mudder was a mudder. Sloppy course and a wide open field hampered the legends picks this weekend. The only successful legend on the Derby pickem was Gras who went with American Dream to win it all netting him 500 points.
Right pocket holds some clues to Gras' success


Playoffs, Playoffs

Not sure why we are delaying the inevitable Cavs/Warriors finals rematch. Latest Legend add Dorrknob picked the Raptors to win. I think we'll chalk it up to him learning how to use the hot takes website still getting used to clicking and such. That or knowing my code it could have been a bug in the code. 

NHL playoffs will feature 2 Game 7s Wednesday night. Hard to beat playoff Game 7 hockey. 

Baseball

The HOT STOVE Tool is still in development. Yahoo does some crazy stuff with their JSON transaction feed so I'm weeding through that as quickly as I can. If any legends want to learn Python let me know and I will help you get ramped up so you an help me.

I'd say the early contender for bone head drop of the year would be yours truly dropping Aaron Judge. Just hoping pitchers stop piping fastballs and through him some junk soon. 

On the Bus to Triple A

  • Ryan Braun - PhilliesPhanInKC, Having a week -0.25 points and a drip to the Day-to-Day status. More like Day-to-Not Going to Play today
  • Carlos Gonzales - Lime in the Coconut. Scoring .75 points 1/16 with 5Ks
  • Fancisco Rodriguez - RP StumpGrinders - FRod has owners shouting f-bombs this week. -4.00 points on 2.0 IP, 2L, 5ER, and 2BSVs...ouch
  • Brandon Kintzler RP - WarningTrackPower - "At least he is not in the negative points" Brandon sporting a 0.00 points with 2IP, 3ER, and 1BSV under his belt.
America's Hero

Time for our weekly check in with America Hero Outfielder. Yasiel Puig is scorching hot with 22 points on 8/22, 7 Singles, 1 Dong, and 6 steak dinners. One thing not on the score sheet is Puig's gunning down of Joe Panik trying to stretch a single into a double. 
Of course Aramis Ramierz couldn't put the tag on quick enough so Panik is safe. Puig saunters slowly back to his position with just a flip of the glove.






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