Fantasy football sleeper of the day 7-26

Well, its fantasy football season again and BSS is here with the info you need. This is part 3 of a series detailing sleepers and busts.

Santonio Holmes WR Steelers (click more to find out why)

Giambi on the comeback trail

Yankee slugger Jason Giambi has been sidelined since early June seems to be on the comeback trail, starting this week with class low A Tampa Bay where he will join high ceiling prospect Jose Tabata.

The main “issue” here for New York when Giambi finishes his rehab stint is where do you play him? Due to the type of injury he sustained to his foot, his already atrocious defense will be even more impeded – while not an issue in the AL for way of the DH it does create an interesting clog. The Yankees have been playing Johnny Damon at DH since Giambi’s stint on the DL – Damon has been producing much better and the Yankees were able to insert a plus defender in CF by the way of Melky Cabrera.

Damon has been rotating in and out in the currently vacant DH spot, centerfield and left field – which would enable Hideki Matsui ½ days off but keeping his potent bat inserted into the lineup. The most obvious solution would be to keep Cabrera in CF, Matsui in left while inserting Giambi into the 5 hole and have him DH while tossing Damon in at first – not unlike the Sheffield experiment last season.

Damon is on record for having said, “I am going to play [first] eventually. I am OK with it.” Suddenly the equation becomes clearer, the Yankees better and the race even tighter down the stretch.

Giambi is expected to return (barring setbacks) early August to the Yankees.

Kei Igawaful likely odd man out

 

 

When the New York Yankees and GM Brian Ca$hmoney signed the ace of the Hanshin Tigers of the Nippon Professional League – they weren’t expecting for him to replicate his dominance here in the MLB. Rather they were expecting a solid number 4 or 5 back of the rotation guy – who goes deep into the games and throws the ball with his left hand.
Well it’s past judgment time for Igawa – who is likely the odd man out of the Yanks rotation who has been underwhelming to say the least so far in his Yankee career. Igawa currently sports a 6.67 ERA with a 1.53:1 K:BB ratio. With the return of the 21 year old phenom Phil Hughes imminent, he will probably take over the 5 spot in the rotation for New York, bumping Igawa to the bullpen.

Fantasy bust of the day 7-24

Well, its fantasy football season again and BSS is here with the info you need. This is part 2 of a series detailing sleepers and busts.

Matt Schaub QB Texans (click more to find out why)

Is anyone really scared of the Celtics?

Sure as hell doesn’t look like Tim Duncan is..

Is anyone scared of Boston? Short answer no. Look at every team in Sport’s worst division.. the Hellhole or as you might call it the Atlantic Division. Toronto, New Jersey, Philadelphia and New York. Why would any of those teams worry about a few ageing stars and an “upcoming” forward.

Heres what the other teams had to say when interviewed:

Toronto: Boston who’s?

New Jersey: Go back to the lotttery

Philadelphia: Our mediocrity is to much for you

New York: We have Donaghy on our side

On a more serious note According to ESPN’s Hollinger ratings the Boston Celtics have 3 of the best players in the league with: Ray Allen, Paul Pierce and Al Jefferson. The only other two teams in the same situation are the Spurs and the Suns and a little hunch tells me those teams aren’t doing to badly.

 

Fantasy Football sleeper of the day 7-23

Well, its fantasy football season again and BSS is here with the info you need. This is the first in a series detailing sleepers and reaches.

JP Losman, QB Buffalo (click more to find out why)

Nightmare in the NBA: Corruption being investigated

This is bad, This is very bad. Many have questioned it for years without success. Tim Donaghy is at the center of a federal investigation. The investigation consists of accusations that the NBA Ref “Fixed games and bet on ones that he officiated” Supposedly Donaghy had a gambling addiciton and was threatened by a string of Gangsters who where problem gamblers.

The sad thing is, Now every time you think you see a bad call there will be people claiming that there was corruption. A sad day for the NBA.

The worst part is that this will enable fans to claim any tough loss decided on a call they view questionable. Win by 1? Get ready to hear that “your team just paid the ref off” from sore losers.

This has the potential to be worse than the steroids scandal since steroids do not automatically produce a win, a ref in your pocket all but does.

On the Yi situation.

Most people have reacted indignantly to Yi Jianlian’s camp trying to dictate who and who couldn’t draft Yi by not allowing workouts to some teams including the Milwaukee Bucks allegedly due to a sparse Chinese population in Wisconsin . Then the Bucks took him anyway with the 6th pick. Yi’s camp responded by demanding a trade, dropping a few team names as preferred destinations for him and stating that if not traded he will not report and re-enter the draft next year. The Bucks countered that they have no intentions of trading Yi and are confident he will sign. How will this be resolved? How should it be resolved? (more)

Doc Rivers admits what the world knows

“That’s right,” he said with a laugh. “I get booed because I suck.”

Besides that obvious statement, Doc made a few other good points in the article (more)

Kurt Thomas and Barbosa headed to Seattle?

Just come into BSS that rumor is speculating about a possible trade involving the two suns players. The two sonics players that are rumored to be going are part of the French connection (Petro, Gelabale).