Sometimes, Baller and I correspond via text message. This is one such instance ...
Fat Pitcher [FP]: I want to make an "All The Little, Scrappy Things" fantasy baseball league ... that only counts stats like HBP and stolen base attempts (because out or safe, it was the effort that counted!) 2:44 PM
Ugly Baller [UB]: I hope I get the first pick so I can take Adam Kennedy! 2:45 PM
[FP]: Then I take Eckstein with pick number two, for the positive vibes he gives his team from beyond the dugout! 2:46 PM
[UB]: Hoping Bobby Valentine falls to me in the 2nd round. Who cares if he doesn't actually play? I need someone to inspire my team! Managers are important! 2:49 PM
[UB]: I'm wishing I'd taken a pitcher, though. Tim Wakefield and Livan Hernandez are certainly off the board by now.2:53 PM
[FP]: I'm just going to draft "guts" ... I don't know whom they belong to, but I don't really care. 2:54 PM
[UB]: Can I draft Joe Morgan to announce my home games? 2:55 PM
[FP]: Sleep as in with the fishes. Because I think he's probably dead. Also, make sure to read the first "fast fact" at the bottom of the page ... I ... did not know that! 2:57 PM
[UB]: My draft results: one manager, one announcer, four knuckleballers, six middle relievers, and fifteen middle infielders. 2:57 PM
[FP]: My results: 2 living people. Lots of re-animated corpses. And/or their internal organs. 2:58 PM
[UB]: No need to reanimate, you'd win the league anyway. Players these days just don't know how to play the way they used to. 3:01 PM
[UB]: Ps: his name is Scrappy. Unbelievable. 3:01 PM
[FP]: My guys all drove trucks that lasted. And none of the cool things they wore were ironical. 3:01 PM
[FP]: When you tally his stats with the other Scrappy you get a career totals of 4 (!) HBP ... and a decent Fld%
