HANDYJ: 2012

Sunday, December 30, 2012

Happy New Year

While compiling the 2013 Championship prize package, I cannot help but wonder what you, the managers, would like to possibly see included. I have all sorts of cards, print material, sets, and memorabilia of every sport and some odds and ends. Just leave a comment if you have a suggestion or idea.

Today is the last day for 2012 Croatian Invitational. Good luck to all.

Hunks Clubhouse

Tuesday, October 9, 2012

Croation Invitation Standings After Week 5

Rank	Team	Points	Pts Change	Pts Back	Waiver Budget	Moves
1.	Hunks Clubhouse	616.60	106.74	-	$47	3
2.	Tebow Fo Sho	574.14	117.30	42.46	$36	5
3.	Lance's Wet Farts	543.66	123.74	72.94	$48	2
4.	Butcher of Bosnia	540.48	118.88	76.12	$32	9
5.	8=========D	527.44	80.22	89.16	$33	9
6.	Sandusky's Daycare	515.68	102.92	100.92	$44	4
7.	bob	512.74	116.78	103.86	$48	2
8.	The Swollen Logs	493.34	98.16	123.26	$15	9
9.	soppers n droppers	477.68	85.86	138.92	$50	-
10.	Mad Zymurgists	434.88	86.26	181.72	$34	4
11.	CJ 2k	404.92	50.24	211.68	$45	2
12.	Need some Luck!	404.68	93.90	211.92	$48	2
13.	H.Y.F.R.	381.82	57.00	234.78	$49	1

Could RGIII's concussion spell relief for the rest of the league? Can Penis Lover Team gain ground now that they have given up three WR for Arian Foster? How wet are Lance's Wet Farts? Critical players on BYE weeks for Tebow Fo Sho. Mendenhall/Ridley backfield may push Sandusky's Daycare into top three over the next few weeks. HYFR...what does that even mean? BOB highest scoring player, Chicago DEF at 98 points. Next highest? Trent Richardson at 77.2...geez.

2012 Handy J Champion

Congrats to I Have The Runs! I'm not sure how you did it, but you did. Here is what you've won.

Saturday, October 6, 2012

What "League Votes" Means To Me

Team Logs

Hey, Hunks here. Did ya'll know that if you go to your team page (where your line-up is) you can access your team log. The team log shows all the players that appeared on your roster for the season along with the stats they earned you. Pretty cool, huh.

Have a good weekend. Don't be Vetoing anything!

Hunks out

Thursday, October 4, 2012

Bonus Points

So i'm just now finding out about bonus points... Can't say I agree with giving points away based on leading stat categories. Now I understand nothing can be done this season and that's fine. However, let me stat my case for 2013.

Bonus points? Really? The whole point is to try and accumulate as many stat points as you can. So we give out bonus points for doing what you're supposed to do? Should we take points away for being dead last in a category? I mean come on. It's just not accurate for record keeping either.

Look, my players accumulated stats the correlated into 74.5 points which is good enough for third place. No more and no less. Giving me a bonus point for leading a category is NOT a direct reflection of how well my team performed. They only performed well enough to earn 74.5 points. That's it! What's next? Extra points for having the actual MVP and CY Young winner on your roster (both of which I would have, by the way)?

In conclusion let me just say bonus points shmonus boinks. I want to earn the final standing and point score I deserve for next season. Whether it's second last just ahead of Shawn or third place once again. These Hunks don't run.

Sincerely,

Clay

Hunks Clubhouse

p.s. Bonus Points? What The Deuce?

Tuesday, August 28, 2012

Biggest Keeper Bust

The winner is an obvious choice so let's first look at the runners-up.

Injury!

Lance Berkman ended up having a bad luck season. He was hardly given time to replicate the bad ass numbers he put up last year. I'd feel bad for the guy if he was wearing a different uniform. On second though, I still wouldn't really care.

Corey Luekbe was the $1 ace in the hole for the Hunks. The Hunks paid the price at the end of April when Luekbe's season ended with Tommy John Surgery. 33 cents per win.

Despite a poor batting average Dee Gordon racked up the steals for the Hamstrings, then he tore the UCL in his right thumb and is still healing. So...you need a thumb to steal?

Brian Wilson. The phony went on the shelf in late April with an elbow strain. This guy is just a phony I tell ya. Hard to justify keeping a closer.

Bums!

Cameron Maybin is just another flop of a first round pick.

Johan Santana. Ok, so you had a no-hitter. That don't empress me much.

Brandon Belt. Maybe if the Giants had played him everyday...

Brian McCann will probably match his HR and RBI averages but his AVG suuuuuuucks.

The worst keeper award goes to...................................................................................

GABY SANCHEZ! Boy O Boy has he flat out stunk this season.

Monday, August 27, 2012

Song of the Day

Dean Finds Internet Signal, Makes Two Trades

The Steamers and Clams struck a deadline deal last night that would send Rutledge, Hamels and Bourn to the Clammies and Posey, Phillips and Putz to Cleveland. The Cleveland Steamers are hoping to wrestle third place away from the Hunkiest of Hunks, Hunks Clubhouse. All the while, the Clams try to hang on to that tops spot of the bottom half of the league.

Earlier in the week, the Hunks finally moved Ike Davis and received Danny Espinosa in return. With Eric Young on the DL, the Hunks are hoping Espinosa can fill the hole left at MI. It's a scary time for the Hunks, you know, with McCutchen and Kubel not producing. Let us not forget how the Hunks have risen despite losing Grienke and Sanchez. Quite an accomplishment. If there were an award for manager of the year, Hunks would be repeating.

On the prospect of being awarded waiver rights for Adrian Gonzalez, Hunks manager Hunk Monroe said "I have absolute confidence that my $7 waiver bid will fall just shy. But I still have confidence that outfielders will pull their heads of of their asses." On Justin Germano, "I really hope I can afford to strike him from my roster soon."

When asked about the season in a recent interview with Hunks Magazine, Hunk Monroe said "I didn't expect to have such a Hunkacious run to the top of the league. Really though, if you look at my points, I'm only playing to hang on to third. I don't see this team gaining enough points to finish in the top two. The problem right now is pinching off those Cleveland Steamers. They seem to just hang right in there no matter how hard we try to shake them off. We both have gains a losses at the same time. I just hope that my Hunks and power up and push those Steamers out and wipe ourselves clean of this stinky situation. How corny would it be if the Steamers got Turd place? It's Hunks Time!"

Let me also point out that the Clams acquired Brian McCann for Rueben Tejada. The Bearded Clams finally stopped letting teams try and finger them and have just givin it up for nothing. Maybe I didn't work the nipples enough. The Steamers pretty much just deflowered the poor Clams. And what does he get in return for Posey? Not a Hunk, that's for sure.

Friday, August 10, 2012

Song of the Day

Wednesday, August 8, 2012

Preston wins Trivia... again!

Look below and you will see Dick Howser's card claiming him to be the '61 ROY while Don Schwall's 1964 Topps only mentions Schwall as a "rookie sensation" in 1961. The first card, Willie Kirkland, answers the question you didn't find an answer too. Either way, great job.

P RO,

here are your winnings this round. A couple of oldies and some fresh off the printer 2012 Allen & Ginter's.

Monday, July 30, 2012

BREAKDANCING MIDGETS

If you're having a bad HandyJ Season, maybe this will lift your spirits.

Friday, July 27, 2012

Trade Deadline is Aug 26th

Strained Hamstrings have Wandy Rodriguez, Jonathan Papelbon, Matt Kemp, Andre Ethier and Brian McCann ready to move.

Hunks Clubhouse would like to move Ike Davis, Lance Berkman, John Axford and Clayton Richard in exchange for SP/RP.

i have the runs! is looking to deal Chase Headley, Jordan Schafer, Christian Friedrich and Carlos Zambrano. In return, he is asking for CI, MI, OF, SP.

Cleveland Steamers would like a power bat.

And finally, word on the street is Jacque Strap Jones* is putting together a blockbuster deal.

*Team name as of press time

Friday, June 29, 2012

Rummage Sale Bazinga! Part One

What a deal I stumbled upon after work this morning. I checked out a garage sale in Mahomet that advertised sports cards and boy oh boy! I'm assuming the previous owner wasn't present at today's sale because I bought about 700 Topps baseball and football cards from the 1970's for $8. The box of football cards was priced at $4 while the baseball cards were 10 for a quarter. The sale was being ran by two Jr high girls(maybe mom was on break). They were struggling with the math of how much to charge me. I said, "hey yo, every fourty cards is a buck". They looked at each other and one said, "Uh, i guess, like, four dollars for that one...so then, eight dollars all together"? Bargin.

Now, the football cards were labeled "70's Topps football" so there wasn't any reason to check them out one by one, I was going to buy them. I briefly thumbed through the baseball and saw enough with "Sweet Lou", Filipe Alou and Randy Hundley to know I would buy the full box. Listening to the HandyJ song of the week the entire 17 minute drive back to Champaign, I forgot about my purchase.

I finally grabbed a handful out a couple hours after I got home. The following are the highlights of what I found. Soon I will post by 50's and 60's Topps I purchased two weekends ago from an older gentleman in Savoy. Enjoy with this weeks song!

Wednesday, June 20, 2012

Do You Remember?

Wednesday, May 30, 2012

handyj song of the day

2012 Winnings so far

2012 Winnings

DEAN

Baseball's Greatest Grossouts

Combat Conrad

Stinkin' Seth

Artie the Announcer

Skinny Vinny

Chipmunk Chuck

Tiptoer Tim

Topps Heritage Star Rookie Jordan Zimmerman

Topps Rod Carew

Topps1983 Highlight: Bench, Gaylord and Yaz retire

Topps Allen & Ginter's The Parthenon

Miguel Montero

Bowman Ike Davis rookie 

Topps 206 Mickey Mantle checklist 2 of 7

Bowman Platinum Troy Tulowitzki 338/999

Upper Deck Signatures Jeff Karstens
Preston
Topps Adam Wainwright
Hunter Pence rookie cup
Billy Buckner rookie
Mike Napoli
Ian Kinsler
Nyjer Morgan rookie
Topps Update Fernando Salas
Topps Heritage 2009 World Series Game #4 Damon Steals 2
Allen & Ginter's Pluto
Allen & Ginter's Clayton Kershaw
Bowman USA Baseball Sheldon Neuse Jersey 575/949
Topps Opening Day Ian Stewart 0158/2010
Classic Tim Biakabutuka
Topps Alf #5
WCW Rick Steiner "The Dog-Faced Gremlin" #104
Fleer WWE Absolute Divas Booker T
Baseball's Greatest Grossouts Tricky Dicky
Pro Set Super Stars Lita Ford
Topps Update Edwin Jackson 0999/2011
Topps 206 Historical Events mini Comet
Topps Allen & Ginter's World's Biggest Tree mini
Topps Gypsy Queen mini Micheal Young
Topps Gypsy Queen mini Jamie Garcia
Topps Gypsy Queen Adrian Beltre
Topps Gypsy Queen Allen Craig

Wirth
Topps mini 1987 Dan Uggla
Topps Champions of Games and Sport Joe DiMaggio
Topps Heritage Ryan Braun
Topps Golden Greats Willie Mays
Topps Carlos Gonzalez
Bowman Sterling Peter O'Brien jersey 023/199
Topps Danny Valencia rookie cup
Topps Diamond Anniversary Bobby Abreu
Topps 60 Joey Votto
ToppsTown Carlos Lee
Topps Cole Hamels
Topps Classic Combos Pudge & Verlander
Topps UFC Roy Nelson
Topps UFC Bloodlines Randy Couture
Topps UFC Chuck Liddell
Topps UFC Octagon of Honor Matt Hughes
Topps UFC Top Fights of '09 Edgar vs Sherk
Topps UFC Fight Poster UFN11 Florian, Leben, Diaz
Topps UFC Victory BJ "The Prodigy" Penn

Dillon
Topps 2010 AL League Leaders ERA
Topps Clayton Kershaw
Topps Jose Bautista

Roberts
ToppsTown Francisco Liriano
Topps Milton Bradley

Tuesday, May 22, 2012

UFC 146 This Saturday! Predict, Watch, Win!

For this contest, the person who correctly guesses the most winners wins! For tie breaker possibilities, pick the round and by which way the victor will win for the Nelson/Herman, Silva/Velasquez and the dos Santos/Mir fight. Remember, all fights are three rounds except the Championship battle which is 5 rounds. Are you ready to Rumble?! Look at this beautiful copy/paste job!

Main Card (PPV)

Heavyweight Championship bout: Junior dos Santos (c) vs. Frank Mir
Heavyweight bout: Cain Velasquez vs. Antonio Silva
Heavyweight bout: Roy Nelson vs. Dave Herman
Heavyweight bout: Shane del Rosario vs. Stipe Miočić
Heavyweight bout: Stefan Struve vs. Lavar Johnson

[edit]Preliminary card (FX)

Featherweight bout: Diego Brandao vs. Darren Elkins
Lightweight bout: Edson Barboza vs. Jamie Varner
Middleweight bout: Jason Miller vs. C.B. Dollaway
Welterweight bout: Dan Hardy vs. Duane Ludwig

[edit]Preliminary card (Facebook)

Lightweight bout: Jacob Volkmann vs. Paul Sass
Light Heavyweight bout: Kyle Kingsbury vs. Glover Teixeira
Featherweight bout: Mike Brown vs. Daniel Pineda

The Wonder winnings! There can be only one. Good luck and post your name or team name in the comment. All participants of handyj will win a card at random!