The 2010-11 season is a ways off and TIPs will do its best to be the bridge to the end of October. (Bridge to the End of October is also the name of Oprah’s next book club recommendation – housewives unite!) For the next few months, we’ll be isolating a handful of sleepers and dissecting their worth to your team. Think of us as your fantasy “Antiques Roadshow,” with 50 percent fewer decorative ceramics.
The 2010-11 season is a ways off and TIPs will do its best to be the bridge to the end of October. (Bridge to the End of October is also the name of Oprah’s next book club recommendation – housewives unite!) For the next few months, we’ll be isolating a handful of sleepers and dissecting their worth to your team. Think of us as your fantasy “Antiques Roadshow,” with 50 percent fewer decorative ceramics.
For the remainder of this Wild West offseason, Tip-In Points will provide sporadic rundowns of the comings and goings of your favorite players, least-favorite players that are still important to your fantasy team and guys you can’t stand and will probably skip over.
As first reported and orchestrated by ESPN, the Washington Nationals have agreed in principle to send rookie phenom Stephen Strasburg to the Miami Heat in an unprecedented swap that will send three future second round NBA draft picks to the MLB franchise. Although details of the agreement have not been finalized, Heat officials have said they plan to start the 6’2″ pitcher at PG and figure out how the hell to incorporate his pitching skills “sometime later this season.”
I have no doubt I’ll be spending the better part of the summer and autumn articulating why this is awful for the league as a whole, so I won’t waste my word count doing it here. Instead, I’m going to waste my word count extolling on why LeBron James could have become an American hero on Thursday night and instead, chose to become the NBA’s most reviled player.