Week 3 MSSSMRMoW



The Brother Battle  is week 3's Mike Shaw Subaru
Super Mo Replay Matchup of the Week

BROTHER BATTLE!!!!

The brothers have been battling it out over free agent pick ups for weeks as one, were not sure which one, keeps copying the other one.  Blame gets tossed around, fights start, moms are called.  Uncle Jimmy and I are like brothers, we've been best friends for nearly 15 years (holy shit we're old), but we missed out on all of those formative years where perceived slights are lashed onto, nourtured and then released at just the right moment for maximum impact.  Well...week 3 in the Tater Tot Fantasy Baseball League must have felt like Christmas morning to the brothers Jonas.  Since neither of them bothered to change their actual team names, neither one recevied a preseason bio.  Let me set the stage here then for this battle.  T who shant be yler and Zach who pronounces his name with a mysterious invisible "k" at the end were raised in Rolling Meadows, IL.  But unlike Uncle Jimmy, who was also raised there, the T and Zach"k" were on the wrong side of RM, which is commonly refered to by those of us who think RM is trashy as Rolling Ghettos.  Their parents were wonderful, hard working and respectful people who provided nicely for them, but also thought they needed to learn to fend for themselves.  So, every night, the Jonas parents would put 1 plate of food in the middle of the kitchen and take the boys to opposite ends.  Then, when the clock struck 6PM, each boy would race to the plate and whichever one got to the food first and protected it best, got to eat that night.  The others either went hungry or had to wait for scraps.  That does say "others."  There was once a third Jonas brother, but no one knows what happened to him, and he is no longer spoken about.  From that daily fight sprung a competitive force so strong that it overflows into everything they do.  When T called Zach"k" to tell him he first kissed a girl, Zach"k" responded, "Pussy, I had a girl go down on my years ago."  When Zach"k" called T to tell him he got laid for the first time, T responded with "Did she lie or did she tell you straight up that I was better?"

That brings us to today:

Team	R	RBI	SB	AVG	OBP	SLG	W	K	ERA	WHIP	QS	SV+H	Score
Zach Attack	21	15	5	0.262	0.327	0.421	4	53	2.93	1.44	3	5	6
Merry T's Moors	28	10	9	0.242	0.324	0.379	3	55	3.65	1.15	5	5	5

 Let's play matchup review again!  This is where we look at a couple of the pivotal matchups in this battle.  Look at how close this was despite T having an aweful team for the first two weeks.  Nothing like a little bad blood to bring out the fight in you.  OBP, Ws, Ks, and Sv+H could have easily slide either way in this one.

C - Mike Zunino (333/368/611 2R 3RBI) vs Carlos Santana (053/182/211 2R 2RBI)
This is like the 34th straight week that Carlos Santana has tried to perform without Michelle Branch.  Actually, that might have been Michelle Branch wearing Santana's uniform.  She couldnt have done much worse.  Zunino was a recent pickup for the Attack and paid immediate dividends.  This OBP mismatch played a huge role in giving Zach"k" that category for the week.

2b - Jose Altuve (269/321/308 1R 0RBI 4SB) vs Dustin Pedroia (318/423/455 6R 1RBI 1SB)
In the battle of Carny second basemen, Pedroia's 6 runs and triple slash line trounce Altuve's 4 SBs.  In this case, the answer to How many Altuve's is .4 Pedroias.

OF - Carlos Gonzalez, Ryan Braun, ShinSoo Choo vs Jay Bruce, Hunter Pence, Starling Marte
On name value, this is very one sided in favor of the Attack.  But this week, the Moors' OF trio kept even with the Attack threesome in runs (15 to 14 for the Attack) allowing Pedroia's 6 to carry the team to victory and added 7 of the team's 9 SBs.

Pitchers:
Stephen Stratsburg and Ervin Santana both had multi start weeks for the Moors and both produced double digit strikout totals.  But the real lift for the Moors came from a different Moore, Matt.  Matt Moore went on the DL and was dropped last Tuesday, but was in the starting lineup for the week.  That hole likely allowed the Moors to win the strikeout category and possibly the QS category.

Congrats Zach"k".  This was another epic battle in the long war between the Jonas brothers.  Enjoy the meal this week and dont worry, that girl really wasnt lying to you.  Or was she?