Kiss'Em Goodbye
2009 Season

Not by Baseball Prospectus

Richard Bergstrom's Projection: The Cubs win the World Series!

Actual record: Wait till next year before listening to his projections.


From the WBC to the World Series, nine months of baseball culminates in a non-baseball advertisement of how one fantasy team used Sigourney Weaver to combat aliens. Second verse, same as the first?


A Sock Puppet from Elsewhere's Take:
There was a lot of great plans for this season and while some teams overperformed and others underperformed, others remained with the status quo. Particularly disappointing was the lack of clutch-hitting by those who aren't clutch hitters, proven vets, or other term to describe their capability to be incapabale. On the other hand, kudos to the clutch-hitting done by clutch hitters, proven vets, and others deemed capable.

Biggest puzzler on the drawing board: With an exciting new offseason to look forward to, expect a frenzy of moves as pretenders look to become contenders. However, don't be surprised if little happens due to new issues like the bad economy and outcries about how the Yankees bought the title for the first time ever. As always, stay tuned to XY.com in spring training for your yearly steroids "leak".


The Non-BP Take:
Is the new BP Annual out yet? *checks Amazon*
Is the new BP Annual out yet?


Key Stat: 100%
One hundred percent of scheduled games that were not cancelled due to rain, snow, Selig, earthquake, terrorist attacks or gnats were played in 2009. Though the stat was close to my actual projection, I am unclear if my projection model is an accurate tool to use to predict the number of scheduled/non-cancelled games that will be played in future seasons due to small sample size issues that might regress into no meaning.


My Rumor Central:

Free Agency: I could say I heard she likes me, but she actually texted me.

Depth Chart: Privileged info restricted to AdultProspectus.com members.


Who 2 Watch 4: SPAM.

How much spam can a spam can can if a spam can could can spam?


Draft recap:

For all those people who drafted BJ Upton in the first round for your fantasy teams, you're still wrong. Of course, I drafted him first, which means I'm also wrong, and when two wrongs draft a Wright, who knows what's left?


The Bottom Line:

It's been an awesome year with a lot of new writers and features at BP. The Idol contest was fun and the tech team did a great job with updates to the site. The only downer was a lack of a Pizza Feed in Denver. Already looking forward to next year and another course of interactive discourse, but in any event, it was a great 2009 with a lot of stuff to talk about!

Have a Happy Holidays and keep on commenting/flagging/negativing and subscribing!

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