Pictured above: Troy Tulowitzki hurting himself trying to earn me even a single point in these games.

This week’s fantasy baseball game through FanDuel.com is simple — drop $2 to enter and you’ve got a shot at winning money from a $500 pool. If you haven’t been playing with us, you’re missing out … it’s a fun way to make a night of baseball more interesting and you’ve got a low-risk chance to double, triple or even whatever-the-word-for-50-times-something-is your money.

Here’s how we’re playing:

Thankfully there are no “Beat The Expert” components to this week’s game, so my 604 of 600 finish won’t benefit anyone. Regardless, I’m gonna keep fighting the good fight until I win one of these. So far my plan is 1) give Jeff Bagwell robot arms and legs, 2) get Jeff Bagwell back into the majors, 3) draft Jeff Bagwell. That sounds way easier than “do a little research and learn how to clean up playing fantasy ball”.

Seriously though, get over to FanDuel and sign up now.

With Leather is teaming up once again with DraftStreet.com for a freeroll of fantasy baseball, and I’m looking for redemption. Last time around I spent all of my money on Troy Tulowitzki and Buster Posey. They went a combined 0-for-about-85 on the night. I finished 54th.

But, like I said, we’re doing it again, and your chance to win is even greater. Sign up using this link or any of the similar links I’ve scattered throughout this blog entry for your part of a $300 prize pool. We’re paying out to the top seven, so take a few seconds and be one of the 53 people who know more about statistical probability than me. And if that’s not enough, don’t forget the Internet Jerk who put 60 bucks into DraftStreet and built it into nine grand. That should be reason enough for anybody.

It’s gonna be just like before, where you draft a player for each position, and your Friday night performance decides the results. The only game that isn’t going to count is the 2:20 Pirates vs Cubs affair, both because we want to wait for the regulars to get in, and because nobody’s going to draft a Pirate anyway.

So, the first With Leather fantasy baseball game through Draftstreet.com under my editorial command has come and gone, and I’m proud to say that I finished a solid 54th thanks to an 0-4 game by my new blood rival Troy Tulowitzki. You couldn’t have gotten one hit? You couldn’t have gotten hit by something? The big winner was user hw6400, who took first place with almost twice as many points as me. To add insult to injury, he had Kyle Farnsworth on his team, marking the first time Kyle Farnsworth has ever f**king won anything.

Here’s the top 5.

1. hw6400 – 88.6 points
2. Mochiman – 79.05
3. ryanbeingmanny – 74.85
4. tg7182 – 74.4
5. njpanick – 71.15
54. bthompsonstroud – 49.9 (grr)

If you won part of the cash pool, congratulations. The people at Draftstreet are awesome, so hopefully we’ll be doing more stuff like this in the near future. Next time I won’t pick Tulo. Buster Posey did even worse, scoring negative points, but he got 1 KO so I’m happy to have picked a guy with a great right cross.

Yeah, I don’t understand fantasy baseball, but it was fun.

According to Wikipedia, Los Angeles Dodgers broadcaster Vin Scully is 82 years old. That may have something to do with how out of touch he is with pop culture. During a Dodgers-Rockies game, Scully admitted that he was confused when a newspaper referred to Troy Tulowitzki’s haircut as a ‘mullet,’ saying that he thought it was a type of fish. Or maybe he wasn’t confused at all, and was just having a fond flashback to your mother’s fish from last night. I hear her salmon filet is fantastic, in more ways than one.

Vin
…made an off-balance throw and he got Blake at first base and, in reading the Colorado paper about the game, they said his throw was just a little bit longer than the mullet that he wears.

Vin
And I remember reading that and I thought ‘Mullet? Mullet’s a fish!’ So, we went on the computer and it’s both! It’s a hairdo and a fish. But there’s nothing fishy about this kid – he can really play. Troy batting .321. –Wezen-Ball

Vin needs to bone up on his hair style knowledge, but he could definitely get some lessons from these guys:

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