Predicate Baseball, Week 6

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It was the week of blowouts in Predicate Fantasy Baseball. Huge margins of victory were the order of the day.

Possibly the only close game was that in which Your Friendly Neighborhood Commisssioner was involved, which had shaped up to be a blowout throughout the entire week, but which was derailed by a rainout and a terrible, terrible performance by just one pitcher. The Devils lost yet again, this time to the Suicide Squeezes, who quite literally squeezed out a few victories, as well as racking up some stolen bases to battle back to a 7-6 win.

In the blowout news...

The Infield Flies did something flying-related over the Cubs, once again riding the wave of Pujols and Peavy to victory, 12-1.

The Headbangers put the hurt, 13-1, on the Hooligans, buoyed by 23 hits from the middle of the infield and 18 near-perfect innings from Roy Halladay of Toronto.

The Sparkly Knee Sox suffered what may have been their first serious defeat at the hands of the Middletown Mediocres - despite solid performances on both sides (and would it be a week in fantasy baseball without at least a few "solid performances?"), the Mediocres ended up well on top, 10-3.

The Show's pitchers performed well this week: Well enough to hand the Show a 10-3 victory over the Plutocrats, and come close to making it 11-2. Even an outstanding performance by the Plutocrat's David Eckstein, batting nearly .500 for the week, was not enough to garner more offensive points.

And finally, it was the Mind Killer, despite having no second baseman and two pitchers on the Disabled List, who somehow destroyed the Monkey Grinders, 11-3. The Grinders, no doubt, gird their loins for next week.

Overall, the race is now shaping up betwen three teams: The Headbangers, the Infield Flies, and the Middletown Mediocres. The rest of us can, for now, only watch. Down the stretch, that long and fabled stretch of the baseball season, nobody knows. But the frontrunners are out there for now. Whether anybody can catch them - and if not, who will end up in first - nobody knows.