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Five Fantasy Baseball Players You Just Have to Have

TeamNames — Tue, 15 May 2012 22:47:25 +0000

While fantasy football is a sprint, fantasy baseball is more of a marathon. As such, fantasy baseball managers often break up the monotony of a long season by changing up their fantasy baseball team names or swapping out members of their team roster. In fantasy baseball, there are also a lot more players from which … Continue reading →

Cole Hamels Teaches Bryce Harper an Important Lesson on Maturity and Respecting his Elders

TeamNames — Mon, 07 May 2012 18:40:32 +0000

Washington Nationals rookie Bryce Harper finally got the call to the Big Show recently, and he’s made the most of his opportunity. After the May 6 game against the Philadelphia Phillies, the 19-year-old’s stats looked like this: .308 batting average, five of his eight hits have been doubles, 3 runs scored, and 3 RBI in … Continue reading →

Five Surprises of the 2012 NFL Draft

TeamNames — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 22:38:14 +0000

Any NFL Draft is full of surprises. Thousands of sports writers all over the planet spend countless hours putting together draft profiles, mock drafts, sleeper lists, overrated lists, and anything else to rank players from how well they throw a football to how they part their hair. And then in a span of three days, … Continue reading →

The Miami Dolphins Shouldn’t Overpay for Ryan Tannehill

TeamNames — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 22:54:45 +0000

The 2012 NFL Draft is nearly upon us—Thursday, April 26, at 8 p.m. ET, to be precise—and we already know how the top two draft picks will go. In an earth-shattering report last week, we were stunned to learn that the Indianapolis Colts will be drafting Andrew Luck (insert overly-dramatic gasp here). In other breaking … Continue reading →

Bobby Valentine Insults Kevin Youkilis, Further Alienates Red Sox Nation

TeamNames — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 23:14:46 +0000

Boston Red Sox fans are still angry about the team’s monumental collapse at the end of the 2011 season, and new manager Bobby Valentine hasn’t done much to restore the fans’ faith in 2012. On April 15, Valentine dug his own grave a little deeper by inexplicably questioning the physical and emotional motivation of third … Continue reading →

Closing Time

TeamNames — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 15:27:24 +0000

Nothing is more disappointing than having a great night, only to hear the dreaded announcement of closing time. At closing time, you hope that you’ll wind up a winner, but there’s also the chance that someone else is going to step in and ruin everything. Closing time can be depressing for fantasy baseball managers, too. … Continue reading →

Some April Foolishness in Predicting the World Series

TeamNames — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 18:50:16 +0000

Opening Day is here in Major League Baseball, so that means that it’s time to look ahead to October and predict the 2012 World Series champions. If you enjoyed the success we had in predicting sneaky fantasy baseball pick-ups for the Japan Series, then you know that we are darn near psychic here at TeamNames.net. … Continue reading →

Sneaky Fantasy Baseball Pick-Ups for the Japan Series

TeamNames — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 14:58:59 +0000

The 2012 MLB season starts March 28 with the Oakland Athletics and the Seattle Mariners playing a two-game series in Tokyo. Shrewd fantasy baseball managers will get their A’s and M’s in their starting lineups for two days. Even shrewder managers slip some free agents from each team into their lineups for extra stats during … Continue reading →

Three Intriguing Sweet Sixteen Matchups

TeamNames — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 13:42:12 +0000

How is your NCAA tournament bracket treating you? Are you in good shape heading into the Sweet Sixteen, or does it look like someone gutted a fish on it, from all the red ink? Did you go with any of our March Madness bracket busters? We called it right with VCU upsetting Wichita State, and … Continue reading →

Five March Madness Bracket Busters

TeamNames — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 13:14:49 +0000

It’s time for March Madness, and that means that it’s time to get that NCAA tournament bracket together. There are always bracket busters during March Madness, which provide endless opportunities for gloating if you pick them correctly. Here are five NCAA tournament bracket busters that we’ll be picking. South Region: No. 12 VCU over No. … Continue reading →