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Last Sunday myself & 9 people I work with had our first work Fantasy Baseball draft. Good times. There were some pretty ridiculous draft-day decisions that needed to be written somewhere for permanent record, and this idea popped up. With a league full of people who have never played fantasy baseball before, plus myself & one or two other people who are sure to be absolutely dominant, why not record the entire season?

From draft day to the championship.

A permanent record of the madness that is "Chili's Fantasy Baseball."

So it's what I will do.

We have a 10-team league, head-to-head style. Each matchup runs from Monday thru Sunday. So every Monday (or Tuesday if Monday is busy) I will give a weekly report on the goings on of the CFB. Matchup breakdowns, trade breakdowns, a look ahead, plus a few random jokes about Robbie's team. Good times.

So where else to start? The draft.

10 teams.

Myself (The Montaquito), Kip (The Confederate Flag), Tim (Tenacious Tim's Team) & Duke (Duke's Kunta Kintay's) have already emerged as the serious players in this league.

Chris (knuckleheads), Doug (F*ckinallstars), Josh (Josh for now), Erin (Duffy's Donkeys) & Kelly (kfairs) are players who if they stick with it should be in this thing until the end.

And Robbie (Bo-byy Knows Baseball) is the league laughingstock. For those of you who live in the northeast of the country, you know every league you join always has that one kid who drafts all Yankees or all Red Sox on their team. Robbie is this leagues culprit. A roster full of Yankees. And the jokes are just getting started.

The Draft:
Time & Date: Sometime last Sunday afternoon
Location: The Freehold Racetrack, clubhouse, smoking section
Important pieces of info: Lots of angry men betting on horses around us, a bar nearby, and the ncaa tourney games on our tvs

The draft hasn't even begun and we have our first major development. Kelly & Erin are stuck in Chicago where they are apartment shopping. Having faith in me, they've asked me to draft their teams. So before we even begin, I am now stuck with drafting 3 teams in a money league. Talk about pressure.

We pull out of a hat to decide the draft order.

Kip, Tim, Duke, Chris, Erin, Robbie, Kelly, Josh, myself & Doug is the order, with it going in reverse in every other round.

All you really need to know about the draft is that the first four people I mentioned had the best drafts, everyone else had good drafts, and Robbie had a ridiculous draft.

In fact, after the 11th round he had to go to work, so he gave Duke a list of 9 or 10 people that he wanted to be drafted on his team for him. Included in this list were Robinson Cano, Curt Schilling, Jorge Posada, Mike Mussina, a few other Yankees, and the fantasy legend himself, Bruce Chen. This was the point everyone in our league lost it. Bruce Chen? Someone seriously wanted to draft him? Apparently Robbie did. Every other fantasy baseball league in the country this year will see Bruce Chen sitting on free agency somewhere. But not ours. We all agreed that none of us would take Chen (a not so hard thing to agree on) and that we'd give him to Robbie in the 21st round.

As for everyones rosters, here they are, with their first 10 draft picks with their round number in parantheses next to their name.

The Confederate Flag (Kip), 1st pick in draft.
C Joe Mauer (8)
1b Todd Helton (5)
2b Jeff Kent (10)
3b Alex Rodriguez (1)
SS Bobby Crosby
OF Bobby Abreu (2)
OF Ken Griffey, Jr (9)
OF Vernon Wells
Util Chone Figgins (3)
Bn Jeremy Hermida
Bn Ryan Zimmerman
Bn Prince Fielder

SP Rich Harden (4)
SP Andy Pettitte (6)
SP Mark Prior (7)
SP Scott Kazmir
RP Derek Turnbow
RP Bob Wickman
Bn Mike MacDougal
Bn Ervin Santana
Bn Chris Young

Tenacious Tim's Team (Tim), 2nd pick in draft
C Jorge Posada
1b Albert Pujols (1)
2b Chase Utley (3)
3b Troy Glaus (8)
SS Felipe Lopez (10)
OF Carlos Beltran (4)
OF Juan Pierre (6)
OF Cliff Floyd (7)
Util Nick Johnson
Bn Edgar Renteria
Bn Nomar Garciaparra
Bn Mike Jacobs

SP Jake Peavy (2)
SP Josh Beckett (5)
SP Cliff Lee (9)
SP Jose Contreras
RP BJ Ryan
RP Francisco Cordero
Bn Fransisco Liriano
Bn Brandon Backe
Bn Chin-Man Wang or whoever you spell his name

Duke's Kunta Kintay's (Duke), 3rd pick in draft
C Bengie Molina (10)
1b Paul Konerko (5)
2b Brian Roberts (8)
3b Eric Chavez (7)
SS Julio Lugo
OF Ichiro Suzuki (2)
OF Hideki Matsui (4)
OF Jim Edmonds
Util Richie Sexson
Bn Willie Taveras
Bn Mike Sweeney
Bn Garrett Atkins
Bn Yadier Molina

SP Johan Santana (1)
SP Roy Oswalt (3)
SP Tim Hudson (6)
SP CC Sabathia (9)
RP Eric Gagne
RP Chris Ray
Bn Roger Clemens
Bn Rodrigo Lopez

knuckleheads (Chris), 4th pick in draft
C Viktor Martinez (4)
1b Carlos Delgado (7)
2b Jorge Cantu
3b Hank Blalock (3)
SS Clint Barmes
OF Vladimir Guerrero (1)
OF Johnny Damon (6)
OF Pat Burrell (10)
Util Carlos Lee (5)
Bn Jose Video
Bn Moises Alou
Bn Sean Casey
Bn Milton Bradley

SP Roy Halladay (2)
SP John Lackey (9)
SP Zach Duke
SP Matt Morris
RP Chad Cordero (8)
RP Bobby Jenks
Bn Greg Maddux
Bn Tom Glavine

Duffy's Donkeys (Erin), 5th pick in draft
C Javy Lopez (8)
1b Ryan Howard (4)
2b Ronnie Belliard
3b Melvin Mora
SS Michael Young (2)
OF Manny Ramirez (1)
OF Scott Podsednik (9)
OF Brian Giles
Util Rafael Furcal (7)
Bn Shawn Green

SP Pedro Martinez (3)
SP Mark Buehrle (5)
SP John Smoltz (6)
SP Freddy Garcia
RP Billy Wagner (10)
RP Trevor Hoffman
Bn Noah Lowry
Bn Keith Foulke
Bn Doug Davis
Bn Chris Capuano
Bn Daniel Cabrera

Bo-bby Knows Baseball (Robbie), 6th pick in draft
C Pudge Rodriguez (10)
1b Jason Giambi (7)
2b Robinson Canu
3b Chipper Jones (5)
SS Derek Jeter (3)
OF Gary Sheffield (4)
OF Torii Hunter (9)
OF Jermaine Dye
Util David Ortiz (1)
Bn Jose Guillen
Bn JD Drew
Bn Andrian Beltre
Bn Mike Lowell

SP Randy Johnson (2)
SP Barry Zito (6)
SP Jon Garland
SP Curt Schilling
RP Mariano Rivera (8)
RP Ryan Dempster
Bn Mike Mussina
Bn Bruce Chen

kfairs (Kelly), 7th pick in draft
C Jason Varitek (8)
1b Mark Teixeira (1)
2b Bill Hall
3b David Wright (2)
SS Jose Reyes (4)
OF Aubrey Huff
OF Jeff Francoeur (9)
OF Grady Sizemore (5)
Util Jim Thome
Bn Johnny Gomez
Bn Luis Gonzalez

SP Chris Carpenter (3)
SP Mark Mulder (7)
SP Danny Haren (10)
SP Kevin Millwood
RP Brad Lidge (6)
RP Huston Street
Bn Javier Vasquez
Bn Jake Westbrook
Bn Gustavo Chacin
Bn Carl Pavano

Josh for now (Josh), 8th pick in draft
C Kenji Johjimi (10)
1b Derek Lee (1)
2b Marcus Giles (8)
3b Aramis Ramirez (4)
SS Jimmy Rollins (5)
OF Jason Bay (2)
OF Adam Dunn (6)
OF Randy Winn (9)
Util Matt Holliday
Bn Rocco Baldelli
Bn Garrett Anderson
Bn Ryan Freel

SP Ben Sheets (3)
SP AJ Burnett (7)
SP Bret Myers
SP John Petterson
RP Armando Benitez
RP Brian Fuentes
Bn Brad Radke
Bn Kelvim Escobar
Bn Paul Byrd

The Montaquito (shark), 9th pick in draft
C Michael Barrett
1b Lance Berkman (6)
2b Rickie Weeks
3b Scott Rolen (9)
SS Jhonny Peralta (7)
OF Miguel Cabrera (1)
OF Carl Crawford (2)
OF Coco Crisp
Util Travis Hafner (3)
Bn Placido Polanco

SP Felix Hernandez (4)
SP Carlos Zambrano (5)
SP Joe Blanton
SP Brandon Webb (10)
RP Francisco Rodriguez (8)
RP Tom Gordon
Bn Oliver Perez
Bn Jon Lieber
Bn Erik Bedard
Bn Adam Eaton
Bn Estoban Loiaza

F*ckinallstars (Doug), 10th pick in draft
C Paul Lo Duce
1b Justin Morneau
2b Alfonso Soriano (2)
3b Morgan Ensberg (7)
SS Miguel Tejedga (1)
OF Andruw Jones (3)
OF Barry Bonds (8)
OF Maglio Ordonez
Util Chad Tracy
Bn Mark Loretta
Bn Brad Wilkerson

SP Bartolo Colon (4)
SP Dontrelle Willis (5)
SP Jason Schmidt (6)
SP Livan Hernandez
RP Joe Nathan (9)
RP Jason Isringhausen (10)
Bn Jeremy Bonderman
Bn Matt Clement
Bn Kenny Rogers
Bn Bronson Arroyo

There you have it, all 10 rosters for the 2006 CFB.

I'm curious to see who you all think is the favorite? I know who I think is (hint; it's not me).

Next league update: opening day