I haven't posted a blog in a long while, but consider this my come back. This time around, I'm not going to focus so much on my opinions on sports, but rather my fantasy sports. If you've checked Reiner's MLB 2K10 blog, it'll be some what similar to that. Except not all on one blog, but instead split up into a few blogs a month, with updates and my thoughts of my team.

So, over at ESPN.com, I joined a free league named Albert4MVP. As I do for every team that I make, I named my squad The Brady Bunch. Quick explanation: My name is Brady. Anyways, I designed my logo and it ended up looking like this:

Now lets get down to business. Our draft type was an auction. Basically, everyone started off with 260 "dollars" and you bid on each individual player. Since our rosters hold all eight position players, a 1B/3B, a 2B/SS, a utility player, and two other outfielders, you can imagine how long this took. In addition to those thirteen players, our roster requires nine pitchers and three bench players. When you take into account that my league has 10 teams, this means there were 250 players auctioned off. Long story short, it took an obnoxious, and some what entertaining, two hours to draft.

I started things off with a terrible bang. You see, Facebook always has so much drama on the home page. And today in particular, a girl punched another girl in the face during school, and it knocked a tooth out. Naturally, the high school gossip monster shook within me and I was forced to read the post smack talk. I suppose this is why there are no owners in professional sports that are juniors in high school. Because of my useless gossip, I missed the entire first round of the draft.

Typically, this just means I'd get the best player available when it was my chance to select a player. However, because this was an auction draft, it's sort of like when you arrive on Ebay five seconds short of winning that limited edition Star Trek DVD you've been dying to get your hands on. Many of the top players of the league were gone by the time I arrived (Pujols, A-rod, Halladay, Hanley Ramirez, ect).

My next error really didn't seem like it was my fault. A picture of Joe Mauer shows up on my screen, and I have a surplus of money to spend. But the question is, who is being auctioned off? If you guessed Mauer like I did, you would have been wrong. Instead, the Texas Rangers' second baseman Ian Kinsler was on the board, and I payed twenty nine dollars for him. It's not that he wasn't a worthy player, but I really just wasn't looking for Kinsler at that price.

However, I did partially redeem myself the very next pick when I won the Joe Mauer sweepstakes for thirty dollars. Looking back at it, I'm relatively happy with my first two players. Still, it would have been nice to know what I was doing from the very start. The next few rounds for me were full of spending. Although I did find a few bargains such as Placido Polanco for five bucks, the round was chuck full of twenty dollar players such as C.C Sabathia, Justin Upton, Zack Greinke, Pablo "Kung Fu Panda" Sandoval, Felix Hernandez, Troy Tulowitzki and Ichiro.

Now, if you have any mathematical bone in your body, you must realize I burnt through the majority of my salary cap in a hurry. Quite frankly, I got caught up in the hunt for these top notch players. The rest of my draft was much less eventful, with a few players in the range of $5-$10, and a whole boat load of sub par players going for a dollar. My team is pretty good in my opinion, but if I could redo it, I should have calmed down in the first few rounds. This is my whole squad:

The Brady Bunch

C - Joe Mauer

1B - Paul Konerko

2B - Ian Kinsler

3B - Pablo Sandoval

SS - Troy Tulowitzki

OF - Justin Upton

OF - Ichiro Suzuki

OF - Nick Swisher

OF - Vernon Wells

OF - Delmon Young

Utility - Ryan Theriot

P - C.C Sabathia

P - Felix Hernandez

P - Zack Greinke

P - Tommy Hanson

P - Jorge De La Rosa

P - Phil Hughes

P - Mike Gonzalez

P - Joel Pinero 

P - Octavio Dotel

Bench : C Yadier Molina, OF Willy Taveras, 3B Mark DeRosa.

I'm most likely going to try and ship Molina somewhere, and give up Taveras up to free agency and bring in the problem child, Milton Bradley. I think he can get the job done in Seattle, and it's not much of a risk for me.

So, here is my team. Thoughts, concerns, questions? Send them here, I'd love to hear anything anyone has to say. Don't agree with my moves or just feel like pointing out what I did wrong? Go ahead, let me know. And if by any chance you're a fantasy sports expert, send your tips this way!