As many of you know, I was invited into the NL-Only Tout Wars live draft this past weekend that took place at the SiriusXM building in New York. The draft started at 10 AM EST on Sunday. I include EST because I roll like Rodney-O, Joe Cooley and Tupac on PST. EST is for grandmothers named Ester who die in the middle of spelling their name. I flew in the day before, which meant I would still be on Tupac time. I tell you this because I knew it would be a struggle to get up and to the building by 10 AM, so I stayed at a hotel that was literally -- yes, I'm literally using the word literally -- a block away from Sirius. I set my alarm clock on my iPhone -- "Siri, could you wake me at 8:15 AM, I want to be a winner?" "Googling Steak Me restaurants for 8:15 dinner." I told the hotel I needed a wake up call; I even set my in-room alarm clock. I was prepared to wake up late even with all of these safeguards. Well, I woke up on time. Actually, early. I did the three S's and, at around 9:15 AM, with 45 minutes to spare, I ducked into a Starbucks right outside my hotel. I only needed to walk about 500 feet. I didn't need 45 minutes for that even if I was lugging my suitcase. After dillying and dallying for about 30 minutes in the 'Bucks, I headed over to Sirius. Well, that is, I got to about 100 feet away from the front door of my draft when I saw there was a half marathon running down the middle of the street that I needed to cross. I asked the policeman, "Can I cross here? I only need to go to that building that we are directly across from." "Sorry, pal, you need to go up ten blocks to the subway and cross underneath the street." DAAAAAAHHHHHHHH! I threw my suitcase up in my arms and began to run ten blocks against a marathon and then ten blocks back. Good times! Anyway, here's my Tout Wars recap, it's a 12 team NL-Only, 4 OF, two catcher, two UTIL league:
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