Bug Juice

I can't think about baseball without thinking about bug-juice.  I don't know if they even have bug-juice these days, but when I was a kid it was a big thing during baseball season...at least at the reform school where I was a student.

No one was sure what was really in the bug juice, but it tasted great.  And the bugs loved it.  The bug-juice came in a very large tureen which was typically kept beside the bench along the first-base line.  You would wave your arm over the tureen to shoo the bugs away, and then you'd stick a dipper into the tureen and slurp up a cup full of bug-juice.  Heaven.  And then you'd get back to your baseball game.

In preparation for the Main Event (see my previous post) I entered a satellite fantasy baseball league for $350.  I figured maybe I'd learn something.  I certainly did.  In that draft I selected Patrick Corbin as one of my pitchers.  He was great for the Texas Rangers at the beginning of the 2013 season, and I thought he might improve this year.

After the draft I learned that Patrick Corbin had had Tommy John surgery, and would miss the entire season!

Well, I wouldn't make that mistake again!

So in the Main Event what happened?  I drafted Jarrod Parker.  After the draft I learned that Jarrod Parker had had Tommy John surgery on the day before I drafted him.  You can't make this stuff up.

So now I have to replace Patrick Corbin and Jarrod Parker from the Waiver Wires in each league.  I won't go into detail here.  Tonight at about 7:15 Pacific  Time I will find out if I have been able to replace these guys with someone half-way decent.