Just a couple of thoughts. Probably nobody cares about them but me. Gunny, just skip to the next entry.

My Yahoo! fantasy baseball team drafted yesterday, and once again I'm heavy with pitchers. My first six picks were pitchers. It went something like Barry Zito, Pedro Martinez, Mark Mulder, Roy Oswalt, Kerry Wood and Mark Prior. It wasn't until the seventh round that I started picking up position players.

And it wasn't because I ranked pitchers ahead of position players, necessarily, though I ranked all of those six in my top 15, and it pleases me that I got them--Randy Johnson was the only other pitcher I ranked that high, and he went with the second pick of the draft.

I've got a decent hitting lineup. Not a lot of power, though, unless Ken Griffey turns it around. I've got a waiver request in for Juan Gonzales, too. I'll take a chance in a free league.

But if you look up and down my lineup, there are a lot of guys hitting .285 and .295. I don't think I've got a .330 hitter in the group, but I'll take 8 .295 hitters over 1 .330 hitter and 7 .260 hitters, which is pretty much what I had last year. I've got speed in the form of David Eckstein and Juan Pierre.

Trouble spots: Steve Finley's really old. If Griffey doesn't have even a decent year, or stays hurt. If Mark Bellhorn was a fluke--he's my supersub. If Jose Hernandez loses his stroke completely--No K stat in the hitters stats, so there's not a lot of harm in having Jose, since he's playing at Coors Field this year.

It's a head to head league. On the whole, I think if we went by just fantasy points, I'd do okay. But it's a week to week thing, and you have only to be better than the team you're competing against. I like it better that way, anyway. Keeps it interesting.