Who is Mrs. Brown?! (Joey Almars)

I am a huge fan of fantasy sports. My favorite thing about them is that it makes every game more interesting and engaging and gives games meaning that you would otherwise not care anything about. My favorite sport is baseball and naturally I enjoy fantasy baseball more than football. The only problem is that I have notoriously been the doormat of the league. I have had teams filled with players who have gone to the DL and sure fire players that bust when they switch teams (yes I am looking at you Adam Dunn).

But as it would happen, this year my luck has finally changed (knock on wood). For the first two months I started out really strong and was at the top of the division with the help of guys like, Fielder, Phillips, Wright, Trout, and a very respectable pitching core. But as the month of June comes to a close, I have lost momentum and I lost a large cushion from being in first and am now currently 2^nd in the division to none other than a person I know as Mrs. Brown.

Mrs. Brown (as the story goes) was the former secretary at my High School. By the time I was attending she was long gone but people remembered her love of baseball. When we got closer to fantasy draft day several years later, we needed another person to join the league, and Mrs. Brown got the nod.

Now I am slightly surprised that she wanted to join the league and wasn’t sure if she knew what she was doing. On draft night I was convinced that she in fact had no clue what she was doing. She focused on pretty much all Cardinals players (because that’s her favorite team I guess) with her first round pick being Yadier Molina!! And hey, he has had a great year, but in any draft you don’t pull a guy up in the first round that people are going to leave there till at least the fourth. The other two plus sides to the draft were Verlander, Wainwright, and Harper. With only those 4 bright spots in her draft, I was not to worried about the so called Mrs. Brown.

To clarify some league rules, we have 3 bench spots with only one DL spot so as far as picking up players goes for the so called “trial period” to see if the player pans out, there wasn’t too much of that, and everyone had a set lineup for the most part. Not Mrs. Brown. Looking at her moves since April, she picked up Matt Carpenter (April 10), Paul Goldschmidt (April 27), Lance Lynn and Shelby Miller (May 6), and Patrick Corbin (May 15). Now looking at this list, we are missing one of the biggest surprises this season in Chris Davis who has 30 HR, 79 RBI and a .333 AVG. (Those are totals that the Twins would love to have for a player after 162 games and we aren’t even to the All-Star break). Mrs. Brown did not pick up Chris Davis in free agency… She drafted him!!

Let me just say that I was always picturing Mrs. Brown as a nice grandma like receptionist, but now I am seeing her as a mythical creature that has fantasy baseball as her career and being a receptionist is a side job. One thing that did benefit her was not having a lot of big names in the lineup, which allowed her to drop any player with a cold streak and not worry about the big names that you shouldn’t drop (even when they are slumping). Whether, she actually is a receptionist, a woman, a mythical fantasy god, or if she in fact does have a lovely daughter, this person has been completely dominating Matt Taylor’s league!