Sorry it’s been a while since my last post, I’ll start posting more regularly.

The All Star break is thought to be the middle of the baseball season, and a good chance to look and access how your fantasy baseball team(s) is doing (and start wondering if it’s time to start thinking fantasy football).

I have two teams dominating their league, one the CBS NL Experts League.  Even though I had a nice lead, and was dominating in all the offensive categories, I had made a trade in late May that really improved my season ending chances of staying on top.  In need of another closer, I traded Jason Werth and Emilio Boniface for Ryan Franklin.  I hold a 10 point lead over Roto Wire, and barring some major injury, I should be able to hold them off.   I also got lucky in the faab bidding on Mark DeRosa when he came over to the NL from Cleveland.  I made a big bid on him, $87, only to be outbid by CBS’s Scott White who bid $99.  While DeRosa might turn out to be worth it for him, I like my position of being able to still pick up a top player when someone else comes over from the AL…maybe Roy Halladay.

I’m sitting second in the FSTA expert’s league, 10 points behind Ron Shandler.  With some pitching help in the second half, I hope to catch him.  4 other teams are sitting in the middle of the pack, and at least two of them should contend before it’s over.

My NFBC teams on the other hand continue to be an embarrassment.  In the main event, I’m 10^th in my league and 270 overall….and that’s an improvement!  Two weeks ago I was 14^th and 327 overall, so I’m moving in the right direction.  Having Reyes & Manny out left my offense at the bottom of the offensive categories, so getting them back might get me back to the middle of the pack.  I have to give kudos to Shawn Childs, who has gotten to the top of our league and 12^th overall.  I have to say I wasn’t impressed with his draft, but it’s obvious he knows more about this game than me!  My satellite league team with the CDM/Fanball posters is doing a little better, sitting in 7^th place but only 10 points out of third.  William Devers is trying to hold off

Ken Magner, and it looks like to two of them will battle to the end.  If my 6 or 7 ifs all come through, I could make a run at them, but I’m not counting on it.

Remember, baseball is a marathon, not a sprint, and there’s a lot that can still happen.  Don’t give up yet.  You don’t have to start worrying about football for a couple weeks still (even though I’ve drafted over 10 teams for our magazines already!)

Next week I’ll look at how my “picks” from the start are doing and some second half players to target.