Why ESPN is a waste for the fantasy baseball user:

Watching SportsCenter at 6pm tonight, and Dan Patrick comes on to tell us who we need for our fantasy teams. Okay, I said to myself. Maybe they'll point out someone under the radar that we hadn't been thinking about.

Then...ESPN and Dan Patrick tells us it's Steve Phillips --- failed GM of the New York Mets, best known for sexual harrassment charges, not his baseball acumen --- who's going to give us our fantasy info, and then we knew ESPN and SportsCenter were about to waste our time.

Sure enough, what "no-names" did Phillips and Dan Patrick point out for us fantasy players? Among the "sleepers" were Corey Patterson and Rich Harden. Well, geez, thanks ESPN, for being a year too late on those sleepers for us. Telling us Corey Patterson has some skills NOW is like saying George Bush is going to win the 2004 presidential election. It's just a wee bit too late.

But this is what ESPN does, especially on the television side of things with regards to fantasy baseball. They get real-life rejects in the world of baseball (Steve Phillips, for example, but it doesn't stop there) to tell people how to run their fantasy teams --- people who at one time no doubt probably mocked the tens of millions of people who play them.

For example, one of the "sleepers" ESPN had tonight was Jose Reyes of the New York Mets. Now, granted, Reyes has been a bit of a disappointment so far in his career, mainly because of injury. But any fantasy baseball player worth their salt knows Reyes is at least a quality player already, and is by no mans a true sleeper. So much so, in fact, that the good folks at Yahoo have him ranked at 53 overall. We think that's a bit high, but that does show how Reyes is NOT a sleeper. A sleeper isn't ranked anywhere within the top 100, and really shouldn't be sniffing the top 200 probably of any fantasy ranking list.

For example (again), one of our sleepers we noted yesterday, Clint Barmes of the Colorado Rockies, Yahoo has ranked at 798. 798!!!! So, you tell us ---- who's giving you a real sleeper? Us at Waaay Back Fantasy Sports Analysis with Barmes ranked on Yahoo at 798, or ESPN who gives you Jose Reyes ranked on Yahoo at 53?

THAT is why ESPN is a waste for fantasy players. We strongly suggest you ignore their analysis. They're giving you information that's a year too late at a minimum.