Nick & James' Fantasy Island

In an effort to spread our wings, Nick Schaefer and James Fegan have decided to get together periodically to discuss issues in fantasy baseball. Or more specifically, what issue James is having with fantasy baseball. In today's episode, James interrupted Nick's Saturday afternoon with his girlfriend to scream in panic about him about losing his matchup with Chuck Garfien.

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Abreu hits a bomb, dries up all the rain

Abreu hit a bomb, so who cares about war?

The White Sox are a messy team, besot with injuries, cycling through bad contracts they'd clearly just as soon dump if given the right opportunity, and finding just...dudes to pitch their games these days. And Jose Abreu is a messy player--big and hulking, clumsy at first base and prone to big, waving strikeouts--but with such a pure and overwhelming power stroke that everything gets wiped away and made to be the foreshadowing and the denouement of his big moment.

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Take One In Oakland, Please? - Game Preview & Lineups 5/14

The White Sox's personal House of Horrors has proved to be just that as they have dropped the first two of a three-game series against the Oakland Athletics, last night by a miserable 11-0 margin.

Or, ya know, the A's are just a much better team than the White Sox.

Either way, the White Sox will look to salvage the series finale and snap a four-game losing streak with Wednesday's afternoon tilt at O.co Coliseum.

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