Torii Hunter - When will he cool down?

[alecspade]

I thought he was starting to cool down, so I benched him today for basically the first time all season and what does he do, just a double, two homers, and 7 RBI. damn you torii hunter.

Tell me about it. I was up 2 HRs and a few RBIs on Sunday and up overall 8-4. One of those cats I was losing was SBs so I benched Hunter for Figgins in an attempt to get a couple of SBs. Figgins responds by going 0-4. Meanwhile, my opp's team hit 4 HRs to beat me by 1 (I hit 1) and beat me in RBIs by 3. So benching Hunter cost me two cats and instead of winning 7-4-1 I lose 5-6-1. And I had 12 HRs this week. Man I wanted to punch somebody.

[Zito is God]

Hope he keeps this up, the contract year has gotta be a motivation for him even at his age.

On a side note, I ended up losing the strikeout category because I was up 1 and the Twins just HAD TO bring Nathan in in a non-save situation and he just HAD to strike out 2 guys!