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Girlfriend Chooses NL All-Star Team Based Purely On Who Has Best Names

Fine, it’s not the most brilliant strategy in the world. And this girl’s technique could use some work: she chose the Cubs’ Bryan LaHair, the Giants’ Pablo Sandoval, and the Cubs’ David DeJesus for her lineup, but I don’t see Albert Pujols anywhere and that is both a shame and a tragedy (Editor’s note: it’s a shame and a tragedy because of his funny name, not because of his, you know, statistical output).*

The commenters on this Reddit thread are not particularly kind (“That’s far more ridiculous than my choice of the guys on the Mets” and “Sandoval and Castro are reasonable. The rest, not so much. 25% isn’t terrible given the method of picking here” are two of the responses on offer), but it’s far from the worst idea. I employed a similar strategy for my fantasy basketball lineup in 2010, and I kicked ass — Chauncey Billups, Yao Ming, Boris Diaw and Ronnie Brewer, among others, ended up being a pretty solid team. I ultimately finished in 13th place that season, but that was mostly due to me forgetting to set my lineup for a few months.

I’m definitely no stranger to unconventional strategies for setting fantasy lineups, so I salute this girl. At least she bothered to get creative — nowadays I just steal my lineup/bracket from celebrities.

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*Editor’s note 2: Also, Pujols doesn’t play in the National League anymore, so there’s that.