When you hear the phrase "Cream Rising", DB is the man who most usually think of, and this season has been no exception for the usually slow-starting "Man With The Ice Water In His Veins", as he takes over first place sparked by a second place performance this week of 288 points (or 48.0 FPPG), despite yesterday's somewhat lacklustre performance.

Meanwhile, JL continues his cream-rising-fitting-on-Kentucky-Derby-Day-Run for the Roses, with his 325 (54.2 FPP) setting the pace for the week, while TM continues to slump with a 240 (40.0 FPPG), despite a 5-0 2.25 pitching record thru Friday.

Another slumper this week, CC drops to 6th, trailing everyone except SC and LZ, her 233 good for only 38.8 FPPG.

"Offense, offense, offense" could be PL's mantra this week. His 270 (45.0 FPPG) is good for for 4th this week, but he leads in pitching points, his total of 156 accounting for an enormously high 57.8% of his total, while his offense has provided only 19.0 FPPG.

Now burned twice in a row at Coors by her beloved 'Stros (6 pitching points on Friday followed by only 4 yesterday), GG (wherever she is) eagerly looks forward to her return. After rising to a 4th place tie and finding herself only 2 points out of 3rd, the previously prevailing PL protege finds herself back in 5th place after scoring 262 points for the week (43.7 FPPG), good, not so strangely, for 5th place for the week.

JG, the third member of the "Cream Rising Trinity" appears to finally be straightened out, his good-for-second-place 305 this week (50.8 FPPG), while carrying him only to 7th place, finds him a mere 97 points from the top spot and only 55 points out of third.

As a matter of fact, the spread from first to eighth, only 102 points, is closer than it's been since April 26th, when it stood at 99 points. Although DC finds himself in 8th place, with his 251 for the week - good for 41.8 FPPG - and only 6th place among the 8 top contenders, he's only 5 points out of 7th and a mere 60 points out of 3rd despite yesterday's league-low 14 point total.

So that leaves us the usual two suspects, battling it out for 9th and 10th, respectively.

That is, if you can call what LZ is doing "battling". SC, of course, has nothing to be ashamed of though.

If we throw out everyone's score for the first three days of the season when SC hadn't begun playing yet, here's what we get:
Hmmmm....My intention was to make you feel better, SC, not worse. Didn't realize that if we threw out the first three days it would still leave you more than 200 points out of first place and 99 points out of 8th.

Sorry about that.......

Anyway, plenty of movement yeaterday, with DB, PL, JL, and JG moving up, while TM, CC, and GG all dropped back.

Saturday's Scores & Sunday's Probables & Standings