Crazyei8hts

crazyei8hts' current logo, in honor of his S9 team being the Crazy Yankees, featuring Chico Pappas in the logo.

## BBL Seasons

### Season 1

Tampa Bay Devil Rays, 10-4, AL ChampsMontreal Expos, 7-7

### Season 3

San Francisco Giants, 11-3, NL West ChampsCrazy Wombats, 6-8

### Season 6

Crazy Indians, 11-3AL Central Champions

BBL Champions

## BFFL Seasons

### Season 2

Brass Knuckles McGhee, 8-3, BFFL Champion

### Season 3

Brass Knuckles McGhee, 5-5, Frontyard League 7th Place

### Season 3.5

Armon a Legosi, 3-7, Frontyard League Ultimate Loser

## **Overview**

**crazyei8hts** is a coach and founding member of the Backyard Baseball League. He has participated in every official BBL season to date, sometimes operating multiple teams at once. He is also known for being one of the pioneers of Bomberball, a strategy which simply consists of hitting as many home runs as possible. "Crazy" is the BBL's home run master, holding the league records for most home runs by an individual player in a season and most home runs by a team in a season, as well as having won several BBL Home Run Derbies.

crazyei8hts is the founder and commissioner of the Backyard Fantasy Football League. He is also a moderator on the Backyard Baseball subreddit.

## **BBL Seasons**

### Season 1: Tampa Bay Devil Rays

* The Devil Rays finished the season with a 10-4 record and lost to the Atlanta Braves in the World Series, 3 games to 1.
* The Devil Rays were the earliest preview of "Bomberball," setting the initial league record with 68 home runs.
* Pablo Sanchez won the S1 MVP after batting 0.785 with 12 home runs and 35 RBI.
* Four Devil Rays hit double digits home runs: Sanchez, Achmed Khan, Angela Delvecchio, and Norman Wells (custom player)

### Season 1: Montreal Expos

* The Montreal Expos finished the season with a 7-7 record but upset the Arizona Diamondbacks in the NLDS before falling to the Atlanta Braves in the NLCS.
* The Expos offense was built around the top four hitters in the lineup: Pete Wheeler, Alex Gonzalez, Juan Gonzalez, and Mark McGwire.
* McGwire set the league record for home runs by an individual with 16.
* Ace Wilson won the Ace Wilson Award after pitching all 84 innings with an ERA of 1.07, a WHIP of 0.57, and a league-best 123 strikeouts that still stands as the record by an individual or team.

### Season 2: Tampa Bay Devil Rays

* The Tampa Bay Devil Rays finished 7-7 in the regular season but advanced to the World Series, where they were runner-up for the second straight season, losing to the Houston Astros.
* After finding success in S1 with home runs, crazyei8hts clearly intended to hit as many home runs as he could, breaking his previous record with 95 home runs.
* Mikey Thomas and Sammy Sosa became the first two players to break the 20 HR mark, with Thomas hitting 25 and Sosa hitting 24.
* Angela Delvecchio had double digit home runs for the second season in a row with 13 and newcomer Mandy Coolidge also hit 11.
* Mikey Thomas and Sammy Sosa finished 2nd and 3rd in MVP voting, respectively.

### Season 3: San Francisco Giants

* The San Francisco Giants finished 11-3 in the regular season and lost to the Montreal Expos in the NLDS, 2 games to 0.
* The Giants were a step back from Bomberball for crazyei8hts, as they were a little more well-rounded in terms of batting for power and contact, as well as speed.
* Five players had double digit stolen bases on the year, and three more had 9 steals. Maynard McElroy led the charge with 35 SBs.
* There were still some home runs though, as Lindsy Felgate hit 20 and Zenon Estrada hit 18. Felgate and Estrada each received MVP votes.

### Season 3: Crazy Wombats

* The Crazy Wombats finished 6-8 in the regular season and lost to the Boston Red Sox in the Tier 2 ALDS, 2 games to 0.
* The Wombats were all in on Bomberball, sacrificing speed power. They did not fare much better than the S2 Devil Rays, but they did become the first team to hit 100 home runs, finishing with exactly 100, which was a new BBL record.
* Five Wombats hit 10 or more home runs: Chico Pappas hit 26, which is the current league record; Parker Collum and Bobby Bulgrien each had 19, Rafael Garbanzos hit 11, and Maria Luna hit 10.
* Pappas also set a league record with a 2.219 slugging percentage (a mark that has since been broken). He finished 2nd in MVP voting. Parker Collum also received an MVP vote.
* Maria Luna finished 3rd and Parker Collum finished 4th in Goldie Glove voting.

### Season 4: Humongous Giants

* The Humongous Giants finished 7-7 in the regular season and lost in the Tier 2 NLCS to the Mighty Wombats, 2 games to 0.
* The Giants rewrote the book of Bomberball, smashing the league record with 120 home runs.
* Six Giants had double digit home runs: Zenon Estrada had 23, Marsellus Marx had 20, Mike Piazza and Gary Allen each had 16, and Bobby Bulgrien and Terry Vega each had 14. Marsellus received an MVP vote.
* The Giants also had approximately one fast player: Stuart Sullivan. His job was to get on base and score. He holds crazyei8hts' personal records for stolen bases (44) and runs scored (57) by an individual player.

### Season 4: Humongous Fishes

* crazyei8hts was a midseason replacement coach for the Humongous Fishes. He went 4-2 in the regular season and won the Tier 3 Championship over the Green Monsters, 2 games to 0.
* crazyei8hts used the power hitters given to him to his advantage but also adjusted to the speedy line drive hitters in the lineup.

### Season 5

#### Season 5 (Lulu): (Jolly) Green Giants

* The newly named (Jolly) Green Giants finished with a league best 13-1 record in the regular season but suffered a disappointing first round exit at the hands of the Wombats, 2 games to 1.
* The Giants only regular season loss was a 25-25 loss via the tiebreaker against the Orioles. Oddly enough, the Orioles were the only team that beat the Giants, and also the only team that lost to the Bombers.
* The Giants were a little more balanced than previous incarnations of the team, with more emphasis on speed and especially stolen bases.
* Four Giants had double digit home runs. Vladimir Guerrero had 11, while Uma Morris, Parker Collum, and Jennifer Goodfellow each had 17 apiece.
* Stuart Sullivan returned to the Giants with even more tenacity on the basepaths than he had in Season 4. Stuart broke the league record with 69 stolen bases and he batted 0.904, good for third place in the all time record book. Other Giants who were useful on the basepaths included Ichiro, who stole 41 bases, and Vladimir Guerrero, Nan Porter, Parker Collum, and Jim Thome, who each stole somewhere between 20 and 28 bases.

#### Season 5 (Paste): Blue Angels

* The Blue Angels finished the shortened regular season with a record of 10-2 and advanced to the Paste World Series, where they lost to the Reds.
* The Angels were crazyei8hts' most drastic version of Bomberball yet, crushing 99 home runs in just 12 3-inning games.
* Four players did most of the clobbering for the Angels. Mark McGwire had 18 home runs, Marsellus Marx had 19, and Leah Wayne and Zenon Estrada each slugged 21 home runs.
* The Angels surprisingly had a good record despite the fact they never hit the 30-run limit in any game.

### Season 6: Crazy Indians

* In honor of their name soon being defunct, crazyei8hts chose the Indians for Season 6 and gave them the moniker of Crazy Indians
* After some draft day tomfoolery, he was able to draft Sammy Sosa and his clone Cheryl Reynolds in the first round.
* Cheryl Reynolds was ultimately named Season 6 MVP after batting 0.721 with a league-leading 22 HRs, 44 RBI, and 40 runs scored.
* The Crazy Indians finished the season 11-3, earning the top seed in the American League.
* They swept the Boston Red Sox and the defending champion Philadelphia Athletics in the first two rounds.
* The Indians beat the Arizona Astros 3 games to 2 in the Season 6 World Series.
* This was crazyei8hts' first ever BBL championship, in his third World Series appearance (four, if the experimental Paste League was counted).

### Season 7: Red Phillies

* In honor of the Reds and the Phillies being the only two team names never chosen in a BBL season, crazyei8hts chose the name Red Phillies for his squad.
* This team was another venture into crazyei8hts' Bomberball strategy.
* A risky move was taking the never-before-drafted Esmarelda Heimann to be the Phillies' starting catcher. Unfortunately, the AI often substituted Esmarelda to be the first relief pitcher, putting weak-armed Lindsy Felgate behind the plate for other teams to take advantage of.
* The Phillies hit 104 home runs over the course of the season, crazyei8hts' third time reaching triple digits in that category.
* The Phillies tied for the 4th and final playoff spot from the Backyard League at 6-8. However, they lost a tiebreaker game to the Seattle Mariners and missed the playoffs.

### Season 8: Crazy A's

* In honor of his own name and Season #8, crazyei8hts named his team the Crazy A's (a play on words of crazyei8hts)
* The A's used their first draft pick on Chico Pappas and spent the rest of their draft constructing a defense that would allow him to play 1B and not catcher, as he often does.
* The A's team ended up more well-rounded than previous Bomberball teams, tallying only 53 home runs throughout the season.
* The A's finished at 10-4, winning the NL West.
* In the NLDS, the #3 seeded A's were matched up against the #2 seeded Seattle Fishes. In a very exciting series, the Fishes prevailed, two games to one, to move onto the NLCS.

### Season 9: Crazy Yankees

* For Season 9, crazyei8hts was on vacation while everyone chose their team names. When he came back and looked at the available names, he decided to go with the Crazy Yankees.
* The Yankees selected Chico Pappas with their first round pick, just as the A's had done the previous season.
* The Yankees were an even more balanced team than the A's were, relying on speed and grounders more than any other crazyei8hts owned team.
* The Yankees were in playoff contention up until the last week of the season but barely missed out, at 8-6.

## **BFFL Seasons**

### Season 1: Brass Knuckles McGhee

* crazyei8hts named his team "Brass Knuckles McGhee" after drafting Knuckles McGhee as his starting wide receiver.
* McGhee, of the Melonheads, was the 3rd highest scoring fantasy wide receiver, and the Melonheads' quarterback, Debby Nagasawa, was the 2nd highest scoring fantasy quarterback, also owned by Brass Knuckles McGhee.
* Brass Knuckles McGhee finished atop the Backyard Conference at 6-3-1, but lost in the first round of the playoffs to Big Thunder Mountain GOATS to reach the third place game, where they lost to the Labrador Receivers to claim 4th place overall.

### Season 2: Brass Knuckles McGhee

* Again, crazyei8hts drafted Knuckles McGhee, now on the Rams, and named his fantasy team Brass Knuckles McGhee.
* Also for the second straight season, McGhee's quarterback in the season was Debby Nagasawa, who was also the quarterback of Brass Knuckles McGhee.
* Nagasawa finished with 447 fantasy points to lead the league.
* Brass Knuckles McGhee finished the regular season with the best record (8-3) and the most points scored (1494).
* Brass Knuckles McGhee beat 2XPablo 148-111, Red Bombers 139-136, and Big Thunder Mountain GOATs 173-167 to capture crazyei8hts' first BFFL Championship, and to date, only championship throughout the Backyard Sports League.

### Season 3: Brass Knuckles McGhee

* crazyei8hts was placed in the 8 team Frontyard League, in the new "2-league" format.
* For the third straight season, crazyei8hts drafted Knuckles McGhee and named his team Brass Knuckles McGhee. However, he was unable to draft Debby Nagasawa this time around.
* Brass Knuckles McGhee finished the regular season at 5-5 and was placed in the Loser's Bracket.
* They lost to Ace-Windu 176-145 and psanchez55 159-99 to fall into the consolation game. However, the consolation game was a rematch against psanchez55, which Brass Knuckles McGhee won 126-99 to capture 7th place in the Frontyard League.

### Season 3.5: Armon a Legosi

* crazyei8hts was once again placed in the Frontyard League.
* For the first time in BFFL History, crazyei8hts did not draft Knuckles McGhee. However, he did draft Armon Hammerstein, and traded Ben None to The Annexation of Puerto Rico for Lulu Legosi. The two stars combined to give crazyei8hts his new fantasy team name: Armon a Legosi.
* Armon a Legosi had a disappointing season, claiming the title of BFFL Frontyard League Ultimate Loser after a 3-7 regular season and a loss in the consolation game.

### Season 4: CisCoKidd-19

* In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, crazyei8hts drafted kicker Cisco Kidd in the last round and named his fantasy team "CisCoKidd-19".
* CisCoKidd-19 finished 7-4 in the regular season and lost to Atwater's Avengers in the semi-final game.

## **Players crazyei8hts Has Owned Multiple BBL Seasons**

* Angela Delvecchio (S1 Devil Rays, S2 Devil Rays)
* Frank Thomas/Christina Beattie (S1 Devil Rays, S5 Angels, S6 Indians)
* Alex Gonzalez (S1 Expos, S2 Devil Rays)
* Mark McGwire (S1 Expos, S5 Angels)
* Ernie Steele (S1 Expos, S2 Devil Rays)
* Ramona Bennett (S2 Devil Rays, S4 Fishes)
* Gretchen Hasselhoff (S2 Devil Rays, S3 Giants)
* Sammy Sosa/Cheryl Reynolds (S2 Devil Rays, S6 Indians)
* Mandy Coolidge/Matessa Sturges (S2 Devil Rays, S9 Yankees)
* Jim Thome (S3 Wombats, S5 Giants)
* Butch Sherrod (S3 Wombats, S4 Giants)
* Parker Collum (S3 Wombats, S5 Giants)
* Bobby Bulgrien (S3 Wombats, S4 Giants)
* Nate Kowalski (S3 Wombats, S6 Indians)
* Chico Pappas (S3 Wombats, S8 A's, S9 Yankees)
* Zenon Estrada (S3 Giants, S4 Giants, S5 Angels)
* Tina Herrara (S3 Giants, S5 Angels)
* Stuart Sullivan (S4 Giants, S5 Giants)
* Marsellus Marx (S4 Giants, S5 Angels)
* Petra Chekov (S4 Fishes, S6 Indians)
* Todd Helton (S6 Indians, S9 Yankees)
* Franky Holly (S7 Phillies, S8 A's)
* Albert Pujols/Sophie Meyer (S8 A's, S9 Yankees)

## **Players crazyei8hts Has Owned Multiple BFFL Seasons**

* Austin Carpenter (Seasons 1, 2, 3, part of 3.5)
* Knuckles McGhee (Seasons 1, 2, 3)
* Jay Canasta (Seasons 1, 2, 3.5)
* Debby Nagasawa (Seasons 1, 2)
* Oliver Ramierez (Seasons 1, part of 3, part of 3.5)
* Travis Diamond (Seasons 1, 2)
* Vicki Kawaguchi (Seasons 1, 4)
* Tony Delvecchio (Seasons 2, 3, 3.5, 4)
* David Wilco (Seasons 2, 3, part of 3.5)
* Jocinda Smith (parts of Seasons 3 and 3.5)
* Holly Franklin (parts of Seasons 3 and 3.5)

## **Career Statistics**

- **bold** indicates career high

- ***italics*** indicates BBL record