Colonel Coker lives on

Victory always tastes sweet, but its taste hits a particularly higher level when you pull out a win you didn't expect. That's what happened in the first round of my main fantasy baseball league's playoffs last week.

I won't go through all the boring stats of my head-to-head matchup, but my team hit eight homers and drove in 12 runs on Sunday to take the lead in both categories and flip a 6-4 deficit into a 6-4 win. And Colonel Coker lives another week to defend its championship!

I was so certain on Saturday night that my season would be over by the next night that I began stockpiling prospects. Not that I would really keep any of them. I just wanted to keep them away from opponents, which could be an indication of what sort of ass I can be in fantasy leagues. I'm very bothersome.

Anyway, the Kyle Stack Sunday Comeback was amazing in that nearly every time I checked my score, I noticed another uptick in HR and RBI.

Part of my comeback surge was due to a pair of superstars whom I traded for since the beginning of the season. Ryan Howard, whom I obtained in May for a "crappy rookie first baseman and a bag of chips" (according to someone in my league) was 10-for-22 (.455) with four homers and 12 RBIs from Monday to the first game of his doubleheader on Sunday.

David Wright, who I acquired along with Joakim Soria for Alfonso Soriano and Edwin Encarnacion in a pre-draft trade, went 12-for-19 (.632) with four homers and nine RBIs in five games last week.

I clearly couldn't have won without either of their contributions. And now I have to hope (not pray) that they keep up their production as I head into another tough matchup this week.