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    Idaho pig farmer wins NFBC - 2nd time in 3 years

    Modest Farmer, Managing Mogul (Published 2011)
    http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/25/sports/baseball/pig-farmers-true-prizewinner-his-fantasy-baseball-team.html?_r=1
    Lindy Hinkelman has won two of the last three titles in a lucrative fantasy baseball contest, giving him earnings of more than $300,000.


    The National Fantasy Baseball Championship, a contest paying a top prize of $100,000, draws an elite collection of contestants: computer geniuses, deep-pocketed stockbrokers and money managers, maybe a young man or woman looking to be the next Billy Beane or Theo Epstein.

    But the contest over the years has produced only one two-time champion, Lindy Hinkelman, a 59-year-old pig farmer from Greencreek, Idaho.....

    “Raising pigs and this baseball thing really go together,” he said.
    finished 10th in this 37th yr in 11-team-only NL 5x5
    own picks 1, 2, 5, 6, 9 in April 2022 1st-rd farmhand draft
    won in 2017 15 07 05 04 02 93 90 84

    SP SGray 16, TWalker 10, AWood 10, Price 3, KH Kim 2, Corbin 10
    RP Bednar 10, Bender 10, Graterol 2
    C Stallings 2, Casali 1
    1B Votto 10, 3B ERios 2, 1B Zimmerman 2, 2S Chisholm 5, 2B Hoerner 5, 2B Solano 2, 2B LGarcia 10, SS Gregorius 17
    OF Cain 14, Bader 1, Daza 1
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    Probably a lurker around here..........
    Badges? We don't need no stinkin' badges!

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    • #3
      Three gets five he's Mormon.

      J
      Ad Astra per Aspera

      Oh. In that case, never mind. - Wonderboy

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      • #4
        Originally posted by onejayhawk View Post
        Three gets five he's Mormon.

        J
        There's no way a dude with more than one wife would find time for fantasy baseball.

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        • #5
          Yeah, but he paid 8k in entry fees in 2011, so he probably had a few teams going. Still pretty damn good though.

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          • #6
            He won both the in-person and online challenge leagues the last year Fanball won. We gave him a gigantic fat check. That's him in the Washington St jacket in the front row



            I got on my toes for the pick to be the tallest guy and thus upstage Sporer who has me by an inch.

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            • #7
              Is Paul the one with half a face?

              J
              Ad Astra per Aspera

              Oh. In that case, never mind. - Wonderboy

              GITH fails logic 101. - bryanbutler

              Bah...OJH caught me. - Pogues

              I don't know if you guys are being willfully ignorant, but... - Judge Jude

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              • #8
                Lindy also finished second in the overall auction competition. Great story, great guy.
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                • #9
                  Ha nice. Did the check clear?
                  Find that level above your head and help you reach it.

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                  • #10
                    Originally posted by onejayhawk View Post
                    Is Paul the one with half a face?

                    J
                    yes he is
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                    • #11
                      Originally posted by Moonlight J View Post
                      He won both the in-person and online challenge leagues the last year Fanball won. We gave him a gigantic fat check. That's him in the Washington St jacket in the front row



                      I got on my toes for the pick to be the tallest guy and thus upstage Sporer who has me by an inch.

                      Other than you and Paul, could you identify these other thugs for us. Several of them look frighteningly familiar.

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                      • #12
                        Originally posted by DJBeasties View Post
                        Ha nice. Did the check clear?
                        Yes -- there have been issues with a few high stakes events but the integrity of the NFBC and NFFC is beyond reproach.
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                        • #13
                          Originally posted by Todd Zola View Post
                          Yes -- there have been issues with a few high stakes events but the integrity of the NFBC and NFFC is beyond reproach.
                          I think he was asking Jason about the Fanball check since they've gone belly up.
                          I'm unconsoled I'm lonely, I am so much better than I used to be.

                          The Weakerthans Aside

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                          • #14
                            Originally posted by BuckyBuckner View Post
                            I think he was asking Jason about the Fanball check since they've gone belly up.
                            The pig farmer guy took the lead on the last day of the season...I wonder why he waited so long?

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                            • #15
                              Originally posted by SeaDogStat View Post
                              The pig farmer guy took the lead on the last day of the season...I wonder why he waited so long?

                              He didn't want to hog the lead all year long?
                              "Jesus said to them, 'Truly I tell you, the tax collectors and the prostitutes are going into the kingdom of God ahead of you.'"

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