Week 5 Recap

Another week, another W... Leggo!

And for the third week in a row my game came down to the wire, in fact it came down to the very last drive in the Monday night game. Good thing Cutler was tired of getting pounded. However, my game was not the only one that was dependent on the Monday night game. The matchup between The Blackhole Black and Child Please and the matchup between Chocolate Starfish and VA Bum Smashers did as well. Thanks to a big run by Best late in the game The Blackhole Black held off Child Please by .7 points! Wow! And thanks to a subpar Bears defensive performance Chocolate Starfish held off VA Bum Smashers to get his first W! I know how you feel man, took me until week 8 last year to get my first win. My Vick in a Box smashes Team Falese, the new Team Mauldin (y'all remember her?), who once again bared the burden of bad luck with her team, and The Burg YUH8ME beat #imserious ThisYear who proves to not be that serious after all. I went 3-2 with my predictions this week and that makes me 12-8 on the season.

C’mon Man:
Last week we asked the people if they would have sat Arian Foster. This week lets ask the people this, If you have a team with WRs who are struggling and you just so happen to pick up a good one in Free Agency would you sit that guy on the bench? No? An even better question, How many people not from Minnesota or Colorado have ever heard of Eric Decker? No one? Yeah that's what I thought. Child Please you lost the game because you left 29.5 points on your bench by not play Pierre Garcon and instead you got -0.4 points for being a homer. That's a big fat C'MON MAAAANNN!!! And not to mention Willis McGahee's 19.5 you also left on the bench.

Team Falese I'm putting you on here just because for the second week in a row your QB got negative points. I think this is a first in the history of fantasy sports. You should be proud. Also you've managed to go from top 5 power rankings to last place...

Back Pats:
Chocolate Starfish - You got that gorilla off your back. Nice job getting your first win.

Ya Mom's House #Boom - BGE had a big day and is the reason I won my matchup.

The Burg YUH8ME - Victor Cruz turned out to be a good pick up. Without him you lose your matchup.

The Blackhole Black - Jahvid Best. If the bears could have stopped him 8 yards short on any of his big runs Monday night you don't win your matchup. Nice performance.

My Vick in a Box - Your team is scoring alot of points every week.

Bold Predictions:
Ya Mom's House #Boom, Suace'n Ain't Easy, The Blackhole Black, Child Please, Chocolate Starfish

#BOOM

Power Rankings:
1. My Vick in a Box
2. The Blackhole Black
3. The Burg YUH8ME
4. Ya Mom's House #Boom
5. Child Please
6. #imserious ThisYear
7. Sauce'n Ain't Easy
8. Chocolate Starfish
9. VA Bum Smashers
10. Team Falese

Playoff Picture:
1. Ya Mom's House #Boom (bye)
2. My Vick in a Box (bye)
3. The Blackhole Black
4. The Burg YUH8ME
5. Child Please
6. Sauce'n Ain't Easy

Losers:
7. VA Bum Smashers
8. Team Falese
9. #imserious ThisYear
10. Chocolate Starfish

Fantasy Football Week 4 Recap

And what do you know… guess who's still undefeated!!!

And it was another nail biter weekend for me as it took until late in the 4th quarter of the Monday night game before I officially won my matchup this week. The other guy wasn't so lucky as My Vick in a Box lost his first game of the season to The Burg YUH8ME thanks to Aaron Rodgers' 4 passing td's and 2 rushing. All I can say is Karma's a Beotch! In the other match ups Team Falese handed VA Bum Smashers a win with some questionable roster decisions, #imserious ThisYear is back to losing as Child Please took advantage of a "questionable hamstring", and in my one lost prediction this week Sauce'n Ain't Easy beat The Blackhole Black thanks to Mike Vick finally showing up and the Patriots finding a running game. I was 4-1 this week in my predictions so that makes me 9-6 on the season. I'm getting better at this.

This week is going to be a little more difficult as teams start to have their bye weeks. Time to get creative with your acquisitions folks!

C’mon Man:

Team Falese - Whoever told you to pick up Chad Henne and to put him in the starting lineup slap them and defined them in real life. I could have got you -0.8 points! Had you left Kyle Orton in alone you would have only lost by 2 points. Had you not played sorry ass Denario Alexander and played almost anyone else on your bench you would have WON the game!!!

#imserious ThisYear - Had Team Falese not thoroughly eff up, you would have been on here all by your lonesome.  Let's ask the people. "Hey people would you definitely start Danny Woodhead and Mark Ingram over Arian Foster?" No? How about even after the training staff said he shouldn't have anymore hamstring problems? Still No? I thought so… Single handedly the reason why you lost the game.

Back Pats:

Child Please and VA Bum Smashers for walking into wins.

The Burg YUH8ME for Aaron Rodgers letting me shut up My Vick in a Box's mouth.

Sauce'n Ain't Easy for being loyal to Mike Vick.

Ya Mom's House #Boom for LeGarrette Blount making it a lil too interesting.

Bold Predictions:

Ya Mom's House #Boom, Chocolate Starfish gets his first win, #imserious ThisYear (if Arian Foster is in), Tom Brady and Wes Welker against the Jets… Child Please, and My Vick in a Box just because who knows what Team Falese will do next.

#BOOM

Power Rankings:

1. My Vick in a Box

2. The Blackhole Black

3. Ya Mom's House #Boom

4. The Burg YUH8ME

5. Team Falese

6. Child Please

7. Sauce'n Ain't Easy

8. #imserious ThisYear

9. VA Bum Smashers

10. Chocolate Starfish

Playoff Picture:

1. Ya Mom's House #Boom (bye)

2. My Vick in a Box (bye)

3. The Blackhole Black

4. The Burg YUH8ME

5. Team Falese

6. Child Please

Losers:

7. Sauce'n Ain't Easy

8. VA Bum Smashers

9. #imserious ThisYear

10. Chocolate Starfish

Week 3 Recap

And then there were two, and... then there's that one. Here we go.

I was shaking in my boots late in the afternoon on sunday as I trailed Team Falese by a narrow margin with time running out in all of the afternoon games, and then Greg Jennings got the bonus. Thanks Greg Ya Mom's House #Boom is still undefeated. The other undefeated team is My Vick in a Box with a modest win over Sauce'n Ain't Easy (149 - 73). Moving on, Chocolate Starfish, that one completely defeated team, lost in a blow out to The Blackhole Black. Keep your head up buddy maybe this week is your week. <checks matchups> Um... nevermind. Haha. #imserious ThisYear and Child Please both got their first wins of the season last week. Let's all give them a round of applause, and thanks to the matchup gods one of them will get back to losing as they play each other this week. So that rounds up last weeks matchups, and for those of you keeping track of my predictions I went 3-2 this week, 5-5 on the season (I didn't make any predictions week 1).

C’mon Man:
Team Falese - I may have jinxed Kenny Britt, he's done for the season. Also Eagles D, yeah not the dream team.

Ya Mom's House #Boom - I should have pulled the trigger on sitting Santonio Holmes for Denarius Moore.

VA Bum Smashers - Where do I start... CJ2K, is he gonna show up sometime soon? Peyton Hillis had strep throat and didn't play, do you not watch pregame shows? Only two players on your roster scored more than 10 points, and not very much more.

#imserious ThisYear - If you would have asked for my advice I would have told you that the Raiders were going to shred the Jets D.

Sauce'n Ain't Easy - Guess some of this is my fault but LT had a day in Oakland. Lesson learned, don't let me make your decisions.

My Vick in a Box - Last week Deion Branch was a good thing, this week he got 0. Maybe David Nelson will be a good pickup.

Chocolate Starfish - Are you a Dalas fan? Starting Tony Homo with broken ribs against a division rival without his best playmaker on the field, not a good idea.

The Burg YUH8ME - I know you keep wishing Steven Jackson will be a good fantasy football acquisition.

Child Please - Megatron gets every throw. Time to bench Nate Burleson.

Back Pats:
#imserious ThisYear - got a win and finally played Dustin Keller.

My Vick in a Box - So far you've got the top 2 RBs and The Best WR. This might be a problem.

Chocolate Starfish - Jimmy Graham is killin it.

The Blackhole Black - Tom Brady to Wes Welker, what else is there to say?

The Burg YUH8ME - Jermichael Finley is heating up.

Bold Prediction:
This weeks winners - Ya Mom's House #Boom, VA Bum Smashers, ***UPSET ALERT*** The Burg YUH8ME, Child Please, The Blackhole Black

#BOOM

Power Rankings:
1. My Vick in a Box
2. The Blackhole Black
3. Team Falese
4. Ya Mom's House #Boom
5. The Burg YUH8ME
6. #imserious ThisYear
7. Child Please
8. VA Bum Smashers
9. Sauce'n Ain't Easy
10. Chocolate Starfish

Playoff Picture:
1. My Vick in a Box (bye)
2. Ya Mom's House #Boom (bye)
3. The Blackhole Black
4. Team Falese
5. The Burg YUH8ME
6. #imserious ThisYear

Losers:
7. Child Please
8. VA Bum Smashers
9. Sauce'n Ain't Easy
10. Chocolate Starfish

The Golden Rule

A good article about always being a nice person over at Lifehacker. Basically it says you should not turn the other cheek (turn the same cheek), and you should not treat others as you wish to be treated (treat others how they treat you).

#boom

Being the Better Person Will Teach People To Treat You Like Crap [Mind Hacks]

Week 2 Recap

2 Weeks down and I'm still undefeated! Say Whaaaat!!!? Haha. Also another great week for both Team Falese and My Vick in a Box, and Tom Brady looks like enough to keep The Blackhole Black in every game she plays. The injury bug has struck a few of you out there and I just want to remind everyone to use the groupme app or the league message board to advertise guys you would like to trade for or get rid of. With all that being said let's get to it.

Bold Prediction:

Um like I said I'm not good at this (I was 2-3 this week). And if you haven't guessed by now I'm never going to pick against myself.

This weeks winners - Ya Mom's House #Boom, VA Bum Smashers, My Vick in a Box, The Blackhole Black, The Burg YUH8ME

#BOOM

C’mon Man:

#imserious ThisYear - Second week in a row you have started Antonio Gates over Dustin Keller… and you call yourself a jets fan?

Ya Mom's House #Boom - I left Denarius Moore on the bench thinking he wouldn't have much impact, I was wrong, and Mike Williams got -0.4.

Sauce'n Ain't Easy - Starting LT, Sitting Brandon Jacobs…? That plus benching Aaron Hernandez and you may have won.

VA Bum Smashers - This one isn't too bad because your receivers played well, but A.J. Green had a great game.

The Blackhole Black - It didn't really matter, but you bailed on Maclin pretty fast. Also Jacoby Ford was listed as out long before kickoff, someone needs to wake up earlier.

Chocolate Starfish - If you didn't hear Dez Bryant was injured.

My Vick in a Box - Plax got 0.

Child Please - Not trying to pile on because you suffered some key losses but Willis had a day, Ryan Mathews play well, and you totally abandoned the falcons maybe prematurely.

Back Pats:

The Burg YUH8ME - Picking up Ben Tate, He'll be getting a lot of work for the next few weeks.

Team Falese - Kenny Britt does NOT look like a fluke. LOL ;-)

My Vick in a Box - Picking up Deion Branch.

Power Rankings:

1. My Vick in a Box

2. Team Falese

3. Ya Mom's House #Boom

4. The Blackhole Black

5. VA Bum Smashers

6. #imserious ThisYear

7. Suace'n Ain't Easy

8. The Burg YUH8ME

9. Chocolate Starfish

10. Child Please

Playoff Picture:

1. My Vick in a Box (bye)

2. Team Falese (bye)

3. Ya Mom's House #Boom 

4. The Blackhole Black

5. VA Bum Smashers

6. Sauce'n Ain't Easy

Losers:

7. The Burg YUH8ME

8. #imserious ThisYear

9. Chocolate Starfish

10. Child Please

Week 1 Recap

Week 1 is in the books. We are back to football and it sure didn't disappoint. Congrats to Sauce'n Ain't Easy for being a huge underdog and pulling out a W. Also Congrats to The Blackhole Black for making up 70 points with 2 players. However, it didn't help you win the game. Its lining up to be a great season. Mathew Stafford is healthy, Ray Rice and Darren McFadden picked up where they left off, the Falcons looks overrated, the Bears look underrated, Tom Brady looks unstoppable, the Colts need Peyton Manning, and the Steelers D looks old.

P.S. - I finally won a fantasy season opener! I guess me and the Raiders have something in common.

#BOOM

Bold Prediction:
This weeks winners - Ya Mom's House #Boom, Sauce'n Ain't Easy, The Blackhole Black, Chocolate Starfish, Child Please.
#BOOM

C’mon Man:
VA Bum Smashers - Sitting Cedric Benson (23.3 points), the Bengals have no one else. Also playing DBowe/Owen Daniels, they never show up for fantasy.

The Blackhole Black - For having no team outside of Tom Brady and Wes Weller.

#imserious ThisYear - Bernard Berrian got 0. Nuff said.

Sauce'n Ain't Easy - Apparently Vinatieri ain't playing. Also maybe unpredictable, but Steve Smith balled.

Child Please - Right now you are living and dying with the Falcons.

Back Pats:
VA Bum Smashers - Bears defense might be onto something.

The Blackhole Black - Tom Brady to Wes Weller almost got it done.

The Burg YUH8ME - Tim Hightower may have been a steal.

#imserious ThisYear - Cam Newton might be good.

Team Falese - I'm sure this is a fluke but Kenny Britt, wow!

Power Rankings:
1. My Vick in a Box (bye)
2. Ya Mom's House #Boom (bye)
3. Team Falese
4. The Burg YUH8ME
5. #imserious ThisYear
6. Sauce'n Ain't Easy
7. The Blackhole Black
8. VA Bum Smashers
9. Child Please
10. Chocolate Starfish

Playoff Picture:
1. My Vick in a Box
2. Ya Mom's House #Boom
3. Team Falese
4. The Burg YUH8ME
5. Sauce'n Ain't Easy
6. #imserious ThisYear

Losers:
7. The Blackhole Black
8. VA Bum Smashers
9. Child Please
10. Chocolate Starfish

Fantasy Football

It's that time of year again. That's right its football season and like most Americans I participate in a couple of fantasy football leagues, one of which I act as commissioner in. So I will use this blog to track that leagues activities and my weekly league recap. Here we go:
It's finally here! Teams have been selected, schedules have been set and smack has been talked. This year we open the season with our tradition of sibling on sibling rivalry with the brothers Parry and the brothers Ralston playing each other and we add an additional family rivalry with husband against wife. We all know competition within families is the most passionate and the most discussed and I wish I could be in VA to see what Momma Parry says to Poppa Parry after she whoops his ass! Hahaaa! These summaries will feature the usual suspects of our weekly c’mon man (terrible GM moves), pats on the back (good GM moves), and my random thoughts and predictions for the year (I’m not very good so if I pick you for something like winning it all don’t expect it to happen, see Child Please year 1 and #imserious ThisYear year 2.) New this year will be power rankings. Fantasy sports is about how many points you score so these rankings will be exclusively based on how many points you score regardless of your record. We all know this is not an indicator that you will win the league but it does mean you have the best team (See my team last year). Also I will keep track of the playoff picture all season long. The last 2 things should help everyone see exactly where they stand without having to go dig for the information on your own. I will take this time to remind everyone that money is due October 1st (Mom, Dad, Trev and Jeremiah I will be withholding your money from my monthly check I send to dad so you guys work out how you will be getting dad the cash). I would like to wish you all good luck this season and let the games and trash talk commence! #BOOM!

Bold Prediction: I will make the playoffs this year! #BOOM

C’mon Man: As far as I know Randy Moss is not on a roster right now. Yuh8me, C’MON MAN!!!

Back Pats: None yet

Power Rankings (this first week is based on best possible starting lineup projections, following weeks will be based on actual points scored):
1. Team Falese
2. Ya Mom’s House #BOOM
3. Chocolate Starfish
4. My Vick in a Box
5. The Burg YUH8ME
6. Sauce’n Ain’t Easy
7. Child Please
8. VA Bum Smashers
9. #imserious ThisYear
10. The Blackhole Black

Playoff Picture: N/A