Welp, now that my chances of winning the whole fandango are essentially squadoosh, I can now focus more attentively on my commisionerial duties (I realized that I made up 3 words in that last sentence...artistic license). One of those essential duties is to organize league events, including a very important event on our league calendar coming up THIS SUNDAY!
It's our 4th annual LEAGUE MEETING!
The League Meeting is the one time all season we ask all league members to come together for an afternoon of junk food, trash talk, and adult-level mischief that only a Sunday of football can provide. Once again, we will be having the League Meeting this year at the Greene Turtle Columbia at 1PM. The Greene Turtle is an excellent game-watching venue as all the day's games are in crystal clear high definition only a 360 degree head spin away. This year, unfortunately, we don't have a whole lot of high stakes NFL contests this Sunday. As TMQ astutely noted, due to the relative dearth of NFL teams (32) the number of matchups between teams with winning records are relatively few, and mostly NOT at 1PM. However, I figure with people's work schedules, doing a League Meeting later in the day would not work out as well logistically, but as they say in August, "fake football is better than no football."
Agreed.
However, despite the poor NFL slate, the fantasy slate is scintillatingly hot. The League Meeting also doubles as our "Rivalry Week," where we attempt to pair off the most natural intra-divisional rivals in legendary battles! Because of the grudge matches we can expect, our match recaps from week 9 will be somewhat abbreviated...OK, LOTS abbreviated so we can focus on previews for this weeks Rivalry matchups!
The defending champ's season may be plodding along, but a 153 point booster shot (tops this week) over a hapless Andy vaults him back to .500 and within spitting distance of 1st place in the Pub Dogs division. Andy falls back to .500, but in the crowded Greene Turtles division, it's still anybody's game......
...except of course for your our humble correspondent. His season has gone from life support to just plain dead following a 120-85 beating at the hands of the mom bomb. The commish is starting to plan for the future, striking a deal with Kent for Knowshon Moreno's keeper potential (and upgrade to the RB position) for perhaps the best fantasy QB this year (and 1 month rental) Drew Brees.
Kent took advantage of Dr. Dubai by a 129-72 count thanks in part to a ho-hum 83 yards and 2 touchdowns by Megatron. As we approach the deadline, Sean has openly declared that Aaron Rodgers is for sale...for the right price. Kent already got his QB...more on that later.
Eddie continues to take the league by storm as the only new guy dispatched Tom back to .500 and improves to a league best 7-3 behind Perfect Peyton. All the soup in the world could not save Tom from ultimate defeat.
Zach could not take advantage of a big week last week, slipping all the way down to 75 points as Carolina Cam's up and down season took a down swing this week. Dewey racks up 134 points as the beneficiary. Too little too late? Perhaps.
Finally, JP's squad could not get out of neutral against Gaz who keeps pace with the Soup man in the Pub Dogs division, just 1 game behind with a healthy point total. Does JP enter the market leading up to the trade deadline?
Alright, so the recaps were short and sweet this week so that we could focus on our match PREVIEWS in the lead up to this week's League Meeting!
In this corner, Kinda Runny Kinda runs into Sean, fresh off the plane from Arabia and in the market for some draft picks. Following the draft this match had all the makings of a late season grudge match as Sean carried Rodgers and the Kinda Redskins carried the trophy. Unfortunately, Sean didn't live up to expectations. Neither did Patrick, but the issue is who will be selling in the lead up to the trade deadline? (First matchup: Patrick defeated Sean 114-100 in week 4)
Kent with his new trade deadline prize takes his new 1-2 punch of Megatron and Brees into battle with "real league" counterpart Dewey. Dewey counters with a suddenly white-hot Nick Foles, who is primed to have a big day against an inferior Redskins secondary. Patrick is just lucky he doesn't have to have the Redskins defense on his team. Dewey's been putting a bunch of points on the board lately and with Kent's weapons, this figures to be a slugfest (First matchup: Dewey defeated Kent 169-120 in week 1)
In the Northern Virginia Bowl, Gaz and Eddie take their point-producing powerhouses out to the Manassas Battlefield. Gaz has slightly underperformed given his keeper hype at the start of the season, but nonetheless has produced a solid club. Eddie has not been feeding soup, but rather royal jelly to his prize draft possession in Peyton Manning. The winner of this huge match will go a long way in determining who wins the Pub Dogs and who possibly gets the #1 seed in the MIISFFL playoffs (First matchup: Gaz defeated Eddie 174-139 in week 1)
The Parkville Bowl pits Tom against Andy. Tom introduced Andy to the insanity that is MIISFFL and both still have hopes very much alive in the Greene Turtles Division. Both sit at 5-5 one game back of the division leader Kent. With both at 4-2 in the division, a win for either (with a Dewey victory over Kent) vaults them into the lead in the division. Does Tom teach his pupil a lesson, or does the student become the master? (First matchup: Andy defeated Tom 135-73 in week 3)
A trivia league favorite, our final matchup in the Pub Dogs division pits the Mom Bomb against the shortest fuse of all in Mexico's Vick in a Box. After a slow start, Zach sits at 5-5, and still has an outside shot at a wild card with some help. One of those teams in his way is Jeff, who currently owns that final wild card slot if the season were to end today. While neither probably has a shot at catching Eddie for the division title, both still have much to play for in terms of getting to the playoffs. (First matchup: Jeff defeated Zach in a week 1 squeaker 130.4-130.1)
Finally, even rivalry weeks have to have their version of the futility bowl. Nick and JP have had down years that have mirrored those of their respective NFL allegiances, but nevertheless playing for pride is what will bring them to the floor of the Turtle to watch, talk trash, and jockey for draft position in this Stoney Special (if you didn't ride the Loyola bus, you will not get that reference. (First matchup: Nick defeated JP 119-109 in week 3)
The fantasy action will be hot hot hot! The NFL action, meh, but it's FOOTBALL! If you want to see some intense fantasy action, come to the Greene Turtle Columbia this Sunday at 1PM to watch the stalwarts of MIISFFL have at it in a fantasy grudge match.
We hope to see everyone there!!!!
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