Crispy

It's pretty much like poker: Your can make all the right decisions and still lose because of the luck factor. You get pissed off, but tomorrow you're gonna want to play again.

Along the same lines, I am against using a team's bench as a tie breaking criteria. Why should an owner be penalized for investing in the best starting line-up that he can possibly have while sacrificing bench depth. You may never have to use that bench if you don't suffer any injuries. It's a reasonable risk to take and just a different philosophy than bench stacking.

I think it would be great until the team you're playing against does the same thing (assuming you're in a H2H league) to you in the middle of game. You think they're starting one player and bam, they've substituted someone else unbeknownst you and you're not near a computer. You know what their starting line-up is at the beginning of the day and have your victory chalked up, but wait: they've substituted three other players during the course of the day and you have lost. My point being that it's a two way road. If you're OK with that, then I guess it could work.

You sure you're not in my league. No kidding. Try to anticipate who's going to take off? NEVER occurred to me. Novel idea. Yep. Thanks.

Same crap in my "money" league. Every week the bottom feeders prosper and are rewarded for no reason other than being losers. We tried blind bidding two years ago and it was voted out the following year. Seems like losers are pretty much perennial losers and need that unfair advantage. Our worst to first waivers has transaction fees that escalate after each five transactions. $5 each for the first five, $10 each for the next five, $15 for the next and so on... People are forking out $25, $30 and more for each transaction by the end of the season. Believe it or not, it still doesn't deter the bottom feeders. I mean, on one hand it is nice to have proactive owners, but on the other, it doesn't mean much by playoffs if you're hosting a skeleton team that will have a bitch of a time trying to make it through the playoffs. Trading does occasionally occur, but theses guys always offer one sided trades and will offer up what you don't need all the while trying to further stockpile their teams. It's like poker where guys play their own hands and ignore what's going on with the other players. Since these monkeys don't want to blind bid and want to try keep worst to first waivers, next year I'm going to pitch the idea that we alternate worst to first with first to worst every other week. At least it's a bit more palatable. It probably won't be voted in though. Geeze, the more I think about it, the more it irrates me. OK - vent over.

Yeah, it's not like this is a fantasy football site or anything.

Might as well get an early start on my halftime crap.

Need 45 more yards from Brown. I'm almost falling asleep. Crap wrong f'n receiver for the touch.

Great news. Thanks guys.

With Graham on bye, I'm a needing Olsen this weekend or will have to go to the WW. I know he is questionable for Sunday, but does anyone know if he practiced today? Yesterday, he himself said he'd play this weekend, but didn't practice. Anyone got any info on him beyond this?

Well I'm glad to have that option anyway. What with Jennings & Ball out, I have to start Knowshon & either CJ Anderson, Chris Johnson or Stormy. I gonna go with "The Weatherman" this week and see what transpires in Denver with Ball's back-ups. Been a rough couple of weeks. Thank God for the flex position.

I will make offers to teams that may be interested and let them know that's the case. The purpose for this is that it is a common practice for some owners to wait until the last minute to respond to your offer all the while entertaining others.

I allowed this once in a moment of weakness many, many years ago. It was a mistake and I still hear about it to this day (and rightfully so).

You have my sympathy. I lost all three as well today. I'd say my ass hurts, but that's obvious.

Thank you. I needed a good laugh today.