Roller Coasters

I'm amazed that CBS assigned a color commentator that is unable to correctly pronounce that name of one of the teams in the game he is doing. I can't stop thinking about the bad 80s girl band. Hopefully it will be a Manic Monday for him as he finds out it was his last game.

It took me a week this year. I made the first call last Monday and was only offered a dicounted rate of $31.99 per month. I went ahead and cancelled it. I then send an e-mail to them later that night saying the Sunday Ticket was the only reason I have had DirecTV since 2001 and that I was thinking of cancelling all of my service and going with Xfinity, who has been hounding me lately. I got a return e-mail saying that they were very sorry that I was thinking of doing this and that were escalating my e-mail. Yesterday, I finally got another e-mail with a number to call and a pin code. She offered my the Sunday Ticket Max for half price of $40.99 for four months and a bill credit of $20 for the entire year. They then offered a free upgrade to the Genie. The only fee was a $3.00 charge for Genie service, but she said that she would give me another $10 monthly credit for the year. So I got Sunday Ticket Max and a Genie upgrade for a total of negative $160. That worked for me. First time I have every had to actually cancel it before. I was a little worried.

Our local news reported 1,000,000 subscriptions cancelled because of the rate hike. I am keeping the DVDs and cancelling the streaming, much to chagrin of my 6 year old.

I'm keeping him and you in my thoughts Mike.

Oh man, now I feel bad about beating you last week in Poles N Holes. Glad to hear that everything is A OK!!!!

I'm pretty sure that I'm the only one on the boards that is from Ft. Myers. I haven't run across anyone else. I'd love to meet up for a beverage. It is always fun to head out to the beach for a libation and scenery. I was going to say a drink and the sunset, but it sounded awfully gay. Not that there's anything wrong with that. My only bad nights are Tuesdays. I'm sure I can do anything else.

I got the app for iPhone yesterday after reading this thread and I love it. I can set my line-up for all of my leagues in under a minute. When I just used the internet to go to the league sites on my iphone it used to take me longer than that for just one league. I recommend it.

I've always wanted to employ these keeper rules. You can keep any player on your roster by using the draft pick two rounds earlier than they were originally drafted. No keepers can be kept in the first 3 rounds. If you picked up Miles Austin last year in the 16th round, he would be kept with a 14th round pick this year. The pick would move up two rounds every year until he reached one of the first three rounds. This keeps the top talent spread around at the top, but gives value for late round finds for years to come. Most keepers now keep the top talent, this would totally flip the entire concept around.

Really? One team with a bye each week? I'm sure that 14 or 16 would be much better options.

I was going to say Tony Mandarich, but just checked and he was pick #2 in 1989, so I guess he doesn't count for this discussion.

Does anybody know anything about Justin Durant Brian Cushing Keith Ellison They are all my starters in one league and are listed as questionable. Of course, the Huddle has no priority news about any of them. Does anyone know about the injury status on any of these players?

MFL has him listed as questionable, but I don't see anything on here about an injury to him. Did someone on MFL just hit the wrong button, or did I miss something?

Are there any Mac users out there that have gotten it to work this year. Last year, I purchased Crossover on the recommendation of the MFL Support people and it ran the Gameday program perfectly. This, with an updated version of Crossover and the new Gameday for 2009, I can't get it to work. Any have success this year that could offer suggestions?

Well said Bunz. I was thinking the same thing during that episode.

Just called and got $20 off per month and 1/2 price Superfan. I'll take it and run