Flippy - I Rant, You Read
Monday, August 27, 2007
terribly early in the morning
Fantasy Football ‘07 - It’s that time again!
Come one, come all, come play fantasy football with us. It’s fun, and it makes watching the games on tv so much more entertaining. Even if you’ve never played before, there’s no time like the present to learn. When I started playing a few years ago, I barely knew anything about football. I knew the basics, but none of the details, and I certainly didn’t know ANY of the current players. I knew all the players that had retired 20+ years ago. But with a little reading and a little help from your friends, you’ll get the hang of it in no time.
ID# is 611363 and the Password is nfl07 - after clicking on the link above, then click the BLUE box on the right that says “Join a League”. On the next page, click the BLUE box that says “Join Custom” and it’ll ask you for the ID# & password. Then you’ll pick a team name and you’ll be pretty much set. After that, you can poke around and see the rankings of the players and see the league settings, etc. If you have any questions, ask away.
The live draft is Sat Sep 1 3:00pm PDT - if you can’t make it, you can pre-rank your players and the computer will automatically draft according to your preferences.
***Please do not sign up if you don’t really want to play. It’s not very fun for the rest of us to play against abandoned teams.***
Sunday, August 05, 2007
evening
“Bonds Hits 755th Home Run, Ties Record” - many newspapers
Thursday, May 17, 2007
terribly early in the morning
Strep, Strep, Strep To My Lou
What do you get when you combine stress, lots of work, lack of sleep and mingling with teenagers? Yes, Strep Throat. Or, at the very least, a very sore throat & pus-y tonsils. Oh, and all those hours of sitting at your desk get you back pain and Fred Flintstone feet. Okay, maybe not you, but me. They get me Fred Flintstone feet. And you know, I didn’t start out with dainty feet in the first place, so this is not an attractive look for me.
Unfortunately, my finely-tuned athletes on my fantasy baseball team are faring no better than I am. One comes off the DL, two go on. Am I jinxing the players? Are the players jinxing me? Something’s afoot. Chubby afoot.
Maybe if I go to bed, it’ll all be better when awaken. At the very least, I’ll shower, so it’ll be cleaner when I awaken.
Melinda should’ve won American Idol, so now I don’t care what happens. All I care about is that my beloved Cat Deeley will be back May 24th, for the first episode of So You Think You Can Dance? - my favorite reality show, since The Amazing Race started to go downhill. Although, with Survivor: China looming on the horizon, I can hear the siren calls luring me back. But, I will always be loyal to Cat. I’m a tad bit cheered by being able to shove my Melinda Doolittle disappointment under the rug, and to forget about AI, so I can concentragt on my dahncers.
update: - haha, I can tell how sick I was when I wrote this by rereading it and seeing all the missing words and typos. It’s a little funny. It’s also a little funny how optimistic I was in thinking that I’d shower when I got up. I slept until like 4p.
Sunday, April 08, 2007
late evening
No Playoffs for the Leafs - Ptooey
I hate the New Jersey Devils. It’s like they didn’t even start playing until the last few minutes of the third period. And when they started playing, they were good. It’s like they’d decided to let the Islanders win, and then in the third period changed their minds. Screw you, Lou Lamoriello and Martin Brodeur. I don’t care that the Leafs should’ve been responsible for their own fate, I wanted the Devils to at least try to win today. Like, try the WHOLE game, not just the third period and OT. Of course, the Leafs sucked a whole lot this season. They had a whole boatload of injuries, but they sucked during some big chunks of games this season.
I’ll root for the Penguins to win the Stanley Cup. I’ll root for the Devils to be humiliated by Tampa Bay. And I’ll now devote most of my fan efforts toward the Dodgers…and my fantasy baseball team.
Wednesday, April 04, 2007
terribly early in the morning
Tie Domi is Making Me Sad
He acted like a huge bully when he tried to force his wife into accepting a divorce settlement without consulting an attorney. That blew up in his face when she came out swinging with an attorney who is probably tougher than Tie. Every time he tried to pull something, they fired back with more crappy things that he’d done. Then, a few days ago he acted like a huge jerk at his son’s hockey game, cussing out the coach after the game. And now, he’s threatening to sue the coach for damaging his reputation. Holy crap, Tie, just keep your damned mouth shut and get some anger management. You’re damaging your own reputation. In less than six months you’ve gone from being my favorite player and someone whose name I would’ve happily worn on the back of my Leafs jersey (which I luckily never had enough money to buy…although, I do have a Domi Leafs t-shirt) to the schoolyard bully who I’m embarrassed to say that I liked, even before I met your impersonator. You know what, let your impersonator take over. Honestly, even though he was a jerk for impersonating you and Leanne, he presented a MUCH better public face than you do. He wrote a better email, he was more interesting, he was nicer to your (ex)wife, and I’m sure he never would’ve yelled at your kid’s coach. As the child and sister of baseball/softball coaches, I can tell you that in my experience with people who yell at coaches…they’re almost all assholes. They ruin the games for their kid, their spouse, the other kids, the coaches, and all of the other fans in the stands who have to listen to their garbage. I’ve rarely been to a baseball game where there wasn’t at least one of those obnoxious parents in the stands. I’ve often wished a heart attack on one of those red-faced screaming jerky parents. They ruin the whole experience for everyone. So, Tie, sit down and shut up. Maybe go back to spending time with your charities, because if you don’t, your financial future is dim. You’re not a very good commentator, your athletic career is done, so you’d better start behaving like a decent human being, because there’s no life off the ice for an enforcer. No one wants to hire a bully. You got paid very well for being one, but welcome to the real world - you don’t get to be paid millions of dollars for threatening people. Those people, they end up in prison.
