#@*+*%$!!!!!!!

DATE: 09/22/2003 10:10:52 AM
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The week after all my teams win, they all lose.  Figures.

My fantasy team is basically toast, unless Clinton Portis and Janikowski have the games of their lives.  The Redskins choked, then came back, then choked again to lose in overtimes, committing a record number of penalties.  

And of course, Michigan fell into the West Coast trap and lost to Oregon, the week after we were finally touted as a national championship contender.  They too choked, then came back, then choked at the end.  I wonder what's worse - dominating early on and then watching your team choke and squander a chance to win at the end, or watching your team get its ass kicked for most of the game, then watching them come back and lose anyway?  I guess I should ask Andrew, since he's had to watch both the New York Football Giants and Michigan carry out each scenario in the past week.

Andrew even called that we would lose right after we blew out Notre Dame.  It's really hard for Eastern teams to go west (look it up - if you do a study of teams from the East playing on the West Coast, they have a lower winning percentage than West Coast teams coming east).  Also, Michigan is especially bad when going to play a Pac-10 team on the road: they've lost 12 of the last 14 road games they've played against the Pac-10.  The fucking curse continues...but on this occasion, the timing was horrendous.  Aargh.
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COMMENT:
AUTHOR: Ed
DATE: 09/22/2003 04:31:53 PM
Maybe next year you can draft an all jailbirds team. There is no shortage in the NFL.
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COMMENT:
AUTHOR: jide
DATE: 09/22/2003 12:47:05 PM
YES, I KNOW.  I ALREADY READ IT.  He's such a fucking idiot.  

It probably doesn't matter, because it looks like my opponent started a different defense than I thought, so I'm fucked anyway.  Goddamn it.  
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COMMENT:
AUTHOR: Ed
DATE: 09/22/2003 12:38:40 PM
Well, Jide. I just hope for your sake that Janikowski isn't handcuffed by his off-field troubles.
<a href="http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=1620959">http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=1620959</a>
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COMMENT:
AUTHOR: jide
DATE: 09/22/2003 10:52:57 AM
Hehe.  What can I say?  But don't worry; it probably won't make a difference, since Mike "the Idiot Coach" Martzs refuses to run the ball anyway.

By the way, our league DOES have a waiver system...but it only applies to recently-dropped players.
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COMMENT:
AUTHOR: noah
DATE: 09/22/2003 10:44:04 AM
At least you got to grab Gordon because our league doesn't have a waiver system. Grr.
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