Wednesday, February 28, 2007

3 More Days!

The Best Fantasy Event of the Year, or as Donny so aptly put it, the "New Christmas Morning". I, along with Donny, look forward to the Fantasy Baseball Draft just as we used to look forward to Christmas when we were 6.

Some offseason notes: There have been a few trades of players, with Non-mobile Pasta acquiring Soriano, Little Bro getting V-Wells, and Pete Reed getting Thome for about half his draft. Lots of draft picks have changed hands, I hope I dont get them confused...especially when I'm on my 5th pitcher of beer.

Next year we are expanding to 12 GMs. Should be good.

Get ready for a live blog on saturday (which likely wont happen). After the draft, Donny, Steel and myself will analyze the individual drafts just as we did for football (50/50 chance of happening).

Watch out Otter lodge...

Saturday, February 24, 2007

FBB!!!

One week to the draft. Anticipation is mounting.

I'm somewhat surprised, but I think it's important to note, that despite his crazed Yankee loving ways, Non-Mobile Pasta actually may have a good team this year. He's got the two best outfielders- Beltran and Soriano, going into draft, as well as one of the top three second basemen in Robinson Cano. Although, if you pencil Melky Cabrera into that third OF slot, then maybe he starts to appear less menacing.

Tuesday, February 13, 2007

The Commish Rivalry

One of the more interesting subplots to the upcoming Fantasy Baseball season is the developing Commissioner rivalry between Dr. McMuffin and 'The Commish'.

Key Points I Look Forward to Being Debated (hopefully on this forum):

1. Draft Dress Code
2. Draft Alcohol Policy
3. Trade Approval Process - League Vote vs. Commish override?
4. Playoff Format
5. Keeper Rules
6. Expansion
7. Contraction
8. Related Party Trades
9. Fraud
10. Expansion related 'Fees' and 'Transactional Costs'
11. The impact of jail time on participation (i.e. How South American Power's jail sentence for stabbing me during the draft will impact his participation in 2008)

Monday, February 12, 2007

The Official Site

Readers:

Welcome to the official website for the 'League of Awesomeness Season III'. Return daily to find information on all things fantasy baseball. There has been a decent amount of offseason trades, as well as jockying for draft position, as well as a lot of drunk talk on mock drafts.

The draft is a few shorts weeks away. This year, the draft will expand to 24 rounds and will include up to 7 potential keepers.

Also, The League of Awesomeness has decided to expand by 20%, and will welcome in 2 new franchises in 2008. Frodo and Single Andy's Bro (right now, we'll call him the Anal Samurai) are the front runners to head new teams.

I will be back in a few days with team by team projects, and who needs to have a good draft to compete.

- The Real Commish

A HUGE Blow...

Wow. The Pasta franchise must be reeling right now. Word is just in that Kris Benson has torn his rotator cuff and will miss the entire 2007 season. And who knows how effective he will be in 2008. Say goodbye to your 33-year-old free keeper. Ouch.

Sunday, February 11, 2007

Speaking of movies...

I've been spending the better part of today trying to figure something out. Ever since someone sent me a link to the official website for the new movie 300, I have been pumped to see it. I think this was about 3-4 months ago. At this point, I legitimately think I would kill someone to see the movie. Yet there seems to be minimal hype about this movie. I haven't read much on the internet, few of my friends seem pumped about it.

So my question to you, fellow bloggers, and readers, is this: why the minimal hype? Have you not seen the ads? Have you tried to play it down because the release is so far away you want it to come faster? Or are you do you have a physical/mental deformity prohibiting you from realizing how fucking awesome this movie is going to be?

I sowed it to my one buddy today, and his reaction was: "If this movie was out now, we'd have to go watch it right now. But we'd have to watch it twice. We'd have to like, go see it, then arm wrestle, then watch it again." Seriously, I watch this trailer before I go out drinking, like how athletes listen AC/DC's Thunderstruck before every game. Or at the very least should be required to by law:

Sunday, February 04, 2007

Untitled Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson/Chuck Norris Project

I spent some time last night in my drunkenness flushing out a screenplay that will showcase the triumphant return of Chuck Norris (who is currently most famous for his exercise infomercial with Christie Brinkley and an SNL song parody), playing a bad guy for the first (?) time in his career. He will be chased by the morally scrupulous Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson, reprising Martin Lawrence's Federally premise from "Blue Streak." Here's an overview:

In the late 1970s, an evil Chuck Norris lethally hunted proponents of the Quebec seccession movement in the countryside of western Canada. His weapon of choice was a bow and arrow that featured advanced hollow arrow tip technology. These tips had been excavated from a Mayan burial site in the late 1800s and passed down through four generations of his family. He was also not above defecating on the arrow tips, paying homage to his training as a secret Canadian operative during the war in Vietnam. Through a series of flashbacks and newspaper clippings, as well as early Peter Jennings newscasts, we will learn of the legend of Norris' character and his cult status amongst diehard Canadian nationalists, as well, in a bizarre twist, separatists, who are confused by the intentions of the bold killer.

Moving ahead to current day upstate New York, a killer is on the loose. This killer also utilizes an unusual weapon of destruction, a crossbow, accurate from up to 1000 feet. These arrows mystically suck the air from the lungs of its victims immediately, rendering them powerless to fight the otherwise surmountable pain. It appears through examination of poetry/haikus left near the crime scenes that the killer is driven by an unusual paranoia that NYC/Long island is planning to secede from upstate NY.

Following the charade that was the hunting of Bucky Phillips, the state acts quickly and assigns former WWF/WWE wrestling/actor extraordinaire, Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson, to capture this killer. Leveraging his advanced skills in hand to hand combat and the privilege that his freshly bestowed 'Federally' title brings, The Rock quickly works his way through a batch of corrupt Crime Scene Investigators (led by TV's David Caruso, in a "CSI:Miami from Toronto/Buffalo special"), and while holding an analyst in a death grip, uses Lexis-Nexis to determine that Norris is the killer.

The remainder of the movie will center around The Rock hunting down Norris, while foiling a Hilary Clinton/Bill Clinton led plot to have the NYC/Long Island region named the 51st state of the union. The climactic fight scene will be one of the greatest on screen fights of all time, and will include the former president of the United States, and a startling revelation regarding the death of Vernon Jordan.

The Bears Suck

Saturday, when I was at work, I only ate half of my Philly Cheesesteak sub. Believe it or not, I've dedicated the last 10 years to chowing down on Chicken Parm subs, so this was actually the first time I had a Philly Cheesesteak. I think I may have been missing out on something.

That other half is going down around noon time tomorrow. So I've got that going for me...

7-0 Bears

Two thoughts on the first 14 seconds of the Super Bowl:

1. can someone win the MVP in the first 14 seconds of the game?

2. what the hell is going on with Phil Simms' hair? He looks like a chicken.

Friday, February 02, 2007

Winter Meetings

The 2nd Annual Winter Meetings will commence this evening around 8 pm. Some over/unders: (my choices in bold)

0.5: Number of successful trades completed under

4.5: Number of people Donny tries to trade Jason Giambi to. over

2.5: Number of 3-way trades Donny and I attempt to complete - with no real players or draft picks involved. Basically just to see if we can do it. over

7.5: Number of times Donny and I yell "lets live blog this!" over

2.5: Number of times Donny yells at me to call the Otter Lodge. over

11: Number of times ISS threatens Pasta's life. over

17: Number of times ISS says he hates Pasta. over

41: Number of times Pasta calls the event a disaster or debacle. over

3.5: Number of times Pasta threatens to move to NYC over

0.5 Number of times Pasta moves to NYC under

21: Number of beers TAD drinks under

3.5 : Number of beers in the Commish's plastic bag that he brings over under

25: Number of minutes that "Other Big Brother's" powerpoint presentation will be under

0.5: Number of other over/unders I can think of under

Praise the Lord!

Brett Favre is coming back for another season!!!!!!!!

Now we can enjoy 3 prime time games in 2007 that feature the Packers getting destroyed by whomever they play as 'The Great One' throws 4 INTs.

I know he used to be good, but come on, he has sucked for the last 5 years. ESPN...stop sucking on his knob!

But to his credit, he made the decision in early Feb so I dont have to listen to Mort wax poetic about Favre, begging him to return.

I just hope that life doesnt imitate art and I'm forced to relive today (GroundHog day) over and over and over again. I think I would follow Bill Murray and drop the toaster in the bathtub if I woke up every morning to mike and mike talking about this crap.

Ned Ryerson?!?!?!?!?