Wednesday, October 28, 2015

Dunngivashit - Week 7

Although my season is beginning to look worse than Crop, I have temporarily swallowed my pride to write this newsletter.  This week I hit rock bottom as I lost by a large margin to DJ, “at my age my balls sag to my ankles”, Miller.  Hard loss to shake off.  However, the tyrant himself has yet to give me any shit for the tardiness of this newsletter and for that, I thank you.  And now, on with this newsletter.

Stud of the Week
The Big Sammy continues to bully the entire league with another studly performance.  E put up a respectable 152.9, but was still no match for Lamar Miller and the undefeated Sandwich.  I hope you have been talking shit to DJ all season as you continue to shit on the competition.  I hope all of your players decide they don’t want to play this week for our matchup.  Otherwise, it will be another long day for my squad. 

Willy Lowman
Nolan United captured their sixth straight loss with a poor showing of 71 points against the Best Chest in the West.  6 losses in a row also gets you the Do Better Chair award.  Tough season so far.  To make matters worse, your beloved 49ers continue with their dominate performances.  If it makes you feel any better, I can throw some ice cubes out my window in your general direction.  My team isn’t much better, so I feel your pain.

James Graham Jock Slap
Lamar Miller absolutely killed it this week with a 51.6 point performance.  The coaching change in Miami is really paying dividends for both the Big Sammy and Lamar Miller.  Let’s see if he can keep putting up the points he has the last two weeks or if this is a fluke in the bizarro league. 

Bench Bomb
There were quite a few bench bombs this week, however, none would have changed the outcome of any games.  The biggest bench bomb being, Amari Cooper who could not be covered by the Chargers defense.  However, the Samich still won by almost 50 points so let’s move on.  Pav I haven’t said anything about you yet.  Pav left Ryan Matthews and his 27.1 points on the bench because Pav isn’t good at fantasy football.  That’s about all I got.  Terrible diss, I am ashamed of myself. 
As I end this newsletter to once again ponder my terrible fantasy team I think about a great quote for times like this.  When life gives you lemons, say fuck the lemons and bail.  Fadi, Pav and Crop, suck one.


Dunngiveashit out.  

Fadi - Week 6

Many of you have labeled me as a heartless drunk who laughs at the mentally handicapped while refusing offers of cocaine and blow jobs at PNC Park.  The stories of the Raging Polack’s father throwing ice-cubes in road rages, herself screaming at drivers in the waterfront and getting in verbal fights while holding her toddler at hand, never went viral.  I had always known and was aware of my bad luck. Theory that was proven during a recent trip to Vegas,  missing the Millers little angels birthday party I offered to place 2 bets on roulette of $30 on number  11 and $30 on number 18, their birthdates.  After a long day and  half a night of drinking, up for 24 hours,  with a bourbon at hand, I chose a table and placed $30 on 11 and $30 on 18 announcing in inebriated and loud voice , THIS IS FOR ESTELLA AND MARLO!!!!,   my first bet hits on 18.  Considering the state of my intoxication, friends had to explain to me that I, or Estella, won over $1000.  One would think, and based on people’s views of me online; someone with my lack of morals will pocket that money and pretend it never happened.  Instead, at 1 AM Vegas time, 4 AM Pittsburgh time, I texted the Millers with pictures of the winnings.   I even kept the exact 10, $100 bills tucked away in my wallet and did not spend it on any kind of blow. I did manage to lose close to $900 of my own money during that trip.
Enough about nonsense stuff and on to football crap.
It is with great pleasure that I announce to you the Stud of the week
Fadi Mother Fucking Viral, dominated this week with a total points of 168.9.  while Toner was getting flaccid watching Bryant’s well-rested return with almost 40 points, and Hopkins 37.8 points, combined are almost the entire Raging Polacks score, but we will get to her soon. Although I enjoyed dominating Toner ,at one point during Monday Night Football, with the Eagles defense 28 points, and Mirray with 22 points the gap between Toner and me was getting too close.  If Toner would have played Brown, Stewart and Bortles, he would have been the Stud of the week. Instead, Toner wins for bench bomb of the week. Toner’s highest scoring game for the season was no match to Viral.
I should mention that TBS should also be included in the stud of the week, I do not like to share the spot light but their skills/luck deserver a mention in this week.

Willy Lowman
I feel that she already knows what we are about to say. Mrs Miller is holding on to this spot and seems to be proud of it. Every Sunday as I am walking into the gym I hear her voice teaching her class, hearing her energetic, authoritative voice one would appreciate the competitive nature of the Raging Polack but when it comes to fantasy she does not have that spark in her anymore.   Jordan Reed out with a concussion, Matt Jones with some sort of a toe injury, and your highest scoring player Sims on Bye week, you did not stand a chance.
Do better ChairS
Nolans United:
Few weeks back, during the week we played against each other, Mrs. Kreter had referred to my physique as that of a Manatee, while Mr. Stipanovich said it is more like a Porpoise.  With all fairness it all started out when I said I look like a whale in the pool in comparison to DJ.  Instead of saying “ Get out of here” or “ no you don’t” they both opted to find different animals that I may resemble.  With that said, DO better on your fantasy team; this is an embarrassment to see the Nolans underperform in such manners as to be 1-5 at the end of week 6.  One would expect this kind of results from ThRobby, Lobos, or even from ME.  Your bench is a rehab waiting room, Joique Bell (ankle), Vernon Davis ( Knee), Percy Harvin (Hip) plus two players on BYE week, I hope you did not spend a second looking at your fantasy app this week.
Vandelay:
I hope Vandelay industry wore their Manzierrs as they bottomed last week for TBS.  I am predicting a huge come back from Vandelay once they have the support they need from the Manzierr. (For those youngsters, this is a Seinfeld reference)  vandelay should  be considered as a bench-bomb for the week benching Starks, and Stafford, but it would have not made a difference against TBS. 

Kimmy Graham Jock Strap
Martavis Bryant coming out of four week suspensioin and a week of injury had proven he was worth the wait. Drafting him early proved beneficial after 5 long weeks of bench warming
I would like to add a new section
The Stop spending money
Barrister’s Balls has managed to spend $70 in transaction fees, plus numerous hours researching different football websites.  Barrister’s helped me last season with my lineup so I feel that I owe him, but it kills me to see his performance this season.  Maybe all the chlorine in the pool is affecting his judgment.  Learn from your family members,  TBS had managed to be in first place, with spending $0 in acquisitions and  with no Trades,
Wicked Sam, just because DJ is spending money doesn’t mean you have to as well. $65 13 acquisitions and one trade, please take your ADHD meds and relax. You might want to start asking for Amy’s help while you are watching Gilmore Girls rerun on Netflix.

Taco, PICK UP YOUR FUCKING BIKE!!!!!!! Natalie had offered me $10 for it and I am about to drop it off at her house in the next few days.  Beside the bike, way to go Caleb/Amy team overall  highest points for the season so far, 897 points.  ThRobby dropped you down to third place, working 100 hours/week had proven to be beneficial for Crop when it comes to fantasy, the less time he spent on his line up the better his results are.  Fuck you crop for not been included in the viral picture as you were standing right there!
Knuckle junction had been staying up way past his bedtime, in his onesie,  thinking Barrister had a chance with Beckham to change the outcome. Although beckham 19.1 points was Dj’s highest score for the week, he needed to almost double that for a win. Get some rest and enjoy your 5-1 standing until next week when TBS will be manhandling you as much as Crop gets manhandled in his Kick-tease/ dodge ball league.

Has anyone heard from Dunn? I know he dunn Givashit but his lack of participation is concerning.  Is that what marriage does? That doesn’t seem to be the case in the Millers/Nolans/ and Tardiff households, yes I did say Tardiff and not Pakraftar as we all know who wears the pants in that relationship.   With that said Dunn, you are up next. 

Thursday, October 15, 2015

Boners - Week 5

WHAT IS HAPPENING?  After 5 weeks, the top of the standings looks like this:

1. TBS
2. Lobos Latinos
3. thRobby Johnsons

Ted Turner, at 5-0, already has 2 more wins this year than all of last year.  The Team formerly known as Limp Dixons has doubled his win total from last year.  Meanwhile, perpetual draft dodger, Lobos Latinos, is leading the MillerKuz league in points scored by a 55.6-point margin over TBS.  While the Zero RB draft strategy was being pushed by the “experts” this preseason, Amy, Taco Corp’s Chief Drafting Officer, has proven that Best Smile Available (“BSA”) is the most successful data driven approach to the draft. 

On the other end of the spectrum, here is the bottom of the standings:

9.     Latex U
10. The Fighting Parramatta Eels
11. Toner’s Purple Headed Yogurt Slingers
12. Raging Bulgers

These four teams had a combined .673 winning percentage last year, but currently have 3 wins between them.  Ouch.  The only explanation I have is this is the Bizarro MillerKuz League.  Thus:

Bizarro Stud of the Week:

TBS takes home his third Stud of the Week honors in 5 weeks with a 151.8 point performance, led by Devonta Freeman third consecutive 30 plus point performance.  Freeman is defying science being the number 1 ranked running back while not smiling in his profile picture.  Amy’s team of smile analysts considers Freeman’s early season success to be an outlier, but this is Bizarro World where nothing makes sense.  Like Forsett’s 28 points and Robinson’s 26.2 also leading TBS to back to back Stud of the Week awards, while his number 1 pick, AB, struggles to produce with the extremely accurate Michael Vick under center.  In the Bizarro MillerKuz League, TBS is a force to be reckoned with. 

Bizarro Willie Lowman of the Week:

Raging Polacks.  Congrats on the three-peat.  To be fair though, I believe Mrs. Bulger, I mean Miller, had the same strategy as me this year.  We both saw how Balls used high waiver priorities last year to pick up OBJ and the Garbage Man, which led him to a championship.  What I’m sure everybody has figured out by now is Laura and I have been tanking on purpose early with the intent of picking up this year’s waiver wire stud and riding him to a championship.  Well, I flinched this past week, and Laura beat me at this game of fantasy football loser chicken.  Enjoy Charcandrick West.  In this Bizarro World, he is sure to be the next OBJ.

Bizarro Jimmy Graham Jock Slap:

Apparently the Bizarro MillerKuz League takes place in 2012, because Doug Martin is this weeks Jimmy Graham Jock Slap award winner with 37.8 points.  Currently, the Muscle Hamster is the 4th ranked running back in fantasy with 85.9 points.  4.1 more points than he had all of last year.  Is anyone else starting to believe this Bizarro World theory?

Bizarro Bench Bomb:

Losing by 1.6 points, thRobby Johnson could have easily won if…wait a minute.  I can’t go any further until we talk about Crop’s most recent name change? thRobby Johnsons?  Does he think this is clever?  He doesn’t even have a player named Johnson on his team.  Crop.  There are 14 players available named Johnson.  Spend $5 and pick one up so your team name at least kind of makes sense.  And good job benching Willie Snead for Danny Woodhead.  It’s Bizarro World.  That was an easy choice. 

Bizarro Do Better Chair:

Dunn Fullashit, because Eff You Trav.  Mic drop.




Boners picks up mic embarrassed.

O yeah.  Fadi, you’re up next week.  Please try to refrain from insulting the mentally handicapped.

Taco - Week 4

Welcome ladies, gentlemen, and tiny humans who sort of like soccer but also like tee ball but not really, to this week's newsletter.  Frankly I expected to be writing this at the end of the season, but as usual TBS has about as much tact as a flaming diaper filled with yesterday's Indian food buffet, so you'll just have to ride this sensual Mexican mind massage all the way into the painful, dry grass end of the slip'n slide that is Week 13.  Arriba!

El Jefe
This big swinging hammer crushed TacoCorp's dreams back in Week 1, so just like contracting herpes at Blush, this one somehow feels unfortunately inevitable.  It's been 4 years since this team saw a Top 3 MillerKuz finish, and turned in a 2014 performance that was so embarrassing we probably should have just kicked him out of the league.  This award was fairly earned but nonetheless comes with a caveat, because while we know that a win is a win is consent because she was definitely 18, this team's 4-0 record is also based on the fewest Points Against in the entire league - you're El Jefe today, but could you be El Perdedor tomorrow?  Either way, I hope you bitches packed lots of apple juice in your lunch this week, because it's time for another Big Sandwich.  Following what was a "low" Week 3 of 117 points, TBS is right back in the sex swing with a 150-point beatdown of the ailing United, sending them into that warm, league-subsidizing 1-3 record that all 49ers fans know so so well. A breakout week from both Philip Rivers and Martellus "Jay Cutler is pretty much Jesus" Bennett helped propel TBS over a depleted Nolans roster.  Good call by the Nolans for hanging onto Jarryd Hayne rather than waking up long enough to waiver any TE that wasn't injured and useless.  Nolans, I assume you are at least beating TBS in the secret Fantasy Rugby league you joined.

Senor Lowman
Frankly, this one was pretty tough to call.  On one hand, you've got Travis "Yes I'm still in the league" Dunn putting up his lowest score for the week, or Pavlik rolling around in the mud with an 85-point tragedy caused by 4 simultaneous season lows from your running backs AND receivers...but on the other, you've got the Polacks' and their "pierogi curse" 0-4 record, who only narrowly eked out the Givashits for points.  This one ultimately came down to a tale of the tape.  Sometimes an 0-4 record happens because of unlucky matchups where your 140 point week is frustratingly edged out because Cairo Santos somehow outscored all but 1 running back in the entire fucking league.  This happened, but it didn't happen here.  No, friends, this is not a story of bad beats or even one where the team manager decided to pull a Taco and just skip setting the lineup for a few weeks to focus on launching a Kickstarter for dick scented tea light candles (seriously, people on there buy anything).  Alas, woe is the owner of the can't-get-right Polacks, who just turned in their 3rd consecutive week under 100 points.  Look, it's not necessarily your fault - Marshawn Lynch has gone from being the #3 RB in both 2013 and 2014 Fantasy, to being a gimpy sidelined Skittle Goblin who stands precariously close to becoming the kind of depreciated draft albatross that your brain knows probably belongs in a situational RB3 right now, but who you'll keep playing week after week because he can't possibly be that bad, right?  Sure, Polacks.  Sure.  Add to that a lineup that is now basically all P's and Q's, including "House Party 9" extra Davante Adams, and you've put together a sad little recipe for several weeks of soggy ball soup.  God help you and Travis Kelce's mock turtleneck, Mrs. Miller.

Hacerlo Mejor Silla 
Dunn Givashit.  Ignoring Week 4, Travis is averaging a big-kid 140 points per week and sitting in 4th place for overall scoring.  You might say that this is a small sample size (something I suspect Travis hears a lot), but the Givashits lineup seems to be good at sharing the load (you can make your own joke here) of putting up multiple 20-point performers.  This week, he was pulled down by poor play from Ameer Abdullah and a stinging no-TD performance from the previously unstoppable Julio Jones.  In fairness, the only hindsight mistake Dunn really made was playing Derek Carr over Drew Brees, but with a frighteningly injured or ineffective bench, even that correction wouldn't have put him in the running for a victory against the unstoppable Throbby Johnsons, whose gameday poundings suggest the team should just be renamed Instagram Photo, because bitches have to think about the angle they need to take it.  With no tough BYE exclusions in Week 5, will Dunn Givashit hop right out of the do better chair, or sit there choking on a Knuckle sandwich?

Tac-oh-no-you-didn't!
This one goes out to the mad Syrian, who not only almost broke the internet, but also left 60 points on the bench and still managed to rise above the pathetic flailing of the Barrister's.  Despite a strong Panthers D and a surprisingly productive waiver pickup in Karlos Williams, the Balls just didn't have anything for Fadi.  This beat is made a little more painful when you also note that DJ paid $1/point to grab Thomas Rawls and put him into the flex, while leaving the 12-point delta he needed for victory sitting on the bench with Isaiah Crowell and Terrance "I'm not quite Dez Bryant" Williams.  Kudos to Sir Fadrick, who was apparently too busy chilling with Tomlin to make any lineup changes after making it rain with even more bench points (111.9, actually) despite also benching two donuts in Week 3.  In truth, Fadi did actually modify his roster on Saturday night...and then changed it back on Sunday morning.  Rosterbating aside, the Big Mac Virus is squirreling it away like a fat chick next to a chocolate fountain in a Jeff Foxworthy commercial.  Folks, if this guy starts playing Fantasy Football, there are going to be some tears.

Nacho Best Decision
I usually think of the bench bomb as one of those moments where you clearly just stepped in it because the universe couldn't protect you from yourself.  Like when you put whipped cream on the free jell-o shots and don't understand why you're waking up like a dried out piece of balsa wood next to a 3-ton dump truck with rainbow food coloring all over her face and your own Town Square looking like it just hosted the 2015 Holi Festival.  But just as we all grow old and that stuff starts only happening on weekends instead of Tuesdays, it seems like the truly offensive bench bomb has become an elusive temptress, conveniently appearing only in weeks that I'm not writing the newsletter.  Fear not, my boon companions on this Fantastic Voyage...[pause so you can pour some out for Coolio]...as I will not sully the gilded TacoCorp Newsletter reputation by merely throwing my hands in the air and mumbling "I guess I'll say it was me" a la The Reluctant Sandwich.  That said, I have no choice but to hand out the slightly less satisfying Aggregate Bench Bomb.  The Boners didn't make 1 big bad decision, but a series of small tactical errors that cost them what could have been their very first victory over a very week Junction performance.  Despite the surprise flop from Randall Cobb and a bad luck hammy from Stevie Johnson, Pav still could have mustered more than 85 points.  In fact, in what ended up as a 13.7 point loss the 53 bench points shared between 1 back and 2 receivers, compared to all 11.8 points that actually came in from the starting ground game, says that Pavlik just screwed this up.  A single substitution with Todd Gurley would have done it.  Or let's call it a waiver bomb and ask why in the name of infant baby jesus riding on the back of a tyrannosaurus you thought starting the Eagles D against Grandpa Manning was the right play.  No matter how you cut it, you did this to your own self, and for that, I don't feel bad about handing you the Bomb.

Good luck to everyone in the rest of Week 5, and best wishes for a turnaround by next week's author, the Polack's.  Sorry this one came late (something Cropcho never has to worry about).W

The Big Sandwich - Week 3

Of all the weeks TBS gets nominated to write a newsletter, it just happens to be the week that they are involved with hosting a two day conference that includes all day meetings, presentations, and.  evenings hosting out of town guests.  Total isolation of any outside activity or events of the week to date.  The early morning breakfast meetings and late evening dinners are over and it's time to sit down and relax. Then I hear a BUZZ.  The TBS batphone is buzzing.  I reach for the phone and there it is a single word text that reads NEWSLETTER!  Yaaaa, the newsletter.  If timing is everything then TBS has nothing.  Then I realized that I didn't have my laptop, and decided to write this week's letter with the Evernote app on my iPad.  In the back of my mind I wondered if E could accept and post in such a format, but then realized if he couldn't the league would turn on him and he'd be the fall guy for not posting this week's newsletter. We got picked early for the newsletter this year so and we are 3-0, so here it is.

Stud of the Week
Lobos Latinos – 189.5 points, not just Stud of the Week but Stud of the season. 

Willy Lowman
Raging Polacks – 72.7 points.  Averaging 96 points on the season so far.  And keeps dropping by 20 points each week. This should be the standing award until something happens.  Which also leads to the Do Better Chair award to Mrs. Miller. Don’t necessarily have any advice, but simply just that you need to do better!
Jimmy Graham Jock Slap
Lobos Latinos.  Barrister’s Balls didn’t have much of a chance against this team, but the 52.7 points put up by AJ Green sure didn’t help matters.  Good luck to Raging Polacks next week when she takes on Lobos Latinos.
Bench Bomb
Surprisingly, nothing stands out as a bench bomb.  So we nominate ourselves, for playng Eifert over Bennett.  After having a couple of good weeks on the bench and elevating himself to a top TE to date he was promoted from the TBS bench only to have one catch that should’ve been a touchdown called as an incomplete pass.  Thanks for the 0 and TBS is now 3 for 3 in selecting the wrong TE.



We are now into week 4 of the season, and I think it's time we get to hear from the league Stud.  Lobos is up.