Seahawks now 1-2
Sep/080
A friend of mine is in a suicide pool this NFL season and asked me who he should pick this week: Seattle or New England? I told him that this was probably the only game of the season that I was 100% certain the Seahawks would win and he should pick Seattle. That ended up working out good for him, but the real question is: why didn’t it work out for me? If I was so certain about it why didn’t I place a wager on the game? Because I’m an idiot that’s why.
My trade from earlier in the week worked out pretty good with Matt Hasselbeck outscoring Boldin and Grant combined, but I’m not out of the woods yet. My opponent has three Chargers going tonight.
Seahawks and fantasy
Sep/081
I really used to be that guy with the rule not to have players from his favorite team on his fantasy team. I got screwed on Ichiro once and I vowed never to overrate my team’s players again. I’ve done a pretty good job of sticking with it (with the lone exception of King Felix (Quick sidenote I didn’t actually draft Felix this year, I drafted Bedard and then traded them straight up. Winner: me.) Last year I ended up with Hasselbeck at QB and won my league. So, screw that rule. Add in a few beers and I was drafting Seahawks left and right. I ended up with Burleson, the defense, Mo Morris, Mare and picked up Carlson as a free agent. After Burleson’s injury I dropped him and subsequently got rid of Morris and Mare leaving me with only two Seahawks. That just wasn’t going to do. So I swung a trade:
Ryan Grant GB RB
Anquan Boldin Buzzsaw WR
for
Matt Hasselbeck
Bobby Engram
Chester Taylor MIN RB
Yep. I traded a #1 RB and a #1 WR for an injured WR, a backup and a playing injured QB. It’s a trade with the postseason in mind because in theory after week 4, when Engram and Branch come back along with Carlson and Robinson the Seahawks offense (re: Hasselbeck) should explode. Or it could blow up in my face so easily I don’t even want to talk about it. This is either going to be the smartest or the dumbest trade I’ve ever made. Which isn’t good because I’m an idiot.
Brady to shift $150 million in fantasy
Sep/080
I’m sorry, but this is just plain dumb. 30 percent of people were going to win their fantasy league because of Tom Brady, but now he’s hurt so those people are going to lose $150 million. Right.
Not happy
Sep/080
Last year, much to my dismay, we hosted our fantasy football league on Fox Sports. I found the site to be generally buggy and not all that good. So this year for whatever reason we decided to use them again. Now, there is one major difference between this year and last. I have an awesome phone now. A phone that I bought for this specific purpose. For the entire summer I have been able to watch my fantasy baseball team flourish in last place during work and I was hoping to have the same pleasure (without the whole last place thing) during the football season, but since Fox Sports is a terrible site I can’t even pull up the team’s website without being forwarded to their mobile page which only offers a handful of stories and no fantasy options. I don’t get it. I mean, on the one hand I can’t believe this is something I am actually complaining about on the other Fox Sports needs to get with the program already.
Fantasy football draft
Aug/080
I hope I am not the only one who made this joke after Marvin Harrison was drafted.
“Good pick, as long as he doesn’t go to jail for killing that guy.”