In the spirit of everyone else posting their recent football draft results in their blogs, here's my squad:
1. (6) C. Portis RB -clean bill of health going into week 1 (*whew*)
2. (15) W. McGahee RB -super talented, I don't mind at the 15
3. (26) R. Moss WR -too good to repeat last year's numbers. ORN baby
4. (35) H. Ward WR -rarely spectacular but alwas excellent
5. (46) A. Johnson WR -talent for days; more open looks with Moulds in town
6. (55) M. Bulger QB -numbers numbers numbers.
7. (66) J. Lewis RB -a good QB and return of a dominant D brings back the field position game. Healthy O-line says Jamal returns to form
8. (75) L. Evans WR -deep threat good
9. (86) H. Miller TE -solid, TE's real deep this year
10. (95) A. Green RB -sure, I'll take a flier on a #1 back in the 10th
11. (106) L. Maroney RB -young stud on a team w/ very creative offense
12. (115) C. Simms QB -sleeper
13. (126) A. Bryant WR -number one wideouts are good picks in the 13th round.
14. (135) Dallas DEF -top 10 D
15. (146) K. Winslow TE - healthy and pretty damn talented. Possible steal o' the draft?
Hey, look at that, no kicker!
In this draft I followed a few of my personal rules of thumb that kinda make sense in a smaller league, this one having 10 teams, the first being: why draft a kicker? 30 teams in the NFL, 10 fantasy teams... I'm pretty sure I can get someone comparable off the wire any and every week of the season who won't be that much worse, if at all, next to any of the kickers drafted. I'll gladly take talent now and watch how lineups develop going into week one than have take a kicker. While other guys draft their legs (and backup legs in some instances! Nauseated now!), I spend the last five rounds drafting a potential stud RB on a perennial winner, an up and coming young QB in a walk year, a number 1 wideout, a top 10 defense, and a sleeper TE with all the talent in the world who's finally healthy. Check please!
Another strategic decision: no D 'til very late. Again, in a 10 team league with only 1 starting defense, I know I'm going to get quality no matter where I pick.
I'm feeling good about my squad. Good depth at the RB spot should keep me in the mix if Portis' shoulder acts up again and/or Duckett gets a good share of the goal line carries. Enough depth to cover me if Randy and Jamal don't return to form as hoped.
NFL kickoff in a week! Mets continue their roll! Islanders... well, play hockey, and not very well, at that, but they're young and learning :\ Knicks... well, yeah...
And that's my 530 AM sports report. Fantasy baseball venting rant coming soon.
Thursday, August 31, 2006
Tuesday, August 29, 2006
No Corner Left Behind...
I'm here tonight to shill! That's right, I'm shilling for of all things a television show. Not just any television show, but one of the greatest pieces of fiction ever created in the English language.
That show is HBO's "The Wire," set to begin its fourth season on Sunday Sept. 10 (or Monday 9/4 with the On Demand feature) As there are very few humans I know who watch this show, as sad as that may be, I encourage all of you heathens who are missng out to run to your local DVD provider and get your hands on the first three seasons of the show. I won't even try to explain it, as there's never been anything like it on television, in the movies, very likely even in poetry or prose. Just do it. Get back to me when you've watched them. Okay, you can finish reading this post first....
I usually don't admonish people for their taste, or lack thereof; people like what they like, even country music, as much as it pains me. But honestly, watch the first 3 or 4 episodes of this show. If you don't like it, you are a buffoon, that's really all I can say. To give you some example of the appeal of the show: any Aint It Cool News readers here? Ever have the misfortune of reading an AICN talkbalk? What's the average # of posts until it turns into a flame war, about 4-6? In a recent story about the upcoming season 4 on AICN, the entire talkback, when last I read at near 100 posts, was universally in agreement on the greatness of this show. Not one idiot on the internet who reads AICN disliked this show! If this isn't some sort of badge of honor in this day and age, I don't know what is.
Further accolade, a quote from Adam Buckman of the New York Post, after having watched review copies of the entirety of the upcming fourth season:
" I am so blown away by this show that I will go out on a limb here to declare that these 13 episodes just might comprise the single finest piece of work ever produced for American TV."
That's all I have to say today. Go watch some of the most rewarding fiction you'll ever encounter. Now.
That show is HBO's "The Wire," set to begin its fourth season on Sunday Sept. 10 (or Monday 9/4 with the On Demand feature) As there are very few humans I know who watch this show, as sad as that may be, I encourage all of you heathens who are missng out to run to your local DVD provider and get your hands on the first three seasons of the show. I won't even try to explain it, as there's never been anything like it on television, in the movies, very likely even in poetry or prose. Just do it. Get back to me when you've watched them. Okay, you can finish reading this post first....
I usually don't admonish people for their taste, or lack thereof; people like what they like, even country music, as much as it pains me. But honestly, watch the first 3 or 4 episodes of this show. If you don't like it, you are a buffoon, that's really all I can say. To give you some example of the appeal of the show: any Aint It Cool News readers here? Ever have the misfortune of reading an AICN talkbalk? What's the average # of posts until it turns into a flame war, about 4-6? In a recent story about the upcoming season 4 on AICN, the entire talkback, when last I read at near 100 posts, was universally in agreement on the greatness of this show. Not one idiot on the internet who reads AICN disliked this show! If this isn't some sort of badge of honor in this day and age, I don't know what is.
Further accolade, a quote from Adam Buckman of the New York Post, after having watched review copies of the entirety of the upcming fourth season:
" I am so blown away by this show that I will go out on a limb here to declare that these 13 episodes just might comprise the single finest piece of work ever produced for American TV."
That's all I have to say today. Go watch some of the most rewarding fiction you'll ever encounter. Now.
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