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2008 college football bowl contest
Okay. So as many of you know, I like sports. And I also like nerdery. So what better than to combine sports and nerdery??!? It is the annual bowl contest sponsored by pro-football-reference.com. Here is the contest page (picks due this Saturday before the first game) as well as last year’s contest and their NFL…
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Fantasy Football update
So, to all negative 5 people besides me that care about my fantasy football team, I thought I would update you on how things went yesterday after my dilemma . Addai and Jacobs in fact did not play. Sproles received 3.38 points, and Morris got 4.30. Larry Johnson for some odd reason THREW a touchdown…
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Fantasy football dilemma
So this week begins my fantasy football league’s playoffs. Now of course almost nobody outside of the 8 of us really cares, but this is MY blog so I’ll write about it if I want. After losing my first 2 games, I won 9 of the next 10 to go to 9-3 and first place. …
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Fantasy Football shenanigans
So I am in a fantasy football league. This league is with several people that I was on my mission with and is run by my ex-mission president (who runs 3 or 4 such leagues with different ex-missionaries). We have been playing since 2000 and it’s a lot of fun. We play in Yahoo –…
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FLEM Fantasy Baseball Draft 2008
Last night we had our annual fantasy baseball draft. This league originally started out in 1989 when we were all (mostly) in 7th grade. This would be our 20th year but nobody ran the league while I was on my mission. The draft went pretty well. We used to run an online fantasy sports site…
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Fantasy Football 2007 recap
So, you may remember back in September, I decided to not watch TV on Sundays. I joked about how as a “reward”, God should let me win my fantasy football league. Now, with the season nearly over, I thought I would report. I did not watch TV football on Sundays, though I did watch parts…
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Madden NFL 06
So, along with various other Christmas presents, I’ve been playing myself some Madden NFL 2006 on my PS2. Now, I realize that nobody besides me cares about the rise and fall of my fantasy sports teams. And so I can imagine that the same would hold true for my Madden seasons. If not more so…
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Good Diaper deal
Bought 6 packages of diapers at CVS today for free. So I got that going for me, which is nice. In other news, the Red Hot Death seem to be going down to utter defeat, which ain’t so fun.
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forte
Did you know that the word forte, when used to mean a strength of someone, should actually be pronounced like fort (as opposed to for-tay, which is how you pronounce the musical term that is spelled the same) I did not know that till today
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Gamescorer
So Mark Mulder pitching 10 innings screwed up the gamescorer, which is apparently only built to handle one digit of innings pitched. Personally I blame Mike.