Friday 8/22:
Brewer game! I love Friday night baseball. Something about the atmosphere just makes it so much more fun. I think it’s something about everyone finally getting out of work after a long week and just letting go and enjoying the game. Brewers played the Pirates. We had great seats, it was a fun game and the hometown boys won 10-4.
Friday was also my first fantasy football draft; for the free league I’ve run the last several years. Since I was at the game, I missed the draft. However, I spent ages pre-ranking my players and it actually worked to my advantage. Despite the fact that Yahoo will fill all starting roster spots before bench spots, I still got a pretty good team. The draft order in this league was based on last years performance, and since I sucked, I had the #1 pick (snaking order, 8 teams) Here’s my draft picks:
1. (1) LaDainian Tomlinson
2. (16) Terrell Owens
3. (17) Reggie Wayne
4. (32) Reggie Bush
5. (33) Brandon Marshall
6. (48) Kellen Winslow
7. (49) Matt Hasselbeck
8. (64) New York
9. (65) Shayne Graham
10. (80) Greg Jennings
11. (81) LenDale White
12. (96) Chris Chambers
13. (97) Donovan McNabb
14. (112) Alge Crumpler
I’m decently pumped about my team. I think I have awesome wideouts and running backs. The Giants defense is probably going to get dropped because of the hits they’ve taken on the D-Line, but I’m not terribly worried about that. In fact, while I was posting, I just dropped NJ-A and picked up Seattle.
There was also some good preseason football Friday night. Cowboys looked really good and Crayton even might have stopped Dallas fans from freaking out about their WR depth. Packers looked good as well and Aaron Rodgers definitely bounced back from poor play last week. Running game of the Packers is still a little scary, but hopefully Ryan Grant will help that in the regular season.
Saturday 8/24:
Went golfing Saturday morning. Got rained out midway through, which bummed me out because when the thunder was first heard I was starting to hit some really good shots. I also came decently close to a hole-in-one (I know, close doesn’t count for anything).
Went down to Chicago Saturday night and met up with best bud and his woman. Ate at this place called Earwax which had good vegitarian food and neat little atmosphere. Almost died afterward at this chocolate/ice cream shop… got some sort of orange dreamsicle float that was really large and had two huge ice cream scoops kind of hanging onto the brim of the glass. Shouldn’t have finished it, but it was good.
Sunday 8/24:
Another Brewer game. Finally saw CC in person, although he did not pitch a great game. Ended up being a pretty good game, went into extra innings (we’ve seen 3 extra innings games this year, 2 of them wins). On JJ Hardy bobblehead day, Hardy had the game winning single. Nice how that works out.
Had my other fantasy football draft tonight. Actually attended this one, although barely made it due to the length of the baseball game. Another 8 team league, snaking draft order. I had Yahoo auto pick the draft order and I wound up with the #1 pick (which of course everyone thought was a scam being I’m the commish of the league, haha). Here’s my team:
1. (1) LaDainian Tomlinson
2. (16) Clinton Portis
3. (17) Braylon Edwards
4. (32) Laurence Maroney
5. (33) Torry Holt
6. (48) Roy Williams
7. (49) Derek Anderson
8. (64) LenDale White
9. (65) Earnest Graham
10. (80) Donald Driver
11. (81) Vernon Davis
12. (96) David Garrard
13. (97) Dallas
14. (112) Josh Scobee
Had one problem during the draft… I was connected to the internet via cell phone and lost my connection in the middle of the draft. I had players in my “draft queue” but once the connection dropped, the queue was erased and Yahoo auto-picked. Happened during a back-back pick, and I got Maroney/Holt out of it. I *never* would’ve picked Maroney. In the draft chat, I was just commenting on how Yahoo had Maroney ranked way too high just moments before it happened. Holt is good, but he’s old, so that scares me. I wanted to grab Reggie Bush in one of those spots and Wes Welker in the other. Damnit. Maybe I can make a trade…
I think that’s all I’ve got for now.