keep it irrelevant

you gotta hate thursday games when your opponent puts up 101 points on you thanksgiving day and still has 2 WRs, an RB, and his TE going. that's right, i have the privilege of playing this week against someone who had westbrook and also got 41 points out of Bironas and the Tennessee defense. usually, i have no idea what happened with my fantasy teams until i wake up monday morning. it's a lot worse having to thing about the fact that you'll need to score a hundred thirty points or so in order to win. i've already lost twice in a row and fallen from first to third in the past two weeks; i'll be fourth if this guy beats me. i'll have a lot more time to wish that wasn't inevitable thanks to those thursday games.

roscoe

a guy i play with in several leagues added roscoe parrish for this weekend's game. this is in a twelve team league where we play 3 receivers. i feel like he just pulled this move out of nowhere, which seems to make little sense. it's impressive though, just because no one would really think of doing it. it's like when i made some trade for hunter pence early in the baseball season, and people in my league thought i was just throwing in the towel or something. i gave up greinke and hawpe, having picked hawpe up off of waivers. one guy was a little heated and posted a note to the entire league complaining that i was apparently giving up. hunter pence was ranked in the top 50 players going into the season; he never performed at that level, but this was too early to give up on that. i figured greinke was overachieving; he was, but not as much as i'd thought. hawpe really isn't that great in a 10 team league, and i just loved the power/speed/average of...hunter pence. a coworker in that league was annoyed but more taciturn on the subject of the trade. he just didn't understand the logic behind a trade involving three players he considered irrelevant. picking up roscoe parrish feels like that. it just doesn't seem like there's a reason to do it.

the pats defense erased my ipod

a couple of awful things happened in the past 24 hours. the ipod touch died on the way to work, preventing me from reading up on fantasy football. all the music disappeared this afternoon. oh, and the patriots defense tried repeatedly to give away the game at home against the jets, only succeeding in overtime.

clue me in

some kids on the street called me steve kerr last night. steve kerr? really? that would have been more relevant 10 years ago, or maybe there's a reason it's relevant now and i don't even know. i look nothing like steve kerr.

i finally traded for a tight end in that league where i have cutler and brees. of course i didn't give up one of those guys. i traded my 4th wr (chambers) and 4th rb (graham) for him, which was certainly too much, but when you're getting a starter, dealing some bench guys doesn't hurt. i've got ray rice now, for whatever that's worth. graham's biggest problem seems to have been the time share with dunn, but at least he gets consistent time. rice is a mystery. chambers was hurt so long no one seemed to think he had value; i have anthony gonzalez as my 4th wr now. considering wayne is in my starting lineup, i really like having gonzalez around. maybe i should get brandon stokely just in case...is that really going to happen? no.

the problem with this team, really, is that brandon marshall and reggie wayne have been disappointing. last week, i scored less than 70, and 35 of those points were from cutler, my defense, and my kicker. this team should be fine in the playoffs if i can still make it. seriously, with steven jackson hurt now, it's anyone's guess whether i can get that far. such a good team on paper.