Grizzly Bears

Spied two grizzly bears at JFK last night. You had to be there.

Week of Slowness

This is the week of slowness here at the J-O-B. Between holidays, so we have sales people dialing for dollars, and a lot of folks taking vacation. Me boss takes this time off, so I do not. Gotta be on the mark.

OSSS is down in Bradenton, FLA playing baseball with Under Armour Baseball Factory org. Left Saturday (7:00 AM flight!) and started playing, working out, etc. Saturday afternoon. He had a good day at plate on Sunday (first day of games) which was awesome to hear. There are kids from 35-40 states at this tournament, so it's a good place for him to see how he stacks up against national-level comp.

YSSS is home with us...took him to cages on Sunday and he was ripping! Playing some hoops but maintaining his casualness. Attaboy.

The Plan

Lost in FF championship. Luck and Green = 0 points. That did me in. So I get 2nd place share (35%) which should be about $400 or so.

So now we have fantasy basketball. This is an 8 player league for 1/2 cost. So to make up for my losses, I plan to WIN. I am currently in 1ST PLACE! and I am on a mission.

Daddy needs a new pair of shoes!!!

Andrew Luck

After the Zero (0) he put up in FF yesterday, and dimming SoulSlam's chances at a FF Championship and the moolah-di that comes with it, you would think that I consider Mr. Luck (?) a villain. A black hat. A devil in disguise.

I do not.

Blame to be assessed:

The "O" Line for all the penalties when Luck actually made some nice throws downfield

The guy who dropped a WIDE-OPEN PASS on the fake punt early in the first Q. Different game if he catches that

The HC Chuck Pagano, who decided to put in Matt Hasselback in the 3rd Q, when game was way out of hand.

The whole "we didn't want Andrew to risk getting injured in a meaningless game" argument holds zero (as in the number of points #12 scored me) water. If that is the case, why don't you just seal him in amber until playoffs?

2/3 Over

I have a self-imposed 3 day weekend. Spent Friday doing some shopping, etc. Took the spouse out for dinner. Tried a new spot. Pretty good.

Saturday was gym time, shopping with YSSS and some rec and travel hoops practice with YSSS. Now I'm just cruising the WWW. And enjoying a Coors, the banquet beer.

Tomorrow I have a travel game...ad I'm sure I'll hit a store or two, later in the evening. My boss is now on vacation so it's all good at the J-O-B., at least for 2 weeks.

B-12

I am lethargic. Not as much as most people who use ATMs but that's another story.

Speaking of which, OSSS has his driving permit. And an ATM card. So we drove up to ATM last weekend. He needs work.

The Super Bowl

Of the Bloomfield Football League (aka as the fantasy league I am in) is this week and guess who the favorite is?

My 5-8 Death From Above team squeaked into playoffs. I don't even know how that happened. I was the last seed to make it (#8). had to play the 11-2 #3 seed, Browndogs. They got a pretty good team. But they had a pretty terrible week when P. Manning and D. Thomas of the Broncos shat the bed. Win.

Over this past weekend, my lowly team played the 12-1 #1 seed, Kelly's Heroes. And like the week prior, Aaron Rodgers bad outing doomed the Heroes, now the Zeroes. WIN.

So I head into the last game to take the lion's share of the bounty. Either way I'm in the money. Saving grace is my QB is Andrew Luck. His is Jay Cutler. I like my chances.

League Opener

So, me 8th grade travel team plays in two leagues. One is whee we play on weekends and pretty much get housed most of the time. Playing bigger towns will do that. We use that as a way to play better competition and get on the court. See last week's post.

The other league is the NJJBL (North Jersey Junior Basketball League), where we play teams that we match up with in terms of talent and size. We've been playing in this league for years. Won the championship of our division as 5th graders. Played to semis as 6th graders (but won championship of Bergen Travel League); and last year...when we lost in semi-finals by one point after two overtimes and five (5) of my top 8 on the bench, all fouled out. That's where we open tonight. Playing a team that beat mine late last season by 1. We were tired then. Lot of hoops. Fresh tonight.

Need a W.

Where Am I?

That's really an existential question I think. If you disregard geography (I am in North J of course), or ideology (I would say I'm pretty moderate when you come right down to it, unless we're talking about my views on the invasion of Canada), then that leaves us with something else. Confused? Don't be.

Beatdown

Won by a big margin in first round of fantasy playoffs.

Other guy had P. Manning and D. Thomas of the Broncos. They scored a total of 5 points. So SoulSlam's Death From Above team goes on to semis.

MC Serch

Opened up last night against a team we typically handle pretty well. Except they got a new guy. Had a haircut like the above named fella. He was keepin' it real.

Well he was real BIG, real STRONG, real FAST. Dropped 31 on us. Drive the lane, hit 3pt bombs, money from the line. Good player. Of course my center thought he's 18 years old but that's all just blababababa. Facts are facts. The other team was better, we missed too many shots, and turned the ball over too many times.

I guess we have work to do.