UngsungBlog: A (Fantasy) Sports Blog

- Wow, did The Office season premiere deliver or what? There were several LOL moments, and I still couldn’t believe how the episode started!

(spoilers to follow…you have been warned!)

• I was thinking that Michael was going awfully fast, when he turned the corner into what we found out was the Dunder Mifflin parking lot.
• I wonder how many takes it took Pam to say the entire foundation’s name correctly.
• Who didn’t see Michael cramping up during the run, after carbo-loading minutes before the episode, then passing up on the water?
• I want one of those “Support the rabid” wrist bands!
• I did NOT need to see Pam walking into Michael’s office and seeing his (as Pam called it) “dangling participle,” nor did I need to hear Andy talk about his chafing nipples. *gag*
• My favorite moments of the episode:
  • Kevin: “Are you kidding me?…Are you KIDDING me?”
  • Michael: “I’m not superstitious, but I’m…I’m just a little stitious.”
  • Michael: “Occasionally I’ll hit someone with my car. So sue me! No…don’t sue me!”
  • Angela’s hip check into Dwight.
  • The flyer saying that the run was 5,000 miles, not 5 kilometers.
  • Seeing Creed, Oscar, and Stanley (of all people!) running to the taxi. I figured Kevin would have been there, not Stanley. And I loved how the taxi drove them right to the finish line, not a few hundred yards before it.
  • Dwight: “I put Imodium in Toby’s coffee before the race.” Michael: “Excellent…wait…Imodium, or Ex-Lax?”
  • Toby: “He couldn’t have made it a circle?”
• I was actually surprised that the writers touched on the Jim-Pam relationship as much as they did in this episode. I thought they were only going to make mention of it once, and only at the end of the episode, while playing the whole “Oh, we’re not together” angle throughout.
• What??? No Jim and Pam picking on Dwight today? Where was that?

All in all, I was very happy with today’s episode, and I’m really happy that there will be three more hour-long episodes coming up in the following weeks!

- In the BargainShare Fantasy Football league, I needed to avoid a big day from Drew Brees and Reggie Bush to win. Bush did his part to hurt me, but Brees had an abysmal game, and I held on. I’m now 2-1 in that league, but bad news for me: Rudi Johnson is out for the NE game!

In the other league in which I was 1-1, I needed a single point from Vince Young to win there. I’m now 2-1 there, but I have Rudi Johnson in that league too. As for the first of my two 0-2 teams, I rode Donovan McNabb and Brian Westbrook to an easy win, and now i’m 1-2 there. As for the other 0-2 league (aka the “LDT is letting me down” league), my opponent needed nine points from Drew Brees. So now I’m 1-2 there as well. Hopefully I can report four more wins next week :D.

As for actual football, here are my Week 3 thoughts:

1) Another week, another dominating Patriots win. Now they’re 3*-0, and facing a horrible Bengals defense next week. Fortunately, I don’t face Brady or Moss in any of my fantasy leagues next week!

2) What’s more surprising: the Packers at 3-0, or San Diego, Chicago, and Cincy at 1-2? And was that Brett Favre, circa 1997?

3) Didn’t you used to be the Chicago Bears’ D? Crap, my strategy of taking the Bears Defense/Special Teams early looks really bad right about now. And boy did Dallas look good last week! Looks like they’re the favorite to finish second to the Pats, Colts, or Steelers in this year’s Super Bowl.

4) Can we go back to calling New Orleans the ‘Aints? Boy was that a horrible performance, especially at home, and the loss of Deuce McAllister has to be crushing.

By the way, people can stop calling Reggie Bush a bust. No one ever said he was going to be a between-the-tackles, power rusher. Also, this is only his 19th regular season game! Give the guy a break!

At least people can stop with the “Mario Williams has more TDs than Reggie Bush has” comments.

5) How in the world did Indy (-6) NOT cover against Houston???

Next time, more thoughts about sports, but I’m getting tired. So I’ll end today’s blog with this:

- For your bloggers out there, have you ever seen URL-less spam among your blog comments? This is a must-read article about this not-so-new phenomenon, and the two points mentioned in the article make total sense to me.

I used to allow some of these URL-less spam comments, until I noticed that all of these comments were vague; they did not point to a particular subject covered in the blog entry in which these comments appeared. That’s when I figured that these comments were suspicious, and I began blocking them. I mean, why else would a spammy commenter leave an otherwise harmless comment on one’s blog?

Clever, eh?

Happy blogging!

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