More Stupid Neighbors, Shot-Online Update, And My Week Four (Fantasy) Football Thoughts
No quick-hitters tonight.
- So as my loyal readers (all none of you) know, I’ve got idiot neighbors. The neighbors upstairs, though, are especially rude and inconsiderate. Everyone up there seems to enjoy constantly running around their condo with absolutely no regards for us downstairs. I used to wonder if there were nine or ten people in that condo, or if the residents there were just all really…um…lead-footed?
Well, according to my sister, part of the reason why they are so noisy is because there are at least TWO families that share the condo! Additionally, my sister, being awfully gratuitous, pointed out that several of them are…well…lead-footed?
(Hank—where are you???—might dub some of them “heroically portly.”)
Form your own conclusions; I am just speaking the truth! Wouldn’t YOU get riled up about being forced awake at 5:30AM to hear what sounds like the National Jume Rope Competition going on upstairs?
- Shot-Online update: I made it! I am now a Semi-Pro—thanks to a -8 on Gladsheim—and I absolutely LOATH it.
I hate losing EXP just for making bogeys. I hate the Pro courses! Can I go back to being an amateur? 
So, because only I care about how I got to Semi-Pro, here’s a brief recap of my Gladsheim round:
- Birdie on 1 (-1)
- Lip-out for birdie on 2
- Birdie on 3 (-2)
- A medium-length (3-7yd; the hardest putt to make consistently) double-breaker par save on 4
- A similar par save on 7
- Another birdie somewhere between 3 and 7 (-3)
- Chip-in birdie on 8 (-4)
- Birdie on 9 (-5)
And then…
- A 2yd putt for par broke unexpectedly, and rolled 4yd back. A tough putt for bogey kept me at -4
- Pars on 11-13
- Birdie on 14 (-5)
- Par on the toughest hole on the course (IMO): 15
- Birdie on 16 (-6)
- Thinking I needed “insurance,” I made birdie on 17 (-7)
- Birdie on 18 (-8)
Further proof that I’m a Shot-Online dork, right?
- Reason #9080329483242342 why I hate Fantasy Football:
My sister somehow blonded (please save the hate mail!) her way to a 2-2 record, while I’m 1-3 in one league and 1-2-1 (I absolutely stole a tie against a 3-0 team, thanks to Pittsburgh’s DST) in the other.
It’s not fair!
Amazingly enough, Le’Ron McClain was available as a FA in both of my leagues, as well as popular pickups as Lance Moore (WR - NO), Steve Slaton (RB - HOU), and Muhsin Muhammed (WR - CAR).
Hopefully this is the week teams start quitting, so I can start rallying towards respectability
Other, non-fantasy, football thoughts:
- No, the big story of the weekend was not T.O. remembering that he is T.O. It was not the whole Al Davis-Lane Kiffin ordeal.
Tampa Bay K Matt Bryant playing one day after burying his infant son has to be the story of the week, if not the entire NFL season:
“The biggest thing for me, I wanted to honor [son] Tryson’s name,” Bryant said. “I mean, I don’t think it was very fair for his life to end so short. This is the best way I believe I could get out and honor him. I miss him and wish he was here, but he was here with me. He helped out.”
Prayers go out to the Bryant family.
That being said…
- Thank you, T.O., for remembering that you, not Tony Romo, are the most compelling figure on the Dallas Cowboys’ roster. Seriously, complaining that you weren’t involved enough in the offense? By everyone’s count, you were involved in 20 of 58 plays, or over 1/3 of all the Cowboys’ offensive plays!
Should we expect to see T.O. lined up as QB and/or RB sometime next week?
(And nice job, T.O., giving absolutely no credit to Washington DB Shawn Springs, who was in your back pocket all day.)
- Boy…what to make of the entire Al Davis/Lane Kiffen situation? I certainly don’t know all of the facts, but if anyone has a case against the other, it’s Kiffen for everything Davis has done to him! Remember the resignation letter Davis drafted for Kiffen to sign?
I sincerely hope Kiffen gets the money left over on his contract. Should this be his one and only NFL contract, I’m sure he wouldn’t mind having to “settle” for a college football job.
Also, who the hell would want the Raiders’ coaching job, after this entire episode?
- Ninety-one points combined for Arizona and New York (Bretts)? Crazy.
And I guess the “Greatest [QB] of All Time” can still play.
(Yes, that remark was made tongue in cheek.)
- Speaking of Diva Favre…are Packers fans seriously panicking now that the Packers are 2-2 and Aaron Rodgers might be hurt.
I sense that Diva Favre is quietly celebrating by himself right now.
- I hear there are plenty of job openings available in Pittsburgh’s backfield.
- With Kansas City out of the picture, that leaves my Rams as the only team winless.
The fact that they came from ahead to lose to Buffalo gives me hope!
- I guess Chicago’s defense is for real. Same with Pittsburgh. I guess Buffalo is really for real. I guess L.T. is just fine. And is Carolina for real?
Until next time!