DFL Week 8: This is stupid and I hate it...

Seriously???  Another week and another loss?  And to Missy of all people!  Ugghhh...  This madness stops next week!!  But maybe I'm getting ahead of myself.

First off, sorry for the late updates this week.  Halloween ran pretty late this year, so I didn't get back home until after 9.  So, once again, I write away while the Thursday night game plays on in the background....

And just a little interlude before we get into the good stuff.  So, while a majority of the traffic is coming from Windows (which kinda makes sense, I do check in a lot...), fully 15% of the page views are coming from an iPad.  So, hosers, fess up.  Who's checking the blog from Starbucks on your iPad?  Cuz you know that you're a stereotype, right? :-)

Interlude part 2:  Did you know that when you offer someone a trade in this league, they aren't automatically notified?  Cuz I sure didn't!  Oddly enough, once the person rejects the trade you sure as hell get notified.  So, word to the wise, if you're interested in trading, keep the email addresses handy.  (Yes, I was involved with no less than 4 trade negotiations last week.  They all fell through.  I'm thinking next week is really when things will heat up...)

OK, no more non-sense.  On to the important issues of the day!  No, not the presidential election.  I'm talking real news!!  That's right, time to look at the updates to our fake game and the fake games that surround it.

First off, since this will be the penultimate update on it, we are looking at the elimination league.  Joy takes her first strike in week 8, which makes the race dead even between Ben and Joy, at one strike apiece.  Joy is taking a big risk in week 9 by not actually making a pick.  We'll see how that works out.  If Ben (and 35% of the people playing across Yahoo!) are wrong, then we'll have a tie in week 9.  Otherwise, Ben's going to be taking home his first trophy in quite some time.

And speaking of first trophy in quite some time, how about the pick'em league?  Kookie, much to everyone's chagrin, is still tearing it up.  IN fact, two others went 5-1 this week: RA Dave and Crutch. Congrats, guys.  And stop picking so well!!  'm gettiner nervously close to dropping out of contention for the gold here.  And Mike G just peed his pants this week, bottoming out at 1-5.  (Oddly, his wife, Terri G only did slightly better at 2-4.  Are we getting into mid-season collusion here?  :-) )  So, Kookie still has the top slot, followed by Phil, and then Crutch.  Though, Ben, Mike G, and Terri G are nipping at medal contention themselves....

And *now* we bring the pain.  I'll keep it brief tonight since I'm still recovering from All Hallow's Eve, but sufficed to say that we are squarely in Nonsenseville.

Phil vs Missy:
Certainly line up Nirvana for Phil, but seriously Manning?  You could only do as well as the kicker from St Louis?  For shame...
Missy - Totally lucked out with Crabtree.  I can imagine that's going to happen ever again.  Though, maybe... maybe Karma saw that Fucking Romo was cut and its looking for a new enemy...  CRABTREE!!!!!

Ben vs. Kookie
Holy hell, Kookie!!  Where have you been hiding this team?  O wait, Freeman got a lucky game, and Tynes (*that's* how Mannning did so crappily...), and Graham.  You didn't so much win this as you made a pact with a dark power.  I'm calling it now.
Ben... may losing always sucks.  But so much worse when the victor is Kookie.  Even worse when you QB alone pulls in more points than your WR, RBs, and DEF combined....

Melanie vs Mike G
Only big this to talk about here is Doug Marting pulling down 27 points and Charles only pulling in 3.  Did not see that coming!
OK, I guess also noteworthy is that RG3 was kept under 10 points...  But maybe the rookie is getting tired halfway through the season playing with the big boys.  Which brings us to.....

Terri G vs Patrick.
Wow Terri... 44 points.  What happened?  (Though thank you for pulling in half of the pick 'em votes.)
And Patrick... how could you have NOT given the smackdown of the week this week?  Perfect set!!!  O right, cuz the smackdown of the week was from:

Skoot vs. Crutch
Fifty freaking nine point smackdown.  LEt me say that again.  A record 59 point smack down from Crutch to Skoot.  (Though Crutch don't feel powerful.  Skoot's admittedly crappy team was down its two top scorers this week.)
And how the *hell* did you get the Miami defense to put up 27 points???  O right... they were playing Sanchez....

Joy vs RA Dave
53 points.  That is how many points their combined TEs got.  That is more than Terri's entire team got this week.  That is close to Mike and Skoot's entire team score.  So, you two are very welcome for makig you start TEs.  I expect presents at the end of the season.