DFL 2013 Week 12: It's like unicorns are exploding into rainbows...

Beautiful.  This week was just beautiful.  Not only did my winning streak continue this week, but Terri lost, which popped me squarely into second place.  And, though Skoot didn't lose because he had his Kookie BYE, *I* would have beaten him, had we played (which, I really haven't been able to say all that many times this year).  And as an added bonuc, Crutch shit his pants in the pick'em league, keeping it a tight race.  How's that make me feel?  Tell 'em, Dennis:

Kudos if you get why I called him Dennis.

So, let's get into it with the pick'ems.  Ben and Skoot lead the way going 4-2.  Phil and Terri are next with a 3-3 performance.  And Crutch and Mike G shit the bed with 2-4.  (OK, technically, RA is the playing the part of the Golgathan going 0-1. Pro tip for you, RA Dave: This season is not the season to be putting all of the eggs in the RA Dave basket.  Though to be fair, that game (McClennen vs RA Dave) was split right down the middle on the picks.)  The ass face this week was Patrick who somehow managed to pull off a win against Terri.  And let me just say that I'd be glad to take a strike on voting for Terri every week from here on out...

So, that leaves Crutch still in 1st place (with a greatly diminished lead of only 2 now), Ben and Skoot in second place, and Phil and Terri hanging in 4th place.  Keep 'em coming, boys!  This year it's coming down to the wire.

Yeah, people can even make one of the best television series in history nerdy.  Deal with it...

I'm gonna keep this relatively short this week, as it's Thanksgiving week and that comes with some accoutrement (work deadlines before the break, crazy cleaning in anticipation of family arriving, starting the next book of Game Of Thrones... you know, I'm swamped).  Y'all're busy people too, so I think that a short write up will be a point in the "What are you thankful for?" conversation anyways.

Crutch vs Phil (D&D Bowl, Baby!)
This was a tight one. I had a total of 0 points on my bench due to injury and a shit ton oe BYE weeks.  I had to pick up Big Ben to fill in for the injured Rodgers and Curtch's Phil Rivers went gangbusters.  *IN* freaking Kansas City.  WTF, fate?  Not cool to make this one come down to Monday night.  Anyways...

Phil pulls in potentially his first lineup Nirvana award.  And that's sad when I have a starter with 0.08 points, another with 1.5 and yet another with 3.  Eesh.  Maybe I'll just take the lucky bastard award too.

Crtuch walks away with the manic-depressive mantle.  Of his 9 starters, 4 of them scored less than 5 points.  3 more also didn't hit double digits.  So, It was all Rivers and Houston to keep this one close.

RA Dave vs McClennen (The Well, someone's gotta win Bowl)
This was a pretty bad game.  On one corner  you've got RA Dave who has hands down the most moves of all, but just can't find t he right player.  In the other corner, McClennen hasn't changed his line up in like a month.

RA Dave, I give you the Robert Evans medal of freedom.  Dude just doesn't know how to quit.  The thing that's really gotta hurt here is that if he had started Danny Woodhead in any of the possible positions he could have, it would have changed the game from losing by less than 2 points to a 10+ point blow out.

McClennen - No, I was wrong... *You* get the lucky bastard award.  Somehow you still managed to pull out a win, even though 4 players pulled in goose eggs (2 players just shut out, 1 empty slot, and another on BYE).  Yes, Ben, it looks like he's going to get into the playoffs....

Ben vs Missy (The Let's keep it close bowl)
Valiant scores on both sides of the scoreboard and a game within a point and a half?  Rah!

Ben - You get the fucking finally award.  Here's a pic:

Don't worry.  Allie and I are tight.  She'd be proud that her work  made it into the write up.

So, yeah.  This is what it feels like to beat fully 3/4 of the league with your score and actually be playing one of those teams.  Enjoy the feeling.  It feels good, dunnit?

Missy gets the "Who needs a QB?" trophy for having her QB barely being on the top half of the scores on her team. As a side note, how does a pass heavy team like Indy rack up 40 points and their QB pulls in less than 10??

Patrick vs Terri (The upset bowl)
Everyone picked Missy to walk away with this easily.  And I mean everyone.  Pat's Mom called me to say that she didn't have faith that her son was going to put this one away.  But you know what?  That's precisely how he do.

Patrick gets the "Just be quiet and do your job" gold watch for not doing anything particularly well, bust just waiting for his opponent to screw up.  Well done, sir.

Terri, whose feet were up nonchalantly thumbing through a magazine, only said "Oh, I'm sorry... Were we playing a game this week?  I was just waiting until the playoffs started."  She's the one to beat, fellas.

Melanie versus Mike G (The middle of the pack bowl)
Not a lot going on here. a 5-6 team versus a 6-5 team, and them both coming out of the match up with a 6-6 record.

Melanie and Mike G both get the sticking to your guns award.  Melanie for not dropping a player to pick up a substitute kicker (but I mean, could *you* part with Kris Durham?) and Mike G for sticking with RG3.  Damn, man.  You've got Foles.  Use him.  RG3's sophomore slump surely won't end before the end of the year.

Skoot vs Kookie (The Yeah, no surprises here bowl.)
First versus last.  And it came out as expected.  Well, not exactly.  Skoot had 2 players benched at the last minute and another go negative.  Eesh.

Skoot - you get this:

And Kookie - you got this:

And that's about it for me for now.  Time for a few last minute chores before Thanksgiving.  Also, congratulations go to the league... only 1 trade this year before the trade deadline. Though to be fair, Mike G did make me an offer I could refuse.   Which I did.  (And I still stand by it.)