A Fantasy Weekend

I know that most of the content produced and published on this little corner of the interwebs usually revolves around a) climbing, b) hiking, c) beer or d) food, but i have to admit that we did none of a) and b) this past weekend, but instead enjoyed c) and d) with the addition of e)football viewing and f) fantasy sports.

Liz and i both got rolled in the fantasy baseball playoffs as of Sunday, liz by her eldest brother Jesse, and me by our friend Anne who would not be playing if not for me goading her into joining up.  (whoops)  So, now team blocksma is playing each other for the title of 5th place, and it's official:  i don't really have to care about baseball for another three weeks until the playoffs start.  Especially considering that the Rockies are a large pile of underachievement, and the Tigers are nowhere close to being considered for a wild card berth - football now wins my heart. 

Of course, the weekends begin with Spartan Football on Saturday mornings (I heart the Big Ten Network), and this past weekend was a much more palatable beatdown on Eastern Michigan - but this weekend promises a more interesting game against the Owls of FAU.  I have no doubt that it will be a good game, certainly closer than last weekends, but i would hope that the green and white will be able to handle them.  

And then, come Sunday, the NFL games are reminding me how much fun the fantasy football season is.  Last year was the first time i had ever played, and enjoyed it enough to play in three leagues this season and even convince liz to play as well!  I went 2-1 for week 1 (no thanks to Dwight owning Micheal Turner, who in turn owned the Lion's defense for two hundred yards and two TD's...  also because my Braylon Edwards couldn't catch a cold.)  and Liz lost her little Tom Brady (her first round draft pick) for the season 15 minutes into the Pats game.  I personally feel conflicted about how that happened, while i detest Brady and his UofM patronage, i did encourage liz to pick him up.  doh well.

So, yeah, nothing really of value here.  I'm sure that it will happen again, though, so apologies in advance.  :)  (and if you would like to get my personal commentary of a breakout of my team's makeups.. well...  that will most likely happen too.  heh.)