2007 Freaks and Geeks Champion

After a tight final, I managed to take the Championship in my Freaks and Geeks league, 176-143. That's 2 Championships in 3 years (2005 and 2007). Congrats to all and sorry Paladins, your team peaked way too early (he was 11-0 before he lost a game and ended up 12-2 and in 4th place in the end).

Stormbringer 2007 Champion Yahoo Freaks and Geeks

Yeah, yeah, yeah...

Well, the holidays pretty much took me away from keeping up on my blog, so I will try to catch up on the highlights for now.

In Pinmasters, we, Outcasts, ended up on 6th place for the first half of the season. Our rivals, Split Happens is in 9th and th Shanks are in 14th out of 17 places. We done good...

I lost last week in my FF Paladins league so and mired in the Final 4 finish. At least I made it there! 12 team leagues are tough... In my Freaks and Geeks league I am in the final and have a strong chance to win the title as the number 1 seed got knocked off last week in a total upset! Right now I am predicted to win 150-118. We'll see...

The holidays are upon us like I said earlier so I would like to extend a very warm happy holidays and a joyous and safe new year to everyone!

I finally broke down and sold my flying V and am going to sell my ESP LTD soon (NOT the Phoenix) so I could buy -- this (artist rendition - not the actual guitar)... The 'Fender' Stormbringer.



I have the majority of the parts planned and/or on their way. The specs are:
Body: stratocaster, flamed maple cap on swamp ash, body contours, finished in bengal burst
Neck: canary fretboard on canary neck, reverse CBS headstock, no fret markers, skull and crossbones at the 12th
Pickups: EMG SA active pickups in black
Tremelo: Gotoh Wilkinson in black
Tuners: Schaller mini locking tuners in black

I can't wait!

FF Week 9

Great week for FF, I won both my important leagues (Paladin & Freaks and Geeks), pushing my records to 8-1 and 6-3 respectively (1st and 2nd in leagues). I had a couple of key players (Santonio Holmes, Joseph Addai, and Marshawn Lynch) come up real BIG. In Paladins, I have a relatively easy schedule the rest of the way and our leader in F&G faces a very tough opponent this week (Brunggers Bucs) without the aid of his Pats players. I won all my other leagues except for 1 keeping me in the race for the playoffs.

Colts vs. Pats

Well, I am going to buck most people by saying that I feel the Colts will beat the Pats with a score of 24-21 tomorrow. We'll see what happens. Regardless it should prove to be an exciting game and the MOST substantial game played in the NFL regular season for some time.

FF Week 8

Ah yes... 'Twas another week in FF. Did well in the Paladin league having won 100-62 to push me to 7-1 overall. In my Freaks and Geeks league, I got beat (barely) by a friend of mine who happened to have Addai and he put up very nice numbers. I am still 5-3 and in 2nd place in that league. My other leagues I won all but 1 and am in the playoff hunt in all of them, so all is good.

FF Week 7

Well, all good thing do come to an end... My undefeated season is no more, I had a couple of players NOT live up to their contractual obligations (heh) and let me down on my $$$ league (Paladin), so now I am 6-1 and still firmly locked into first place. And if it weren't for my opponent having Tom Brady and his 6 TD's, I would have pulled it out even with the lack of points by some of my players. In my Freaks and Geeks I had a strong showing, having picked up Kenny Watson (filling in for Rudi Johnson) and he had a huge day. So in the league I am 5-2 and firmly in second place. Trying to make a trade for Addai right now, which would help my cause for sure... In my other 5 leagues, I won all but 1 and pretty much in the thick of things and in place for a playoff berth in all of them. So far this season has been decent albeit pretty weird with all of the injuries to key players.

FF Week 6

Wow, what a FF week it was... My $ league (Paladin) saw me eek out a win 87-84 to stay undefeated (6-0) and remain the only undefeated team. I have a tough contest this week and should I win that, there is a chance to go undefeated all the way. Keep your fingers crossed! In my Freaks and Geeks league, I was down until Monday night when my 3 remaining players brought me a victory and push me to 4-2 and solid second place. Last week was tough for that team as I had to sit Peyton, Marvin, Dallas Clark, and Santonio Holmes. Having them back this week will be much appreciated. I had picked up Jason Wright (in for an injured Jamal Lewis) that helped me out a lot. Thanks Yahoo Fantasy Football guys on their live broadcasts Sunday morning...

FF Week 5

Well, I won 4 out of 6 this week - including staying undefeated un my $$ league (Paladin 2007). 3 of my Yahoo teams took Viagra awards and barely lost in my Freaks and Geeks league. In fact, I probably should have won if it weren't for a technicality in scoring that allowed my opponents D to outscore mine 3:1, even though my D way outplayed theirs. It came down to return yardage and that league is skewed real bad towards return yards vs. actually playing good defense (case in point, my D gave up less points, had 4 more turnovers, and the same sacks - but was outscored because of a 200 yds return vs. 90 yds return). Bah... At least I am still in the money, heh...

FF Week 4

My teams did great this week, won in both the $ league (Paladin 2007) and Freaks and Geeks. Still undefeated in Paladin (4-0) and now 3-1 in F&G. Won a second Viagra award for high score in F&G...

FF Last Week

Sorry, I forgot to post about last week in FF. I won in my two main leagues, making me 2-1 in Freaks and Geeks, and 3-0 in the Paladin 2007 league.

FF Week 2

I did real well the 2nd week of FF. My main Yahoo Team (Freaks and Geeks League) set a new league high point total with 250.03 points, led by Chad Johnson's 55 points and the Chicago Defense with 63 points. Overall the whole team did very well. In my Fanball league I also won, but by a much narrower margin. At this point I am 2-0 in my FB league and 1-1 in Yahoo...

FF

Well, Fantasy Football started real good this week, with Peyton having a great showing on Thursday, BUT, my potential season got hit when Brandon Jacobs went down yesterday with some sort of ailment. That is going to hit me hard on many teams I have, so hopefully it will be short lived as I need his projected TD count. Oh well, such is the world of FF, LOL...

Are you ready for some football?

I am! Football season starts tomorrow night with a bang! Colts vs. Saints, should be a total barn burner and has great implications on most of my fantasy teams (I either have Manning, Harrison, Wayne, or Addai on most of my teams).

Fantasy Football season

Well, once again, it is Fantasy Football (FF) season. I am in 5 leagues this year and 2 I think I have pretty strong teams. Drafted my yearly "Geeks and Freaks" team "Stormbringer" and did pretty well. I am real strong in the QB/WR arena having picked up Peyton Manning and Marvin Harrison (great duo). as well as Chad Johnson. My RBs are a little more suspect, but always possible to have a breakout (Edge and Brandon Jacobs). My typical starting lineup will be:

QB - Peyton Manning
WR - Marvin Harrison
WR - Chad Johnson
RB - Edgerrin James
RB - Brandon Jacobs
WR/RB - Santonio Holmes
TE - Dallas Clark
D - Chicago
K - Shayne Graham

My other decent team has the Bulger/Holt/Bruce combo and LJ for an RB, so I may have a decent chence there too. We'll see!