It's hard to write about a game where your opponent doesn't show up as this past weekend I won 119-53 over Static's Team Krapsody who had three players who didn't show up (two were out of the game and one just wasn't "in the game"). It doesn't make a great target.
photo by cliff1066™ on Flickr
Personally, I like a moving target.
Or then again (shuddering at Milli Vanilli's cousin here) maybe not.
Unfortunately, next week I don't get a moving target either as The Ramblers face The Eunuchs, who still have Tony Romo at QB. The last two weeks of the regular season, though, I face Bald Spots and La Machine. At least, they ought to make it interesting.
When your opponent is a deadbeat owner, you need to bring out the most powerful metal you can find to get hyped for another week of fantasy football.
It's Week 10 and the People's Champion known as Renal Failure gets to face Team Krapsody again. The last time these two team met, Renal Failure won 95-59 and Static was still interested in updating his lineup. A lot has changed since then as Static has pretty much given up on the season for reasons we don't know and don't care about while Renal Failure has toiled endlessly to turn around a disastrous half of the 2010 season to become, arguably, the most dangerous team in the HBFFL.
Sure, Tom Brady has been disappointing the last few weeks, but only the foolish underestimate the man who invented throwing bears into outer space. This man's career is based on getting revenge on the people who underestimated him. That's why he bangs Gisele Bundchen, because someone said he couldn't. We can't bring ourselves to bench him because you never know. Tennessee didn't know last year, and then BAM! 60 point day. The first bear in orbit since the Soviet Union shot a whole bunch of animals into space. Why did they do that? Because someone said they couldn't.
Cosmonaut doggie brought much pride and honor to the proletariat.
Now that that People have replenished their RB corps with Peyton Hillis and Brandon Jackson to complement Chris Johnson, the People now have the depth at RB that they thought they had when the year began with Ryan Grant, Pierre Thomas, and Clinton Portis before the three of them went down to injury.
And the People's WR collective is the envy of the league. Brandon Lloyd is a 100-yard game machine, Mike Williams of Tampa Bay has shown why Seattle's Mike Williams is known as "the other Mike Williams," Dwayne Bowe's been hot lately, and Hines Ward has veteran dependability. Chad Ochocinco is an emergency option, and Sidney Rice looks to be coming back for the last stretch of the season to provide yet another viable option at WR.
Ines Sainz only knows one thing... it is better to be Ines Sainz. Is Static Ines Sainz? No, he not. Neither is Scott Baio Ines Sainz.
With Static not taking out injured Joseph Addai, bye week Antonio Gates, and bye week Garrett Hartley, we're looking at another Renal Failure victory here. When you don't switch out three starters from your lineup, it's pretty much a forfeit, so we'll forgo the usual insights on the match-up and just rely on the blogger's crutch: that being internet videos.
When getting back to a .500 record, it's important to be well lubricated.
___________________________________________________________ Renal Failure won in all four of our leagues last week. First time all season we've done that.
We win! We win! Computer duster whippets for everyone!
Renal Failure avoids falling into a tie for last place by defeating the last place team, Bex's Battling Butterflies, 90-70. And despite the meager numbers put up by Tom Brady (18pts) and the horrid day by Hines Ward (1pt), your People's Champion is walking on sunshine.
Brandon Lloyd threw a bear into space with a 27pt day vs. the Niners, Jason Witten is turning his season around now that Tony Romo is out of the lineup by netting his second double-digit point day in a row (15pts), and Chris Johnson put up a respectable 13pts for the People to make up for not doing jack last week for us. Dwayne Bowe salvaged a light receiving day with a TD to get 7pts for the People.
Brandon Lloyd asks an uncaring God why his Denver Broncos are 2-6, and why Renal Failure is 3-5. But God does not answer his pleas, because God is too busy watching Japanese porn.
Bex's lineup put up surprising numbers with their non-featured running back corps of Mike Tolbert (14pts) and Michael Bush (16pts). Greg Jennings got 8pts vs. a tough Jets defense. Carson Palmer put 20pts vs. the Dolphins, though most of those points came in the first half. Bex also forgot to put in the Tennessee Defense instead of the bye week Philadelphia Eagles, but they only scored 7pts so their contribution wouldn't have mattered, nor would starting Vince Young (24pts) instead of Carson Palmer.
But we weren't the only team who got away with an absentee owner syndrome win. Joe and the Bourbon Blasters got a boost from Team Krapsody forgetting to field a quarterback and a flex player. Danny Woodhead and his 11 points sat on Static's bench. If Static had picked up Matt Stafford, who put up 40 vs. Washington, to replace bye week Joe Flacco and Kevin Kolb, victory would have been his.
Sorry, but he's in the employ of Renal Failure now...
More egregious was What the Canuck? getting a free ride vs. Don's Eunuchs. Don didn't swap out the injured Tony Romo, nor did he replace bye week-having Hakeem Nicks and Michael Turner either. Worse was that pretty much everyone on Don's bench was on a bye week, so the only possible way for Don to have had a chance in this game was a complete free-agent revamp of his lineup, which would have required him to actually sign into Yahoo! and tinker with his roster.
Anyway... Bex will not get another shot at the People's Champion in 2010, as this was the two teams' sole game vs. each other. But both teams could go undefeated for the rest of the season and make it to the playoffs, perhaps to meet each other again either in the semi-finals or the finals. We've seen stranger things...
What has been seen cannot be unseen... even if you don't understand it. And there isn't enough context in the world to make any sense of this.
Also, the People would like to announce a trade that was finalized after Sunday's games. Renal Failure sends QB Eli Manning and TE Marcedes Lewis to La Machine for RB Peyton Hillis and TE Brandon Pettigrew. This move gives La Machine some insurance at QB now that Alex Smith is out of action with an injury and The People's Champion gets the highly productive Hillis (104 fantasy points for a horrid Cleveland Browns team) who has been wallowing (undeservedly) on Chris's bench behind LeSean McCoy, Cedric Benson, Ray Rice, and Marshawn Lynch. The People hope this returns the vaunted 1-2 RB punch that has defined past Renal Failure teams but has been absent this season due to losing Ryan Grant in Week One.
Week 9 sees Renal Failure take on The Ramblers who are in a three-way jam for first place with the Bald Spots and Bourbon Blasters. We'll have our preview later in the week on how the People will screw things up for the Ramblers' ambitions to sit atop the HBFFL standings.
___________________________________________________________ Renal Failure is glad they actually got to trade Eli Manning this season, after no one would take him off our hands in '09.
