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Detroit Lions - Scumbag of the Week

This week's "Scumbag of the Week" Award goes to Damien Woody.  Woody, who's fat ass is sitting on injured reserve, is being sued by a woman who claims that Woody broke up her engagement, and wanted to marry her himself.  Fine.  One issue - he's already married with kids.  She claims a bunch of other stuff.  Some may be horsecrap, but where theres smoke, theres fire.  Read more, courtesy of the Detroit News:
Damien Woody Story

Some character guys the Lions have:
Chuck Rogers - Pot
Mike Williams - Pillow time more important than playing time
Big Baby Shaun Rogers - Steroids
Kennoy Kennedy - Drunk Driving

This team is a royal mess.  Where is the discipline?  These are all selfish and stupid acts, and just a few prime examples of  why  Rod's Squad has  one  win.

My Fantasy Basketball Team - Keepers

Our Fantasy Basketball draft won't start until after the first week of the season.  Why?  I dunno - guess the commissioner was quite lazy.  Like football, we'll have a ton of players.  Here are my five keepers from last season's  squad.  Meet the core five of the Brass Ballas:
Shaquille O'Neal
Kobe Bryant
Tracy McGrady
Carmelo Anthony
Dwight Howard

It was hard to leave off players like Yao Ming, Jason Richardson, Baron Davis, Ben Gordon, etc.  However, we have a Cuban boatload of roster spots.  My draft is a week from Sunday, so I'll introduce the squad shortly thereafter.  Let's go T Mac!

My Fantasy Football Team - Week 8

                                                                                                                             

Position	Player	Team
QB	Phillip Rivers	Chargers
QB	Vince Young	Titans
WR	Chad Johnson	Bengals
WR	Marvin Harrison	Colts
WR	Plaxico Burress	Giants
RB	DeShaun Foster	Panthers
RB	Thomas Jones	Bears
TE	Heath Miller	Steelers
W/T	Muhsin Muhammad	Bears
W/R	Corey Dillon	Patriots
K	Nate Kaeding	Chargers
D	Philadelphia	Eagles
Bench	Julius Jones	Cowboys
Bench	Lamont Jordan	Raiders
Bench	Ronnie Brown	Dolphins
Bench	DeAngelo Williams	Panthers
Bench	Kevin Jones	Lions
Bench	Chad Pennington	Jets
Bench	Mike Vick	Falcons
Bench	Peyton Manning	Colts

What, am I crazy?  I'm benching Peyton Manning for Vince Young.  Uh, and I'm leaving Mike Vick on the bench.  Yeah, that's not so bright.  However, Rivers and Young have good matchups, and I like the matchup of Pennington against the Brown-eyes.  Corey Dillon and DeShaun Foster both crack my starting lineups due to the dreaded bye week.

Happy to welcome Plaxico Burress and the aforementioned Chad Pennington to the Grand Rapids Chumps.  I traded a former USC QB for them, and I had to cut Mike Furrey from the Chumps before he had ever played a down.  I think Burress was the piece I was looking for - he allowed me to cut Joey Galloway as well and pick up Mike Vick.

Good luck, Chumps.  It is going to be a tough week.

Buck Sucks

Is someone looking into this?  The damn Cardinals announcer and stupid former catcher get call the World Series.  Equal time - put Mario and Rod on for Games 3 and 4 if McCarver and Joe Francis Buck do Games 1 & 2.  Friggin' bias, man.  I don't like it.

Furthermore, I'm tired of listening to Buck talk about how cold it is.  It's Detroit.  It's not Florida or California - of course it's going to be cold.

My Fantasy Football Team - Week 7

                                                                                                                             

Position	Player	Team
QB	Peyton Manning	Colts
QB	Phillip Rivers	Chargers
WR	Joey Galloway	Buccaneers
WR	Chad Johnson	Bengals
WR	Marvin Harrison	Colts
RB	Julius Jones	Cowboys
RB	Ronnie Brown	Dolphins
TE	Heath Miller	Steelers
W/T	Mike Furrey	Lions
W/R	DeShaun Foster	Panthers
K	Nate Kaeding	Chargers
D	Atlanta	Falcons
Bench	Muhsin Muhammad	Bears
Bench	DeAngelo Williams	Panthers
Bench	Kevin Jones	Lions
Bench	Corey Dillon	Patriots
Bench	Thomas Jones	Bears
Bench	Lamont Jordan	Raiders
Bench	Matt Leinart	Cardinals
Bench	Vince Young	Titans

One damn win.  I have tons of talent, and week after week I get my ass handed to me.  Maybe this is the week that the GR Chumps turn things around.  Let's go, Chumps!!!

Mike Furrey joins the lineup as he's been a productive member of the Lions so far this season.  Maybe he'll be the spark that we need down the stretch.  This is his one-week tryout. 

My fingers smell

Ever smell your fingers?  Of course.  Ever smell mine?  Not too often.  I hope.  I just got back from Buffalo Wild Wings, and my fingers smell like garlic.  Tasty garlic sauce.  Today is 50 cent leg day, and I had six - two Caribbean Jerk, two Asian Zing and two Spicy Garlic (the Jay's favorite).  I was meeting D Grimes for a Detroit Lions ticket exchange.  I won't be in pocket for the Lions game against the Falcons, so DG is taking them.  He had wings.  Bone-in.

Played a little trivia at the bar tonight.  Did you know the first animal is space was a dog?  I thought that it was a monkey.  Nope, the Russians sent a dog into space.  No word if the dog had Tang, or even made it back alive.

Whenever I think of BW's sauce, I always think of the time at Mike "The Don" Donnelly's cottage in Pentwater.  We made Spanish Rice for a cookout, and I added a bit too much Blazin' sauce to the rice.  It was like eating fire with a hot poker sticking directly in an eye socket.

That rice was so hot, people couldn't cope.  Today, if I ate food coated in Blazin' Sauce, I'd cry like a girl with a skinned knee.  Much like my alcohol tolerance, my "spicy" tolerance has been shot in the backside.

Tigers Sweep, or No Game for Jay

When I got home from Italy, and my secretary told me that she had Detroit Tigers ALCS Game 5 tickets for me, I was stunned.  Surprised and excited, I soon realized that I had a small moral quandry - the Tigs would have to lose a game in order for the ALCS series against the Oakland A's to force a Game 5.

Well, at the end of the first inning, it sure looked as if Sharon and I would be en route to Comerica Park on Sunday.  Down 2-0, the Tigers would later go down 3-0 when Jay (no relation) Payton belted a solo home run.

Enter, Huston Street.  The Oakland Closer did not earn his $400,000 salary last night.  He gave up three runs and took the loss for the A's.

Magglio Ordonez made sure that Sharon and I would not be heading to the fifth game of the series today, by belting a 3-run homer that ended the game in the bottom of the 9th inning.  He, unlike Street, earned every penny of his $16,000,000 salary.  He may also get Little Ceasars pizza for life (Crazy Bread at a significant discount as well).

While the Mets and Cardinals face off this week, the Tigers pitchers can rest, the position players can also relax until Game 1 of the World Series this upcoming Saturday.

I just want to type this, because I still have a hard time believing it - The Detroit Tigers will be hosting Game 1 of the World Series this Saturday. 

Wow, that is a wonderul sentence to behold.

My Fantasy Football Team - Week 6

                                                                                                                             

Position	Player	Team
QB	Phillip Rivers	Chargers
QB	Vince Young	Titan
WR	Derrick Mason	Ravens
WR	Muhsin Muhammad	Bears
WR	Joey Galloway	Buccaneers
RB	Julius Jones	Cowboys
RB	Ronnie Brown	Dolphins
TE	Heath Miller	Steelers
W/T	Chad Johnson	Bengals
W/R	Thomas Jones	Bears
K	Nate Kaeding	Chargers
D	Indianapolis	Colts
Bench	Marvin Harrison	Colts
Bench	Matt Leinart	Cardinals
Bench	DeShaun Foster	Panthers
Bench	DeAngelo Williams	Panthers
Bench	Corey Dillon	Patriots
Bench	Kevin Jones	Lions
Bench	Lamont Jordan	Raiders
Bench	Peyton Manning	Colts

The Duante Culpepper experiment is over.  He's hit the bricks and has been replaced with Phillip Rivers.  I thought about starting Matt Leinart today, until I saw he's going against the vaunted Chicago Bears defense.  Uh, no thanks rookie.  Rivers and the Chargers face the 49ers today.  The 49ers are playing better this year than last, but they ain't the Bears.

The projection of points in my fantasy football league shows I'll win by two-hundredths of a point.  I like those odds.  Maybe Vince Young will go crazy today, and I can win by a few more points than that.

Can't sleep

I'm so excited to go home today, that I can't sleep.  I've been up for a while now listening to Howard Stern and watching the ESPN Gamecast of the Tigers & A's game here in the lovely Holiday Inn in Frankfurt, Germany.

Here is a photo of my super-fancy Executive closet at the Holiday Inn.

Below are screen shots of what I've been doing to keep myself occupied until my shuttle shows up at 7:00 AM.

Then, it's off to Terminal 2 at the Frankfurt Airport and off to Detroit.

See you on the other side

Greetings from the Holiday Inn in Frankfurt, Germany.  I'm friggin' tired, and just had my traditional steak.  Tasty piece of cow, and had a liter of water and a little bottle (.2 liter) of Pepsi.

Tomorrow, I fly to Detroit and then to Grand Rapids.  I cannot wait to hit American soil.