By process of elimination, I must be the Phlogistons... that was my guess all along, though. My original idea last year was to be the "Clouds of Latent Phlogiston," which sadly wouldn't fit; I settled on the Fightin's instead because I thought it fit the motif established by AW's team, the Gashouse Gorillas.
Congrats to Mr. Mayor on last week's matchup - I don't feel like things have really been clicking for my team lately, but with the kind of numbers you put up I don't think I would have fared much better even if they were. 3-6-1 is about the best I could have hoped for on a good week. Also, a rather belated "good match" to the Cheddar Crooks, whom I faced (and somehow miraculously beat) the week before. I'm not sure how much your stats actually benefited that week from picking up Wandy Rodriguez and Ryan Dempster, but they were both smart moves that I had been intending to make myself before you beat me to them. Touché, sir.
Considering the state of my team over the last couple of weeks, I feel lucky that I've even managed to break even, and luckier still that that's been good enough to hang onto a piece of first place. A couple other people here have drawn parallels between their fantasy teams and their real-life hometown teams; I'm seeing some between the Phlogistons and my Braves. Both barraged with injuries out of the gate, both managing to keep our heads above water, crossing our fingers that it can hold up until we're at something remotely resembling 100%, that nobody else jumps too far out in front beforehand. At least in fantasyland the rosters are fluid enough to nuke the pitching staff from orbit and start over when the need arises.
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Topic: Pretend Sports '08 - This Time, Its Personal! (Read 42442 times)