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Time changes in about 15 minutes.

Kids with cell phones drive me nuts. In their defense though, I never thought I would get one, but I did. It sounds funny saying that though, because I ended up getting one all the way back in 1996. Also, I said I would never get a fancy one that had internet, but here I am with a fairly new phone (got it a few months back), and use the net to check scores and such every day.

My phone wont come to the dinner table though. I find it highly disrespectful, and don't like when my wife's former step daughter comes over and and is on hers the entire time. Doesn't matter if we are watching a movie, eating dinner, or playing a game as a family.... Text messages are constant. I don't approve of it, but my wife is okay with it (probably why the kid is that way now that she is a teenager), so she is allowed to do it.

Sun, NOV 7

NY Jets at Detroit

Miami at Baltimore

New England at Cleveland

San Diego at Houston

Chicago at Buffalo

Arizona at Minnesota

Tampa Bay at Atlanta

New Orleans at Carolina

NY Giants at Seattle

Indianapolis at Philadelphia

Kansas City at Oakland

Dallas at Green Bay

Mon, NOV 8

Pittsburgh at Cincinnati

27-24 (51)

This week sucked.

I didn't watch a single game today. Luckily the Bears didn't play, so I didn't have to watch them suck either.

Sun, OCT 31

Denver at San Francisco

Jacksonville at Dallas

Miami at Cincinnati

Buffalo at Kansas City

Washington at Detroit

Carolina at St. Louis

Green Bay at NY Jets

Tennessee at San Diego

Minnesota at New England

Tampa Bay at Arizona

Seattle at Oakland

Pittsburgh at New Orleans

MON, NOV 1

Houston at Indianapolis

Indy 27 - Houston 24= 51

I get the feeling that this is one of those weeks that I will either get 12 right, or 3 right... No in between...

What gets me is that I have had a pretty solid year so far, yet had I actually picked in week one (wasn't around much that week, and didn't notice the thread til it was to late) I would have had to go 12-4 to equal what DOT's record is for the year... And Dylan is just 1 win behind that... You guys are doing great.

Percentage wise, I would be in 3rd right now, so I feel kinda good about that.

Holy crap. I really must not pay attention to who I pick. I really felt I had a below .500 week.

lol

I am ok with being wrong. I had just forgotten that I had changed it until you said something...

It's been a horrible week for picks.

Heck, I thought I picked the Bengals.... Had to go back and check after I saw what Dylan said... I know Bengals was my original pick, but sometimes my gut tells my brain it's wrong, and I change it... lol Must have been one of those times... :)

Guys I had let Andy know he forgot to underline a choice for the NE @ SD game. He PMed me and let me know he's chosen the Patriots.

Is it cool if I entered this pick, or should I leave it as a blank?

Should be no issue there. You let me enter the MNF score late last week. I mean, the game had not yet started at the time you posted it anyway...

Sun, OCT 24

Cincinnati at Atlanta

Pittsburgh at Miami

Buffalo at Baltimore

Jacksonville at Kansas City

Cleveland at New Orleans

Washington at Chicago

San Francisco at Carolina

St. Louis at Tampa Bay

Philadelphia at Tennessee

Arizona at Seattle

New England at San Diego

Oakland at Denver

Minnesota at Green Bay

MON, OCT 25

NY Giants at Dallas

27-14=41

Good picks man!

Thanks Dylan.

Man, I did better than I thought I would. :)

I'll add it in to a separate post so there is no question that I didn't edit the original after the early games are already played. Thanks guys.

Here it is:

27-17 = 44

I guess I forgot the Monday night score. Oh well. The way things look at a quick glance, I am having another lousy week anyway.

Sun, OCT 17

Miami at Green Bay

San Diego at St. Louis

Baltimore at New England

Cleveland at Pittsburgh

Kansas City at Houston

Detroit at NY Giants

Atlanta at Philadelphia

Seattle at Chicago

New Orleans at Tampa Bay

NY Jets at Denver

Oakland at San Francisco

Dallas at Minnesota

Indianapolis at Washington

MON, OCT 18

Tennessee at Jacksonville

Sun, OCT 10

Jacksonville at Buffalo

Denver at Baltimore

Kansas City at Indianapolis

Green Bay at Washington

St. Louis at Detroit

Chicago at Carolina

Tampa Bay at Cincinnati

Atlanta at Cleveland

NY Giants at Houston

New Orleans at Arizona

Tennessee at Dallas

San Diego at Oakland

Philadelphia at San Francisco

MON, OCT 11

Minnesota at NY Jets

Jets: 31

Vikes: 17

Total: 48

Yup, I crashed hard this weekend.

Sun, OCT 3

NY Jets at Buffalo

Cincinnati at Cleveland

Baltimore at Pittsburgh

Denver at Tennessee

Detroit at Green Bay

San Francisco at Atlanta

Carolina at New Orleans

Seattle at St. Louis

Indianapolis at Jacksonville

Houston at Oakland

Washington at Philadelphia

Arizona at San Diego

Chicago at NY Giants

MON, OCT 4

New England at Miami

With the Bears win, I go 10-6. I'll take it.

Add that to my 11-5 record last week, and I am surprising myself with how well I have done.

I am expecting to crash and burn any day now. lol

I'll take 11-5. I actually felt it was an easy week to pick, so we will see how I do this time around...

Tennessee at NY Giants

Pittsburgh at Tampa Bay

Cincinnati at Carolina

Cleveland at Baltimore

Dallas at Houston

San Francisco at Kansas City

Detroit at Minnesota Detroit has looked decent, and Minnesota has looked average at best.

Buffalo at New England

Atlanta at New Orleans

Washington at St. Louis

Philadelphia at Jacksonville

Oakland at Arizona

San Diego at Seattle

Indianapolis at Denver

NY Jets at Miami

MON, SEP 27

Green Bay at Chicago 32-27 (59) Total homer pick, since I expect it to be wrong... lol

EDIT: Like JR, I suppose I should clarify. I am picking the Bears to win 32-27

We used to do this back in the day over on Simcentral.net. Since not many people come around there anymore, I am not even sure if they still do it. I actually finished 3rd one year, but for the most part I will usually end up one of the cellar dwellers.

SUN,  SEP 19

Pittsburgh at Tennessee 

Miami at Minnesota   

Arizona at Atlanta   

Baltimore at Cincinnati   

Kansas City at Cleveland   

Chicago at Dallas   

Philadelphia at Detroit   

Buffalo at Green Bay   

Tampa Bay at Carolina   

Seattle at Denver   

St. Louis at Oakland   

Houston at Washington   

New England at NY Jets   

Jacksonville at San Diego   

NY Giants at Indianapolis

MON, SEP 20

New Orleans at San Francisco  31-10

Besides Mark I got to remind you again if we lean on him too much some people out there will accuse us of treating these people like "sh** beneath our shoes." Don't want that to happen.

Wow. You really are a piece of work. You need to learn how to stop holding grudges as well. You know... Forgive and forget... I mean, how long has it been since I made that comment... One that was justified at that time, by the way... I don't think the person I was defending did anything at all on that day to deserve the treatment he got. If memory serves me, he ended up acting out later on in the thread, but you do too, when people call you out..

But yeah, the day you guys learn to differentiate between dumb people asking stupid questions (like the one from Vikrant above), and some people that are new, and really just don't know... We are all human, and sometimes we make mistakes... You guys tend to lump 80% of these questions into a pile, and talk **** about them all... Then you throw in a few nice comments towards an occasional dumb question, and all of a sudden, you're a saint or something..

I was lucky enough to be one of those guys who was treated right. Granted, I have been around the block a time or two at others sites around the web since I first joined the world of the internet back in 1996... I understand how some people work, and I came here with a different attitude than some of the newer people. Maybe that is why I was one of the "chosen ones" (at least for a while.. Til I ruffled your feathers).

I could care less how you treat people who come in here and act like Vikrant was... It's the instant responses that bug me. If a guy comes in and acts like a dick from day one, tear him apart... I mean, we all like to give people a hard time, but there is no need to be a jerk right back. Vikrant came in, got picked on a little bit, and acted like a baby... Fine, have your fun, he now deserves it... But, if a guy comes in and asks one dumb question, because he doesn't know any better, and 5 or 6 people (including 2 or 3 admins) start ripping on him, and treating him like ****, how is he supposed to react?

How many potentially good members have been driven away because of how some of the admins treated him.

Hell, I was nearly driven away in my first week when one of the admins didn't agree with my stance on steroids, and asked me 'if I was drunk... I mean, how can anyone be that stupid if they aren't drunk'. Now that isn't an exact quote, and Y4L, you may even remember that day, because I think you are one of the ones that came to my defense...

In the end, all I am saying is that there is a fine line. Sure, you don't want to give some idiot the idea that he can be like that all the time, but you also don't need to jump down a guys throat over one dumb thing.

I am sure my thread will be broken down in quotes, by paragraph, and responded to... Or maybe just ignored all together.. That's fine... This isn't my site to run, you do it however you think Trues would want you to...

I really don't go to the forums anymore.. I pretty much just scan the "recent topics" on the home page to see if I see anything interesting or not. I just happened to stumble across this thread today (15 days after the above comment was made). I probably wont come back in any time soon either, so feel free to tear me to shreds for standing up for the few people that deserve it. Wont bother me at all.

Have a wonderful day :)

Mordecai "Three Finger" Brown

Mordecai Peter Centennial Brown (October 19, 1876 – February 14, 1948), nicknamed "Three Finger" or "Miner", was an American Major League Baseball pitcher at the turn of the 20th century. Due to a farm-machinery accident in his youth, Brown lost parts of two fingers on his right hand and eventually acquired his nickname as a result. Overcoming this handicap and turning it to his advantage, he became one of the elite pitchers of his era.

After a spectacular minor league career commencing in Terre Haute of the Three-I League in 1901, Brown came to the majors rather late, at age 26, in 1903, and lasted until 1916 when he was close to 40.

Brown's most productive period was when he played for the Chicago Cubs from 1904 until 1912. During this stretch, he won 20 or more games six times and was part of two World Series championships. New York Giants manager John McGraw regarded his own Christy Mathewson and Brown as the two best pitchers in the National League. In fact, Brown often defeated Mathewson in competition, most significantly in the final regular season game of the 1908 season. Brown had a slim career 13-11 edge on Mathewson, with one no-decision in their 25 classic pitching matchups.

Brown was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1949.

Simple fix. Donate $10. Never have to worry about it again.

Plus you help keep the site running so you can download rosters next year. :)

I was pretty vocal against it last year, but over the course of time it seems like it isn't such a big deal any more. It isn't like you over charged, and if I remember, people got free updates all year long.