Quote of the day
Three quarters of crap
Followed by incandescence
The anti-LeBron
-- haiku from a listener (about Tim Tebow), read by Tony Kornheiser on his radio show on ESPN 980 AMDaily blurb
Playoffs!? Gah!
The problem with single elimination playoff formats is that half of the teams disappear after just one game. You spend all season working toward a postseason berth, and then you can quickly be obliterated by an untimely injury, or an unfortunate matchup, or just an off-week. It’s particularly maddening if you sail into the playoffs as a top seed, dominating week after week during the regular season, only to have it all come tumbling down on one lousy weekend.
I’m not complaining, mind you – although that exact fate has befallen me on multiple occasions. I was actually the beneficiary of a very favorable matchup in the first round of the RIFC playoffs. Of the eight teams in the playoffs, I had the 7th worst point total this weekend. But, lo and behold, I was matched up against the team with the lowest total, and eked by with a 1.62 point victory. I should be accustomed to that, as my team had three other games during the regular season decided by less than 2 points. With DeMarco Murray in my lineup, and with Brad Smith taking a goose egg, I dodged a bullet, to be sure.
I was not so fortunate in Football Pickoff, where I descended to dead last in the standings. Two-thirds of active slates found a way to post a positive score this weekend, including five slates with 14 correct picks. The top score was +565, posted by griffdo, whose only incorrect pick was San Fran over Arizona (also failing to pick the Thursday night game, either intentionally or – most likely - forgetting).