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I deserve to lose leaving KC defense on the bench. I coin flipped. Always do the best out of three. ALWAYS
Jets defense is mostly reputation at this point. Not as good as they used to be. But who saw Fitzpatrick throwing six int's?
Weren't the Chiefs favored?
They were. I just figured with Charles out maybe they would be one dimensional so I flipped a coin. Regardless noone couldve guessed theyd put up 35. Ben had a terrible game too which didnt help
Jets defense is mostly reputation at this point. Not as good as they used to be. But who saw Fitzpatrick throwing six int's?
Weren't the Chiefs favored?
They were. I just figured with Charles out maybe they would be one dimensional so I flipped a coin. Regardless noone couldve guessed theyd put up 35. Ben had a terrible game too which didnt help
Big controversy in work league. It's loosely a work league - a slim majority actively employed together, filled out by guys from neighboring businesses, ex-coworkers, and boss man's brother, fiancée & a future in-law on it. Anyway...
Sunday. Boss man's fiancée needed a fill-in for Antonio Gates & picked up Hunter Henry. We totally get that part.
Where this became A Thing instead of routine roster maintenance: On the other end of that move, she dropped Jamaal Charles. Holy hell, has it gotten everyone worked up.
My grievance was "I have TEs to spare & would've made a deal." Others are blaming the move for killing trades they had been pitching. Ware owner is furious. There's a bit of sexism to it that's not sitting well with me - last year was her first foray into fantasy & she narrowly missed playoffs, so she can hold her own and had a decent squad this year. Thank God boss man wasn't the one to claim him on waivers, or there'd surely be accusations of collusion. Boss man got confronted about the move Tuesday as it is.
As for the guy who did get the Charles claim... basically imagine if Newman pulled off that coup in Jerry Seinfeld's league. It's gone over like that, in terms of both the recipient and his response.
I've seen trades shake up a league like this before, but never an add/drop. It's been a ridiculous week at work. Might be too soon to tell, but it could turn out to be the singular most facepalm move I've seen in all my years of playing.
Boss man's fiancée is still out there somewhat hurting at TE though (only has that pair of Chargers) so I gotta ask... would y'all be floating her offers for Coby Fleener or Zach Miller? PPR, with Walford & Brate for reasonable depth behind them. I'm torn.
I had someone request a trade last year on like a Friday. I told him I wanted to see how the guy he wanted performed on Sunday and then I'd make a decision. He ended up getting injured and being out for a week. When he still hadn't withdrawn his request by Wednesday, I approved it. Two weeks later, he starts going crazy about how I ripped him off. It's not my problem that he didn't pay attention to his own trade request or his subsequent roster.
I get almost all of this (and it's funny as hell) but why is the Ware owner pissed? He never had Charles in the first place. I never trade because it always looks slanted to some people but a league being incinerated by a drop/add? Legendary.
Ware owner is pissed... 1. Probably worried about Ware's impending demotion upon Charles' return. 2. "She should've come to me instead of waiting until Sunday." 3. He's also generally the loudmouth pseudo-knowitall type who tells you everything he shoulda done in hindsight and shocked he's not among the undefeated. He got added this year as we expanded from 12 to 14, and I think a lot of it is like how smaller dogs bark the most? 4. His trade negotiations with my fellow delivery driver "Newman" came screeching to a halt upon his acquisition of Charles - as far as Ware owner tells it, but he's not alone in that complaint. Which is kind of hilarious in hindsight, because he was trying swing a deal where he'd get Josh Gordon off of "Newman" for C-Mike. All for naught now.
Side note: While I was waiting by the playground as the little guy played after school, "Newman" (who's lost Abdullah & has been counting on Gordon's return) sent me an offer of his own. Offered me Maclin for my Dwayne Washington. Of course, I took it... and 2-3 hours later, we all learned Gordon was off to rehab and Newman's first words to me at work last night were "Please tell me you didn't accept that trade." I laughed. What else can you do there? So I'm more insulated from this than your average player in the league, but I've still gotta work in all the fallout from this drama bomb.
Oh, and I floated Fleener for Terrell Pryor to boss man's fiancée. We'll see just how much she wants a tight end.
Edit to add screenshots so we can all laugh at Newman's misfortune. He did this to himself. (Maclin becomes Dwayne Washington in about six hours.)
Wow. What a shitshow his team is. It looks like he drafted Robinson and then took a bunch of guys who will play about 4 or 5 games this season. Those bye weeks are gonna sting.
He was pick #14. I remember he went Robinson & Dez at the R1/R2 turn, but not much else.
This league had a live draft with a big board and all that. Newman came with what I mocked as a "binder full of dudes" containing... I don't even know what? It was full of color coded spreadsheets, and he vaguely mentioned his own personal algorithms and replacement values and such, but he wouldn't let anyone actually look at the thing. I think he was angling to go Zero RB, but made an exception for Rawls at the R3/R4 turn?
I don't know what Newman was thinking. He said he had to use his economics degree for something.
So yeah, nobody wants to lose to him or the Ware owner because they'll just be insufferable about it. At least in Newman's case, it's not as likely at this point.
Here's how I made out in that draft at #5, which was in like preseason week 3 - earlier on whatever day Teddy Bridgewater went down:
Out: Booker, Treadwell, West, Rams D In: Smallwood, Brate, Ravens D, Dwayne Washington (Maclin trade pending) To IR: Romo (took him in final round, one pick ahead of our Cowboys homer hoping to milk it, figuring worst case it was a 2-for-1 with a kicker TBD.)
I brought like three single-page cheat sheets to the draft. Currently hold the points tiebreaker among three 3-0 teams. My curiosity in Newman's binder is renewed.
Ware owner is pissed... 1. Probably worried about Ware's impending demotion upon Charles' return. 2. "She should've come to me instead of waiting until Sunday." 3. He's also generally the loudmouth pseudo-knowitall type who tells you everything he shoulda done in hindsight and shocked he's not among the undefeated. He got added this year as we expanded from 12 to 14, and I think a lot of it is like how smaller dogs bark the most? 4. His trade negotiations with my fellow delivery driver "Newman" came screeching to a halt upon his acquisition of Charles - as far as Ware owner tells it, but he's not alone in that complaint. Which is kind of hilarious in hindsight, because he was trying swing a deal where he'd get Josh Gordon off of "Newman" for C-Mike. All for naught now.
I forgot #5, which might actually be the best one of all: the dude actually injured himself upon hearing the news. I'll just call him Cuff, because he's got Ware & is apparently a big fan of handcuffing.
(First, I must confess a timeline error: Charles was dropped Friday morning & Newman's waiver claim processed Sunday morning prior to games.)
So, Cuff was pissing and moaning to me that Newman would take his deal if he knew what was good for his team, and so on. And he's taking a pizza out of the oven as we're having this conversation. I mention to him, why would Newman take your RB offer when he just got Jamaal Charles off waivers? And Cuff's cutting this hot pizza squarewise with a long-ass knife as I explain the Henry drop/add and subsequent waiver claim... and the longer this story goes, the harder he presses down.
...and his third or fourth slice pushed down so hard, it sent about a third of the pizza careening towards the edge of its box and table. Cuff reached to grab it, but it went topsy-turvy and landed upside-down on his hand and half his forearm. Cuff had to deal with blisters for days over that, could still have them today for all I know?
So yeah. Pizza down and had to get remade, plus Cuff had to get some burn stuff out of the first aid kit over his reaction. His frustration with that went beyond just owning Ware. It's his own damn fault, and quite frankly kind of amusing if you're into Schadenfreude.
Man, my receivers fucked me over this week. Deandre Hopkins and golden Tate shit the bed completely.
Golden Tate had a huge year presented to him on a silver platter with Megatron retiring. I took him in every single league I was in. What a fucking bum.
Man, my receivers fucked me over this week. Deandre Hopkins and golden Tate shit the bed completely.
Golden Tate had a huge year presented to him on a silver platter with Megatron retiring. I took him in every single league I was in. What a fucking bum.
At least you and I get the great consolation prize of watching St. Louis Sam Bradford vs. I-can't-believe-I'm-actually-starting Matt Asiata to determine this week's winner. What a snoozefest.
Golden Tate had a huge year presented to him on a silver platter with Megatron retiring. I took him in every single league I was in. What a fucking bum.
At least you and I get the great consolation prize of watching St. Louis Sam Bradford vs. I-can't-believe-I'm-actually-starting Matt Asiata to determine this week's winner. What a snoozefest.
Definitely a painful week. Bright side is I've won 2 more games then I expected (I was expecting to AT BEST be 1-3 thru wk 4) and the onslaught finally begins next week! WATCH OUT for The Maniel Incident starting next week lol
kdoggystyle is the neglected stepchild of my trio of teams. Nothing but bragging rights riding on them, unlike Rumblin' Bumblin' Stumblin' and Project Mayhem.
Pretty sure my Project Mayhem is doomed this week, projections be damned. I'm against the other movie reference team in the league, and that guy owns the local cinema. That's a curse, right? Not to mention that a team named Mark It Zero with an armed Walter Skobchak is some seriously strong mascot game. I've got a penguin.
A shitstorm comprised of a lopsided trade proposal, a veto, a dispute over whether it was even a done deal in the first place, rookie owner confusion, and collusion accusations. Workplace arguments, long-winded message board posts, and veiled threats of revenge ensued. Coworkers who usually DGAF are drawn into this soap opera. On the plus side, despite working together... I haven't spoken with coworker Cuff since at least Tuesday, if not earlier?
The controversial trade: Rookie sends Gary Barnidge. Cuff sends Matt Ryan. Fucking ridiculous, I know.
Cuff claims that he & Rookie made a verbal agreement on it at work on Tuesday night.
Except that on Wednesday morning, I received a proposal from Rookie: his Barnidge for my Isaiah Crowell. (As I said, he's a n00b.) The fact that Rookie could even offer me Barnidge proves nothing was locked in. So I countered: Crowell + my bench QB Wentz for Melvin Gordon. Rookie said he couldn't, because had another QB deal in place. Cuff was "giving (him) Ryan for nothing."
There's three 3-1 teams in this 14-team league: Boss Man, Cuff, and Rookie's opponent this week. Hmm.
Sometime Wednesday afternoon, Rookie called Boss Man in a panic. Rookie claimed confusion on accepting Cuff's Ryan/Barnidge offer, because Cuff had bombarded him with 5-6 different offers. Could Boss Man undo it?
Boss Man set us up as league manager veto, but opened it up for discussion. I think he just wanted to avoid being the only one to take the heat on this one? Got seven players (plus himself) to agree to a majority veto, deal got shot down.
Boss Man announced it in a post on the message board. Cuff replied with an angry, long-winded Bernie Bro-esque rant, in which he demanded that his subsequent roster moves be reversed because the deal got vetoed (He dropped DeAndre Washington, ha.) At which point, I weighed in to argue Rookie's offer to me supported his confusion claim. I also mentioned that Rookie thought the deal was "Ryan for nothing" and that Rookie's opponent this week was right on Cuff's heels.
Someone cried collusion. Cuff snapped. Vowed vengeance. Put out a call for anyone playing Boss Man, Rookie or myself to reach out to him for favorable trades when they play the three of us. Class act, that Cuff.
The next day, Cuff did make a deal with my opponent for the week. Good thing I'm up against Newman and one trade's not gonna fix his busted squad. Newman even gave me a "dude, he's PISSED at you" heads-up after Cuff approached him to negotiate. Heh. Newman wasn't the only coworker to comment to me about the shit Cuff's been talking, while avoiding me entirely.
So I made a semi-related deal of my own, but it's a gamble. Sent my 3rd QB Wentz to Rookie, and I got Sammy Watkins to stash in my IR spot instead - Did that deal with an eye on the Browns in week 15. I like to imagine that poetic justice would have a late hot streak from him be Cuff's downfall in the playoffs?
I'm starting to hate this league more with every passing day. Being the lone undefeated certainly helps, though.
Already have Allen on IR, with Dez, decker, Jennings, sims, and foster out this week plus Wilson (who hasn't finished two games already this year) and Lockett on bye. it is week 5. Last year was equally notable - I had a starter get injured in the first half of a game and sit the whole second every week for the first eleven weeks of the year. Hasn't been the most fun activity lately.
I don't even get to gloat to my coworker Newman (rank: 13 of 14) about our matchup in person today. He took the weekend off to indulge his Patriots fandom in Cleveland.
Only thing in this life that ever made me bother to trek to Cleveland was a Radiohead tour, but to each their own.
Ugh in laws were in town yesterday so I didn't even get a chance to really look over my injury report today. Accidentally put in Chris Thompson over Crowder (hurried mislick) and left Virgil Green in... Thank goodness for a certain QB that plays for New England.
I can't believe my undefeated 1st place work league team is down by five to 13th place Newman going into Monday night. The way Diggs and Jones abused our banged-up secondary before the bye week, I thought for sure I'd have gotten a serviceable game out of Eli filling in for Brees. Fucking Eli.
Now it's a matter of whether Cameron Brate can outscore Quizz by 5+ tonight. If he doesn't, I'm likely the laughingstock at work for at least the next week. Fuck.