NBA 2018-19

Couple of things I wanted to get down so I could look back and not believe how incredibly wrong I could be in the future.  Well now that the disclaimer is out of the way here we go.

First I think Mo Bamba is going to be a bust.  Just saying.  This guy reminds me of Hasheem Thabeet or however you spell it because man that guy was bad.  Any way, I think he is in the same mold of player and I just don't see all the hype.

Luca Doncic will be ROY.  Book it. 

Grayson Allen will be top 3 in ROY voting or at least make the first team. 

Golden State will win the championship (really went out on a limb there).

Lakers make the playoffs, and so do the Cavs.

Butler will end up in Philly, or not.  Sampson says Toronto (HA!) we'll see.

I'm going to watch a ton of games because we got LEAGUE PASS!!!

Ok that is all for now. 

Warble Watch 2018

Just so everyone knows Sophie has not had any warbles yet.  yet...

'Ol 5 hundo

Just as an update the old blog passed post 500 there a couple of post ago.  Up to 503 now.  Only took about 14 years.  Wow.  Been blogging long?  Yeah about 14 years, I just said that.  Hopefully I can get to 1,000 in a little under 30 years.  Well at the rate I have been going lately it may be more like 50.  Anyway thanks for reading and have a nice day 😁.

Queen of the Court

We are also doing volley ball this fall.  That's right, Peach is taking the court for the first time in competitive volley ball, and it is about the most exciting sport the kids have played.  No seriously.  About every 20-30 seconds someone is scoring a point.  So the if the game is out of hand, no worries it will be over in about 30 minutes.  It's a close competitive game that is going back and forth...well that may take a little longer, but you are guaranteed some suspense.  Kind of like what we got tonight.  The girls dropped a tough one, 28-26, 16-25, 28-26.  Just back and forth the whole game and they were trying to do some higher level stuff and miss hit the ball so you can live with because they are trying to get better and you know at some point that will pay dividends.  Right now they are 5-4 with a revenge game tomorrow.  Hopefully they play well.

Sophie and the Spiders

Ok so Sophie is saying she got bit on the face and the spiders laid eggs in her cheek.  I say she is full of it as spiders won't lay eggs in flesh.  At worst it is fly eggs and she'll have a warble or something.  Guess we'll find out in a few weeks who was right.

Ahhhhh Fall weather, are you ready for some... cross country?

Not what you were expecting huh?  Well I wasn't either, at least not about 5 years ago, but at some point this summer I found myself looking forward to cross country season.  Not for myself, but for Sampson.  You see we did the football thing when he was little and around 5th grade he decided he didn't want to play anymore.  Fine by me that was when all of the head stuff was starting to come out and it really didn't bother me that he didn't want to play even though I think he could have done well.  But I didn't know what would take its place.  Well he decided he would run cross country in 7th grade.  I think some of this came from him running a 5k at the end of basketball season as a 6th grader and he put up a time of 24 minutes, right out of the box.  Me not be experienced in the way of the 5k didn't know if this was good or not.  But after 5 years of racing if an 11/12 year old can run sub 25 with no training, that is pretty darn good.  He is now in the 18 minute range as a sophmore so I was getting excited as the season got closer to watch him run.  You see the great thing about cross country is that you can show up at race time, watch your kid race for about 20 minutes (the less they run the better) and when it is over you can leave if you want or stay and support the rest of the teams, for like another half hour or so.  Or you can go to a "team" sport, sit for 2 or 3 hours waiting to watch your kid play for 5 minutes and then spend the entire post game complaining that your kid should be playing more, but they have the wrong name or the coach is an idiot... but I digress. (I think I used that correctly...yep pretty sure I did)  In cross country you get what you get, if you are good you are in the top 5, if you aren't then you aren't.  There is always the possibility that one of the top guys will have a bad race, and if that happens you could sneak into the top 5, but for the most part it comes down to how well you can run.  Watching Sampson run when he was little, this really wasn't the sport I would have picked for him, but as it turns out I think he has an extremely good natural form for distance running.  Kind of funny how the sport found him, but he has done really well at it and he even met his goal of getting all conference already.  Well there is still a good bit of the season left and hopefully I'll be back on the blog and can tell you how they do.  Also if there is time I'll tell the tale of last years district meet and the cramping situation.  Oh it is a good story.

Only 364 Shopping Days Left

Well another Christmas has come and gone

3rd Annual Christmas Letter, 2009

The first real snow of the year is on the ground so what better time to write the old Christmas Letter. In preparation for writing this year's letter I reviewed some of the previous years' letters. That is one nice thing about the old blog, you can just go back and look at last year's letter anytime, not that i don't keep everyone else's letters too. Anyway 2009 was a little different for the Helfen's. Actually is started out kind of hectic as I was unemployed for about 2 days when the Triple C ranch closed its doors and I went back to the Big O. I wasn't planning on staying there, but things started working out and it ended up being a really good fit for me, so I guess it was kind of a blessing in disguise . . . deep deep cover disguise. Anyway after the initial rough phase of the year things started coming our way. I got Sophie a really nice Sony Camera for her Birthday, actually it was after her birthday because we had to do a lot of shopping for a camera that met all of her needs. Which are a lot for someone who is as particular about her pictures as Sophie is. Sampson played T-ball again for the Pirates and did really well holding down the hot corner for most of the year. It was neat to see how much he had improved since last year. His team even pulled off a legit double play. Football was a little rough this year as the Buckeyes came up short in the playoffs even after scoring more points than the other team, but in the third place game he did score 2 TD's so that was pretty awesome. Now he is playing basketball for the 1st time and doing really well, he even scored in the first game. Peach had a pretty rough year too, like old Dad. She started out getting stitches in February after doing a face plant on a popcorn tin, then she managed to break her arm right before her first ever dance recital. She did really well though, she just didn't get to do her Acro stuff, but we waved and made a big fuss for her and she smiled really big while she was sitting there with the other girls. After the recital, she got flowers and a dancer Barbie. She was very excited. Also me and Sampson won the fishing Derby, which was awesome. We had been trying ever since he could hold a fishing rod, ok even before he could, but this year we won, finally.

After the kids' birthday party in July we headed to Pennsylvania for our vacation. We headed to Lancaster for Dutch Wonderland and a stay at the Howard Johnson and their indoor water park. We detoured through Gettysburg on the way and back, which I thought was really interesting, but Sophie and Sampson didn't enjoy it very much. Peach liked it pretty well I think though. We all enjoyed Dutch Wonderland though. They had a combo amusement park and a water park there and we spent the whole day. We did the sky ride and the roller coasters (the little one once with everyone, I had to ride the big one myself), and the big water slides. It was a very fun trip and slightly educational. The indoor water park was fun too, as it was right in the hotel, then at lunch we went to Chuck E. Cheese and for dinner we went to Friendly's which was neat because they had a balloon guy and he made animals for the kids.

Sophie and the kids also got to go to the Columbus Zoo with her Aunt and her boys this year. That was a long day for them, Dad didn't get to go cause they went in the middle of the week, but Peach is still talking about the trip. Sophie got a lot of neat pics too.

The end of the year seems to be picking up for the Helfen household too. Work is going pretty well, the company stock is up about 1000%, but I don't want to take all the credit for that. I mean I'd like to think I helped. I won Fantasy baseball this year too, so if you see Stevie remind him about that. Also I played a bunch of different online games and met some really neat people. Well here is hoping this finds you happy and healthy, and wishing you a great 2010.

Love,

The Helfens

Kirk, Sophie, Sampson and Peach

CrossRoads ... or not

I'm just at a very difficult part in my professional career as this year winds to a close.  I have been with my current employer for the last 4+ years and have probably done more here than at any place I have worked before.  Not combined for everywhere, but I have been involved in two reactor installs and have been involved in all of the instrumentation and commissioning of every new piece of equipment that has been brought on-line in that period.  So I feel like I have done a lot and I definitely have the knowledge of all these new pieces.  So onto the cross road part.  Well recently my boss got promoted (congrats), but I did not.  That's okay as I don't really have a back up and no one is in a position to do my job if I moved up so I would essentially be stuck doing two full jobs which would be impossible.  But (and there is always a but right?) when the move happened I wasn't involved in any of the talks.  Well that's fine as I'm just a lowly process engineer, but I was told that I would be reporting to the production manager who was going to take over some of the site manager responsibilities.  I said that wouldn't be a problem as that was my gut reaction to be a good little soldier and not a problem maker.  After about a week, December 8th to be exact, it starts to dawn on me that 1) I wasn't consulted in any of the decisions and am the 3rd most tenured person at the plant now, 2) my responsibilities seemed to increase after my boss left with no increase in compensation even though the new manager got a promotion and raise.  Now I'm not one to begrudge someone else but the person that got the promotion was in a similar position on the org chart to me, but now I'm below them.  So this is indirectly a demotion for me.  Now I'm second in tenure at the plant, but aren't being consulted about any decisions related to the plant.   So in the first month of this experiment I've watched us run our most critical chemical level down to a point where we didn't have enough to neutralize our tank, and the level in the tank has dropped off the thermocouple, so we have run the pump in manual for the last 2 weeks because the automated heating and cooling cycles won't work.  We ruined a pump and in haste to neutralize a tank used a chemical that we haven't used before and it corroded the inside of the tank.  To boot the only reason that we didn't have more issue with the chemical tank was because I just happened to realize the cooling system was trying to run, but wasn't working and the tank was heating up by the constant recirculation.  I'm just at a difficult point because I have seen a lot of other plants close and fail, and I don't think we are there, but there has definitely been a change in the last month that isn't a positive.  I don't really want to leave because of all the time and work I have put in, but I question where my ceiling is now.  Clearly I'm not getting the credit, or should I say some other people are extremely good at taking credit, and now if I say something to management it will seem like sour grapes.  Also the people that I work with are slowly starting to grade on my patience and there are about 4 people that I try and avoid at all costs, which is not good for a work environment.  At any rate this is just kind of an exercise to help me think through things and really give myself some perspective.  Every time I have left a job in the past has been out of necessity to stay employed and this would really be the first I have left because of work issues.  I honestly don't see a way out, but it is going to take a while.  All I can do is put my faith in God that he has guided me through things before and done it for a reason.  If my purpose has been served here and it is time to move on then great, but if I'm supposed to persevere to learn something then that is going to be rough.  I know how hard it is to start over and my past is about 4-5 years and hit the reset.  I have about 20 years left and there is no way I'm going to be miserable working for the next 20 years.  Peach said she wants me to be happy, but that is a hard thing sometimes.  What really makes you happy?  Knowledge of what you are doing?  Comfort where you are working?  Not having to start over again?  Feeling that what you are doing matters and getting recognized for it?  Well I know what being miserable is, happiness may just have to wait.  Hears hoping 2018 goes better.  Good luck everyone.

The Big Debate

Well that was disappointing. I think every presidential debate you think the next president will just pop off the screen and then the debate ends up devolving into a series of personal attacks about how the other candidate is sooooo much worse that anyone with any sense would never vote for them.  I was kind of hoping that in the historic nature of the debate that the candidates would recognize that it was going to be one of the most watched debates in history and take the high road a little, but it didn't happen. At all.  One of the worst things to me was the moderator calling out Trump for comments.  Dude, you are the moderator, you want to be in the debate, run for freaking president. Other than that keep your opinions to yourself.  And then when he presented the half truth that the law Trump was talking about was struck down because it was unconstitutional, Trump had to defend himself to the moderator and explain how the judge was taken off the case and the new mayor of New York dropped trying to defend it.  Trump was right, but it was a waste of time and effort.  Looking back I do feel like Trump got a raw deal, and that is the worst thing the democrats could do is make him look like a victim.  For Hillary she acted like the little school girl that knows all the answers and constantly has her hand in the air.  Except she didn't answer questions.  Holt would ask a question, and then she would give a preplanned response based on something similar but not the actual question.  It is bad when Sampson starts yelling at the screen that she isn't answering the questions.  Yikes.  Then Holt asked Trump about the birther conspiracy.  Just let it go man, no one cares.  Obama is 3 months away from completing 8 years as president, no one can do anything now.  The only two people that know where he was actually born are dead, so let's please let that issue die.  But Trump responds in what is probably the second worst way he could, by accusing Hillary of starting it back in 2008 during the primaries.  Just let it go is all he had to do.  Just play it off as a non issue and that no one was talking about it and then he could have spent about a minute and a half blasting Clinton on Whitewater, her foundation, the e-mails, Benghazi anything, but he screwed that up.  Another thing he screwed up was when they asked about the Iraq invasion.  I really don't care what his position was 14 years ago because he was a private citizen.  If you think it was so bad Lester, why don't you ask Hillary why she voted for it.  And why was it bad anyway?  Look at the timing of it, it was still a year or so since 9/11 and we were still looking for "someone's ass to kick" (to borrow a phrase). The problem wasn't the invasion, it wasn't that Saddam was removed from power, it was that there was no exit plan once the objective was complete.  Then when the leader was gone it was like "hey why don't you guys try democracy, it's like super great.  Ok whelp see ya later.  Oh and don't worry about giving us oil or any repayment for you know setting you free, its totally cool."  Then Obama comes in and yanks the troops out, and leaves a giant power vacuum forming ISIS... If someone was legitimately in the middle and that debate swayed them, I feel sorry for them.  Unless it swayed them to the third party candidate in which I totally understand.  I hope the next debate asks some tougher questions to Hillary.  She can't be lobbed softballs all the time, she is going to have to deal with some difficult questions and answer them.  We now turn to Vince Foster for his opinion on the debate... oh wait nvrmnd...

The Drought is Over

In case you were wondering the time was 3.4106776 years between posts, but that is just a rough estimate.  I don't think much happened.  There was a flock of sea gulls and a gas shortage and that's about it.

The Presidential Debate of Aught '16

Ugh ugh cough cough... sorry had to knock the dust off the old blog.  I think this may be the new record, but I'll address that later.  I just wanted to get some thoughts down before the big show down tonight.  No not Falcons vs. Saints, I'm talking about the big debate.  It will be historic as the first woman nominated by a major political party will take place in a presidential debate, so hey its got that right?  But it will also be the first time in about 20 years that a non-politician will get to take the stage in a presidential debate, Ross Perot anyone?  Any how, I was just thinking that since this election is so tight already that I really think tonight will be the deciding factor.  Both of the VP's are pretty noncontroversial (yeah check that word out), but the two candidates themselves couldn't be more polarizing.  I really think tonight will be the one chance that the candidates have to make an impact.  I know there are two more debates, but in this short attention span climate, that first impression goes alongggggg way.  I think Trump can win the election tonight, if he can stay on topic and not go off the rails screaming or making a point of some controversial topic or directly insult Hillary's womanhood.  If he can stay in his lane and be "presidential" (basically not pissing everyone off, like normal) he will make a winning impression.  On the other hand, if Hillary can come off as genuine and honest (good luck) and boil her policies down to understandable, quotable, relatable really not sure where I was going with that, but if she can argue policies and not hyperbole I think she can make the stronger impression. 

Personally I think we really missed the boat with Romney four years ago.  This is at best a train wreck / dumpster fire of an election.  Between the two candidates they have been elected to a major government body, exactly once.  And that was the senate, not even a governor here.  Has anyone seen Tom Tancredo?  I seriously think he was lost in one of those corn field in Iowa back in '08.  Anyway, good for the candidates to make it this far, but unless someone can just blow me away tonight (Clinton reference, #amiright?)  I really feel like we are in trouble.  I really hope someone comes out sounding presidential.  Just to be clear as of right now, I really don't view Hillary as a leader, but I don't know that Trump will have enough support from either party to accomplish anything.  Which hey, maybe that isn't a bad thing.  Well see you on the other side of history.

1st Mustang Game of 2013

Well I feel like the worst parent/Coach on the planet.  Our coach has put me in charge of pitching and as the "Pitching Coach" of which I know only what I have read and looked at on-line and learned from other people I get to be in charge of 5 young kids who all want to pitch every night.  But tonight was the worst case scenario for me to be in that position as Sampson is one of the pitchers.  And he  has done phenomenal in the 2 scrimmages we had and even in fall ball.  Well tonight the first kid pitched 3 scoreless innings with 6 k's, then the second kid pitched one inning of 3 K baseball, then I sent Sampson in to pitch the last 2 innings facing the meat of their order and he walked 6 straight to bring to game to 3-2.  So I had to go out there and pull my son from the game, and he hates me now. Hopefully he will talk to me tomorrow.  The next kid did come in with the bases loaded and struck out 3 and got the other team 1-2-3 in the 6th to preserve the win.  Sampson did come back up after I took him out and he got a hit, and slide into second, and then stole 3rd and got to home on another hit and slide into home.  Two perfect slides.  We ended up winning 6-2, and combined the kids pitched a no-hitter so there is that for the old pitching coach, but right now I feel horrible about taking him out because it upset him sooooo much. He also had an unassisted out at 1st so he played a good game, he was just very dissappointed about the thing he wanted to do the most.  Sorry buddy, I do love you.  Who knows maybe we will laugh about this someday...probably not tomorrow though, I'm just hoping you talk to me by then.

Peach's First Lost Tooth

Well she finally lost that tooth that has been loose since like Thanksgiving. If I think of it and am motivated enough maybe I'll post a pick of her new smile. Anyway she told Sophie "so Mommy here is that tooth". Here she pulled it out herself. Pretty good little girl, but don't get any ideas about ripping the rest of your teeth out. Apparently the tooth fairy is pretty generous when it comes to your first tooth, especially when you pull it out yourself because Peach got a 1 and a 5. She was supposed to split it with old Dad, but she promptly went out and blew it on bigger Lego's. I fear she could become quite expensive . . .

Double Double

Sampson is back playing hoops this winter and he got his first double double last week with 10 points and 10 boards. He followed it up this week with another double-double by getting 10 and 12 rebounds. He was really excited about it, but I told him right after the game he had a double double with points and turn overs, he only had 3 of those though. I sure am glad they aren't keeping score this year. . .

The Fourth Annual Helfen Christmas Letter

Well this is actually after Christmas, but as you can notice I haven't exactly been blogging like crazy lately, it is possible that I may not have even done one of these last year, but anyway on to the letter. This was a pretty good year for the old Helfen clan. We took a big trip to Florida in July to visit Disney World and Universal Studios, which was pretty much the highlight of the year. We had decided last year that we were going to take the kids and just go and have a really good time and that is exactly what we did. We hit all the Disney Parks and Universal Islands of Adventure, it was a lot of walking to do in 5 days.

We also made an addition to the family, no not like that, we added a little four-legged member named Brownie. We got her in February when she was just a little pup, now she is a slightly larger pup, but she has been doing better lately. She may eventually be a good dog even if Sophie threatens to get rid of her at least once a week.

On the kid front, Sampson played baseball, football and basketball this year. Last year was his first for basketball and that sport is probably his favorite. This year he started again right before Christmas and dropped 20 in his first game. Peach had her second recital, in which she did very good. She didn't have a broken arm this year so that was a plus. She also started pre-school this year and had her first program earlier this month. She was a little lamb and did a very good job singing and reciting a bible verse.

On a professional front the year was good as well. Instead of a severing or shutting down production, we actually are restarting two of our idled pot lines. So it has been a little more busy at work at the end of the year, but that is a good thing. I also got to go to Seattle for a conference in February, which was very interesting. It was my first trip to North West and it was very pretty country, but city life is a little too crowded for my taste. I did get to go in the Space Needle for all of about 10 minutes, because it was just so busy out there.

Oh also I won this year's addition of fantasy baseball, for the second year in a row.

Well here is hoping that you have had a great year too, and wishing you the best for 2011.

Love,

The Helfens

The Bucks Win!!

Sampson's team won their first game today. Way to go boys!! 18-12 I think. The got to play on the big field this year, artificial turf and what not. I think next week I will help coach so I can go down on the field.

Fantasy "Real Deal" Pitchers for 2011

As the 2010 fantasy baseball season er "real" baseball season winds to a close there are a couple of things I wanted to get down to kind of be ready for the draft next season. Basically I don't care for Yahoo! rankings of players and I think their system is seriously messed up when it comes to pitchers. According to the old Y! there are 30 starters and 12 relievers that are in the top 100, but when you start looking at who can give you more in a head-to-head one-week-battle pitchers offer far less than there positional counter parts who on a good week can contribute in 5 categories on 6 days. For starting pitchers you get a max of 4 categories and usually only 1 start per week, although sometimes you get the magic 2 start week (rarely), but you can also get really hosed before and after the all-star break. For these reasons I don't feel any of the top 50 picks should go to pitchers and as I have stated before I won't risk a 4th rounder on a starter again, but should any of the following 10 guys show up around the 50th pick or so they are definitely worth a look as I would consider them proven "real deal" pitchers for the upcoming year. You know, baring injury or trades and stuff in the off season. These are in no particular order.

King Felix Hernandez - I didn't realize how good this guy was but he is way up there in innings (which actually could be a liability for next season), K's, and his ERA and WHIP are pretty stellar. Wins are a little harder to come by in Seattle.

Cliff Lee - Yeah former Cy Young winner innings eater and future pin stripe wearer (most likely), still one of the top guy and worth it if he falls to 50 or so. Lefties aren't a bad choice in NY.

CC Sabathia - Yeah former Cy Young winner innings eater and present pin stripe wearer (unfortunately), still one of the top guy and worth it if he falls to 50 or so. Lefties aren't a bad choice in NY.

David Price - Lefties that can throw high 90's wins 18, K 180 plus and have an ERA less than 3.00 in the AL East are pretty nice. Well worth a 5th or 6th round pick.

Jon Lester - Lefties that can throw high 90's wins 19, K 220 plus and have an ERA less than 3.00 in the AL East are pretty nice. Well worth a 5th or 6th round pick. At first I wasn't sure of how good this guy was, I mean he was a nice story about coming back from cancer, but this guy is a top 5 pitching talent. Definitely the Real Deal.

Roy Halladay - 200+ innings - 20 wins, 200+ K's, ERA of around 2.50 and a WHIP under 1.10. And he pitched a perfecto this year. Two Words - Real Deal.

Josh Johnson - Over 1k per inning and he pitched over 180 innings . . . before September. Which is a little cause for concern next season that he didn't pitch an entire month, but he was by far one of the best pitchers April - August. Hopefully his stock drops because without even playing month he is still in the top 30 according to Y!.

The Cardinal Tandem of Wainwright and Carpenter - Wainwright is the top rated Y! pitcher of the season 20/213 K's/2.42/1.05, just slightly ahead of Roy. Carpenter checks in around 15/175/3.42/1.20.

Tim Lincecum - He was a little off this year and well under performed his preseason Y! rank of 9, but he is a former Cy Young winner and I look for him to bounce back. He is probably at the bottom of my list and he checks in with 15 W's/220 K's/3.51/1.27. The last two categories are a little high, and that is what will get you in fantasy head-to-head, not worth a top 6 pick in my opinion, but someone will take him.

I figure a couple of these guys will be around after the fifth round as Yahoo! is sure to screw up the preseason rankings, and when they are I might even draft one. . . might.

Frogs Sprinting Down the Stretch

The fantasy baseball season is quickly coming to an end and the old Ungiggable Frogs have found themselves atop the standings as the last week of action commences. It has been a long battle back as I have never been more than 10 games out of first, but I was as low as 7th during the season. Anyway I still have one more week after trouncing Stevie 8-0-2 last week. The guy I'm playing this week has been inactive for like a month, but I think he has decided to play this, oh well. We'll see if the old frogs can't bring home another title. Since the season is almost over I just wanted to get some thoughts down to remind myself of things for next season. One is trust my gut and not Yahoo! rankings. I felt like Adam Wainwright was the best pitcher available with my 4th pick, but instead I went with Dan Haren because Chris Carpenter was still on the board and Yahoo! had him ranked ahead of Wainwright and it just didn't make sense to pick Wainwright over Carpenter cause they are on the same team. Anyway that was wrong because even though Carpenter is ranked like 15 or something Wainwright is #6, meanwhile Haren is around 150 or so. Not terrible and certainly not worth dropping, but well under where I drafted him. Anyway the lesson for next year is to ignore Yahoo! cause the basically don't know what they are talking about. I don't think I'll draft a pitcher in the top 100 next year, my other pick was Beckett for Boston and he was flat out horrible. I did end up dropping him, but I mean what is the use there are tons of pitchers available during the season that do awesome. The only two starters I have kept all season are Haren and David Price. Picking up Price at around the 200th pick kind of makes up for Haren. Billy Butler is another who has disappointed, but at least been consistent. I read an article before the season of Butler vs. Morales, kind of a fantasy shake down comparison. Anyway the consensus was Morales was more ready and as luck would have I actually ended up with both out of the draft. Morales was definitely the better talent, until he broke his leg . . . in like May. I think he stayed in the top 100 for about another month, but he was sorely missed in the old frog's lineup. If I had him for the full season it is quite possible that this season wouldn't even be in doubt. As it was I managed to pick up Russell Branyan who has performed decently given he didn't even play the first month. Kind of like the anti-Morales or Bizaro-Morales. Either way he filled in nicely, but was a step below what I had. It is just very hard to replace top 50 talent during the season. If I do manage to win I think the MVP will be Troy Tulowitzki, who pretty much sealed the last week for me with 9 runs 6 HRs and 17 rbi's with a BA of .346. That might be the most incredible week of stats I have seen by one player. Well as long he continues to do that I shouldn't have a problem, lol. Did I mention he was my number one pick. Alright 2 more weeks and we'll see how it all shakes out. . .

The Greatest Moment in OU football History . . .

. . . well you know not counting MAC Championships, which I don't. The Bobcats put the old smack down on one of the other large state universities this past weekend. Well at least the mascot "Rufus" put a beating on the other school's mascot "Brutus". Here is the video just in case you missed it.




The only bad thing is Ohio actually apologized for this. Why? No apology needed for something this awesome. Way to go Rufus, even if you picked up a lifetime ban for this. . . still totally worth it.

Totally unrelated, but Sampson will be playing for the Bucks this year in flag football. I guess I'll keep an eye for any Bobcats that come along, but there shouldn't be any problems as his team doesn't have a mascot.