Wrap-Up: The Draft

Hi, Everyone, and welcome back to fantasy football. I’m still wrapped up in baseball season. So just like last season, the Commish has dragged me kicking and screaming into football season. Ah well, if I can’t fight ‘em, guess I gotta beat ‘em at their own game!

Draft day was pretty exciting at the Commissioner’s Office this year. At just 30 minutes before draft time our internet connection went down. Just plain disappeared. So I got on the phone with the ever-helpful tech support people, and their report to me was that because of a terrible storm in Laredo, Texas, we may be down for a little while. They tried to reassure me that once the weather cleared up, we would be back online. Then I got to thinking… hmmmm, is it merely coincidence that half of our league managers live in Texas… and at a critical time our internet connection would go on the fritz due to some "event" in Texas? This sounds like a Chicago move! Did you see the movie, “The Untouchables”? Capone said, “Somebody messes with me, I'm gonna mess with him.” Now, I’m not pointing any fingers (yet) but you don’t want anyone from Chicago to get the wrong idea, now, do you??!!

In looking at the teams once the draft was done, it looks as though everyone came out all right. But the real interesting maneuvers came AFTER the draft, and boy, oh boy, were there some maneuvers. This league has made more moves than Ex-lax! And we’re just getting started! There’s a lot of horse flesh being added and dropped out there, no trades just yet. One or two managers have replaced nearly half of their team already. But an anonymous inside source at the Commissioner’s office says that the Commish is already sniffing around for that jaw-dropping trade. Look out, Managers! Timmy’s predictions about the Commish’s draft may come true!

As for the rest of Timmy the Greek’s predictions, I’d have to say that he was about 80% right. Half the guys didn’t actually attend the live draft, so it was expected that at the end of the draft, some of the team rosters would look like some poor creature Dr. Frankenstein experimented with before he finally put together his monster. And, Timmy, you were right about the Sidehill Gougers. It’s always those quiet ones you have to be careful of – you’re never quite sure what’s really going on in that maniacal mind.

I can’t comment on the rest of the Texas connection. Yet. I’ve gotta give them a fair chance to play with the copious amount of rope that is being slowly and carefully provided to them. (insert evil laugh here.) Oh, and just for the record, the Commish doesn’t sleep with his back to the wall. He sleeps with one eye open.