Archive for October, 2008

2008-2009 Maplewood Moosen

Friday, October 24th, 2008

Chris Paul (NO – PG)
Hedo Turkoglu (Orl – SG,SF)
Mo Williams (Cle – PG)
Richard Jefferson (Mil – SF)
Carlos Boozer (Uta – PF,C)
Drew Gooden (Chi – PF)
Yao Ming (Hou – C)
David Lee (NY – PF,C)
J.R. Smith (Den – SG)
Jameer Nelson (Orl – PG)
Mickael Pietrus (Orl – SG,SF)
Yi Jianlian (NJ – PF)
Quentin Richardson (NY – SG,SF)

Thoughts:

  • First pick – I didn’t want it, but I had the first pick and of course I hadda take CP3.  Usually I like to kill it with bigs, and muscle all the other teams out, so it was difficult this year to build around a PG. So my strategy was to go Big-Big in rounds 2 & 3, and then try to draft players that basically had either PG or C stats.
  • Gamebreaker – Taking a huge gamble with Yao this year.  I know he’s missed 20+ games past 3 seasons, but I felt like I needed to roll the dice since my 2nd/3rd picks were so much further from my 1st.
  • Question marks – Q-Rich, Yi Jianlian, and Pietrus.  Can they breakout this year?  Can Q-Rich get back to his Phoenix form back under D’Antoni?
  • Sleeper category – Steals.  CP3 is crazy in steals and that’s also why I drafted Booz.  He gets alot for a big man.  The PGs I drafted also hold it down, so I think I can win this category outright every week, along with rebounds and blocks.
  • Category that will do me in - TOs. Again, when you build a team around a PG, it’s bound to happen.

 

But can I win it all…? My whole season rests on Yao.  I love to take gambles in Fantasy.  If Yao stays healthy, I basically have 2 first round picks.  If he goes down then my team is mediocre at best.  So as my best friend Rich would say in a drunken car ride home from NYC, “Yao, you are my eyes and ears right now!”

 

How will I do? Vote in the poll and let me know!

The Million (Soul) Question

Wednesday, October 15th, 2008

 

From the New York Times:

Litmus Test? | 10:12 p.m. Could you ever nominate someone to the Supreme Court who disagreed with your view on abortion?

Mr. McCain says he wouldn’t have a litmus test and would consider anyone and their qualifications. But, he says, he doesn’t believe that anyone who supported Roe v. Wade would be qualified.

Mr. Obama also says he would have no litmus test. He goes on to say he supports Roe v. Wade but doesn’t say whether he would support someone who opposes it.

Of course he doesn’t say!  This debate began and ended like all the other ones – McCain attacking Obama, and Obama sidestepping the attacks without giving a clear response.  Who do you think won?

P.S. – There’s a new poll at the right.  I know I’m probably preaching to the choir, but go ahead and vote and we can see where our Biters stand.

The Rosary Room

Friday, October 10th, 2008

Bishop Hugh Boyle
“No one can live continually in sin and continue to say the Rosary – either he will give up sin or he will give up the Rosary.”

Pope Puis XII
“There is no surer means of calling down God’s blessing upon the family . . . than the daily recitation of the Rosary”.

Pope Benedict
“People who pray the Rosary are appealing to the Mother of Mercy and so merciful is. She, that She’s inclined to aid spontaneously, those who suffer. She is absolutely incapable of refusing help to those who invoke Her. The Rosary prayed daily is the most fitting formula for praying and meditating.”

I stumbled upon The Rosary Room today when I was looking for widgets.  It is so awesome!  I love the whole design of it.  And for all you Mac users, it also comes with a handy Rosary Widget.

I just love how Mama Mary and the Catholic Church is being taken with us into the modern world.  It just shows that no matter how old our Church is, it is still the Word for all ages.

Don’t drink and… email?

Thursday, October 9th, 2008

I always tell people (and myself), if you’re going to send a crazy emotional email, you should always wait until the next morning to send it.  I guess someone at Google was thinking the same thing when they invited this: Mail Goggles.

Once activated, you are required to solve a few very basic math problems in under 43 seconds, to make sure you are in the right frame of mind.  Funnier yet, the default setting activates Mail Goggles on weekend nights only.

Thanks to good people at Google, now you can wake up the next morning in peace! Hungover maybe… but in peace :)

H20

Monday, October 6th, 2008