The Itsy Bitsy Spider Walks His Way to Victory ....

In what turned out to be a wild week of games "Spider" won week 10 with a 12-2 record, this marked the second straight week a player clinch the weekly top spot on Sunday, congrats to you!  The complete opposite was "Tony  and Bill 2" who mirrored "Spider" and went 2-12.  The biggest jump this week were "Slaughter" up 33 spots and "Fresh" who jumped 34 spots, the weekly winning "Spider" jumped 25 spots into 9th place overall.   Only two teams received less than 30% of the picks, Carolina 33 players (27%) and Denver 31 players (25%), Denver pounded KC who seems to be fading just as I predicted they would do in this blog a few weeks ago.

Four games this week stand out to me that had bettors across the land screaming for joy or screaming for murder.

Baltimore +1.5 @ Atlanta, Baltimore up 21-17 with less than 40 seconds left, then inexplicably Roddy White is allowed to blatantly commit offensive pass interference, knocking the DB to the ground to get open by 15 feet and scored the game-wining touchdown.

Jets @ Cleveland +3.5, 85% of OT games are decided by a field-goal so those 52 players who took Cleveland+3.5 had to feel good when the game went into OT and really had to feel good when the game was tied with less than 2-minutes left and Cleveland had the ball.  Problem was Cleveland had the ball inside their own 5-yard line so instead of playing not to lose AKA play for the tie Eric Mangini plays to win and the rest is of course history.

Houston +1.5 @ Jacksonville, another game  that was heading for OT until Doug Flutie snuck onto the field and tossed a Hail Mary that was answered and those 67 players who had Houston and hoped they had a chance in OT were instead handed a big fat L.

Detroit +2.5 @ Buffalo, Buffalo up 14-6, less than a minute left, those 66 players who took Buffalo all rooting for Detroit not to score, then Detroit scores making it 14-12, now those 66 players rooting for Detroit to convert the 2-point conversion so the game goes to OT .....  well you guessed it, 2-point conversion fail, Buffalo wins by 2, spread was 2.5. 

 I lost all four of those games but at least I still had the Survivor pool to fall back on.. right?


"Our lives changed like the weather But a legend never dies"


Captain Tony

Just as Jimmy Buffett sings in that song your lives have changed, this week it was lights-out for me (literally) as the Giants couldn't play with the lights on or off and lost.  Dallas basically fucked me this season, they lost when I picked them to beat Jacksonville at home then won when I picked them to lose @ NY Giants.  I should have listened to my own advice last week and took Buffalo. Or just took Tampa Bay like it seems everyone else did. But nope .. so along with 7 others who took the Giants and "Stateman" who didn't make a pick we are O-U-T of your lives and out of the running.  22 are left, 8 have no losses.   But as Buffett says "a legend never dies" so I will still make my Survivor pick here the rest of the season with the rules in place that I can't take a team I picked this season. Why? Because I can and I want to still play! Just leave me alone and let me make a pick. My pick this week: Baltimore! 
PS... The old dude to the right is the "legend" Captain Tony Jimmy Buffett wrote that song about.

 Fins up ...^

Nomar fact of the week...
On May 10, 1999 Nomar had 3 HR including 2 Grand Slams and 10 RBI vs. Seattle.