How did your team do yesterday?

Normally, I don’t consider fantasy football as my strongest point as far as fantasy sports is concerned, but after a year of prodding from fellow fantasy players, I felt I needed to return to playing some fantasy football.

And after how my team did on both Thursday and yesterday, I felt that my return to Fantasy Football was long overdue as I hold a 4-point lead over the blue blasters entering the first Monday Night games of the season.

One mistake that I made in quarterbacks was that I started Marc Bulger, who had 217 passing yards (but no touchdowns) instead of Michael Vick, who had 140 yards in the air and 2 touchdown passes as well as 48 yards rushing in the Falcons’ 20-3 win over Carolina. I have him starting this week as the Falcons host Tampa Bay in Atlanta and Bulger will be starting next week as a way to equal playing time between the two.

As for my Fantasy Baseball team, I lost my first round matchup with Doc’s All-Stars 6 to 3 and will be playing for fifth place against the fourth-place team. The thing that killed us during the first round matchup was the poor hitting by Joe Crede (.182) and Ian Kinsler (.158).

The star of the week for my team? Shawn Green, who hit .429 with 2 homers this past week for the Mets.

With my computer fixed, I can try to make amends for what would have a great run for my team, who batted .284 with 182 homers this season, among the top six in both of those categories.

And try not to make the same mistakes that I made (which was not my fault) with the Fantasy Football team that I own.

Yes,Miss Candy, it was definitely a magical ending to a magical summer

If you would have told me that in a course of one day, the Redbirds would close out the summer of Doc Hancock and Miss Candy with a win, Gary Bennett of the Cardinals would win the game in St. Louis with a grand slam to complete a three-game sweep of the Cubs, and then at midnight, my fantasy baseball team secures a playoff spot and as luck would have it, a picture of myself and the chocolate cutie holding a baseball appearing on my desktop at the exact moment, I would have laughed my tail off at you.

And fall out of the chair.

At approximately 1:39 p.m. CDT Sunday afternoon, I was on the pregame show with David Kelly doing an interview with him and repeating the same thing that I said when Bo Hart hit his game-winning homer on July 30th against Colorado Springs.

“The 2-1 to Hart………….Swing and a long one to left field………………..Goooodnight, Miss Candy, it’s………a……………….Goner and a winner!!!!!!!”

Over 50,000 watts of pure unadulterated funk.

Skip that part.

Six minutes later at 1:45, I was killing time in the Boardwalk when Michelle (the one I went to school with), Sharika, and myself got in a picture together.

It was also at the same time when the guy who patrols the Pimp Avenue gate at South Third Street recognized me as the object of a girl named Candance.

Of course, it took me a minute to realize who the guy, Michelle, and Sharika was talking about until Michelle uttered those two words that I know the chocolate cutie by.

“Miss Candy.”

Aha!!!!

Since July 4th, the talk of the entire Ballpark Gang has been the eleven or so minutes that the chocolate cutie and myself shared on the air.

Which is now part of Memphis professional baseball history as the first broadcaster’s crush to ever grace their chocolate and cute presence in the broadcast booth.

Of course, Michelle’s response to this was that myself and the chocolate cutie are the hottest near-couple in the Redbirds organization.

Aha!!!!!!

To be honest, I wasn’t really surprised by the fact that the chocolate cutie liked me anyway.

Not at all.

Even the wise Fantasy Baseball Guru himself knew as well as Amber.

And according to him, he’s just smart.

Same thing he said on July 20th, when we had “The Spook”.

Around 4:08 p.m., I was sitting in the broadcast booth while my guest partner (the guy was more organized than I was) and I did the station break and go over notes on the Sounds and Redbirds.

When a giant gust of wind blew through our broadcast booth, causing a flurry of rosters, lineups, and scorecards to go around the broadcast booth.

And the same gust that blew my hat off my head on August 20th.

At 4:49 p.m. Mike Rose (the same guy who hit that home run that prompted me to say the now famous and cute home run call) makes an out to close out the summer at Autozone Park and me breaking down in tears during the sign-off.

Fast forward six hours later to when of all people, Gary Bennett, hits a game-winning grand slam to win it for the Cardinals in the bottom of the ninth inning.

To beat the Cubs.

And move three games up on Cincinnati.

At approximately 12:02 a.m., I woke up to change the CD in my CD player when I found out that my fantasy baseball team made the playoffs and to top it all off, a picture of myself and the chocolate cutie holding a baseball together on August 20th appears on my desktop.

And left me with a wide smile and a blush redder than the Cardinals’ red caps.

Awwwww……………………………

Sweet sailin’, for now

With a clinch for the championship bracket, the rest of the regular season for me is nothing more than momentum building towards our first matchup in a few weeks.

Going into today, I lead the fifth-place Puce Sox 9 to 1 with an astounding .380 clip, the highest batting average that my team has ever had after three days this season.

After Monday’s action, I was batting .435 with two homers, which would probably give me back the lead for batting average.

With four weeks left, it’s time to cut the fat for the playoffs. I dropped Curtis Granderson from my roster and added much needed pitching help by adding Steve Trachsel to my pitching staff, who got the win for the Mets over San Diego last night.

Paul Konerko also made some waves for us last night by hitting a game-tying homer in last night’s game against the Yankees in Chicago. So far this week, both Konerko and Rolen are hitting well over .500 this week and we should expect more damage from the other hard hitters (Wright, Duncan, and Green) for Doc All-Stars.

I will have my game wrap from tonight’s Reds-Cardinals game in Cincinnati later tonight in this blog.