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holy shit... now i gotta figure out my draft board!

i watched iron man last night. it was there. you had to wait for tony stark to get ambushed and captured first.

should you push back the draft date as far as possible, or at lest pull it off the calendar? cos i'm totally gonna be signing in on the 18th at 9:00 and seeing if i can get some $1 steals otherwise...

=Ceetar post_id=33412 time=1584221918 user_id=102] =metsmarathon post_id=33402 time=1584207354 user_id=83] um, are we sure that the ottoneu system is able to draft AFTER march 26th (the original start of the season)?

um, are we sure that the ottoneu system is able to draft AFTER march 26th (the original start of the season)?

i guess that's only fair, since it's previously been the "works with metsmarathon" league....

the keep/drop decision is always the hardest on those high-priced guys who actually perform, when you also desperately need to shed payroll. interesting that you kept the traitorous zach wheeler. i hope he drags your team, and philly's down in flames bwahahahaha!!!! actually, i ain't gots nothing against him, and wish him well. just not too well, from a teams perspective. looks like you did some good pruning, though. me, i feel like i've been regretting some of my keep/drops since i made 'em.

valley vermin is out. boo.

valley vermin is an outsider; a coworker of mine. i'll reach out to him and find out.

movies i saw in order of something... avengers endgame captain marvel frozen 2 lego movie 2 toy story 4 aladdin star wars rise of skywalker ok, so it's the order that i wrote them down. and i might be missing one. they're probably also in order of how much i liked them. bolded movies were seen in an actual theater. i know the last one is in last place for a good reason. we never talked about that movie on here. odd. but it irks me so. i mean, it was a stupid, i-guess-fun ride, with cool visuals. but man, it was stupid and dumb and made even less sense after i thought about it, and then i was mad at myself for thinking about it. ugh. i'm still annoyed by it. anyways... those are the movies i think i saw this year. maybe minus one or two. i've just done a poor job of movie-going, i think.

yeah i just couldn't with the espn league. sorry. it was even more of a burden somehow than the yahoo app/website. and i finished in second, which is like way better than my typical non-ottoneu finish. but still, obviously, definitely all-in on ottoneu. just need to figure out my final cuts.

i'm kindof amazed i got up to second. my pitching was in a shambles at the start of the season, and my offense was terrible, too. we definitely need more players, because i think muddy chickens is going to drop out as well.

well, i'm struggling to find people healthy and/or good enough that i want them anywhere near my starting lineup. ideally i pace myself. particularly with catchers. if a guy is slumping, i don't want to give him games when i might want to have those games in my pocket later in the season. at risk, of course, of a few counting stats.

one of these years (it probably should have been this past year), i'm just going to gut my roster and stick around through the end of the draft to snag all the $1 bargains that are likely to outperform my bevy of $4-$10 players.

I'm all tapped out on available Mets/baseball fans

Finally got off my fat ass and signed up

Oops. Sorry. I'll get to it tonight.

up was the movie where you realize that pixar has learned to weaponize all the feels.

i'll gladly play in a traditional non-auction baseball league.

i'm pissed that i missed out on the last end credits scene - but i had a kid who needed to pee... i thought the movie was tremendous, and loved the artistic style. it really captured the comic book feel. and spider-ham was just.. wow. The kids loved it, though it was a bit too intense for ummR at times. very loud and explosiony at times. but they managed to follow the plot well enough, and weren't overly confused by all the spidermans. or at least they did not relay any such confusion to me. i'm sure the little guys were just like "cool, cool, more spidermans. bring it on" outstanding all around. i'd give it either 5 or 10 stars, depending on the scale, if there was a poll. I'm looking forward to the inevitable sequel.

Centerfield wrote: I'd like to see one of them make it to the big screen. Hopefully without accents and all sorts of mystical kung fu stuff. but don't all asians have mystical kung fu powers?

despite the fact that i was horrible in this season, (actually, i shat the bed in both my leagues this year), i prefer this format to any others. i actually thought i had a puncher's chance until the all star break came along and crushed my dreams with cold reality. i need to find a way to get unspent money. my team is shit, and all overpaid, and yet i struggle to identify where i should clearly make cuts. also, i believe in these guys. much like the mets, i think we turned it around a bit at the end, giving reasons for hope. but, man. i need to look at my pre-season projections to see how badly it all was. yikes!

my one problem with Black Panther is... ok i get it, killmonger is a terrible person, but was he not then the rightful king of wakanda, having defeated t'challa in ritual combat? i guess t'challa didn't fully and irrevocably die, through intervention of others. but doesn't that then circumvent the ritual and the succession rites as well? admittedly, i've only yet been able to watch the movie on the back of the seat in front of me during a recent cross-country flight. but still i have these questions... overall, though, i thought it a terrific movie. i wished killmonger could've been fully redeemed, though his demise was of course the inevitable end of his tragic path. alas, he burned all the flowers (that we know of)

the more i think about the movie, the more i process it, and the backlash, the more i love what they did. i'm curious and excited about what comes next, provided the whiny fan-babies don't ruin it all. i mean, shit, even if TLJ was a pure shitshow, it's a hell of a lot better than what's going on over in DC-movie land. the third lesson (actually, wait, internet sleuthing has determined that it is not in fact the third lesson. but merely a thing that happened and then she left, presumably before receiving the third lesson. but it's still a thing that happened between luke and rey) is described in the book; pretty sure it's not in the movie. i read it literally just last night. haven't checked to see if its in any deleted scenes anywhere (internet sleuthing confirms it is a "deleted scene"). spoiler alert: some boats head towards the island. luke tells rey that it's raiders coming to attack the caregivers; explains that he allows it to happen, as any true jedi knight would - allow what is, to be, or some such. rey is incensed, angry, and desperate to help. she runs down the mountain, bursts into the village where the boats have already landed. and interrupts a party for the fishermen... fishergivers... carefishers...? fishing party... that just returned. luke catches up to her. and explains. what the resistance needs is not a husk of a legend, and old jedi knight. but a fierce, determined warrior ready and willing to take on the enemy and save the imperiled galaxy. this convinces rey what she already knew - that she would not rely on luke skywalker to save the galaxy, but must do it herself.

c'mon guys. the [spoiler alert] bad guy's name was evelyn deavor. how could anyone figure that one out? wait... evelyn deavor. evel yn deavor. evil endeavor. sonofa.. it was there all along! it was an enjoyable movie. but i like the cf/edgy version better. definitely an opportunity missed. the incredibles universe makes no sense right now. where were all these supers lurking about, with their costumes and all that ready to go? i guess the winced endeavor had been gathering them along the way, hoping to put supers back in good favor. but why start with the unknowns instead of the incredibles family? were they just easier to find? so many questions.