Tag: Fantasy Football
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Week 12 Newsletter: Stay Safe, Stay Hungry
Happy Thanksgiving, everyone! Although 2020 has certainly sucked, we’re all still kicking. Let’s be thankful for what we have, mostly the ability to watch football. Stay safe while eating, drinking, and being a lazy ass today, boys! (cue theme music) RECAP OF LAST WEEK EKEING OUT THE WIN (8-3) DEF. 49ERS (10-1) 117.86 – 109.50 Things EKEing Out The…
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Week 11 Newsletter: To Infinity and Beyond
So, who wants to feel old? The world premiere of Toy Story was 25 years ago today. Back in 1995, animation (particularly 3D) was in its rough stages, Pixar was a fledgling studio hoping to find some success, and no one had ever wondered what their toys do while they’re gone. But then Toy Story happened, spawning a media empire that would…
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Week 10 Newsletter: What is “Sadness”?
Fucking 2020. Can’t you let us have just one day of happiness without something terrible happening immediately afterwards? Saturday saw America flip blue, plenty of great CFB action, and news that the Foo Fighters are releasing a new album in February (their new single, “Shame Shame” is already out). It was altogether a damn good day. I woke…
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Week 9 Newsletter: The John King Fan Club
See this guy? That’s John King. He, not Joe Biden or Donald Trump, is the real winner of the 2020 Presidential Election. King is the CNN anchor in charge of breaking down voting results and trends on a county-by-county basis via a magic wall full of red and blue-colored states. King is incredibly good at…
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Week 8 Newsletter: Feeling the Dodger Blues
For the majority of league members, it seemed like an inevitability only delayed by hilarious incidents of choking. For San Francisco Giants fans, it was the hell that they feared. But for one of us — just one — it was the dream finally realized. Congrats, Nick. Your Los Angeles Dodgers have finally won the World…
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Week 7 Newsletter: The Power of Self-Respect
Twitter is the weirdest social media platform. It’s the least complicated and is generally where a lot of shit starts. The whole “trending” topics thing is particularly interesting, because you honestly never know what will be trending on any given day. Sometimes it’s one of those little one-day challenges or questions only meant to be popular…
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Week 6 Newsletter: Fuck the lakers
Sometimes, ideas for newsletter themes fall right into my lap (Fall Guys, Super Mario, Atlanta). A whole lot of other times, I have to do some work to think of a good idea, or even a serviceable one. Next week’s theme is an example of this. Last year’s ChalkZone theme for Week 15 might be the biggest stretch for a theme…
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Week 5 Newsletter: Lightning Strikes Twice
We have (mostly) made it through a quarter of the NFL regular season. Unfortunately, there may not be much more of the season left. The NFL’s coronavirus situation is getting worse. The chief offenders are the Tennessee Titans, who have seen nearly two dozen players and staff test positive for COVID-19. But the bigger news breaking…
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Week 4 Newsletter: Quarantine & Chill
The devil went down to Georgia (fuck, that should’ve been last week’s theme music) and came back without getting burned. That’s right boys, I somehow survived an entire trip in one of the country’s biggest coronavirus hot spots without catching the damn illness! Now I can look back on my mini vacation without regret. Well,…
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Week 3 Newsletter: Just Peachy
Greetings from Georgia! Yeah, that’s the view from my hotel room. The reason this was sent so early is that I didn’t want to wait until 1 p.m. here in Atlanta for it to be my usual sending time of around 10 a.m. back home. Jet lag is only kicking in a little bit and…
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