This blog entry could have been a bit funnier if my wife had actually let me name our boys Ace and Deuce (and eventually Trey for a third) like I preferred. I thought it was brilliant (Costanza-style) and it would simplify keeping track of them while making introductions very easy at public events or company picnics. I wouldn’t have to remember who was the oldest son. I would just say meet my sons Ace and Deuce. Plus, imagine the sports names!
But I digress…
The real reason for the Ace comment is that I went and scored my first ever hole-in-one on the first hole of the company tournament yesterday on my first swing of the day (showed up too late for a bucket of balls ala Tin Cup minus the hangover). After 20 years of playing the game and maybe a thousand rounds of golf, I finally plunked one (a 4 iron to a pin tucked in the back over a bunker on a 177 yard hole slightly uphill into a crosswind) and I never saw it. Damn morning sun was in my eyes but I got the gallery reaction from the group in front of us and it was a moment. The beauty of doing it at a company tourney is that you get congratulations every hour at work. It’s kind of nice to have to explain and relive it each hour.
Oh and I won a golf vacation for two. Do I share it with the guy who gave up his spot on that team so I could play that hole at that moment or my brother who loaned (bequeathed at this point) his irons to me? You’re right, it will be my wife.
Anyway, no more Deuce in 2007. Probably no more Rex either after he has rightfully lost his starting job this afternoon to Brian (my dad will never leave the spotlight) Griese. Poor guy. 10 years in the league, a Probowl in 2000, winning record overall (39-33) and all we remember to say is “oh yeah, Bob’s kid”. Neither Rex or Deuce will be missed really after their horrible starts to the season. Probably makes decisions a little easier.
Now bigger ramifications will be felt by those RBs who will could miss games or be affected negatively in their next start include S. Jackson (groin), F. Gore (hand again), R. Johnson (hammy), S. Alexander (wrist), Westbrook (ribs, knee) and J. Jones (concussion). Brian Leonard (STL) and Maurice Morris (SEA) have been flying off the waiver wires this week. I slyly picked up Kenny Watson (CIN) in front of my co-commish (owns Rudi) in one league to replace Deuce. The wily veteran Aaron Stecker (NO) should be getting some looks in deeper leagues as well. Keep an eye on these guys in the next week or two. There might be gold and there might be a lump of coal in that stocking. You never know.
By the way, I cut Olindo Mare in every league I owned him (3 of 4). Unfortunately he is a product of his team and that is horrible right now.
I managed to go 2-2 this week in my leagues. On Brees’ 4th pick last night, I lost one game by one point and won another by two points. That’s how it rolls in FF.
Well, I’m off to practice up for my next charity tourney in a couple weeks. I hear they’re giving away a car for a hole in one. That would be good.
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