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9/6/00
Email Commish
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Week one is in the books and the injury reports are piling up like
a load of dirty dishes after Thanksgiving dinner. How'd your week
one go? Mine was terribly mediocre. We'll get to that in just a
bit. Now that the season has started the old commish will be trimming
the article back to every other week. I know that you guys and gals
can't get enough of me but I don't control the purse strings. You'll
have to click on a few more banner ads for Mike to hire me full-time.
In the mean time let's change our focus and see how we can help
you win a few games.
You'll notice that Mike has added a new box at the top of the page
that keeps you up to date on how my teams did each week. Right now
you can see that I am 2-2-1. The one being a lazy commissioner that
hasn't gotten his act together yet. Let me tell you about this guy.
He waits until one week before the season to call all of the owners
to see who is interested and who isn't. He sets the draft date for
Friday before the start of the season giving his owners less than
a week to prepare. He holds the draft in his basement and blasts
music out of his computer so loud that no one can hear any of the
picks without them being repeated 100 times.
There are supposedly 12 owners in the league, I say 12 because only
7 showed up to draft. One guy had never played fantasy football
before, of course he gets the first pick and borrows someone else's
magazine and takes Edgerrin James. The guys that were there were
each given one other team to draft for, to cover the guys that weren't
there. If that wasn't enough, one week before the season Patrick
Jeffers was draft 6 times!!!! Every damn owner came up to me and
asked me who they should take next… that's great for the frickin'
ego but terrible for my own team. I can't very well say "nah… take
Warrick Dunn instead of Corey Dillon" or how many times can I say
"Well Levens is hurt but is expected back by week 2." I gave so
many stinkin' players away that I felt sick when I left.
Here is my team in that league by the way: Cade McNown, Tony Banks,
(I took my qb's in the LAST TWO ROUNDS!), Curtis Martin, Antowain
Smith, Warrick Dunn, Joey Galloway (looks great now doesn't it!),
Amani Toomer, Torry Holt, Janikowski, Brien, Atlanta and Chicago.
As always happens, the guys that weren't there got the best teams.
Let's look at week one so I can forget about that mess.
Obviously, it was a mess in Dallas. Forget all those people telling
you the old flame is back in the Big D. Besides Galloway, Aikman,
and Cunningham, who will now throw the ball for Mr. Jones team?
If you are looking for a player that might step it up… James McKnight.
Is Chicago ever going to win a close game. The Bears might be this
year's version of the Raiders. McNown looked pretty good but what's
the deal with Curtis Enis? James Allen has been sniffing at the
job for two years maybe he has earned it.
Tiki Barber… contract year. Coincidence? Don't go overboard on the
Tiki man. It can't last.
Curtis Martin... what a touchdown catch. That was just freakin'
unbelievable. The Jets had better improve pretty quickly though
if they are going to hang with Indy and Buffalo. Speaking of Buffalo
what a performance. Johnson better get healthy though and get the
hell out of the pocket. The guy has never finished a game he started
since coming to Buffalo and proving his trying to prove his toughness
is not needed. For crying out loud, Alex Van Pelt is your back-up.
Throw the ball away!
What happened to the vaunted Raider team? They won, but beat the
Chargers badly... please. Don't give me your rivalry cries... That
should have been a smoking.
Finally before I go…. What about Olandis Gary. If the guy runs like
he did with a torn ACL why have it repaired? The team says he might
have done it in the pre-season or the 3rd quarter. Either way it
was ruptured and he played at least a quarter like that... That's
a man.
Sorry one more thing….Jake Plummer sucks!
Here is another tasty recipe!
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C A K E |
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2 cups flour |
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1/4 cup sugar |
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4 tsp baking powder |
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1/4 tsp salt |
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Dash nutmeg |
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1/2 cup butter or margarine |
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1/2 cup milk |
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2 eggs, separated |
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Additional sugar |
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2 pint baskets California strawberries,
stemmed and sliced |
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1 cup whipping cream,
whipped and sweetened |
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Makes 6 servings |
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Nutritional Information Per
Serving: 568 calories; 9 g protein; 33 g fat; 60 g carbohydrate;
168 mg cholesterol. |
| Preheat
oven to 450 degrees. Grease baking sheet; set aside.
Sift flour, sugar, baking powder, salt and nutmeg into
large bowl. Cut in butter to resemble coarse meal. In
bowl blend milk and egg yolks with fork. Stir into flour
mixture to make a soft dough. Divide dough into 6 portions;
form into balls. Pat balls out on baking sheet to 3-inch
circles, moistening fingers with egg whites. Brush circles
with egg whites. Sprinkle with sugar. Bake in center
of oven 10 to 12 minutes until golden. Remove to rack;
cool. Sweeten strawberries, to taste. Halve cakes horizontally.
Assemble on individual plates, filling and garnishing
with strawberries and whipped cream, equally divided.
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| C O M M I S H ' S R
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| LEAGUE |
TYPE |
RECORD |
| CCL |
Dynasty |
1-0 |
| Madison FFL |
Keeper |
0-1 |
| Hoosier FFL |
Re-draft performance |
0-1 |
| CBS Sportsline |
Re-draft yardage |
1-0 |
| Grote FFL |
Idiot performance league |
0-0 |
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