Golden Poo

Well, it's official, my team sucks. I am going through the Fantasy phase of complete disconnect right now. You know the one. Where you just don't care anymore. Nothing you do works. Everyone on your team is hurt. Your over-achievers are now under-achievers. Your stars are performing like shite. You are too busy too care anymore. That's me. Yup. I just spent 3 nights in Hemlock with my family. We snowboarded (which for me is quite an accomplishment). We hot tubbed. We barbecued. We watched movies. And I did all this without any internet connection whatsoever. And you know what, I loved it. That's how I know that it's officially over for my Golden squad.

My team appears destined for a 5th to 7th place finish. This will be my worst finish in the last 6 years. My team fell apart down the stretch with my stars playing mediocre ball (Bosh & Dirk) and my no-namers playing well, like no-namers (Delfino, Maxiell, Hawes, etc). I don't even have anyone to be excited about as a keeper. Sad. Really sad.

It looks like Philly Woo's Seoul team could win his 3rd title in the last 5 years. Wowzers. French, Juan, Chilliwack and now Bangkok are in the thick of things and could still take him down. If French or Bangkok could pull off a victory it would be historical as 4 teams have won the last 10 JBL titles (Golden 5, Chilliwack 2, Seoul 2, and Juan 1). And if Bangkok won it - what an article we would see. It's almost worth seeing.

I thought I would update my top keepers quickly tonight as well. I really like 11 guys for next season. In no particular order...

• Stephen Curry - cream of the crop now. Superstud in the making!
• Kevin Love - solid all around game
• Chris Kaman - good numbers, great hair
• Tyreke Evans - superstar in the making
• Kevin Durant - top 5 Fantasy stud could be had for $43 bucks
• Andray Blatche - since Caron and Jamison were shipped out - he's been the MAN
• Marc Gasol - baby-bro has all around game
• Brook Lopez - can Idaho get out of the basement in order to keep him?
• Monta Ellis - lights out scorer
• Nene - still does it all
• Russell Westbrook - stopped shooting 3's. Way to go youngster.

Just looking at the standings tonight and it appears the battle for steals between Brussels and Idaho could play a HUGE factor in who finishes last. Both of these teams have stud keepers for next season (Brussels has KD, Tyreke, and Blatche while Idaho has Lopez and Jennings). Could you imagine if Brussels finished last and couldn't keep any of those 3? Oh my. What luck for the rest of us as I would love to get my hands on any of those guys.

So, as I mentioned in my previous post, I thought I would discuss the race for 12th. It appears that Trev's Pancakes will avoid the basement. His team is into the 400's now and he has some guys playing for playoff positioning (Wade & Amare) so it appears he's no longer in the equation.

So that leaves 3 teams - Belgrade, Idaho, and Brussels. As I type this Belgrade has 369, Brussels has 345 and Idaho has 329. Idaho is just 1 steal behind Brussels and that would be a 26 point swing. Now, Idaho is likely to need those points as Belgrade is just behind him in scoring - so that would be -20 points for Idaho. Brussels does have room to move in 3PT% so that could help. Looking at the other categories it really appears this is going to come right down to the wire. The good news for Timbo is that he is the defending champion in the baseball pool and can live off that until the JBL draft in October.

I am soooo pumped for that little trip to Vegas in October. It's our 20th JBL draft. We've come a long way since the days of drafting in my parents garage and the common room in the condo in Surrey. I remember when we first started the JBL we didn't even use all the teams in the league. Now, we're going to be drafting for the 20th time and we are following the great Bill Simmons' plan of doing it BIG in Vegas. I guess we'll have to see how 'big' we do it by deciding if we are going to use a hotel's conference room or just do it from the hotel room. I think it's only fitting we use a conference room. Oh boy. I am more excited about the JBL draft in October than I am the baseball draft which is a week away. I guess part of the reason is that I will be auto-piloting the baseball draft as it's the long weekend and we are out for the evening. Oh well. We saw how well Trev's team did on auto-pilot (insert sarcasm here). And honestly, I've done more work on preparing to right the ship for the next JBL season in 2010/11 than I have prepped for the baseball draft. I guess it's because I just don't enjoy watching or following baseball anymore. Last year I didn't watch a single game (even when my starting pitchers were throwing). Oh well. Maybe I will learn to love mediocrity. Anyways, I digress.

For those of you wondering, I have chatted with Marko in Belgrade and he does plan on returning for the 2010/11 season. This is good news for the JBL as Marko has added a lot to the league and everyone I have talked to about him really wants him back. He's been quite busy at work and that's why we haven't heard much from him.

Well, on this topic, the JBL story board has been quiet this season. I do most of my talking here and there aren't a lot of 'posters' to the website lately. I'm sure we'll have a victory smack talk from our eventual winner and I fully expect a 12th place whine from someone vowing victory in 2010/11. I will be posting my year in review and Crikker usually does one as well (in typical Crikker fashion). Anyways, if anyone has something to say...speak up!

OK, I'm out of time for tonight...I will watch my mediocre team finish the season in mediocrity. Salut.