Under the heading "I shoulda kept my mouth shut".......Buffalo cut Billy Joe Hobert last week after he publicly states the one thing a player never, ever should. Under the heading "RAFFLE '98".......Is it too early for me to determine who I'm going to draft with the first pick overall (in Lg I)? This after I drop yet another game...... :( Anybody stay up late enough to watch the fourth quarter of MNF this week? There was another "classic jinx" moment. A graphic popped up showing the only other NFL game with no TD or turnover -- right before the ball popped loose. The offense recovered, but still............. I'm giving early notice on this: work is going to have me super-swamped for parts of Weeks 10 and 11 (Nov 2-8). The lineups for Week 10 will go out on time Nov 2, but just about everything after that will be on a very delayed basis. The best I'm hoping for is sporadic login time to take care of things. The worst-case scenario is that I won't be able to do anything on the 'net until the following Saturday (Nov 8). (I'm placing my bet on somewhere in between.) For those who have complete 'net access, you can finger my Vnet account (troan@vnet.net) to determine when I was last able to login. This will give you an idea of how delayed things will be. (I switched to a PPP account, but I still telnet into Vnet to pull mail -- for now.) Yet Again: Don't forget about the section in the rules titled "Unresponsive Ownership". A couple more teams are a week away from being contacted under this section. Daylight savings time ends this coming weekend for the U.S. This will add an hour to all deadlines -- relative to GMT/UT. (The normal deadline for lineups will move from 15:00 UT to 16:00 UT.) I also get an extra hour of sleep Saturday night..... :) :) Standings ~~~~~~~~~ Record Division Pts Max Avg Pts Max Avg W L T W L T For PF PF Agnst PA PA ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Damn Yankees 6 2 0 3 1 0 696 131 87 585 87 73 Chesapeake Bay Bombers 5 3 0 2 1 0 664 107 83 640 131 80 Airballers 4 4 0 2 3 0 524 90 66 553 89 69 Philly Nesting Eagles 1 7 0 1 3 0 455 87 57 655 124 82 Nantucket Nightmare 7 1 0 4 1 0 693 106 87 556 118 70 Terminators 5 3 0 2 2 0 617 118 77 572 94 72 Davi's Dawgs 4 4 0 1 2 0 602 119 75 624 93 78 Bayside Ballhogs 3 5 0 1 3 0 626 93 78 674 109 84 Cobras 5 3 0 2 2 0 562 104 70 472 89 59 Kookaburras 4 4 0 4 0 0 486 78 61 532 93 67 Green Bay Smackers 2 6 0 1 2 0 596 124 75 597 104 75 Wichita Linemen 2 6 0 1 4 0 527 85 66 588 119 74 Results ~~~~~~~ Airballers ( 42) Chesapeake Bay Bombers( 73) Wichita Linemen ( 75) Philly Nesting Eagles ( 62) Damn Yankees ( 93) Davi's Dawgs ( 58) Nantucket Nightmare ( 84) Bayside Ballhogs ( 64) Terminators ( 75) Kookaburras ( 53) Cobras (104) Green Bay Smackers ( 62) Waiver Wire ~~~~~~~~~~~ FFL ------------Dropped------------ -------------Added------------- TM TM Pos Player TM Pos Player ~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 4 CHI WR Bobby Engram SEA WR Mike Pritchard Trades ~~~~~~ None this week. Trade Windows ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ All Times Eastern (EDT/EST): Thursday 7:00AM: Team 3 Thursday 8:00AM: Team 12 Thursday 9:00AM: Team 10 Thursday 10:00AM: Team 8 Thursday 11:00AM: Team 9 Thursday 12:00PM: Team 1 Thursday 1:00PM: Team 6 Thursday 2:00PM: Team 11* Thursday 3:00PM: Team 5 Thursday 4:00PM: Team 2 Thursday 5:00PM: Team 4* Thursday 6:00PM: Team 7* Next Week's Games ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Kookaburras at Chesapeake Bay Bombers Davi's Dawgs at Philly Nesting Eagles Cobras at Damn Yankees Green Bay Smackers at Terminators Airballers at Nantucket Nightmare Bayside Ballhogs at Wichita Linemen Baltimore at Washington Cincinnati at NY Giants Dallas at Philadelphia Denver at Buffalo Kansas City at St. Louis Minnesota at Tampa Bay San Francisco at New Orleans Chicago at Miami Tennessee at Arizona Indianapolis at San Diego Jacksonville at Pittsburgh Oakland at Seattle Atlanta at Carolina Green Bay at New England