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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Pittsburgh Pimps 4 4 0 3 1 0 603 103 75 589 105 74 Hell's Kitchen 4 4 0 2 3 0 589 96 74 604 114 76 Little Giants 3 5 0 3 1 0 622 114 78 610 97 76 Dolphins 0 8 0 0 3 0 449 82 56 603 99 75 Grizzlies 6 2 0 3 1 0 650 103 81 547 88 68 Longhorns 6 2 0 4 1 0 595 89 74 544 103 68 Frankfort Fatboys 4 4 0 1 2 0 601 113 75 606 98 76 Sunville SunJewel's 2 6 0 0 4 0 524 85 66 595 85 74 Heathens 6 2 0 2 1 0 653 97 82 545 105 68 Bills 6 2 0 2 0 0 590 107 74 530 113 66 Philzbury Doughboys 4 4 0 1 3 0 616 105 77 635 107 79 Prime Timers 3 5 0 2 3 0 525 82 66 609 88 76 Results ~~~~~~~ Little Giants ( 57) Pittsburgh Pimps ( 66) Hell's Kitchen ( 67) Grizzlies ( 79) Longhorns ( 89) Frankfort Fatboys ( 50) Prime Timers ( 71) Philzbury Doughboys( 55) Dolphins ( 37) Bills ( 56) Sunville SunJewel's( 50) Heathens ( 70) Waiver Wire ~~~~~~~~~~~ FFL ------------Dropped------------ -------------Added------------- TM TM Pos Player TM Pos Player ~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 10 MIA QB Craig Erickson DET D DETROIT 4 NO QB Heath Shuler MIA WR Lamar Thomas 3 WAS WR Michael Westbrook DAL RB Sherman Williams WAS WR Alvin Harper BAL RB Jay Graham DAL RB Sherman Williams DEN QB Jeff Lewis Trades ~~~~~~ None this week. Trade Windows ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ All Times Eastern (EDT/EST): Thursday 7:00AM: Team 1 Thursday 8:00AM: Team 6 Thursday 9:00AM: Team 11 Thursday 10:00AM: Team 4 Thursday 11:00AM: Team 2 Thursday 12:00PM: Team 8 Thursday 1:00PM: Team 3* Thursday 2:00PM: Team 10 Thursday 3:00PM: Team 9 Thursday 4:00PM: Team 7 Thursday 5:00PM: Team 5* Thursday 6:00PM: Team 12* Next Week's Games ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Bills at Hell's Kitchen Philzbury Doughboys at Dolphins Frankfort Fatboys at Pittsburgh Pimps Heathens at Longhorns Little Giants at Sunville SunJewel's Grizzlies at Prime Timers 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