This one got out a little later than expected -- I made the mistake of look- ing through USA Today's bonus E section. For anyone who has travel horror stories, this section is definitely good. It essentially shows how a little humor can make things go a lot easier: Departure time came and went, the passengers grew restless, but the jet didn't budge from its gate. That's when the captain brought down the house. "We're sorry for the delay. It seems the machine that smashes your luggage is broken, so we have to smash it by hand and that's taking a little longer." (There are also several photos that go along with the story.) Trade windows start this week and are listed just before next week's games. In short: if your transaction request is sent before the end of your trade window, it will be processed in the order of the trade windows. (An owner at 0-3 would have his tranx processed before an owner at 1-2, even if the tranx from the 1-2 team was sent before the tranx from the 0-3 team -- as long as the 0-3 team's tranx was sent before the end of his trade window.) We've discovered that it works and gives the worse teams an opportunity to try to get better. League IV note: Team 10 (Warlords) is being run by the Yankees (Lg II) for this season. Don't let Eric scare you off. :) He just tends to be a bit aggressive as an owner. Standings ~~~~~~~~~ Record Win Division Pts Pts W L T Pct W L T For Agnst Strk ----------------------------------------------------------- The Apostles 2 1 0 .667 1 0 0 284 263 2W Green Woodpeckers 2 1 0 .667 1 1 0 264 207 1L Red Hot 1 2 0 .333 1 0 0 223 228 2L Braves 0 3 0 .000 0 2 0 210 273 3L Cleveland Browns 3 0 0 1.00 1 0 0 255 218 3W Bloody Butts 2 1 0 .667 2 0 0 275 231 2W LongShots 1 2 0 .333 0 1 0 234 254 1L Wide Boys 1 2 0 .333 0 2 0 225 256 1W Witzy's Warlords 3 0 0 1.00 1 0 0 259 207 3W El Cajon Boxers 2 1 0 .667 1 1 0 233 214 1W Shaolin Monks 1 2 0 .333 0 1 0 245 278 2L Los Borrachos 0 3 0 .000 0 0 0 233 311 3L Results ~~~~~~~ Wide Boys ( 70) Red Hot ( 52) The Apostles ( 71) Green Woodpeckers( 49) LongShots ( 70) Bloody Butts ( 72) Los Borrachos ( 60) Cleveland Browns ( 66) Shaolin Monks ( 38) El Cajon Boxers ( 69) Braves ( 76) Witzy's Warlords ( 89) Waiver Wire ~~~~~~~~~~~ FFL ------------Dropped------------ -------------Added------------- TM TM Pos Player TM Pos Player ~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 10 CIN QB Jeff Blake DET QB Charlie Batch MIN QB Randall Cunningham STL RB Greg Hill BUF WR Eric Moulds SD WR Brian Still NYG HC Jim Fassel 12 NE WR Vincent Brisby DAL WR Ernie Mills 6 NO WR Andre Hastings MIA HC Jimmy Johnson 10 NYG WR Chris Calloway NO RB Ray Zellars 7 ARZ RB Larry Centers GB RB Raymont Harris 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 1 Thursday 10:00AM: Team 8 Thursday 11:00AM: Team 5 Thursday 12:00PM: Team 11 Thursday 1:00PM: Team 9 Thursday 2:00PM: Team 4 Thursday 3:00PM: Team 6 Thursday 4:00PM: Team 2* Thursday 5:00PM: Team 7* Thursday 6:00PM: Team 10* Next Week's Games ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Witzy's Warlords at Mint Hill Maniacs LongShots at Apostles Cleveland Browns at Braves Wide Boys at Green Woodpeckers Shaolin Monks at Bloody Butts Eau Claire SA's at Los Borrachos Arizona at St. Louis Denver at Washington Green Bay at Carolina Jacksonville at Tennessee Kansas City at Philadelphia New Orleans at Indianapolis Oakland at Dallas Seattle at Pittsburgh Minnesota at Chicago Atlanta at San Francisco N.Y. Giants at San Diego Cincinnati at Baltimore Tampa Bay at Detroit