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Jonathan Franz
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Maybe this is just my own personal bete noir (thank you Thesaurus.com!) but if you have, say, 11 people tied for 1st place the next highest score would be 12th place. And if you have 25 people tied for 12th place, the next highest score would be 37th place. And so on.
Personally, my ego would much rather be tied for 2nd place, but my peevishness insists I’m tied for 12th.
Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss. -- Lou Mannheim, Wall Street
How about that tangled web at the top of the most recent basketball standings?
No one helped ANYONE by trading the season series. It took an Evan Turner powered run to decide who REALLY won the Big Ten.
Can Abbrederis shoot the long three and effectively distribute the ball to his big men?
"Because one of the great minds of the 21st century is raising glow-in-the-dark fish and weaving serapes..." -Leonard Hofstadter from The Big Bang Theory
For all the crap we give Wil Wheaton, he can still tackle better than Asante Samuel...
by OBrienSchofieldismyHero on Sep 8, 2010 6:32 PM CDT up reply actions
Just to make a record of this:
You are so going down Graham.
Off Tackle Empire - Ruling on the Big Ten since 2008.
Noted.
Will you act upon this?
Can Abbrederis shoot the long three and effectively distribute the ball to his big men?
"Because one of the great minds of the 21st century is raising glow-in-the-dark fish and weaving serapes..." -Leonard Hofstadter from The Big Bang Theory
For all the crap we give Wil Wheaton, he can still tackle better than Asante Samuel...
by OBrienSchofieldismyHero on Sep 8, 2010 6:43 PM CDT up reply actions
no way
it’s my time
…my time to take a commanding lead and piss it away during bowl season, per usual
Off Tackle Empire
The quintessential Big Ten smoking room.
by Graham Filler on Sep 8, 2010 6:53 PM CDT up reply actions
Sounds like a Les Miles gameplan right there...
Would Michigan fans want Miles or Harbaugh? Miles would constantly lose preventable games with TERRIBLE clock management, Harbaugh would get an amazing running back and still lose a pair of conference games (but holy CR@P he could annihilate USC!), and RR is…hanging in the wind until he pulls a bowl game out of a hat?
Can Abbrederis shoot the long three and effectively distribute the ball to his big men?
"Because one of the great minds of the 21st century is raising glow-in-the-dark fish and weaving serapes..." -Leonard Hofstadter from The Big Bang Theory
For all the crap we give Wil Wheaton, he can still tackle better than Asante Samuel...
by OBrienSchofieldismyHero on Sep 8, 2010 6:58 PM CDT up reply actions
I love prediction competitions like this
They remind I shouldn’t gamble with actual money.
Reality has a little-known Northwestern bias
NU prez knows how to get PUMPED
I'll start going down hill soon.
Once the overpowering urge to pick my favorite team, and not the better team, overtakes me.
and i sit in dead last
all alone.
i am the zooker.
When I was a kid, I didn't want to be a doctor or a fireman. I wanted to be Super Mario. It's the most literal pipe dream I've ever had.
Clearly something is wrong
if I am tied with Ted in third place. I just don’t know…
Can Abbrederis shoot the long three and effectively distribute the ball to his big men?
"Because one of the great minds of the 21st century is raising glow-in-the-dark fish and weaving serapes..." -Leonard Hofstadter from The Big Bang Theory
For all the crap we give Wil Wheaton, he can still tackle better than Asante Samuel...
by OBrienSchofieldismyHero on Sep 8, 2010 10:58 PM CDT reply actions
I clearly expected way too much from Purdue and UConn.
That’s the only reason that could possibly explain my score at this point.
The bad offensive playcalling of Frank Beamer may have saved by OPC score, but…it damaged my soul. Ouchies!
Can Abbrederis shoot the long three and effectively distribute the ball to his big men?
"Because one of the great minds of the 21st century is raising glow-in-the-dark fish and weaving serapes..." -Leonard Hofstadter from The Big Bang Theory
For all the crap we give Wil Wheaton, he can still tackle better than Asante Samuel...
by OBrienSchofieldismyHero on Sep 8, 2010 11:25 PM CDT up reply actions
You can't let your hopes and dreams
get in the way of logic.
Off Tackle Empire - Ruling on the Big Ten since 2008.
Or else you end up like U-God, Illinois, and Purdue?
At the bottom of the standings that matter?
Can Abbrederis shoot the long three and effectively distribute the ball to his big men?
"Because one of the great minds of the 21st century is raising glow-in-the-dark fish and weaving serapes..." -Leonard Hofstadter from The Big Bang Theory
For all the crap we give Wil Wheaton, he can still tackle better than Asante Samuel...
by OBrienSchofieldismyHero on Sep 9, 2010 2:27 PM CDT up reply actions
I blame Frank Beamer
for my inability to get the sweep.
But for me, this is the apex. It all goes downhill from here. Probably like the Gophers season. I kid, I kid…
"Whoever said that the pen is mightier than the sword never encountered automatic weapons."
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