Truth and Reconciliation Truth and Reconciliation

(Cue the Wellerman Sea Chanty tune)

There once were a band of managers keen,
With fantasy drafts, keepers, and trades.
They studied stats and scoured the news,
To make their lineup, no time to lose.

Soon may the weekend come,
bring us points and wins and fun,
Sunday, when the matchup is won,
We’ll celebrate and go.

Well, Charles had a strategy so bold,
Plays the waiver wire, fearless and cold,
They look at the matchups and grin with a nod,
Their lineup’s set, ready to shock and awe.

Soon may the weekend come,
Victories sweet and losses numb,
One day, when the season is done,
We'll draft anew and go.

Now Chris he plaid with ...

As the Squish Factor™ celebrates big wins in Week 6, League Managers scaffold their dry and dusty line-ups amid the bye-week drought of Week 7.

T&R welcomes to the pod a special guest who quickly violates our NDA, Non-Compete, and Indemnification clauses simultaneously. Too bad he's more lawyered up than any of us.

The trade block reeks of desperation while the league scrambles to record-manage, both in near-term crisis and long-term outlook, and the relentless sands of time fall heavy and daunting through the cold, heartless hourglass that is our fate.

Could we be more dramatic? No, no we could not.

It's the ...

Just in time for the first cold front of fall, league managers scramble to patch their rosters as Week 5 ushers in the first bye-week blast of the season.

Team Rankings continue to squish as this week's lineup offers a monster head-to-head matchup amidst the mostly pithy slap-fights. And yet, as the wise Bobby Hill once said via his All-American athlete ventriloquist dummy, Chip, "a W's a W anyway you get it."

And as Bobby's dad Hank poetically added, "my son plays with dolls. There, I said it."

Chip is right, and every W matters. But with a bone-dry waiver wire and ...

Surprising Squish has arrived early as Week 4 begins with no team better than 2-1, mostly due to narrow wins and the bad beats brought by happenstance the schedule.

League chatter is lively as waiver activity and trades abound, the latter including significant (but not unequivocal) exchange.

Those with winning records look to increase their margins, while the rest seek a shift in momentum as Week 4 flirts — nay, whispers — of those dreaded, irrecoverable rankings, whose eerie voices can be faintly perceived on the distance but approaching wind. While it's not quite do-or-die, for some, it's certainly time to ...

It's Week 2 in the (P)Ellwood Fantasy Football League, and in addition to learning the P is silent, Week 1 was chock full of surprises. Namely, we were wrong.

Wrong about everything.

Our draft grades? Wrong.

Week 1 predictions? Wrong-o.

Power Rankings? Not even close.

But look. As stated in our fine print, T&R is for entertainment purposes only. Not to sound defensive here, but what do you want from us? I mean, we put ourselves out there, week after week, ya know? We take risks in front of a global audience! (Probably).

And for what? To be told "you're wrong and stupid"?! Well, PARDON ...

Now, here on this ragged patch of earth called the Draft Lobby, hordes face obliteration.

A-ooh!

Just there the barbarians huddle, sheer terror gripping tight their hearts with icy fingers -- knowing full well what merciless horrors they suffered at the swords and spears of the 12.

A-ooh!

The enemy outnumber us a paltry 11 to 1; good odds for any Greek. This day we rescue a world from mysticism and tyranny, and usher in a future brighter than anything we can imagine.

Give thanks, men, to the Ellwood Fantasy Football League, and the brave 12.

A-ooh! A-ooh! A-ooh!

To victory.



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