draft order

1st -- pam
2nd -- ian
3rd -- laurie
4th -- kevin
5th -- rege sr.
6th -- rege jr.
7th -- neil
8th -- louis
9th -- diane
10th -- sherrie
11th -- babs
12th -- trent

RATIONALE:
* Allows ample time for all owners to perform due diligence -- especially Ian and Louis, who will be participating by phone.
* Having the draft order set early frees up valuable time for witty repartee as opposed to excruciatin' deliberatin' (a particular wish of Mrs. Commish).
* All grumbling about draft position can take place in the privacy of one's own home instead of at the draft table.

METHODOLOGY:
* Made an alphabetical list of all team names -- from 9th Miss. Cavalry to Your Original Champions.
* Used a random number generator -- www.random.org/form -- to generate a set of numbers from 1 to 12. The set came back as 12, 11, 5, 8, 2, 1, 9, 3, 6, 7, 10, 4.
* Assigned those numbers to the alphabetical list. Thus, 9th Miss. Cavalry picks 12th, Your Original Champions picks fourth, etc., etc.

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added some extra links ...

... so that you, too, can be armed with too much information.

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cumulative records through the years

Laurie: 51-41 (.554 percentage)
Kevin Simard: 52-42-1 (.553)
Sherrie: 49-45 (.521)
Rege Sr. 50-48 (.510)
Babs: 41-40-1 (.506)
Neil: 47-47 (.500)
Louis: 39-39-2 (.500)
Kevin Gallagher: 24-25-2 (.490)
Pam: 31-33-1 (.485)
Diane: 46-49-1 (.484)
Ian: 44-48-1 (.478)
Rege & Babs: 7-8-1 (.469)
Rege Jr.: 36-41-1 (.468)
Trent: 40-51-1 (.440)

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back in business

the league has been renewed for the coming season. i'll spend some time with the site in the next few days.

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all hail the taxmen (again)

For the second time in four years, the Taxmen stand alone at the top of the fantasy heap. No doubt they'll be celebrating in championship style in Costa Rica.

jihad of the ipods

Don't forget -- bring your best tunes for a holiday smackdown.

dirty sanchez will win the championship because ...

... it's just their year. The Sanchez's big four -- Romo, Turner, Williams and Johnston -- always seem to find a way to get the job done, and why should the title game be any different?

taxmen will win the championship because ...

... it's all about matchups, and Taxmen has some good ones -- New Orleans QB Drew Brees and WR Marques Colston vs. the winless Lions, to start with.

that's why they call me mr. sensitive

On the news that Carolina Panthers owner Jerry Richardson needs a heart transplant, the Commish suggested that the Panthers' new rallying cry be WIN ONE FOR THE TICKER.

Mrs. Commish thought it was hilarious, but strangely, some of the Commish's co-workers did not.

as i was saying last week ...

... Two big, big games on the NFL schedule this week, Pittsburgh-Tennessee and Carolina-N.Y. Giants. With Tennessee and the Giants both losing this weekend, these games could decide home field advantage throughout the playoffs.