It's obviously time for me to again dust off my recruiting skills in order to make sure
the best event of the NFBC weekend in NYC goes off with a full contingent of live participants there for draft day. Now I must clarify that when I say "live" that does include the likes of Joe Thelen who people might think is in fact dead, but really only has one foot in the grave and one on the banana peel.
So please don't mistake this by poking him to be sure when you walk by his seat because this really irritates him especially when he's napping during the draft.
Now as for Dave Deterra, who obviously died several years ago, but through a unique combination of life energy transfer technology, antiquated snack foods, and generic, diet orange soda, has somehow managed to remain animated long enough year in and year out to return for this before being shipped back to Rhode Island and re-frozen into suspended animation until the following draft season rolls around.
But I digress...
The big news is that
we are now officially unofficially down to just four spots remaining for this event!. I received word personally from Andre Bourcier, a newcomer to this competition last year, who got his ass handed to him by me, and is now returning for a second round of shellacking just as soon as he finalizes his travel plans, whatever the hell that means. I mean it's not like you're trying to get to NYC via steamship around the Horn of Africa, Bourcier.
But whatever the case, please make this official with Greg and Tom as soon as you can. We're all happy to have you and your money back this year.
That being said, a few big names will be notably absent from this year's festivities for the first time for a variety of
absolute bullshit reasons.
Steve Jupinka, our resident fading champion of yesteryear, has finally thrown in the towel after back-to-back years of poor showings, and now there is some excuse about a "man problem" he needs to get resolved with a procedure right around the time of the event which is supposedly going to leave him and his wallet too sore to focus on one more league this year. However, Jeff Dobies will be icing him down enough apparently for Jupinka to be able to participate in another auction event with him as he looks to ride Dobies coattails to auction victory glory once again.
Then surprisingly the news came down that the once esteemed and great east coast competitor, and one of the best of the best in the NFBC when it comes to not only winning league titles, but extreme weight loss, binge alcoholic beverage consumption, compulsive gambling, and night club mayhem, Mr. Glenn Schroter himself had bailed. Well this was nearly too much to take, especially for the hotel losing out on all of that extra bar revenue.
I personally contacted him about it, but it was too late. Greg had already been begging and harassing him for days prior about signing up for about another $20,000 worth of events and laying the guilt trip on him pretty thick, so I had no chance with Glenn's nerves already frayed and his patience worn thin from all the Wisconsin whining he'd already endured. I am holding out that he will recant and still yet return to hopefully try to remove what must be quite a sour taste in his mouth from last year's finish when the Schroter juggernaut faded down the stretch and fell out of the money... just another of the Goliath's taken down by yours truly.
There are others, but I will spare them the humiliation for now (after all, "competitors" like Mike Lins really don't need any further humiliation, do they?
) In the meantime, I will keep this thread at or near the top of the boards with interesting content and news as things progress over the next few weeks until this great event is filled.
And now a trip down memory lane...
Yes folks, that was our lovely draft facilitator from the inaugural season of the MTM Super Event who no one paid a stitch of attention to once the draft started, being the good, hardcore fantasy baseball nerds that they were.
However this year I think I have come up with a good solution: To make this event even
more enticing to sign up for, I'm going to make sure that everyone has their very own lovely and extremely attentive draft assistant by their side at their beck and call. So I have taken it upon myself to go out and hire one for each individual competitor signed up for this draft. I will begin by posting each drafter's respective assistant as I recruit and sign them on for this event so that they will have even more to look forward to when they arrive for this amazing draft experience. So let's start with Joe Thelen since I began this post referencing him to begin with. Here is Joe's lovely draft assistant for the upcoming MTM Super this year:
Okay, okay. I'm hoping he won't notice at his age. I had to save a few bucks somewhere, so nobody say anything too harsh about her while you're around him.
Stay tuned. I should have Dave Deterra's draft assistant nailed down by tomorrow night...
"If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving an infant's life, she will choose to save the infant's life without even considering if there are men on base." ~Dave Barry
