- 09:55 PM
- 11/21/09
I'm back as Sauril's Wideboys. This year I hope to actively participate...
posted by sauril at 05:51 PM on July 24
Nice job, Neil! Thanks for a fun season everyone.
posted by sauril at 09:21 PM on May 16
congrats squealy! last year I sort of forgot about the whole league a couple of weeks in. this year I paid attention for most of it...
posted by sauril at 10:56 AM on May 16
holy crap! I'm a-holding on to second by a thread! and what the hell? 7-0! I think everton was still hung over from the celebrations!
posted by sauril at 12:03 PM on May 12
you're currently 20 point ahead of me! I highly doubt I'm catching you in 1 week and 2 extra games... especially with the trades I'm going to have to do just to field 11 players... grrrr...
posted by sauril at 12:24 PM on May 10
it's tight at the top! I think it's going to come down to who plays...
posted by sauril at 02:53 PM on May 05
Luck luck luck will hopefully be coming to me. I dropped Crouch as i heard he was injured, and then tried to put him back in after I heard Duff wouldn't be playing after all. The subs order was generated automatically. squealy, i have no idea if that was a goal or not, but if it wasn't called, it should have been a penalty and a red card to Cech, although I suspect that ref would have chickened out and gone with a yellow. How Carvahlo escaped without getting booked is beyond me. Garcia probably should have been booked too...
posted by sauril at 02:12 PM on May 04
that's bad, squealy. I've had some fuck ups like that so far this year, too. like leaving a two-game-playing, 9-point-getting defender on the bench while i left in someone who didn't play a few weeks ago. duuhhh...
posted by sauril at 02:13 PM on April 21
w00t! 5 points from the top! And it would have been closer if they hadn't changed Fowler's goal to an own goal...
posted by sauril at 10:49 AM on April 21
Single digit point totals? Ouch. I thought I'd be hosed in this round....
posted by sauril at 05:23 PM on April 18
Ha! I'm catching up squealy, 1 point at a time. Although at this rate, we'll be in the bottom half by the time that happens...
posted by sauril at 11:40 AM on April 11
squealy, looking at our respective teams, I have to think that you're in the driver's seat. My forward line pales in comparison to yours, and with Henry out that game week, I'll only have one playing. Most of my midfield is out as well, and my defence has been a little suspect lately... We'll see I guess.
posted by sauril at 12:01 PM on April 06
thanks for the heads up. I need to pay attention to that stuff. no newcastle then either I guess.... So if anyone had bowyer, I wonder if they awarded negative points...
posted by sauril at 07:01 PM on April 04
I sold hasselbaink after reading that he was gone for the rest of the season. grrrrr... epl fantasy status is so often wrong that I usually ignore it.
posted by sauril at 04:14 PM on March 21
It's crowded at the top! only 11 points separate 1st and 3rd...
posted by sauril at 03:23 PM on March 18
I watched the game live-to-me at 7pm on TSN. It was tough to not know the scores, but actually doing work helped...
posted by sauril at 11:24 AM on March 10
caught the last 25 minutes or so. it really did look like carvahlo held the Barca goalie on the last goal. I'd be pissed off too. Anyone know how the next round works? Is it a re-draw, or is the path to the finals already done?
posted by sauril at 12:14 PM on March 09
I moved this weekend, and messed up. I meant to include him.
posted by sauril at 05:23 PM on March 08
no kidding. points before Henry: 33 points after Henry: 65 the leader now has Henry :P
posted by sauril at 05:13 PM on February 14
I'm done, I think. I've been away for the last couple of weeks, and wasn't following, so... top 3 is my goal...
posted by sauril at 05:20 PM on February 03
Spite and Malice is evil. It's a great 2 player game.
posted by sauril at 04:41 PM on January 19
I'm in. A warning though, I'm a bit of a music geek, so there might be 12 songs nobody's ever heard of on there. Hope that's ok.
posted by sauril at 02:51 PM on January 17
woah. how did I get 60 points without Henry getting anything, without my goalie getting a shutout? ahhhh. wright-philips and Lampard.
posted by sauril at 02:44 PM on January 17
I missed my time in the sun! After week 20 I was up top, only to have two terrible weeks in a row. Time for some rejigging I think.
posted by sauril at 12:31 PM on January 05
2-1 final score. 2 "thanks for showing up" points... still, not a bad week.
posted by sauril at 05:15 PM on December 20
11 points from the top, and I have someone playing today! I can't believe Henry only got 2 points against Portsmouth...
posted by sauril at 12:36 PM on December 20
woohoo!what a week. the magic 6 point crystal palace defender substitution is what did it. I am now closer to 1st than 4th!
posted by sauril at 11:49 AM on December 17
gspm, what kind of work does your wife do? I *might* have a contact or two, but they're probably pretty tenuous. gimme a shout at the email in my profile.
posted by sauril at 01:14 PM on December 16
geek. I imagine that you're at McGill? I just got back from a trip out east, so commenting on some earlier comments... - the clips site works fine for me, even from the front page. - I am an ex-montrealer, and docgonzo is there now, afaik. - That was a whole lot more about concrete than I ever learned in a couple of weeks of my first-year materials course...
posted by sauril at 03:00 PM on December 14
Nihilists! Fuck me. I mean, say what you like about the tenets of National Socialism, Dude, at least it's an ethos.
posted by sauril at 06:04 PM on December 06
it is. It's been around for a while, I think.
posted by sauril at 10:53 AM on December 02
gspm, you been interviewed yet? I already answered the canuck quesitons for you.
posted by sauril at 10:36 PM on December 01
I think the stench is his team selection, really...
posted by sauril at 11:03 AM on December 01
Shoulder season is the time of year when it's too cold to play outside sports, but there's not quite enough snow for snow sports. I don't know why it's called that either ... that's just what it's called, dammit! As for the SpoFi EPL Fantasy League, I predict a top 3 finish for me, but not #1. My team is a little unbalanced right now, and I haven't been making good calls in the last few weeks. But no matter where I finish. It'll be ahead of you, wc2k2... To my rivals. One word: Heskey. He's gold. Trust me on this one. Oh, I think Cisse would be a good deal right now too. Thanks for the interview. That was fun.
posted by sauril at 11:02 AM on December 01
suuuuuure you will. I believe you. You're already settling for 3rd and you're not gonna get even that.
posted by sauril at 04:14 PM on November 30
looks interesting. I'm usually not a fan of Jam bands, but the breakbeat stuff changes things a bit. I'll have to check them out.
posted by sauril at 02:58 PM on November 30
Fucking sellout. har har Yeah, no kidding. There are ideals and then there are ideals, y'know... trox: nope. "couldn't resist, could you?" is a qustions. closer would be "couldn't resist, eh? wc?" smithers, I haven't heard of them. what are they like? To the q: I'm taken. I've been living with a wonderful woman for the past year and a half or so, and she's been extremely supportive over the last month. We're planning on making it permanent one of these days. She's the one who got me into climbing in the first place, and I met her playing ultimate, so we do a lot of sports together. This makes doing those things even more fun, and makes it easy on the relationship. The crazy work schedule should end soon, and as it's shoulder season here still, my summer stuff is done and my winter stuff is just picking up steam, so although I've been busy, I haven't really been doing *that* much. Luckily this stretch is over this week (we have a presentation to do on Friday) and after Wednesday Dec 8, I'm taking a few days off and spending it on my parents' couch. I can't wait.
posted by sauril at 10:01 AM on November 30
BSS are great, aren't they? Be warned that their first album is quite different. Still good, but without the poppy hooks. goddam, I'm the same with dvd's. I'm more pissed off at the anti-competetive user-negative 'features' like region codes and not being able to skip past the stupid copyright statement. I swore I wouldn't get one, but now I have 2, both in computers...
posted by sauril at 09:31 PM on November 29
Yer gettin there, wc! In this part of the world, it's absolutely impossible that sctv is underrated, since it is constantly touted as the best show that is, ever was, or will be. I like it, but not that much. Both those programs are also Ontario - created, which (as you might have heard me rant about before) hardly represent all this country has to offer. To the question: Outside of sports, I read far more than I really should. I'm addicted to quality, interesting science fiction such as Iain M Banks. His non sf stuff as Iain Banks is sheer quality as well. I probably read about 2-3 books a month on average. I also love wierd, odd and "magical realism" books. Rushdie, Murakami and Findlay spring to mind as 3 I've read recently. I browse through magazines if they're there, bur generally only grab them for flights, long car rides and the like. Usually a geek mag like Wired or a sports mag like TWSnow or Gripped. TV and Movies - Don't really watch them. I don't have cable, and the tv's only hooked up if I'm renting a movie. I've also gone off movies recently, I don't really know why. Although again my tastes usually run to the odd. I'm a huge music buff. I've played in a couple of bands no one has ever heard of, and have a collection of CD's, records, and mp3's that numbers in the thousands. I go see live shows whenever I can, but due to location and circumstance, that isn't very often these days. Again, my tastes veer to the odd. I really get off on experimental electronic music in the Autechre vein, and also more interesting rock stuff like Iron and Wine, Broken Social Scene and a huge favourite,Mogwai. I've also been going to see a fair amount of theatre in the last little while. Calgary has a surprisingly strong theatre community for such a cultural ghost-town. I saw a production of The Black Rider last week (which was awesome), and my favourite company just raised $5m for a new space. I just wish I had more time. There are usually 2-3 things that I'd like to be doing every single night, and I never get to do enough of anything that I like.
posted by sauril at 06:52 PM on November 29
It's a huge generalization, of course, Garfield, but I agree. I think it says a lot about the Canadian "personality" (as if there's only one). Of course there are regional variations, too. Here in Alberta, I've noticed that a lot of people use "hey" instead of "eh". There's a noticible increase in use as the education level goes down as well.
posted by sauril at 03:18 PM on November 29
some videos of the goals... http://ronaldo7.footballclips.net/Scoringer-Goals-04-05/England/Premier%20League/November/Uke%204/Liverpool%20-%20%22Immortals%22/ Don't spread it around too much
posted by sauril at 02:12 PM on November 29
It's pretty much the same thing. Although it appears to have a lot less cultural force than in the US. Being in October, it doesn't signal the start to the Christmas season, and we don't get news stories about stranded travellers every year. We do get Turkey and all the fixins, though. Yum. Personally, with my family being from England (I didn't move to Canada until I was 3), it's not that big of a deal. My girlfriend and her large, 5th gen family consider it a huge holiday, though. And just to be a pedant, I have to correct your use of "eh?". "Eh?" is generally used at the end of a declaritive sentence to turn said sentence into a question. It invites the listener into replying. So you would say: "Crappy weather today, eh?" not "how's the weather, eh?". And I've never met anyone who says 'aboot' I have no idea where that comes from. And I want to start one more paragraph with the word "and".
posted by sauril at 02:08 PM on November 29
Have a good Turkey Day, all you USians!
posted by sauril at 11:35 AM on November 25
I had my turkey a month ago. Harvest was a long time ago up here in the GWN. I'll be working this weekend... as per usual November! I'm 33 now. Not ancient by any means, but I definitely have to work a lot harder to stay in shape than I used to. My special regimen of exercise is this: Summer: try to play ultimate 3-4 times a week Winter: try to get to the climbing gym 3-4 times a week. That is all. I hate exercise for exercise's sake. It's a lot easier to run when you're chasing a frisbee or work out the muscles trying to get up a wall. Notice I said try to, though... And as you can possibly imagine, I haven't kept to schedule in November... I also have a new diet: Chicken wings once a month at most. Plus beer. mmmm. lots and lots of delicious beer. lbb - don't knock the tubing, man, that's fun times.
posted by sauril at 11:34 AM on November 25
no shit. I can't wait to see what my friend greg has dreamed up. This is the same guy who invented "smash or dash bingo", where the bingo winner would win a cheesy prize and have the option of smashing it, or dashing off with it. The old tv's were great fun to smash, lemme tell ya. those crt's are an inch thick.
posted by sauril at 04:01 PM on November 24
OK, a question! My favourite mainstream sports are hockey and soccer. Played both as a kid, soccer pretty competetively (my team made it to the semis in provincials a couple of times), hockey really really badly (I didn't start skating until I was 10). My favourite teams are Liverpool, as discussed above, and the Montreal Canadiens because, well, I grew up in Montreal. Hockey is the best sport in the world to watch when it's at its best (like the last olympics), but the NHL in recent years has truly sucked ass. I haven't missed it yet. However, by the time I got to University, I quit sports for beer, girls and bands. Then I fell in love with Ultimate. (stupidest name ever, but I didn't make it). I've been playing for 11 years now and have made it to numerous Canadian Nationals, one World Clubs competition in Scotland and tournaments in Thailand, Hong Kong and all over Canada and some northern States. I still play, but I'm getting a little old to be running after 21 year olds, so I might switch over to Master's this summer. It's quite simply the best game in the world to play and to watch when playing with skilled, but not overly competetive players. I love it. In the winter I get out the old snowboard (I've been riding for about 10 years now), and have been hitting the backcountry stuff as well as the resorts recently. As well, I started rock climbing a couple of years ago. I suck, but it's a great challenge to the body and to the mind as well. I know that I sound like some "x-treme athlete, dood" when I throw those together, but it's not about that. Really. I also joined a dodgeball league that starts in January (really) and a friend of mine is putting together some sort of competetive toboganning thing coming up. There's pretty much nothing a bunch of ultimate players can't make a game out of.
posted by sauril at 03:27 PM on November 24
true, forgot about turkey day.
posted by sauril at 03:00 PM on November 24
* crickets * This is the slowest interview ever. I'll try to be more interesting in my next answer...
posted by sauril at 02:16 PM on November 24
um, man I can't type. that should read "I love that people here can make sports that I have no interest in whatsoever interesting." I need more coffee
posted by sauril at 10:03 AM on November 24
I found SpoFi through MeFi, like many of you I suppose, and I come for the fantasy soccer, general soccer talk, and the smartest sports board I've ever seen. I love that people here can make sports that I have no interest in whatsoever. The recent threads on the basketball riot are a prime example. I don't really care about b-ball, but there were many good points, well thought out opinions and even the occasional changing of a mind... The Red Sox / Yankees threads were more fun than watching the actual games...
posted by sauril at 10:02 AM on November 24
I think I went over the post limit... I completely forget what I was going to say. Ummmmmm.... And sometimes I'm extremely forgetful. yeah. that's it. that's the ticket.
posted by sauril at 06:04 PM on November 23
ahhh wc, I thought you meant you got rid of swp and downing for robben. and I agree 100% with what you said about Liverpool.
posted by sauril at 03:43 PM on November 23
Well, unfortunately (or perhaps fortunately given the current score), the game was not on. So I'm stuck at work reading the updates... Oh well. I think I said this earlier somewhere, but I'm not a tried and true old-school Liverpool fan. I do remember them from way back, watching Rush and Barnes and others with my dad, back when they were winning everything. So they've kind of been stuck in my head a little since then. When I got back into watching soccer, I hung out with a friend of mine who is a Newcastle fan. So I cheered for them a bit, but my heart was never really in it. I stopped following them, and switched my allegience to Liverpool when I started going to watch soccer early Sunday mornings with my (then) new girlfriend. She's a Liverpool fan (mostly because of Michael Owen) and I found myself cheering for them again. That was about 2 years ago, and I've found myself caring, for one reason or another. I can't find it in me to support the team from my old hometown (in the current 2nd division, the Shrimpers), as they're never on tv, it's tough to find news about the lower divisions, and quite frankly, they're not very good. Favourite player that I remember was Ian Rush. I couldn't believe that a scrawny, ugly little guy like him could be so good. I don't remember any specific goal, but I do remember him scoring lots of them. Favourite match was the 4-3 newcastle game about two years ago. what a game, and it was the beginning of my switching alleigence. One great goal I do remember was Gary McAllister boinking it off some poor Chelsea player's head a couple of years ago to win the FA Cup. That was a great game too. At the end of the day, I cheer for Liverpool because it's way more fun to cheer for a team than just be a neutral all the time, they're good, but not Arsenal (yet) and they are most definitely not ManYoo or Chelsea. And sometimes
posted by sauril at 03:41 PM on November 23
good trade for robben, wc, but you realize that while he got you 8 points this week, swp and downing combined for 17...
posted by sauril at 12:53 PM on November 23
Sorry about the triple posting, but I do have one more thing to say about this. I love working for companies like this. Even though my salary is less than what I'd be making on the open market (if I could get a job), there's huge potential upside, and I get some perqs that make up for the big pushes, like going for a 2 hour lunch today to watch Monaco vs Liverpool today :)
posted by sauril at 12:45 PM on November 23
Are You Ready for Some Football?
boy am I sucking ass this year. already... although short week, and berbatov having two games should help...