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{Current Mood: Chippy}

Hey, how’s your hammer hangin?

I’m actually going to write about something other than fantasy football for once.

I figure in between notating all of my fantasy exploits, I’ll give my take on some crazy things in the world of sport in a one-liner type format.

If you want to hear me speak objectively about most things sports-related, you’re out of luck because this isn’t ESPN and I feel like talking about things you can’t hear about most other places.

I can’t promise this will be an everyday thing (or even a regular thing) but will try to fit stuff like this in when my schedule allows it.

I like to think I offer a unique perspective and invite any of our readers to chip in with any thoughts on any of the craziness I decide is worth your time.

And before we start, for anyone who’s been following the Fantasy Notebook, I’m currently losing in 4 of my 5 leagues but, between all of them, I have playing tonight: Peyton Manning, Demaryius Thomas, Jacob Tamme, Matt Ryan, & Julio Jones.

I’m within striking/winning distance in all of my leagues while all of my opponents still have at least one person left to play as well.

The biggest challenge will be beating the Lawyer Man in the Ballbusters League since he has a league leading current score of 109 while my dad & I currently have the second highest score of the week at 87 with Peyton Manning left to play (we need 250 yards and 3 TDs from him tonight, or 4 TDs, to win and he has no one left to play).

But the others are manageable: down by 4 with Julio and Tamme to play against Brandon Stokley, down by 8 with Julio and Tamme to play against Matt Prater, down by 2 with Demaryius Thomas to play against Roddy White (in another game where, if I lose, I’ll likely have the second highest score for the week… fuck my life potentially), and up by 24 with Matt Ryan left to play against Julio.

OK Citizens of the Pond, time for the real stuff:

ONE-LINER STUFF

-From Hardballtalk.com: Omar Vizquel is about to pass Babe Ruth on the all-time hits list. Did anyone else know this and does anybody really give a shit or two? …wait for it… wait for it… didn’t think so.

-Sticking with the baseball theme, Deadspin reported that there were people bangin in a bathroom stall at Yankee Stadium yesterday. That’s correct. If you want to check out the post, be prepared for an apparently healthy heaping of pasty, white guy butt. And yes, I just worked the phrase “pasty, white guy butt” into a sports blog.

-From Maxpreps.com: A kid named Thomas Tyner, who plays high school football for Aloha High School in Oregon, ran for 643 yards and 10 TDs. In one game. I can’t even get those numbers in NCAA 13. Unbelievably, it’s only the third largest high school football rushing day ever. The current record is 754 yards by John Giannantonio in from Netcong High School in NJ in 1950. Anyway, this Tyner kid more than doubled his season rushing yardage and TD totals in this one game. The scariest part: he’s playing his college football for the Oregon Ducks next year. He could be a player to watch in the future.

-From Totalprosports.com: This one is about a man named Takanoyama Shuntaro. He’s 29 years old, 6’1’’, 220 pounds, and a non-Japanese champion wrestler in Japan. Only he’s not a professional wrestler, he’s a sumo wrestler. Yes, a 220 pound champion sumo wrestler in Japan. He was actually born in the Czech Republic with a different name (Pavel Bojar) and moved to Japan to follow his dreams of becoming a sumo wrestler. I guess I can kinda get that because there’s really no sport that Czech kids can grow up dreaming to be a grand master of. At least the Japs have sumo wrestling, so why not try it out? This story would be a non-issue if he sucked, but look him up on Youtube…dude’s legit.

-From Tribune-democrat.com: I find it fantastic that two high school football teams in Johnstown, PA paid tribute to “All The Right Moves” when they played each other this past Friday night. Apparently, instead of wearing their normal uniforms, they wore the uniforms of the movie’s two teams: the Ampipe Bulldogs and the Walnut Height Knights… and over 4,500 people were in attendance for this. 4,500 people! I think the best part is that Johnstown High School, who was playing the part of Ampipe, flipped the script being that they trailed 17-6, came back, and held on to win the game.

-A kid at the Phillies-Astros game on Thursday had a sign that said “If I can beat cancer, you can beat the Astros.” Did anyone else see this? The Phillies lost 6-4 and you know they’re done when they can’t even win that game for the poor kid.  

-And finally, from Ncnewsonline.com: I don’t know what’s more messed up: the fact that a 53-year old man Tebowed after stopping his car and knocking a 17-year old kid off his riding mower, or the fact that this man killed himself early Thursday morning. Perhaps he hated Tebow and was trying to smite his good name with this whole ordeal.

That’s all I got for ya’ll this time. I’ll be driving to (and wrestling in) Maine tomorrow so I probably won’t be able to update the Fantasy Notebook with the Week 2 results until Wednesday. Until then, try not to miss me too badly.

Deuces,

-Ray-