Week 9: Who says a little bit of Hate can’t be Fun

	t			h			p			Manager	Team
1	Dave	2.571	1	Dave	2.250	1	Cory	2.333		Arthur	I Hate Dave's Team/Fantasy Sucks
2	Dean	4.429	2	Marcley	3.750	2	Dave	3.000		Max	…Max
3	Cory	4.643	3	Michael	3.750	3	Dean	3.500		Marcley	China Basin
4	BJ	5.000	4	BJ	4.500	4	Paul	4.833		BJ	Thanks for Carp
5	Marcley	5.071	5	Dean	5.125	5	Max	5.667		Keith	Bourbon St
6	Michael	5.357	6	Keith	5.500	6	BJ	5.667		Paul	I Love Fantasy
7	Paul	5.643	7	Paul	6.250	7	Arthur	6.167		Dean	I Hate Dave's Team Name
8	Keith	7.000	8	Cory	6.375	8	Marcley	6.833		Cory	Hebrew Ntl
9	Max	7.214	9	Max	8.375	9	Michael	7.500		Dave	He Hate Me
10	Arthur	7.571	10	Arthur	8.625	10	Keith	9.000		Michael	I Hate Dave's Team Too

Last week was a fun one for most of the league. My condolences to those of you for whom it was not so. We’re not just talking about team performance here either, I will get into that later. For those that missed it, the banter started when Dave jumped out to an early lead on Arthur and Arthur changed his team name to I Hate Dave’s Team. I have personally had that sentiment most of the year, so I got a chuckle out of the name and followed suit, changing my team name to I Hate Dave’s Team Too. Paul noticed later that night and took a shot at Dave’s historic team name and made his team, I Love Fantasy. Paul may not realize this but Dave has in fact had this name before, right after he won his first Floored title back in 2009. The next thing I saw was the actual Dave’s team name being He Hate Me, which I thought was well done. Last to the party, but certainly not too late, Dean tried to get into the fun. After some quick, off-base, yet comical shots at team names directed at Dave himself while Dean texted me, he settled on a team name of I Hate Dave’s Team Name. The exclamation mark on the week’s name games, though, was the man that started it all, Arthur. Dave actually pulled some late-Sunday night magic out of his ass and made what should have been a close match with Arthur into a blowout. It was some really bad luck to be honest. So to cap off the week I woke up this morning to see Arthur’s team name being, Fantasy Sucks. And I got it. I have been there, hell, I have been there this year when I had Dave, himself, on the ropes late into Sunday until his late afternoon guys went off. Fantasy sucks sometimes, but the moral of the story is to try to find some fun in it. We do this for the comradery and we do this for the thrill of the game. And of course, to beat Dave. I Hate Dave’s Team.

Paul topped Keith in a close matchup. The offenses were pretty equal but Paul’s pitching was a tad better. Both of these team’s lost ground on the overall Power Rankings because the rest of the league just went off this week.

In the only other non-blowout of the week, Michael topped Brian and Josh. Their team does not deserve the BJ tag this week, they were fairly monstrous themselves hitting 20 HRs and having a .280 AVG with 56 Runs, my goodness. Michael was just a tad better hitting 82 Hits to a .309 AVG and he streamed his pitchers a little better through the weekend to pick up the win. Oh, and this was the second week that team BJ changed their team name to taunt the opponent, it didn’t work.

Cory nearly shut out Max as Max just wasn’t enough man for Cory. Then again, that’s Mr. General Meyer to us minions. 13 HR with a 280 AVG plus 4 Wins, 6 Saves and a 1.5 ERA. Max ran into a buzzsaw this week, sorry buddy. Cory was the biggest jumper in the Power Rankings this week as he has found an offense to back up that top shelf pitching staff.

Dean beat Marcley by a bigger margin than he probably deserved. Losing most of the close categories, Marcley took one on the chin to the Standings this week. This is not to take away from Dean, he put up good numbers, it’s just that Marcley put up good numbers too.

Last but not least, Arthur lost to Dave. As mentioned earlier, Dave made this one uglier than it was. Arthur had a very good week, Dave just edged him out in basically every close category. These weeks happen. Keep the faith. In Power Rankings notes, Dave actually took a baby step back towards the pack this week. Although this is as big of a nod to how good Cory, Dean, Michael, and BJ’s weeks were as it was about what Dave did.

Monster of the Week: for the thrill of the game, I’m gonna give this to Arthur. There were 4 heavy hitting teams this week so I can’t pick just one, but Arthur started a trend that caught on like Wildfire.

Max of the Week: N/A, this week was too much fun to throw shade.