James wasted what might be the greatest single player score in JLM history. After lamenting his inability to log on to South Carolina's school web site to find the name of the quarterback who will be in control of the Cock 'n Fire offense, James despondently chose to start Georgia QB D.J. Shockley in week one. Well, apparently in this case D.J. stood for Damn Justified. Shockley passed for almost 300 yards, ran for nearly 100, and produced a staggering SIX touchdowns. His total of 58 JLM points has to be at least close to a record score (the official JLM statisticians are poring over reams of data as we speak). Unfortunately James squandered Shockley's big day by choosing an otherwise pathetic squad (I can say this because if you took out the quarterback scores I would have beat him down with or without his kicker faux paux...which I will explain shortly). His other seven choices combined to score either 32 or 45, depending on how generous Larry and I feel. You see, James picked Andy Bailey, kicker, from UGA. Unfortunately Andy Bailey used up his collegiate eligibility roughly around the same time I did. Brandon Coutu is UGA's kicker in the year of our Lord, 2005. Bailey is somewhere collecting Social Security. So James' score is either 90 or 103 (I think...I don't have the scoring spreadsheet anymore so I did all the numbers in my head). Mine was a paltry 72. I won't go into my choice of an alabama quarterback except to say I had to dodge lightning bolts all Saturday long.
Now that I've got all that out of the way I shouldn't gloss over Larry's winning performance. The prescient Doctor of Thinkology (in both the fields of football and electrical engineering - not to be confused with wiring a washing machine) held a deep faith for the Urban Renewal going on in Gainesville and his two Gator picks came up HUGE. QB Chris Leak ran the Utah spread offense to near perfection to the tune of 320 some odd passing yards and 3 touchdowns. Apparently though the spread in spread offense doesn't pertain to getting multiple receivers (such as, ahem, Dallas Baker perhaps???) involved in the scoring. Chad Jackson, Larry's final WR choice, made an astounding four trips to paydirt (three if by air, one if by land) to team with his quarterback for the outrageous total of 71 points. The rest of his choices were solid if not spectacular and his team choice of Mississippi State (probably the first time anyone's picked MSU since the 2000 JLM season) produced the highest team score. Anyway, according to my unofficial numbers Team ThreeTimesaBabyDaddy racked up 124 points to Team There'sThisThingCalledtheInternet's 90 or 103 to Team AtLeastIKickedmyWife'sButtatTennisYesterday's 72.
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James, score is 90. Putting bailey is like saying "That wide receiver for Tennessee" or "That good running back at MSU". We have a standard to uphold with LMJ.
He was listed on the roster on cnnsi.com's website so what can I do. The way I see it, the final rankings don't change, only if we are keeping track of cummulative scores. I'm ok with the ruling and agree that we should maintain a high standard a la, the Catholics from South Bend.
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