Wednesday, April 14, 2010

The terrible threes, fantasy sports and the EPL title race

Well, just when I thought that my wife, girlfriend whatever and I had avoided the terrible two's with our son, we got a rude awakening today. He's closer to three than two, but boy has he all of a sudden decided that behaving is something he'll do when he's good and ready. Its strange, at school he behaves, when he's at his grandparents or for all you Italians out there, his Nonno and Nonna's he behaves, but if you tell him he can't do or have something look out! Its like a hurricane, it hits leaves a trail of devastation and then moves on. I don't negotiate with him though, its just instruction, then consequence, he has to know that he doesn't make decisions in our house yet.

God, fantasy sports are killing my love of teams. I play fantasy football, hockey and basketball, and I find myself paying more attention to my individual players than the teams I support. Its insane. I've even found I have to pick players from teams I loathe in some cases to remain competitive in my leagues. It can be traumatizing. My fantasy football team didn't do very well, but I won my fantasy hockey league and came second in fantasy basketball, because I ran out of games with a week left in the season, next year game management is a priority for me. Oh well, it can be quite profitable if you make the right decisions.

On to the title race, well, Tottenham blew Arsenal right out of the title race today by winning a league game for the first time in 10 years at White Hart Lane today. By losing the North London Derby, Arsenal have left the title race a straight fight between Manchester United and Chelsea. With Chelsea four points up on United, it would seem its the Blues title to lose. However, here is where it gets interesting. Tottenham is one point behind Man. City for the final Champions League spot, they need to beat (or get a better result than City does) this weekend, to give themselves breathing room as Spurs do have to come play at Old Trafford before the end of the season. This makes the standout games of the weekend, the Manchester Derby, (City/United) and the London Derby (Spurs/Chelsea). Well I know which two teams I'm cheering for!

Later, I'll post again after the games this weekend! Feel free to follow me on Twitter if you want. I won't be upset if you don't though!

1 comment:

Dauna said...

O was great for me! Though I don't think I asked him to do anything he didn't want to do (except not nap...he just fell asleep on me anyway).

and its that time of the year. The time of the year when I am a sports widow and can easily get the good tv all the time, because eli doesn't want to be disturbed so he'll use the one in our room so as to flip channels to his heart's content (and not have to share!).