Lindy's Latte - Week 4

Have you seen the movie, “Night of The Living Dead?” Yes, sometimes the fallen rise. I’m obliged to give a huge shout out to Bobby B for stepping away from the edge of the cliff, dusting himself off and making it mean something to be a Brown again. Not just because he beat Dave, 2013 champion, but because even after losing his number one draft pick and Arian Foster—facing a seemingly unsurmountable point differential, he earned every point of his victory.   

And then there was Sean’s loss. No, I’m not sorry I won, but I admit to wanting to weep as he joined the Walking Dead after making a few hasty errors in choosing his starting lineup. I admit, he would have spanked the Cobra Commanders if only he’d thought things through. But he didn’t and I won. Yay.

Speaking of spankings, both Cheryl and Will deserve gold-plated paddles this week. I especially enjoyed the Randy Moss move. Does he even have a helmet anymore? Pads? I don’t mean Depends, either.

This week will weed out the lucky from the skilled. On to my rankings and projections.

Luck Has It, surprisingly is ranked number one with 442 points! Sorry Nick. I hope you get some good breakfast food in Tacoma. I can recommend some good greasy spoons. Don’t know of any good Irish Coffee pubs there though. This week Cheryl and Will face off for the battle of the golden paddles. Randy Savages has moved up to fourth place with 369 points. By pure projected points averaged by their differential alone, I’d put Cheryl to win this one. But I know Will has a few Savage moves in his pocket so I’m not too sure.

#Free Josh Gordan is now ranked number 2 with 412 points. He’s got an overdeveloped team for sure, but luck was not with him last week. I can’t imagine why he’d ridicule his mother for providing delicious breakfast foods, but apparently he couldn’t find much to else to criticize. Pey-Pey was off form last week and I still won. Unfortunately he’s up agains I Do Like To Play Accounting this week. Corey’s been struggling keeping up with his Fantasy Football team while being a super star at Price Waterhouse. But I think this might be his week. Ranked number 9 with 316 points, he’s  due for a win. My numerical projections give him 65 points to Nick’s 85 but we’ll see.

Sorry Cheryl, but I think the Luck is with Cobra Commanders this week. Ranked third with 389 points we’re playing without Pey-Pey and half of our team this week. But how fortunate to be playing Tenth ranked Staff Infection with a mere 288 points. At last look Curt hadn’t pulled in replacements for his Bye-week players. I hope you’re studying, Curt. Or maybe you thought we went to one of those “pick the loser” formats this year. We miss you.

Another Smith Family duel will have us on the edge of our seats this week. Hocka Flocka Flame, ranked Fifth with 361 points faces a surprisingly Eighth ranked Rank This with 329 points. The numbers have it close and I agree. But something tells me one of these guys will run off with a crazy, unprecedented win. Who will it be? Cheryl, are you serving filet mignon again? Maybe just one for the winner!

Bets are on if there will be anymore Irish Whiskey Birthday cake left by Sunday. But we’ll have some Irish Coffees with breakfast during the Raider game. God knows we’ll need it to digest that. And we’ll have these lovely snacks during the afternoon games.

Cheers!

Lindy (Melinda) Brown is a pseudo-professional golfer and frequent contributor to the Pillsbury Bake Off contest.