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 ) Anything To Say to your competitors?
-I know Fatty had a medical issue but perhaps we should get Eben checked out . HIs signature on my baseball clearly looks like early onset Parkinson’s
+I know Fatty had a medical issue but perhaps we should get Wilson checked out . HIs signature on my baseball clearly looks like early onset Parkinson’s
 === Commish’s Take: ===
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 ) Favorite moment of Rockem 17 Draft?
-Eben sitting by himself with zero draft material and still drafting a halfway decent team.
+Wilson sitting by himself with zero draft material and still drafting a halfway decent team.
 ) Anything To Say to your competitors?
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 ) How would you rate your draft (feel free to create your own scale)?
-Bagel-less. I mean for real. Jeff had set the precedence for years and then just stops without telling anyone? Its like if Vig decided not to get drunk and fall asleep or Eben started pronouncing players names correctly. I just don't know what to think anymore. Also, I spent most of the time texting picks to toothless Don, so really had to pay attention. Should have just gotten blind drunk with the rest of you.
+Bagel-less. I mean for real. Jeff had set the precedence for years and then just stops without telling anyone? Its like if Vig decided not to get drunk and fall asleep or Wilson started pronouncing players names correctly. I just don't know what to think anymore. Also, I spent most of the time texting picks to toothless Don, so really had to pay attention. Should have just gotten blind drunk with the rest of you.
 ) One pick you were stoked about, One you should have changed?
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 ) How would you rate your draft (feel free to create your own scale)?
-A 7.5 on the diabetes sugar test (3-5.5 is healthy). For I spent the entire draft fielding questions about whether or not I had Parkinsons Disease. Bull started it. Tom later leapt on with comparisons to Michael J. Fox, and so it goes. "One-Foot-in-the-grave Wilson," and all that. I was shakin worse than Jack White. The night before, rather than eating food, I arrived in The Big Apple and didn't take a bite, but instead immediately met the Commissioner in midtown and tied one on. Then, instead of dinner, we went to Billymarks and doubled the knot. The next morning, instead of inviting me to breakfast, like women do, the Commissioner instructed me to meet him back at Billymarks for a beer. Then I went to Long Island City and started drinking. In consequence, the early hours of the draft are a casserole of faint memories of sticking to a plan I never made while desperately trying to hold a jumping pen still and sign baseballs, like post-cirrhosis Mickey Mantle. In short, I don't think this was the draft that gave me Parkinsons. I think this was the draft that gave me Diabetes. And here's the thing…totally worth it. Most of the time when I return from Rockem the diseases I'm worried about are not treatable. Instead, all that nerve-frayed shaking rounded up to my all-time-favorite draft roster. I haven't heard of 90% of my players. Who the hell is the wonderful and unstoppable Tim Anderson? Who drafted him? The shakes! That's who. And between having my best-performing pitching staff to date (two weeks in, anyway), despite not having drafted a pitcher early, I'm thrilled. This very well may be the fantasy draft equivalent of The Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant–in that nobody lays it out like a dying man.
+A 7.5 on the diabetes sugar test (3-5.5 is healthy). For I spent the entire draft fielding questions about whether or not I had Parkinsons Disease. Bull started it. Tom later leapt on with comparisons to Michael J. Fox, and so it goes. "One-Foot-in-the-grave Wilson," and all that. I was shakin worse than Jack White. The night before, rather than eating food, I arrived in The Big Apple and didn't take a bite, but instead immediately met the Commissioner in midtown. Then, instead of dinner, we went to Billymarks. The next morning, instead of inviting me to breakfast, the Commissioner instructed me to meet him back at Billymarks for a beer. Then I went to Long Island City and had more. In consequence, the early hours of the draft are a casserole of faint memories of sticking to a plan I never made while desperately trying to hold a jumping pen still and sign baseballs, like post-cirrhosis Mickey Mantle. In short, I don't think this was the draft that gave me Parkinsons. I think this was the draft that gave me Diabetes. And here's the thing…totally worth it. Instead, all that nerve-frayed shaking rounded up to my all-time-favorite draft roster. I haven't heard of 90% of my players. Who the hell is the wonderful and unstoppable Tim Anderson? Who drafted him? The shakes! That's who. And between having my best-performing pitching staff to date (two weeks in, anyway), despite not having drafted a pitcher early, I'm thrilled. This very well may be the fantasy draft equivalent of The Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant–in that nobody lays it out like a dying man.
 ) One pick you were stoked about, One you should have changed?
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 ) Whose team are you most impressed with?
-Don's. Either, of course, but actually McNallys. I think his team's got legs this year. He took a Winstonian amount of time on a few of those picks. We'd start to habitually yell at Jeff, only to spot an empty seat and then look over to see Don frantically staring at a computer screen, belaboring critical decisions. That happens when people get pregnant. Critical decisions come slower, sex gets better, you start stressing over space and color schemes like some coked-up interior designer from the 80s, and undergirding every thought is the notion that some erections can cost you upwards of a half-million dollars. That changes a man. It upends his thinking. And if one's Rockem team has historically been a loser, it follows that screwy hormones will change one's approach and foster a winner. You want to turnaround your Rockem team? Knock somebody up. (For further reading, see Birdie). 4) Unfortunately we had a last minute cancellation and we all feel sorry for him, the draft was lesser because of his absence…but what really happened to Fatone??!? He stopped into a church, he passed along the way. He got down on his knees, and he began to pray. California dreaming. In truth I can't say what happened to Fatone. Inference, in his lone case, would only insult the possibilities and undoubtedly come up short. For I know what happens when I'm with Fatone. We all do. Sit on that for a minute. What happens when he doesn't make it is likely the stuff that would make Hunter S. stay in for the night.
+Don's. Either, of course, but actually McNallys. I think his team's got legs this year. He took a Winstonian amount of time on a few of those picks. We'd start to habitually yell at Jeff, only to spot an empty seat and then look over to see Don frantically staring at a computer screen, belaboring critical decisions. That happens when people get pregnant. Critical decisions come slower, you start stressing over space and color schemes like some coked-up interior designer from the 80s, and undergirding every thought is the notion that some erections can cost you upwards of a half-million dollars. That changes a man. It upends his thinking. And if one's Rockem team has historically been a loser, it follows that screwy hormones will change one's approach and foster a winner. You want to turnaround your Rockem team? Knock somebody up. (For further reading, see Birdie).
+) Unfortunately we had a last minute cancellation and we all feel sorry for him, the draft was lesser because of his absence…but what really happened to Fatone??!?
+He stopped into a church, he passed along the way. He got down on his knees, and he began to pray. California dreaming. In truth I can't say what happened to Fatone. Inference, in his lone case, would only insult the possibilities and undoubtedly come up short. For I know what happens when I'm with Fatone. We all do. Sit on that for a minute. What happens when he doesn't make it is likely the stuff that would make Hunter S. stay in for the night.
 ) As we approach middle to late age for all of us…is the draft finally getting too long? Should we look into Pace of Draft rules?
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 ) Anything To Say to your competitors?
-You will be having the victory dinner this year in Washington, DC, at an establishment called Archibalds. Fair warning, it has no champagne room. However–and to paraphrase the study tapes my mother once bought me in middle school–"Where there is a will, there is a way. And where there is a will, there is an A (which stands for Archibalds, where I will see you on the first weekend of December)."
+You will be having the victory dinner this year in Washington, DC.
 === Commish’s Take: ===
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 Ahh but old habits die hard and old names are tough not to call out in a draft room. Sally Perez? Kinsler? Zimmerman (Wilson’s Bouncing Boy) returns home, drafts Pham high but are those stats repeatable? Perhaps the most interesting thing is Wilson's one man closer run. This could make him very active on the trading blocks (looking at you two McNally and Vig). Then again he may need a starter more if Lester, Price, Porcello and Sabathia all pitch their age…
-**Prediction: **Top Third. Somehow I think this team sneaks into the fight for free eats…I am not quite sure how…but I think there is a bit of magic here. Now the real question, will Eben take off his jacket at dinner? or will he just wear his midtown uniform:
+**Prediction: **Top Third. Somehow I think this team sneaks into the fight for free eats…I am not quite sure how…but I think there is a bit of magic here. Now the real question, will Wilson take off his jacket at dinner? or will he just wear his midtown uniform:
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 ) Whose team are you most impressed with?
-Eben, impressed with the closer drafting strategy….lets see if it pans out this year
+Wilson, impressed with the closer drafting strategy….lets see if it pans out this year
 ) Unfortunately we had a last minute cancellation and we all feel sorry for him, the draft was lesser because of his absence…but what really happened to Fatone??!?