Give Me The Rock

Talking about your fantasy team is like blabbing on about the wonderful finger painting your child made in kindergarten the other day. “Look, precious made the grass blue and the sun green.” How cute. Now stop talking to me.

But, since the big fantasy news of the day is either Jamaal Magloire’s first practice with the Dallas Mavericks, or 38-year old PJ Brown joining the Celtics to backup KG, forgive me for talking about a couple of my fantasy teams.

As you may know – through a mix-up somewhere in the series of tubes known as the Internet - I was invited to participate in the CBS 30-Man Expert’s League. Starting with the draft and throughout the year, I channeled my inner Forrest Gump and made idiotic moves that somehow worked out well enough to get me into the playoffs (yes, the playoffs have started in the league already some reason). And then, even though my team sucked hard last week, the team I was playing against completely fell apart and I stumbled to a first round victory.

So, I made it to the Elite Eight in the 30-Man League. And this week, I’m facing off against Brian Flood of Rotoworld and his juggernaut of a team. Somehow, in a league with 30 teams, he ended up with a starting five of Chancey Billups, Joe Johnson, Marvin Williams, Kenyon Martin, and Brad Miller. Compare that to my team of Chris Paul, Ricky Davis, Josh Howard, Andres Nocioni, and Sean Williams and I’m feeling like mine is a little shorter than his (especially with the Ricky Davis we’ve seen lately).

Anyway, here is the entire CBS Elite Eight 30-man bracket:

CBS
1. Jake Payton
vs.
5. Ross Devonport

2. Dave Richard
vs.
3 Tony Mejia

World
1. Rick Kamla (NBA.com/NBATV)
vs.
5. Aaron Gleeman (Rotoworld)

2. Brian Flood (Rotoworld)
vs.
3. Patrick Madden (GiveMeTheRock.com)

I’m already losing to Flood this week, so if you see Chancey Billups walking down the street and you feel like talking a bat to one of his knees, I’m willing to offer you a safe house until things calm down.

In other news, here’s last week’s results from the GMTR Readers league.

Win or lose, that is solid top to bottom. This league is probably the most competitive I’ve ever played in. Week in and week out, every single team in the league is competitive (and this is in week 17!) and it has been an incredibly active and fun league the entire year. I want to thank everyone in the league for playing and keeping it so competitive. You guys are awesome. We’ll definitely do it again next year (and create a second league if the demand is great enough).