| Lost the Champ game in Fantasy Football |
[Dec. 22nd, 2009|11:27 am] |
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122 to 78.5 the Queens Village Bulldogs kiill my Monte Carlo Hucksters in the Championship game of the League of the Hidden Temple in my Fantasy Football... Always next year! |
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| Xmas 10 days away! |
[Dec. 15th, 2009|06:56 pm] |
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I am watching xmas movies with Tristan and he is all sicky and I been taking care of him but we have had a great day. Watched a few movies and had some Chinese food! Anyone out there still read this? :)
hohoho!!! |
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| Zendikar hints and my thoughts |
[Aug. 31st, 2009|09:53 pm] |
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* A card that is a two-card kill combo with a rare card in Magic 2010. - this will be a life gain card thing i think?
* A spell capable of making a 14/1 token. - my guess is this is bad rare...
* A creature that can sacrifice itself to make a planeswalker go to the graveyard. Hope this rare/uncommon is good white creature... 3 cc or less not higher
* A legendary octopus - I WANT him to be god!! hehe!! my guess is limited bomb
* A spell that can allow you for no mana to put a creature from your library into play. TRAP Green card.
* A card with the reminder text "The land continues to burn..." No idea?!
* A card that allows you to pay eight mana for four 4/4 fliers Bad blue card?
* A creature whose rules text includes the phrase "you win the game." God i want this to be a fun mythic rare... black is my guess
* A cycle of cards that players have been begging us to print for years. enmy fetchs is everyones guess... i hope not...
In addition, here are a few card names from the set:
* Electropotence - red card draw like enchatnment?
* Grappling Hook - limited equipment
* Journey to Nowhere - exile a land?
* Lotus Cobra - artifact mana snake?
* Sphinx of Lost Truths - bad blue rare
* Vampire's Bite - death touch burn black spell?
15 clues... ill let you know my results in a few weeks. |
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| M10 brings the need of a 4of in EVERY SB |
[Jul. 28th, 2009|10:35 am] |
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*** Here are the card counts for the entirety of the Top 8 of US National 09... all Stags were in the SB... what a joke...
32: Great Sable Stag
31: Volcanic Fallout, Reflecting Pool
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20: Vivid Marsh
19: Vivid Crag
18: Mulldrifter
17:
16: Vivid Creek, Cryptic Command, Esper Charm
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14:
13: Vivid Meadow, Hallowed Burial
12: Sunken Ruins, Bloodbraid Elf, Kitchen Finks, Plumeveil, Putrid Leech, Broken Ambitions
11: Island, Vivid Grove, Broodmate Dragon, Anathemancer, Cruel Ultimatum, Firespout
10: Twilight Mire, Ajani Vengeant, Deathmark, Maelstrom Pulse
9: Runed Halo
8: Cascade Bluffs, Mystic Gate, Shriekmaw, Lightning Bolt, Makeshift Mannequin, Negate
7: Mountain
6: Fire-Lit Thicket, Caldera Hellion, Cloudthresher, Identity Crisis, Thought Hemorrhage
5: Forest, Essence Scatter, Infest, Jace Beleren, Path to Exile
4: Exotic Orchard, Graven Cairns, Mutavault, Rugged Prairie, Savage Lands, Boggart Ram-Gang, Agony Warp, Bituminous Blast, Goblin Assault
3: Plains, Swamp, Blightning, Doom Blade, Guttural Response, Hindering Light, Liliana Vess, Scepter of Fugue, Sign in Blood
2: Sygg, River Cutthroat, Armillary Sphere, Earthquake, Elspeth, Knight Errant, Obelisk of Alara, Snakeform
1: Call the Skybreaker, Martial Coup, Pithing Needle
0: All the rest of them… |
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| Magic "news" |
[Jul. 18th, 2009|12:30 pm] |
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Standoff In Honolulu
Posted on July 18, 2009
Filed Under Articles, V. Wedge |
The big story of the Honolulu Pro Tour wasn’t Kazuya Mitamura’s $40,000 victory in the finals. The big story happened in the first round, where a young boy known only as Hans did something that is causing many to call him a hero.
Hans’s game was looking unwinnable. He had a negative life total and was kept alive only by his Platinum Angel. His opponent had just cast a Molder Slug, threatening to remove the Angel — Hans’s only artifact — at the beginning of his next turn.
But when it got to that next turn, Hans would say a word that would put the whole series of events in motion. A word that would send ripples throughout Magic history. A word that would cement Hans’s legendary status.
Hans stared at his opponent and said, “No.”
His opponent was taken aback. “Judge!” said the opponent. “He’s refusing to follow my Molder Slug’s triggered ability.”
“Refusing?”
“Refusing.”
“Is this true, Hans?”
Hans nodded.
The judge said, “I have to issue you a game loss, Hans.”
Hans pointed to his Platinum Angel. “I can’t lose the game,” he said. And with that, he proceeded to his draw step, undaunted by the judge’s ruling. Then he skimmed through his deck for marked cards and put those into his hand as well.
“You’re violating multiple game rules,” said the judge, “in addition to ignoring my ruling, and I am issuing a game loss to you.”
Hans, his finger still stuck to the Platinum Angel, like a modern day Little Dutch Boy with his finger plugging the leak in the dike, said, “You can issue all the game losses you want, but with my Platinum Angel in play, they have no effect.” Hans proceded to the attack phase and swung for 4 with his Angel. He then looked at his opponent’s face-down morphs, referred to outside notes, and substituted cards from his sideboard.
The judge stood before him, flummoxed. Without saying a word, Hans merely looked at the judge while pointing to the Platinum Angel.
It was when Hans cast a Demonic Attorney that the head judge was called over. “Ante cards are banned,” the head judge said. “That’s a complete violation of the rules.” But when he saw Hans’s Platinum Angel in play, he was quieted. He knew he was defeated.
Hans said, “Since the Demonic Attorney’s in the game, we have to do what it says.” He proceeded to put the top card of his opponent’s deck into his trade binder.
The head judge frowned in disapproval. “He’s right.”
It was a matter of hours before Hans owned his opponent’s entire deck, as well many other cards from his opponent’s collection, thanks to a Mindslaver and Ring of Ma’rûf. Each time judges tried to issue Hans a game loss for casting cards without mana, or playing cards in his graveyard, Hans merely pointed to his Platinum Angel.
The cards Hans didn’t want to take from his opponent he tore up, due to interactions involving Chaos Confetti, March of the Machines, and Cytoshape.
Having by this time gathered quite a crowd, Hans produced a folded and wrinkled copy of the DCI Infraction Procedure Guide from his pocket and began skimming it for ideas. He noticed that kicking an opponent’s chair out from under them was listed under “Unsportsmanlike Conduct,” so he did just that. He also kicked the chairs out from under several other nearby players and spectators.
The sun was starting to set. The judges had not even attempted to give Hans a game loss for stalling. One by one, they had hanged their heads and walked away, resigned to their powerlessness in the face of the Platinum Angel. Then one of them hatched a plan. “I know who we can call,” the judge exclaimed.
The next morning, Hans was woken by a voice blaring across the room from a police loudspeaker. “Hans,” the voice said, “this is your mother. I love you. Please sacrifice your Platinum Angel to the Molder Slug’s triggered ability so this can all end.”
Hans lifted his head, looked around the room, and kicked his opponent’s chair out from under him once more.
“Hans,” his mother said, “we miss you. We just want you to come home.”
Hans yawned, cast the Unglued card Handcuffs, and ordered his opponent to touch his hands together.
It was Day Four of the standoff when another voice blared across the room. “Hans,” the voice said, “this is your fiancé. There are only two more days until our wedding, honey. Don’t you still want to get married? You have to end this game now, Hans. Please just sacrifice the Platinum Angel to the Molder Slug. We love you. We’re worried about you.”
Hans’s mouth hung open, agape. A tear came to his eye. “Marcia,” he said. “I love you too.” He looked about him, seemingly aghast at what he had done. “I…” he paused. “I concede.”
A flurry of applause burst through the room. Judges began high-fiving each other and giving Marcia hugs. “Unfortunately,” Hans said, “the concession has no effect since my Platinum Angel is still in play.”
It was two weeks into the game when the military showed up. “Hans,” came a voice from a helicopter. “We have you surrounded. If you do not concede immediately, we will open fire.”
Hans looked up at the helicopter, over at the tanks, and across the street at the snipers. He was still pointing to the Platinum Angel, as stoically as ever.
To this day, a sleeved Platinum Angel remains embedded in Hans’s tombstone. Hans may have lost his life that day, but he never lost the game. |
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| Red Deck Loses |
[Jul. 18th, 2009|11:31 am] |
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I went 3-1 last night at FNM and didnt finish in top 4 based on tie breakers... my guess is i was 6 or 7th... my tie breakers sucked ass after getting paired down... This was the first FNM with M10 playable. Here is the list i played:
4 Tattermunge Maniac
4 Flamekin Harbinger (he is so fun!)
4 Lightning Bolts
4 Magma Spray
4 Hellspark Elemental
4 Ball Lightning (fuck yea he is back and i love him!)
2 Countryside Crushers (need more ram-gangs)
1 Hell's Thunder (i never tutored for him and sided him out most games)
1 Fluminator Mage (tutor for Stone rain was MVP)
1 Boggart Ram-Gang (need to get 3 more)
4 Flame Javelin's
3 Volcanic Fallout's
1 Banfire
23 Mountains |
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| Disney! |
[Jun. 12th, 2009|11:20 pm] |
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I should be alseep! but im too excited! off to disney we go!
love you all~!
Jeff |
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| 11 days till Disney world!! |
[Jun. 2nd, 2009|07:29 pm] |
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This is going to be great! Much like this from the movie Vaction
Clark: I think you're all fucked in the head. We're ten hours from the fucking fun park and you want to bail out. Well I'll tell you something. This is no longer a vacation. It's a quest. It's a quest for fun. I'm gonna have fun and you're gonna have fun. We're all gonna have so much fucking fun we'll need plastic surgeory to remove our godamn smiles. You'll be whistling 'Zip-A-Dee Doo-Dah' out of you're assholes! I gotta be crazy! I'm on a pilgrimage to see a moose. Praise Marty Moose! Holy Shit!
Rusty Griswold: [Grab's Clars shoulder] Dad, you wan an Asprin?
Clark: DON'T TOUCH! |
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| 5/8 FNM winning deck list |
[May. 10th, 2009|02:16 am] |
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In only my second try i went 5-0 and won FNM out of 34 players. Here is the list i used:
17 Forest
4 Treetop Village
1 Boggart Ram-Gang
4 Bramblewood Paragon
4 Imperious Perfect
4 Llanowar Elves
4 Nettle Sentinel
4 Tattermunge Maniac
4 Twinblade Slasher
4 Wren's Run Vanquisher
4 Giant Growth
3 Obsidian Battle-Axe
3 Snakeform
SB:
2 Cloudthresher
2 Guttural Response
1 Hurricane
2 Overrun
1 Snakeform
1 Tower Above
1 Pithing Needle
1 Forest
3 Kitchen Finks
1 ??? forget
1st round Mono White
2nd Mono U mill sanity deck
3rd Rock Doren
4th White Agro
5 Blighting RB burn deck
6th we only played one game before we called it a night and his elf ball/bomb deck nuked me
so 5-0 to win and a draw in finals i would of lost! heh |
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| Derby day!!! |
[May. 2nd, 2009|02:21 pm] |
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1 West Side Bernie
2 Musket Man
3 Mr. Hot Stuff
4 Advice
5 Hold Me Back
6 Friesan Fire (I pick this one to win)
7 Papa Clem
8 Mine That Bird
9 Join in the Dance
10 Regal Ransom
11 Chocolate Candy (may pull off a surprising win!)
12 General Quarters
13 I Want Revenge
14 Atomic Rain
15 Dunkirk (this one in second)
16 Pioneer of the Nile
17 Summer Bird
18 Nowhere to Hide
19 Desert Party (This one in 3rd)
20 Flying Private
Pick your winners!! |
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| Last Day |
[Apr. 3rd, 2009|03:17 pm] |
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Here it is! 3 years and 7 months of working at Dechert and it comes as a close as the worlds economic times falls.
Wish me luck and keep me in good spirits!
Love you all
Best Wishes
Jeff |
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| Final week at Dechert |
[Mar. 31st, 2009|11:24 am] |
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4/3/09 is my last day.
This week I am showing my replacement the ropes. She is a nice person so i hope things work out well for her. |
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| 12 of the sweet 16 right.. |
[Mar. 23rd, 2009|11:27 am] |
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12 is not bad! My elight 8 are all still in tact.
Last year i had 13 of the 16 so this year not as good...
The 4 teams I had in the sweet 16 that didn't make it are...
Utah.. lost in round one badly to Arizona
Texas lost a good game to Duke...
Western Kentucky did beat Illonis but lost a close game to Gonzaga...
The worst pick was Temple... they let me down the most...
Kelli maybe winning us some lotto tickets or something in her office firm pool! :D |
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| WVU going to freaking lose to lame Dayton.... |
[Mar. 20th, 2009|05:12 pm] |
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What a joke.... they need a mircle to win down by 5 with 2 minuites to go...
Sigh!
I knew there draw was BAD getting Kansas in round two... i guess the team just couldnt deal with missing so many 3 point shots and there best players fouling out... sigh....
Guess ill watch baseball or hockey or something till football season... |
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| Memphis wins! |
[Mar. 19th, 2009|05:11 pm] |
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Drinking beer and eating wings at work is fun!! :D |
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| March Maddness maybe over!? |
[Mar. 19th, 2009|01:56 pm] |
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Yes... just an hour into the marchmadness and my pick to win it all is LOSING!! Thats right my #2 seed Memphis is losing to **looks up name of shitty small school** Cal State Northridge!!?! REALY?!! so ummm my other 4 final four teams are UNC, Villanova and Michagin St.... so yeah well... LOL..
I have never had my "winner" lose in round one... god! hell i should of picked WVU to run the table lol! |
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| Jason Taylor was cut by the Redskins!? Dacning with a FALLING Stars? |
[Mar. 5th, 2009|12:19 pm] |
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OMG!! What a joke!! read this!
Jason Taylor was cut by the Redskins this week because he refused to agree to the team’s offseason workout clause. The clause would’ve required Taylor to attend 75% of the team’s workouts from mid-March through May. In return, Taylor would receive a $500,000 bonus. Taylor presumably refused this because attending the workouts in Ashburn, VA would’ve meant time away from his family in Florida.
In a post on his blog titled “JT Hates Money,” Redskins tight end Chris Cooley breaks down the madness of Taylor’s decision:
For JT to reach his 75 percent requirement of the deal, he would have had to be hear [sic] for 39 days. Had he arrived and worked for the 39 days he would have been compensated $12,820 per day. That is unreal to me! Most people pay their own money to go to the gym, but almost 13 thousand dollars a day is a pretty good membership in the other direction. Again, I will not judge this decision and I have no idea what his bank account could possibly be, but that's a [crap] ton of money. As for my end of the off season, I will be required to make 42 days to reach my bonus. I again would receive a check grossing $100,000. This would pay me $2300 per workout. Still pretty awesome and enough to get me into the gym.
Obviously, Cooley has a point: That’s an absurd amount of money to turn down just to lift some weights a few times a week (not to mention the $8 mil salary he lost out on by not agreed to the clause). But there are two other factors to consider:
1) 39 days away from the family during the offseason -- those few precious months that athletes actually get to spend with the wife and kids -- is a lot to ask, I’d imagine. Of course, I’m a blogger with no family of my own, so maybe that’s not the case. Vinny Cerrato pointed out that Clinton Portis has no problem reaching his 75% quota, and he lives in Florida as well. But Portis is also a single man.
2) Maybe Jason Taylor just didn’t want to be a Redskin and this was his out clause.
Either way, as Redskins fan, I’m not one bit sad to see Taylor go and the team keep its $8 million-plus. Although I certainly would like to have back those two draft picks the Skins traded to Miami for Taylor’s half-season of sub-par performance. |
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| NFL News! |
[Mar. 5th, 2009|12:10 pm] |
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Laveranues Coles signs with Cinncy! I am soooo taking him as my # Wide out next year!!
OoOOO and that other "good" wide out TO was CUT by the Cowboys!! hehe!!
My guess is Broncos or Raiders sign him... Anyone else want to guess??? |
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