Boyd’s Baked Goods + recipe 1 September 20, 2007
Posted by boydzone in : points, sports , add a commentBoyd’s Baked Goods has been the main name of my Fantasy Football team since I started playing last year. Occasionally, I’ll switch the name up for fun, but primarily, that’s the one I stick with.
I had high hopes for my fantasy football performance this year: it was my second year playing it, so I had some experience under my belt, and I had also paid more attention to football in general, with access to the NFL Network and a full time job that requires a bit of selfish zone out time, which I normally spend on sports websites…
But half way through my draft, I realized that I was a little more clueless than I thought. I drafted a few injured players (Chester Taylor, Michael Turner) and a bit of an unproven QB (Jay Cutler). Turner had freshly injured his ankle the night before our draft, and Taylor was injured by the arrival of Adrian Peterson and more recently by a hip injury. There were also rumors that he wasn’t a favorite in the locker room.
I ended up grabbing James Jones, the rookie WR in Green Bay that looks pretty good and DJ Hackett who had a decent preseason, but since topped the Yahoo waiver drops due to a high ankle sprain.
Cutler I like because he throws for a good amount of yards and had 9 TDs to 5 Ints in his 5 games last year. Going by those numbers, it would work out to roughly 27TDs to 15 Ints over a full season. Thats almost exactly Peyton Manning’s second year stats.
A ‘friend’ coerced me into joining another fantasy league I willingly did hoping to correct some of my mistakes. I also wanted to draft a couple of guys for fun that I didn’t to take in my first draft. I wanted to grab Marshawn Lynch to see what he can do, Jacoby Jones, who had a great preseaon, and Brandon Jackson, because I thought he looked good in the preseason (though Jackson recently looks to be usurped by rookie D. Wynn)
This draft was an online draft and happened while I was working. It was my first time ever drafting online and though my confidence was high (this being my second draft of the year) I once again crumbled into panic half way through.
I didn’t pay enough attention to the starting roster spots, so I didn’t try to draft 2 QBs and 2 DEF teams since I hadn’t noticed that was how this particular league rolled. I also loaded up on RBs (a weakness in my first draft) only to realize that we were starting 3WRs with an extra in the WR/TE flex spot. Woops.
Now I have two teams sitting at 1-1 in week two.
Fantasy football will throw you for a loop sometimes.
Ronald Curry had 135 yards and a TD in week 1. Cotchery, one of my other 3 string WRs had 52 yards 0 TD. In the second week, against the ’scary’ Ravens D, Cotchery racked up 165, while Curry caught for 12 yards.
All the while Duece McAllister, an acquisition that I was happy about, has 87 rushing yards so far this season running for his 0-2 Saints.
At least thats more than LT, though LT has some more receiving yards and a touchdown pass.
Is its wrong to start to scramble for answers when its only week 3? The Browns took early action by trading their starting QB, allowing for their 2nd stringer to lead them to victory over the division rival Bengals.
Everybody’s not sure if they should get worked up over Philly Eagles’ Mcnabb’s comments about race in the NFL. He seemed to be on the defense, working quickly to get back on the field after his last injury and as the Eagles drafted a QB in the first round. The blue and gold dropped to 0-2 as well. Though Mcnabb hasn’t looked 100%, and because he’s been injured so much, its easy to forget how good he is when he’s on. Though he is getting older and has been out of commission, I wasn’t crazy shocked when the Eagles grabbed Kolb, as eventually the Eagles may be forced to fill a QB void, if Mcnabb doesn’t return to or maintain his form.
I think that every team is going to have to scramble to solve the Patriots riddle this year. They look unbreakable.
I hope they lose a couple games, and I hope I’m tuned it when it happens because it will probably be unbelievable.
Another thing that is unbelievable is how simple it is to make good chocolate chips cookies.
In fact, I named my fantasy team after my love to make these cookies. Basically I use the recipe that comes on the back of the 365 Brand Real Semi-Sweet Chocolate Chips wrapper.
Here it is exactly as its written:
Chocolate Chip Cookies
1 cup softened butter (or margarine)
1 cup granulated sugar
1/2 cup brown sugar
2 eggs
2 tsp vanilla
2 1/3 cups unsifted flour
1 tsp salt
1 tsp baking soda
1-12oz package Chocolate chips
Preheat oven to 375ºF. Cream together softened butter (or margarine), sugars, eggs, and vanilla till fluffy. Combine unsifted flour, salt, and baking soda and stir into creamed mixture. Stir in one 12 oz package of Chocolate Chips (note the capital “C”s). Add 1 cup of chopped walnuts and 1 cup of shredded coconut if desired. Drop from a teaspoon 2 inches apart onto greased cookie sheets. Bake for 10 minutes. Makes 6 dozen.
I don’t think I’ve ever had 72 cookies at the end of the night (or 78 if its a baker’s dozen). I end up with more like 30 lumpy cookies, but they’re tasty. I use real salted butter. I grease my cookie sheets with olive oil and butter. I also replace the chopped walnuts and shredded coconut part (though that sounds good too) with a cup or so of a shredded oat, cinnamon, raisin, and chocolate mixture. The cinnamon might be the secret weapon that sort of slips in like the tooth fairy leaving a silver coin on your tongue.
Cookies are always a good comfort food as the autumn nears and the air starts to bite, or when you need to seek solace from watching your fantasy investments rot like a cavity.