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Women Against Fantasy Sports

Pretty funny site that was just launched and very timely with the upcoming fantasy season. Looks very authentic but i did some research from the WHOIS database and found that Azar McMaster owns the domain. He's a recent Wharton MBA from Utah and apparently has a decent sense of humor.  Site gets by on selling t-shirts.

A "fantasy widow" writes on the site:

So a little background…I am a 35 year-old mother of two girls and have been married 12 years to a Fantasy Football Junkie. Now, it didn’t always used to be like this. We had many, many years of good football times. Even though my husband and I came from different cities we still appreciated the other’s love of their teams. Hell, I even became a true EAGLES fan! I love them! Except when they are playing the 49ers…then all bets are off.

 

So here’s where things started to turn. It was about 4 years ago when my husband started to play Fantasy Football. At first I encouraged him (I mean heck go do SOMETHING!)… Had I known where this would lead I may have not been so eager for him to take up this new “hobby”. So the first year I think it was maybe one league that he joined…okay fine…a little irritating but it was new and he wasn’t that good at it yet...

 

...So that brings us here. There are so many of us “Fantasy Widows” out there. It may be baseball, basketball, or even hockey, but we can all understand feel the pain… You are not alone…

The Wilt Chamberlain of Great Britain

Our very own Matthew Bryan-Amaning (MBA) is killin' it for the Great Britain U-20 National Team.  Folks out in the UK who are reading the Daily Telegraph over some Bangers and Mash will be quite pleased with this line put up by MBA against the Czech Republic yesterday:

• 35 minutes played
• 41 points
• 16 for 28 from the field
• 9 of 12 from the stripe
• 11 rebounds
• 4 blocked shots

EIther MBA is the British re-incarnation of WIlt the Stilt or we need to jettison the entire Husky team from the Pac-10 and put them on the FIBA U-20 circuit next year. Here are his stats through 6 games.

Madden Curse Reaches All Time High

Good luck finding someone to be on the cover next year...

Cynthia Rodriguez Shops Like A Champ

If the Patriots invented the eff you touchdown this year, Cynthia Rodriguez, former wife of everyone's favorite former Mariner, just invented the eff you shopping spree. This past weekend, C-Rod went on a $100K trip to Paris (credit cards that are undoubtedly linked to A-Rod's bank account) just days before filing for divorce. Her buzzer beating spree included first class trans-atlantic tickets for all her family to join her, meals at restaurants, spa treatments, limo rentals, and god knows what else.

What did A-Rod do? Went out Monday night and earned his average daily salary of $175K playing 3B for the Yanks, meaning if C-Rod gets her half in divorce proceedings, she can jet over to Paris for round #2 next weekend and be no worse for wear.

Lawyerin' Up

If it wasn't for sports, I wouldn't know anything about lawyering. 

Check out what's going on with Schultz v Bennett. The NBA is getting involved to scuttle the lawsuit, but i think that's scuttlebutt.  Apparently the coffee king signed a release as part of the 2006 ownership transfer to Bennett...and we're done.

Even worse, the NBA claims that if Schultz won, the team would be put under the control and management of David Stern.

Hallelujah. Holy Shit. Where's the Tylenol?

The Sonics are officially gone. It will be entertaining to watch the Howard Schultz lawsuit play out. It promises to entertain us with a thorough re-hashing of all of Clay Bennett's carpetbagging (question: is re-hashing carpetbagging at all similar to haberdashery?). We'll get to hear more accounts of Clay Bennett squirming on the witness stand and be reminded how much of a "cheap, lying, no-good, rotten, four-flushing, low-life, snake-licking, dirt-eating, inbred, overstuffed, ignorant, blood-sucking, dog-kissing, brainless, dickless, hopeless, heartless, fat-ass, bug-eyed, stiff-legged, spotty-lipped, worm-headed sack of monkey shit he is." Who knows, maybe I'll find a few more excuses to post clips from Joe Dirt.

That will be fun for a while. Then it will end and the team fka Sonics will be in Oklahoma City and we'll be left with some retired jerseys and championship banners to take down. All the Sonics players will start moving down to the dustbowl tomorrow morning.  They'll find some hotel rooms to live out of during the season and keep their agents on speed dial, hoping for a trade to Miami.

The Sonics were dead to me a few months ago, now they really are dead.

OKLAHOMA, OKLAHOMA, OKLAHOMA!!!

Wow. What are the chances that Kevin Durant is pulling a Ruprecht from Dirty Rotten Scoundrels right now?

SOT (Save our T-birds)

Lost in all our SOS BS is the damning reality that Seattle is losing its WHL hockey team to Kent. Apparently, they might be in for a name change a la the Angels. That's right hockey fans, get ready for your "Seattle Thunderbirds of Kent".

In my mind this is a way bigger travesty than losing the sonics to OKC.  Loyal Rainout readers, have you been to KENT recently? Well I have and let me tell you ALL the rumors are true.  Lets just say this Kent is so backwards it makes OKC look like NYC. It makes Billy Bob look like George Clooney.  This means that the Key will be regulated to hosting Elton John Concerts and Folk Life, not necessarily a booming economy for lower Queen Anne.  Look, the T-birds are awesome. Where else, besides a UW flip cup tourney, can you go somewhere and be guaranteed to see a fight.

SOT, because remember Kent is a slice of Oklahoma city right here in the NW.

There will be a SOT rally outside the Kent Courthouse, on July 4th with numerous T-bird legends, including Cool Bird, will be there.

Here's what might go down as the last hockey fight in Seattle.  Cheers to you Benn Olson.

Clay, Home is Where You Make It

Clay Bennett Represented by Lawyers from...Seattle?

Surprised to read just now that Clay Bennett is being represented by Byrnes & Keller, A SEATTLE LAW FIRM!!!

The firm has been involved in many of the major cases in the Pacific Northwest, ranging from representing a significant portion of the Alaska seafood processing industry in the Exxon Valdez oil spill litigation to a central role as trial counsel in the Washington Medicaid recoupment tobacco litigation. One of the highest compliments to the firm comes from its peers: A number of the Pacific Northwest’s leading law firms frequently select Byrnes & Keller as their professional liability defense counsel.

First, it's not exactly a ringing endorsement of the legal talent available in the Sooner State (unless there's some reason they had to hire in state, Washington Bar Association?).  Second, I know law firms are all just hired guns but why would Byrnes & Keller ever want to be known as the firm that helped the hill-billys run off with the Sonics? One of Clay's lead attorneys, Paul R. Taylor, is a graduate of Gonzaga and the UW Law School!