Week 2 (second lost)

Da second week as come and gone, and I am now 0-2. O and 2! I haven't started off o-2 in six years of playing fantasy football. Last week, it was albert who gave me my first lost, this week, it was eric, or more commonly known as, da diddy himself. Losing to albert hurts, but losing to eric is like losing to a long standing rival. See, i've known eric since middle school, and since then, we have competed in everything from basketball to pingpong to vodka drinking, so the historical weight of our matchup last week wasn't lost on me. It was: cal vs stanford, michigan vs ohio state, florida vs florida state, (ironically, despite the anology, we both attended colleges that did not have football programs.)

I came up on the short end this time, but like any heated rival, i shall be back.
It was hard sitting there watching da game and knowing that i had very little chance to win. And while Eric, hong, and Hung were disecting all the different things i could have done or do to make my team better, I kept telling myself not to press the panic button just yet. Because after all, this is a young season, and my team was built for the long haul. I told myself this throughout the day, but at night, while driving my way back home, and deciding that I needed to stop at Khai for a quick smoke, I ended up trading Carson Palmer for Randy Moss.

It was a tough decision, anyone that knows me, knows that I just do not trade. Especially, a guy that has been on my team for three years now, a guy that i picked up, and was heavily critized for because at the time he was an unproven quarterback on a bad team. I'm sure i'm going to get heavily critized again for this trade, but while I was high this was my rationale for the trade:
A. Carson Palmer is white, and Randy Moss is black.
B. Randy Moss is a freakish talent who has a Hall of Frame qb now in Tom Brady. [many people think brady spread the ball around to much for any wr to be in elite statistical status, but the way i see it is, Brady finds the open guy, and moss can still get open. Also, spreading the ball around will sustain more drives, and give moss more td opportunities]
C. I had another young qb that i drafted early this year that received many head scratches. That guy was vince young, and granted he can't give me the points that Palmer will give Khai, he might be just good enough to give me close to 17-20 points a game (see his 178, 1td, 58, and no int stat line). It might just be stupid to put ur faith in such an unproven qb, but hey, I never claim i was being smart about this.
D. I haven't made any trades in the last couple of years, because i was always afraid i would get burn. But, what is there to burn? It's not really my player, we're not really playing for money. And trades made the league more fun. Even if i do get burn, so what, it's only friendly bullshit i have to listen to for the next year, and I can live with that.
E. The diddy factor. I remembered eric telling me that I should trade Palmer after his 6td performance. "sell him high," i believed he said. Now wheather, he was just saying that to get palmer from me, or if it was actual advice, i don't know. Kept coming back into my head, sell high. Just didn't think, i would be selling so soon.
F. The CY factor. Moss, for all his lackluster plays the last couple of years, finally has a chance to play great, win a superbowl, and oh yeah, get paid. That's right, it's CONTRACT YEAR for moss, so, the motivation is there for him to play hurt, play hard, and help out fantasy owners like me.

So that was the deal, moss for palmer, and I took it for all those reasons. I still have seond thoughts about it, and something inside me wants to call everybody up and beg em to cancel the trade, go ride the guys i drafted into a championship, but maybe this year, i'll just follow the motto i have set for my own life, and "just go", and not look back. who cares about the possible regrets, when you got a murky future to enjoy. no crying, no hating, just straight working for it.

week 2 standings:
eric
khai
david
hon
mike
hung
albert
me
sam
jaymin

sidenote: Through the miracle of internet advertising, on our league page (and i'm sure everyone else who uses yahoo.com), there's a little blue box that highlights this week's top scoring team. This blue box is brought to us by VIAGRA. It's Viagra "high" score of the week. This week Viagra presents TheRapist(eric) as the week's top scorer. How's that for irony.