Thursday, September 27, 2007

How Many Bunny-Wunnies Can Dance on the Head of a Pin? (Depends on the Music)

Real fans of this blog -- I mean the ones who buy the t-shirts and who came to the singalong and who signed up for the outing next month on the party boat -- know that I am a member of a fantasy baseball league. Such readers are familiar with some of my little superstitions, particularly that of playing with my team's name when it is not doing well.

The last month has been terrible for my team. Injuries plus ineptitude caused me to slide from 70 points and 2nd place to 55 points and 9th place, quite a dizzying tumble. I fiddled with the name, adding bunny-wunnies, subtracting bunny-wunnies, even changing the name of the team to "I am Sparta!" there for a while.

But nothing worked. (Yes; I understand that it could not possibly "work"; so don't come to my door with a handful of literature.) So I retreated, as you will see below.

Then my team warmed up. With four days to go, I just conceivably could crawl into 4th, the last of the "paying" positions. As only I would go to the trouble to compute, the chances of my doing so are about 1-in-7.

But we are not discouraged. Not to put too fine a point on it, tonight the bunny-wunnies dine in hell.



Patrick Finley Memorial Standings for games through 9/26/2007

NameAvgHRRRBISBERAKSWW PCTTotal
T. S. Intellectual, OBE 7.0 9.0 11.0 9.0 8.0 8.0 6.0 11.0 7.5 9.0 85.5
Leaves of Grass 9.0 2.0 1.0 6.0 9.0 7.0 11.0 4.0 9.0 8.0 66.0
Chi Chi 11.0 1.0 6.0 1.0 6.5 10.0 8.0 1.0 7.5 10.0 62.0
The Sushi Strangers 1.0 4.0 3.0 5.0 5.0 9.0 9.0 3.0 10.0 11.0 60.0
Giant Steps 6.0 3.0 2.0 3.0 10.0 5.0 7.0 5.5 11.0 7.0 59.5
The Poor Sad Bunny-Wunny 5.0 6.5 5.0 7.0 4.0 3.0 10.0 10.0 6.0 3.0 59.5
Hell Hounds 10.0 8.0 10.0 4.0 1.0 4.0 4.0 8.0 2.5 6.0 57.5
The Money Shot 2.0 6.5 8.0 8.0 11.0 6.0 3.0 9.0 2.5 1.0 57.0
Little Chi Chi 3.0 11.0 4.0 11.0 6.5 2.0 5.0 7.0 4.5 2.0 56.0
Marfa Dogs 8.0 10.0 9.0 10.0 2.0 1.0 2.0 5.5 4.5 4.0 56.0
The FunGhouls 4.0 5.0 7.0 2.0 3.0 11.0 1.0 2.0 1.0 5.0 41.0

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