No idea why.....

We've never considered Front Office Football for a sim for our BSB leagues. It's good stuff, and it has a college version too (although it's mostly about recruiting and player management, from what I can tell). I own FOF 2004 (although 2007 is the newest version, and the only one easily available for purchase) and the college version (The College Years), and they can interact with each other, with draft classes from college going to the pros. It's very deep, and quite fun. 

The downside is that the leagues are fixed at a certain number of teams, that being 32. That said, the AI seems to be decent, so open teams wouldn't kill us. It's something to chew on the off-chance that the new software doesn't make it off the drawing board (although I have the ultimate faith that it will). 

ETA...

On Norm and Cam invading Madison: 2 weeks and a day. 

Shock!

Norm updated again!

*faints*

....

*dusts self off*

Aight, enough of that. My mission in life is complete. Next item on the agenda: Roberto Luongo may or may not be human. His WORST game of the playoffs so far has been a two goal game, and he finally gave up his first even-strength goal in three games last night. Vancouver's also scoring enough to make a 2 goal game against Luongo still count as a W. Quite frequently, that's not the case. St. Louis had a few dumb emotional penalties in the second and third, and a few 5 on 3 kills by Vancouver quieted down a raucous crowd at Scottrade Center. Next stop: San Jose. Wait.... maybe not. The Sharks are down 0-2 to Anaheim, not an easy team to handle. 

Even better, the Brewers did NOT lose yesterday. They're now 4-9. A five game winning streak in the middle of May would easily make up such a thing, and another one in June would put them where I expect them to be, assuming they play .500 ball the rest of the time. I think that's pretty plausible. It's way too early to jump to judgments, except to say that Corey Hart seems to have figured out how to take a pitch or two. That can't be a bad thing. 

Fixed!

The last template was ugly as sin, and all the color tweaks I added didn't help, either. 

So, back to basics. It's pretty now.

Congrats to TheNorm for finally updating his blog after 7 months. The downside is now I'll have to harass Cam to do his, and he'll just tell me to do something anatomically impossible. 

Damn that Cam. He's got me re-addicted to NHL 09, so much so that I re-figured out how to score goals on a regular basis. Might have to re-fire up that NCAA dynasty I put on hold when I was scoring maybe a goal a game. 

*giggle* Huston Street's already not the closer in Colorado. Something about how closers and middle relievers are interchangable, and that you don't have to spend a ton of dough on anything but the best of the best (ping: Doug Melvin). Ping the second: Hey Colorado, do you NOT realize that finesse pitchers don't work there? Sure, fastballs can be hit a mile, but so can curveballs that don't curve, and fastballs are harder to hit. 

So Norm...

Since it's just you and me here (along with a few Cam visits and a random one from Wyoming, Minnesota...), how's about we revive that Great Lakes Sports Thingy we tried before on BSB?

Another week....

Another distinct lack of content. It's like this place is becoming "Far From the Norm" or something. :D

Hopefully I'll work myself up to an actual post soon. 

I hate to post just to post...

But sometimes I gotta, just to keep rolling.

Brewers opener starts soon, but I'm not starting to watch until Steph's ready to watch. Apparently I'd be "cheating on her" by watching the game before she does. Fair enough. That's what DVR and the NHL network are for. :D

Don Cherry's Grapevine is on in a half hour. I like. 

New Links

I'm always looking for good links to add to my sidebar, and I found one here: http://noalibisnoregrets.blogspot.com/

It's a Badger Hockey blog, which makes me happy, for obvious reasons. 

http://noalibisnoregrets.blogspot.com/2009/03/badgers-in-pros-update.html

That post makes me ecstatic, though. Why can't every team have a blog like this? :D

WCHA News

http://www.westerncollegehockeyblog.com/2009/4/1/817720/no-one-wants-to-be-in-the-wcha

This isn't good news for Bemidji State, who just lost their conference with College Hockey America disappearing. Bemidji makes a lot of sense for the WCHA, especially with a lot of in-state rivals. I almost wonder if Alaska-Fairbanks makes sense there, with Alabama-Huntsville ending up in the CCHA.... 

Werewolf

This has been eating time from me lately. You know about our games, and FOFC hosts some great games too at http://www.operationsports.com/fofc. Very much fun to play and follow.

As for everything else, let's just hope North Carolina loses a game this weekend. I like winning bets.