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Saturday, June 23, 2007
Fantasy Fishing - Woot!
Are you supposed to talk about your Fantasy Fishing team in specifics? I don't know if that's cool in the fantasy sports world, but I'm psyched about my team (and I'm a rookie girl who doesn't play any other fantasy games) so here goes....I may be breaking some secret guy-code-of-honor here.
Let me start by saying that the group I play against is pretty stout. It consists of camera men, editors, graphic designers, writers and the rest of the behind the scenes team from JM Associates who produces the Bassmaster Elite Series for ESPN. As well as the tournament coverage for ESPNoutdoors.com.
These folks spend the day (literally) in the boat with the pros as cameramen or still photographers. Or they spend the day (figuratively) with the pros as editors who screen every second of tape, including the stuff that hits the cutting room floor. Me, I just go the the events, or watch them on the internet, or watch the finished shows. Fortunately Zona, Sanders and McKinnis formed their own fantasy group, so we don't have to compete with them. (Thank goodness)
So I won the last event at Smith Mountain Lake. Woot! I got to rub it in a little to people like Steve Bowman (executive editor of ESPNoutdoors.com and a guy who has been covering the Bassmaster tour for over 20 years in some journalistic capacity). He's usually at the top of the leaderboard in our group and rightfully so. It should be easy as senko fishing for him, right?
And at this week's Grand Lake event, I was in the lead after the second day of competition. I'm also 8 points behind Bowman for the season and he's leading right now. If I hadn't gotten too busy and forgotten to change my roster at one event (in which I tanked in 20th place) I think I would be leading.
My secret? Well, I like to think it's KVD. I've had him on my team since the Classic, but come on.....I figure 75% of the group has him. How can you lose with KVD and isn't it a wash when so many of us have him in our lineup?
I also have Boyd Duckett on my team and I have had him since the Classic as well, so I got him at a low market value. I talked to Boyd before the Classic and knew he felt pretty confident. So now I've got him locked in on my team.
This week I added my friend Jeff Kriet. Along with Wolak and Jeff Reynolds. It was hard to pick for this event, since all the pros were poor-mouthing the bite during practice. I had Timmy Horton AND Davy Hite on the list at one point, but I took them off. I was thinking they might both be able to get on a deep water pattern, but with the pre-tournament reports purveying doom and gloom out deep, I swtiched them out. Dang, if I had kept them on, I would be spanking everybody right now. My entire team woulda been in the Top 12. Woulda, coulda, shoulda.
It's tough to pick your teams, that's for sure. There's no such thing as a sure thing, unless you count KVD but we already went over that.
So the third day's weigh in is over and I'm waiting for the site to update after today's results, but I think I'm sittin' pretty.
I'm feeling pretty sassy right now.
Let me start by saying that the group I play against is pretty stout. It consists of camera men, editors, graphic designers, writers and the rest of the behind the scenes team from JM Associates who produces the Bassmaster Elite Series for ESPN. As well as the tournament coverage for ESPNoutdoors.com.
These folks spend the day (literally) in the boat with the pros as cameramen or still photographers. Or they spend the day (figuratively) with the pros as editors who screen every second of tape, including the stuff that hits the cutting room floor. Me, I just go the the events, or watch them on the internet, or watch the finished shows. Fortunately Zona, Sanders and McKinnis formed their own fantasy group, so we don't have to compete with them. (Thank goodness)
So I won the last event at Smith Mountain Lake. Woot! I got to rub it in a little to people like Steve Bowman (executive editor of ESPNoutdoors.com and a guy who has been covering the Bassmaster tour for over 20 years in some journalistic capacity). He's usually at the top of the leaderboard in our group and rightfully so. It should be easy as senko fishing for him, right?
And at this week's Grand Lake event, I was in the lead after the second day of competition. I'm also 8 points behind Bowman for the season and he's leading right now. If I hadn't gotten too busy and forgotten to change my roster at one event (in which I tanked in 20th place) I think I would be leading.
My secret? Well, I like to think it's KVD. I've had him on my team since the Classic, but come on.....I figure 75% of the group has him. How can you lose with KVD and isn't it a wash when so many of us have him in our lineup?
I also have Boyd Duckett on my team and I have had him since the Classic as well, so I got him at a low market value. I talked to Boyd before the Classic and knew he felt pretty confident. So now I've got him locked in on my team.
This week I added my friend Jeff Kriet. Along with Wolak and Jeff Reynolds. It was hard to pick for this event, since all the pros were poor-mouthing the bite during practice. I had Timmy Horton AND Davy Hite on the list at one point, but I took them off. I was thinking they might both be able to get on a deep water pattern, but with the pre-tournament reports purveying doom and gloom out deep, I swtiched them out. Dang, if I had kept them on, I would be spanking everybody right now. My entire team woulda been in the Top 12. Woulda, coulda, shoulda.
It's tough to pick your teams, that's for sure. There's no such thing as a sure thing, unless you count KVD but we already went over that.
So the third day's weigh in is over and I'm waiting for the site to update after today's results, but I think I'm sittin' pretty.
I'm feeling pretty sassy right now.
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