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The Best Package

Week 1:

Costanza body double and Front Page model Pope is out this week & asked for a sub writing the frontpage and recaps so I’m honored to pirate this ship for a week. After quite possibly the longest season in League history that saw just about everything, it’s only fitting that the Summer Season’s theme revolves around nothing, except the first week DID have a little something – make that a LOT of something – a twine tickling THIRTY EIGHT total goals! Its understandable given the multiple outstanding performances this week to already have Cup favorites, but Championships aren’t won in week one, summer absences have a tendency to tilt the Blue Line, and Captains are working to change defensive strategy to curb your enthusiasm. Which Captain has put together the best Package (S8 E05 for the naive) of enticing picture perfect draft picks that will endure the season and hoist the Cup in the final? As the legendary philosopher Chris Berman always says, “That’s why they play the game”.

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Hidden Figures

Playoffs Week 4:

For every shocking upset and Cinderella Cup run there are at least as many ho-hum mathematical marches to the promised land. Such is the case this season, as #2 Charcoal survived the Losers’ Bracket gauntlet to find themselves in the Final ring against #1 Silver. While perhaps lacking in ‘storybook’ underdog-makes-good energy, this Final has no shortage of great storylines (Perks v Perks being the one I’m paying to watch), and while Silver has the upper hand as I type, this season could absolutely have a ‘big twist ending’, with the wire to wire wrecking ball finally meeting (and losing to) their match…

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Fox Force Five

Playoffs Week 3:

It has been brought to my attention that Captain Audrey Stratton’s ‘Silver’ was branded as ‘The Silver Foxes’ back in late February. This somehow completely missed my radar…it has been known to happen. The name may be new to me (and you), but the story remains the same for the top seeds…they just go out and win. No DaCosta…no Gattey…no Gottfried…no matter…hand over the W. Put any five players out there, with Silas Perks behind them, and you are ‘a force to be reckoned with’. Another big win, this time over rival Royal Blue, has ‘The Silver Foxes’ lying in wait at the final gate to Cup glory. They will look to complete their shimmering wire to wire run on June 11th, when they will face the survivor of Purple, Charcoal, and Royal Blue in a Week Four repechage rumble on tap just after the holiday weekend…

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Poetry In Motion

Playoffs Week 2:

I am running low on front page ideas that fit the theme and tell the story of the week, much less am I able to find apt and interesting front page images. So (for the second time this season, actually), I have turned to our soon-to-be overlord, AI, to generate an image of ‘Maya Angelou jumping over charcoal’. Yes, POTW honoree, Nick Meglich, kept the Charcoal grill cold, as Captain Janet Goins and the gang cooked up one of three upsets in Week Two to move within one game of the Final. Silver managed to maintain their Cup momentum, slipping into the Winners’ Bracket Final with a 1-0 hand-wringer over Purple, while Olive and Maroon became the first two playoff casualties, falling in upsets to Aqua and White, respectively. The action resumes this Sunday with two more eliminations, and a ticket to the Final at stake…

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