A few weeks ago, I had the pleasure of playing a few George Harrison songs and talking about my own CD at Mrs. Lore’s 2nd grade class in North Side elementary school.  Mrs. Lore is a huge Beatles fan and is passing her knowledge and love of the Beatles on to her 2nd graders.  I can’t think of a better way to start one’s musical education.  I led the class in singing 2 very well known George Harrison songs that they already knew - Here Comes The Sun and Give Me Love.  It was great having the entire class participate and sing along!  I also played another Harrison tune called Any Road, off his last album, “Brainwashed.”  The class really seemed to like that one, too.  After taking a few questions, I then handed out copies of my own CD to everyone in the class.

I had a great time playing for Mrs. Lore’s class, but the best part came a few days later, when I received thank-you letters from the class, telling me how much they enjoyed it, too.  They even told me they loved my CD, with many students mentioning certain song titles that they particularly enjoyed!  It seemed that their favorites were Friend In Need and Do You Wanna Play.  I was really touched by what they had to say, and I want to thank Mrs. Lore and her class for being such a great audience!  I would love to do it again soon.

I especially want to thank Emma Vaccaro for asking me to play for her class.  Thanks, Emma! 

Yes, you knew this day would come.  Ok, maybe you didn’t, but I did.  Some time ago I told you one of my fantasy teams failed to make the playoffs - despite being the 2nd highest scoring team in the league - but I still had 2 teams in the hunt.  Well, make that zero teams now.  None of my teams made the playoffs, all in heartbreaking fashion.  Definitely not a fantasy year to remember.

One failure hurt the most.  Here is the starting lineup for that team:  QB - Thigpen (was Schaub prior to his untimely injury); RB - Westbrook, Chris Johnson; WR - Marshall, Walter, Colston (one of the busts of the year); TE - Daniels; and D - Vikings.  That team finished the regular season with an 8-5 record.  Unfortunately, I was tied with two other teams with the same record and missed out on the playoffs since my team scored the least points overall.  The worst part about it was that if I hadn’t forgotten to replace Westbrook with his backup (Buckhalter) during an early season matchup, I would have won that matchup and made the playoffs.  Tough to swallow.  I blogged about it some time ago and knew then it could haunt me, and it did.  No one to blame, though, but myself.  It’s amazing how making the playoffs in fantasy could come down to something like that.

To completely rub it in my face, during the first round of the playoffs last weekend all 3 of my teams thoroughly dominated, posting my best stats of the year.  Of course, it happened when nothing at stake was involved.  At least I won some $ as a weekly winner in one of the leagues, but that was a consolation prize, at best.

Now maybe you understand my frustration with this stuff.  I’m sure there are other fantasy owners out there who can relate.