shenanigans

Well, well....  It looks like certain Voxers are less than amused with our disparaging remarks about the Washington Racists yesterday, and are determined to exact revenge in a most juvenile manner.  Let's recap: the fantasy football team managed by us is the Toledo Maroons.  Dabysan manages the Fluffy Bunnies and is also the most unscrupulous commissioner in the history of fantasy football.  (Cappy is the brain-trust responsible for perennial cellar-dweller Manulio's 'Lectro P-awn, but he's not relevant to this particular discussion.)

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The mighty Maroons - who are defending their Just Us League Championship - have had an off year.  They've been plagued by injuries early and started slowly.  But they're on a three-game winning streak and hope to climb back into the playoff picture.  The Bunnies - on the other hand - are reeling.  They've lost approximately ten straight games because their owner is a jackass who doesn't know the first thing about football.  But apparently he's got somebody feeding him information, because he does seem to know enough to block waiver wire selections that aren't to his advantage.  Why the first choice on this week's waiver wire was not granted to the team by which he was first selected may never be known.  But it's awfully fishy that the very same player wound up on the roster of the league commissioner.  Very fishy, indeed.


And wouldn't you know our consolation prize would be a Washington ***skin.  We'd be tempted to drop him tomorrow if he wasn't the best player on that sorry franchise.  Oh, and lest you think this is an isolated incident, Dabysan has already attempted to weasel out of certain aspects of our wager on the outcome of last Monday's game.  This shameful chicanery is almost enough to convince us to re-evaluate our position and support Jodi in the 52P52W Challenge.  Almost.

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Dabysan
You know this tale of conspiracy on the high seas would be a lot better if the actual solution to the riddle were not included in your own graphic. Your pickup would have violated league bylaws. I think Bob Woodward's job is still safe.

Regarding the wager, I have every intention of fulfilling all the conditions to which I agreed.

Knowing that you would, in the event of your victory, probably try to "pull a Hotrod" and add conditions to the deal after the fact, I saved a copy of our conversation codifying the agreement. I will happily publish same at the time of your choosing.

To sum up: You're wrong. About everything. As always.
hotrod
I'm not wrong. This is dirty pool and an abuse of your position as commissioner.

hotrod
The irony here is that you're based your bullshit defense around a position - tight end - that you've proposed eliminating. We both know damn well I've been a studious owner. I don't draft retired players like Cappy does or start players who are injured or on a bye. After a string of bad luck left me 1-6, it would have been easy to become an absentee owner. But I'm on the wire every week trying to improve in the spirit of the competition. This week I made the easy decision to drop my worst player, not realizing that an obscure league by-law says that when the Bunnies are on a three game losing skid, they're entitled to cherry-pick the waiver wire for the players they want. That's underhanded and sleazy and I am sure none of the other owners were aware either that you surreptitiously snuck that one by us. Let's just call off the whole charade and eliminate the waiver wire starting next week.

This whole episode stinks. Looks like I will be shopping around for a new fantasy football league in the offseason.
hotrod
And what's more...

You mentioned earlier that your hands were tied - you couldn't make things right because then you'd lose you second choice and that would be unfair. So that means your second slot was Chris Cooley, Tyler Thigpen, or John Kasay. I doubt very much it was John Kasay. It might have been Thigpen, but that would be moot because you wouldn't have got him anyway. Which leaves Cooley. So you can have Cooley. I'll trade him. For Moore. Which is the way this all should have worked out anyway - you know, in an honest world where fantasy football players can trust their commissioner not to abuse their power for personal gain.
Dabysan
Jeebus. Are you still tilting at this windmill? I didn't do anything to affect your picks. And now you want me (the player) to suffer because of something I (the commissioner) didn't do.

You know full well that if the same thing happened in a way that favored you, there's no chance you would let the player go.

Because of your constant griping I may -- despite my unalienable right to keep Moore -- possibly consider releasing him outright back into the Waiver pool for next week. But I'm not just going to give him to you.
hotrod
This is a clear abuse of your commissioner status. Of course I am vigilant. Your refusal to trade is a clear indication of your intent to engage in foul play.
Cap'n Crook
If you had just paid your league fee on time, we wouldn't even be having this debate. It's either the hired goons or shady waiver wire deals.

Although, the best way to smooth this over is to appoint the owner of the Giant Rodents to the commissioner's position next year.
hotrod
You stay out of this. I had hoped this wouldn't come up, but, well... let's just say our commish was far less timely in paying out the championship prize than I have ever been in League Dues. Like: never. When I began hounding him, after six - SIX - months, I received payment in credit.

Point being: if you win the JUL Championship and don't want a ticket to Iron Maiden, don't plan on ever seeing your money.

The hypocrisy abounds, the mind reels, and the stomach turns. If you want, I'll let you know what league I join next year.
Dabysan
Funny, nobody else has ever complained about the timeliness of the payout. You get what you give I guess.
Dabysan
Hotrod is lying again.

I have not used my commissioner access since I approved a trade earlier this year. He knows this.

He is the victim of his own towering ignorance, and nothing else.

If he wants to leave the league, good riddance. I can find another basement dweller for your division.

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