QFBA Rag – 2007-8 Week Seventeen

New Leader

The Good Cap’n has pretty much OWNED the top spot for the last several weeks but Bus finally put himself in the drivers’ seat with a 186 to 168 win over the PowerHeads. The Cap put up his lowest score in nine – count em – nine weeks. Still, with all of his players in on Tuesday and an 82 point lead, he liked his chances with two players to go for Bus. Then Bosh powered in for 52 to Wade in his wake at 48 and it was lights out for the Good Cap’n.

I know Bus has meticulously analyzed the remainder of the season and likes his chances to hold on to the lead - I know because he has said so – repeatedly. However, consider that Cap’n Parrotdead outscored Incubus in 13 out of 17 weeks. Even Bus has to admit he was lucky to catch the Cap in one of the 4 weeks this season that he could have won. I can’t wait for the “What the?” message this will inspire from ‘Bus.

Gals Get No. Two!

J-Dub AKA Coach Duber Guber told me he stopped reading the QFBA Rag after Week Three. Good, let’s slam the bastard!

The SeaGals have to feel pretty good after Chef ‘Bus Ramsey featured their team on his Food Network show “Locker Room Disasters” and put their locker room in order by helping them adjust their roster. They nearly pulled off the upset of the century last week and this week clobbered the Chief Guber Scuper.

I’ve said all along, Cher deserves a lot of credit for at least trying to get her team competitive week after week. I can’t say the same for Coach Guber, who has had the pieces to contend for a playoff spot but has brought all new meaning to the word ineptitude. He has to be the leading contender for the Mr. Emtee trophy this year for having more empty slots than anyone, perhaps in the history of the league – and that include those Turner losers who quit mid-season a couple of years ago, just because my wife called them silver-spooned nincompoops.

Well deserved win for the Gals and well deserved loss for Dubers. I’m pulling for the Gals to overtake the Dubers before the season is over. I can hear the chants now: Go Gals!! Go Gals!! We’re Number Nine! We’re Number Nine!

Blockbuster Trade Works for Clutch

Clutch told this reporter that he made the big trade with Bus recently in a last ditch effort to make the playoffs. I don’t know if it was too late for Clutch but we always like to see effort rewarded here at the QFBA (think Duber). Whether or not it’s enough in the long run, it was enough to beat another playoff contender in the didi’s.

New Clutch the Tittie player Randolph beat his opponent like it was his wife, putting up 38 for his new team. Add Carter’s 51 to that and a couple more guys in the thirties and the Incubus Farm club drops the didi’s like doo-doo, 184 to 168.

Right now Clutch is three games out of the last playoff spot and faces the hungry Frontrunners next week. As it stands, Clutch is going to need a streak and some help to make the playoffs. If they don’t get past the ‘Runners next week, I’d say it’s all over but the singing of “The Night They Drove Ol’ Dixie Down”.

As for the didi’s, they face a pissed off Cap’n next week and still must get past Incubus and the Cruisers before it’s all done for them. I have to think their hold on the last playoff spot is tenuous at best. Then again, Coach Dave has managed to hang in week after week when I thought they were overdue for a letdown. Will coaching be enough? We shall see.

Cruisers Drop Nickers

The Chief has been living on borrowed time for a while now and this week the Cruisers finally gave him the beating he’s so richly deserved for so long. I know the Cruisers were unhappy about dropping a close one to the Luser Duber last week, even though they pull up the QFBA bottom. Hey, kiddo, what did you expect? Your going to have to do better than this week’s 158 to keep moving forward.

The Chief has managed to win six of his last nine despite scores in the 150’s down to 109 and his highest score in nine weeks of 171. It can’t be clean living so it was bound to catch up. He benefits from a weak schedule the rest of the way, with the Parrotdeads being the only winning team left for the Redneck.

The win for the FJ’s keeps them within a game of the final playoff spot with Incubus still to go and a showdown with the didi’s in the final week of the season. That one just may be for all the marbles. The drama builds!

Runners Step on Bugz

Honest to God, if I hear “I can’t improve my team because my guys are all on the no-cut list.” one more time... If your players are on the no-cut list, they must have some trade value, yes? In Coach S’s defense, she does seem to have a lot of talent on paper. I’m not sure why they haven’t pulled it together enough to be better than 7-10 at this point. Let’s see; Kidd has been a disappointment, though he may like his new surroundings better now. Nowitzki has not been the same stud he’s been in years past, though again; the addition of Kidd to the Mavs may help him a bit.

Whatever, it wasn’t going to matter much this week when the revved up Runners put up the weekly high at 213. If it’s hard to understand how the Bugz wound up a 7-10, it’s impossible to understand how the Runners wound up at 8-9 at this point.

I don’t mind saying this team scares me more than anyone else in the league. After all, they’ve beaten me twice, something NO one else has managed and only two other teams have managed to do ONCE! Unfortunately, I get to face them yet again in two weeks. Aside from Cap’n Parrotdead, the only other team likely to challenge them in a run to the playoffs is Incubus in Week 22. Cap’n Parrotdead loves the scenario of Runners knocking off the Bus and handing the first seed to the Good Cap in Week 22.

Take That Duber
Those who fail to read the QFBA Rag pay a steep price. You’ll be begging to walk the Cap’s plank by the time I get done with ye! Next week, I start on yer momma...