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Sunday, September 23, 2018

NFL WEEK THREE 2018

BREAKING...With the Bills shocking the Vikes at home and tossing a shut-out to boot, we are on pace to our shortest survivor season ever. Four remaining players have the chiefs, one has the Fins, and one the Ravens. We could be down to between 4 and 6 players at the end of week three!!!
We are already 4-0 on our picks this week. But that's average for us.

More losses in the survivor pool, but Rumpole survives. This week the Vikes, playing the hapless Bills, looks to be the top pick, followed by the red-hot Chiefs who are 2-0 on the road, and return to KC for their home opener against a disappointing  49'ers team. 

Speaking of our Survivor game, play  our SCOTUS nominee survivor game. Look to your right ---------->  Vote.  




And speaking of Rumpole, don't look now but we're beginning to DOMINATE our FF league and it's all because we 1) passed on A Brown (disgruntled WR Steelers) at the number 4 pick and grabbed Shaqon Barkley who is averaging a very respectable 25pts/game, and grabbed QB phenom Patrick Mahomes from the Chiefs, who is tearing up the league, and teamed him up with two Chief WRs. We're a FF point-machine to the point where our kicker went don't at the start of the game last week, and we didn't need him at all. 

Mr. Hornstein has proposed a trade to us:

RUMP would trade
Saquon Barkley, NYG RB
TH would trade
Jordan Howard, Chi RB
Le'Veon Bell*, Pit RB
Rumpole responds: No Brooklyn Bridge? 


Picks: 
We already picked the Brownies for their first win on Thursday night, so we enter Sunday 1-0. 
Dolphins, at home, -6 over the Raiders. Count us as hopping on our home-tram bandwagon. A top rated D will stop the Raiders on their second road trip in two week. The train is off the rails for Chucky's boys and it doesn't look promising for the rest of the year. WIN

Chiefs -6.5 at home over 49'ers.  Once again KC doesn't let it be close, and it's fun to root for the team with your FF players.  WIN

Cheaters -6.5 bouncing back against the Lions. Brady's angry. And he has a new weapon in Josh Gordon. Watch out. 

Denver at Baltimore, under 44.5. Not a lot of O in either team. WIN

Stay away from the Skins, Saints, a Steeler team in such disarray it makes the White House look orderly, and the Falcons


Apropos of nothing pigskin related, we found (and find) ourselves this whole week in the Eastern District of New York (more on this adventure into a foreign jurisdiction in a latter post) and were lucky enough to slip into Lila last night, the impossible to get-into heaven of pasta housed in an old Brooklyn garage (where else would you expect to find heaven?). 
Lets start with the appetizers, especially the crostinis. There is chicken-liver crostini, which s drizzled with an aged and sweet balsamic. As Red Barber would say:" Oh doctor!". But even more delicious is the cured sardines on grilled crostini. Sardiney...crunchy..muy delicosos.  

 Then there is the agnolotti, a heavenly mix of sheep-milk ricotta and feta cheese wrapped in a pasta bathing in butter, saffron, and a honey-tomato sauce that is just... Indescribable. 
Black bass, which is a locally caught fish, is similarly indescribable. It's grilled with salsa verde. A flaky white fish with some heat. And with the pasta, that's what you call heaven. 
There's a very reasonable wine list, but we went high-end, with a 2015 Emdio Pepe Pecorino for three bills. It's an Italian dry white, with a sort of mineral taste, a delightful floral bouquet, and a finish of licorice. 
Sometimes when travel has got you down, you just need to treat yourself with a high end meal. And when you can slip into a restaurant that routinely turns away A-listers, it's a double treat.

10 comments:

Anonymous said...

Rumpole, why can't I find a date who is witty, urbane, smart, able to get us into Lila which is an impossible table for goodness sakes, and who is fascinating? My date last night was Five Guys, a dive bar, and fending off groping that the idiot thought a ten dollar dinner and five dollar shot of tequila would make me swoon over. Not to mention he spent the evening with his nose in the phone managing his FF teams and texting his guy friends (although if he was texting chick hookups, they were welcome to come take my place). So much for a fix-up with a CPA. BORING!

Anyway, I'm jealous, envious, and a bit interested?
I'm smart. Good looking. Do Yoga. Compete in half-triathlons. Bike all over for fun. Know a bit about wine. Your choice was superb by the way. I'd go halfsies just to have a fun night like that with a great wine, great food, great people watching, great company. (Sigh).

Been in the PDs for a few years. I'm sure we've bumped into each other. Just sayin

Dating CPA said...

Funny I had a date last night to. I knew she did not make a lot of money, but I did not want to go overboard on a first date. I figured a low key meal at Five Guys to see if she was really into talking and learning about me, instead of a pretentious upscale joint which I usually save for the second date. I held the door for her when we got there, but she didn't notice because she was too busy checking out the features on the new iPhone her parents got her.

Afterwards, we went to my friend's bar, who owns a few upscale places in South Beach as well. Again, on the way over we took a standard uber and her comments that it wasn't a UBER XL SUV for a 5 minute drive was off-putting to say the least. The drinks were on the house, and I would hardly call a rooftop bar in Wynwood a dive-bar - she may not have liked the fact that there was a line at the door to get in, and bottles of wine were standard price as opposed to $26 a glass (despite the fact we weren't paying for it).

During drinks, a bug landed on her shoulder and I swatted it off. I guess one drink in her, and she cannot comprehend general human interaction. She did know a bit about wine, but only that there are whites and reds.

A client with an emergency (received a letter from the IRS) sent me 55 text messages during the night. As one of my top clients, I did respond. I guess next time I will allow life to stop so I can hear you still complain about your low paying job, how you hate your parents despite them paying for your apartment and car (but they stopped paying for your gas this year), and drone on about how many triathlons you have ran in 2018.

Great date! 2 stars, but only because I saved a buck before I invested a lot more.

Millennial Me said...

HAha I'm loving this.
Poor lil PD can't find a good date on Tinder.
I have no sympathy for her. She wants to jump right to some guy taking her to an impossible to get into restaurant in NYC on a first date. What, does she expect a private plane as well?
Guy buys her a few drinks and moves into for a good night kiss and she's upset about being "groped"? Go tweet a #metoo and let everyone commiserate with you that someone tried to kiss you on a first date without a signed waiver filed with the circuit court prior to trying.
I go on dates. They aren't all great. But we both try and have fun and I'm interesting enough to keep my guy's head out of his phone.

Pulheese… complain to someone who cares. Not Rumpole.

South Beach Dandy said...

Forget the girl...Lila...RUMP you devil. How'd you pull that off and get in????

Ronnie The Limo Driver said...

Wo wo wo STOP THE CLOCK
I can get her on the show if she'll wear a bikini and can be on dial date.

Anonymous said...

I wanna see a receipt from Lila. I just called. They aren't even taking reservations for the rest of the year. How'd you get in Rumpole you old dog?

Anonymous said...

If you were still on the fence about what a total p.o.s. hypocrite Rump is, notice he hasn't posted anything about the bullshit happening to Judge Kavanaugh.

Circle K

Anonymous said...


Rumpole a very respectable 11-9-1 after three weeks of football. How bout them FINS!!!

Anonymous said...


Rumpy, wake up. You ate too much pasta at Lila and it drugged you to sleep. Your Survivor pool has two players remaining.

Real Fake Former La Jolla Judge picked the Titans in week one and they lost to the Dolphins.

Adam Tebrugge picked the Titans in week one and they lost to the Dolphins.

Ifhkatar Memon picked the Steelers in week one and they tied. Your rule was very clear. Don’t change your own rules; you couldn’t be clearer when you said, and I quote: “Then, every-week, pick one winner, no point spread needed, and if your team wins, you survive.” Rumpole, circa August 2018. (You didn’t say, if your pick loses, you’re out).

Two players remaining are: Newbie ASA and PD2B.

Great picking this week by the way. You were 5-1. Keep making me money.

Anonymous said...

I'm on the FACDL list serve. Would someone pleeeeze tell Nancy Wear to shut up? She fills my inbox with nonsense almost every day. Please, Nancy, shut up.