Joey Russ

Here was the shite team I sent to Wormfarmer. I’m not expecting to win: A: John Andretti B: Kathleen Blanco C: John Cocks D: Devin Lima E: Clarissa Eden F: Stuart Fraser G: Jill Gascoine  H: Bill Heine I: Ian Mckellen J: Jose Jose K: Kulsoom Nawaz L: Leah Bracknell M: John McCain N: Michael Nesmith O: Nobuhiko Obayashi  P: Genesis P-Orridge Q: Bishop Francis Quinn R: Fernando Ricksen S: Stefan Karl Stefansson T: Bernard Tapie U: Gudrun Ure V: Marieke Vervoort W: Herman Wouk X: Lui Xia Y: Chen-Ning Yang Z: Franco Zeffirelli

Listening to this again, it’s still as chilling today as it was when I first heard it...

Pretty sure he meant the current one and not from past years...

For anyone wondering, Stefansson, Moss, and Wouk replaced the likes of Jackson, Cappotelli, and Butts respectively. Yep, that’s how my randomized 30 went...

Not the one I would’ve guessed lol...

Another dead pooling win for the legend DDT. Congrats for that.

Any chance that Wormfarmer blocked Toast from giving a PM? That’s the only explanation that I could think of...

Must’ve been too hungry to predict it correctly.

From his DDP bio: New leader of Pakistan Taliban following the death of Hakimullah Mehsud in 2013. Born 1974. Watch out for that Drone, boy... Don’t know why, but it gave me a little smile for some reason...

That unfortunately wasn’t the case for my poker tournament team, as I lost Joseph Jackson, Matt Cappotelli, and Colin Butts before the tournament even began.

Yep Gerard did have Cappotelli. Ed V also had him as well (I think he won one of these a few years). Absolutely no change in the top 6, only a bigger gap between us and the (generally) more casual players...

I heard some of his stuff before, and from what I heard I enjoy. Dave Van Ronk has also been in rotation for me as well...

I read on the forums that a lot of you like this group, and I like them too.

I'm kind of hoping that he doesn't obit at this point...

The Cappotelli Butts one two (assuming the latter receive a QO) will definitely have a shake up in the scoreboard. I mean, I'm still in 1st place, but Pity Da Foolz will rise all the way to 3rd place since he had both Butts and Cappotelli. Deceased Hose not that far behind him either...

Totally didn't have Colin Butts on my July squad, honest. *innocent face*

You can’t transfer out Toothill since he didn’t obit. The other 4 are fine...

God damn it gcreptile. You made me lose two people on my poker team plus one of my transfers because of that comment.

Pretty sure Matt Cappotelli would’ve been another one...

Dead. Well, I'll need another 5th sub then...

Okay, so he was dead before I made that post. Any chance that I could have George Alagiah as another sub?

Last year at this time, 1st place with 9 hits. This year at this time, 22nd place with 4 hits. Such a good change.

Here's the full strike through list (to the best of my ability, let me know if I missed someone). Don't want to drop our hopes for this year, but the 2nd 50 is currently doing better than the first 50...

I have some really bad picks on my team, but I'll only transfer the worst of the worst. OUT: Ami Brown Oliver Dragojevic Tommy Raudonikis Johnny Ruffo David Thomas IN: Colin Butts Spencer P Jones Kulsoom Nawaz Genesis P-Orridge Hector Timerman Sub: Pete Frates Thank you for running this Phantom.

Love to see that Ozzy at least got some good traction compared to last year. I’ll deal the strike through on full list later. Although from a glance, did someone pick Salvatore Riina for their Crowdsource list? He died a few days before submission entries were even allowed...