Draft night was a huge success. Thanks to all the captains and players who participated. The alcohol was flowing freely and the trash-talking even more so. It looks like it will be a very competitive year once again with a lot of unknowns due to the number of new players.

I hope to have have all the information about the upcoming season posted on the website no later than Monday. I want to publicly thank Tim Smith for putting together the new league website. It looks great and hopefully it will add to your experience in the league as soon as I figure out how everything works. Please be patient.

I hope to have  my annual draft analysis and pre-season predictions which will be soft predictions due to the number of new players this year posted by Monday. I will have a better idea how things will shake out after the first few weeks. I will say though that no one drafted a clearly dominant team that I am able to say has a chance to knock off the reigning Champs but that remains to be seen. As always, all it takes is an unfortunate injury to a key player to change the entire outcome of a team’s fortunes. Some very curious draft selections to say the least(more on that later).

To the Captains, please remind your players about the social aspect of the league and the obligation to patronize Dingers as much as possible so that they can avoid the disgrace of being named to the ALL-Shame team at the end of the year. Hopefully, I will not have to repeat this time and time again.

All Captains should make sure that they have the cell phone numbers and e-mail addresses of their players so that they can remind their player’s of their respective game times and to make sure you will have enough players for the game. All players should let their captains know whether they intend to show up for the games.If you know you are going to be short contact Mike Greene or me and we will try to make sure you have a sub. There are no forfeits. The league rules will be posted on the website shortly.

Remember this is a social league. Everyone makes the play-offs even Jason’s teams. Have fun and don;t get hurt.

FIRST PREDICTION: Team Mikuzis- Play-IN Game