tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5643170653972355602024-02-18T17:55:42.909-08:00Stinger503 CaledonificationStinger503 talking about everything from games to politics, Call of Duty, Xbox 360, NASCAR, Geocaching, etc.Stinger503http://www.blogger.com/profile/03702442391786634830noreply@blogger.comBlogger252125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-564317065397235560.post-30599468470092469092011-10-23T22:50:00.000-07:002011-10-23T22:50:39.814-07:00Some updates and reflectionWhat a summer! It's hard to believe that I actually went to GeoWoodstock this year, it seems like years ago now. Some of the other highlights:<br />
<ul><li>GHAGAFAP X</li>
<li>Over 100 caches in one day!</li>
<li>100 days in a row with a cache!</li>
<li>Placing 15 caches!</li>
<li>An amazing day at Dairy Daze!</li>
<li>Introducing my cousin to caching (He now has over 100 finds!)</li>
<li>A double event day</li>
<li>A September with over 180 caches.</li>
<li>Starting Waymarking </li>
<li>Caching with legends like Bruce Iroquoia, Pasha 88, Surly2 and Karen Renora</li>
</ul>Whew. This month I have less than 20 caches. It's because, well, partly laziness. But a lot of it is the shorter days combined with disorganization. Add in school and a job then well, you get the picture.Thankfully a no-school week should bolster my numbers. In fact I'll give you a preview of what's coming up.<br />
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<ul><li>Caching partner Sharon12 will be getting her 1000th cache this week. She's chosen Deerbait, an old cache that dates back to 2001.</li>
<li> BFL Night is coming up, this will be my first attendance and I'm excited. I'll report back to you.</li>
<li>I will be getting an iPhone 4S as early as tomorrow. I'll be reporting on how it compares to my Magellan in a few weeks.</li>
<li>A ton of ideas for new caches.</li>
<li>Visiting the GPS Maze in Toronto.</li>
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Next up is the Hamilton Stingers who led a great 92-74 victory over the Honey Badgers. Michael Turner did most of the work netting 20pts and Graham (TE) and Kasay (K) got 19 and 11 pts respectively. <br />
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Now the Hamilton Thunder lost out to NAA 119 to 91 unfortunately Fitzpatricks failure and Austin being sidelined with injury lost us the game. The rest of my players did well though, all having over 10 pts.<br />
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Finally the Tornadoes preformed a come-from-behind victory 91-89 against the Waterboys as Bernie Wells got an amazing 31 pts. Mike Williams 6 pts gave us the win on Monday night.Stinger503http://www.blogger.com/profile/03702442391786634830noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-564317065397235560.post-6690571058637359512011-09-27T10:57:00.000-07:002011-09-27T10:57:45.516-07:00A Sweep of a Different Sort TWIFSI don't want to talk about this. Last week my teams were on overdrive. This week however, we lost Miles Austin, Beanie Wells, and had a complete melt down of our Running corps.<br />
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Let's start with the <b>Maulers</b> who lost 107-89. Starks (RB) and BGE (RB) got -2 and 1 respectively. Grossman (QB) got 12. Shout outs for Gronkowski, Wallace and the Steelers D for keeping it in shooting distance.<br />
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Now on to the Haldimand Thunder who lost 101 to 94. Again BGE had 1 point which f'd us. Dieon Branch had 0 points which didn't help. Ryan Fitzpatrick and McFadden both scored over 20 pts so props to them.<br />
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Next is the Hamilton Stingers, who were wiped out 156-87. This game was pretty much unwinnable.<br />
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And finally the Tornadoes lost 103-92. Beanie Wells out and Mendenhall got 3 points. The Eagles DST had 3 pts too. Thanks to Stafford, and the Johnsons for keeping this close.Stinger503http://www.blogger.com/profile/03702442391786634830noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-564317065397235560.post-76176670418192051902011-09-18T21:28:00.000-07:002011-09-18T21:28:19.476-07:00It's A SWEEP! TWIFF Week2Let's start with the <b>Caledonia Maulers</b> who picked up the Steelers DST from waivers to get 19 pts! A big shout-out to Miles Austin for 32 pts. But really the whole line was amazing! Kasay (K) had 14 pts, Moss and Wallace (WRs) had over 30 pts combined, waiver wire pickup Starks (RB) had 11 pts and Green-Ellis (RB) had 13 pts. Finally waiver wire pickup Grossman (QB) snagged 19 pts!<br />
Final Score: 158 Maulers - 68 Domination<br />
Analysis: Damn! Even my Bench did well (Packers DST 14 pts and Henderson (WR) 16 pts). The guy who gave up the Steelers must be kicking himself! I believe this is probably my highest score in fantasy football thusfar.<br />
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Now for the <b>Hamilton Thunder</b> who in addition to Austin (32 pts remember) had both RBs (Fred Jackson and D. McFadden) getting 49 pts combined! Vick got 17 pts and throw in Henderson's 16 and Kasays 14 you get...<br />
Final Score: 148 Thunder- 85 Trollshrouds<br />
Analysis: Another unbelievable performance by everyone involved.<br />
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Next is the <b>Hamilton Stingers,</b> they had Tony Romo getting 25 pts, Ben Tate and Michael Turner (RBs) combining for 30pts, Austin's 32, Steve Johnson's 15 and Kasay's 12<br />
Final Score: 146 Stingers- 93 Wreckin' Crew<br />
Analysis: Simply amazing. Another blow out win. Austin has earned his pay.<br />
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Finally its the <b>Tornadoes</b>, who were going against my father's team the Rhinos. If you followed my fantasy teams last year you'll know that I suffered a devastating loss to them in the Championship. Out for blood, Matt Stafford (a risky draft pick) snapped up a monster 33 pts. Mendenhall (RB) had 13 pts, the Johnson's (WR) totaled 30 pts. Rob Gronkowski had an amazing 20 pts at tight end and Kasay again had 14 pts.<br />
Final Score: 118 Tornadoes - 100 Rhinos.<br />
Analysis: Finally some revenge. A dish best served with a 4 team sweep.Stinger503http://www.blogger.com/profile/03702442391786634830noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-564317065397235560.post-11743841043199502492011-09-12T22:49:00.000-07:002011-09-12T22:49:55.134-07:00Welcome Back to TWIFF 2011: WEEK 1This year rather than having college teams I've elected to have 4 NFL teams. Let's see how they did:<br />
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First is the <b>Caledonia Maulers</b>. With Peyton Manning injured, his brother Eli had to step up, snagging 14 pts. RBs Steven Jackson and Green-Ellis totaled 20 pts combined. My WRs and TE totalled 46 pts and kicker David Akers put the cherry on top with 15 pts.<br />
<b>Final Score:</b> 106 Caledonia Maulers - 96 Leathernecks<br />
Analysis: Great first win, team looks good, going to have to pick up someone to replace Peyton, busy waiver wire this week.<br />
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Up next is the <b>Hamilton Stingers</b>. Starting QB Tony Romo played well getting 21 pts. Primary RB Michael Turner got 12 pts. My receiving corps totaled 44 pts (Miles Austin, Jimmy Graham and Steve Johnson). The Chargers DST and John Kasay rounded out the team with 24 pts.<br />
<b>Final Score: </b>105 Hamilton Stingers - 63 Mother Green<br />
Analysis: Another great win, Romo played great, and the whole team looked brilliant.<br />
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The <b>Tornadoes</b> are part of the league that my family is playing in. I took a late pick with Matt Stafford as QB which payed off with 28 pts. Green-Ellis got my 9 pts on RB, but it was my receiving corps that was the monster 52 points. The Eagles luckily made up an error on my part (Hartley was out and I didn't have time to change him) with 19 pts.<br />
<b>Final Score: 110 </b>Tornadoes<b> - </b>83 AJ Crushers<br />
Analysis: Should be even better once I get an active kicker<br />
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Finally the <b>Haldimand Thunder</b> played well too. Michael Vick scored 26 points and McFadden got 15 pts. My tightend and kicker both fell short.<br />
<b>Final Score: </b>105 Cowboys - 93 Thunder<br />
Analysis: Going to get some new TE & K, over a good startStinger503http://www.blogger.com/profile/03702442391786634830noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-564317065397235560.post-31386057607982134082011-06-08T09:05:00.000-07:002011-06-08T09:07:55.642-07:00E3 2011The title of this post is deceiving, since this is mostly a message to Microsoft (Don't get me started on the Vita or Wii U).<br />
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Microsoft, buddy, we got some issues to talk about. We (gamers) have been growing concerned over the last couple E3s but its gotta stop. Here are some of my observations of your press conference.<br />
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Stop it with the kid shit. Disneyland Adventures and Sesame Street have no fucking business even being at E3, better yet the Xbox 360 briefing! Why? People watching E3 are not the target of these games. Do kids even know about E3?! No one watching E3 got excited and said "I can't wait for Disneyland Adventures!". Even parents don't care, a father who plays video games isn't watching E3 for gift ideas. <br />
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"But," you say, "this is showing off the Kinect!" Shut. Your. Whore. Mouth. A lot of gamers already hate the Kinect, why are you making it worse by showing games for 6 year olds? Its even worse when you show child actors or whoever playing the games, pretending to have fun. I have a Kinect, so stuff like Ryse, Ghost Recon and Star Wars were actually pretty cool. But then you show dumb shit like people playing football. I don't think there was a single person watching who didn't facepalm at that. Next year I'll have a drinking game where every time something like this happens, I take a shot. I could die of alcohol poisoning Microsoft, do you want that on your conscience? <br />
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Now that I've vented a bit there's also some good stuff I haven't mentioned, like Halo 4, the Halo 1 remake, MW3 and Gears 3.<br />
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Now how do we fix the embarrassing issues? The first step is simple: if someone comes to you and says "We should show (insert game for kids 8 and under here) at our E3 press conference", you slap them and tell them to get the fuck out of your office.<br />
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The next solution is send it to me. Honestly, type up an itinerary and e-mail it to me. I will tell you what I think for free.<br />
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Overall, E3 this year has been lackluster, with the exceptions of MW3, Dead Island, and Bioshock Infinite.Stinger503http://www.blogger.com/profile/03702442391786634830noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-564317065397235560.post-42388223154425367482011-02-10T21:46:00.001-08:002011-02-10T21:46:05.844-08:00The Death of Guitar Hero<p>First let’s get the obvious “our thoughts are with the people who were laid off” out of the way. </p> <p>Now, how does it effect Rock Banders (and gamers in general)?</p> <p>Well we could see the signs at least a year ago. Rock Band 3 was announced with the “real guitar” and piano hardware, what was Guitar Hero’s response? Warriors of Rock? Although the game has a bunch of good songs (most notably Rush 2112), it seemed like a desperate last gasp in comparison to RB3. </p> <p>It’s only a wonder this didn’t happen sooner. Think about it, how did Rock Band advertise? It didn’t. Game sites and word of mouth made Rock Band popular. Now look at Guitar Hero and all those Bob Seger commercials. How much did those cost?</p> <p>And then of course there’s the market over saturation. Seriously: Warriors of Rock, Guitar Hero Smash Hits, Guitar Hero 4, Band Hero, DJ Hero, Guitar Hero Aerosmith, Guitar Hero 5, Guitar Hero Van Halen, DJ Hero 2, Guitar Hero Metallica. And those are just off the top of my head! What was the logic in this? I could go on for hours, so let’s get to the benefits.</p> <p>The immediate benefit is that Rock Band is suddenly a monopoly over the genre. And since Harmonix is a pretty well liked by everyone, this is sort of like having Santa as president or something. If a band wants to be in a music game they pretty much have to go to Rock Band.</p> <p>The next big thing is that it forces anyone who is a new entrant to the music genre or a Guitar Hero fan to go to Rock Band. This will greatly help the franchise which is frankly no prize right now either.</p> <p>What are the problems? First is the people who are saying this is the death knell of music games. It’s not. It’s sort of like saying HD-DVD dropping out of the HD wars was signifying the end of HD movie discs. Yet Blu-Ray is still around. </p> <p>Even then, it’s not some sort of revelation that music games are in a slump. The problem is the image this presents might turn off artists from using Rock Band. </p> <p>Finally the worst part is how shaky it makes Rock Band look. If a well established game like Guitar Hero can just collapse, can the same happen to Rock Band? A couple of songs and I could have been a Guitar Hero player. That’s a lost investment in hardware, software and downloadable content. They can at least use the hardware for RB3 but even then, what happens if Harmonix closes? Then where would we turn?</p> Stinger503http://www.blogger.com/profile/03702442391786634830noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-564317065397235560.post-19307192338846467932011-01-13T06:10:00.000-08:002011-01-13T06:17:52.702-08:00Game Review: Rock Band 3Rock Band 3 was a long time coming. Rock Band 2 was released way back in 2008. Unlike the Guitar Hero franchise which has a seemingly endless amount of sequels and spin-offs, we only had The Beatles: Rock Band and Green Day: Rock Band to tide us over. After such a long development, will Rock Band 3 be the pinnacle of music gaming it's supposed to be?<br />
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In some ways yes. Consider that I haven't played with the actual stringed Rock Band guitar or the other advanced guitar. I have had experience with the Rock Band <strike>Piano</strike> Keyboard (smart ass EB Games employees). Well let's start with the piano then. It's fun. A lot of fun actually. The keyboard itself is well-made and the charting is stupendous. Two complaints:<br />
<ol><li> The bar to activate overdrive and effects is way on the left side, which more often than not causes you to lose focus.</li>
<li>This is a big one, upgrading songs from Rock Band 2 and DLC for Rock Band 3 Keyboards costs the FULL PRICE of the song. Yup, apologists can "but they have to re-license the songs" to the cows come home cause that's horse shit. Sorry there's no way I can be nice about this. If they had been up front about it, say, a year ago and said "Yup your going to have to re-pay for the songs for Rock Band 3" then they'd have my sympathy. Instead they didn't announce shit and waited until two weeks after Rock Band 3 was released and the first DLC came out. Fucking cockbites.</li>
</ol> Okay I have to calm down. Let's get to the good part, the music and game play. If your a metal lover than your probably going to be disappointed with Rock Band 3. Thankfully I hate metal, so Rock Band 3's soundtrack was amazing (albeit confusing: Who the fuck asked for <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NxSQYVFsBs&feature=fvst">Rock Lobster</a>? Or that llama song?). Huey Lewis, INXS, J Geils Band, Joan Jett, Dire Straits, Ozzy, Police, Who, Doors, Hendrix, Bowie and the Beach Boys? HELL YES!<br />
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I thought the feel of Rock Band 2 couldn't get any better. I was wrong. Rock Band 3 feels so solid its unbelievable. The menus are much better (although switching users is still a pain in the ass) as well. What about the campaign? It's a disappointment. The idea behind it is great: go to different cities on Tours playing your choice of various setlists with different challenges. That's totally fun. The problem is it's too damn short! I never completely finished Rock Band 2's campaign, but Rock Band 3's campaign can be done in a day! They spent way too much time on their goal system when they need to expand the campaign. This is inexcusable when they've gotten rid of other various player modes.<br />
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Overall the game is a shame. A shame that they had such good bands and good game play ideas that they cocked up the best single system multi-player game with too much other crap and (to me) shady tactics. <br />
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7.5/10<br />
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P.S. Where the FUCK are the goddamn pianos? I have not seen one single Xbox 360 Rock Band 3 piano at any store I've been to (including Buffalo and Toronto). What is this shit? I'm sure we all thought that Mad Catz would be on top of this but it's FUCKING JANUARY! And now they're just talking about not having enough MIDI connectors? And they're only shipping 4000? How many games of Rock Band 3 were sold? I'm pretty sure they sold more Stage Kits than that!<br />
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MADCATZ! PIANOS! NOW!Stinger503http://www.blogger.com/profile/03702442391786634830noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-564317065397235560.post-77137032324863889362011-01-05T02:35:00.001-08:002011-01-05T02:35:53.985-08:00Game Review: Call Of Duty: Black Ops<p> </p> <p>I’ve finally gotten to finish Black Ops (except Zombies, but I really don’t care for zombies). Understand that I came into Black Ops sceptical.  In the <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OtRnpC7ddv8">first trailer</a> the first thing you see is these explosions that look like ass. From then on I kept me expectations low. And even after the release I still didn’t pick the game up for several weeks (problems with MW2 made me finally buy it). Here are my thoughts…</p> <h5>Single Player</h5> <p>Single Player is so-so. Some missions are pretty good for their use of history. Executive Command for example has you destroying a Russian Missile which is similar to an actual accident. Operation 40 has you on the Bay of Pigs Invasion. The Vorkuta Prison escape was also really well done. </p> <p>On the other hand, the Vietnam, Kowloon and Laos missions were pretty bland. The mission WMD has some good moments but the whole spy plane is such a waste. Why did they even bother on something that you spend more time getting into than actually using? Some other complaints: Why was there no introduction to the RC-XD Car? The story isn’t great and a lot of the forced scenes are tedious and its annoying that you have to go through them EVERY TIME WITH NO SKIPPING! Some objectives aren’t clear… I’m looking at you Khe Sanh Napalm Barrels. </p> <h5>Multi Player</h5> <p>The multi-player is good. There are to big problems though. #1 is the maps. They’re all pretty uninspired and too small. Rundown time:</p> <ul> <li>Array: Good</li> <li>Cracked: Bad</li> <li>Crisis: Boring</li> <li>Firing Range: Meh</li> <li>Grid: Meh</li> <li>Hanoi: Good but rarely comes up</li> <li>Havana: Okay</li> <li>Jungle Meh</li> <li>Launch: Not bad this is probably the most interesting map</li> <li>Nuketown: Okay</li> <li>Radiation: Boring No one ever goes under ground, they wasted time on a useless door opener</li> <li>Summit: One of the better maps</li> <li>Villa: Really good sniping map</li> <li>WMD: Meh</li> </ul> <p>Maybe I’m just hard to please.</p> <p>The #2 thing wrong is the money/experience system. There’s a lot of little reasons so I’ll try my best to explain. For me moving Modern Warfare 2 along required unlocking weapons, unlocking the attachments and completing various challenges (usually gametype challenges). So I would play like this: Level Up, Get Gun, Get Attachments, Complete Gametype Challenge (Deathmatch, S&D, Demolition, Etc.) until I Prestige.</p> <p>In Black Ops all that is thrown out the window. You only need to unlock Pro Perks. Everything else can be bought. So I focus on Pro Perks, which are a pain in the ass. I can’t really go into S&D if I’m trying to get PPs so I have to stay in TDM. So my experience so far has been level up in TDM until I get the AK47 and then just play that till I either get all my PPs or prestige (so far its only been the latter).</p> <p>Another complaint: Noobs. Now I’m usually not one to complain about this, I mean, were all new at some point, right? But the issue I have is that people seem to be just taking their Xbox out of the box, putting in the game and then JOINING MY MATCHES AND GETTING 0-32! It’s ridiculous! And it happens all the time that I go to check their gamercard and the have 0 gamerscore. WHAT YOU COULDN’T BE BOTHER TO PLAY THE FIRST MISSION? YOU HAD TO COME STRAIGHT INTO MERCENARY TEAM DEATHMATCH AND YOU DON’T EVEN KNOW THE FUCKING CONTROLS??!?!? </p> <p>Sorry, I just had to vent there. </p> <p>There’s various other problems which you can find out for yourself (just search “Black Ops Sucks” you’ll get what your looking for)</p> <h5>Sound</h5> <p>The sound is actually top notch. Excellent voice over cast and good licensed music including Rolling Stones and CCR.</p> <h5>Graphics</h5> <p>Graphics weren’t impressive. They seemed worse than MW2 for some reason. </p> <h5></h5> <h5>Positive Notes</h5> <p>There are several great steps though. First is the fact that you can play online with a guest. The theatre mode is good too. </p> <h5>Overall 7/10</h5> <p>I don’t think Black Ops is a worthy successor to the Modern Warfare duo. It’s good and fun to play, but it just doesn’t have the same impact that they had story wise and game play wise.</p> Stinger503http://www.blogger.com/profile/03702442391786634830noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-564317065397235560.post-48560610451680210722010-12-30T15:25:00.000-08:002010-12-30T15:26:30.534-08:00Championship?<p>Here we are, the end of the season. My 3rd season to be exact. It’s been a long journey from September. Let’s see how we did.</p> <p>Starting with the <strong>Moscow Maulers</strong> going up against the Piper Downs. Well the Maulers lost 93-63. Although Tamme, Vick and BGE all did pretty well, unfortunately VJackson, Mccoy, Bryant, the Chargers and Wes Welker all had under 10 pts, mostly under 5pts. Andre Johnson being called out of the game at 3PM was the nail in the coffin. Congrats to the Piper Downs (the team my father owns by the way)</p> <p>The <strong>Norfolk Maulers</strong>  also lost their championship game to the Nessquick 99-62. Vick, Torain and Britt (a good waiver pick) all did well but Boss, Akers, the Gianst DST, Benson, Branch, and Jackson all had 4 pts or less. Congrats to Nessquick. </p> <p>Finally the <strong>Hamilton Stingers</strong> are the NFL vs CFL league CHAMPIONS! They beat the Eazeland All-Stars 114-105 a bunch of player came through for me including Vick, Foster, the Patriots DST, Bowe and Williams. </p> <p>So now to do something I haven’t done before, MVP awards.</p> <p>MVP: Michael Vick. With a season high off 57 pts and low of 19 (barring injury) he pretty much got my teams into the playoffs. Vick also wins for Waiver Wire MVP. </p> <p>Draft MVP goes to Arian Foster who did very well.</p> <p>WR MVP goes to Dwayne Bowe and Andre Johnson who both did well and not well at times.</p> <p>TE MVP goes to Tamme who did great replacing Shiancoe for me</p> <p>K MVP goes to David Akers who with Vick did really well</p> <p>DST MVP goes to the Patriots who had the most points in the final game</p> <p>Worst Injury: Dez Bryant this hurt the receiving corps on my team greatly.</p> <p>Lucky Break: Michael Vicks injury made another team put him on waivers, I picked him up.</p> <p>Big Bust: Shiancoe and Bernard Berrian.</p> <p>Congrats to the HAMILTON STINGERS WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS!</p> Stinger503http://www.blogger.com/profile/03702442391786634830noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-564317065397235560.post-34441311587083658152010-12-19T21:33:00.001-08:002010-12-20T20:53:31.380-08:00This Week In Fantasy Football PLAYOFFS - WERE GOING TO THE CHAMPIONSHIP!THE MOSCOW MAULERS ARE GOING TO THE PLAYOFF AGAINST THE PIPER DOWNS! The Maulers won their game against Johnnyblaze 113 to 75, mostly thanks to Michael Vick dropping bombs and the Chargers Defense. The Piper Downs defeated Teammitchell finally putting to rest the ultra competitive Central Division.<br />
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This weekend will have a classic East vs West showdown. The Maulers and Pipers faced off before in Week 7, where the Pipers beat a team missing key players (Michael Vick injured and Andre Johnson on BYE) 97-78. Will the Maulers get their revenge in the biggest game of all?<br />
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Meanwhile The Stingers and Norfolk Maulers still have a Monday game to go through.<br />
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To Play: Maulers- Bennett (WR) or Rice (WR), Yojimbo- Forte (RB) and Olsen (TE). I have a healthy 37 pt lead (107-70) but I’m still worried. The opponent they’ll face is still up in the air: Nessquick is leading Facemob 104-93 but Facemob still has Adrian Peterson to play.<br />
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Finally the Stingers have all but sealed their win against Westside, leading 134-72. Westside has A. Peterson to play as well. They will likely battle the Eazeland All-Stars barring some sort of miracle that allows the 49ers ATW to overcome a 38 pt deficit. <br />
I will update tomorrow!<br />
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UPDATE: The Stingers won their game by default with Peterson injured. The Stingers will face the Eazeland All-Stars who downed their division opponent. The last time these teams met the Stingers had a blowout loss by a humiliating 60pts. Can the Stingers get their revenge and get the underdog win?<br />
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The Norfolk Maulers also won their game 109-81 with Benson, Torain and of course Vick getting a majority of the points. Nessquick won its match against Facemob who also had Peterson. Ouch. Remember what I told you last week about the Maulers and Nessquick? We're still battling it out for the most wins (12-3) and now the championship. Last time these teams battled it was a 51 pt route for the Maulers. GO TEAMS GO!Stinger503http://www.blogger.com/profile/03702442391786634830noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-564317065397235560.post-9162683105428121402010-12-15T00:25:00.000-08:002010-12-15T00:25:23.633-08:00This Week In Fantasy Sports: Semi-FinalsNFL vs CFL matchups are<br />
The Hamilton Stingers vs Westside<br />
Eazeland Allstars vs 49ers All The Way (Copperheads actually lost out by a tie).<br />
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Westside barely won the West Division by a tie. Westside and the Stingers met in Week 8 with the Stingers winning 115-72. Westside's roster has great players such as Tom Brady, Adrian Peterson and the Steelers DST. However they have a weak Receiving core and their Running Back team is lacking. This should be a difficult matchup. The computer has me up by 17.<br />
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The KFP league will have<br />
The Moscow Maulers vs Johnny Blaze<br />
Piper Downs vs Teammitchell<br />
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The Moscow Maulers met Johnny Blaze in Week 4, handing us our second loss in a 3 game losing streak. To say the Johnny Blaze are a powerful team is an understatement, with MJD, Calvin Johnston, Miles Austin, Hines Ward and the Steelers DST (again? PLEASE New York Jets, beat the Steelers to a pulp (note that the Steelers play Carolina the week after, is that a guaranteed championship?)) The computer has me up by 11.<br />
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VAPO League has<br />
Yojimbo vs Norfolk Maulers<br />
Nessquick vs Facemob<br />
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The Maulers face Yojimbo in Week 7 and beat them by a little over 10 pts. This could come down to a battle of the Quarter Backs with my Michael Vick going up against Mark Sanchez. I should note that Nessquick and the Maulers are battling for the most wins. The computer has us up by 15.Stinger503http://www.blogger.com/profile/03702442391786634830noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-564317065397235560.post-27831441707647331812010-12-13T23:32:00.001-08:002010-12-13T23:32:09.910-08:00This Week In Fantasy Sports<p>Since all my teams were going to the playoffs, I decided to experiment with alternate players and it was quite successful. 2/3 teams won their games. </p> <p>So how do the playoffs look now?</p> <p>The <strong>Moscow Maulers </strong>won their game and improved to 8-4 and win the West Division title (with a 4 game lead on 2nd place to boot). The East Division title goes to Piper Downs who also has an 8-4 record. The Central Division was a lot closer with Team Mitchell and Johnnyblaze being tied at 8-4. Razorbacks were kept out of the running by the Chickenhawks  who beat them this week keeping them at 7-5. </p> <p>KFP League </p> <ul> <li>East Division is Piper Downs</li> <li>West Division is Moscow Maulers</li> <li>Central Division is Johnnyblaze</li> <li>Wild Card is Team Mitchell</li> </ul> <p><strong>Hamilton Stingers </strong>lost their game leaving them at 9-5, still finishing first in the Central Division. The West is lead by the Eazeland All-Stars. The East Division with Copperheads beating Westside today is in a tie at 8-4.</p> <p>NFL vs CFL League</p> <ul> <li>Central Division is Hamilton Stingers</li> <li>East Division is Eazeland All-Stars</li> <li>West Division is Westside</li> <li>Wild Card is Copperheads</li> </ul> <p>Finally the <strong>Norfolk Maulers</strong> won their game, winning the East Division 11-3. Facemob won the Central Division 9-5. Nessquick won his West Division 11-3. Yojimbo secures the wild card spot at 9-5. </p> <p>VAPO League</p> <ul> <li>Central Division is Facemob</li> <li>East Division is Norfolk Maulers</li> <li>West Division is Nessquick</li> <li>Wild Card is Yojimbo</li> </ul> <p>Updates on matches tomorrow</p> Stinger503http://www.blogger.com/profile/03702442391786634830noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-564317065397235560.post-91821413972590946682010-12-06T20:40:00.001-08:002010-12-06T20:40:28.852-08:00This Week In Fantasy Sports 06/12/10<p> <strong>Moscow Maulers</strong> have cemented their playoff spot this week with a 120-54 win over the Tigers. Analysis: Vick, Bradshaw, McCoy, Welker and Johnson all had monster games which made up for poor play by the rest of the team. </p> <p>Playoff wise the Detroit Lions are out being 2 games back even if they win both weeks they can’t catch me. In the Central Division Teammitchell looks to take the lead with Razorbacks and Johnnyblaze down a game. The East Division is being led by the Piper Downs with the Bone Crushers back by a game. They face off next week. Next week Maulers face the Detroit Lions.</p> <p>The <strong>Hamilton Stingers</strong> won their game against 2nd place Big Boy Ballas 86-65. Analysis: Vick and Foster gave the team an awesome start. Which the team almost blew with 5 players having less than 5 points. </p> <p>Eazeland All-Stars easily has the East Division down and the Westside leads the West by a game over Copperheads and M.O.H.</p> <p>Finally the <strong>Norfolk Maulers</strong> won their game 103-73 against the Underdogs. Analysis: Mix bag here, Vick and Benson played well. As did Akers and the Giants D. </p> <p>Standings wise this puts me easily in the playoffs. Facemob still dominates the Central and Nessquick sealed the deal in the West division.</p> Stinger503http://www.blogger.com/profile/03702442391786634830noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-564317065397235560.post-65605817627558156862010-11-29T19:52:00.001-08:002010-11-29T19:52:43.478-08:00This Week In Fantasy Sports 29/11/10<blockquote> <p><strong>The Hamilton Stingers</strong> won their game in a monstrous fashion beating division rival TopRushers 144-58. Analysis: Vick, Foster, Hillis and Bowe all had over 20 pts! Which easily made up for the no shows by Bryant and Jackson.</p> <p>Standings wise, I go up two games (8-4) on the Bad Boy Ballas (6-6) for the lead in the Central Division. Meanwhile Eazeland All-stars continue to lead the East by a comfortable 3 games. Finally  the race for the West has been blown wide open with Westside 7-4-1, Copperheads 7-5, MOH 6-5-1 and Hombres 6-7.</p> </blockquote> <p> </p> <blockquote> <p>The <strong>Moscow Maulers</strong> continue to march into the playoff defeating the Saints 100-89. Analysis: Close game, Green-Ellis, Vick and Tamme all had good games. Everyone else seemed to have problems (Johnson fighting, Rice injury, etc). </p> <p>This raises the Maulers to 6-4 and keeps them one game up on the Detroit Lions. In the Central division, the Razorbacks continue to fall apart now 7-3 and tied with Teammitchel and Johnnyblaze. </p> <p>The East division is still wide open with Team Decap and Piper Downs at 6-4 and Bone Crushers 5-5.</p> </blockquote> <p>Finally the <strong>Norfolk Maulers</strong> is still on going. Currently I have a 10 pt lead on Katy’s Bratpack. Playing for me is Crabtree, and for Katy is Gore. I just received word that Gore is not going to be playing the rest of the game, meaning the Maulers win. This brings them to 9-3 assuring the Maulers a playoff spot! </p> <p>In the Central Division Facemob also has a 9-3 playoff spot. The West Division is still wide open though, Nessquick went to 9-3, the PCB Bengals went 8-3, Yojimbo and GBD are at 7-4.</p> Stinger503http://www.blogger.com/profile/03702442391786634830noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-564317065397235560.post-32290647637848861752010-11-29T12:28:00.001-08:002010-11-29T12:28:41.480-08:00WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS!<p>The Fenix Firecrackers won their Championship game 123-97 with Darron Thomas (QB) led with 33 points but almost everyone else had 10 pts or more! Congratulations FIRECRACKERS!</p> <p> </p> <p>Unfortunately the Spartans lost their game, 151-39. Mostly due to the poor play of Robinson (QB). I admit I should have switched him, had I we would have won easily.</p> <p> </p> <p>So that wraps up this season for college football. I’m afraid this may be my last because of various factors (player pools too large, too many teams, too many games). Maybe I’ll change my mind. NFL teams updated tonite!</p> Stinger503http://www.blogger.com/profile/03702442391786634830noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-564317065397235560.post-29110567209450836202010-11-22T21:19:00.000-08:002010-11-22T21:20:12.491-08:00This Week In Fantasy Football SWEEP!<p>Let’s start with the college semi-finals!</p> <p>The <strong>Fenix Firecrackers</strong> were up against Auburn, leader of the West Division. Unfortunately, the majority of Auburn’s players were on BYE, resulting in a easy 107-49.5 win for Fenix. FENIX IS GOING TO THE FINALS! Who is their opponent? The Eastern Division leader Blastmen went up against Eastern wildcard Trojan Warhorses. And although Blastmen were the favourites, the Trojans won 134-109. </p> <p>So this weekend Eastern rivals Fenix Firecrackers and the Trojan Warhorses will do battle for the CFL title.</p> <p>The Western Leaders, <strong>Caledonia SPARTANS,</strong> went up against the West Wildcard Medford Drewids. The Spartans have only had two losses, one was to the Drewids. This week the Drewids put up a daunting 159 points. The Spartans put up a 183.25 point win! Meanwhile the East division rivals Pink Ladies and Jump Around faced off. Pink Ladies won 144-111. Interestingly, the Pink Ladies are the only team that the Spartans haven’t won against.</p> <p>So this weekend West battles East as The Caledonia Spartans battle the Pink Ladies for the ORFPA Title.</p> <p>Whew. On to the NFL now.</p> <p><strong> </strong>The <strong>Moscow Maulers </strong>seemed to sneak out a win on the Team Decap winning 94-87. Analysis: Poor play by Bradshaw (0pts!), Andre Johnson (3pts) and Janikowski (3pts) led to a poor overall performance, it wouldn’t have taken much to beat us. This moves the Maulers to 5-4, 2 games up on the Detroit Lions who lost their game. The East Division is all tied up at 5-4 as well and the Central Division lead is still within a game.</p> <p>The<strong> Hamilton Stingers </strong>had an easy 135-86 win over the Destroyers. Analysis: Can you say hot streak?! This brings them to 7-4, 2 games up on the Big Boy Ballas. Eazeland-Allstars still lead the East division and the West is still at a deadlock between Westside (6-3-1) and Copperheads (6-4).</p> <p>Finally the <strong>Norfolk Maulers</strong> beat Monsta 97-93. Analysis: Again another sneaky win due to poor play by Crabtree (1pt) and the Cardinals DST (0pts!). Luckily strong play by Benson, Fred Jackson, Vick and David Akers led to a win. The Maulers go to 8-3, 3 games on Katy’s Bratpack and Boston Pats. The Central Division is still led by Facemob 8-3 by 4 games and the West Division is now led by Nessquick who broke the 3 way tie. (There is now a 3 way tie for 2nd). </p> Stinger503http://www.blogger.com/profile/03702442391786634830noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-564317065397235560.post-34222643661788458822010-11-15T23:31:00.000-08:002010-11-15T23:38:07.081-08:00This Week In Fantasy Sports Monday Edition- SWEEP<p>The astounding performance of Michael Vick easily won the games for all three teams. </p> <p>The <strong>Moscow Maulers</strong>, who were losing before todays game 66-107, won 137-107. This keeps the Maulers (4-4) one game up on the Detriot Lions (3-4-1) in the West Division. The East Division has a 3 way tie for 1st at 5-2. The Central division has three teams within 1 game of each other. </p> <p>The <strong>Hamilton Stingers</strong> easily dominated the M.O.H 159-66. In addition to Vick. Dwayne Bowe, who was predicted to have a bad game, scored an amazing 30 pts! You also had Jones-Drew who got 24 pts. The Stingers go up 6-4, tied with Big Boy Ballas and one up on the 5-5 TopRushers. Eastland Allstars still leads the East 8-2. Copperheads and Westside are battling over the lead in the West at 6-4/6-3-1.</p> <p>Finally the <strong>Norfolk Maulers</strong> won over Nessquick with a score of 150-99! Again, aside from Vick there was Fred Jackson who had 26 pts, as well as Crabtree, DeSean Jackson, Williams and Akers with 12-15-14-11. This takes the Maulers to 8-3, 4 games up on Katy’s Bratpack and Boston Pats. Facemob continues to dominate the Central 4 games over Urlacher. West division is still wide open with the PCB Bengals one game over G.B.D., Nessquick and Yojimbo.</p> <p>Again a special thanks to Michael Vick for scoring an outrageous 57 points!</p> Stinger503http://www.blogger.com/profile/03702442391786634830noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-564317065397235560.post-70179593515406142432010-11-14T02:03:00.000-08:002010-11-14T02:10:49.355-08:00This Week In Fantasy Sports: College SWEEP!<p>First off the <strong>Caledonia Spartans </strong>won their game against the Buckeyes 107-86. The Medford Drewids lost to Pink Ladies. Here is the final standings: * = going to playoffs</p> <p><u><strong>West</strong></u></p> <ul> <li>Cal Spartans 9-2 *</li> <li>Medford Drewids 6-5*</li> <li>Flames 5-6</li> <li>Stuck@ISU 3-8</li> <li>Wild Juice 3-8</li> </ul> <p><strong><u>East</u></strong></p> <ul> <li>Jump Around 8-3*</li> <li>Pink Ladies 7-4*</li> <li>Buckeyes 6-5</li> <li>D.V.L.Z 5-6</li> <li>West Side Blapper 3-8</li> </ul> <p>Meanwhile the <strong>Fenix Firecrackers </strong>beat the Crusaders 184-86 (LSU DST had an astounding 47 pts!) Here’s what the final standings look like:</p> <p><strong><u>West</u></strong></p> <ul> <li>Blastmen 10-1*</li> <li>Fenix Firecrackers 8-3*</li> <li>Trojan Warhorses 7-3*</li> <li>Vancouver Islanders 4-7</li> <li>CC’s Irish Thunder 3-7-1</li> </ul> <p><strong><u>East</u></strong></p> <ul> <li>Auburn 9-2*</li> <li>U.D.M. 5-6</li> <li>Bulldogs 4-7</li> <li>Crusaders 2-9</li> <li>Kansas 2-9</li> </ul> <p>So both teams are going to the PLAYOFFS! Cal Spartans go up against the Medford Drewids in what looks to be a spectacular rematch from only 2 weeks ago (198-133 for Medford). 1st place Jump Around will take on the Pink Ladies (who gave Jump Around a loss in Week 3). </p> <p>The Fenix Firecrackers take on Auburn and Blastmen take on the Trojan Warhorses. ONLY TO GAMES LEFT! LET’S TAKE HOME THE CHAMPIONSHIP BOYS!</p> Stinger503http://www.blogger.com/profile/03702442391786634830noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-564317065397235560.post-9340717829049128332010-11-08T21:04:00.001-08:002010-11-08T21:04:50.467-08:00This Week In Fantasy Sports Monday LIVE<p>Benson just got a touchdown! 102-97 now. 9 minutes left</p> <p>Benson made a good catch for 2 pts 104-97. 2 minutes left.</p> <p>Less then a minute, 2nd down Cinci on the 30. Stay there!</p> <p>4th and 5 not, DO NOT CONVERT PLZ!</p> <p>YES!</p> <p>Cinci called it’s time outs, 22 left. </p> <p>Game over! MAULERS WIN! 104 to 97!</p> <p>Analysis- Benson most definitely did not screw us this week. 13 points ftw. Standings wise the Maulers go two up on the Boston Pats and Katy’s Bratpack. Nessquick was upset and so was Facemob.</p> <p>The Hamilton Stingers final score was 165-94. </p> <p>The Moscow Maulers got 132-86. </p> Stinger503http://www.blogger.com/profile/03702442391786634830noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-564317065397235560.post-1958392172111118292010-11-07T21:52:00.001-08:002010-11-07T21:52:46.232-08:00This Week In Fantasy Football Sunday SWEEP!<p>Let’s start with the <strong>Norfolk Maulers</strong>, who are leading the Urlachers 91-80. To Play: Maulers- C. Benson RB Urlacher- M Wallace WR</p> <p>Analysis- Let’s hope Benson doesn’t screw us here. We’ve got a healthy 11 pt lead. A win would get us two games up on the Boston Pats and Katy’s Bratpack. Elsewhere in the league Nessquick (7-1 tied for 1st league wide) is being upset by Okie Boyz (2-6) and looks to become tied with West Division rival GBD (7-1 with todays win). Facemob (tied for 1st 7-1) is also looking at a possible upset to Yojimbo (4-4). So while the Central is still being held by Facemob and I’m starting to run away with the East. The West Division looks to be blown wide open.</p> <p><strong>Hamilton Stingers</strong> have an almost certain win leading the 49ers 165-76. To Play: 49ers- C. Ochocinco WR, M Wallace WR</p> <p>Analysis- Remember what I said yesterday about a team firing on all cylinders? Yeah that’s what the Stingers did today. Seriously the RBs and QB together total 89 points! Everyone had 9 pts or over! Hell even my reserves were performing well. Standings wise this keeps me tied with Toprushers and bigboyballas at 5-4 in the Central Division. Eazeland Allstars move up 3 games on the 49ers in the East Div. and the West Div. is still wide open.</p> <p>Finally the <strong>Moscow Maulers</strong> hit their stride going 132-82 over the Bone Crushers. To play: Bone Crushers- J. Shipley WR</p> <p>Analysis- Michael Vick dominated, along with the Saints DST and Bradshaw RB how all got 20pts or over. Overall most of my team did very well. Things are heating up in the West Division as the Maulers will remain only one game up on the Tigers and Detroit Lions. The East Division has been blown wide open with all teams within 1 game of each other. The Central division is the same way. </p> <p>This will be an interesting 6 weeks, full scores tomorrow! </p> Stinger503http://www.blogger.com/profile/03702442391786634830noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-564317065397235560.post-88547081111317405942010-11-07T10:15:00.001-08:002010-11-07T10:15:07.531-08:00This Week In Fantasy Sports College Edition<p><strong>Fenix Firecrackers </strong>beat CC’s Irish Thunder 98-92. The difference here? R. Tannehill, my waiver pickup who contributed 19 points to the WRs. Standings wise FF goes to 2nd in the West Div with 7-3 (a wild card spot) while the Trojan Warhorses go to 6-3-1 for 3rd. Blastmen continue dominance with 9-1 and Auburn leads the East Division with 8-2.</p> <p>Meanwhile the <strong>Caledonia Spartans </strong>lost their game against Medford Drewids. 198-133. What can you say here? 5 players over 20 points! If a team is firing on all cylinders and then some, there’s no way your going to win. Period. </p> <p>A minor setback though, since C. Spartans still lead the West Division 8-2 over Medford’s 6-4. In the East division Jump Around goes to 7-3 for 1st. Pink Ladies & buckeyes4ever tie for 2nd at 6-4.</p> <p>Next week is the final week before playoffs. Spartans go up against the buckeyes, sure to be an excellent game as buckeyes struggle for a playoff spot. </p> <p>The FF go up against the 2-8 Crusaders, I’m not taking this lightly as the Trojans are right on my heels.</p> Stinger503http://www.blogger.com/profile/03702442391786634830noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-564317065397235560.post-50693140964352476522010-11-06T21:24:00.000-07:002010-11-07T00:17:14.955-07:00Movie Review UpdateFigured I might as well give some quick ratings to movies I’ve seen recently. No full reviews.<br />
Name | Rating (out of 5)<br />
Bangkok Dangerous ***<br />
Raising Arizona ***<br />
The Road *****<br />
Up *****<br />
Date Night ***<br />
The Informant **<br />
Smart People ****<br />
Up In The Air *****<br />
Slumdog Millionaire *****<br />
Taken *****<br />
Kick Ass *****<br />
Inception *****<br />
Repo Men ***<br />
1984 ****<br />
Code 46 **<br />
Reservoir Dogs *****<br />
The Blind Side ***Stinger503http://www.blogger.com/profile/03702442391786634830noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-564317065397235560.post-2539568605525501552010-11-02T00:50:00.001-07:002010-11-02T00:50:37.547-07:00Waiver Wire Win<p>My waiver wire pickup for Tannehill went through for the Fenix Firecrackers, I only wish I had done it for the Spartans now. Lord knows the guy who picked him up (Jump Around) will probably end up beating me in the championship cause of this. </p> Stinger503http://www.blogger.com/profile/03702442391786634830noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-564317065397235560.post-14803892831275972952010-11-01T20:48:00.001-07:002010-11-01T20:48:21.215-07:00Monday Edition of TWIFF<p>Moscow Maulers won by 98-49</p> <p>Hamilton Stingers won 115-72</p> <p>And the Norfolk Maulers hold on for a 76-63 win.</p> Stinger503http://www.blogger.com/profile/03702442391786634830noreply@blogger.com0