The Greatest Week of the Year

We are 23 hours into the greatest week of the year. Is it my birthday week (a Cowell family tradition)? Nope. Anniversary? Huh-uh. Raise week? Shark week? Trade sides of the bed week? None of the above.

It's Fantasy Football Draft Week. The "War Room" officially opened its doors last week with the annual dusting off of the Fantasy Football Database. This glorious apparatus of modern technology is the basis for all things Fantasy Football. It is a compilation of every NFL player's statistics from the prior year.

It's breadth is unparalleled. It's applications too numerous to comprehend: Strength of Schedule metrics, Value additivity analysis, Cost-replacement measurement , and bonafide, baby-proof contraception.

And as a pre-emptive measure - not like this will surprise any of the loyal followers of my sporadically updated blog - don't expect blogging for the next 145 hours.

After all, there are autoregressive correlations to calculate.

Happy Birthday Jeremy!

My brother-in-law turns 30 today. So instead of a typical Happy Birthday e-mail, I thought I would tell the blogging world what I love about Jeremy.

He's a great uncle

Uncle Jer-Bear really dotes on his nephews and loves to play with them. And they love him. For example, Uncle Jer-Bear has shelled out over $40 buying Star Wars figures for his nephew Luke, just so he could have toys to play with while they watch Star Wars together. And he's let us invade his house until after 11:00 at night watching the movies. Oh, and he learned how to juggle just so he could impress his nieces and nephews. He's a great uncle.

He's the glue that hold us together
Jeremy and I play on the worship team together, and while we can function without any of us, Jeremy is the hardest to replace. He is a very talented drummer, which makes him the coolest of us by far. I can't tell you how much I appreciate him and how talented he is.

He's my best friend.
I love to talk baseball with him, but it's not your typical talk. More like, how we can't stand Craig Counsell, or Craig Biggio. Come to think of it, how many Craigs do you like? Probably none.

He's also my personal iTunes service. If I don't know a song, I'll sing a few bars for him and he'll say, that's "The Fog by the band Cumberland. Did you know that their bassist, Neal O'Hara, also can't stand Craig Counsell" (I made up that song and band by the way). Hey, "The Way" is a song, by "Fastball." Thanks JB!

There are so many things I love about my brother-in-law its impossible to write them all down.

But there is one more thing that I love. He's 30!