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Happy Rocks Birthday
To Mark Fenstad who turns 31 over the weekend.  Looking at the career of Brett Favre, Julio Franco, and John Smoltz, good ol' Mark still has plenty of years in a Rocks uniform. 

Iowa Weekend
It's shaping up to be an exciting weekend. Well, actually a pretty nice little Saturday.  We're going to go to Home Depot. Yeah, buy some wallpaper, maybe get some flooring, stuff like that. Maybe Bed, Bath, & Beyond, I don't know, I don't know if we'll have enough time. 

So, about two months ago, my friend Bobby Stefani and I had planned to travel across our state's southern border into farm country.  After all, this weekend marks the battle of the pig, Floyd of Rosedale (no relationship to a certain mall in the Twin Cities).  I was looking forward to watching a game at Kinnick Stadium and their pink visitor locker rooms.  At this point in the season, the Gophers had just put up 42 points and 500 yards of offense on Michigan State while Iowa continued to squeak by opponents. Then the sub-500 Illinois team came into town and took a victory away from us.  Then there was last week.  Watching that game at the Sehnert's cabin was painful.  At one point, I looked over at Colin and asked, "when did they move the prep bowl up two weeks."  I'm pretty sure that Eden Prairie could've had a legitimate chance of beating the Gophers last week. 

As my enthusiasm for a 5 hour drive to the prairie lands of the midwest waned, Bobby informed me that ticket brokers were charging $75 for the game.  That was the news that broke the camel's back.  I had no interest in going until....I received a call on Monday from Bob regrettfully declining my invite to watch the game at my pad with barbequed pig and Summit beers.  Instead, he had a sudden trip planned to Iowa but he assured me that he wasn't going to the game...to that I say sarcastically, "uh huh, sure."  

If the Hawkeyes do lose - as they have the past two weeks - it's going to be a long drive home buddy. 

Here's what I have to say to all of you Hawkeye fans:



Rocks Fantasy Football: Week 10
Partially because I'm bitter at my loss in week 10 but mostly because other areas of my life are a greater priority, the week 10 write-up is delayed.  I've asked the unemployed owner of GLBT Pride to help out but he must be too pre-occupied with being unemployed.  We here at Rocks Baseball will make sure our readers have something to read soon.  Until then, thanks for your patience.   

UPDATED (4:00 P.M. 11/19/2009)
No later than 10 minutes from posting the above commentary do I receive an email from GLBT Pride owner, Jesse Tollefson, with week 10's write-up.  Without further ado, I give you the recap:

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With Maslow being too bitter busy after his week 10 loss to Team Tollefson (aka GLBT Pride), the task of the week 10 write-up has fallen to me.   Clearly Maslow’s comments regarding my “pedestrian” offense came back to bite him in a 112-101 loss.  Favre From Good currently occupies the last spot in the playoff race.  Proof that the fantasy football gods are clearly not happy with the constant whining about scoring the most points and still struggling for a postseason spot is the situation that allowed my team to beat Maslow.  Maslow lost by 11 points due in part to a last second TD by my Reggie Wayne coupled with his Maurice Jones-Drew kneeling at the one yard line to allow the clock to run out.  This caused a 13 point swing on the two end-of-game plays.