“Bryan’s Song”: Paul Sings Sweet Music, Wins Week 10

Congratulations to Paul Bryan who wins Week 10 with a score of 101.

Here is Paul’s acceptance speech:

“When I sent Jordan my picks this week, included in the subject line was ‘Week 10 – this is starting to get embarrassing.’ <insert irony here> As you look for my name on the long list of 44 participants, you will find me toward the bottom, flirting with last place, which is still easily within my grasps. Call it what you will. A fluke? A Rudy-like performance? I don’t really care, just let me know when you need my Paypal information. With Romo coming back this week and Singletary keeping his pants on after last night’s game, I feel like things are really starting to look up. Given the current financial situation, I’m just happy to get my money and get the WHAT out. Cheers.”

Well said Paul. And congrats. Despite the terrific score Paul put up, the win did not come easy. Brandon Morris only missed one game, a 4 pointer, but lost in the tiebreak. After grading Brandon’s picks early on, I was convinced he had secured his second win of the season, which would have undoubtedly resulted in some more disparaging remarks towards BYU. Thank you Paul for coming through.

We actually had quite a few impressive scores this week. In fact, we came so very close to another Johnny Jackson win, which would have pleased many, myself included. He had 98 points. After Johnny, there was the Rex/Lisa team (although I heard it was all Lisa this week) with 97. Then there was Ted Davies, Jason Baughman (I am thrilled to finally mention his name), and Mike Rich, all at 96 points.

Speaking of Mike, his amazing run continues as he is now in the money at 3^rd place overall. Ryan Baughman dropped to 4^th. We are all hoping that holds until the end of the season. Austin is creating a little distance at the top, but the top 5 is really tight.

In unprecedented fashion, Ryan Curtis had our lowest score of the week and dropped all the way to 29^th place. I don’t even have words to describe what has happened here. I think Ryan himself put it best when he said:

“My meteoric rise and fall reminds me of Ronald Miller (Patrick Dempsey) in “Can’t Buy Me Love”. Two weeks ago I was hammering the cheerleader, now I’m hiding in my 20 year old station wagon…”

Now that is a perfect analogy. In fact, it even gives me the opportunity to post a clip from one of my favorite movies of all time:

There are even more parallels to this movie for Ryan than you know. Not only did he do pretty well with the ladies in high school, he also drove around a sick station wagon like Ronald. The thing handled like he it was on rails.

So, for our latest installment on “News of Our Esteemed Lady Friend”, one of our pool participants (who should probably remain anonymous) had an interesting observation:

“On a side note, I have concluded that our blog mascot has a left breast that is considerably higher than her right one. Something her surgeon clearly overlooked. We’ll have to send Andrus in for closer inspection and confirmation.”

Ryan, get on it. If you need any other motivation, here’s another picture (uh, she’s the one on the right, just as a reminder):

So we are back to a full slate of games this week without any byes. That means you need to once again start your confidence ranking at 16, giving you 136 total points possible. That means there is a lot more chance to make up some ground. Like last week, the first game is Thursday night, so please get everything in before then.

Here they are:

WEEK 11

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