Lady Thief

I'm going to post on a lighter note today, something I think you'll all find funny and give you some insight into me. I'm 30 years old and I'm married. I'm sure you've gathered information about my professional career through my profile here, but just to reiterate, I spent the better part of 6 years working as an equity (stock) trader before moving on to work as a quantitative analyst. If you don't know what a quant is, we basically use the same type of approach Sabermetricians use in baseball to pick stocks. Lots of formulas, lots of statistics.

Now on to my personal life and my funny story. I married my wife a little over a year ago. She's from the southeast and I knew it was a perfect match from day one. Her father worked (retired this year) as a sportswriter for a good sized newspaper. She's a huge football fan, college basketball fan, and watches ESPN every morning before work and watches PTI religiously after work. Yeah I know, I'm lucky. She's a Colts fan and even owns a signed shoe from Jeff Saturday. Me, being a Pats fan, you can imagine the rivalry between us.

So I'm a lucky guy and my wife likes sports, right, but what's that got to do with this blog? Alright well she plays fantasy football every year and this was the first season she decided to run her own league. She gathered some girls, some guys, some family memebers, and created a solid 14 team H2H league.

Week two of the season, and you know the Thief is working full time trying to make moves and land some solid buy low players. Wifey wants to try too. She see's my offers, follows my game, and starts shipping out her own offers. Next thing I know she lands RONNIE BROWN in a deal where she only gives up that ever vaunted wideout ANTWAN RANDLE EL! "Did I do good?".......uhhhhhh yeah, HA! Sly as a fox she went RIGHT after her most naive friend and pounced right after Randle El's first game (7 catches 98 yards). Remember, we play with no vetoes so long as there is no collusion, deals go through. One more time for ya, Ronnie Brown for Randle El. That goes down in history as one of the best deals I've ever seen. And I assure you, her friend is not completely brain dead.

Moral of the story? Never be afraid to make an offer, you just don't know what the other person is thinking. Yes, insulting offers can do damage, and this is NOT an example of a good offer. But I'd rather see you make an effort than walk away.

Merry Christmas! Hope you all enjoy the new gadgets I've added to the site!