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In an hour and a half this will be a sous vide burger with a year old raw sheep cheese, scallions and a thick slice of heirloom tomato.

You might check if you can hook up an umbrella to that belt.

Deepak, you need to vote for two different times unless you want a 9 o'clock draft and a midnight draft. Looks like Tuesday and Wednesday will work for everyone that has spoken so far.

Okay, both leagues seem to have votes for just about every day possible. How about people post here what days the week of the 28th that you cannot attend a draft?

You are always welcome, but I am afraid you will find that I can't make anything worth eating.

Stopped at the Farmer's Market by my house. Got some fantastic Finochietta, 12 month aged Artequeso Manchego cheese from Spain, some nice Pawlet cheese from Bardwell Farms and some Crottin cheese from France. Lots of dry aged steaks, some of my favorite Chicken Pot Pies from a local farm and assorted vegetables.

Happy Birthday Tyll

Raffy and Salty have their invites and the polls are up.

We need to decide draft nights for both leagues. I will put polls up like I did last year to narrow down dates. Send me your e-mail and I will give you your team in League 2 and that should do it. Two 10 team Leagues seems manageable.

No it would be easier if you sent me your e-mail again so I do not have to dig through PMs.

Okay, I have three people, 2 to be added to league one and 1 added to league two, looking for multiple teams. This is the breakdown. HC League 1: The Monkey Moonshine Salt Peanuts N_Maher Raffy Emelius Boomana VPI Deepak Shellyh HC League 2 Agile_One Yikes Shellyh Aura Team Can't get no Biscuits Deepak Morphsci VPI Salt Peanuts So basically I need one more League One person to field another team in League 2.

Okay, everyone is signed on and ready to go now. I have at least one person that wants to field a team in each league, if possible. Is no one else interested in doing this?

Fancy steak boiler Colin told me I needed. And a bunch of vacuum sealing crap.

I sent your e-mail again. It will be coming from ESPN. ESPN has the draft handbook that has lots of good info and there are tons of articles on the ESPN FF site. You will also be able to see scoring when you join the team.

You are still in the original league so you just go back to your old page.

I sent out invites to the members of League 2 to accept their teams. I will be deleting those teams from League One as they are accepted, unless of course someone want to run a team in both leagues.

I have both benches dropped down to 6 now which is probably about as low as one would want to go with bye weeks so we do not have to destroy our drafted teams on bad weeks.

The leagues are public so we should be able to watch both leagues. http://games.espn.go.com/ffl/leagueoffice?leagueId=346038 http://games.espn.go.com/ffl/leagueoffice?leagueId=432830

Okay, we had our exciting drawing. The two leagues came out as follows HC League 1: The Monkey Moonshine Salt Peanuts N_Maher Raffy Emelius Boomana VPI HC League 2 Agile_One Yikes Shellyh Aura Team Can't get no Biscuits Deepak Morphsci VPI

To prepare I will have Colin draw names for each league so we can group everyone by chance unless people have a problem with that.

I think we are at a point where we will need two 8-10 team leagues to handle all the teams. I have set up HC Part Two league and I will be splitting the league up unless everyone wants to play with very limited benches/waiver wires. Also, we have 15 teams now so we can set up the two leagues and those hardcore team owners that want to can field teams in both leagues. So far I have this list. Post here and let me know if you want to field two teams, have one team in one of the leagues or just have one large league. Boomana Mexican Dragon N-Maher Raffy Moonshine VPI Agile_One Shellyh Yikes The Monkey Emelius Morphsci Deepak Salt Peanuts Aura

I have us trimmed back to 5 bench spots from seven and no IR at the moment. This should make waivers a bit easier with 14 teams. There are two divisions but that doesn't help much in providing enough talent to spread around all the teams.

Well Ethan, 3/4 of the playoff teams last year were beginners so there is nothing wrong with being a first timer. I need an e-mail and this should put us at an even number.

Okay, at this point we have 13 confirmed teams for this year so we need at least one more team (there are three teams from last year that have not confirmed so maybe one of them). We also need to decide if we want to have one big league or two smaller leagues. The big league is a bit more difficult due to fewer players to pick up on waivers but we would all be playing together.

The 70-200 was my favorite there. Most of the zoo is pretty well lit and very friendly to photography.