Hello everyone. I would like to thank you all for your patience with me this year for Beat Mike and the problems that have caused this season to be crazy for me. As most of you know, I did not have a copy of my picks saved in the Yahoo! league and wondering why I still got points for Week 2. I got the points because even though I didn't click save because I forgot to, I still played in my other leagues and I also had the picks written down on paper. My picks for Week 2 are still counted because at the end, it's not the Yahoo! league that determines the champion of BMN Bowl XI. It's you folks with your picks! Secondly, as you heard, I had to delete an owner from one of my fantasy football leagues because of a problem that involved an unbalanced trade. The search is to find a new owner for that team. I think another problem I have been having this season was trying to recruit more players to play Beat Mike and that has not been happening, even when I expanded the Playoffs to 32 people from 16 people because of the Pro Bowl. I hope that some of you that have not played in the first two weeks will consider playing the rest of the season because the season is not over yet and you will still have a chance to make the playoffs.

 

As most of you know, I had to go back to Massachusetts from Florida last month and I am still trying to get my life figured out. It has not been fun living in Massachusetts under my parents roof again. That and I do not even have a job that I can find so that I could work part time while going to school at Westfield State College. It's been very stressful for me to go to school and live the life that I am living right now. It feels like the fall of 2007 all over again where I lost a childhood friend, Josh, to a fight and trying to struggle through that. I also got low marks in school (all C's) and was placed on academic probation for the spring 2008 semester. I was happy when I saw and read the information about the Disney College Program that I was very happy and was glad to be down there for almost 13 months. I felt sad and uncomfortable going back to Massachusetts. I am trying to explore my options so that I can be back in Florida for the spring of 2010. I know that my camping friends and my family was happy to see me back in Massachusetts, but I was not happy to be back in Massachusetts.

 

I would like to announce that I will still run Beat Mike and the MFL for the rest of the season and hope to do it again for season 12 for Beat Mike and season 6 for MFL.

 

Also, I would like to announce that I will be adding the United Football League (UFL) games into the pick'em game starting on October 5 (week 5's newsletter) and I hope that it can help you get some extra bonus points. There are only 4 teams in the UFL and they only play until November 27. I think each team plays 6 out of 7 weeks and then they have a championship team. The teams are located in New York, Orlando, Las Vegas and San Francisco. I know they have the Orlando team playing the New York team in Hartford, CT on November 14. More information on that in the Week 4 and Week 5 newsletters.

Thank You!

Mike DiMauro
Proud Member of Chapters 8, 27, 30, 51, 114, 157, and 183 of NAFCA.
Proud Member of Disney College Program Fall 2008, Spring 2009 and Summer 2009.
Proud Member of the Walt Disney World Cast Member Team.