Here's a fantasy sports ethical question. Hypothetical - You have clinched the top spot in your fantasy football league. The team you want to avoid is fighting for the 2nd,3rd or 4th spot, but is definitely in the playoffs. Your team will play the 4th place team in the playoffs. In the last week of the regular season, you are playing the team you want to avoid in the playoffs. Is it ethical to throw the last game of the season to avoid playing that team in the first round of the playoffs?

Any resemblance to the actual situation in my FFL is purely coincidental. This is an Open Thread.

Your turn.

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You know what? Ezra Klein had a good day today. On his blog and on Olbermann. Frank. On point. And good analysis. Keep it up Ezra. Imo of course.

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It's funny how when your team gets demolished in the conference championship game you lose all interest in this discussion.

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It's evening on the east coast and we just took off from Atlanta. The plane has wi-fi -- free one time until December 31. The company is called GoGo. They need to put some more work into this... pages are slow to load, you tube videos start and stop and Jeffrey Toobin's new article in the New Yorker on Roman Polanski, The Celebrity Defense: Sex, Fame and the Case of Roman Polanski, which arrived in my e-mail box but will be online tomorrow, has been downloading for more than one minute. The right column of TalkLeft also isn't loading.

The TL kid and I had a great time in Key West, no surprise there. Aside from spending time with great friends I only get to see once a year or less, the abundance of fresh fish (and fun raw bars), there were terrific speakers and once I finished my talk on the latest in electronic surveillance techniques being used in drug cases, I was free to relax.

I have not seen the news since we left last Thursday, so I have nothing to write about on that front.

Here's an open thread, all topics. welcome.

Leave me alone.

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No, it's not the evening yet, but I've spilled my bile for the day. Jeralyn is doing the Key West NORML thing and being the brilliant woman she is, I suspect she won't be blogging much this weekend.

For myself, my focus now goes to the Game of the Decade! Tomorrow I 'll do a comprehensive preview of the the game (and some other minor games being played this weekend) as I do the rabid fan thing (face paint, etc..) From 3 - 7 tomorrow, you'll know where I'll be.

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Your turn.

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Busy morning.

Congrats to the Ducks.

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Like Jeralyn, today is a travel day for me. Unlike Jeralyn, I am leaving warm Florida and traveling north to New York.

In tonight's college football action, I like the Ducks (-9.5) in the Civil War.

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For non-wanking topics.

The Civil War is tonight. Autzen will be a madhouse.

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It's 2 degrees outside but at 6:00 am the TL kid and I are off to Key West for the annual NORML Legal Conference.

Here's a pretty blowup of the sunset picture. The water is very inviting as are the restaurants. And the hotel with its Caribbean Spa is just perfect for our group. [More...]