East Rombo: The Blog with Balls

Trash talking(or smack talking in Yahoo! terms) is a cool way of enjoying fantasy basketball. Some 'smack talks' range from funny, absurd, serious, and some, like Jopoy, even put some 'words to live by'.

The regular smack talkers I know in East Rombo are Jason, Melvin, and me. Sometimes, Gerald also talks smack, which he usually does with his traditional lies, like disagreeing with Jopoy's words to live by, when in fact, he also lives by those words.

Jopoy's quote by the way is: "Wala nang edad-edad, kung tayo na ay hubo't hubad"(Age doesn't matter when we're naked together). Or something to that effect.

This week, smack talker Jason was paired up with me for the weekly head to head battle. His smack talk was a bit gloomy, "damn injuries". As for me, since I was at the top of the standings and I was feeling overconfident of my powerhouse team(not to mention there were currently no injured players on it), I responded with "apparently lahat ng players ko healthy. HOO!" (apparently, all my players are healthy. HOO!)

But that was the ultimate wrong move of the season. Minutes later, Gerald messaged me about the dreaded Eumir curse in fantasy basketball: Dwayne Wade is out because of his wisdom tooth. A few more minutes later, I see Lamar Odom only played 3 minutes, later reading that he "will be lucky to play before the end of January" There goes 2 starters right out of rotation. A few more minutes later, Corey Maggette doesn't play because of a bruised left knee.

To add insult to injury(in more ways than one) Mike Miller played the worst game of his career with 0 points. And to add more to that, J.R. Smith also gave me 0-5 shooting, 2 points AND 2 turnovers.

This is a bad week indeed. And to end, I will tell you a theory of mine: I just realized that every time I match-up with Bit(in any league) my team suddenly seems like it has a black cloud over it: injuries sprout out of nowhere, the teams of my players only have 2 games for the week as compared to his 4 games a week, my star players have off-nights, etc. Sometimes it makes me think if Bit is the successor of the Fantasy League Devil(formerly known as Du).

Beware, for your team will suffer at his hands.