So get out and enjoy. The winter always feels longer in the Northeast. Our summer may have been a precursor to the real bitter cold winds yet to arrive. This in-between time keeps pulling at you until the first frost on that pumpkin on my doorstep.

When my wife asks me who Baker Mayfield is, it means the information she is seeing outside of the game is not properly aligned with the performance on the field. I hope Mayfield pulls it together but the message is just not completely all there. Just like my team this week.

The NFL comes into Week 6 with all of these strange issues. Teams that should win do not. See the Kansas City Chiefs at home. See the Dallas Cowboys at home. Players that were number one in receiving yards are held back. See Keenan Allen.

Week 5 is a stepping off point for your fantasy football team. No matter what your record, realize that you must always go over and over the waiver wire. There will be a player acquired in the month of October who will propel your team forward; whether it is from an injury or just performance, be on the lookout.

It is the time of year people predict the foliage. It goes something like ...“Farmer’s Almanac says the rain over the Summer means beautiful colors”. Then you have those all convinced that wooly bears can predict our winter.

The 2019 Red Sox have essentially the same players with the exception of 135 innings of relief pitching from closer Craig Kimbrel and bullpen guy Joe Kelly. How did that work out? Well, not so good.

All I needed was an en temps performance from Tyreek Hill and Mike Evans but they went all bunsly on me. If Deshaun Watson goes for a 44 burger I will win. Hooray! But he only went for a 39 burger and I am 0-1.

Like an old friend coming back for a 20 week or so visit, the NFL is about to knock on the doors of our homes again. So welcome to the 2019 NFL season. There are lots of ups and lots of not-so-ups throughout an NFL year. When confronted with the complexity of it all you could get a brain cramp.

The NFL is a wildly successful business. It consists of 32 teams that all have positive revenue and operating income in the millions. How many businesses can say that? Everyone is a winner in this business model.

It is official. Stop the presses. It is the return of the virgin articles to the pages of the www.fantasysharks.com website. As you are well aware, it is the greatest fantasy football website in the business. It happens to be ...

Super Bowl LIII has arrived. Other than Christmas, what kind of hype in America is so worthy? I would say none. Over 100 million Americans will sit down with their wings and their chips and their dip and their favorite ...

It is Championship Weekend and I went 2-2 over last weekend. All four home teams won. How boring is that? The end of the NFL season is nigh. Generally speaking it is a force that is both fantastic and very ...

First up are the surging Indianapolis Colts at the Kansas City Chiefs. I sense either brilliance from Patrick Mahomes or another scheme by the Indianapolis Colts. The Colts run-run-run and throw-throw-throw so I see the latter and another road victory this playoff season for the Colts.

The Ravens play this crazy old offense that was outlawed sometime in the late 60s. Since defenses don’t understand it, they wonder where the time went and they lose. Twelve minute possessions will do that to you in the NFL.

In 2018 the NFL was watched more than 2017. But more importantly, an NFL game occupied 40 of the Top 50 slots in the television ratings for 2018. An 80 percent mind-share is outrageous.

My team is not my team. Geez Louise I love DeShaun Watson. He went for 44 points this week! Come on! The problem is the rest of my team has not shown up for the last five weeks.

I bet big on the fact that wide receiver Amari Cooper would go for (at least) a respectable 30 points after getting 49 with Dallas last week. Especially against Indianapolis, right? …double uh-oh.

Well hello there.  I am on a bye week and I am fretful.  I take the bye week very seriously and I try to put my best team forward just to see if I can pick a team that can ...

On the last week of our fantasy football season, RB Phillip Lindsay, RB James Conner, and QB Deshaun Watson went for a combined 70 points. Only Phillip Lindsay went for a 28 burger but that was enough. I have been winning by getting 90 points from my Top 3 players and coasting in.

I have a decent lineup and I have a fantastic bench. And on that bench is WR Amari Cooper because he has been struggling to score. Amari Cooper goes for a 38 burger and I lose the week.

Hello and Happy Thanksgiving to everyone.  I consider it one of the greatest holidays because most people get Thursday and Friday off.  How cool is that? So enjoy your Turkey.  Enjoy your stuffing.  Devour that pumpkin pie.  Thanksgiving is a ...

Week 11 has arrived.  We are nearing the home stretch and the Bye weeks are getting down to the final count.  Every week is important and sometimes your team cannot find the end zone.  Somehow it becomes critical to try ...

The combination of Belichick and Tom Brady have cast a penumbra over the NFL. I am going to explain it through a list of bulleted sentences. Check this out …

Happy Halloween! There is a lot going on my friends. Personally and impersonally we have learned nothing. However, we are closing in on a solution. The NFL season is winding up and it is on full tilt. Generally speaking, there ...

Hello. It is Week 8 and the Fantasy Virgin is about to lose the first game of the year. What the what? Can this be? In fantasy football there are winning times and there are losing times. I actually had ...

This part of the year focuses on the harvest. The pumpkin patch. The end of apple picking season. The preparation for Halloween festivities. The danger of wishing back that hot summer when there is a hint of snow in the air. I want to let Don Henley know that for adults this is the time we should lament the end of Summer.

Where is the season going? It is on fast forward and I lost running back Jay Ajayi. Just when you thought the reigning Super Bowl Champions would be forced to run the football they find themselves without a running back and one game under .500.

Despite starting out 3-1 on the opening four matches day one, the US went on to only earn 7 ½ more points out of a possibility of 24 more to be had. In the end Team Europe took back the Ryder Cup with a score of 17 ½ to 10 ½ . It was ugly and we make no excuses. The US Ryder Cup team seems more out-of-synch on European soil than ever before.

Happy Week 4 in the NFL my friends and we are witness to history. Tiger Woods wins a golf tournament! The actual Fed Ex Cup Tournament Championship no less!  That takes temerity!  Now back to the NFL. Did you notice ...

Only two changes but the Red Sox have the best record in all of baseball. Their record is 103-47 as of this writing. That is 56 games over .500, and to put it bluntly, the team hits the ball and this team wins regular season baseball games. It just doesn’t make sense to see a team win 103 games with 12 more games to play.

What do you do when you turn 50? I asked that question earlier this year and came up with a long weekend in Rapid City South Dakota to see Mount Rushmore, Crazy Horse Memorial, and Custer State Park. So I got these off of my bucket list and it was a thoroughly enjoyable experience. Here are some takeaways.

It is football time again. Every time you think it is gone long enough it comes back and sneaks up on you. Kind of like Christmas in a way because you know it is coming and people are talking about ...

Greetings and salutations.  It is the 17th year of the Virgin Chronicles A.K.A The Diary of a Fantasy Virgin.  Football is coming and that means it is time to break out the old fancy word processor and tap on the ...

It is the end of the season in the National Football League.  We wait all season and Super Bowl LII has arrived.  What are the themes?  What are the memes?  Who is going to win?  All of that and more ...

Then there were two.  I went 2-0 over the weekend.  Philadelphia won big behind the stylings of quarterback Nick Foles.  The Patriots proved again that they can win without tight end Rob Gronkowski.  I went 7-3 overall just like last ...

It is Championship Weekend and I went 3-1 last weekend.  Not bad but not perfect.  Ah…prognostication is the folly of fools.  Just like timing the stock market my friends — it is a fool’s errand.  One of the differences in ...

I predicted that Kansas City's defense would scheme the heck out of quarterback Marcus Mariota; it worked a little bit but it gave way after a freak own catch resulted in the first touchdown for Tennessee. I think Bill Belichick is going to really-really scheme quarterback Marcus Mariota. This means easy time for New England at home as they carry on this week.

It is prognostication time for the Virginator as I get to talk about all things football.  I remember watching Roger Staubach and Terry Bradshaw so it is fun to write about Matt Ryan and Tom Brady.  By the way folks, ...

Listen my friends.  It has come to pass that the statutory system is involved in an automatic interval.  This is my gift to my friends on this holiday  The system is very Jimmy Garoppolo and I am nonetheless affected. Certainly ...

Ben Roethlisberger fakes a spike and throws it late over the middle to only have it get tipped and intercepted … and a loss! What is up with New England and these crazy within the moment games? It was Tom Brady’s 51st comeback in his career. Fifty Freaking One!