2026 Season Week 6 – Duvateen

As I write this, our draft was 44 days ago. I had every intention of posting a post draft missive. But as John Lennon once said, or sang, I’m forget which, “Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans.” 

Fantasy Football

Off the top of my head we (The Reckoning) were pleased with our draft. We were pleased with our first actual pick, 2.3 of Chase Brown. We were also pleased with some other players we drafted that we were targeting. Players such as, QB Hurts, 3.8, WR Williams, 4.3. With R8 keeper QB Daniels on board we closed our starting QB room with QB Prescott, at 6.3. Rounds 9 & 10 we selected targeted players of WR Washington, 9.8 and RB Hubbard, 10.3. Where I think we failed was with K’ers. We only grabbed one K’er that we targeted. And that was K Smack, 13.8. We were looking to draft Smack as our second K’er instead of our first. We misjudged the K’er ADP’s. 

Our final targeted player turned out to be our Mr. Irrelevant in RB Marks at 20.3. Honestly he slipped through our radar during the draft. It was only when we were searching for our own Mr. Irrelevant did we see that he was still available. Then we ended up dropping him in W2 waivers to lose him to another team only to add him back during W3 WW’s. Now he’s starting for us in W6. 

That’s The Reckoning brief recap… 

LIFE

“Baby, won’t lie, I want a cigarette”

Duli sings he wants a cigarette, I would like a double bourbon.  Neat.

Earlier I quoted John Lennon, “Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans.”  And that is what happened to my wife & I while “I” had other plans. 

Briefly.

 We have rabbits as pets. They are considered exotic pets which require specialized training by a vet to attend to them.There are no vets like that in our area. We have to travel an hour an forty minutes to Hilliard, a suburb of Columbus for any kind of medical treatment.

One of our rabbits came down with lesions on her scruff and legs. On September 11 we took her to a vet in Dublin which claimed they treated exotic pets. A week later she had a follow up where we were going to leave her for the weekend to administer meds, as we were going to Knoxville to see Tennessee take on Kennesaw State. We received daily updates on our rabbit. Monday they transferred her to the real vet in Hilliard. 

“Fuck me twice, I’m banging Nicolette”

This is were we should have gone in the first place. 

The first vetiwasn’t actually “trained” to treat exotic vets. Med Vet Hilliard has an exotic pet vet on staff who the best of her field. She has a staff of 5 other trained exotic vets. An entire department of exotic vets!  The first vet mis diagnosed Echo (our rabbit’s name after she was shoved out of car in Echo Park in Cincinnati. Humans can be such assholes) and had us administer meds which caused her to almost die at our hands.

Echo’s actual diagnosis was that she had a tumor that was growing. We began to administer a steroid which would shrink the tumor for anywhere from 3 to 6 months. The vet did tell us that he’s seen it work in as little as five days though. OUR PLAN was to keep her alive until our daughter, my son’s step sister, could see her when she came home from college at Christmas. 

I already told you what John Lennon said about life. Micheal Stanley sang on the “Stolen Time” LP, “If you wanna make God laugh, just tell him your plans.”

I told God my plan. On October 14, as my wife and I where celebrating our 26th wedding anniversary, God laughed at us. 

As we were sitting down to dinner, Oliver, who is Echo’s husbun, was grooming the crap out of her. When a rabbit “grooms” another rabbit it’s a sign of affection and the rabbit who is actually getting groomed, getting their head groomed by the other rabbit is actually the dominant rabbit. 

Even though Echo was ill and had a tumor, with these two she was still the dominant rabbit. Kind of like humans. The men “think” they rule the household. But in actually it’s the wives who rule. Really now, am I wrong? 

Be honest now. 

After we finished dinner, twenty minutes later, Kathy found Echo laying on her side (which she never does) and thought she had passed away. I could feel her heartbeat so I knew she was alive. Though she was very lethargic and unresponsive. 

We made the long drive to Med Vet where we had to euthanize her. 

Apparently she a stroke.. 

“Such a lovely way to die”

Replace cigarette with a double bourbon. Neat. Make it a double Larceny. Neat.

This saga began 35 days ago. In addition to our 26th wedding anniversary, I turned 69.

“Fuck me twice, I’m banging Nicolette”

Replace Nicolette with a double bourbon. 

Fantasy Football

With the amount of injuries that has taken place in the NFL how is any fantasy team undefeated? When I look at the lineups I see them filled with players with a status of Q. Rosters are filled with statuses of Q, D, O, or IR. What the hell!  This could very well be a season of attrition instead of player research and draft strategy.

In the coming weeks I will try to post some comments and observations on players, games, and scoring trends. But I’m not making any plans.

In the meantime. . .The Afghan Whigs appeared last year with a Barry White cover. Back on May 5th they performed at the House of Blues in Cleaveland and on May 6 at Bogarts near the University of Cincinnati campus. May 5th was an election day and I was working the polls. May 6th I had a board meeting for the Cancer Association of Auglaize County. So I missed both shows.  

Duvateen

BY Greg Dulli