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Opinion / Mike McCray / News How do you trash talk a Grammy winner?
Posted By Mike McCray on Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 11:29 AM
For years, I avoided the unnecessary obsession of fantasy football, but when the opportunity to play in a league with one of my favorite producers came up, I jumped at the chance.
Needless to say, the competitive fire of a kid who played on a winless high school baseball team kicked in and now I'm not just happy to be playing. I want to win and 9th Wonder is my next victim!
Coming into Week 2 of our Fantasy Football season, my squad, The Mikey McFly's, are solid in second place to, you guessed it, 9th Wonder's Winston-Salem WonderBreads.
A Week 2 showdown between our leagues two best teams means only one thing for me. A lowly music contributor gets to trash talk a Grammy winner but what can I say to someone who has worked with Jay-Z, Mary J. Blige, was one-third of Little Brother and actually gave me one of my first interviews when I was in college?
I mean, if you type in "9th" on Google he comes up third, behind only the 9th Amendment and 9th circuit [court] and I'm not even the top Mike McCray, thanks to some Pacific Northwest real estate agent, a guy in Charlotte who has an affinity for hitting on women and an obscure artist who released a record called "Bring Your Love Back" sometime in the '80s on Topflight Records.
But hey, this is football. I know football! I mean if it were Fantasy Crate Diggin' or Guess the BPM''s, I'd most assuredly lose but football, I'm sure I can pull that off. I have awards, too. Sort of. They are all journalism related, not a Grammy, but big shit to me.
Even ESPN's team breakdown says I should win. (Only by one category, we push at almost every position).
Hey, what do I have to lose? And if I do I'll just trash his school, North Carolina Central, and drown my sorrows in a Modelo on Sunday.
UPDATE: Apparently no digital intimidation of a Grammy award winner was needed as I walked away with the 166-137 Week 2 Fantasy football win and I'm currently the league leader.
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