why are there minus points in backyard baseball 2003

Now, SI boss Chris Stone offered me a chance to stay and just write “Monday Morning Quarterback” with no other responsibilities. The 24/7-ness of the job, though, has worn on me, as has some of the silly and invented stuff that populates the football media (e.g., 2019 mock drafts 360 days before the 2019 draft). I sat outside the restaurant thumb-typing the obit on my phone. I was the only one on our staff who knew Benson even a little, so I knew it was up to me to write the deadline obit. A few minutes from Montclair, I saw on my phone that Saints owner Tom Benson died. A few weeks ago my wife, Ann, and I were on the train from New York to have dinner with friends in New Jersey. I don’t want to continue the family trend. I had one brother die at 55, the other die at 64 just months into his retirement. Second: This is not about any dissatisfaction with SI, or any worry about the future of a great franchise. But I did want to take a moment to explain to you how I came to this decision, and what my future is, and about the exceedingly bright future of The MMQB.

I’ll have some career thoughts in my last column here in the coming weeks. You’ve been with me through some opinions you hate, through over-Favring and excessive Bradying, through some bad poetry, through a Westin-lobby-near-fistfight, and even through a little bit of football thrown in there.

You’ve been with me through the joy of Laura’s wedding to her wife, Kim, and now through ridiculously cute photos of their son, Freddy. You’ve been with me through the deaths of one mother, two brothers and two dogs. You’ve gotten to know way too much about the softball and field hockey exploits of Laura and Mary Beth King. But for the past 21 years, this has been a personal column too. This is an NFL column, and I’ll get to the news of the moment in a few paragraphs. An emotional week for me: I told my staff at The MMQB and my bosses at Sports Illustrated that I’ll be leaving June 1-my 29-year anniversary of being hired by SI-and beginning a new job with NBC Sports in July.

Why are there minus points in backyard baseball 2003