Wow.  You're ranking my current team on my year ago team performance?  That makes no sense.  Outside fo the fact that my team is completely different, Carson Palmer was injured in the first few weeks, McGahee was under-utilized (as evidenced this year), and Moss was spotty at best because of Brady's injury.  Houshmanzadah was also impacted by the loss of Palmer and I was a year early on Greg Olsen.  For that you're going to rank my #1 scoring/record F09 team at #7?  Come on.  I would be undefeated had I palyed any other team in week #1 this year and I was without Gonzales this last week. (Gonzales also didn't show up at all in week #3, so I can use Brent's "Owens Excuse" for not having even more points I guess). I lose both Rodgers and Forte next week, so that should be my most vulnerable week of the season (barring injuries).

And Brent - I whooped you by 22 points, end of story.  Add in the Guru's 8pts each for Owens and Gore and you still would have lost that game.  Owens had what, 60 yards this week?  Sorry, but he is not an elite receiver anymore.  You had a nice score this week, but biggest point differntials versus the Guru came from your Houston defense and a kicker.  Talk about a team "over performing" - Cutler and Gould only get to play Detroit twice my friend.

Take it from someone who's been in the last 3 consecutive JD super bowls - JMan's squad is currently outperforming themselves, and the bubble will pop.  The best 6 rosters, despite what the scoreboard says after 3 games, are Rob's, Bug's, mine, Ruiner's, Ryan's, and JayDouble's.

Dressel - have I made your top 6 yet or is the #1 team still "outperforming themselves?"  

How about neither Cinci nor Cleveland being able to beat out the other until the last few seconds of a 5th quarter yesterday.  That was either a fierce rivalry game or two of the most pathetic teams playing right now.  I had high hopes for a second Detroit win yesterday, but as usual, they let it get away from them in the second half.  Now we just need to see the Packers pound the tar out of the Vikings tonight...

Quote from: JediJman on October  3, 2009, 09:55 AM

Quote from: JabbaJoe on October  3, 2009, 06:44 AM

A local Target here in Minnesota raised the price of Marvel Universe figures from $7.99 to $9.29.   That's about the same price K-Mart sells them for.  I hope this price increase won't be happening at all Targets.

Wow, that's ridiculous.  Which of our Targets did you see this at?

It was the Hwy. 7 Minnetonka one.  I went to some more Targets on Saturday and all of them increased the price of their figures on 9/30 to either $9.29 or $8.44.  The ones with the higher $9.29 price seem to be Targets with no Wal-Marts in the area to bring prices down and the ones with the $8.44 price are ones with a Wal-Mart in the area.  Wal-Marts sell them for $8.44, so Target decided to match their price it would seem.

Yuck.  Well, that's a sure fire way to kill the line.  Glad I'm all caught up through wave 5.   

Thanks for the head's up on pricing Joe!

Dude, that looks awesome.  I swear I've seen that phot before though - did you post it elsewhere?  Can't wait to see more shots of the full figure!

Quote from: Force Guy on October  3, 2009, 02:46 AM

Yes, it's much better to be persistent & waste time & gas by going on daily toy hunts at multiple stores.  It's for the "thrill" of finding something new.  Makes so much sense...

Well, it makes a lot more sense than assigning the same DPCI # to multiple items so that customers can't call up on the phone and confirm what specific items are actually in stock.

The absurdity of the retail inventory system, coupled with the gross incompetence and unwillingness to help exhibited by most retail employees, essentially demands in person stock checks at multiple outlets, at least if you want to be assured of scoring whatever limited quantity of new product they decide to throw out to the shelf.

I think the sarcasm is misplaced. Why does it matter how other people see fit to spend their time and money in pursuit of their hobby anyway?

Don't worry about FG - he only shows up once in a while to make himself feel better by putting others down.  That's why he can't fathom that people might be going to Target or Wal-Mart for other shopping needs for some of their trips or that people might actually like getting their butts off the sofa togo browse the toy section.  Heaven forbid you should be more than ten feet from your toilet or your fridge FG! 

I used to make plenty of store runs on the hunt in my younger days and there was definitely something of a "rush" in finding new stuff in person at the shelf.  These days, I have much less time and can rely more on the JD network to help track down new stuff locally.  For me, the internet is just another option to help track things down if all else fails or a good deal pops up.

This seems to be s disturbing trend.  There are reports that Walmart jacked the prices on their Clone Wars 2-pack exclusives from $12 something to $16 and change, now the Marvel figures.  Not good.

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Well, Wal-Mart has always had their marvel figs at $8.44 as far as I know.  I'm sure Target saw that and said, "why the heck are we selling below Wal-Mart?"  They seem big into price testing at various stores, so it makes sense to offer up a $9 price point and see how these sell.