Week 11: Barrels, Distillers clinch playoff berths

Congrats to the Barrels and Distillers on becoming the first Finks League teams to clinch playoff berths. The Barrels moved ahead of Khans with a 37-28 victory over the Sharks.

The Distillers own a four-game lead over third place Tale with four weeks remaining, but own the head-to-head tiebreaker with a season sweep. Distillers won in Week 11, 63-17, over Quags.

In another note, Newt picked up his first win of the season to avoid tying the league's 11-game losing streak set last year by Pink Poodle. Where as Poodle didn't always try to win games last year, the agony might have been tougher for the usually competitive Newt.

In the coming weeks, Khans from the Favre Division and Eggers from the Marino Division will attempt to close in on playoff berths of their own.

Week 10 report

Sent in by Barrels owner Chris Traczek: "After the early games, it looked like the Barrels were headed for defeat as Cincinnati's Dalton-to-Green Hail Mary pass on the final play of regulation gifted the Khans an additional 11 points and gave them a 48-25 lead heading into the late action. The Barrels were able to forge a tie, however, thanks to Demaryius Thomas' 3 receiving TDs and 104 receiving yards, then established their 7-point margin of victory courtesy of Garrett Hartley's 7 PATs in the Saints' demolition of the Cowboys on Sunday night."

Khans owner Wanberg joins blogosphere

Khans owner D.J. Wanberg has joined the ranks of bloggers with his "As the D.J. Turns" using Wordpress.

Wanberg posted his first blog entry earlier this week and it's not about fantasy football. I invite you to check it out here.

As D.J. explains: "Some of you might have already seen this on Facebook or will see this on Facebook. I have started a blog. It's called "As The D.J. Turns" and deals with sports, movies, television and the media in general. It's something I have wanted to do for a long time.

Except for Goff, all winners at Salt Bar Sunday

Dah Commish was the grand prize winner for free movie passes in his debut at the Salt Sports Bar in Bolingbrook Sunday. I think the other patrons photo bombed him.

Four Finks owners were representing Sunday at Salt. That's Barrels' Chris Traczek (from left), Dah Commish, Distillers' Dan Cassidy and Serkus' Stan Goff.

Narrow margin

Week 7 musings from Serkus owner Stan Goff:

Shows again what the so-called fantasy "experts" know: Before the Cowboys-Eagles game Nick Foles was the second coming, LeSean McCoy was the top RB choice for the week, DeSean Jackson was uncoverable and there would be 100 points and 1,000 yards of total offense in the game. Instead, it was one of the most miserably inept offensive performances that I've seen by two teams in a long, long time.

More pictures from Bolingbrook's Salt Bar

Salt Bar at the Promenade in Bolingbrook is the place to watch NFL action with Finks League owners. From left, Ann and Chris Traczek of the Barrels, Stan Goff of Serkus, Dan Cassidy of the Distillers and the legendary D.J. Wanberg of the Khans, who apparently made a rare appearance with the masses.

Striking a pose with Abe, Anna and A.G.

Dah Commish models his new Finks League T-shirt at league headquarters in Darien. That's future fantasy owners Anna Wilcox (left) holding the Abe Gibron Trophy and No. 1 son A.G., who's given name is Adam George but goes with the initials for All's Good. (They are being raised by their mother as Bears fans. Good luck to them).

Check out the Finks Shop on the home page if you would like to get a Finks League T-shirt. My wife calls me a geek for wearing my shirts (I have both models), but I just tell her how right she is. You have to be a complete fantasy football geek to run a 20-year-old league with a bunch of broken-down current and former sportswriters. (Photo by Gracie Wilcox)