> All week reports had Brandon Jacobs playing and
> starting.  Reports this morning is that Jacobs
> would be playing in full.  Now, at 2:00 pm gameday,
> they say he will not play!  I would definitely have
> put in Pierre Thomas, who plays Monday Night, but I
> can't, because the rules are so inflexible. 
> Neither player has played yet, and I can't make a
> lineup change, thus getting screwed over in the
> biggest game of my season.  And this is the second
> time I've been screwed over for this week's game. 
> I put in a blind bid for Dustin Keller of $16, a
> pretty aggressive bid, and planned on him starting
> this week if I won.  So I don't submit my lineup,
> and Heath Miller plays Thursday night.  I lose the
> blind bid, and can't use Heath Miller's production
> only because he played a Thursday night game, when
> I clearly would've have started him over Billy
> Miller.  The fact that we have waivers that affect
> our matchups taking place AFTER one of the weeks'
> games has been started SUCKS BIG BALLS!  Next year,
> we need to have a rule in place that blind bids
> happen on Tuesday nights, with Wednesday nights
> being the next wiaver/free agent pickup round. 
> That way, this crap doesn't happen.
>
> Another thing is that we should be able to make
> lineup changes if the players' affected haven't
> started their games yet.  I have little chance of
> winning because of inflexible rules regarding
> lineup submissions.  This week's outcome basically
> eliminates me from contention and it's f-ing wrong
> that I wasn't even able to put a lineup out there
> that even had a chance.>>