Happy Birthday Fitzy!

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What better way to come back from my loooong hiatus then to blog about my bloggin' brother from another mother?  My partner in podcasting?  The other half of the tag team champions of the woorrrrrrld!?  Fitzy finally joins the 29 crew and it's not only his last bday celebration in his 20s, it's also the last July 16th before he slaps on that ball and chain.  My man don't mind though, he's always been as cool as the other side of the pillow and I can't wait to stand next to my bald, black and beautiful BFF as he takes the next step of his life.  

Though Fitzgerald doesn't share his born day with many attractive ladies he does call the likes of Barry Sanders and Will Ferrell birthday buddies.  Also, Shoeless Joe Jackson has July 16th on his birth certificate which all makes perfect sense as my friend is also a degenerate and would do anything for the almighty buck!  Lastly, people forget that 2 former New York Knicks legends were born on this day, the newly loaded Timofey Mozgov and Fitzy's favorite ball player ever Zach Z-Bo Randolph!

So, big man, have fun today, do you, I know most everyday you live by this mantra, but today is your day so live it up.  Thanks for always being my biggest fan and for always having my back.

All da love
Clayton

PS
Live look at Fitz after the Jets dropped that Mo Wilk news yesterday....



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The Open Championship - The NYMWS Royal Family

It is time for the year's third major, and we are back with a slight modification to our Major Minajs. We are heading over to the United Kingdom for this one, and I'm pretty sure the folks in the good ol' UK don't get down with the minaj. So I figured we tip our cap to them, and bring this to something more in their wheelhouse. Inspired by our always entertaining, and rarely helpful, Fantasy Football Minaj, we bring to you, 'The Open Championship - The NYMWS Royal Family.'

The King...Sergio Garcia 25/1

Welcome newcomers. My name's Fitzy, and I've been jocking on El Nino since 99. A 25/1 shot should not have to be the King, but with all the love that Serg is getting from the experts, we have no choice but to let my boyfriend wear the crown. His game is as good as ever, and there is the 'if he wins any of these major things, then it is definitely going to be the British' argument. When you think Sergio is going to win all of these major things, all of the time, like myself, you are not really allowed to use that argument, but the rest of you should be using it. Get ready for the Open Championship two-time runner-up to finally capture the Claret Jug. 

The Prince...Dustin Johnson 9/1

If you liked the non-major champion Dustin Johnson playing in a major, well then you are really going to like the major champion Dustin Johnson playing in a major. You sprinkle a little major-winner-confidence into this cat's game, and we could be on our way nicknaming the next Great One. There are absolutely no signs of the DJ train coming off the tracks. In a non-Sergio Garcia fanatic royal family, our Open's champ is the King. 

The Duke...Rory McIlroy 10/1

You need people like Rory. You need people like Rory so you can point your f***in' fingers and say, that the bad guy. Ok seriously, slow down the Rory heel turn chatter. He is getting way too much heat for his comments about the Olympics. Golf doesn't need Rory to grow it. Golf needs to not take so long and not cost so much money for it to grow. He plays golf to win majors people, and after he wins this one, all those other headlines will disappear. 

The Marquess...Adam Scott 20/1

Hey Adam Scott, you got the sweetest golf swing in the league. Yeah, I know, that Fever Pitch Johnny Damon scene never really traveled like I thought it would. Since going back-to-back earlier this season, this Aussie and his dope AF golf swing have flown a little under the radar. Combine his steady play this season, with his four top-ten finishes in the last four Open Championships, and it is hard for you to make the argument that Adam Scott is NOT the last man standing at Royal Troon on Sunday. 

The Earl...Phil Mickelson 30/1

I sat this one out during the first two majors of the season, but the time is finally right for me to get involved in the feel-good story of Phil winning another major. His final round 66 last week shows that he has been playing well enough to make the argument, and he showed back in 2004 that he is able to golf his ball around Royal Troon quite exceptionally. The time is right for Lefty. 

The Viscount...Danny Willet 40/1

Ok, LOL, Danny, you can stop messing with everyone now, the joke is over. Get ready to welcome back The Masters Champion Danny Willet. 

The Baron...Graeme McDowell 80/1
I am not into many 80-to-1 shots to win this thing, but I am into an 80-to-1 shot Graeme McDowell, who has put extra work in at Royal Troon, to win this thing. After a T18 at Oakmont, and a T10 last weekend at the Scottish, Graeme McDowell is finally showing signs of regaining his major winning form. Don't be shocked if Portrush's G-Mac is the one raising the Claret Jug on Sunday. 

The Royal Servant...Mark Calcavecchia 1000/1

Tier-poolers, this one's for you. If your pool is filled with hardos, then your tier 5 most likely starts at 1000/1. The bar is closing, and the pickings are real slim at this point in the night. You are going to have to take home the 1989 Open Champion. He's a long way removed from his playoff win here over The Shark, but that doesn't mean he can't find himself a Saturday tee-time. It won't be pretty, but you are not marrying him. You just need a tier 5 date for the weekend. The only way I'm not circling Calc for my tier 5 guy, is if the 500/1 guys are available in that spot. I'd go with fellow Troon Open Champion Justin Leonard over him if that's the case. 

-Fitzy Woods

The League is the G.O.A.T.

In my last blog I mentioned that I have been getting down with the get down on the FantasyLife App. Well one of the scenarios that I got myself involved in was to write a 500-word-or-less piece on what show I felt was the G.O.A.T. I have no idea what this is for, or what my main man knighthawk7734 is doing with it, but I still hit the keys, and made my case for The League....

The League is the G.O.A.T

By Fitzgerald Hall

A show about a bunch of guys and their fantasy football league? You have to be kidding me right? Who is going to watch that? Probably just the same nerds who are playing fantasy football from their parents’ basement. There is no way they are going to make that work. It shouldn’t work! Well, seven seasons, and eighty-four episodes later, you can bet your vinegar strokes, that a show about a bunch of guys and their fantasy football league, not only worked, it is actually the Greatest Of All Time.

Fantasy football, has now become, deservingly-so, mainstream. I’m not saying Jeff and Jackie Schaffer made fantasy football go mainstream. But I am saying that the popularity of fantasy football has reached the level that it has, as quickly as it has, in large part due to the work of the husband and wife duo, on their show The League. No other show has created the popularity of an industry like The League has. Sure Breaking Bad is cool and all, but none of us are going out and cooking up meth with one of our former students after watching it. But after watching The League, we are rounding up a group of people to create a fantasy football league where we can “trade rape” them on our way to a championship. Whether we are Andre, Ruxin, Jenny, Pete, Taco, Kevin, or Rafi (God bless you if you are), the show quickly inspired us all to go out and play fantasy football.

            

As important as The League is to fantasy football, it doesn’t actually stop there. The whole, “you need to be into fantasy football, to be into The League,” argument was quickly countered in the first episode when Taco dropped his Birthday Song (if you haven’t seen it, Google/YouTube it, and thank me after you finish ROFL). Jackie and Jeff created a comedy sitcom, around everyday situations, that didn’t have a fantasy football prerequisite for laughing. Their writing, paired with characters’ improvisations, formulated a sitcom that made even my sister, who thinks fantasy football is my friends and I sitting around pleasuring ourselves to Antonio Brown, laugh like never before. The comedic genius of Andre’s “Carmenjello” skin-color assumption, or Taco’s “Naginta” performance, which allowed the “White Knuckler” to demonstrate her true talents, was appreciated by both fantasy footballers and non-fantasy football playing viewers alike.

            

Whether you followed The League on FX/FXX or binge-watched it on Netflix, it didn’t take long for you to catch some Seinfeld or Curb vibes from the sitcom. Jeff’s experience on the previously mentioned shows definitely shines through during the show’s seven seasons. Jackie’s input, as his tag-team partner, is what makes it the G.O.A.T. Behind every good Kevin, is a Jenny. If The League was in a fantasy shows league, against every other show ever made, I’ll bet you your finest bottle of Three-Penis Wine that The League captures the Shiva. Shivakamini Somakandarkram!

-Fitzgerald

The Offseason - Is It Time For An @NYMWS Twitter Break-Up?

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When we started to do this damn thing back in October of 2014 Clay sent me over all the usernames and passwords that he created for all the NY Morning Wood Sports social media accounts and said have at it brother. I remember back then asking him if we needed our own accounts, mine would be some dope shit like @NYMW$fitzy, and Clay's would be something okayyyy like @nymwsCLAYTON. But I remember my newborn blogging-brother-from-another-mother responding that we weren't there yet. We were wiser to join together, and battle the twitter verse together as one, as the NY Morning Wood Sports TAG TEAM CHAMPIONS OF THE WORLDDDDD. 

So far, tweeting for the name on the front of our jersey, rather than the name on the back of our jersey has worked out just fine. Sure there's the occasional tweets or activity from one of us that the other doesn't agree with, but at the end of the day we have each others twitter backs TROUGH and TROUGH. We basically started this thing where before shit gets real on twitter we slap hands and I say "we ride together, we die together," and Clay says "bad boys for life." We have it all figured out as a twitter tag team. Well, I thought we had it all figured out as a twitter tag team, but it seems like today's activity is taking us down different twitter roads. 

With the fantasy football season right around the corner, I have taken the FantasyFitz uniform out of the closet, and I have been rocking out on the FantasyLifeApp. One of the posts I commented on had absolutely nothing to do with fantasy football, but I commented anyway because it caught my interest...

  

So after I put Peter Rosenberg over on the FantasyLifeApp, I took to twitter to let my boy know I was out here being his Paul Heyman...

Shortly there after, I got a text from Clay that read "Fuck your boy Rosenberg." Now I'm not sure if it is because he is jewish, or if it is because one of his recent rants, but Clay then let me know that he doesn't like Pete, and he damn sure isn't into me being twitter buds with Hot 97 & ESPN's Own. 

I felt sort of bad, because I didn't want Clay to think that he had to be twitter pals with someone he hates, all because I respect that person professionally. So I was about to call Clay, and say my mistake, I apologize, but I happened to make a pitstop on our twitter profile before dialing my boy's 516 digits, only to find his retweet from last night... 

Did my day one really throw DT a RT? WTF?! We do politics, but we don't really do politics. And what that means is that we do politics for comedy purposes, and we never choose a side while doing so. Now I could be mistaken, but it looks like to me that Clay is supporting Donald and taking shots at Hillary with this retweet. I'm not saying that I don't like the Donald, and I'm not saying that I do like "Lyin' Crooked Hillary" (DT's name-calling, not mine), but I am saying that I don't want to choose a side. People are more than welcome to choose and vote for any candidate that they wish, but I can't be out here with my twitter name on a RT that might tie me to one side or another.

So what do we do folks? Is it time for two separate Clay and Fitz NYMWS twitter accounts? Or is this not grounds for a twitter break-up? Is it just a misunderstanding? Did Clay just think DT was funny so he tossed him a RT? Or is Clay rocking with DT? I got a feeling Clay's Grammy rocks with DT so maybe he tossed out the RT for Grams? Do we have to stay together for the followers? Are all those random webcam girls going to be able to follow and offer their services to two accounts? Are we ruining their future? HELP! 

-Fitzgerald