DEFEND YOUR MOVES 2025 WEEK 10!!!!!!!!!!

Defend Your Moves
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ELECTION DAY!!!!!!!!!!

WHATS UP SPECIAL ED!?!?!?!?!?

We took another couple weeks off cause our day job is being a bitch lately. So we got a lot of league biz to cover here but most importantly, today is ELECTION DAY!!!!! DYM Scholars know how much we love Democracy In Action. Voting is probably our favorite national past time. Recently we started rallying people in the DYM Home Office Neighborhood (District 9👽LETS GO!!!!!) to write us in for local office(s) when the major parties don't put candidates up.

This year we're "running" for Sheriff and School Board. We're probably more qualified for the schools thing but Sheriff would be fuckin awesome. We're gonna get a big hat and drink whiskey all day and maybe ride a horse around town. That's our whole platform.

It's a big day for New Jersey cause we're getting a new Governor, and as you all know we hate Phil Murphy. Our local NJ Politics correspondent, Kyrie Irving has also been an outspoken Murphy-hater ever since the flavored vape ban in 2019. We reached out to Kyrie for comment, but he said he's checked out on this election cause both Mikie Sherrill and Jack Ciattarelli are getting paid by AIPAC.

For the record, DYM never forgave Murphy for dragging his feet on weed legalization 18 months after it was approved, and ultimately pushing through the nation's most restrictive medical marijuana laws (we're still not allowed to grow in NJ and that's bullshit). Kick rocks, Phil. This will mark the fifth time we've cast a ballot for Mikie Sherrill. We voted for her for congress in 2018, 2020, 2022 and 2024. Sherrill is a Navy veteran (aka a murderer), and despite our ever-increasing criticism of the Democratic Party establishment over the last several years, we're unabashedly supporting Mikie once again for one simple reason -- cause she can get it.

That's right!!! Mike Sherrill can get it!!!!! She's no Kyrsten Sinema, obviously, and she's not out here flaunting her shit like Anna Paulina Luna or Nancy Mace, but she's solidly in the top-10 most bangable congress people. Mikie has a conservative look, even for congress, but she's pretty enough and she's got a tight body and crazy long legs. She's 53 now and she still looks mad good, so we could see voting for her for another 2 or 3 election cycles at least.

Either way we've had a great time during this campaign. We got an old Italian guy and a slim blonde MILF, and our community has never felt more heard. Probably three quarters of the people we see around town in Madison look exactly like either Mikie Sherrill or Jack Ciattarelli. We're not gonna be mad at anybody that voted for "High Tax Jack" cause he ran a solid campaign. Obviously he's gonna carry the MAGA vote but also made inroads with independents through high volume attack ads that have dominated our Twitter timeline and a classic NJ Diner Tour. This morning we saw Jack had stopped into the Roxbury Diner, which in our opinion is the very best diner in North Jersey. We went to the Roxbury Diner twice this fall even though its an hour from the DYM Home Office. It's that good. We did a little web search and it seems that Mikie Sherrill made some diner appearances in South Jersey back in June, but otherwise hadn't made a campaign stop at a diner since 2022 (Montville Diner -- 4.1 stars).

We were pretty hungry this morning and seeing Jack at the Roxbury for real almost flipped our vote, but then we saw another picture of Mikie's big toothy grin and we can't say no to that. Love you, Mikie!!!

TRADE SEASON!!!!!!!!!!

The trade deadline in Special Ed is November 22.

We've had only two trades in Special Ed so far this year but they were blockbusters, at least on paper. First we had McConkey (a keeper) traded for semitically named rookie Matthew Golden. Then we had the league's funniest name, Puka Nakua, traded for the league's best player, Josh Allen. These were BIG TIME MOVES that should have launched these teams into extended winning streaks. But they did not. We didn't even really get any good blog content from these ostensible blockbusters cause EVERY team involved in these trades went 1-2 in the next three weeks afterward. Since the week 5 trade Paul's Awesome Team is 2-3 and Erin Ertz is 1-4; they both are now 3-6 and tied for last place.

Paul and Ertz are FUCKED. But we're still cautiously optimistic that DYM and Tacos can make playoff runs. Josh Allen is STILL the best player in all of fantasy football, and we got fresh legs for Saquon coming off the bye... we're feelin good. Tacos' squad gets an extra boost this week from the trades that went down today at the IRL NFL Trade Deadline.

Rashid Shaheed (maybe the most traded player in Special Ed history) was sent from the shit-ass Saint to the hot-shit Seahawks. This is a fantastic landing spot from Shaheed. Seattle has Kupp (or Tory Horton) in the slot and JSN playing the X and drawing those double-teams, allowing Shaheed to just go crazy running go-routes every play. Jakobi Meyers ended up on the Jaguars where he'll take Parker Washington's job in the slot. There's targets to be had in Jacksonville with Travis Hunter going to IR, but we're not really into Meyers as a player. Slot WRs haven't been cool in fantasy since like 2017 (ADOT>YAC), and the fact that Meyers played for the Pats for five years left him with zero appeal for us. Tacos offered us Meyers in the trade and we took the deal, just for the opportunity to drop him. So first we picked up Tre Tucker, then hit accept, then once the trade went through we immediately dropped Jakobi.

FOOD BEEF: TACOS!!!!!!!!!!

Its a Food Beef double-header for week 10!!!!!!!!!! Two weeks ago we visited our go-to local taco spot - Folklore Artisanal Taco of Chatham. We love Folklore and its a great weekly Taco Tuesday spot cause it's highly consistent and easy to eat and the wife loves their chicken soup. We like everything on their menu and we've never had a bad meal from Folklore. We got the churrasco steak tacos and guacamole, wifey got the pork carnitas tacos and the soup. She gave it an 8.75, we're giving them an 8. It was good, and nothing wrong with the tacos, but we've had a couple others on this tour that we're really outstanding so we couldn't justify a 9+ for Folklore.

One of those outstanding tacos was Orale Mexican Kitchen of Morriston.

Orale is across the street from Central Taqueria on Morristown's "Taco Row". There are four different legit taco restaurants all on the same block of South Street. Fortunately when we went to Central Taqueria we found this apartment complex with a parking lot we can sneak into on Community Pl. so we're not gonna complain about the traffic and parking anymore. Orale crushed it with some really unique and interesting recipes (like "Mexican-style" fried cheese sticks) and gourmet presentation (pictured above). We got Pork Belly Carnitas Tacos (so good!!!) and the wife got the shrimp flautas. The inside of this restaurant looked really nice too and there's a big bar, so we're gonna try to hit this place up in person for the playoffs.

TACO SCORES: FOLKLORE - 8.375

ORALE - 9.25

ELECTION UPDATE!!!!!!!!!!

LETS FUCKING GO, MIKIE!!!!!!!!!!

AMERICAS GAME OF THE WEEK!!!!!!!!!!

ALWAYS BE CHIMPIN vs. UNCLE RICOS REVENGE!!!!!!!!!!

TWO OF OUR FAVORITE TEAM NAMES BATTLE FOR PLAYOFF POSITION IN WEEK 10!!!!!!!!!!

The Special Ed standings are as tight as they've ever been in a week 10. Big Chimpin sits in 4th place at 5-4. This puts them just two games out of first, but also two games out of last, with five games to play.

Each of these teams has a couple Bengals and a couple Chiefs so they'll be clearing the benches for this pivotal matchup. There's gonna be a whole bunch of TEs, backup RBs... everybody's playing in this one. Big Chimpin doesn't even have 3 WRs yet, and they might be starting the entire Panthers backfield which doesnt seem ideal.

Probably the most fun thing in this one tho is the teammate matchups: Justin Herbert vs Quentin Johnson.

AJ Brown vs DeVonta Smith.

Gibbs vs. Amon-Ra.

Possibly Josh Downs vs. Alec Pierce

That's pretty fun. And convenient that these guys only have to watch like four games this week.

PREDICTION: UNCLE RICOS REVENGE - 99.54

ALWAYS BE CHIMPIN - 95.77 UNCLE RICOS REVENGE WINS!!!!!!!!!!

SPECIAL ED MATCHUPS!!!!!!!!!!

ディフェンス・ユア・ムーブ vs. Paul's Phenomenal Team

Paul's starting two TEs against us and it feels like a slap in the face. ディフェンス・ユア・ムーブ WINS!!!!!!!!!!

Erin Ertz vs. iHeart Auntie Cynthula

Erin Ertz lost by a quarter of a point last week to Blame the ceiling. That fuckin sucks, so you know they're locked in on getting a revenge win this week vs a short-handed iHeart squad. It might seem weird that they're starting Tyler Warren over Courtland Sutton but we get it. Tyler Warren is amazing and one of these days he's gonna have one of those silly Taysom Hill games where he gets like 5 total TDs. Its gonna happen.

ERIN ERTZ WINS!!!!!!!!!!

Blame the ceiling vs. dead-on footballs accurate 🤌

Shout out to Zoltar RobZombie. When we used to do Antifa shit back in the day the group we worked for started the Working Families Party in NYC. Today Mamdani voted for himself on the Working Families Party line (not the democrat party). Never thought we'd see the day. Fuckin crazy world you guys.

BLAME THE CEILING WINS!!!!!!!!!!

The Hamburglars vs. Tobin & The Rippers

How the fuck did the Bears score like 50,000 points last week and Odunze got a three-target goose egg? Thats fuckin crazy. No idea what to do with that guy.

TOBIN & THE RIPPERS WINS!!!!!!!!!!