Upgrades

Just two quick items:

-We've added RSS feeds over in the sidebar

-You can follow the Springfield Mudbones' progress in the sidebar now too. Keep your eyes on the entire draft over on Field Gulls.

DKSB Participating in Field Gulls All-Time Seahawks Fantasy Draft

The first pick has already been made... DKSB (Springfield Mudbones) picks 3rd, so keep an eye over on Field Gulls as the draft continues.

Fred Moody's got you covered from Agee to Wyman

KSK has a great review up of Stefan Fatsis' new book "A Few Seconds of Panic" (which is about the 2006 Broncos season).

I'd love to pick that one up, but mostly the KSK post made me think back to Fred Moody's great book on the 1988 Seahawks: Fighting Chance.

I've blogged about it before, but if you're hungry for a detailed account of one of Seattle's most compelling NFL seasons, you should pick it up... only 46 cents on amazon right now! Of course, it includes this classic snippet of locker room conversation between two unnamed Seahawks:

"What that chick needs is a good stiff dick in the ass."

"I used to do that."

"In the ass???"

In other news, Enjoy the Enjoyment has moved over to the Sports Northwest Magazine blog, so adjust your links accordingly. Also look for a blurb by yours truly in the August issue...

This Sonics Thing Worked Out Pretty Well for Paul Allen

First of all, my condolences to all the Sonics die-hards out there.. Here's my post a while back on the Supes imminent departure... and ETE has full coverage here...

I'm sure I'm not the only one thinking this: Paul Allen is secretly smiling somewhere. Why?

1. The potential fan base of the Portland Blazers just massively increased.
2. The money people might have spent on the Sonics? Perhaps they'll spend that dough on the Seahawks and/or Seattle Sounders FC.
3. And oh yeah, he's probably smiling anyway because he's an effing Billionaire.

The Seahawks are the last, best hope for sporting joy in my home state for the near future... Bring it home, guys.

Bid, Win, Destroy Creatively!

There's the Hasselbeck figure I just got in the mail, looking all bad-ass on my desk alongside Carlton Fisk and Jonathan Papelbon... The problem is that I also had to buy Troy Polamalu:

So I'm selling the surplus figure on eBay... here's what I said in the product description:

Like most NFL fans outside of Western PA, I HATE the Pittsburgh Steelers. I hate everything from those hankies they wave around (that appear to be urine-soaked) to that completely bullplop "Immaculate Reception." As a Seahawks fan, my hatred and bile is mostly based on the striped-shirt assist Pittsburgh got in Super Bowl XL...

But I'm not here to appeal only to Seahawks fans... In Cincinnati and Cleveland, in Baltimore and Houston, in Boston and Oakland, and in every corner of this great nation are those who know a simple truth: The Steelers, indeed, SUCK.

We know Pittsburgh was Arizona Cardinals-level awful until the 70s, when the Steelers got all hulked-out on 'roids. We know that Mike Renfro got two feet down in the '79 AFC title game. We know that a team coached by Barry Switzer beat them in XXX.

We know Roethlisberger is a big overrated galoot, that Heinz Field has the worst playing surface in the league and CLASSSSY fans who spit on Deion Branch last season.

Finally, we know that D-Jack didn't push off, Big Ben didn't score and Locklear didn't commit holding.

Here's the deal: My hope is that the winning bidder is a Steeler Hater like me, and does something unspeakably awful to this surplus Polamalu figure (and hopefully records what they do to it).

To you Steeler fans out there: I'm a good little capitalist. You can save Troy and his glorious mane by winning this auction.

Polamalu is untouched in the original box. I have just removed Hasselbeck.

Shipping is free.. Get this thing out of my sight, please!

Please post your ideas for destroying Polamalu with as much sadism and cruelty as possible.... and bid if you feel like it.. Shipping is free! :-]

If I get any entertaining hate mail from Steelers fans, I'll post it here.