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Draft prep starts now (for real this time)

Okay, let's just act like I haven't been missing in fantasy action for a few months now. I don't know about you all, but things have been happening in our world that have kept my mind off fantasy football: we've had to dig up our backyard to replace our lateral sewer pipes; we went on an awesome family vacation to the beach; our toddler is becoming a little person and desperately wants to be just like his older brother; and our older son is testing my patience with the number of times he can either say the word "poopy" in one sentence or he tells us tales of terribly destructive things happening to people (seriously where does he learn to gleefully say things like, "and then a brick flew right through his eyeball and his head popped off!"). I promise he's also incredibly sweet and kind and brilliant as well.

But life has been moving on as it's prone to do and I've let fantasy football slip to the back of my agenda. Here's my attempt to get things going again. And for those of you in the FFLibrarian Monster League, check your email in the next few days for an e-mail from me about participating again in 2015.

Now time for some draft prep you don't want to miss:
I had a crew of 4 awesome writers around last season to help write some content and I believe some or hopefully all will be back this year. If there's anything in particular that you'd really like to read about, don't hesitate to ask.

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RP said…
Welcome back FFL! I haven't checked your site in a few months and was very pleased to see this just recently posted.
3:23 PM
ahmezzz said…
Glad to see you are back. Looking forward to the monster league. It is always a good challenge. Thanks for taking the time to put it on.
8:11 AM
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