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Rundown 4/3/2017

The first official LOL Hot Take Parlay, put us out of our bracket misery, and baseball finally kicks off, this week on the RunDown.


Hot Take Parlay

In a seemingly unrelated chain of events thejoestory takes the LOL league by scoring on the new Hot Takes Parlay, a new feature he wrote no fewer than 4 days prior to striking it big. Thejoestory quickly points out that 2 other legends hit the parlay as well but we are not buying this whole just a coincidence idea.

Unofficially this is the greatest 2 month ascension of the League of Legends standings from worst to first in 2 months. The designation is unofficial due to lack of historical LOL standings data, thus fueling the conspiracy theory fires.

The First official Hot Take Parlay was exciting. We selected three BLAZING HOT NBA Takes to kick it off. Spurs vs Thunder, Wizards vs. Jazz, and Rockets vs. Warriors. Some of legend banter back and forth from the epic Spurs vs. Thunder game.






March Madness

Tonight we end the misery known as League of Legends March Madness brackets. In a shocking outcome lexluthor may actually score some LOL points if the Zags can pull off an upset. A Double Down worth a max 200 points was created to let the other legends with dumpster fire brackets to at least participate in the Championship game.

Baseball Opening Night/Day

Ahhh yes, finally baseball season. Let's check the scoreboard to see how Legends fared on the kickoff Sunday games...Tower's team struggled out of the gate with a blistering -.83 points. However plenty of time for thejoestory's team to tank this week. PattyV was robbed on Sunday's Giants vs. Diamondbacks game. Madbum retired the first 16 batters went 7 strong and scored him 19.5 points. He also hit two monster Dongs that PattyV does not get credit for since pitchers batting stats do not count. Tough break kid.

MadBum picking out his bat in the on deck circle





Not even a week into the league and the STOVE IS BURNING LEGENDS. 

  • WarningTrackPower drops old man Granderson and picks up the beast child outfielder Aaron Judge. Dude is 6'7" 275 pounds. I remember one time Judge took his family to Sea World. They were watching Shamu the whale when Judge got splashed. So Judge yells, ‘I’m Aaron Judge and no one gets me wet!’ So he climbs into the tank, grabs Shamu, and throws the whale into the audience, splashes him and yells, ‘How do you like it?’ And then damn if Judge didn’t step in there and finish the show....wait that might have been Bill Bradsky
  • UnderHochevars picks up Michael Wacha in his quest to fill his entire rosters with Cardinals.
  • Expos - swoops in and snags Granderson. Expos current average UTIL player age is 37.5 years old (Beltran - 39 years, Granderson -36 years)


Get back on the Bus Triple A Players of The Week:
Opening Day edition





  • Gorkys Hernandez - with a name like Gorkys you gotta be good. 0/2 2 Ks to kick of the season. Eye on the ball Gorkys.
  • Kris Bryant - Apparently he had trouble seeing the ball in those beautiful icy steel blue eyes of his. 0/4, 3Ks including a K with the bases loaded in the 8th. Brutal.
  • Yasmany Tomas - WarningTrackPower's batters had 7 Strikeouts Sunday...Tomas had 3 of them. 

Basketball League Officially Over

The NBA season, at least for LOL, is officially over. Completing his end to end domination of the league Tower captures 1st place overall securing 500 bonus points in the process.  The front court duo  of John Wall and James Harden proved to be too much for the league to handle. Throw in Willy "dont call me billy" Hernangomez and you got a winning formula.

Willy appears to be enjoying himself here






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