7th Place - A Dream Crushed and A Near Miss

Jamie Harris, 1560.84 points. 3 players in the top 25.

Harris' stated goal was to finish in 6th place. He had a multi-year plan to inch his way up the standings, place by place, year by year. He failed. He finished in 7th and just. He was the beneficiary of the Antonio Gates ankle sprain. As the night game began, Harris was a sitting duck having had all his players in afternoon games. Devo had Royal and Bell and Alls had the aformentioned Gates. I had blackberry messenger and Harris was just a few keystrokes away. It was highly entertaining as the points and time tic...tic...tic..'ed by. Harris even sent me a crying emoticon when Devo passed him. And he felt much joy when I informed him of the injury to Gates.

Our IM conversation actual saw Harris go through a number of the stages of dealing with loss:

Acceptance:
Jamie: I am screwed
Matthew J. Fusco: What, 14 points not enough cushion for ya???
Jamie: Apparently not
Jamie: Look how many players Devo still has to play
Jamie: All players that will be playing today
Matthew J. Fusco: Warner, pennington and westbrook is a lot of potential points.
Jamie: Warner will be taken out before the end of the hald
Jamie: Half
Matthew J. Fusco: Where's the faith???
Jamie: These winds screwed me

Anger:
Jamie: Grrrr
Jamie: Ok the Stat Tracker is going off for another year
Matthew J. Fusco: But you still have a 1.6 pt lead...
Jamie: I am not optimisitic somehow
Matthew J. Fusco: quiters never win. Blah blah blah
Matthew J. Fusco: Tic...
Matthew J. Fusco: 0.9 pts
Matthew J. Fusco: Tic...
Jamie: :'(
Matthew J. Fusco: Tic...

Bargaining:
Jamie: I could live with the same place as last year



Top of the bottom half means nothing.