LOLA

it's early but compared with last year it looks like more teams and O/Us will be in play throughout this season, so it's still anybody's LOLA [[assets/00012tableMD07.png]] [[assets/00012curvylines.png]] [[assets/00012fixtures.png]]

LOLA tiebreaker = a direct comparison of right/wrong picks at top of the table Example: Jerry & Jim both have 55 pts. Tiebreaker starts with first-place team, and Jerry & Jim each got their Liverpool pick right, so tiebreaker moves to second-place team, and Jim wins because he picked Arsenal correctly, while Jerry just picked Arsenal morally. [[assets/00011tableMD04.png]] for Champions League, the schedule will always show the games involving the six (!) English teams (Liverpool, City, Newcastle, Spurs, others), plus the Harry Kane games for Europa League, the games listed will just be the ones with the two English teams (Villa and Forest) and the two Scottish teams (Celtic and Rangers ft. Mikey Moore) for Conference League, schedule will only show the games involving the one English team (Palace) and also Fiorentina. I've rooted for Fiorentina since the early-80s because they were the favorite team of our Italian coach named Sal, who was red carded from our U12 games at least once a month until the louder dumber parents ran him out of town. But Sal was the best, and all his players loved him [[assets/00011fixtures.png]]

how it started... [[assets/00010unitedfanA.jpg]] how it's going... [[assets/00010unitedfanB.jpg]] 2026 spoiler alert [[assets/00010unitedfanC.jpg]] (PS dog is actual tibetan mastiff!)

so cute at that age

also the first day in LOLA history I've ever had more than 43 points

thanks for the picks! (and please doublecheck that they're right 😅) In our 20 O/Us...

We all agreed on three separate teams (Liverpool, Brentford, West Ham)

This year the Hottest Hot Take award goes to Bill's Newcastle Over

Something to look forward to!

idk, I'd never made a website before and thought it might be fun to learn how. I wanted to write code, I wanted to say the word code Step 01: I started by visiting the perfect web address, lola.com, just to see what was there Step 02: lola.com turned out to be a crappy dating website, which by a crazy coincidence was going out of business that same week and who were putting their domain name lola.com up for SALE THE VERY NEXT DAY. A straightforward sign from god that my destiny was to own lola.com Step 03: I quickly wrote the owners of lola.com an email asking what the price was. I played it cool and didn't offer a specific number, but hinted that I was prepared to go as high as $350 Step 04: while waiting for lola.com to respond, I started looking into other website names as a backup Step 05: I saw that the website name lolaworld.com was also for sale and that if I just clicked a button I could see the price, so I clicked it Step 06: the price was $8749.99 Step 07: I decided to do more research. It took about 90 seconds to learn that the price for lola.com was actually going to be over one hundred thousand dollars. This was far more than I was willing to pay. And I didn't think you guys would want to split it either, so I didn't even ask. Step 08: A hundred thousand dollars?!? I reflected on the world that we've made. A shining world where we spend our short charmed lives. An enchanted world. A fallen world. An obscene world!!! Step 09: I rallied and bought my own domain name! I bought LOLA DOME dot com, for nine dollars. I just thought it sounded good. It my mind it was like, hey everybody, check it out, welcome to the Lola Dome! Step 10: I stayed up all night trying to make a website. It was so frustrating! It's all in this fucking code! Step 11: But it got done. And just when I finished, I realized---very suddenly---that loladome wouldn't work as a name. This happened when my eyes and my brain finally joined forces and figured out that loladome smooshed together into one word looks like "LOLA, DO ME!", and that I now owned LOLA DO ME dot com Step 12: I rallied again! I quickly invested in a different new name, I went with my lucky number: I bought lola17.com, for nine dollars Step 13: Later that night I was out for a beer and I told a friend the good news: I told her I had built a new website, and it was called lola17.com. And she replied "lola17? that's awesome!!! wait, is it a porn site? gross!" Step 14: I finally hear back from the original lola.com. They have formally rejected my initial offer of $350 Step 15: I abandon all ideas of having a domain name with the word LOLA in it Step 16: I think back to a simpler time, ten years ago, when a dear friend asked me to take a swing at naming his house that he had built in the green gold hills of California. I think he and his wife wanted it to have a name like a castle in a Jane Austen book. I thought about it, and suggested a name. Their family was thrilled, they said to me Thank you for the suggestion, but we are going to go in a different direction Step 17: fair enough, and finders keepers: welcome to rumplewood

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