MEET THE COACH: Chris Bell, Soup Can

BELL BLEEDS SOUP CAN RED (Photo Taken After Loss to Kittens)

1.  Give us a few thoughts on your season thus far:

With the high expectations heading into the season I should've been fired this week.

2.  Anything you would change about your strategy coming into the season?

I would've kept, and traded, Ahmad Bradshaw and Tim Hightower for Tony Romo. Trick may have kept both of those players.

3.  Who is your favorite team/coach to beat?  Why?

The easy answer is Trick, but I'm going to say Shawn Belyea. We lost our first contest this season, but sweeping him last year was sweet.

4.  Which team/coach is your least favorite to face?  Why?

Harber. He is the Yankees to my Twins. As the columnists say, he's "Soup-vincible."

5.  You are one of only 3 coaches to make the post-season all three years (with Trick and Cam)...what are the chances you make it this year?  What will have to change?

The percentages of us making the playoffs are low, but I feel we have the players to score points and make a run. If you look at the numbers; we lost to Belyea on overnight scoring, Harber scored a monster +150 to our equally dangerous +130 and we lost by 5 points to the Kittens with MJD and Manning scoring a total of 15 points. I have confidence that, when the regular season ends, we'll be among the top six.

6.  Favorite memory of the league you have presided over as Commish?

Our drafts at the Sloop Tavern. Moving the draft to Kiss Cafe this year was like the NFL moving from Radio City Music Hall to a piss smelling alley in the Bronx. Sure, some people may benefit from it (Cameron) but the overall magic is lost.

7. What turns you on, in fantasy football?

The upsets. Abbott (6th seed) making a playoff run in '08 and Harber (6th seed) making a playoff run last season were both exciting... despite my team being a road bump in both cases.

8. What turns you off in fantasy football?

Belyea leading the Ballard Division at the moment... but this will change.

9. What is your favorite curse word  How do you use it in Fantasy Football?

Pickle Shoes. As in, "Ah, pickle shoes, how has Trick won more games than me?!?!

10. What team other than yours would you like to attempt to coach?

The now defunct ScammyFlammyMammy... best team (and one of our highest scoring teams) to never win a championship.

11. What team would you not like to coach?

The now defunct Providence Phatties... lots of personal conduct issues going on there. Rumor has it that Carson Palmer texted lewd pictures of himself to Harber... I don't have time to deal with that.

12. If heaven exists and God plays fantasy football, what would you like to hear God say when you arrive at the pearly gates?

"You're late so we had to auto-draft for you. You got Neil Rackers in the first round and Rashaan Salaam in the second... sorry, dude."