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I know you're partially kidding ... but I'm not against trying it. I think we're good enough to beat them regardless ... maybe 60/40?

Meatballs! Question ... do we want to open it up this week against the Dinos? What about trying a 55 pass to 45 run ratio? If we run, run, run we will certainly win. But should we try flipping our balance to see what it does offensively?

Hey guys, I'm sorry I was MIA yesterday and didn't get a game plan out there ... I got stuck at work and am only now looking at the stuff. Though I did set our gameplan before and it seems to have worked!!! Our Defense is nasty and I am all for setting our Defense to getting as many TOs as possible, Joe. So go for it! The Dinos will be a fun team to play

You know that formation is genius. Meatballs, we can watch the games LIVE now! They start with 45 minutes left on the clock ... http://goallineblitz.com/game/game.pl?game_id=12878

We gotten two pages in and no one has mentioned the other cool part of the flick ... the new Indy trailer!!!! "You might want to cover your ears ... "

Team: Check out the team forum for info about our energy usage and game plan for the Longnecks.

Good game guys! We rolled 'em! Only bad part is we won't get to see how our substitution system worked since it "forced backups" since we were up so much (hence why Sloth only had 19 snaps ...). Big game coming up! Make sure everyone rests up for the Longnecks!!!!

MEATBALLS vs ZONE BOYS (5/04/08) New Advanced Energy Tactics: A lot of things went wrong last week with our platoon system. The positions I intended to have a heavy rotation (HB, WR, CB, LB, DT) didn't rotate. And our O-Line, in particular Snot and out OTs wound up playing over 80 snaps. I did some research on the Forums and adjusted the levels to try to keep our energy up and actually rotate HBs as we planned. We have 3 great HBs, so I want them all to play. Our opponent this week is not particularly dangerous, so I'm trying a more off kilter approach. Please give me a report after the game how your guys did (how many snaps, starting energy level before the game and after the game). We will fine tune this! Note: The ratios are the MINIMUM ALLOWABLE ENERGY LEVEL / RETURN ENERGY LEVEL. Positional Breakdown: QB: 45 / 70 HB: 95 / 99 FB: 45 / 80 WR: 90 / 98 TE: 55 / 80 C: 75 / 85 LT: 75 / 85 RT: 75 / 85 LG: 75 / 90 RG: 75 / 90 NT: 90 / 98 DT: 90 / 98 LDE: 80 / 95 RDE: 70 / 85 MLB: 80 / 89 OLB: 80 /90 OLB: 80 / 90 CB: 90 /97 SS: 80 / 90 FS: 80 / 90 K: 1 / 2 P: 1 / 2 Kick Returner: 50 / 85 Punt Returner: 50 / 85 KOS: 30 / 65 KRS: 30 / 65 QUARTER SETTINGS: (These are the situational settings ... ) First Quarter: Offense -- FORCE STARTERS ON: Never Defense -- FORCE STARTERS ON: Never Favor Backups (over rides the above settings) when up by 14 points. Second Quarter: Offense -- FORCE STARTERS ON: Never Defense -- FORCE STARTERS ON: Never Favor Backups when up by 14 points. Third Quarter: Offense -- FORCE STARTERS ON: Never Defense -- FORCE STARTERS ON: Redzone Favor Backups when up by 14 Fourth Quarter: Offense -- FORCE STARTERS ON: 3rd down, 4th down, redzone, Less than 5 Min remain. Defense -- FORCE STARTERS ON: 3rd down, 4th down, redzone, Less than 5 Min remain. Favor Backups when up by 14. OT: Offense -- FORCE STARTERS ON: 3rd down, 4th down, redzone, Less than 8 Min remain. Defense -- FORCE STARTERS ON: 3rd down, 4th down, redzone, Less than 8 Min remain. ***NOTE: You'll notice I changed the FORCE STARTERS options in the first, second and third quarters. I did this to try to keep our starters fresh for the fourth quarter if needed. Also, because the starters tend to play a ton in the 1st and 2nd quarters. By not forcing them, I hope our rotational system will stay in tact and we'll be fresher down the stretch. We'll see if it works.

MEATBALLS vs ZONE BOYS (5/4/08) Sorry for the quick game plan ... had a hellish weekend so I can't do as thorough a write up as normal. We're going to stick to pretty much the same game plan we employed against the Eagles. My scouting shows that teams have beaten the Zone boys by pounding the ball, so we'll run 60% of the time. However, this week we're going to pound the rock inside (60% inside, 40% outside) due to their weak interior D. The Zone Boys' offense has stepped it up the last two games and can't be considered a total cupcake team now. They were pass happy in the first two games (blow out losses to the Cows and the Razorbacks ... two of the top teams). But they flipped and went heavy run the past two weeks and put up more points and went 1-1. I expect the running to continue, so our Defense is going to play 58% run and 42% pass. I'd ask that Defensive Line turn their settings to RUN first and WRAP up. I think we should run over them this week ... but it might be closer than I think. I hope our Defense which has only surrendered one TD all year, pitches another great game. Also I've adjusted the settings for the energy levels this week to account for some of the stamina loss we had in our last game. I'll post the numbers in a moment but I'd ask once again that our players watch how many snaps their guys get and how badly their energy takes a hit so we can continue tweaking this system. We should win this week, so if your player is UNDER 100 percent energy to start this game, set his intensity to NORMAL for the game (or Relaxed if he's 95 or under). That way we can get you up to 100 for our next game. GO MEATBALLS!

They are good ... but beatable. We have a brutal stretch coming up where we play the Longnecks followed by the Renegades, and then the Razorbakcs followed by the Cows. Should be interesting ... We should be able to roll over our next game. So I'd ask that anyone who dropped below 70 energy to go to NORMAL settings rather than HARD for our game. I'm also finding ways to tinker with the sub system so we get more snaps for some of the guys.

Hmm ... interesting stats. Not sure, we are DEF going to have to tweak some settings. Open to any and all thoughts. I think part of the reason the Pines got so many snaps was the setting, FAVOR BACKUPS when up by 14 points. We lead most of the second half so I think they started to favor our back ups ... but not sure why we still wound up with such a disparity or why our platoon system didn't work.

Yeah ... for the next game we're going to need our O-Line (some of whom won't make it back to 100 before the game) to play NORMAL (rather than HARD). Rest up for our tougher game down the road. I'll have to figure out a way to tweak it. The platoon system did not work for the HBs or DT either. Glow wound up getting the majority of the snaps. Same with Jock and Jasper. Thoughts are welcome ...

You beat me to it! Damn you Haven't looked at the stats, but GREAT WORK TEAM! HOOKERS AND BLOW FOR EVERYONE! If all the players could look at your snaps and ending energy levels for me, that would help. We can tweak our energy settings more to your liking. Just let me know. 4-0!!!

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MEATBALLS vs EAGLES (5/02/08) New Advanced Energy Tactics: So, they added a new Advanced Energy menu for the game plan. It seems like it will help a ton. I've toyed with it for this game, not sure if I like the settings or not. But I'd ask that everyone WATCH their players this game. Number of snaps, times you're on the field etc. Let me know if it's good, bad or ugly. This way we can work towards tweaking the levels to make sure we're getting the most out of it. To help, I included the settings I'm using below. For the positions where we have good depth (DT, NT, DE, LB, CB, WR, HB, OG) I kept the Min Energy Level HIGH ... the hope is that it forces a heavy rotation while keeping all these players fresh for the fourth quarter. For the positions where our depth is lacking (or suspect) I've kept the Min Energy level LOW so that the starters stay out for a longer period (Not as much rotation). The recommended settings are 30% Min Energy Level to 65% Return Energy Level. I'm guessing that this means players are still 100% effective at 65% energy, but start to dip after that. And they become LESS effective than their skill level at anything under 30%. This is a GUESS based on their recommendations. But I think it's a good one. This is why I need you guys to pay attention this game and help us craft the perfect ratios ... Note: The ratios are the MINIMUM ALLOWABLE ENERGY LEVEL / RETURN ENERGY LEVEL. Positional Breakdown: QB: 30 / 65 HB: 84 / 94 FB: 45 / 80 WR: 75 / 90 TE: 45 / 85 C: 45 / 84 LT: 45 / 84 RT: 45 / 84 LG: 55 / 84 RG: 55 / 84 NT: 84 / 94 DT: 84 / 94 DE: 70 / 85 DE: 70 / 85 MLB: 75 / 89 OLB: 80 /90 OLB: 80 / 90 CB: 80 /92 SS: 75 / 90 FS: 75 / 90 K: 1 / 2 P: 1 / 2 Kick Returner: 50 / 85 Punt Returner: 50 / 85 KOS: 30 / 65 KRS: 30 / 65 QUARTER SETTINGS: (These are the situational settings ... ) First Quarter: Offense -- FORCE STARTERS ON: 3rd down, 4th down, redzone Defense -- FORCE STARTERS ON: 3rd down, 4th down, redzone Favor Backups (over rides the above settings) when up by 14 points. Second Quarter: Offense -- FORCE STARTERS ON: 3rd down, 4th down, redzone, Less than 3 Min remain. Defense -- FORCE STARTERS ON: 3rd down, 4th down, redzone, Less than 3 Min remain. Favor Backups when up by 14 points. Third Quarter: Offense -- FORCE STARTERS ON: 3rd down, 4th down, redzone Defense -- FORCE STARTERS ON: 3rd down, 4th down, redzone Favor Backups when up by 14 Fourth Quarter: Offense -- FORCE STARTERS ON: 3rd down, 4th down, redzone, Less than 5 Min remain. Defense -- FORCE STARTERS ON: 3rd down, 4th down, redzone, Less than 5 Min remain. Favor Backups when up by 14. OT: Offense -- FORCE STARTERS ON: 3rd down, 4th down, redzone, Less than 8 Min remain. Defense -- FORCE STARTERS ON: 3rd down, 4th down, redzone, Less than 8 Min remain. ***NOTE: Due to the ability to control our subs (more) now, I changed our offensive game plan slightly. We are going to go back to our 60%/40% run to pass split that we had the last two weeks. I am doing this because Sloth should stay in the game the whole time now (unlike the last two weeks where he seemed to get more tired handing the ball off). This should make the 40% of the passes we throw more effective.

Meatballs! There is a new Advanced Energy Management tool in the game plan. It allows us to determine BY POSITION when to sit and when to play a player. I am not sure how these settings will work yet as they are going to be active for our game. I'd like to mess with them but worry about bugs. I'm thinking our QB can have a wide range to keep Sloth in (like his low point would be 30%). There is also an option to FORCE the starters to play in given situations (on 1st down, 2nd down etc ... by QUARTER). Anywho ... I thought I'd pick your guys brains as to where you want your positions stamina set. Thoughts would be appreciate, I'll post the numbers when I do them in a sec and you guys can offer advice. http://goallineblitz.com/game/forum_thread...hread_id=152009

Week 3 GAME PLAN: MEATBALLS vs EAGLES 5/02/08 SCOUTING REPORT: The Eagles will be out for revenge after we showed them an early exit in the playoffs last season. Off to a 2-1 start, the Eagles switched up their offense after the week 2 loss. During the first two games the Eagles had surprisingly strayed from their formula of running with BWest and instead went heavy on the passing (94 passes to just 38 rushes). In week three they switched up and ran the ball 50 times and scored their first 3 rushing touchdowns of the season in a 39-0 route. Our defense has been lights out so far this season. We have not given up a touch down and have held opponents to negative yards rushing in each of our past two games. The Eagles highly touted offensive line would like to change that formula. I expect the Eagles to run BWest heavy. They feel their O-Line matches up well with our D-Line -- which I disagree with. So I say, let them come. We'll stack up against the run this week as we did in the playoffs. Our CBs and Safeties are good enough to stop their passing attack, we'll have our LBs and DL focus on the run. We must shut down BWest to win this game. Last season the Eagles' defense was one of the league's best units. This year they have slipped slightly. They got off to a rocky start in weeks 1 & 2 and allowed their opponents to put up over 300 yards in consecutive games. The teams accomplished this by being primarily balanced (the Cows were 39/39 run pass while Clinchy was 36/40). The Dover team tried to air it out (24 rushes to 38 passes) and wound up getting blown out. Our WRs and QB have the talent to overwhelm their secondary. But our O-Line and HBs match up well too. While I thought about changing things up and airing it out ... the team talked sense into me. We're going to stick with what's been working and pound the ball with our 3 great backs and our stud O-Line. OFFENSIVE GAME PLAN Rushing Attack: (60%**) In the playoffs we ran 55% of the time. We have a much better O-Line and HB team this time around. We had been up to 60% the past two weeks. Focusing this much on the run should wear down their front 7 and also allow Sloth to take advantage of some play action passing. We are also going to switch up our running lanes and focus on the outside this week. It'll be 40/60 inside to outside. We've had better success on the outside. Additionally, Wang's great play will get him more carries this week. Passing Attack: (40%**) I love our WR matchups in this game and want to exploit it when we can. The heavy ground game should soften it up for Sloth to take some chances. If the game plan works as expected, we're going to throw a couple more deep balls this week when the Eagles' D starts to creep up. We'll throw 25% of our passes short, 47% medium and 28% long. We need Sloth to be mistake free this week as he was in the playoffs. DEFENSIVE GAME PLAN Blitz Package: (4%) We are going to play it safe and beat them straight up. We'll use our blitzes sparingly and focus on making good, clean tackles at the line of scrimmage. I'd ask that everyone set their tackles to WRAP UP. We have to stop them at the line of scrimmage and avoid missed tackles on BWest. Rushing Defense: (55%) BWest is their primary weapon and they made a major shift in tactics to focus on the run after two weeks of trying to dink and dunk with their QB. I expect they'll ride the wave and try to run all over us. Thus, we'll up the Run D to 55. This will put a ton of pressure on our secondary because the Eagles will still try to pass. Passing Defense: (45%) The Eagles have some great WRs, but have found most of their success hitting the underneath routes. This is why we're asking our CBs to play TIGHT this week and our Safeties to lay back. Collapsing on the short routes should frustrate their passing attack and may cause a few more INTs. We'll defend 35% vs the short routes, 50% vs the medium and 15% against the deep ball. GO MEATBALLS! ** Denote changes made due to the new advanced energy features added late tonight.

This fine gentleman learned first hand how romantic Sandals Jamaica can be ...

It's interesting, I had the chance to meet with and talk at length with Sumner Redstone and the topic of Tom Cruise came up. Redstone wasn't offended by his beliefs, nor his crazy weird marriage ... he said it was simply a business decision. That Cruise had not only alienated his fans, but had started choosing bad scripts and bad projects ... thus he became a bad investment. If Redstone is really turning the corner and bringing Cruise back into the fold, it will be interesting to see how Cruise manages to work UA into the deal. No way Redstone lets that happen unless Viacom/Paramount is getting the better end of the deal.

I just always thought it was a cool list ... so I figured why not share it with TSW? And yes, it's crazy extensive and very one sided as it's only Western European material.

He got the pancake on Pico's INT return for a TD!

This is a valid point. I guess we can try a heavy passing game against a weaker opponent (we will have plenty). Fear not, Sloth, we'll still throw more this week than the past two. We'll be at 55/45 rather than 60/40. I'll write up the full game plan tomorrow. Also, if you guys ever want to tweak the game plan or have thoughts/ideas/insults about them when they are done ... let me know. I want the game to be fun for everyone.

Yeah ... maybe I didn't make that clear. It's definitely not supposed to be a summer reading list. The story behind it was apparently a student of his came up to him the week before graduation and told him something along the lines of, "I know I'm about to graduate from a great school, but I don't really feel like I've learned anything. What would you recommend for me to continue my education?" So the professor thought about it for some time and compiled this list. He never expected the guy to read it ... but he did. Took him near 10 years, but he did it. A couple other students through the years have asked for the list, and I did when I graduated. I'm moving slow (will take me longer than 10 years to finish it for sure) but steady. The best part is the note at the end: "PS: Read a !@#$ing text book BEFORE each section." Holy (not Brussels) Cow!

My professor in school gave me this list of books to read to "truly be educated". In 20+ years he's only had one former student complete it. I'm working my way through it though. Western Classics Reading List Part I = Philosophy, Religion, Science, Politics and Society Part II = Imaginative Literature Ancient World, Part I. The Bible: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy, Ruth, Job, Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Song of Solomon, Isaiah, Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, The Acts, The Romans, Corinthians I and II, Revelation. The Ancient Near East: An Anthology of Texts & Pictures (2 vols. ed. by James B. Prichard). The Presocratics (ed. by Philip Wheelwright). Plato: Apology; Crito; Phaedo; Lysis; Euthyphro; Gorgias; Protagoras; Meno; Symposium; Republic; Theaetetus; Timaeus; Laws. Aristotle, The Philosophy of Aristotle (ed. by Renford Bambrough). Herodotus, The Persian Wars. Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War (use M.I. Finley, The Portable Greek Historians for Herodotus and Thucydides). Greek and Roman Philosophy After Aristotle (ed. by Jason L. Saunders). Plutarch, Lives of The Noble Greeks and Romans. Suetonius, The 12 Caesars. Marcus Aurelius, The Meditations. The Portable Roman Reader (ed. by Basil Davenport). Part II. Bulfinch’s Mythology. Homer, The Iliad; The Odyessy. Hesiod, Theogony. Aeschylus Euripides FOR THESE FOUR USE GRENE and LATTIMORE, Sophocles The Complete Greek Tragedy Aristophanes Virgil, The Aeneid. Petronius, The Satirican. The Portable Roman Reader (see above) Medieval World, Part I. Selections from Medieval Philosophers (2 vols., ed. by Richard McKeon). Philosophy in the Middle Ages (ed. by Arthur Hyman and James Walsh; use to complement McKeon). St. Benedict, Rule for Monks. The Koran Part II. Beowolf. Song of Roland. Dante, Divine Comedy (above all, Inferno). Boccaccio, The Decameron. Langland, Piers the Plowman. Chaucer, Canterbury Tales. Malory, LeMorte D’Arthur. Early Modern Period (ca. 15th-18th Centuries) Pico della Mirandola, Oration on the Dignity of Man. The Renaissance Philosophy of Man (ed. by Ernst Cassirer, et al.). Machiavelli, The Prince; The Discourses. Castiglione, The Courtier (abridged). Cellini, Autobiography. Erasmus, In Praise of Folly. More, Utopia. Montaigne, Complete Essays (ed. by Donald M. Frome). Thomas A. Kempis, The Imitation of Christ. Luther, Three Treatises (“An Open Letter to the Christian Nobility”; “The Babylonian Captivity of the Church”; “The Freedom of a Christian”). Calvin, On the Christian Faith (Library of Liberal Arts Selections, ed. by John T. McNeill). Bacon, The Great Instauration; The New Organon; The New Atlantis. Descartes, Meditations; Discourse on Method; Rules for the Direction of the Mind. Hobbes, Leviathan. Spinoza, Ethics. Leibnitz, Monadology. Locke, An Essay on Human Understanding; Second Treatise of Government; A Letter on Toleration. Newton, Principia (Spinoza, Leibnitz and Newton can be sampled from From Descartes to Locke, ed. by T.V. Smith & Marjorie Grene). Galileo, Discoveries and Opinions of Galileo; Dialogue Concerning the Two World Systems (both ed. by Stillman Drake). Pascal, Pensees; The Essential Pascal (ed. by Robert Gleason). Grotius, The Rights of War and Peace (selections if possible). La Rochefoucauld, Maxims. Milton, Areopagitica. Bayle, Historical and Critical Dictionary (ed. by Richard H. Popkin). Wollstonecraft, Vindication of the Rights of Woman. Hamilton, Madison, Jay, Federalist Papers. Berkeley, Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous. Hume, A Treatise of Human Nature; Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion; An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding. Kant, Critique of Pure Reason; Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics; Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals. Montesquieu, Persian letters; Spirit of the Laws (ed. by David Wallace Carrithers). Early Modern Period (continued) Vico, The New Science (selections if possible). Herder, Ideas Toward a Philosophy of History (selections if possible). Voltaire, The Portable Voltaire (read it all). Diderot, D’Alembert’s Dream; Rameau’s Nephew. La Mettrie, Man A Machine. Mandeville, The Fable of the Bees. Rousseau, Discourse on the Origin of Inequality; The Social Contract; The Confessions; Emile. Beccaria, On Crimes and Punishments. Johnson, The Rambler. Smith, The Wealth of Nations (Gay’s selection is OK). Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France. Schiller, The Aesthetic Education of Man. Malthus, On Population (do some judicious skimming based on detailed table of contents). The Enlightenment: A Comprehensive Anthology (ed. by Peter Gay; use this to complement the other 18th Century titles). Fichte, The Vocation of Man. German Idealist Philosophy, ed. by Rüdiger Bubner. Lichtenberg, Maxims. Part II. Rabelais, Gargantua and Pantegruel. Shakespeare, Hamlet; King Lear; MacBeth; Othello; Julius Caesar (read all the plays if there’s time). Cervantes, Don Quixote. Milton, Paradise Lost. Grimmelshausen, Simplicissimus. LaFontaine, Fables. Moliere, The Bourgeois Gentleman. Defoe, Robinson Crusoe. Swift, Gulliver’s Travels. Pope, Essay on Man. Richardson, Pamela. Fielding, Tom Jones. Rousseau, The New Heloise. Voltaire, Candide. Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther; Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship. Lessing, Nathan the Wise. The Nineteenth Century, Part I. Chateaubriand, The Genius of Christianity. Hegel, Phenomenology of the Mind; Philosophy of History (use Hegel Selections, ed. by Jacob Loewenberg). Goethe, Poetry and Truth. Clausewitz, On War (Penguin Abridgement). Tocqueville, Democracy in America. Carlyle, Sartor Resartus. Strauss, Life of Jesus (skim). Comte, Auguste Comte and Positivism: The Essential Writings (ed. by Gertrud Lenzer). Mazzini, The Duties of Man. Feuerbach, Essence of Christianity (use selection ed. by E. Graham Waring). Proudhon, What is Property? Marx, The Marx-Engel’s Reader (ed. by Richard Tucker). Darwin, Origin of Species; Descent of Man (read the whole Norton edition, Darwin, ed. by Philip Appleman). Mill, Autobiography; Utilitarianism; On Liberty; The Subjection of Women. Renan, Life of Jesus (abridgement). Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Idea. Arnold, Culture and Anarchy. Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground. Tönnies, Community and Society. Dilthey, Pattern and Meaning in History (ed. by H.P. Rickman). Nietzsche, Use and Abuse of History; Beyond Good and Evil; Twilight of the Idols; Thus Spake Zarathustra. Durkheim, The Rules of Sociological Method; Division of Labor in Society. LeBon, The Crowd. Bernstein, Evolutionary Socialism. Veblen, Theory of the Leisure Class. Part II. Novalis, Hymns to the Night and Other Selected Writings. Schiller, William Tell. Goethe, Faust. Austen, Pride and Prejudice. Manzoni, The Betrothed. Stendhal, Red and the Black. Balzac, Peŕe Goriot; Eugénie Grandet. Büchner, Danton’s Death; Woyzeck. Dickens, Hard Times. Flaubert, Madame Bovary; Sentimental Education. Turgenev, Fathers and Sons. Hugo, Les Misérables. Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment; The Brothers Karamazov. Hardy, Return of the Native. Tolstoy, War and Peace; Anna Karenina. Ibsen, A Doll’s House; The Ghosts. Huysmans, Against the Grain. Zola, Germinal. Nineteenth Century. Part II (continued) Maupassant, Selected Stories. Hauptmann, Before Dawn; The Weavers. Fontane, Effie Briest. Strindberg, Miss Julie. 20th Century, Part I. James, Varieties of Religious Experience. Freud, A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis; Interpretation of Dreams; Moses and Monotheism; Future of an Illusion; Totem and Taboo; Civilization and Its Discontents. Jung, The Portable Jung (ed. by Joseph Campbell; read it all). Einstein, Relativity: The Special and General Theory. Adams, The Education of Henry Adams. Bergson, Creative Evolution. Weber, Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism; Essays in Sociology (Gerth & Mills edition). Simmel, Selected Writings (ed. by D.N. Levine). Schumpeter, The Sociology of Imperialism; Social Classes. Tawney, Religion and the Rise of Capitalism. deSaussure, Course in General Linguistics. Pareto, The Mind and Society. Mosca, The Ruling Class. Mannheim, Ideology and Utopia. Sorokin, Social and Cultural Dynamics (abridged edition) Michels, Political Parties. Lenin, What is to be Done?; State and Revolution; Imperialism. Sorel, Reflections on Violence. Lukacs, History and Class Consciousness. Gramsci, Prison Notebooks. Arnold, The Folklore of Capitalism. Husserl, Ideas. Keynes, General Theory of Unemployment, Interest, and Money. Hayek, The Road to Serfdom. Popper, The Open Society and Its Enemies. Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth. Marcuse, One Dimensional Man. Spengler, Decline of the West. Ortega, The Revolt of the Masses. Benda, The Treason of the Intellectuals. Toynbee, A Study of History (one volume ed.). Orwell, Homage to Catalonia; Politics and the English Language. Frazer, The Golden Bough (abridged). Benedict, Patterns of Culture. Piaget, The Moral Judgement of the Child. Levi-Strauss, The Savage Mind. Cassirer, Essay on Man; The Myth of the State. Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigation; Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus. Heidegger, Being and Time. 20th Century. Part I (continued) Four Existentialist Theologians (selections from Maritain, Berdyaev, Buber, and Tillich, ed. by Will Herberg). Existentialism from Dostoevsky to Sartre (ed. by Walter Kaufman). Sartre, Being and Nothingness. Bonhoeffer, Letters and Papers from Prison. Niebuhr, The Nature and Destiny of Man. Marcel, Philosophy of Existence. Bultmann, Existence and Faith. Tillich, The Courage to Be. Lovejoy, The Great Chain of Being. Russell, What I Believe. Whitehead, Science and the Modern World. Merleau-Ponty, The Essential Writings of Merleau-Ponty (ed. by Alden L. Fisher). Teilhard de Chardin, The Phenomenon of Man. deBeauvoir, The Second Sex. Heisenberg, Physics and Philosophy. Camus, The Rebel. Woolf, A Room of One’s Own. Foucault, The Archaeology of Knowledge; The Foucault Reader (ed. by Paul Rabinow). Barthes, A Barthes Reader (ed. by Susan Sontag). Rawls, Theory of Justice. Ellul, The Betrayal of the West. Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Part II. Gide, The Immoralist. Conrad, The Heart of Darkness. Chekhov, The Cherry Orchard. Shaw, Man and Superman. Mann, Death in Venice and Seven Other Stories (Vintage Books); The Magic Mountain; Doctor Faustus. Proust, Remembrance of Things Past. Eliot, The Waste Land; The Hollow Men. Woolf, To the Lighthouse. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers; Women in Love. Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago. Joyce, Ulysses. Capek, R.U.R. Pirandello, Six Characters in Search of an Author. Forster, A Passage to India. Kafka, The Trial; The Castle; The Metamorphosis. Hesse, Steppenwolf; The Glass Bead Game. Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front. Musil, The Man Without Qualities. Huxley, Brave New World. Malraux, Man’s Fate. Silone, Bread and Wine. Koestler, Darkness at Noon. 20th Century. Part II (continued) Camus, The Stranger. Sartre, No Exit. Hochhuth, The Deputy. Beckett, Waiting for Godot. Osborne, Look Back in Anger. Note: Before each section, read a Western Civ. Text for the period. Mortimer Chambers, et al., The Western Experience is good enough. For the modern era use R.R. Palmer, A History of Modern World (6th ed.). For science, use Anthony M. Alioto, A History of Western Science. The best history of philosophy by far is Wilhelm Windelband’s A History Philosophy (goes up to end of 19th century).

Either way we are going to pass more than the last two games. Default will be 55/45 run to pass ... which is what we had in Week 1 when Sloth threw for 2 TDs and 200 yards. I'm just wondering what would happen if we juiced it to near 70%. In a "real" game I think it would work well because we would catch them off guard and we have the talent to beat them. I just fear that the game's AI would !@#$ it all up and we'd end up losing ... by a lot.