… aka Mister Bill, born in Los Angeles, California in 1940. So, the first thing you know about me is that I am old...really old. Fortunately, that's only my chronoIogical age - I'm in good health and quite active. However, I am at that age where a competent golfer is looking forward to shooting his age (it is on my bucket list). Unless my game makes an unlikely improvement at this late stage, my best hope is to stay ambulatory for another 15 years or so and find a REALLY easy 18 hole course. When I retired about 12 years ago, it was clear that daily golf rounds weren't the answer. I needed a different hobby. I found it in fantasy sports. I have been a lifelong sports nut. I loved playing sports but wasn't very good at it. I wrote about sports in my youth. I was sports editor and editor of my high school newspaper and was sports editor of the Daily Californian at Cal Berkeley. I had gone to college intending to be a sportswriter but abandoned it once I realized that the pay was awful except at the nationally syndicated level. Out of college, I ended up working for the City of Los Angeles in an administrative capacity (Junior administrative Assistant...how's that for a job title to let you know your lowly station in life). Fortunately, this was at the dawning of the computer age, and I qualified for a training position to become a computer programmer. I loved it and was quite good at it. It was like solving crossword puzzles all day and getting paid good money to do it. As the city was a fine example of the Peter Principle in action, success at computer programming led to managerial positions in the City's IT department. Those positions paid a lot more money but weren't at all like solving crossword puzzles all day. It was at the City of LA, that I met the future Mrs. Bill while working with the LA Police Department, where she worked on a computer-related project. Alice is a second wife and has a personalized license plate reading "RYTWIFE" to prove that she was the keeper. She eventually became a prosecutor and computer specialist for the LA City Attorney. We raised my two daughters (Devon and Kelly) from a previous marriage in Northridge, California, that LA suburb you know well for its devastating earthquake in 1994. We enjoyed our working years together, even the 15 months we were out of our house as it was being rebuilt after extensive earthquake damage. The two daughters are both happily-married and financially stable (in other words, not moving back home anytime soon). They live in Long Beach, California and Washington DC (Kelly's husband works for the State Department but is assumed within family circles to be a spy) and have produced 5 children to be spoiled by their grandparents. I put my 30 years in at the City (plus a four year stretch in the private sector when the grass had briefly looked greener elsewhere) and retired at 58 with a nice pension. Alice also retired 15 months later and we moved to Palm Springs and have never looked back. (It's amazing how awful that traffic we endured on a daily basis seems now.) Our interests include golf, hiking, reading low brow fiction, going to lots of movies, and traveling the world. But, a passion (addiction?) for fantasy sports is what fills most of my time. I had dabbled in it while working and had actually finished third overall in the very first year of what evolved into the recently-defunct Tour Trade game. (As anyone who knows of my penchant for early and somewhat reckless buying, I was out of buys for the Tour Championship when the lightly- regarded Billy Mayfair took the halfway lead and managed to win it.) I was already playing fantasy golf, basketball, and football and participating in a bunch of side pools when that con man Kevin Cobb aka Doc Roberts took a powder with a lot of money from the group of us who hung out on the CDM golf bbs. I decided that someone needed to step up and take over all the sidebet games quickly and keep that rather magical group, the FOBOs (a contraction of FOrum BOys) alive. I did that and it has worked out very well. P.S. For those of you who didn't read it at the time, we're reposting a very humorous piece Alice wrote about trying to teach me to cook when she was incapacitated for nearly two months with a broken ankle in late summer 2008. You can read it HERE. P.P.S. I did reach my goal of shooting my are early in 2021. Considering my more recent scores, I’m not sure exactly how I shot that 80. Yes, it was an easy course; however, my best score since then was an 87. On the bright side, I am already 82 so a repeat is still a possibility.