That boy Trevor and that girl Ali are still tied in your silly Picks league, I guess

You know, there's been some big news this week across the country about something having to do with a writing thing, and it's affected your Picks story. Oh yeah, it's a writers strike, that's what it is! According to what people are saying, members of the Writers Guild of America walked out Monday, fighting for contracts that include Internet and DVD content compensation. Or at least that's what a Yahoo news page just told me -- I copied and pasted that sentence. I don't really know a whole heck of a lot about it.

But I bring this up because I'm a kid from the high school newspaper who just got hired by these Picks Central people to write some sort of Week 9 story, which was supposed to be written by this other guy, but apparently he's a member of that Writers Guild, so he's not around. Not sure when he's coming back, either. So now I'm making minimum wage to summarize some crazy family thing from Sunday. They sat me down after school today and told me goofy stories about the weekend and stupid facts about football games, then said I need to be super creative by mixing everything together and writing a funny article about it all. What? Are you freakin' kidding me?

What I think I remember is that some boy named Trevor, and some girl named Ali, are still tied for first place in your football thing because they both were 7-6 in Week 9. I think that means seven wins and six losses, but don't quote me on that. And I'm not really sure why these two dorks are in first place anyway if they can only get half the games right. Am I understanding this correctly? Half their predictions were wrong? And these two kids are the best football minds your silly league has to offer? Just flip a coin instead and be done with it.

Oh, and I was also supposed to mention that the better records this week were from some girls named Mickey and P.J., who supposedly got nine games right and four games wrong. That sounds more like it. Why isn't Mickey or P.J. in first place if they're doing better? Obviously I don't understand things completely. If it were up to me, I would have bet everything on the Bears this week. But I'm not sure what the Bears did on Sunday. Oh yeah, they didn't have a game for some reason. Guess I'm still confused. How does that NFL bye thing work, anyway?

What I am sure about is that one of the members in your Picks is named QT Pie -- I'd never forget about a girl like that. Why does a mother name her baby QT Pie? Weird. But I know for a fact that she's really cute because she was one of the ladies giving me instructions on how to write this story. She was rambling about some kind of Wilmington football game on Saturday (is that in North Carolina?) and something about everyone going to a Chick-a-Dee restaurant, so I think she's expecting that to be a big part of this story. Sorry lady, but I can't remember the details. I think their waitress came running from the woods with pizza burgers in hand and fireworks going off, or something like that. Who knows.