Many (OK, mostly Claire) said his performance could never live up to his mouth, but for one glorious week (for him at least), Zane dominated (yes, he made me use that verb) with a 10 win performance, besting his nearest competitor — his father (and lest he forget his needed ride to school) by two games. We can now look forward to at least a week’s worth of “it’s not arrogance, if your deliver” claptrap. Even Ayn Rand is somewhere rolling her eyes.
On the all important family front, the Pennella clan moved ahead, despite Madame Todaro’s apparent benching of her own eldest son for his year to date crap performance.
In interviews, Peter gamely attempted to cover for his mother — claiming his lack of participation was in fact a function of his indifference to the entire bourgeois undertaking.
Unfortunately TMZ’s release of his mother’s disturbing Friday afternoon (post-yoga mind you) workplace tirade — which included the phrases “I love him dearly, but the kid doesn’t know an f-ing thing about professional football” and “Do you think if I disown him, his participation will be retroactively removed?” — would appear to call the veracity of Peter’s statement into question.
In his weekly blog “Why the alphabet should begin with Z” (@ZtoA or more commonly, zzz.com), the unnamed Z said he was horrified by the “machiavellian machinations” of the rival clan.
But lest one think the Todaros have cornered the market on hypocrisy, TMZ also revealed last night that a text sent to a Maryland area lawyer — discussing the potential xbox xmas gift implications of gently suggesting one’s own grandfather be benched — had in fact been tied back to the @ZtoA account.
As such, @ZtoA’s earlier tweet about his “need to visit a chiropractor soon if this keeps up” must be viewed as a rather mean hearted reference to his disproportionate shouldering of the Pennella win load thus far.
While one hopes that the feuding clans will set aside their intra and inter-family squabbling this weekend in celebration of Ma and Pa Pennella’s 50th anniversary — and that the rumored whoopee cushion hijinks will not come to pass in the hallowed grounds of Roxciticus CC — there is certainly cause for concern.
And it’s only week 4.
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-the commish
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