Mike Zarren wrote: Although this may sound strange, I'd like to suggest that both Andrew and Sheahan are _underrated_ at trash... Neither has played much of it, so I'm not sure there's a lot of data out there to support any conclusion that either is particularly great at it, but Andrew has singlehandedly won Chicago practices on trash packets, too. I'm not claiming that either is in the top 5 alltime (neither has significant "geek" knowledge, e.g. comic books, computer games, D&D, etc. but both are very strong, especially in TV, movies, and sports), but I wonder what would have happened if either had had an interest in playing lots of trash... As a former teammate of Andrew, I can also vouch for his excellence within the field of trash. IIRC, he led the field in scoring at the first Georgetown (John Wilkes Booth) trash tournament in 1997, and he combined with Alice Chou, John Edwards (another excellent trash player), and Brian Rostron to finish first in their bracket at the first TRASHionals before collapsing in the playoffs. I've only played Sheehan once, but his team beat my team fairly convincingly at the 1999 Ann B. Davis. Seemingly keeping up a tradition, I wound up leading the JWB in scoring the next year (albiet against a field that lacked many of the big guns..i.e. no Gerbil team, no Dinan or Young or Kidder or Castagna) and our UVA team won our TRASHionals bracket before collapsing in the playoffs (although our collapse was more pronounced). That being said, if you could run a computer simulation of a head-to-head trash matchup between Andrew in '97-98 and myself in '98-99 (perhaps something for QB 2002?), Andrew should probably win a best-of 7 matchup within 6 games, and most likely 5 games.
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