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Well its come to the end of another fantastic adventure of globe tackling, although this one was predominantly Western Europe and Netherlands based. Although the weather has been a nightmare and my year has essentially boiled down to 3 seasons instead of 4 (2 falls), I really loved being in the motherland. Being Dutch and doing as they do has been a nice culture change from the bustling city. I have gained a firm grip on the language, although I still speak broken Dutch, I can understand it with near perfection. The random festivals with cheap beer, techno trances, fresh markets at every corner and parades will be missed. It´s gonna be tough to say goodbye to the toilet shelf’s, which are essentially inspection decks of for your poop (its more fun than you would think).The Dutch specialties like food, drink, and “coffee” were incredible and I am going to really miss enjoying my French fries with a mayonnaise, breakfast buffet of bread and spreads, and sparkling ice tea. Withdrawal will not be easy on my body as I will have to say goodbye to Grolsch and Jupiler, mini pancakes, stroopwafels, and fresh fish from the market. I am dreading my first trip back to Subway. At least I still have fried spaghetti.




Some things I learned about the Dutch:

- Dutch dinner is between 530 and 7. Restaurants wont serve you after 9-9:30

- The Dutch are not surprised whatsoever with the weather no matter how shitty.

- Dutch people unnecessarily belong to gyms. They bike so much that they don’t need them. They use gyms for the spa.

- The older and more worn down your bike is the less chance it will be stolen.

- The Dutch will throw planned parties anywhere, at anytime, for anything, but always ends by 1 latest. (Bars, coffeshops, and clubs open all night)

- It doesn’t matter how beautiful it may be out, it will rain, and soon.

- They are the nicest to tourists as a whole than any other country I’ve ever been in.

- When in doubt do as the dutch do, find a café and get a drink or a coffee…then stay there for hours.

- Dinner doesn’t end after the plates are cleared, expect to have to ask for the check after your required twenty minute wait.

- They are too friendly. One man walked past me and told me to enjoy my lunch, another a woman asked me if I had taken nice pictures. Both were complete strangers.



This will be my last blog under this address as you can find my work going forward on either foxxtacklesthecity.blogspot.com or Tradedebate.com (Launching early September) With the launch of my new website, Tradedebate, I will probably be blogging less in coming months as most if not all of my writing and time will be dedicated to building a successful site as my two partners and I are attempting to revolutionize fantasy sports trading by offering a completely new and innovative platform. Below is a description of my new site:



TradeDebate.com is a free fantasy trade evaluation site created in order to help fantasy sports managers make tough decisions when making trades. Whether it be a trade that you have made or are contemplating making, the Trade Debate nation will examine your trade and vote on what they would do had it been their own team. Trade Debate offers a comprehensive database that tracks every trade, the players who have been traded, and who they are being traded for. With this knowledge fantasy owners can gauge the value of their players worth, and the market in which those players are being traded for.

Once your trade is posted, it will immediately be given a 48 hour window in which the Trade Debate community will vote for which side they would rather have. You will then receive an email after the 48 hour poll period ends with the results of your trade and comments attached. With that, you can decide whether this is the right trade for you.

Trade Debate also offers free fantasy articles discussing trades, players, strategies and tips, polls and waiver wire advice. We also offer a message board to not only talk about all things fantasy, but smack talk your friends and their horrible trade offers.

We present free evaluation, information, and analysis in the fantasy trading community. Tradedebate.com is a place to receive and give free fantasy trade advice and insight so you can have a better chance to win your league!



A little self promotion and free advertising never hurt anyone, and I write this not just to hopefully steal more of your internet time (I plan on it), but also to say thank you for the time you have already given me. I have had many compliments, some from people I don´t even know, about this blog and it encourages me to keep writing. I do believe that my writing has improved the past two years, although my titles certainly have not, and I have been a bit more focused as well, and I´m gonna need it. The writing I will be doing for the site will be less diary or journal based as you have, but rather fantasy sports based articles and features. Although they may be more information based you are sure to see my writing style in all its witty, self deprecating, pop culturely glory coming out from time to time. So again, thank you for reading and I hope you continue on the new site as well as follow my blog at Foxxtacklesthecity.blogspot.com.



Before I go though and make sweet beautiful music in the fantasy community I thought lets bring a piece of it to this blog. Before the madness of fantasy football starts I thought that we should take a look back to when this whole traveling the globe thing first began view them like seasons. So let’s have some fun with Split stats shall we. Split stats to the none sports fans out there are the breaking down of player´s in game statistics but viewing them in specific sample sizes, in this case by year. Without further ado a look at the trends.



Wearing shorts

2009 2010 2011

85%   98%   4%



Fantasy Analysis: Normally a 92% percent shorts wearer in the summer, Foxx’s average took a severe dip this summer. Before we panic and start calling him Adam Done lets remember that he played his vacation almost entirely at home, thus subsequent to the poor ballpark and inability to raise his pct. We think it’s a fluke though and expect his average to go back to the norm next summer.







Books Read

2009 2010 2011

11       13      9



Fantasy Analysis: Yes, the drop in books read at first glance is very alarming. The expectation was a third year breakout of fifteen was even being talked about in certain circles so to put up only nine was definitely disappointing. What’s not talked about though is the girth. The length of some of the books read were longer than in past and the highly addictive nature of I Touch games. Foxx has already told his readers than he is committed to double digits minimum next year.



Countries Traveled

2009 2010 2011

11       6        3



Fantasy Analysis: Every traveler has a regression, and this one is no different. It was the end of a 3 year contract with Europe, throw in an apt. swap, and Foxx kinda cruised this vacation. A lot of mornings without an alarm clock. Unfortunately we don’t see Foxx putting up 2009 numbers again in the near future. Sigh.



Countries Traveled

2009 2010 2011

11       6       3



Things lost or broken

2009 2010 2011

1         2        1



Fantasy Analysis: Not much to see here. Foxx loses and breaks stuff, then usually he writes about it.



Blogs Written

2009 2010 2011

0        11       7



Fantasy Analysis: Like Milli Vanille was claimed “Blame it on the Rain“. Bad weather brings less stories and stuff to do, which makes his life less interesting, and his blogs more boring. At least they are both sharp increases since 2009.



Thanks again for reading, see ya on the other side of the pond.



As always, Aloha means goodbye



– Foxx