So the whole Hemet thing was more trash talk... he was bragging in the league forums last season about his superior management abilities leading to a 12-10 record on negative PD. My take is that said record was more a measure of managing to catch the right cup throws (though the PD was also substantially lowered by his own cup throws), hence the snarky comment. And then I promptly regretted the trash talk when he beat me on MD3, and I'm still regretting it now -- 20-1 would put me in a much better place to have a chance to seize a golden ticket tonight.
I'm definitely not selling tickets to Finals Game 1 just yet. I'm a lot more nervous about tonight than I'd prefer to be.