Jeff Marsicano named his team Chasing Last Place before the season began — a preemptive, self-deprecating bit rooted in a prior Sacko finish and, by his own account, modest expectations for 2026. Six weeks in, the joke has stopped landing, because the team is 3–3, sitting comfortably in the league's crowded middle tier with 740.28 points for.

This is, on its face, a pleasant surprise. It is also, for a franchise that built its entire identity around futility, something of a branding problem. A 3–3 team within shouting distance of the five-way logjam at the top of the standings is not chasing last place. It is, uncomfortably, chasing a playoff spot.

The Week 6 loss to Nguyenning — a tight 111.02-to-101.04 result — did little to settle the matter either way, close enough to read as evidence of real competitiveness and painful enough to feed the old narrative that the Sacko energy is still in there somewhere, waiting. League historians, including this publication's own archivists, remain divided on whether the back half of the season will reveal Jeff's true form or simply extend the detour further.

What's not in question: a team actively built around the bit of losing is now one of the more frustrating outs in the league, projected competitively most weeks and seemingly unbothered by the dissonance of its own name. Chasing Last Place has not caught it yet. At this rate, it isn't catching anything.