Halfway to Nowhere

It should be noted that there was a Champion crowned last night in baseball. It seems as though MLB has thrown in the towel as far as ratings are concerned. They knowingly scheduled 3 of the 5 games for the World Series against the Heat's 1st game, Sunday night Football which featured the last 2 Super Bowl Champions, and Monday Night Football. Either they said "screw it, this is our schedule" or overestimated the following of their sport vs. the other major sports. Newsflash......you're JUST ahead of hockey. If it wasn't for a 21pt. game at the time, I probably wouldn't have seen the last 3 outs of the baseball season.

One of these days I will convince myself that what I'm wearing does not directly correlate to the Saints success. Until that day I will continue to change clothes at halftime of games I'm worried about. That is all.

NBC is counting down the weeks until Week 11 which is when they can start flex scheduling of the games (where they choose which game to broadcast sunday night). Until then we are stuck with promos of "The Cowboys are in town playing for pride". Really? When did they start doing that?

The Vikings show you how a team in disarray goes about business. They trade for Randy Moss (who quickly realizes that grass isn't quite as green as he envisioned when he left New England), get irritated with Moss and 4 games later release him. All the while the head coach finally thought he got rid of Favre to injury, but like a stubborn tree roach from the swamp...he keeps coming back.
(I actually said "They killed Brett" when I saw this)


Not the costume aficionado...but for my money, lil homie gets a 10/10.


Midterm Report Cards (I took avg of the 2 quarter grades...just trust me here)
*click to enlarge

A Rallying Cry

The NFL is built for parity but there is a fine line between that and the log jam that is created by inconsistent and/or bad play. The Chiefs and Chargers are an example of this on opposite ends of the spectrum (bad team the last few years on the rise and completely the opposite for the Chargers). However, let’s not confuse bad play by the likes of the Saints, Cowboys, or Vikings for driving that parity point home. Week 8 Marks the halfway point of the season and there still is no clear cut favorite (whether you gamble or not) to win it all or win week to week. The exception to that perhaps is the Steelers. Typically, we would be able to identify the contenders from the frauds by this point. It seems that may be delayed for another few weeks. Of course the Cowboys are the exception to that ;).

In case you blinked, MLB's World Series has begun. Personally, since the Yankees aren't in it I'll be modestly rooting for the Texas Rangers, but I wouldn't mind seeing the SF Giants get a ring. If for no other reasons than their pitching ace being called "Big Time Timmy Jim" and their closing pitcher channeling his inner Pirate.



I'm not sure it's the greatest thing in the world that I have to ask "now who is this again?" for some members of the Heat that's not named Lebron/Dwayne/Chris. I don't doubt that they have the talent to overcome this, but I have never seen a team generate the buzz that this team has around them. There is a "Heat Index" permanently affixed on ESPN's home screen, King Jaffe Joffer type security already reserved for their impending trip to Cleveland, and one company has already produced their championship rings with diamonds from Sierra Lione. Ok, the last part was made up but would you be surprised? They will need several games to gel and no doubt be a contender....there just needs to be a wait and see approach to a team whose players have one more championship than you and me.

Nike has a way of putting commercials together for it's stars who've had their reputations tarnished like no other. It's surprising that the likes of Charlie Sheen some stars in tinseltown hadn't enlisted their services. The latest installment is the artist formerly known as "King" James


There was a list of the top 100 players of all time that the NFL network put together. This is what Deion Sanders aka Primetime (pronounced pryyyyyyme tyyyyme) thought of his ranking of 34

Middle of the Road

Finally a post a little earlier in the week. I've caught a little flack about my sporadic posting which either means more than 2 people actually read this crap or more than 2 people have been so bored that had nothing better to do than read this crap. Either way (points to the right), remember you can sign up so you don't have randomly check this during the week.

In the NFL it's becoming apparent that you will be unable to separate the elite from the non elite in most divisions (we won't even mention being able to consistently bet) at least for a couple more weeks. It does bring me some joy to say that's not the case with the Dallas Cowboys (haboutdemcowboys!). You have teams as much as 3 games below .500 that still have a relatively decent chance at making the playoffs and in some instances winning their division. Parity is what the NFL is built to accomplish and this season is driving that point home, thus far.

Switching to the collegiate ranks, Boise St. now has to feel like they've been standing outside of the club for 2 hours now and keep getting passed over for the popular, more sexy individuals. I'm not saying that OU isn't the best team in the country. I'm not saying that a 1 loss Alabama team isn't better than Boise. I am saying that the voters can't keep talking out of both sides of their mouths and claim to show Boise St. (and TCU for that matter) respect only to keep leapfrogging them in the rankings with the next available undefeated school from a major conference. Eventually they will run out of sexy picks to jump them and have to rank them #1 or #2 which would put them in position to play for the national title. That's exactly what they don't want, so then and only then, will we get the long awaited playoff system that would prove to be the fairest option for all those claiming to be contenders, hopefully. (Using We as tho we ALL want a college playoff system. Plenty of people would rather watch the mating habits of ants than Boise St. in a national championship).

One vid before the picks. Undoubtedly, one the most vicious hits I've seen this year. Ironically, it was a clean hit if you break it down per the rules, but I think the aftermath caused the refs to call a penalty and ultimately Robinson will be fined and/or suspended. The league now is making a concerted effort to crack down on these types of collisions (which I'm not sure you can when you have 255lb men running 4.3 40's). I personally don't believe much will be done until someone doesn't get up from one of these.

Pinch Hitter

If you've seen anything in the realm of sports over the past week I'm sure you've heard or seen a multiple times superbowl winning QB getting called out by a 16 year old pop star for having a similar hairdo, 2/3 of the new most hated team in the NBA having hamstring issues, and of course Brett Favre texting pictures of himself to ladies wearing his wrangler jeans in bed....well minus the wranglers.

Here's a couple things you may not have seen over that span

Quite possibly the leading candidate for Best endzone celebration thus far. (How many years do we have to wait until something is considered old school or a throwback?)


I've watched soccer from the lowest level to the highest level and yet this was the least expected celebration I would have expected. Well 2nd least, the first would involve a donkey. Apply that however you see fit.


This guy makes flipping the bird at your opponent seem more outdated that windpants.

One Lap Down

Good Friday once again. One of these days I'll get it right and post earlier in the week. A couple questions before we take a look at where these NFL teams stand at the 25% mark.

Can anybody tell me why Mike Singletary wears a stopwatch during games? What could he possibly need to time?? My guess is he thinks this is practice and the games don't count yet.

Is there nothing better than October when you can get the start of the NBA season, MLB playoffs, and of course the NFL season. Oh yea, NHL starts there too...Golfers almost have to hit a hole in one off of a spectators head to make the top 10 during this time.

IF you could purchase the animal in this commercial, how much would you be willing to pay? I'd be willing to go to $2000 if it stayed this size.


Report Card Time. I played a Jedi Mind Trick to save space. Click on the pics to enlarge (for the cpu challenged)

NFC (left), AFC (right)