Monthly Archives: October 2008

Looking To the World Series…

October 20, 2008 – 11:55 am

OK, raise your hand if you had the Rays/Phillies as the World Series participants anytime prior to June 1st. Me neither… Nonetheless, that is what that 2008 baseball season and the league playoffs have given us – – and it ought to be a very interesting series. I want to use today’s rant to make [...]

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Mythical Picks – NFL – Weekend of 10/19/08

October 17, 2008 – 11:59 am

After last week’s debacle, some of you are probably surprised that I would show my face around here again – – speaking figuratively of course. A vegan forced to eat at pig roast probably could not have made worse choices than I did last week. The OVER/UNDER picks went 1-3 for the weekend thereby dropping [...]

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Mythical Picks – NCAA – Weekend Of 10/18/08

October 16, 2008 – 1:31 pm

The only thing that happened last weekend in college football that might interest a few college football fans is that the teams ranked #1 and #3 and #4 all lost. Other than that… Linfield College took a big step forward in terms of reaching its 54th consecutive winning season in football; the Wildcats beat Whitworth [...]

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This And That…

October 16, 2008 – 12:39 am

I need to begin today with errata. Previously, I noted an e-mail from a reader about the mirror images created by Larry Bowa and Davy Lopes in the Phils/Dodgers Series. I said Bowa played for the Phils against the Dodgers in the ‘78 and ‘79 NLCS while Lopes was on those same Dodgers’ teams. Several [...]

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Baseball and Economics Today…

October 15, 2008 – 12:09 am

With baseball playoff games televised on TBS for the divisional series, I want to make a couple of comments about some of the commentators there: It was good to hear Harold Reynolds doing baseball again. I thought Buck Martinez made some good points. Tony Gwynn definitely needs voice coaching if he is going to do [...]

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Tuesdays With The Sorries 10/14/08

October 14, 2008 – 10:52 am

Once again, Tuesday has rolled around, so it is time for “Tuesdays With The Sorries”. Here in Curmudgeon Central, the hope is that you will not feel sorry that you read this offering… I want to deviate ever so slightly from the standard format here to include three baseball “Sorries”. The first one is a [...]

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Mythical Picks – NFL – Weekend Of 10/12/08

October 10, 2008 – 8:48 am

I am not a meteorologist; I do not play one on The Weather Channel; I did not stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night; so, what do I know? A glance at The Weather Channel today showed me that there is a large winter storm developing in the northwest. That could affect football games [...]

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Mythical Picks – NCAA – Weekend Of 10/11/08

October 9, 2008 – 12:37 pm

Last weekend was not nearly as cataclysmic for the college football world as two weekends ago. There weren’t top 25 teams dropping like flies all over the time zones of the country. Nevertheless, it was an interesting weekend with some important things to note. Division III, Linfield College, took a positive step toward their 54th [...]

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Baseball Playoff Musings

October 8, 2008 – 12:08 am

I don’t know about you, but I heard more than enough all summer long about the destiny of the Chicago Cubs to win the World Series in 2008 – – 100 years after they last won the World Series. Then there was the “countdown” to see if they could win 100 games in this 100th [...]

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Tuesdays With The Sorries 10-7-08

October 7, 2008 – 12:13 am

Well, Tuesday has rolled around yet again and that means we need to review the weekend for sorry-assed football performances in this thing I like to call “Tuesdays With The Sorries”. And we do have a full spectrum of citations to hand out this week starting with NCAA games over the weekend. The University of [...]

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