Winner Winner Chicken Dinner-Week 3

[Note-completed before Week 3 but I forgot to publish them.  Besides, if I were going to cheat, I would have given myself a better record than sub-500 going into tonight].  Going into this week, we have accumulated a 14-15-1 which when you consider that we are betting on every single game, is not bad.  But in SJ’s endless pursuit for perfection, we’re looking to get back to our winning ways this week.

Winner of the Week

There were not too many candidates for this week’s Winner of the Week. Alabama certainly showed they are for real with a big win over the favored Clemson Tigers. East Carolina proved that they were more than just Chris Johnson and pulled off an upset over 17th ranked Virginia Tech. But unfortunately I put less weight into preseason college football rankings than Calista Flockhart puts into her latest outfit, so neither upsets were impressive enough to earn Winner of the Week honors. There was not much news in the NFL, nothing really changed during the last week in the NBA, the Olymics have come and gone, it is still early in the U.S. Open, and Vijay Singh just won his 2nd straight tournament, but it was finished on Monday (not last week) and done sans Tiger. CC Sabathia was a close 2nd after his bazillionth complete game (does this guys literally have a rubber arm?) in which he threw a no hitter, but was robbed by a fool for an official scorekeeper and possibly lost his Winner of the Week award with that weak grounder. So, this week we’re going with a scrappy little team that yours truly wrote off in this very blog just a few days ago.

Baseball Predictions for the Final Month (American League)

Coincidentally, He Hate Me is not the only Second Jumpability writer that can peek into that crystal ball and foresee the future. I happen to have similar abilities and today you are all lucky to have me share my visions of the American League playoff race. I’m sure you’re interested to know if the Rays can keep up their tirade against baseball’s evil duo, if the White Sox and Twins will continue playing patty cake with each other and first place, or if the Angels will get bored and forget to show up to their final games of the regular season. So here they are, the final standings to decide the eventual World Series Champion (oh, the Cubs think they can win this year? Isn’t that cute…).

Here’s some free advice Theo: Don’t Trade Manny!

I will never understand this phenomenon that has begun in the northeast.  Each and every year I have to listen to the Eastern Sports Programming Network (also known as ESPN) talk about how THIS is the year the Sox trade Manny Ramirez.  It’s either because he says he isn’t happy, or that the team mistreats him, or that he’s struggling to find fans that can deliver a solid high five (you know, the ones where you make that crisp clapping sound) when he is leaping up fences to catch fly balls, but every single year I have to listen to this crap that would never in a million years happen.