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Top 11 Things I’ve learned So Far in the MLB Playoffs
Posted: 8th October 2009 by DMtShooter Five Tool Tool in MLB
11) All of the work I've done with the therapist to forget Frank Caliendo will be undone by George Lopez.10) Cole Hamels is not going to revert to his form of 2008 just because it's October, or because his wife is spawning.9) You can take Joe Torre out of four hour Yankee games, but you can not take four hour games out of Joe Torre.8) Winning the World Series and ...
Top 10 Ways To Fake An Interest In Hockey
Posted: 1st October 2009 by DMtShooter Five Tool Tool in NHL
Want to pass with the puckhead in your office? Care to score points with a Canadian? Need a way to explain your mullet? Then just drop one of these ten time-tested tidbits that will make you look less like a hoser, eh. (And don't worry about the 25-year-old quasi-joke. That's big comedy to hockey fans!)10) Pretend to get choked up over how Wayne Gretzky won't be coaching the Coyotes anymore.9) ...
Week Four NFL Picks: Gambling Nerdly
Posted: 30th September 2009 by DMtShooter Five Tool Tool in NFL
When you study math at higher levels, you (a) miss a lot of parties, and (b) became imbued with a weird energy. In my post-college slacker years, I knew some high level math people; they were even more bent then the rest of us, and some in that crowd drank blood for kicks. (On the plus side, if the girl will drink that, she'll do, um, lots more stuff. On ...
Hoop Dreams: Join My Fantasy Basketball League or Else
Posted: 24th September 2009 by DMtShooter Five Tool Tool in NBA
I've been playing fantasy basketball for many years. I've also been begging people to play fantasy basketball for many years. Except for the begging, it's actually my favorite fantasy league. Here's why.1) No stupid park effects. Picking the right players for your starting lineup is difficult enough without worrying about rain or snow in football, or some wind or bandbox killing your pitchers in baseball. Basketball, it's the same everywhere. ...
By this point in the NFL season, despite all evidence to the contrary, we don't really know who is going to make the playoffs. Injuries and ill luck can still take down even the strongest team, and it's rare that teams go wire to wire.
There are some 2-0 teams that aren't going to the playoffs (I'm looking at you, Denver), and there very well may be an 0-2 team that ...
The MLB September Drama Solution: Relegate the Worst Team
Posted: 23rd September 2009 by DMtShooter Five Tool Tool in MLB
Tonight on the Lemur, you have really the perfect storm of Northeast Corridor love: The Yankees win the AL East, and noted Boston lover Peter Gammons, in a column linked right next to the game story, advocates for an expanded baseball playoffs. Because in a year with zero compelling team races, we clearly need to invent something.
(A small moment for the Empire: Woo. You clinched with a sacrifice fly and ...