Times like these, I wish I was a betting man.

'Cause that 5-game World Series win by the Phightin' Phills? I totally called it.

Now if I could just manage to predict how to best to make some money to pay the mortgage, I'd be all set.

Well, the TB Rays have proven that they can beat a team with an obviously injured DH, an obviously injured #1 starter and without their #5 hitter and starting 3B. Barely ( Read more... )

Sorry to post for a second time today, but I just had to toot my own horn a bit. Last week, I said that if Pittsburgh beat Indy, they'd beat Denver 31-17 ( Read more... )

Congratulations to the 2006 Super Bowl Champion Pittsburgh Steelers. (I explained yesterday that the winner of today's Colts/Steelers game was going to win the Super Bowl, so I'm getting my congrats out of the way now so I don't have to think about it anymore.)

I said a week ago that I thought Pittsburgh had a good chance to win today. Of course, ( Read more... )

I spend a lot of time on sports. Nowhere near as much as I did when I was younger and single, but it's easily my #2 pastime, behind LJ/fanfic related stuff. And a close #2 at that. When I think about the time I spend on fantasy leagues, watching or listening to the games (whenever I can), reading stuff about my teams on the web, etc., it makes me ( Read more... )

A while back, bastardsnow and I had a conversation on his LJ about the brothers Vick. We were talking about their abilities as quarterbacks, not their abilities as people. Still, I can't help but feel somewhat justified at my hard-to-explain dislike of Marcus Vick after reading this. Not being a huge college football fan, I didn't realize that Marcus Vick had ( Read more... )