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Yesterdays Picks Win - Loss – 11 – 4 RBI Machine - 2 for 15 Winning Pitcher - 10 for 15 Lock Selections 11-4 ...... Come on KC Won two weeks in a row that's real BS 3 for 15 .. Arod lets down again 8 for 15 .. Oswalt, no victory even though huge extension Seasons Total Win - Loss - 135 - 90 RBI Machine - 32 for 225 Winning Pitcher – 95 for 225 Weeks Recap I very good week at 11-4 with a couple RBI Machines and setting the seasons best with 10 of the 15 winning pitchers selected correctly. 0 for 3 on the lock picks with such a good week overall is pretty odd. Seasons Best Win - Loss - 12-3 on 6/14 RBI Machine - 5 for 15 on 7/25 Winning Pitcher - 10 for 15 on 8/29

New York Giants Predicted Record: 10-6 Playoff Seed: 4 Key Player: Tiki Barber, One could have easily made a case for Tiki Barber being the leagues most valuable player last season. With the brutal Giant schedule Tiki is again going to need to be stellar in order for the Giants to again take home the division crown. Fantasy Player to Eye: Jeremy Shockey, A top 5 tight end, and arguably the second best tight end option behind Antonio Gates. If you can eye him down in the 5th round than he could be a very good selection as he is one of Eli's favorite red zone targets. Why the Record: I think the Giants are going to have a very similar season to 2005 where they often struggle on the road but dominate at home. I have them winning 7 games at home and only 3 on the road including a victory at home over big bro Peyton in the week 1 NBC showcase clash. The Gigantes have an epic schedule which could easily be classified as the leagues most difficult but the comfort level the Eli has a...

For those of you that are uninformed of this potential epic moment is American Sporting History, the Arizona Cardinals are currently shopping the naming rights to their stadium around. Well the highest bidder currently just happens to be a Mexican Joint named Pink Taco. The Pink Taco's offer is for $30 Million Dollars . I for one think this could be the most hilarious event of 2006. In addition could you imagine the countless amount of gags you could make about the Cardinals organization if they played in the Pink Taco. Please if there's a petition to sign in favor of this let me know and I'll sign it for myself and all of my dead relatives. I beg of you Cardinals, for once do something beneficial towards society.

Tampa Bay Bucs Predicted Record: 12-4 Playoff Seed: 1 Key Player: Chris Simms, his immergence will be the jusitifcation to my belief. I hated him at Texas, mostly because he replaced Major Applewhite for no intelligent reason, and the fact that he never beat Oklahoma, but I think this is his breakout year. Fantasy Player to Eye: Michael Clayton, I feel Clayton is going to have a bounce back year and highly improve upon his bust sophomore campaign. Simms came in last season and placed almost all of his trust in the veteran recveiver Joey Galloway, with an off-season of work to get comfortable with each other Michael Clayton could replicate his rookie season. Why the Record: This is out on a whim, the Bucs have a very difficult schedule but they have sufficient talent on the offensive side and defensive side to put up one of the best records in the NFL. I bet Phil can't wait to broadcast in the closing weeks of the season and mention how well his son is playing even though it...

Chicago Bears Predicted Record: 11-5 Playoff Seed: 3 Key Player: Rex Grossman, The Bears have once again entrusted the fortunes of their franchise into the hands of Rex Grossman. The Bears won game after game last season despite having game situations where they were praying for mediocrity from their quarterback position. Grossman comes into the season having proven nothing other than he has the physical skills to possibly succeed, in order for the Bears to make a true push towards the Superbowl Grossman must emerge as a top 15 QB to eliminate some of the pressure which will be placed squarely on the shoulders of the defense. Fantasy Player to Eye: The Running Back Position, Thomas Jones had a terrific season last year and there is no reason to believe that whomever gets the bulk of the carriess will not crack 1000 yards and have close to double digit in touchdowns scored. However, almost two weeks prior to the season there is no clear-cut favorite to who will be the opening day st...

Toronto vs. Cleveland Phillies vs. Nationals Winner - Indians Winner - Phillies RBI Machine - Hafner RBI Machine - Rollins WP - Sabathia WP - Wife Beater Yanks vs. Tigers Cubs vs. Pirates Winner - Yanks Winner - ***Cubs*** RBI Machine - ***Arod*** RBI Machine - Aramis WP - Wang WP - Zambrano Rays vs. ChiSox San Fran vs. ATL Winner - Sox Winner - ATL RBI Machine - Konerko RBI Machine - Chipper WP - Freddy WP - Hudson KC vs. Twins Florida vs. St. Louis Winner - Twins Winner - Marlins RBI Machine - Hunter RBI Machine - Willingham WP - Garza WP - Olsen Baltimore vs. Texas Houston vs. BrewCrew Winner - Texas Winner - Astros RBI Machine - Young ...

1. Seattle Seahawks Predicted Record: 12-4 Playoff Seed: 2 Key Player: Floyd Womack, Left Guard: The departure of Steve Hutchinson leaves Floyd Womack to fill in a very big hole on the left side of the line. Hutchinson often regarded as the best guard in the game along with Walter Jones helped Alexander to one of the greatest rushing seasons of all time. The Seahawks last year ran the vast majority of their rushing plays to the right side. Fantasy Player to Eye: The Seahawks defense, their defense kept on improving last season and this is only helped by their weak schedule. Why the Record: The Seahawks yet again have one of the weakest schedules in the league which is helped by playing in the weakest divisions. In addition their homefield advantage is underrated as it is one of the loudest stadiums in the country. If you don't believe me just ask anyone on the Giants offensive line who at no point could hear Eli's snap call. Projected Wins: @DET, ARI, NYG, MIN, @KC, OAK, STL,...

Pavano [puh-vahn-oh] -noun 1. A weakling, wimp, timid person. 2. A spineless heartless human being 3. A human being whose name when mentioned in front of any Yankee fan will invoke the phrase "F'n Pavano" Synonyms: Pussy, wimp, wuss, vagina, chicken Sentence Usage: "Hey son don't be a pavano, get out there and play kill the carrier." Pavano [puh-vahn-oh] -verb 1. To Exhaggerate minimal injury or illness in order to avoid work. 2. To Receive ample payment for zero production or worth. Sentence Usage: "This kid showed up and pavanoed right in my face, needless to say I fired him on the spot."

This is how I did my predictions instead of looking at a team and estimating what I thought the teams record would be like everyone else. Instead what I didn was go through the schedule and make picks for each game and then counted up the Win-Losses by each team and that will decide who I picked for to win each division as well as the Wild Cards. So over the course of the next few days I will give these predictions for each division and then when everything is concluded I will assemble the playoffs based on my predictions and pick a winner. Why didn't you just estimate? Well, everyone else estimates, this was different and one big difference that I will do is I obviously will store my picks in one entry. Then during the season I will create a pick'em entry on ESPN that I will every week enter my preseason weekly picks to see how I do. Today NFC West Tuesday NFC North Wednesday NFC South Thursday NFC East Friday NFC Playoff Prediction Next Week Monday AFC West Tuesday AFC No...

1) I hope you saw the highlights of Tomo Ohka hitting yesterday. Basically the worst hitter in the league with only 11 rbis in his career prior to yesterday he decided to hit lefty and went 2 for 2 with 4 rbis. The best part is that his first at bat he received catchers interference when he swung and hit the catchers mit and his manager admitted to the press that he just hoped that Ohka would strike out that at bat, that way he couldnt bounce into a double play. Great confidence Ned. 2) Jon Garland holds easily the most "huh-what-really-no thats not right" stat of this season. Garland is 15-4. 15-4, did you have any idea he was doing that well this season. He's actually 7-1 since the all-star break maybe its part run production maybe he's getting overshadowed by the struggles of the other 4 starters but I had no no idea he had won 15 games. 3) More comedy from yesterday, with the classic 5-7-3 putout in the tigers game. How embarrasing must it be for Sean Casey...

A Long awaited Rebus, this rebus is categories, every person per question has one thing in common give it a guess. They're pretty easy.

First of all I'll play basically any sport if you come up to me and ask me to play something and I don't have something else to do I'm going to say yes. So occasionally, when there's really nothing else to write about, I'm going to write about why I enjoy playing a given sport. This summer I have been playing Ultimate Frisbee basically every sunday night and here are some of the positives and negatives of Ultimate Frisbee from my perspective: Positives 1) The more athletic you are the better chance you have to be good at frisbee. The only reason I'm decent at this sport is because I'm a solid athlete. I'm pretty quick which helps me get seperation from a defender as well as playing defense, I can jump relatively high for a short 5 foot 8 white man. 2) Frisbee is basically whatever workout you want it to be. If you want to play one half of the field, either offense or defense, than you can minimalize your workout. However, if you want you can run up and d...

These are the 11 People in Sports who tend to tick me off the most. Some of them are on my favorite teams, others are on the enemies and are so god damn good that they never seem to fail. Lloyd Carr - Lloyd Carr for the past 7 years has been a kick in the groin to my College Football fandom. Granted Michigan has never been completely terrible since 2000 and they have made a few Rose Bowls (They were crushed by USC and then couldn't stop the unstoppable Vince Young in the 2005 game), but he crushes the Wolverines chances of a National title on the first road game of every season. They haven't been undefeated in October since 1999, and to add to that they have lost 6 of 8 to Notre Dame, who haven't even been good, and friggin Ohio St, cheaters U. The Cocky Trash Talking Guy - You know who you are, you're the guy that isn't any good but you sit there and trash talk anyway. Whether you're getting schooled on the court and think your great or are in last place in a...

Yesterdays Picks Win - Loss – 11 – 4 RBI Machine - 0 for 15 Winning Pitcher - 6 for 15 Lock Selections 11-3 ...... Come on KC Won that's BS 3 for 14 .. No big boom for DUnn 8 for 14 .. Capuano brings it home Seasons Total Win - Loss - 124 - 86 RBI Machine - 30 for 210 Winning Pitcher – 85 for 210 Weeks Recap A Solid week for pick'em but no RBI Machines? Ouch. I even had Delgado who had five RBIs but I got shafted by Pujols who had 7, man thats a kick in the groin. No records and 1 for 3 on the locks. So not a bad week but not great either. Seasons Best Win - Loss - 12-3 on 6/14 RBI Machine - 5 for 15 on 7/25 Winning Pitcher - 9 for 15 on 5/30 & 6/6

I, as a Yankee fan, am completely thrilled and shocked by this sweep. I know the Red Sox are depleted with some injuries and have been struggling mightily but a sweep this was completely unexpected. A 6 1/2 game lead only a month since they were down 3 1/2 games? How as a Yankee fan could you not be thrilled right now? After all that midseason talk about how the Yankees weren't going to make the playoffs how they weren't going to surpass the Red Sox in the division and how the wildly card was definately coming out of the central. Well guess what the Yankees, are only 4 back of having the best record in all of baseball and are currently tied with the cross-town Mets for the second best record in baseball. One thing that people need to learn is that no one should be said done at the all-star break. And even now I don't believe the Red Sox are done, but I am certainly enjoying holding up a broom. Keys to The Yankee Sweep 3. Taking Walks - The Red Sox whole pitching staff was ...

Minnesota vs. Baltimore Marlins vs. Nationals Winner - Orioles Winner - Florida RBI Machine - Roberts RBI Machine - Cabrera WP - Loewen WP - Johnson ChiSox vs. Tigers Astros vs. Reds Winner - ChiSox Winner - Reds RBI Machine - Dye RBI Machine - ***Dunn*** WP - Buehrle WP - Lohse As vs. Jays Cards vs. Mets Winner - Jays Winner - Mets RBI Machine - Reed Johnson RBI Machine - Delgado WP - Burnett WP - Maine Rangers vs. Drays Pirates vs. Braves Winner - Drays Winner - Braves RBI Machine - Crawford RBI Machine - Chipper WP - Kazmir WP - Ray Indians vs. KC Rockies vs. BrewCrew Winner - ***Indians*** Winner - BrewCrew RBI Machine - Hafner RBI Machine - ...

No Doubt I forgot who I got into an argument with but he was basically saying that Tiger comes back to win on sunday and I was saying no typically he usually plays himself into position on thursday and friday takes over on saturday and then dominates on sunday. Well I didn't no it was to that extent. Tiger has been shared or in sole possession of a major lead 12 times. Each time he has won. So thats 12 wins or all of his 12 major victories. So it was a no brainer that he was going to win this tourny on sunday before he tee'd off and as soon as you saw that Luke Donald wasn't going to be playing to contend you could see that it was time for the engraver to start scratching Tiger's name into the trophy. Expectations for 2007 Would you be shocked right now if Tiger won another Tiger slam? He typically plays well at Augusta even when his game isn't in his top-tier level. I would be completely and utterly shocked if he doesn't win a major next season. In fact ...

Biggest Series of the Season Simply put this is the biggest series of the Major League Baseball season. Both in game size and impact and media coverage, everything. First off its the biggest and best rivalry in sports, secondly both teams are fighting for perhaps only one playoff spot. Don't think its the biggest series, well how about the fact that 4, yes 4, of the 5 games are on national television. This afternoon, Sunday night and monday on ESPN and tomorrow afternoon on FOX. Bereavment List The Yanks pulled a fast one by using Major League Baseball rules. The Yankees placed Lidle on the bereavment list , due to the death of his grandmother. Lidle's grandmother died a week ago and he is not even going to miss a start. This move allows the Yankees to bring up a much needed extra pitcher for the first four games of the series. AROD I'm sorry but I really think any big success Arod has in the regular season will only give him a temporary reprieve from Yankee fans. Even if ...

Team defense is a tricky thing to judge. First the majority of the points come from turnovers and the completely unpredictable defensive touchdowns. Many times I'll lean towards shedule strength when projecting the values of team defense. Personally, I think if you do not get one of the top three defenses then I would just wait til the end of the draft, get two defenses and play the matchup game from week to week. 1. Chicago Bears - The Bears are a really the only defense I would jump on early. First, they play in a weak division secondly they play the AFC East and therefore get the Jets and the Bills whose offenses should be weak. 2. Indianapolis Colts - Sure their defense isn't the greatest in the world but it helps being in a putrid division. Jax, is known more for their defense than offense, and the Texans and Titans stink. 3. Carolina Panthers - The Panthers forced a lot of turnovers last year and always have a better than average defense consider them a solid pick. ...

Lets be honest, kickers will not win or lose you a fantasy season, if you get upset because you lose a week because your kicker only put up 2 points well then your an ass. Just draft a kicker based on which teams you think are going to score a lot of points. And really there is no need to jump out and rush to get a kicker. It's better to have solid backups for when your players get injured than the #1 kicker in fantasy. Hell they really don't even dserve pictures. 1. Adam Vinatieri - 8th Round - He's really the no-brainer #1 kicker. First of all he's an outstanding pro bowl caliber kicker, secondly he's on a team that will score a boatload of points. 2. Shayne Graham - 9th Round - The Bengals will obviously score a ton of points plus he's a red-head and the automatically shoots himself up a few spots. 3. Neil Rackers - 9th Round - The Cards have a ton of offensive weapons and Rackers put up mucho points last year, really no reason to think otherwise. 4. Jos...

For Tight Ends either spend big and get Gates or Shockey or wait around til it seems like everyone else is starting to snatch up all the other Tight Ends and then grab yourself up one. The Mid Tier of tight ends will end up with very similar stats and really it will be tough to accurately predict which player will end up with more TDs. In almost every league I've ever played in there has been only 1 TE so I am only going to rank the top 15. 1. Antonio Gates - Mid 3rd - The unquestioned #1 TE in fantasy. Do not fret the emergence of Philip Rivers as the starting Quarterback, the difference in Gates' stats will be negligible. 2. Jeremy Shockey - Mid 4th - Shockey in my opinion has moved into the #2 TE spot in fantasy football ahead of Tony Gonzalez due to the fact that he actuall did get into the endzone last year unlike Togo, and another year of Eli should get Shockey more receptions. 3. Tony Gonzalez - Late 4th - Togo was a fantasy team killer last year, for anyone that draft...

4 People to Watch to Contend Obvious - Tigger Woo - Returning back to a place he won in 1999. If you look at some of Tiger's major success you will notice that he typically does well at courses he previous won a major at, see Augusta National and St. Andrews, if Tiger doesn't get off to a slow start and can control his driver he will win. A Diffenet Aussie - Adam Scott - It's time Adam, you haven't busted through yet, unlike Ogilvy, and it's time for you to take it to the next level and see your name up there on the leaderboard with a few holes left. Go Irieman - Padraig Harrington - Ya he didn't contend in the British like I said he would but I think he will in the PGA. If not simply for karmas sake, he is donating all of his winnings in honor of Darren Clarke's recently diceased wife Heather, due to breast cancer. Ryder Cup Push - Stewart Cink - Look at the Ryder Cup standings and you'll see some odd names that are currently on the roster, watch...

Running Backs are the biggest position in fantasy football. If you can lock up two #1 backs to hold down the fort then you will be in a very good position to make the playoffs in your league. If you end up trying to fill in holes in your Running Back slot good, well then good luck getting production from the Tyrone Wheatley's of the world. 1. Shaun Alexander - First 3 Picks - I'll take Shaun Alexander first. Well really this is me talking this second. Honestly, the top three running backs you could easily make a case for being deserved of the #1 selection and some of it depends on your point value setup. But you really can't go wrong. I'd lean towards Alexander due to the fact that you know he's going to score one TD every week. 2. LaDainian Tomlinson - First 3 Picks - Next I'd lean towards LT. He's proven the past years he's the most talented running back in the league. If your league values receptions highly than he jumps up to the #1 spot. ...

Yesterdays Picks Win - Loss – 9 – 6 RBI Machine - 2 for 15 Winning Pitcher - 6 for 15 Lock Selections 11-2 ...... Blue Jays the winner 3 for 13 .. Not only did Konerko not have RBIs the ChiSox lost to the Royals 7 for 13 .. Dreamweaver crumbled in the 6th Seasons Total Win - Loss - 113 - 82 RBI Machine - 30 for 195 Winning Pitcher – 79 for 195 Weeks Recap Another mediocre week man have I been on a slump, last night I did pretty well on the east coast getting almost all of the 7 o'clock games right but I shat the bed on the West Coast. Seasons Best Win - Loss - 12-3 on 6/14 RBI Machine - 5 for 15 on 7/25 Winning Pitcher - 9 for 15 on 5/30 & 6/6

Detroit vs. Boston Atlanta vs. Nationals Winner - Tigers Winner - Nats RBI Machine - IROD RBI Machine - Zimmerman WP - Bonderman WP - Cordero Os vs. Yanks Phillies vs. Mets Winner - Yanks Winner - Phillies RBI Machine - Arod RBI Machine - Howard WP - Muss WP - Wolf Rays vs. Jays Brewers vs. Bucs Winner - ***Jays*** Winner - Brewers RBI Machine - Reed Johnson RBI Machine - Prince WP - ***Halladay*** WP - Dougie D Royals vs. ChiSox Cubs vs. Astros Winner - White Sox Winner - Astros RBI Machine - ***Konerko*** RBI Machine - Berkman WP - Vazquez WP - Clemens Angels vs. Rangers Reds vs. Cards Winner - Rangers Winner - Cards RBI Machine - Big Tex RBI Machine - E...

The QB strategy is 100% completely different between fantasy leagues with a different set of rules. If your league forces you to start only one QB per week than the difference between the upper 12 QBs in the league is not that much so you can wait it out into the 4th 5th or 6th round to get a QB. However, if your league has 2 QBs than you really need to make sure you do not end up with a QB that you project is going to be outside of the top 20 in the league. Because those are the guys you have to watch out being replaced and getting limited production from a QB spot, typically the best scoring spot, is certain to leave you out of the playoffs. 1. Peyton Manning - Late 1st Round - Alright Peyton Manning always puts up consistently fantastic numbers. He never gets hurt and weeks when he doesn't put up a touchdown are a shocker. But there are some issues, first how will the loss of Edge effect him, I personally think he will throw more and this will not hurt him that much more ad...