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Dear Jack Daniels, I just wanted to let you know that you'll be seeing a lot of me these next few days. I plan on being blacked out from now til monday. I really don't want to watch my team play baseball anymore. We can't even beat the Nationals. In September we've only won 8 games. It's ugly, I can't take it anymore. Hell I just might try to get so drunk I erase the memory of the last 6 months. Nothing good has happenned so I will likely feel better about myself. I Just Lined Up 12 Shots, Jerry Manual

I'm Once again Top 5 Mr. Bold, but no still not Manic. Enjoy the only relatively sane poll out there.

Skip to 1:27... Seriously if you were told to draw up the dumbest play you could ever see, would you even fathom someone being stupid enough to do that? I hope for the kids sake he's a little better in the classroom than he is on the football field else I fear he may not amount to much in life. Courtesy of Hot Clicks

After last nights loss the Twins fell back to a deficit of 2 games with just 5 games to be played. Another loss today would move the Tigers magic number to 2 games with just 4 to play. It's imperative that the Twins win today and set themselves up for an opportunity to tie the Tigers tomorrow, rather than giving the Tigers the opportunity to clinch. And thus today there is no man more important to the the Twins than Carl Pavano. Yes that Carl Pavano. Who would have thought that after wrapping up the worst contract in the history of baseball (recording just 9 wins in 4 seasons) that any team would be depending on Pavano for their playoff run. But here we sit on September 30th and Carl Pavano is and has been an essential piece in the Twins attempt to overtake the Tigers. Since being traded to the Twins he's gone 4-3 in 10 starts pitching to a 3.84 ERA. But that doesn't tell the whole story. The Twins are actually 7-3 in his starts. And today they hope to make that 8-3.

Thanks for the Walk Off Win.

Before you yell and say where is so and so team, please read my polling philosophy and then yell afterwards. And down go the cupcake munchers of Ole Miss and Penn State. They garnered thew token 24th and 25tgh spots last week and got the boot. In other bootings, FSU is a good this week poor the next week team and Washington isn't actually for real. 1. Alabama - Bama just knocked Arkansas upside the head, and with the Hokies dominating the U, their neutral field win looks awfully nice. Quality Wins: Virginia Tech(n) 2. Houston - The Cougars knock off one more Big 12 team and are ready to embark on their Conference USA schedule with one SEC opponent (Miss St.) also on tap. Quality Wins: @Oklahoma State, Texas Tech 3. Boise State - The best thing that can happen to Boise State is for the Oregon Ducks to win out, and Oregon's 42-3 victory on saturday was a step in the right direction. Quality Wins: Oregon 4. Virginia Tech - You do not come into Blacksburg and talk a bunch of

As the playoffs approach and the Phillies, Dodgers and Cardinals can start to relax one thing is for certain, their eyes will be keen on the success of the Rockies the next six days. Why? Because I guarantee that none of them really want to play the Braves in the playoffs. The Braves are on fire now. They sport by far the deepest rotation in the National League right now and perhaps all of baseball. Jair Jurrjens is a bonafied ace. Tommy Hanson is a burgeoning superstar in the making. Derek Lowe is a veteran with ample post season experience. Javier Vasquez is having arguably the best season of his career. Hell even Tim Hudson has pitched well since battling back from offseason surgery. The rotation is stacked and deep, and in a 5 or 7 game series they will be very very difficult to beat. The problem is, they only have six days to make up the ground on Colorado. After last night the Braves have surged to within two games of the Rockies and if the season lasted more than just this week,

I made my final trip to Yankee stadium for 2009 last night(barring the luck of stumbling into playoff tickets), and well I got the C- squad (Juan Miranda?) and a 90+ minute rain delay. But it was well worth it because I went to the Yankee Stadium museum for the first time and saw the greatest piece of sports memorabilia in the history of a Universe. That's right, it's a signed Felix Heredia ball. Name me another franchise that can claim such great history as Heredia, aka The Exit Sign. Take that Boston.

Wow You Guys Suck: Tampa Bay Bucs, The Bucs steal away to You Guys Suck award from the Rams this week because they couldn't garner a first down through nearly THREE quarters. Yes three quarters. Maybe firing Gruden was a poor decision. Runners Up: the Rams they can't be left out, the Browns who are also in a battle for worst team in the NFL, and really you must mention the Redskins breaking the Lions streak. This Scarecrow Needs a Brain: Steve Smith, I know we like to pick on Jake Delhomme for his thirty seven interceptions including countless pick sixes, but yesterdays pick six can be thrust straight on Steve Smith's shoulders. It makes no logical sense why he would take 4 steps like he was running a slant, and then decide fuck it, I'm going to go straight. Way to fake out your quarterback and kill your team. Runners Up: Ryan Mouton and his non sticky fingers, Chad Pennington's shoulder. Cough Cough Cough: Chris Brown, Down seven with the ball on the two with tw

From 0-8 to 9-9 with a division title and 100 games won. It was a solid weekend sweep for the Yanks, and they have champagne and beer dousing pics to prove it.

In theory polling is an exercise that should be done for the purpose of fun and creating talking points within the college football fan community. In reality it is a system which is responsible for deciding who plays in the National Championship game. In theory last weeks poll should have little to no effect on the entries for this weeks poll. In reality most pollsters are unable to do anything but look at records and last weeks ranking and adjust accordingly. By far the worst poll in college football is the coaches poll. Its meant to be a poll voted on by those that know the game the best, the coaches that are there week in and week out on saturday. In reality the poll is voted on by the some assistant in the coaching staff that is not important enough to be too busy to fill out the ballot. And thus you get garbage like this weeks poll which has zero logic other than the inability of folks to strip away their initial preseason assumptions. Example #1: Penn State vs. Iowa, Penn State