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When I was driving into work this morning I heard on the radio that New York Jet fans were polled and said that they expected the Jets to go 15-1 and this season. Now I know that Jet fans can be cocky assholes sometimes, despite never really ever having anything to brag about, but I also know that the average Jet fan is overall pretty pessimistic so this result didn't make much sense to me. And then you take a look at how " 15-1 " was actually reached and you realize that it is a completely bogus report . The survey didn't actually ask fans what they thought the Jets record would be. They didn't take an average of how many wins each Jet fan thought they would win on the season. Rather the surveyed Jet fans on all 16 games to see whether or not Jet fans on average thought they would lose any one particular game. And when you have a team that likely all Jet fans will win 10-12 games then chances are you aren't going to get many "consensus" los...

I was watching Cold Pizza or whatever its called and Bob Glauber of Newsday was on.  I first swore for a second that I was listening to Tom Crean discuss the NFL, but I was apparently wrong.

I can't believe that the Big 12 Title game is being played at such a small venue. I mean have you ever even heard of Lake Charles, Louisiana?

Let's watch the not web gems of the season, featuring Luis Castillo & Milton Bradley of course.

Look at the ESPN people playing nice. One jackass who's a TV guy and another jackass who's on the radio conduct a ludicrous shouting match. Wasn't that just lovely? Thank god Mike Missanelli no longer works at 1050 in NYC, just think about him and Stephen A doing a radio show Together. Ya it was painful. By the way if you GOOGLE MIKE MISSANELLI, my post about his Token Idiocy is on the second page . Courtesy of AA

After three quarters on Tuesday Night the Celtics play could be described as nothing other than brutal. They looked like death, but after a little Stephon revitalization the Celtics started to fight back and it appeared as if their Swine Flu transferred over to the Magic. The Magic went into a complete funk, couldn't put the ball in the basket and ended up choking away the game. So naturally the post game interviews were filled with frustration, including Dwight Howard going off about getting the ball. "Offensively I have to get the ball," Howard said candidly. "I don't think you are going to win a lot of games when your post player only gets 10 shots. It's tough to get yourself going and get a lot of touches without a lot of shots. We have to do a better job with that." First off I loved Jalen Rose's take, which was essentially "If You're the Leader of the Team You Demand the Ball. Lebron demands the ball in the huddle, Kobe demands the b...

Earlier this morning Roger Clemens broke his code of silence and appeared on ESPN Radio's Mike and Mike in the Morning, why he chose a show that is mostly a comedy show is a question for another day. On this appearance Roger came off as his typical self, someone that either was hit with the Men In Black Memory Eraser or someone that is very very dedicated to his lying ways. The interview was particularly ground breaking or interesting, but its just another example of how ridiculous. They asked him about the needles that McNamee supposedely had, he said that it was impossible. He reiterated that Andy Pettitte is misremembering their discussions. He said that everything is a lie and that the book that's coming out is just a bunch of lies meant to drag him through the mud. Everything coming out of his mouth is so blah blah blah lie blah lie blah blah lie. At the end of the day, it's nearly impossible to believe the man. One man has been proven to have told the truth about ad...

"I'm Barry Melrose, and I would like someone to hire me. Look at my resume and give me a call."

Today marks the end of the Stephen A Smith era at ESPN, so they had him doing the rounds including this snapshot from his First Take segment . He just looks demoralized, it's kind of sad. Get the man some cheese doodles stat.

If you've watched ESPN anytime over the past few weeks you probably noticed their commercials about the NEW espn.com. You know the ones that bounce from Bill Simmons to Notre Dame to Mike Golic to Biba Golic and they say things like espn.com/TUNA . Well that link does in fact work, bringing you to Bill Parcells. Considering they are just in the infancy of the /somethings, I have a few suggestions that ESPN most certainly can add to their list. ESPN Personalities Type in Boomer's signature phrase and you're at his bio. espn.com/ITSLIKENOONEHERESWORKEDONTVBEFORE Like Stuart Scott would guy by anything other than his signature stare. espn.com/LAZYEYE Bill Simmons gets a link that sums up his writing style. espn.com/WHINYGUYFROMBOSTON Screamin A needs a loud link. espn.com/AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH For all of Skip's popularity I'm not sure if this would work but he gets espn.com/EVENMYMOTHERHATESME John Clayton gets a link which explains why he really loves foo...

As you could tell, I'm not very pleased with the whole Max Kellerman is out at 1050 ordeal . Well today he's replacement (hopefully only on a temporary basis) Brandon Tierney said something completely bafoonish. The Yankees should bat Johnny Damon 9th and bat Brett Gardner first. Why? His reasoning was that he doesn't want the bottom three batters to become automatic outs (aka Molina, Ransom and Garnder), so he wants to split them up. Let's just throw some quick stat analysis at this nonsense. If you just throw likelihoods out there the leadoff batter will on average get an additional at bat in 8 of 9 games. Let's just say the lineup switches back to normal when Arod comes back consertaively 40 games in the season. That's conservatively 35 more at bats in the leadoff spot. Now let's extrapolate that over projected averages for Damon and Gardner. We'll use the CHONE numbers at FanGraphs for the comparison. Damon is expected to have an OBP of .351 ...

Over the past week or so I've heard an advertisement on ESPN 1050 about Colin Cowherd's debut on the network next week from 12-2. This confused me. Were they going to take an hour away from Max Kellerman's 10-1 show? Why would they do that when it's by far the most entertaining show they have? If they're going to do that I'd imagine it would completely piss off Kellerman who would admit he has a large opinion of himself. What the hell is happenning? Today, ESPN 1050 read a statement at the start of the 10 o'clock hour which essentially read "Yesterday was the last day of the Max Kellerman show. ESPN 1050 and Max have agreed to part ways." I should have known that it was a major red flag, I should have known that it wasn't just the reduction of an hour but the elimination of an entire show. God that sucks. Kellerman has been on air since the latter half of 2006 when 1050 booted Colin Cowherd off NYC synidcation and replaced him with Kell...

Figured I'd share my ESPN Super Pick'em picks before I win 3K to Best Buy.

Today I turn 26, which by my calculations puts me at slightly above 1/6th of my projected lifespan thanks to my wealth and modern technology. Anyway, I got some wonderful birthday wishes from some of my favorite people.

"UConn is 16-1 when Thabeet has a double double." UConn is 18-1 this season. So UConn is undefeated when Thabeet does not get a double double? Is that the point you were trying to make? Oh and Thabeet only has 8 double doubles, I'm confused.

Here are my selections for the Bowl Pick'Em game. If you care to soundly defeat me then join up here Tebow is a Superior Being , Password: Tebow. All the action begins tomorrow. EagleBank Bowl: Wake Forest over Navy because rematches in college football are uber lame. New Mexico: Fresno State over Colorado State cause the Bulldogs have a victory over the best football team in all of Jersey. magicJack St. Petersburg: South Florida over Memphis cause nothing says magic like the Grothe mohawk. Pioneer Las Vegas: BYU over Arizona cause the Mormons and Vegas mix beautifully. R+L Carriers New Orleans: Troy over Southern Miss because Trojan men don't lose bowl games. San Diego County Credit Union Poinsettia: TCU over Boise State cause Boise St. is not on the Smurf turf. Sheraton Hawaii: Notre Dame over Hawaii cause the Irish are bound to snap that bowl loss streak against a lame opponent. Motor City: Central Michigan over Florida Atlantic cause the its the god damn Motor City...

Oct 23 8:00 PM MLB @ Tampa Bay Rays Win (77.9%) Victory number 1 came with James Shields vs. Brett Myers in Game #2 of the World Series. It was the Rays single series victory. Oct 24 9:00 PM NCF Boise State Broncos Win 2 (97.8%) Not really even sure why this was an option given that Boise St. is nationally ranked and San Jose St. was 6-6. Probably why Boise St. was a 97.8% national selection. Oct 25 7:45 PM NCF Alabama Crimson Tide Win 3 (98.9%) At the time the Crimson Tide was #4 in the nation and Tennessee was awful. Again a pretty obvious selection. Oct 26 4:15 PM NFL New York Giants Win 4 (43.7%) And the first ballsy pick, the Superbowl champs on the road against the Steelers. This game came down to the holder snapping the ball out of the back of the endzone. The streak could have easily ended at 3 but it continued. Oct 27 8:00 PM MLB @ Philadelphia Phillies Push (67.3%) The rain soaked game so it was ruled null and void. Oct 28 10:30 PM NBA Andrew Bynum (LAL) Win 5 (68.7%) In...

Bigsam1122 was patient. He waited 6 days to make his 24th pick and when he selected the Bucs he was just one pick from being a millionaire. And so he waited, he waited an entire week to make his final selection in his lengthy quest . Throughout the week Bigsam1122 opted against many different options. He avoided monday night football and the Canucks vs. Jackets. On tuesday he opted to stay away from whether Stoke or Arsenal would score more goals, the over under on the Lakers Pacers game and goal total in Lighting Fliers game. On wednesday, the goal total in the Lazio vs. AC Milan game, the winner of the Penguins vs. Rangers, nor the winner of the Bucks vs. the Bulls were his cup of tea. On thursday night 6 different options were available including the over/under in the Raiders game but no cigar. Fridays 6 course slate included whether Paul Pierce or Brandon Roy would score more points, but this was not the dish for him. Yesterdays college football slate consisted of 7 options i...

Jeff Van Gundy was on the Michael Kay show on 1050 ESPN Radio and made the point that right now Stephon has no leverage and the Knicks have all the leverage. The Knicks will be content with just letting him rot and paying him while Steph wants to get his money but still play. Because of this Steph needs something to put in his favor Van Gundy has this great idea, hire Lebron James agent, Leon Rose, and have him work on the contract. If the Knicks want Lebron in 2010, which they obviously do, than they probably want to make really nice to Lebron's agent. This signing would put a little pressure on the Knicks to stop acting like douchebags and to just cut Marbury outright. Now the odds of Marbury doing something intelligent like this is probably 1 in a million, but it is a bright idea.

Another monday another night where someone can win one million dollars off ESPN by making one single good decision. This week its BigSam1122 who has a five game lead and after a week sitting at 23 victories went with the Bucs yesterday to get to 24. After gmreynolds71283 went down by picking the monday night football game last week, will he do the same, or will he opt to hold off for one more day? My guess is he's going to hold off for another day, he seems like a patient one.