C'Mon Mans

- Stephen Garcia: South Carolina and the 'ole ball coach gave you every single opportunity possible to succeed and get your act together. You were surrounded with an embarrassment of riches in Lattimore and Alshon Jeffery. You were a talented quarterback with a bright future, and the spotlight in the SEC to play in the NFL. Yet, time and time again you fucked up and have now been dismissed due to alcohol and drug abuse. C'MON MAN!

- Nyjer Morgan: for calling Albert Pujols "Alberta" and then getting clowned twice in Center field in Game 2, including once on a rocket by Alberto. C'MON MAN!

- The referees in the LSU-Florida game that overturned the punter TD for an "excessive celebration" that 100% did not happen. If you're gonna flag that bullshit penalty, it better be fucking obvious! C'MON MAN!

- Tampa Bay Rays "fans" for having a half-empty stadium in that final 3-game series against the Yankees. And you know that half the people there were Yankees or Sox fans. That city is so unbelievably undeserving of that special team. C'MON MAN!

- The Chicago Bears offensive line for that embarrassment of a performance Monday night. No doubt Detroit's D-Line was in beast mode, but on most of those plays they weren't even making an effort to slow down the pass rush, giving up way too easily and not seeking a 2nd guy to block after whiffing on their 1st. C'MON MAN!

- Juqua Parker for jumping offsides to seal the Eagles 4th straight loss when it was OMG so fucking obvious that was all Buffalo was trying to do. C'MON MAN OF THE WEEK!

NFL Week 6 Picks

After a 2 week bye. Winners as always in bold. Not a great slate of games this week, and I really like the home favorites outside of the Bears and their porous offensive line.

10-6 in week 3
36-15 for the season

Panthers @ Falcons
Colts @ Bengals
Rams @ Packers
Jaguars @ Steelers
Eagles @ Redskins
49ers @ Lions
Bills @ Giants
Texans @ Ravens
Browns @ Raiders
Cowboys @ Patriots
Saints @ Bucs
Vikings @ Bears
Dolphins @ Jets

Things That Deserve More Love

- "Happythankyoumoreplease"
- Stanford Football outside of Andrew Luck
- Jim Haslett and the Washington Redskins Defense
- The Tennessee Titans
- The SEC West
- The San Francisco 49ers and all of Nor Cal Football
- Scotch and its benefits
- Rain
- The beautiful ladies of Deja Vu- City of Industry

Can't Believe it's Only 1:30 am

- It seems much later than that
- I am very drunk at this point
- Fuck the Bears! I hate those Dirty Hippies! So fucking pumped for next week!
- Can't stop coughing.
- Oscillating fans= the immortal nuts
- I'm really gonna miss my Ted Mosby haircut but a fade is necessary as I cannot stand this crazy long hair any longer.

Random Remembrances from This Weekend

- Drunk blogging on Thursday night and talking shit to H's.
- Getting fucked up again on friday night.
- Drunk Madden with Ryan
- Discovering the awesomeness that is "Two Broke Girls"
- Oktoberfest in Lake Arrowhead
- Drinking a shit ton of beer
- Giving my spot in the stein holding contest to Rick. Thank God I did, and he almost shipped.
- Doing a lot of apologizing to Natalie's parents. It was unnecessary though.
- Falling in love with a readheaded cougar who drank a tallboy in like under 5 seconds.
- Having redheaded cougar come over to our table, flirting with her, and having her kiss me.
- Running after her, and being unable to find her in the parking lot to give her my number/ask her out.
- Some chick knocking over our tower of beer cups, running after her, saying I can't run I'm out of shape and telling her to either fix her mess or go out with me, her laughing at me before I finally gave her.

Picture of redheaded cougar kissing me

A Movie Review: "Moneyball"

This is a film that chronicles Billy Beane, a character based on former Dodgers GM Paul DePodesta, the 2002 Oakland A's and the evolution of sabermetrics from some geeky nerd term to a full-fleshed idea that changed the way baseball front offices evaluated talent, determined player value, and built their rosters.

This was a very good movie, and the performances across were the board were solid, especially Brad Pitt as the failed player turned general manager. I really liked how the movie used flashbacks to chronicle Beane's evolution from budding superstar to complete bust, to executive who uses his own failures as part of his strategy. One of Beane's major principles is avoiding high-risk high-upside high school players like he was in the MLB draft.

The baseball scenes were very well done, it's always good when you get actors/ex-players who know what they're doing and don't look like total hacks up there. Some nice cameos including Royce Clayton as Miguel Tejada. Actually that wasn't a nice cameo, I will forever hate that fucker as he was the Giants SS for the first 5 years of my Dodger fandom.

All in all, a very nice film that baseball fans and nonfans alike can enjoy about challenging an outdated system and competing in an unfair game. For the Beane detractors who say the A's haven't done shit lately, well it's because their payroll still sucks, and every other GM has adopted sabermetric strategy to at least an extent.

As for my opinion on sabermetrics vs. traditional scouting, one cannot argue with Beane's results and the effect that it had on the game. However, there are certain intangibles, x-factors that some players have and others don't that don't show up on a spreadsheet. Leadership and that drive/hustle is what separates the good teams from the championship teams. A team should be constructed using a balance of both systems of measurement imo.

MLB Playoff Predictions

I know that I'm a week late, but if you don't believe me, please check the link as I made my picks in an OT thread last week before the games started.

Division Series

Rangers over Rays in 5
Yankees over Tigers in 4

Brewers over D'Backs in 4
Cardinals over Phillies in 5

Championship Series

Rangers over Yankees in 5
Brewers over Cardinals in 6

World Series

Brewers over Rangers in 7