Week 6 Picks and Thoughts

That burning you smell is me Thinking

"The Expert's" Thoughts of what is going on in the Sports world

RIP Alex Karras, Gerry Girardi (Joe's Dad) and Beano Cook

Hockey--If they do not settle and end up canceling the season the NHL will either go extinct or come back as a 6 to 12 team league

NBA-Yawn.

Baseball-Rangers epic choke among the worst ever, White Sox also choked big time, What a choke by the Reds in the NLDS, If Washington loses today The fan base will be calling for GM Mike Rizzo's head,

Now the Yankees, This team just cannot manufacture runs, If they do not hit Home Runs they lose. They are lucky that Raul Ibanez has come through late in the season and in game 3 of ALDS, Though the Yankees starters in the 1st 3 games are as good as I have ever seen. Everyone is down on A-Rod and he deserves it, But Granderson and Swisher have been gagging too, Just cannot see the Yankees going all the way.

NFL--All the Jets need to be a playoff team is a Quarterback, 2 Running backs, 3 good receivers 5 Good offensive lineman, and 4 good defensive lineman, also a New Owner who cares more about his team than Politics, A new GM who knows something about Football and a new Coaching staff who knows something about football.

Now the Picks week 6

Byes (Panthers, Jags,Bears and Sints.

Last Week 10-4
Season--47-31

Thursday

Steelers-28 @ Titans 13

Sunday

>>Cowchips 10 @ Ravens 20 (The demise of the Cowboys and Jason Garrett continues)
>>Bengals 20 @ Clowns 6 (On any given Sunday a team can win especially if they are Home Unless they are Cleveland
>>Rams-16 @ Dolphins 20 (Tough game, Rams are improved and Dolphins appear to be much better than anyone thought, Ryan Tannehill lloks like the real deal, Dolphins can easily be 4-1)
>>Colts 27@ Paper Airplanes 10 (Jets may be the 2nd worst team in the NFL, They are a joke of the NFL)
>>Masqueraders 13 @ Falcons 27 (Raiders are just not that good, i am not sure how good the Falcons really are)
>>Kittens 10 @ Eagles 20 (Lions look like they were a one hit wonder)
>>Chiefs 13 @ Bucs 10 (This will be the Turnover Bowl)
>>Bills 10 @ Cards 23 (Bills have no offense)
>>Patriots 23 @ Seahawks 20  (Toughest game to pick)
>>Giants 24 @ 49rs 27 (49rs want revenge and may be the best team in the NFC, Possible NFC Championship game preview)
>>Vikings 24 @ Redskins 17 (Vikings just might be that good and redskins are banged up)

Sunday Night
>>Slackers  10 @ Texans 24 (Texans are still the best team in the AFC even with the loss of Cushing, Texans Defense and JJ Watt will terrorize Aaron Rogers and the crumbling Green Bay Packers)

Monday Night

Broncos 31 @ Chargers 21 (Manning will have a huge game)

Week 5 Picks

Week 5 Picks

Last Week 11-4

Season 37-27

Byes--Cowboys, Lions, Raiders and Bucs

Winners are in Bold

Week 5

Date	Matchup	Time (Eastern Time)
10/4/12 (Thursday)	Arizona at St. Louis	8:20PM (NFL Network)
10/7/12	Atlanta at Washington	1PM
10/7/12	Philadelphia at Pittsburgh	1PM
10/7/12	Green Bay at Indianapolis	1PM
10/7/12	Cleveland at NY Giants	1PM
10/7/12	Tennessee at Minnesota	1PM
10/7/12	Miami at Cincinnati	1PM
10/7/12	Baltimore at Kansas City	1PM
10/7/12	Seattle at Carolina	4:05PM
10/7/12	Chicago at Jacksonville	4:05PM
10/7/12	Denver at New England	4:25PM
10/7/12	Buffalo at San Francisco	4:25PM
10/7/12 (Sunday Night)	San Diego at New Orleans	8:20PM (NBC)
10/8/12 (Monday Night)	Houston 48 at NY Jets 6	8:30PM (ESPN)

Week 4 Picks

Week 4 Picks

Last Week 8-8

Season 26-22

winners in BOLD

Byes Colts and Steelers

Date	Matchup	Time (Eastern Time)
9/27/12 (Thursday)	Cleveland at Baltimore	8:20PM (NFL Network)
9/30/12	New England at Buffalo	1PM
9/30/12	Tennessee at Houston	1PM
9/30/12	San Diego at Kansas City	1PM
9/30/12	Minnesota at Detroit	1PM
9/30/12	Carolina at Atlanta	1PM
9/30/12	Seattle at St. Louis	1PM
9/30/12	San Francisco at NY Jets	1PM
9/30/12	Miami at Arizona	4:05PM
9/30/12	Oakland at Denver	4:05PM
9/30/12	Cincinnati at Jacksonville	4:05PM
9/30/12	New Orleans at Green Bay	4:25PM
9/30/12	Washington at Tampa Bay	4:25PM
9/30/12 (Sunday Night)	NY Giants at Philadelphia	8:20PM (NBC)
10/1/12 (Monday Night)	Chicago at Dallas	8:30PM (ESPN)

Nutball Gazette week 3 Picks

Last week 11-5 

Season 18-14 

Winners in Bold 

Week 3

Date	Matchup	Time (Eastern Time)
9/20/12 (Thursday)	NY Giants at Carolina	8:20PM (NFL Network)
9/23/12	Tampa Bay at Dallas	1PM
9/23/12	St. Louis at Chicago	1PM
9/23/12	San Francisco  at Minnesota	1PM
9/23/12	Detroit at Tennessee	1PM
9/23/12	Cincinnati at Washington	1PM
9/23/12	Kansas City at New Orleans	1PM
9/23/12	NY Jets at Miami	1PM
9/23/12	Buffalo at Cleveland	1PM
9/23/12	Jacksonville at Indianapolis	1PM
9/23/12	Philadelphia at Arizona	4:05PM
9/23/12	Atlanta at San Diego	4:05PM
9/23/12	Houston at Denver	4:25PM
9/23/12	Pittsburgh at Oakland	4:25PM
9/23/12 (Sunday Night)	New England at Baltimore	8:20PM (NBC)
9/24/12 (Monday Night)	Green Bay at Seattle	8:30PM (ESPN)

 

NFL Picks week 2

Sorry I have not been around, I have been facing serious Health Issues

First My Super Bowl Pick before the season was the Texans over the 49rs

Week 1 I was 7-9.

Winners in Bold


WEEK 2
Thursday, Sept. 13

Chicago at Green Bay, 7:20

Sunday, Sept. 16

Kansas City at Buffalo, noon

New Orleans at Carolina, noon

Cleveland at Cincinnati, noon

Minnesota at Indianapolis, noon

Houston at Jacksonville, noon

Arizona at New England, noon

Tampa Bay at N.Y. Giants, noon

Baltimore at Philadelphia, noon

Washington at St. Louis, 3:05

Dallas at Seattle, 3:05

Oakland at Miami, 3:25

N.Y. Jets at Pittsburgh, 3:25

Tennessee at San Diego, 3:25

Sunday Night

Detroit at San Francisco, 7:20

Monday, Sept. 17

Denver at Atlanta, 7:30



Thoughts on other stuff

Baseball, Who would have expected the Orioles and Oakland A's to have the season they are having. I have not seen a train wreck of a season like the Red Sox has had since the 1965 Yankees 
Speaking of the Yankees., Every tear the Kentucky Wildcats win the NCAA Basketball Tourney the Yankees win the World Series, That streak ends this year 

Hockey, It was great while it lasted, The NHL as we know it is gone forever 

Well I hope to be able to do this every week, 

Thanks 

What Bobby Valentine told Dustin Pedroia

"Good News ! Depends is now the official diaper of the Red Sox 

and you beat out the other crybabies to be the spokeswoman" !!!!!

Too Many Useless Stats.

From the dumbest and useless stats department-- 

With his game-winning hit against Jonathan Papelbon, Elias informs us that David Wright is the first player to have walk-off hits against both Papelbon and Mariano Rivera. 

My take on this. 
So what they are saying is that Wright has done something that Babe Ruth, Ted Williams, Willie Mays and Stan Musial has not done. (I guess these guys are bums)