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Sun, OCT 10 Jacksonville at Buffalo Denver at Baltimore Kansas City at Indianapolis Green Bay at Washington St. Louis at Detroit Chicago at Carolina Tampa Bay at Cincinnati Atlanta at Cleveland NY Giants at Houston New Orleans at Arizona Tennessee at Dallas San Diego at Oakland Philadelphia at San Francisco MON, OCT 11 Minnesota at NY Jets (Jets 27, Vikings 24, total points 51)

Updated to 10-3 ...Ok, let me get this out of the way. About a month ago I picked the Cincinnati Reds to be the team to fall apart in September and not make the playoffs. I was, of course, wrong. But can you blame me? I mean it's the Cincinnati Reds for God's sake. They don't make the playoffs. They're like all of us in here. They watch the playoffs. ...And did you hear what some whistleblowers did to the Reds when they won the division? Seems as if the Reds players lit up a few victory cigars when the division was clinched and a few people called the state hotline to complain that the players were violating Ohio's smoking ban. This just goes to show that no matter where you are or what you do you will always come across people like this. ...I have no problem with Stan Musial. In fact I believe he is the greatest player in St. Louis Cardinal history. But the blatant push the Cardinals are doing to try to get him a Presidential Freedom medal is nonsense. This attempt to campaign and beg the President to give Musial a medal is wrong. If Musial gets a medal or is honored in any way it should be because the Cardinals didn't initiate it and force the other party to give in for public relations reasons. Jeers to the person or persons who thought of this because they are doing Musial no favors. ...ESPN is a network I usually have no use for but I got to admit their Sportscenter commercials are funny. ...Ok, is this the part where I am supposed to be all excited that the Yankees are in the post season again and I should be having visions of a 28th championship dancing in my head?? If so, I'll get right on it because I'll be honest with you. This team lacks the pitching. If they are seriously considering giving Burnett a start in the playoffs they are in serious trouble. ...Whoever plays the Yankees in the first round must be quietly cheering their luck. They'll be facing a team that can't get people out (with the exception of Sabathia) and a Yankee lineup that can get on base but can't knock anyone in. Oh yeah, I'm confident. ...Oh yeah, and just because the playoffs are starting that automatically means that Captain Double Play is going to start hitting again just like he used to? I believe that too. Come on, tell me some more. ...I don't know where to look this up but I guarantee that the Yankee pitchers lead the league or are very close to leading it in three ball counts and walks. Every time you turn around someone can't locate the plate. It's like they are scared to throw strikes sometimes. ...Jose Bautista has 54 home runs for Toronto this year but who wants to bet that next year he doesn't even hit 20? ...One of the most difficult jobs in the world must be being Lindsay Lohan's lawyer.

Just watch this one. You'll love it. Now watch this one. If I were a New York State trooper I'd be doing the same thing to anyone with Massachusetts plates.

Sun, OCT 3 NY Jets at Buffalo Cincinnati at Cleveland Baltimore at Pittsburgh Denver at Tennessee Detroit at Green Bay San Francisco at Atlanta Carolina at New Orleans Seattle at St. Louis Indianapolis at Jacksonville Houston at Oakland <-----I hate going against Oakland but they suck. Washington at Philadelphia Arizona at San Diego Chicago at NY Giants MON, OCT 4 New England at Miami (New England 28, Miami 20, total 48 points)

The radio game for the month of October is a special one. It's from October 3rd, 1951 and it's the famous Bobby Thomson game that beat the Brooklyn Dodgers that year. Everyone is very familiar with this game and now for those of you who want it, you are going to have the entire game. This broadcast that you will be listening to is from the Liberty Broadcasting System and the announcer is Gordon McLendon. This is the broadcast that the entire country heard. I am sure that many times you have heard the Russ Hodges radio call of Thomson's home run, but Hodges' call was only broadcast on the New York Giants radio network. The only reason why this call exists today is because a Dodger fan was recording the ninth inning of this game because he was so sure his Bums were going to win and he wanted to taunt the Giant fans that he knew the next day with the last few minutes of the Dodger victory. When the Giants came back to win this game, the poor guy was so stunned that he never turned off his recorder and Hodges' call was saved for future generations. Listen to the opening remarks by Gordon McLendon here in this game. They are very prophetic. Enjoy this game. It's one of the best. Brooklyn Dodgers vs. New York Giants Retrosheet link. Game played at the Polo Grounds, New York, New York. Announced by Gordon McLendon Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4

Updated to 9-26 ...Random Thoughts is back after a one week hiatus because I was out of town last week down in the hellhole that my in-laws live at. No Internet access at their house. I was lucky they had cable TV. Things are so God damn ass backward there it isn't even funny. ...I didn't do a damn thing last Saturday except baby sit four dogs (three of them mine) and one pain in the ass second grader. My wife and her mother were only gone about five hours but spending time alone with that kid made it seem like five years. ...If you get the impression that I don't like little kids then let me confirm it for you. You're right. With kids that I have to deal with in real life and the winners I have to deal with in here I am glad I don't have one myself. ...I was going to come in here when I got home Sunday night and make my post but I came down with a stomach bug on Sunday morning where it did not allow me to keep anything down, whether I ate or drank, for two and one half days. I was hoping that someone would come in here and make some kind of contribution in here last week but that was too much to ask. Since Mark was sick the same time I was no one wanted to step up and help out because that meant they'd have to actually do something. ...Best wishes to Don Mattingly on becoming the new Manager of the Dodgers next year. Now with Joe Torre retiring he can release an update to his bullshit book that he wrote. ...I have been reading posts from other Yankee fans saying that the last time the Yankees went into the post season looking and playing this bad was during the 2000 season and things didn't turn out so bad that year. True, but the bullpen from that team can run circles around the slugs we have this year and in 2000 Derek Jeter was 26 years old compared to now, when he is playing like he is 41. ...Nice going CC Sabathia for winning twenty games for the first time in his career. And after he did that, he hasn't done anything since. ...It was an impressive ceremony for George Steinbrenner on Monday night at the Stadium. The Yankees know how to honor the great contributors to their team and have a great sense of team history. Not one team is close to them in this aspect. ...Apparently I can not even talk baseball to a Red Sox fan in the shoutbox about the Yankees even when I am the one putting down the Yankees instead of the Red Sox. No matter how I say something I am wrong. ...Javier Vazquez, one of the busts that the Yanks got during the off season hit three straight batters this week against the Rays. His comment about what he did? "I don't think it's that big of a deal." Gosh Javy, that's nice. You know, I feel a lot better now. ...Watched the new Hawaii Five-O last week and all I got to say is that I love it and I'm tuning it this week too. ...I've said this so many times but it never hurts to say it again. Thank you Dennis James. Just look at what he does. I can't rave about him enough. :hi:

Thank you for this. Now I just wish I could listen to the entire game of this. This was only 13 minutes and 3 seconds long and then that was that. At least I heard Jackson and Piniella homer against Chicago.

Sun, SEP 26 Tennessee at NY Giants Pittsburgh at Tampa Bay Cincinnati at Carolina Cleveland at Baltimore Dallas at Houston San Francisco at Kansas City Detroit at Minnesota Buffalo at New England Atlanta at New Orleans Washington at St. Louis Philadelphia at Jacksonville Oakland at Arizona San Diego at Seattle Indianapolis at Denver NY Jets at Miami MON, SEP 27 Green Bay at Chicago (Green Bay 20, Chicago 17, total of 37 points)

Sure, go ahead and sing if you want...but why stand on a table to do it? I've heard of people falling down stairs and escalators, but not up one. Here's proof.

You missed one Dylan, but it is quite understandable since this was many years before you were born. In the 1970 NFC divisional playoffs, the Dallas Cowboys beat the Detroit Lions 5 - 0 at the Cotton Bowl. You can read about it right here.

Yeah me too. I want to go back and edit my week one picks so I can go 16 - 0.

Next time you little son of a bitch you go to bed when I tell you!!

SUN, SEP 19 Pittsburgh at Tennessee Miami at Minnesota Arizona at Atlanta Baltimore at Cincinnati Kansas City at Cleveland Chicago at Dallas Philadelphia at Detroit Buffalo at Green Bay Tampa Bay at Carolina Seattle at Denver St. Louis at Oakland Houston at Washington New England at NY Jets Jacksonville at San Diego NY Giants at Indianapolis MON, SEP 20 New Orleans at San Francisco (New Orleans 27, San Francisco 7. Total 34 points)

Look at DadofTwins!!!! Great job my friend. Now hurry up and go grab a parley for next week. :lol:

Updated to 9-12 ...Doing an early Random Thoughts this week because I am watching the Yankee game right now from Texas and there was a rain delay. Right now it is the top of the 7th, bases loaded with one out and Posada is up. I'm expecting the worst...................and I got it. Asshole Posada grounded into an inning ending double play. This guy can not get off this team fast enough. ....Well this week's edition of this thread started out wrong, didn't it? ...Hey, it's week one of the new NFL season. At least that is something to look forward too. And as a Raider fan I am cautiously optimistic this year and hoping for the best. At least Jamarcus Russell is long gone. As Mr. Rickey said years ago, that's addition by subtraction. ...Free preview for all DirectTV users of their NFL Sunday Ticket. I'll be using that all year long rooting on Oakland. ...I don't know who the God damn hell Kim Clijsters is but I like her because she eliminated one of the big mouth Williams sisters at the U.S. Open. Now I am waiting for Venus to complain that everyone had it in for her. ...I have been consciously trying to avoid drinks with sugar in them so I purchased some Vitamin Water Zero the other day because it had less than one gram of sugar in it. I don't think I have tasted anything so bad in my life. I do drink sugarless tea but sometimes I want to have a variety. So do yourself a favor and never buy this crap because they make it sound like it's a great drink to have but I swear they must have been drinking something else when they said it. ...What the hell happened to Joaquin Phoenix? This guy looks like he spent the last few years living up in the mountains of Tennessee. ...Watching AJ Burnett and Javier Vazquez pitch gives me the same feeling that I get when I nurse a toothache. ...God will get you department: This past off season I laughed when the Red Sox signed Marco Scutaro from Toronto to play shortstop. I laughed because the Yankees had Derek Jeter and you can't compare Scutaro to Captain Everything now can you? Fast forward to now. Let's compare some stats for Jeter and Scutaro, ok? Derek Jeter: .260 average, 10 HR and 60 RBI. .326 OBP and a .366 slugging percentage Marco Scutaro: .272 average, 10 HR and 52 RBI. .333 OBP and a .386 slugging percentage. Who's laughing now? Not me. In fact Jeter is getting worse by the day. But he will still get a nice new contract because of what he did ten years ago and not this year. Must be nice. ...Thanks but no thanks: Something I learned the other day and I thought was interesting enough to share in here. The state of Alaska will pay you to live there. You read that right. It seems as if those inbreds up there get an incentive to live up in the Great White Freeze. There is something called the Permanent Fund Dividend ( a huge investment of oil revenues in a variety of stocks and bonds.) And when October rolls around they pay their residents between one and two thousand dollars a year. Hell no. You live in below zero weather. And don't spend that check all in one place.

Well, here goes nothing THU, SEP 9 Minnesota at New Orleans SUN, SEP 12 Carolina at NY Giants Atlanta at Pittsburgh Cleveland at Tampa Bay Denver at Jacksonville Indianapolis at Houston Miami at Buffalo Detroit at Chicago Oakland at Tennessee Cincinnati at New England Arizona at St. Louis San Francisco at Seattle Green Bay at Philadelphia Dallas at Washington MON, SEP 13 Baltimore at NY Jets Jets 24, Colts 14 (Total 38) San Diego at Kansas City Chargers 31, Chiefs 17 (Total 48)

Someone must have hit a tennis ball into the stands and they were fighting for it.

Yeah, there is just something about them that doesn't seem right. The black and white ones are the best. I'm very envious that you got to meet Don Knotts! He's one of my all time favorite actors. I don't think anyone can portray being afraid of something like being in a haunted house or being afraid of ghosts as good as Knotts. And the scenes with Jim Nabors on that show were classic. Thanks for sharing.

Updated to 9-5 ...It has been quite some time that I have been looking forward to an NFL season but that is what I am doing this year after the Raiders are finally looking to be getting their act together. And next week when the season starts I will be able to watch them on the NFL Sunday Ticket from DirectTV. The Raiders, Sunday Ticket and Hi-Def TV equals major win. ...Cheers for Alex Rodriguez for finally telling agent Scott Bora$ where to get off. ...I am doing my Random Thoughts early this week because I woke up out of a sound sleep. I had a nightmare. Six months from today my wife and I are going to be going on vacation. I woke up because I dreamed we were on our vacation and that we left our money home. ...Late night TV is the best. ...Do we have any Andy Griffith Show fans around here? Is it just me or are the shows that are broadcast in color just do not look right? ...You want to listen to a live album that still has survived the test of time? Pick up Cheap Trick's live album called Cheap Trick at Budokan which was released here in the States in 1979. ...Took my wife out to a nice (for her) movie on Thursday night. I let her pick out the movie so she chose The Switch starring Jennifer Aniston. I didn't like it at all for a few reasons which I will give you here. 1. Jennifer Aniston was in it. 2. It was a romantic comedy made for women. 3. Jennifer Aniston was in it. ...Last night I let her choose another one to watch, this time on DirectTV pay per view. This one was called The Last Song and it had Miley Cyrus in it. This one I admit was much better than the Aniston movie and this Cyrus girl did a great job in it. It's nice to see a young actress like that out in Hollywood making headlines for her work and not for what she does wrong in her spare time like Lindsay "The Drunk" Lohan or Britney "I screw anything" Spears. ...Thanks Dodgers for blocking the waiver move of Ted Lilly going to the Yankees. Like you are actually going to be going somewhere in October. ...Manny Ramirez is now a White Sox. They already have an idiot as a manager and this guy will fit right in. And I still don't understand why he had to have an interpreter for his first White Sox press conference. Seems as if Nutsy only wanted to speak Spanish. ...Isn't it nice that Manny came clean and let everyone know that all the stuff that happened in Boston was his fault? This is something that the Red Sox and their fans have known for years now. ...Personally I am enjoying the season that the Angels are having. They can't lose enough games to satisfy me. Yet with all their troubles they still played the Yankees even (4-4) and at the same time finished up 0-6 against the Baltimore Orioles. Yeah I know. Don't even try to figure that one out. ...We got a few guys in here that have started a league in The Show 2010 on the PS3. Best of luck to them and I hope they have a lot of fun. ...Last week Nyger Morgan had a week only Milton Bradley could be proud of.

The same guys who made the song about the Bed Intruder made this one about some wacked out woman describing a robbery. Original video from the news http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcpx8O82KLM And here's the song they made out of it

We gon find you!!! We gon find you!!! EDIT: Here are the lyrics Lyrics: he's climbin in your windows he's snatchin your people up tryna rape em so y'all need to hide your kids, hide your wife hide your kids, hide your wife hide your kids, hide your wife and hide your husband cuz they're rapin errbody out here you don't have to come and confess we're lookin for you we gon find you we gon find you so you can run and tell that, run and tell that run and tell that, homeboy home, home, homeboy we got your t-shirt you done left fingerprints and all you are so dumb you are really dumb--for real you are really, really, really, really so dumb i was attacked by some idiot in the projects so dumb, so dumb, so dumb, so chorus bout 5'9", 5'10" coffee complexion, low cut like a caesar with some little waves in his head clean cut, very smooth face seein my sister when i walked in he had his hands around her neck first thing was to pull him off of her and that's what i did chorus well, obviously we have a rapist in Lincoln Park are you serious, my boy? i got your t-shirt i got your scent i know what shoe size you wear, my boy so you can run and hide but we're gonna find you, find you chorus x2 (with ballet dancers, orchestra, choir, etc.)

Here is the September edition of Baseball on the Radio at Mvpmods. This month features the famous game that decided the 1949 American League pennant between the visiting Boston Red Sox and the hometown New York Yankees. The date is October 2nd, 1949. The Red Sox were managed by Joe "Marse Joe" McCarthy and the Yankees by Casey Stengel, both of whom are in the Hall of Fame. Mel Allen, whom for years was the voice of the Yankees, handles play by play. Enjoy this game. It's an exciting one. Boston Red Sox vs. New York Yankees Retrosheet link. Played in Yankee Stadium, the Bronx, New York Part 1. Part 2. Part 3. Part 4. Yankee announcer Mel Allen