The Wide World of Sports* (09/18/18)

*Well, only the ones I care about.

To all the haters:

The Wide World of Sports* (09/11/18)

*Well, only the ones I care about.

Two headed monster!

The Wide World of Sports* (10/11/16)

*Well, only the ones I care about.

MLB

NL: The Giants beat the Mets 3-0 in the one game wildcard round to advance and face the Cubs. Chicago currently leads that series two games to one.

The Dodgers and Nationals have split the first two games of their series.

AL: The Blue Jays beat Baltimore in their wildcard game 5-2 to face division winner Texas. Texas stays hot and swept the series three games to one.

In the other matchup, Big Papi says goodbye in sad fashion as the Red Sox are swept by Cleveland (whut?) in their series as well, three games to none.

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The Wide World of Sports* (12/10/14)

*Well, only the ones I care about.

NCAA Football

The only thing that matters now is the playoff rankings. This is what they looked like before the conference championships:

1) Alabama
2) Oregon

3) TCU

4) Florida State

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5) Ohio State

6) Baylor
7) Arizona

8) Michigan State

The Wide World of Sports* (11/11/14)

*Well, only the ones I care about.

NCAA Football

It's starting to get down to the nitty gritty part of the season now so I am just going to start focusing on the top ten teams. This is the first year that the top four teams will meet in a playoff (committee rankings announced every Tuesday). Well, this is what the Top 10 looked like before Saturday: 

1 Mississippi State (45) 8-0 1484

2 Florida State (15) 8-0 1452

3 Auburn 7-1 1345

4 Alabama 7-1 1281

5 Oregon 8-1 1275

6 TCU 7-1 1148

7 Michigan State 7-1 1120

8 Notre Dame 7-1 1096

9 Kansas State 7-1 1049

10 Baylor 7-1 961

The Wide World of Sports* (10/28/14)

*Well, only the ones I care about.

MLB

World Series: Game 6 is currently on and the Royals lead 7-0 in the third inning. Looks like there will be a game 7 tomorrow night

The Wide World of Sports* (10/14/14)

*Well, only the ones I care about.

MLB Playoffs

American League: The surprising Royals lead the Orioles two games to none. Monday's game three in Kansas City was rained out.

National League: The Giants and Cardinals have been fighting a battle of one run games. They are tied 1-1 heading to San Francisco for game three.

To tell you the truth I haven't watched very much of any of the games so far. I have had to look up their scores and everything afterward. I don't know if it's the stations or the times that the games are on or what.

NFL

Meh. The Falcons got beat by the Bears 27-13. Like I said, meh. At least I can get a lot of Viggle points by checking into the games and playing some of the predictions for more points.

NCAA Football

Well, this is what the Top 25 looked like before Saturday:

1 Florida State

2 Auburn (23) 5-0 1459

3 Mississippi State (2) 5-0 1320

3 Ole Miss 5-0 1320

5 Baylor 5-0 1258

6 Notre Dame 5-0 1186

7 Alabama 4-1 1060

8 Michigan State 4-1 981

9 TCU 4-0 979

10 Arizona 5-0 951

11 Oklahoma 4-1 904

12 Oregon 4-1 888

13 Georgia 4-1 854

14 Texas A&M 5-1 731

15 Ohio State 4-1 534

16 Oklahoma State 4-1 527

17 Kansas State 4-1 486

18 UCLA 4-1 460

19 East Carolina 4-1 344

20 Arizona State 4-1 325

21 Nebraska 5-1 283

22 Georgia Tech 5-0 235

23 Missouri 4-1 212

24 Utah 4-1 206

25 Stanford 3-2 143

Anyway, the new Top 25 now looks like this:

1 Mississippi State (45) 6-0 1480

2 Florida State (12) 6-0 1415

3 Ole Miss (3) 6-0 1413

4 Baylor 6-0 1317

5 Notre Dame 6-0 1228

6 Auburn 5-1 1144

7 Alabama 5-1 1068

8 Michigan State 5-1 1015

9 Oregon 5-1 1014

10 Georgia 5-1 981

11 Oklahoma 5-1 935

12 TCU 4-1 917

13 Ohio State 4-1 648

14 Kansas State 4-1 626

15 Oklahoma State 5-1 620

16 Arizona 5-1 590

17 Arizona State 4-1 459

18 East Carolina 5-1 449

19 Nebraska 5-1 402

20 Utah 4-1 305

21 Texas A&M 5-2 264

22 USC 4-2 258

23 Stanford 4-2 223

24 Clemson 4-2 188

25 Marshall 6-0 148

 #2 Florida State and #5 Notre Dame play this weekend. 

I told you Auburn was an illusion. Bama "wins" against Arkansas 14-13. We look like crap and stayed 7th. Bama still plays two teams ahead of them in the polls though, Mississippi St and Auburn. Roll Tide anyway. Just keep on winning.

*Upset predictions for no logical reasoning

Arkansas beats #10 Georgia

Tennessee beats #3 Ole Miss

I don't know why.

The Wide World of Sports* (10/07/14)

*Well, only the ones I care about.

MLB

I love me some baseball and October means one thing: playoffs! Go Braves! Oh they had a horrible year? Never mind. They did fire their GM though and their hitting coach resigned (thank God!).

American League: The Royals won their one game wildcard playoff against the A's to advance to take on the California Angels (you can change their name all you want, I will always call them this). This was not exactly Mike Trout's coming out party as the Royals swept the Angels in three games.

In the other match-up we have the Baltimore Orioles against the Detroit Tigers. Bullpen explosions hampered Detroit and they just never seemed to get things in gear with their great starting pitching. They went and got swept too y'all.

So now it's down to Baltimore vs. Kansas City with the winner going to the World Series.

National League: The Giants won their wildcard game against the Pirates. They now play the Nationals and as I write this they are up two games to one.

The big series is actually the Dodgers and the Cardinals. Both aces, Kershaw and Wainwright, were shelled. The Cards surprising lead this series 2-1 also.

NFL

Meh. I am a Falcons fan so that's all I really care about (and I don't even care that much). I do keep an eye on the teams from Florida though, but that has not been very pretty.

The Falcons can't win on the road and are currently 2-3, but in second place in the division. Jacksonville, Miami, and Tampa are a combined 3-11. Ouch. They need more Bama players.

NCAA Football

Well, this is what the Top 25 looked like before Saturday:

1 Florida State (27) 4-0 1416

2 Oregon (13) 4-0 1405

3 Alabama (13) 4-0 1387

4 Oklahoma (7) 4-0 1357

5 Auburn 4-0 1272

6 Texas A&M 5-0 1206

7 Baylor 4-0 1149

8 UCLA 4-0 975

9 Notre Dame 4-0 972

10 Michigan State 3-1 944

11 Ole Miss 4-0 906

12 Mississippi State 4-0 848

13 Georgia 3-1 788

14 Stanford 3-1 643

15 LSU 4-1 636

16 USC 3-1 560

17 Wisconsin 3-1 502

18 BYU 4-0 450

19 Nebraska 5-0 445

20 Ohio State 3-1 298

21 Oklahoma State 3-1 246

22 East Carolina 3-1 237

23 Kansas State 3-1 216

24 Missouri 4-1 145

25 TCU 3-0 109

Then a lot of upsets happened, including one I am not even going to talk about (Ole Miss? Are you freaking kidding me?). Anyway, the new Top 25 now looks like this:

1 Florida State

2 Auburn (23) 5-0 1459

3 Mississippi State (2) 5-0 1320

3 Ole Miss 5-0 1320

5 Baylor 5-0 1258

6 Notre Dame 5-0 1186

7 Alabama 4-1 1060

8 Michigan State 4-1 981

9 TCU 4-0 979

10 Arizona 5-0 951

11 Oklahoma 4-1 904

12 Oregon 4-1 888

13 Georgia 4-1 854

14 Texas A&M 5-1 731

15 Ohio State 4-1 534

16 Oklahoma State 4-1 527

17 Kansas State 4-1 486

18 UCLA 4-1 460

19 East Carolina 4-1 344

20 Arizona State 4-1 325

21 Nebraska 5-1 283

22 Georgia Tech 5-0 235

23 Missouri 4-1 212

24 Utah 4-1 206

25 Stanford 3-2 143

There's still a lot of season left to make it into those four top spots for the NCAA's first ever playoff at the end of the year. To paraphrase Dory, "just keep winning, just keep winning..."

Auburn is an illusion y'all. Don't buy it.

Roll Tide anyway.

Weekend Update

Time for another weekend update of the shows and sports I keep my eyes on.

Television/Movies/Music

Doctor Who - Made it into Season 5 with my new companion. Goodbye Donna Noble, hello Amelia Pond.

The Walking Dead - Okay this last episode just seemed to be alot of shooting and not much else. Andrea visited the prison but wimped out on killing the governor.

How I Met Your Mother - I want a weekend at Barney's! No crazy bitches though...

Big Bang Theory - Bazinga! No new episodes, but don't ever park in Sheldon's spot.

Community - I saw the 2 latest episodes, but the best was the one with the Inspector Spacetime convention. Oh, and I'm still in love with Annie.

New Girl - speaking of still being in love, Jess is still freaking out over kissing Nick. And I hope I never have a 10 year anniversary with another dude.

Continuum - new show to my list here. Watched all of Season 1 and me likey. Hot girl, check. Time travel, check. Going into the past to stop the future, check. I'm in.

Transformers (trilogy) - So because I have no social life on the weekends, I find myself re-watching alot of trilogies and epics and whatnot. This time it was the Transformers series. I forgot how funny Sam's mom was. That chick in the 3rd movie was no replacement for Megan Fox. She had a great body yeah, but once they went in on the closeups I was like ugh.

Music - I added some GTR, Motley Crue, Ratt, and The Who to my collection. Wonder how long it will take to show up in the Random 10? I am always open for music suggestions.

Sports

Braves - Gattis is still hitting. Still too early in ST for anything of note.

Bama football - Nothing new to report. We apparently offered a scholarship to an 8th grader. Yeah. Oh, and all four of the players who were arrested were kicked off the team and out of the university. Damn right. As Nick Saban said "“Some people learn by words, some people learn by consequences, some people can’t learn."

Bama basketball - I was in error last week about the LSU game. Apparently we lost that game but my ESPN app gave me the wrong score. Go fig. We lost 97-94 in 3 overtimes. However we did beat Auburn 61-43. We probably missed a good opportunity to get into the tournament by losing to #8 Florida 64-52 Saturday afternoon. With only two games left + the SEC tournament it's not looking good. Could be another trip to the NIT.

Falcons - Just basically waiting for draft day. Still.

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Weekend Update

Some updates on the various things I watch/follow.

Television/Movies

Doctor Who - Yeah, I'm still waiting for Easter and the new season to start. I have re-watched parts of Seasons 1-4. Bad Wold indeed...

The Walking Dead - Is there a better show on TV right now? I think not. Rick has frickin lost it though.

How I Met Your Mother - still recovering from Robin Daggers. PS I Love You. It wasn't me. Cut-it-out.

Big Bang Theory - Never, ever become Sheldon's emergency contact.

Community - Okay, it just feels awkward like I missed an entire season or something. A Halloween episode? In February?

New Girl - Jess reminds me so much of my crazy friendship with someone that I've grown to adore this show.

Caprica - I was flipping through my stuff looking for something to watch when I just skimmed through some Battlestar Galactica episodes. Still powerful stuff. I downloaded and watched the BSG: Blood and Chrome prequel movie and realized that I had never finished watching Caprica so I watched it from beginning to end. It really didn't settle anything for me though.

Sports

Braves - Spring training is finally underway. Games started yesterday so there's no new "buzz" to report right now.

Bama football - 4 guys suspended. Good riddance. We don't need that kind of crap. No second chances either. Goodbye.

Bama basketball beat South Carolina 68-58, Mississippi State 64-56, and LSU 78-76 to improve to 19-8 on the season but are still considered a bubble team for the Big Dance. I don't care much for basketball but the tournament is coming up and I'm just hoping we get in.

Falcons - Just basically waiting for draft day.