"I'm Keith Hernandez"

I'm speechless. I have no speech.

O Cinco

Nippleman strikes again. Bungle in the Jungle baby. By the way, the Bears lost this game by 35 points.

My "Perfect Plan" for the MLB playoffs

Since there wasn't any September drama besides the AL Central, I heard/read some talk about needing to change up the playoff system in MLB. The three most common arguments against the current system seem to be that the divisions get locked up too soon, division winners don't get enough of an advantage in the playoffs over the wild-card team, and not enough teams make the playoffs.

All of the ideas I've heard for a new system suck. My idea is better. (I don't really have anything against the current format. I just thought of this at the gym and think it rules.)

Here's my new MLB playoff format (I'm sure someone else has proposed this before and if so, I'll give them full credit):

a. the 3 division winners make the playoffs
b. the 3 second-place teams have a mini-playoff for the wild-card, which goes like this:

• the day after the season, the worst of the 3 runners-up plays at the middle of the runners-up in a one game playoff
• the next night, the winner of the previous game plays at the top runner-up in a one game playoff for the wild card

c. the rest of the playoffs are the same, with the wild card winner playing the top division winner

This format address all the mentioned issues with the current format (while the division could still get clinched early, there is an added benefit to finishing first overall because the wild card team will have to play at least one extra game before the series). And as an added bonus, gives us 2 sudden death playoff games in each league (how awesome was the Twins-Tigers playoff).

Somebody needs to come and poke holes in this idea because there must be some, but I haven't seen them yet.

George won't be wearing that again

If every instinct you've ever had is wrong.....

Just so you know there is one other person as confused as us about Jauron not going for it on 4th down with 7 minutes left. From Gregg Easterbrook on ESPN:

"Trailing New Orleans (which came into the game as the league's highest-scoring team) 17-7 with 7:30 remaining, Buffalo faced fourth-and-inches on its own 29-yard line. That cannot be the punt unit coming on the field! TMQ wrote the words "game over" in his notebook, because with that little time left, you've got to retain possession or it's over. More important, by launching a Preposterous Punt, clueless Dick "Cheerio, Chaps" Jauron was informing his team that he had quit on the game -- so they might as well quit, too. With New Orleans ahead 20-7 and 2:25 remaining, the Bills faced fourth-and-23 on their own 14, and then "Cheerio, Chaps" went for it. So when courage might have saved the day, an NFL coach was hyper-conservative, desperate to avoid responsibility; when it made absolutely no difference what he did because the game was lost, the coach went for it."


And in other Bills news: "Same old me. Same ol' G. That's not going to change."

If you were to look up Destiny in the dictionary...

this is what you would find: http://whl.ca/stats/player.php?id=25557

(plus he kind of looks like BK, no?)