It was a sad day Monday when I realized that the person who just circled all the “away” teams did better with football picks than I did. I’m pretty good at fantasy football but suck ass when it comes to football picks. Here’s something I don’t tell everyone (well, I guess I do now that I’m writing it here) — I got FOUR games right this week. Yeah. FOUR. A blind monkey with no arms could throw darts at a list of teams and get more right than that.
Here’s the thing — I know why I suck at picks and I’m totally okay with it. I can’t separate what I want to happen from what is likely to happen. I don’t like to sit around on Saturday afternoon and think about who is going to win. I like to think about who I want to win. I mean, I’m not completely unreasonable when I do this — I want the Broncos to win, but I know they’re not going to beat the Colts. But the Bears could beat the Lions, and I want the Bears to beat the Lions, so that’s what I’m going to pick and, more often than not, I’m going to be wrong.
So I’m just going to roll with that. I’ve never posted game picks here and I never will, because I’m not good at it and I don’t care about it enough to make an effort. Fantasy football picks are another story, and I might start posting those, although if Steve Smith doesn’t get his shit together, I might not be good at that, either.
Assuming I suck at baseball picks as much as I suck at football picks, here is what I want to happen:
Rockies > Phillies (sorry Jose)
Cubs > Diamondbacks
Angels > Red Sox
Indians > Yankees
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Rockies > Cubs
Angels > Indians
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Rockies > Angels
October 3, 2007 at 8:30 pm
I did absofuckinglutely horrible at my office pool last week for football. That’s OK, so did everyone else.
How I think things will go:
Rockies > Phillies
Cubs > Diamondbacks
Red Sox > Angels
Indians > Yankees
Cubs > Rockies (5th game, extra innings…)
Indians > Red Sox
Indians > Cubs
October 4, 2007 at 12:18 pm
Even while having a sports-themed blog, I try really, really hard to just generalize about who might win a game here and there as opposed to posting a bunch of predictions, either winners or versus the point spread…and definitely not with fantasy sports. Good heavens, I’ve been playing fantasy sports for years now and it never ceases to amaze me how some folks manage to navigate their way through a season almost unscathed…then watch their players and team crash and burn when it counts the most. So many other folks offer their line-by-line predictions on each and every game…I prefer to take a 50,000 foot view because, quite frankly, most of the games are a 50/50 coin flip anyway and you’re just guessing…as someone who thinks he knows a lot about sports, I’d like to think I know enough to not try to predict their outcomes.