Quote:3 ehbeth 76-40 (0.655)
5 wandeljw 75-41 (0.647)
ehbeth pulled ahead of me in the overall standings because of her perfect picks in week 8! Congratulations, ehbeth!
Week 9 Picks
San Francisco
Cincinnati
Detroit
Green Bay
San Diego
Jacksonville
Washington
Tampa Bay
Tennessee
Cleveland
Indianapolis
Oakland
Dallas
Pittsburgh (30 Total)
Those are my picks too, Wandel. They've been sitting resting on the "stickies" on my desktop while I cogitate if I mean them. I might just change Jax to New Orleans, but I'll put the list here for the nonce.
SF
Cinn
Det
GB
DS
Jax
Tbay
Tenn
Clev
NE
Oak
Dal
Pitt (38)
ossobuco wrote:Those are my picks too, Wandel.
Your picks are excellent, Osso. (But.... you have one typo.... you're showing NE instead of Ind!)
Ah, I missed that. Well, I'll leave it for now....
(I'm actually FOR Indy.)
This picking stuff is muy complicato.
Hotlanta
Cinci
Denver
Diego
Jax
Washington
Tampa
Nashville
Cleveland (this feels wierd)
N.E. (I need Ticos puker here)
Oakland
Philly
Pittslisberger 29
Week 9 picks:
Atlanta
Cinn
Green Bay
Detroit
Jacksonville
San Diego
Washington
Tampa Bay
Tenn
Seattle
New England (surely!)
Oakland
Dallas
Pittsburg 32
San Fran
Buffalo
Detroit
Green Bay
San Diego
New Orleans
Washington
Tampa Bay
Tennessee
Cleveland
INDY
Oakland
Dallas
Pittsburgh (44)
(I want to know how you all pick these so fast.)
ehBeth wrote:(I want to know how you all pick these so fast.)
Well WE don't try to be perrfect!
How long does it take to pull names from a hat?
And I'm slow and arthritic.
I'll be a bit late. My pointy-ended crystal ball is in the shop.
San Francisco (2-5) Atlanta (1-6)
Cincinnati (2-5) Buffalo (3-4)
Denver (3-4) Detroit (5-2)
Green Bay
San Diego
Jacksonville
Washington
Arizona
Tennessee
Seattle
New England
Houston
Dallas
Pittsburgh 27
I use a bit of logic and some sentiment.
Y'can't depend on either of those.
For me, it gets irritating picking teams I don't like. Like, Seattle. I'm presently over that, and may be sorry I thought I was over that, soon.
And yet, I pick New England.
I never claimed to be perfect.
osso: I use a bit of logic and some sentiment.
I don't know about logic, but sentiment plays in a bit.
This week's choices are from the better city theme (or associated) song. For cities with > 1 song, I'll just go with one more or less at random (e. g. there's lots of NY and Georgia songs). If I don't know a song for a city, I'll improvise.
San Francisco (2-5) Atlanta (1-6) Ray Charles' Georgia beats Joe Jackson's version of San Francisco Fan
Cincinnati (2-5) Buffalo (3-4) Ruby Keeler's Shuffle off to Buffalo over CSNY's Ohio
Denver (3-4) Detroit (5-2) KISS's Detroit Rock City blows the doors off John Denver's Rocky Mountain High
Green Bay (6-1) Kansas City (4-3) Kermit the Frog's It's Not Easy Being Green takes it over Paul McCartney's version of Kansas City, Here I Come
San Diego (4-3) Minnesota (2-5) The Mamas and the Papas' California Dreaming beats out Sonny Curtis's Mary Tyler Moore Show Theme (You're Gonna Make it After All)
Jacksonville (5-2) New Orleans (3-4) The Blues Brothers' New Orleans kicks it over Sufjan Steven's Jacksonville
Washington (4-3) NY Jets (1-7) Elton John's Benny and the Jets miraculously makes it past Steve Earle's Christmas in Washington
Arizona (3-4) Tampa Bay (4-4) I give it to Mark Lindsay's Arizona over The Tampa Bay Rowdies' Theme Song
Carolina (4-3) Tennessee (5-2) James Taylor's Carolina in my Mind squeaks out over Johnny Rivers's Memphis, Tennessee
Seattle (4-3) Cleveland (4-3) Anything by Seattle's Nirvana or Pearl Jam outgrunges Ian Hunter's Cleveland Rocks, particularly after listening to it about a thousand times during the ALCS
New England (8-0) Indianapolis (7-0) The Dropkick Murphys' I'm Shipping Up to Boston throttles The Bottle Rockets' Indianapolis. I mean, how can you count out a song that refers to a missing wooden leg?
Houston (3-5) Oakland (2-5) Thelma Houston's Don't Leave Me This Way outdiscos Too Short's Oakland
Dallas (6-1) Philadelphia (3-4) The best song from Frank Loesser's "The Most Happy Fella", aka Big D (Stands for Dallas) steamrolls Philadelphia Freedom (sorry, Elton John, you already won for Benny and the Jets)
Baltimore (4-3) Pittsburgh (5-2) Randy Newman's Baltimore edges Bruce Springsteen's A Good Man is Hard to Find (Pittsburgh). By 27
The crystal ball is back from the shop.
The Amazing Giorgio peers inside and sees:
Atlanta
Cincinnati
Denver
Green Bay
San Diego
Jacksonville
Washington
Tampa Bay
Tennessee
Cleveland
New England
Oakland
Dallas
Pittsburgh (37)
(they haven't let me down all season)