Sep 11, 2008

Thursday Night

Thursday Night Fooobaaaah
(update below)

As the weeks go deeper into the season we can get our college football fix earlier and earlier in the week with those MAC tuesday night games but for now Thursday Night will have to do

The Big East throws another sacrificial lamb out there to get embarassed on national tv. As bad as the ACC is, people do not understand the void of talent in the Big East conference this year. Across the board they have reached embarassingly low. This is WVU's worst start since my freshman year, this is Syracuse's worst start in the Greg Robinson era (and thats saying something), USF needed overtime for UCF, Pitt loses at home to Bowling Green who then goes on to get slaughtered at home by Minnesota, UConn needs overtime to get by Temple, Cincy still has defeated a Division 1-A team and Rutgers is starting to look like the Rutgers of old. Any coach that did not pull a Rich Rod in this conference is now asking themselves why the hell not.

My Thursday Night Big Least Play of the Week

2 units North Carolina +5.5 WINNER

YTD- 26-14 +28 units

I am tracking one of the biggest trends ever for me, everything is pointing to Saturday with my a huge possibly 7-10 unit play in the works. A couple more things need to fall into place and then I am hammering this non-conference play on Saturday. Stay posted

Update 10:23
I am going to go ahead and break a cardinal rule and cash this game as a winner while it is still in the third quarter. Rutgers has made me look like a genius (sp?) once again. They are showing that the Big East is on par with the WPIAL Class A Tri-County South Conference. I heard Avella is applying for admission and of course made my 2 unit Big Least play of the week an easy winner.

One more thing about the Pirates, I refuse to let sleeping dogs lie. In the era of ESPN 1-9 and all the sports all the time on tv, why is more not being made of how bad the Pirates have been in August and September and all year for that matter. They got no-hit for all intents and purposes two weeks ago by the Brewers and just tonight Roy Oswalt faced the minimum through nine innings. THE MINIMUM! He faced only 27 batters and won in a complete game snooze fest 6-0 to help complete a 4-game sweep of the HAPLESS Pirates.

He allowed three hits and followed each hit up with an instant double play. For the past week alls they have needed were three wins to avoid 100 losses but they have promptly lost six in a row and they are keeping the hopes of 100 losses alive and well.

They are 60-86, a season high 26 games under .500
They are 27.5 games out of first place
They are the fourth worst team in the MLB (.411)
They have the second worst road record in all of baseball
They are six games behind from the FIFTH PLACE REDS
Andy LaRoche is still batting .169

810-658
That is what they have been outscored by this season
Let that number soak in
It has to be near a MLB record

They are 10-29, yes 10-29 since July 30

Unreal, the chase for 100 is alive and well




-n

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