Good morning everyone. Before I begin with this weekend's football picks, I would like to express my condolences to the family and friends of Sarah Campbell, a 2009 San Marcos High School graduate who died in a single vehicle accident here early Thursday morning. I did not know Sarah personally, but I do have many friends who are grieving right now. Rest In Peace Sarah.
Last weekend marked the second week in a row that I made winning football picks for the blog here on 'Bikini Hill'. After going 7-3 last week, my overall record for the season is now 40-42-2. This gives me a record of 13-7 against the spread over the last 2 weeks, which is a 65% winning percentage, just like those guys you see advertising on t.v. and in those magazines... Below are my picks for this weekend:
Auburn (-22 1/2) vs. New Mexico State - Finally a team that Auburn can beat? Sorry Joey... :)
Alabama (-8 1/2) @ LSU - Bama has been dominant so far...
San Jose State (-19 1/2) @ Idaho - Alma mater beat Idaho by 31, SJSU beat us by 11...
Washington State/Utah (Over 49) - Total of 49 in a Mike Leach game...
Oregon (-8) @ USC - Big opportunity for the Ducks...
Baltimore (-3 1/2) @ Cleveland - If the Ravens lose, the Steelers benefit (Win/Win Situation)... ;)
Buffalo/Houston (Over 47 1/2) - Lots of offense, not so much defense in this one...
Detroit (-4) @ Jacksonville - If the Lions can't cover 4 against the Jags... #longseason
Denver/Cincinnati (Under 47 1/2) - Bengals need to keep the score down...
Tampa Bay/Oakland (Under 46) - Not the most prolific scoring teams...
And Alyssa, I took YOUR TEAM in my blogger's football contest, so if you could stop the "mean-mugging" - you know, for just one week, that would be AWESOME... ;)
I hope that you have a great day and I'll see you again tomorrow!
Jumat, 02 November 2012
Kamis, 01 November 2012
I Will Unfriend You...
Good morning everyone. This is the first morning of November everybody - can you believe it? It's sad that the best month of the year is now in our rearview mirror, but somehow we'll have to cope... If you could only understand how much of a baseball fan I was growing up, and to have my birthday in the same month as the World Series (which I don't believe I've even mentioned in the blog)... Now my favorite band has the word 'October' in its name, and this year the final table of the World Series of Poker was even played in this great month. The month bids us farewell with Halloween... October is tough to beat my friends... When I was walking home from the library on Tuesday evening, and was very close to home, I saw this written on a wall: "If you're still free, start running away..." I wasn't even sure what type of context it was being used in, but it sounded like a great idea for some reason... :) Reading this happened moments after I passed a pair of people walking down the hill, and the girl was wearing a pink tanktop that said (as I cringe)... "San Marvelous" - now these people have SHIRTS, and all that I am fighting back with is this blog. Remember friends, it's San Marcos, America... ;) Okay, this is the point where the ramble turns from its sometimes cutesy self to a more serious topic. I am a person who generally has a lot of patience. I am not one of those dramatic people, always ranting and raving about something or arguing with people. I am the type of person who doesn't lose my temper often, but when I do, I make it count... I say this to lead into the fact that I see of lot of silly things on facebook. Facebook is a way to communicate, and there are a lot of silly people, so seeing silly things follows. Yesterday however, while reading through the facebook Halloween posts, I read something that resulted in me "unfriending" a person in less than a minute. This was the status, which was preceded by the culprit adding, "this is the best post that I've read today": "Well, it looks like New York is dressing up as New Orleans this year..." Oh, you're HYSTERICAL... How many people has the storm on the East Coast killed? How many people died in New Orleans during Katrina? How many people are currently displaced, or without food, power, heat, a way to communicate with their families? HILARIOUS... What amazed me to about the same degree is that TEN people had liked this status up to the post when I had read it.... AWESOME... It's really hard to understand people sometimes, ya know?... Thank you for letting me get that out in the open. It is going to be interesting when I see this person and they ask me why I unfriended them, that is for certain... I hope that you have a great day and I'll see you again tomorrow with my football predictions for this weekend.
Rabu, 31 Oktober 2012
Really..., Seriously...???
Good morning and Happy Halloween everyone. I just finished my trick-or-treating - I paid my November rent and walked out of there with a strawberry twizzler - SCORE... So, I fell for it again, thinking that I would see a World Series of Poker broadcast to its conclusion for the second day in a row. I arrived at Harper's at 8:00 p.m. with only 3 players remaining at the final table. When Harper's closed..., there were STILL three players at the final table. I just saw the headline on Lucki Duck's blog where it took TWELVE hours to decide this year's Main Event Champion - Congratulations to Greg Merson on his $8.53 million-dollar victory... I needed to stay up late, because I am back on the schedule at work tonight, and it is Halloween... That's like a guarantee that I'll have something for my ramble tomorrow - ramble insurance, if you will... Congratulations also to Memphis Mojo for being the 14,999th and 15,001st visitor to 'Bikini Hill'. Mojo commented yesterday that when he realized he was number 14,999, he exited the blog and came back to be the milestone visitor, but one person beat him to it...
Okay, some NBA predictions for you. I apologize that I am not going to go all out like I did last season and predict every team's regular season record for you. This may be detrimental to me as I was really close on a lot of the records the last time around, and I was pretty hot predicting the playoffs also. Coach had the Heat over the Thunder in five, when everyone was in love with the Thunder. Over 15,000 hits and I've got one prediction right - WOO HOO!!! ;) Last year everyone was just in LOVE with the Los Angeles Clippers heading into the season. They got Chris Paul, they had the L.A. hype machine... "Clippers this, Clippers that, blah, blah, blah..." This year the hype is the Los Angeles Lakers. After acquiring Dwight Howard and Steve Nash, Las Vegas made the Lakers 8 to 5 favorites to win the NBA title. I honestly think that some of that number is based on the California money that is so close to Vegas, but whatever... I am going to go out on my shaky limb and predict that there is NO WAY that the Lakers win the NBA Championship this season, and I am predicting that they won't even advance to the Western Conference Finals... Kobe Bryant and Steve Nash are old and prone to injuries, Metta World Peace is a headcase, and Dwight Howard is coming off of an injury and is a headcase... We shall see... Unfortunately, my San Antonio Spurs are getting old also, and although I'll be rooting for them, I don't think that they will be in the NBA Finals either... Below is my group of playoff teams from each conference and my Finals' prediction:
Eastern Conference
1) Miami
2) Chicago
3) Boston
4) Indiana
5) Atlanta
6) Brooklyn
7) Philadelphia
8) Orlando
Western Conference
1) Oklahoma City
2) San Antonio NOTE: I think that the #2-5 seeds will be within 5 games of each other.
3) L.A. Clippers
4) L.A. Lakers
5) Memphis
6) Dallas
7) Denver
8) Portland
In the finals, I am going with the Miami Heat over the Oklahoma City Thunder, again... Being that I am a Spurs fan, and that I don't like the Heat, these are unbiased predictions... ;) I hope that you have a Safe and Happy Halloween!
Okay, some NBA predictions for you. I apologize that I am not going to go all out like I did last season and predict every team's regular season record for you. This may be detrimental to me as I was really close on a lot of the records the last time around, and I was pretty hot predicting the playoffs also. Coach had the Heat over the Thunder in five, when everyone was in love with the Thunder. Over 15,000 hits and I've got one prediction right - WOO HOO!!! ;) Last year everyone was just in LOVE with the Los Angeles Clippers heading into the season. They got Chris Paul, they had the L.A. hype machine... "Clippers this, Clippers that, blah, blah, blah..." This year the hype is the Los Angeles Lakers. After acquiring Dwight Howard and Steve Nash, Las Vegas made the Lakers 8 to 5 favorites to win the NBA title. I honestly think that some of that number is based on the California money that is so close to Vegas, but whatever... I am going to go out on my shaky limb and predict that there is NO WAY that the Lakers win the NBA Championship this season, and I am predicting that they won't even advance to the Western Conference Finals... Kobe Bryant and Steve Nash are old and prone to injuries, Metta World Peace is a headcase, and Dwight Howard is coming off of an injury and is a headcase... We shall see... Unfortunately, my San Antonio Spurs are getting old also, and although I'll be rooting for them, I don't think that they will be in the NBA Finals either... Below is my group of playoff teams from each conference and my Finals' prediction:
Eastern Conference
1) Miami
2) Chicago
3) Boston
4) Indiana
5) Atlanta
6) Brooklyn
7) Philadelphia
8) Orlando
Western Conference
1) Oklahoma City
2) San Antonio NOTE: I think that the #2-5 seeds will be within 5 games of each other.
3) L.A. Clippers
4) L.A. Lakers
5) Memphis
6) Dallas
7) Denver
8) Portland
In the finals, I am going with the Miami Heat over the Oklahoma City Thunder, again... Being that I am a Spurs fan, and that I don't like the Heat, these are unbiased predictions... ;) I hope that you have a Safe and Happy Halloween!
Selasa, 30 Oktober 2012
Will It Ever End?
Good morning everyone. This is a "sports day" under the new seven-day format here at 'Bikini Hill', but I'm going to write about poker today and give you some NBA predictions tomorrow. Since I've returned from Las Vegas, the one area where I really haven't adjusted well is getting back into a normal sleeping pattern. Like I've said here before, I was fortunate to find a place to live and a place to work instantly upon my return to San Marcos, America, I am fortunate to have good friends to lean on, but sleep..., ummm... not so much. I am working basically the same hours now that I worked before my one-month move (vacation?) to Las Vegas. If I set my schedule up to where I am awake from 8 p.m. to 4 a.m., then I am basically good to cover most of the shifts that I will receive. Now before I moved away, I had it down to where I would usually sleep from 1 p.m. to 7 p.m. (give or take), and I was fine. However, my habit this time around has been to stay awake after getting home from work until somewhere between 6 a.m. and 7 a.m., nap for about 3 hours, and then stay awake until sometime between 1 p.m. and 2 p.m., at which point I'm only mangaing to nap again for about another 3 hours.
I said all of that to bring you this... I visited a random online website the other day so that I could find out when the final table of this year's main event at the World Series of Poker began. I found out that the final nine would play down to a champion yesterday and today. The TIME that I was looking for said that play would begin yesterday at 4:00 C.S.T... I gave away both of my t.v.'s before I moved out to the desert, so I just planned on going to my workplace to watch the final table action. Let me interject at this point that I have already posted for the world to see that I work at Harper's/Slackers/The Veranda in San Marcos, America (in case you want my autograph or losing football predictions), so I'm not really sure why I keep hopping back and forth between naming my employer and saying the "workplace" (these are things that I wonder about when typing my blog entry at 7:00 in the morning)...
So anyway, I set my alarm to go off at 3:30 p.m. (note that my usual second nap has had me waking up somewhere between 5:00 and 6:00 every afternoon). I get up, get ready, go to Harper's, and arrive just before 4:00 p.m. My friend Sam flips the t.v. to ESPN2, and there is..., NO POKER ON... Sam goes to the on-screen t.v. guide - the World Series coverage is going to be from SEVEN p.m. til TEN p.m. on ESPN2... No t.v. coverage is scheduled for ESPN after the football game... I'm thinking out loud to Sam when I say that there is NO WAY that they finish playing in three hours if they plan on following the "semi-live" format that they used last year, where America gets to see the event on a 15-minute delay. Although I am complaining here, MY MISTAKE was deciding to hang out at Harper's for the WHOLE THREE HOURS before the poker coverage began. I waited, and at 7:00 they started playing poker. Let me also say at this point that with Sam's and Nick's help, I managed to cheat BIGTIME on my 3 Day Diet this time around, eating 3 pieces of chicken and 3 slices of pizza in 8 hours... At this point I find out that they are playing down from 9 to 3 players last night, with the final 3 to play tonight. I immediately turn to Sam with, "there is no way that this coverage finishes by 10:00 if they need to bust out 6 players." So I sat there for 5 hours, totally tuned into the final table, snapping a couple of times at people who arrived later, and tried to change the channel, unaware that I was GLUED to the t.v. (usually Monday Night Football will be showing on this "main" end of the bar t.v. where I was camped out - I was also snapping at other employees, not customers)... ;) So now it's midnight, and only 3 of the 6 players necessary to get the action to Tuesday have busted out, and I HIT... THE... WALL... Now it's not enjoyable for me to watch the coverage because I'm STRUGGLING to stay awake. So I leave after being at the bar for eight hours and go straight to bed. DAMN YOU random online website for having the wrong information. DAMN ME for not going to wsop.com or cardplayer.com like I should be smart enough to do. Tonight's final table coverage is supposed to begin at 8:00 C.S.T. if you're interested in checking it out, I think.... ;) It is very likely that today's post will put this little blog over the 15,000 view mark (you can check the current number in the upper right-hand corner). Thank you for stopping by... :) Have a great day everyone and I'll see you tomorrow with some basketball predictions for this NBA season (which begins tonight, but I just had to rant while it was fresh in my head)... ;)
I said all of that to bring you this... I visited a random online website the other day so that I could find out when the final table of this year's main event at the World Series of Poker began. I found out that the final nine would play down to a champion yesterday and today. The TIME that I was looking for said that play would begin yesterday at 4:00 C.S.T... I gave away both of my t.v.'s before I moved out to the desert, so I just planned on going to my workplace to watch the final table action. Let me interject at this point that I have already posted for the world to see that I work at Harper's/Slackers/The Veranda in San Marcos, America (in case you want my autograph or losing football predictions), so I'm not really sure why I keep hopping back and forth between naming my employer and saying the "workplace" (these are things that I wonder about when typing my blog entry at 7:00 in the morning)...
So anyway, I set my alarm to go off at 3:30 p.m. (note that my usual second nap has had me waking up somewhere between 5:00 and 6:00 every afternoon). I get up, get ready, go to Harper's, and arrive just before 4:00 p.m. My friend Sam flips the t.v. to ESPN2, and there is..., NO POKER ON... Sam goes to the on-screen t.v. guide - the World Series coverage is going to be from SEVEN p.m. til TEN p.m. on ESPN2... No t.v. coverage is scheduled for ESPN after the football game... I'm thinking out loud to Sam when I say that there is NO WAY that they finish playing in three hours if they plan on following the "semi-live" format that they used last year, where America gets to see the event on a 15-minute delay. Although I am complaining here, MY MISTAKE was deciding to hang out at Harper's for the WHOLE THREE HOURS before the poker coverage began. I waited, and at 7:00 they started playing poker. Let me also say at this point that with Sam's and Nick's help, I managed to cheat BIGTIME on my 3 Day Diet this time around, eating 3 pieces of chicken and 3 slices of pizza in 8 hours... At this point I find out that they are playing down from 9 to 3 players last night, with the final 3 to play tonight. I immediately turn to Sam with, "there is no way that this coverage finishes by 10:00 if they need to bust out 6 players." So I sat there for 5 hours, totally tuned into the final table, snapping a couple of times at people who arrived later, and tried to change the channel, unaware that I was GLUED to the t.v. (usually Monday Night Football will be showing on this "main" end of the bar t.v. where I was camped out - I was also snapping at other employees, not customers)... ;) So now it's midnight, and only 3 of the 6 players necessary to get the action to Tuesday have busted out, and I HIT... THE... WALL... Now it's not enjoyable for me to watch the coverage because I'm STRUGGLING to stay awake. So I leave after being at the bar for eight hours and go straight to bed. DAMN YOU random online website for having the wrong information. DAMN ME for not going to wsop.com or cardplayer.com like I should be smart enough to do. Tonight's final table coverage is supposed to begin at 8:00 C.S.T. if you're interested in checking it out, I think.... ;) It is very likely that today's post will put this little blog over the 15,000 view mark (you can check the current number in the upper right-hand corner). Thank you for stopping by... :) Have a great day everyone and I'll see you tomorrow with some basketball predictions for this NBA season (which begins tonight, but I just had to rant while it was fresh in my head)... ;)
Senin, 29 Oktober 2012
I Approve This Message
I worked this up for The Stranger, to accompany their list of endorsements for the upcoming election, including the legalization of gay marriage and limited marijuana possession and the re-election of our Muslim Socialist president. Being, as I have so often been accused, in the tank for Obama, I wanted to portray him with angel wings, a halo, and a dick the size of the Florida panhandle. Thank heaven the editors brought me to my senses!
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