All That and a Bag of Mail: Friday edition
Monday, November 2, 2009
This went up while I was down at the Cocktail Party. I just filed a 4k word epic on the Cocktail Party late last night that should be up today. In the meantime, read the full mailbag here.
By the time you read this, I'll be on a Southwest flight to Jacksonville for the Cocktail Party. Already your costume suggestions are arriving, and I have to say, I think we have a winner. The suggestion is actually genius. It involves a Baby Bjorn, aviator sunglesses, and ... the pictures will be ready soon. But leaving that aside, let me give you a tip this weekend, the time changes. The f'ing time, it always screws you somehow. Even if, to be fair, the night after Halloween is a pretty epic time for an extra hour of sleep.
I've always hated the time change because I live in Nashville, right at the beginning of the central time zone. This means that during the winter it gets light at 3AM and dark here at 3PM. This is only a subtle exaggeration. The worst thing about this city is that it encourages people to get up way too early in the morning. I've lived on the East Coast, in the Caribbean, and in Europe. In all of those places, it isn't considered an asset to get up at dawn. (Right: Nashville, approaching evening cocktails at 6AM)
Here? It's an asset.
Anyway, as you can tell, I'm anti-time change. Even when it helps me by giving me an extra hour to make my flight back to Nashville on Sunday. Our beaver pelt trader of the week is Wes from The Ruins. Previously Wes has been on Real World Austin and many of the challenges. I first wrote about him back in September of 2006, and for a while there we were e-mail buddies. But he came out of retirement after three years this fall. And it's shameful for me to admit how pumped I was when I saw that he'd returned.
Spoiler alert.
He was eliminated from the challenge on Wednesday night. But he's the most entertaining reality star on the face of the planet, and the least we can do is hand him our beaver pelt trader of the week award.
Okay, on to our picks.
Last week Audrey and I both went 3-3 so my lead remains. I'm now 18-17-1 while she is 14-20-2.
My picks this week:
Indiana @ Iowa -17.5
Georgia v. Florida -15
South Carolina @ Tennessee -6
Texas -9 @ Oklahoma State
Southern Cal -3 @ Oregon
San Jose State @ Boise State -35
And here are Audrey's picks with her rationales:
Indiana since I learned how to pronounce it!
Georgia
UT
Oklahoma State
Oregon
Boise State that is so lost!
Yep, amazingly, we picked all six of the same results.
I'm dead.
Victoria D. writes:
So I'm watching the "Locker Room" sports talk show I recorded from Sunday morning ... and this guy just called in ... and said : "I'm not exactly talkin' murder, but isn't it time for Kiffin to pull a John Wilkes Booth and just get rid of this whole Lincoln problem."
Thought you'd get a kick out of that, I sure did, haha. Gotta love Southern football fans.
Okay, to deconstruct for those who might not be aware, Daniel Lincoln is Tennessee's kicker. He missed three field goals last week against Alabama.
As for the statement, how could Kiffin "pull a John Wilkes Booth" and not kill Lincoln? Did I miss the history class where Booth showed up at the White House and tried to gently persuade Lincoln to end the Civil War? The regular tea and crumpets dinner between the two? So I think this caller, given his analogy, is "talkin' murder."
I will say this, Kiffin should go after Terrence Cody instead. After the deed, he needs to grab the mic and scream, "Sic Semper Terrencis."
I believe this translates quite nicely as, "Thus always to Terrences."
Tim F. writes:
Conventional wisdom would tell you that Iowa couldn't hang with an SEC team in the title game.
I wouldn't doubt this version of the Hawkeyes. They have risen to EVERY occasion this season.
The computers LOVE them due to road wins at Penn State, Wisconsin, and Michigan State. If a win in Columbus is added to that resume, the voters won't rank them below Cincinnati, Boise, or TCU. The glass ceiling doesn't apply to Big Ten teams.
If they could reach No. 3 in the coaches' and Harris Polls after Championship Saturday, then the computers may put them OVER an undefeated Texas squad and into a title game.
It could happen.
If Iowa ends up ranked ahead of an undefeated Texas, then the Longhorns are going to secede. Not from the BCS, mind you, but the entire state of Texas is going to return to the days when they were an independent country and leave the United States.
I don't think Iowa passing Texas would happen, but I do think the debate between an undefeated Iowa and an undefeated Cincinnati would be epic. Personally, I'd be inclined to favor Cincinnati, but Iowa's win over Arizona and Cincinnati's win over Oregon State should render a one-loss USC out of the picture. Only it wouldn't.
I'll write about this next week, but what if LSU goes into Tuscaloosa and beats Alabama? Then LSU runs the table from there. In the event of a Texas loss, does Florida have to play LSU in the SEC Title game and then the winner of that game play Alabama after in the BCS title game? Even above a no-loss Iowa or Cincinnati?
Maybe.
For the first time in a while this year, I have a sense that the end of this season is going to be incredibly messy.
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