A Few Scattered Notes
First of all, there are three teams in the NFL that remain undefeated: the New York Giants, the Buffalo Bills, and the Tennessee Titans. If that was your Week 4 bet in Vegas, feel free to collect your ten trillion dollars any time tomorrow. For comparison, after Week 4 last year, the list was the New England Patriots, the Indianapolis Colts, the Dallas Cowboys and the Green Bay Packers. Seems that this season, just like every other season, is drastically different. Parity!
The White Sox also won today, thanks to a strong pitching performance from Gavin Floyd and a grand slam from unlikely hero Alexi Ramirez. This is the second year in a row that 162 games weren’t enough to decide a division winner; last year the Rockies and Padres battled for the NL Wild Card [thanks Andrew for finding my little gaff], with that exciting rally by the Rockies against Trevor Hoffman after being down 8-6 in the bottom of the ninth (the famous “Matt Holliday never touched the plate” game). The match up tomorrow is John Danks for Chicago and Nick Blackburn for Minnesota. It’s a 7:30 ET game. Here’s to a good one… though, either way, we’re all rooting for the Rays in that ALDS match up.
Incidentally, the basketball and hockey preseasons are just underway, for those not quite in tune with sports seasons. Hockey starts in about two weeks while basketball starts at the end of October. Here’s a completely useless story about the start of basketball season: generally, the schedules year to year don’t change all that much for each team. The season also used always to start on October 31, Halloween, and on that first night, the New York Knicks would always play the Charlotte Hornets (yeah, Hornets… y’know, pre-New Orleans, and pre-Bobcats). This would always result in me feeling conflicted; on the one hand, I had to go trick or treating, but on the other, I had to watch the Knicks start the season right by kicking the Hornets’ butts. Luckily the sun set at like 5:00 and the game started at 7:30, so I could always do both.
And there’s your sports wrap-up. Anyone got any ideas for me? MLB playoff predictions? Week 5 Power Rankings? Name what y’all want and I’ll see if anything tickles my fancy.
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Not to be picky, but the Rockies and Padres played for the NL Wild Card last year. Dbacks won the West.
I think you should go with predictions for baseball’s postseason awards. Not just the big 8, I want who’s going to win the AL pitcher gold glove and the NL catcher silver slugger…