And So it Begins

Somehow, by the grace of God (Allah), the Cubs are in the playoffs and the Cats are 5-0. It's been a pretty crazy September. The Cubs sure did their best to completely collapse; luckily the Brewers were on their heels and they sucked just as badly. Hopefully Soriano can keep hitting bombs and Zambrano stops being a headcase and we can take one in Arizona. Otherwise, we're be in trouble because they'll throw off in 3 and 4 and we'll have to face Webb in Arizona in game 5. Plus, Marquis, Lilly, and Hill can all get rocked at any time. We really, really need to win game 1. That's our best shot and if we do that we'll win the series. As an aside, I'm going to Chicago this weekend, so it should be a pretty cool place to be. I'm assuming Saturday night, with the game being at 5 (local), could be a pretty fun time.

Along the lines of "must-win" situations, UK really needs to beat the Ole D-bag on Thursday. Let's face the music here Cat fans, we're probably not beating either Florida or LSU. If we can beat USC, we are in good shape to still finish the season as winners of the East. We will have the tiebreak with USC, and hopefully we can either steal one from UGA or they can lose a few more times to give us a chance. The winner of the East may very well have two DIVISION losses. Who knows, it could be UK. Or USC. Or UGA. Oh yeah, Florida's tough too. It's a weird year. UT apparently blows balls--which is nice.

I can't stop thinking about Keeneland. I have a horrible fear that CBS is going to pick up the Florida game and then the MSU game is going to be picked up by Lincoln Financial and we'll have zero Keeneland opportunities! That place is awesome and I don't want to miss out this Fall. I need to be able to give my money to someone in a green vest; otherwise, I'm just not happy. I've always been that way.

OK Big East-ers, get ready to be pissed. The marquee game of the year between WVU and USF was a complete and utter shitshow--and the surly old man in front of me at Commonwealth agreed. He had a lot of interesting things to say, in fact. Anyway, that comedy of errors proved to me that West Virginia is a gimmick offense, capable of doing one thing. When that "one thing," I'm not telling what it is because Coach Rod swore me to secrecy, is taken away, they are completely incompetent. I will say that South Florida's defense is apparently good, but I am not sold on them in the least. I know, I know; they beat Auburn at Auburn and Auburn beat Florida. If South Florida goes to a BCS bowl they will get beat, probably handily.

Pretty good week ahead with the playoffs starting today and big college football games all weekend. Perhaps the Cards can awaken from their five game weed-nap and play a complete game and blow someone out. Doubtful, but possible.