Song of the Week

"You & I" - Sons of Maria
You all know how I feel about the creative use of a sample. This is surely the best work anyone has ever done with Tracy Chapman's "Fast Car."

Weekly Picks

Welcome back for another season of barely adequate picks. Crazy line movements for week 1 which is so difficult anyway.
Bonus for this season, I'll be throwing in an undefined number of over/under picks.

HOUSTON -5 jacksonville
I think the Jags will suck again this year and Houston should probably be 9-7 again. Tom Savage won't be great but he should be good enough. Just worried that morons bet on Houston thinking they will be galvanized by Harvey similar to what happened to the Saints after Katrina.

LOS ANGELES RAMS -4 indianapolis
I think the Rams will be improved. I think the Colts will be bad, especially without Andrew Luck.

pittsburgh -9 CLEVELAND
The Steelers are much better than the Browns.

carolina -5 SAN FRANCISCO
The Panthers will have a bounceback year and the 9ers will still suck.

BEST BET
MINNESOTA -3 new orleans
Not really sure about this one as a best bet but I don't love any of the other 4 games more.

Totals:
BUFFALO/new york jets under 40
TENNESSEE/oakland under 50 1/2
CLEVELAND/pittsburgh under 46 1/2
DALLAS/new york giants over 47 1/2

Song of the Week

"Rolex" - Ayo & Teo
Terrible song but the kids seem to like it.

Song of the Week

"Issues" - Julia Michaels
"Bask in the glory
of all our problems
cuz we've got the kind of love
it takes to solve them."

The Best Thing Someone in a Mets Hat Has Done All Year

Joe Garcia of Spring, Texas was saved from the floodwaters of Hurricane Harvey by a rescue boat.
First, he loaded some belongings onto the boat, then turned back for one more prized possession, his German Shepherd, Heidi.

Song of the Week

"Location" - Khalid

Song of the Week

"Total Eclipse of the Heart" - Bonnie Tyler

Song of the Week

"Redbone" - Childish Gambino
An example of a great beat somewhat ruined by stupid lyrics.

Song of the Week

"Body Like a Back Road" - Sam Hunt

She Loves My Smile, No Matter How Chipped My Tooth Is

We finally found Aaron Judge's Achilles heel. And it's not his achilles heel, it's his tooth.
Judge, who is about a foot taller than Brett Gardner, took Gardner's helmet right in the kisser during the celebration after Gardner homered in the bottom of the 11th to give the Yankees a 6-5 walkoff win against the Rays.



Judge is all right and will resume his duties as the face of baseball just as soon as he gets back from the dentist.

Jim Boeheim Plays Poker

A twitter user named @rockymtnpro spotted Jim Boeheim at the Wynn Poker room.

Apparently Boeheim was playing 1-3 No Limit Hold Em with great luck and questionable skill.
According to the twitter traffic, he cracked kings twice in one orbit.
On one hand he defended his big blind with 10-deuce to a 5x raise. He called a 25 dollars c-bet after flopping a ten, and he open-jammed for 113 dollars on the turn 2. The player with the kings called. First off, I can't imagine him being a very balanced player since he favors the same strategy in all situations, all the time. Second, I don't think he would have a very good poker face.

Song of the Week

"Despacito" - Luis Fonsi featuring Daddy Yankee
You might like this new song, no one's playing it or talking about it.
Note: Sarcasm, this song has nearly 3 billion views on youtube as of the date of this post.

Song of the Week

"Unstoppable" - The Score
2017 World Series of Poker on ESPN theme song

Song of the Week

"People Everyday" - Arrested Development
"My date was going great at my soul was at ease."

Song of the Week

"The Cure" - Lady Gaga

Song of the Week

"Classic" - The Knocks

Song of the Week

"Shook Ones" - Mobb Deep

RIP Prodigy

Song of the Week

"Papa Was a Rolling Stone" - The Temptations

The Dumbest Thing in Sports

Kyrie Irving: Cavs got extra motivation from Warriors’ ‘chatter'

There is absolutely no way the Cavs were "motivated" by any of the things the Warriors may have said or done. Even if they say it helped motivate them, I am sure it had zero affect on their performance.

For all sorts of reasons, we tend to prescribe value to things that have no value. Particularly when we try to explain drastic differences in performance, we lean on mental factors as a crutch. If being down 3-0 in the Finals wasn't enough to motivate the Cavs to perform at their best, no words from Draymond Green would have helped.

Not even when Steph Curry allegedly pantomimed pooping on the Quicken Loans Arena floor at the end of Game 3.

Hilarious High Five

Jeremy Corbyn tries to high five someone, but she moves her hand.


Reminds me of this special moment from our wedding