The Most Wonderful Time of the Year

Right now. Mid-October. That little batch of Indian Summer is behind us so the temperature has cooled off to just about sweatshirt weather. This means no more sweating through your shirt before you walk into work. Football has worked out the early season kinks and is awesome again. The Jets have ensured that the rest of the season will be stress free as any hope of contention for anything other than the number one overall pick is out the window. We are 28th in offense and 29th in defense. The only team worse than that is Buffalo, who just beat us. By my math we are the worst team in the league. Glenn Dorsey, come on down!

The good news is that Shark Sandwich has been an unstoppable force the last few weeks. The bad news is that I start the Cowboys D, Nick Folk and Jason Witten and the Boys are playing the Cheaters this week. You have to love how the Post puts an asterisk next to the Patriots name in the standings and gambling lines that says "Caught Cheating". Gotta love the Post. Anyways, the reason I mention the Boys is this week's monster lock. I'm going to stray from the college scene this week (especially since the line on the South Carolina-North Carolina game jumped from 5 to 7.5) and go with the Cheaters -5 at Big D.

My reasons for this pick are as follows (you won't see a Tom Brady slurpfest here). Number one, Dallas is coming off a Monday night away game played in Canada. Game ended late, long flight home, short week to prepare. Number two, yes the Boys are undefeated but it hasn't been a murderer's row they've been mowing down. Number three, Shark Sandwich is due for a letdown week after the tear my boys have been on. Finally, betting on the Patriots, umm, I mean Cheaters is a classic hedge bet. Cheaters win I win money. Cheaters lose I get the satisfaction of them losing. Cheaters win and don't cover is not a win for me but it will slow down the greatest team ever talk.

Now onto the Yankees real quick. I was driving around a bunch on Saturday (the day after the gnat game) and all I heard on the FAN was how much A-Rod sucked and how the Yankees need to get rid of him. And people wonder why Yankee fans are universally considered to be ill-informed bandwagon hopping dumbasses that know nothing about baseball. First off, if he goes elsewhere A-Rod will be the dumper, not the dumpee. Secondly, if he does bail the Yankees will be SIGNIFICANTLY worse without him and the fans will be bitching about losing 85 games, not bitching about losing a playoff series. Finally, Satan's little brother (Scott Boras) is probably playing tapes of those fans bitching in the hope that A-Rod opts so Boras can have a different pile of hundreds to light cigars off.

I'll wrap this meandering mess of a post up with a somber note. Our sincere condolences go out to the entire Filfiley family who lost father/husband Raymond today. The Pet had just left on his honeymoon on Sunday and he had to come home early to face this nightmare. Hang in there Filfiley's, we're here for you. And rest in peace Raymond, you will be missed.