"So, Sarah -- why did you change the pool around this year?"
This Cubs meltdown? This is basically why.
I knew we'd have a boatload of Cubbies bets; I knew that, if the ills of a short series asserted themselves and we didn't have diversified picks, we'd get a repeat of last year, where the Cubs and Yanks both got bounced, and two thirds of the pool, having gone down in flames, no longer cared.
Next year we should have a side pool on which player, whom nobody picked, will rack up points nobody can claim while everyone who picked Ryan Howard is like, "GOD, WHY?!" Freakin' Victorino, man.
...Okay! Points.
TB 6, CHW 4
TB: 3
TB Longoria, E.: 5
TB Shields, J.: 4
CHW Vasquez, J.: 6
PHI 5, MIL 2
PHI: 3
MIL Sabathia, CC: 5
MIL Gagne, E.: 1 (...just kidding)
LAD 10, CHC 3
LAD: 5
LAD Ramirez, M.: 3
CHC Zambrano, C.: 7
On the plus side, everybody's on the board. On the minus side...the Cubs. New leader going into tonight's AL slate:
25: L. Shots
24: Aaron
22: Zach and Maria
21: Jill West
19: Tommy
15: Jill East
14: yours truly
13: Joey Apollo
12: Warren
11: Tom
10: Broomfield/Romine and Angela
9: Brian
8: Tim
5: John and Ben
2: Matt and Billy
White Sox/Rays at 6, Red Sox/Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, California, United States, North America, Earth at 9:30.
2 comments:
You crafted the pool to prevent choke-related disaster, and here I go putting half of my pick-eggs in a Cub-basket.
I guess that's what makes me such a maverick.
If Manny had gone cold, this Straight-Talk Express would have picked them too, but I just didn't have much hope for them in a best of five.
More hope than this mishegas, though.
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