Weekend Roundup

The baseball playoffs are on the horizon and almost everything is lined up. Thanks to an epic choke-job by the Detroit Tigers, we will now have to wait until the Tuesday tie-breaker with the Twins to see who has the right to get knocked out of the ALDS by the Yanks. Interestingly, the Tigers went from a basic lock, to now pretty big dogs to get in. Your pitching matchup will be a pretty good one with Tigers 20-year old phenom Rick Porcello and Twins young veteran Scott Baker. Twins opened -160, so we know where Vegas is siding. btw...the Metrodome is going to be WILD.

In college football Oklahoma was taken out by Miami. LSU made a statement (I guess?) against Georgia. And pretty much everyone else held serve in a number of boring matchups. Finally this weekend should be a little better based solely on the one matchup I am aware of - Florida and LSU.

As for the NFL:

Who would have guessed that the two teams who played in what we all thought was an atrocious game between Cincy and Denver in Week 1 would be a combined 7-1 after four weeks, with the only loss being Cincy's misfortune in that very game. Don't be too misled...I don't think either team is very good..but impressive start for both teams nonetheless.

The NFL, much like college football was littered with boring games. The Giants-Chiefs game near put me to sleep. Tennessee fell to 0-4. Mark Sanchez got welcomed back to Earth. The Bills looked like the worst team not in St. Louis in the NFL. New England and Baltimore was even boring despite being a close game between two good teams.

Then Pitt blew out San Diego last night...err..kind of. San Diego made an exciting late push (as usual) but ultimately Pitt held on to avoid 1-3.

That is why I strongly believe that Minnesota/Green Bay is going to be exciting besides all of the over-done Favre talk that we will be forced to listen to. This weekend gave us no life whatsoever. Boring, boring, boring. All week I have thought the under 45 was a good bet tonight, but that would be too much boring in one week. Bret Favre and Aaron Rodgers going to give us an old-fashioned shoot-out? Or maybe it will be an exciting, low scoring battle? Either way, please Minnesota/Green Bay, give us something worth watching.