The Moose, the Old Knicks and Some Unfounded Picks

Mussina the Met?

Anything the New York Post says has to be true. Hopefully this is just super agent Arn Tellem trying to pressure the Yanks into banking up. Clever one, Sip.

Would I want Mussina in a Mets uniform? I would not. Fuck that guy. He is a Yankee. As a matter of facf, he was a part of The Curse being initiated, signing right in 2001 when the Yankees became a walking cash machine.

He sounds like a pretty good guy and all, but honestly, fuck him. Of course, I'm sure we all said the same thing about Tommy the Spy four years ago, so stay tuned.

New Knicks

The Knicks gave their beloved fans three quarters of optimism this season. Three reasons why people could imagine an 8th seed.

Those dreams should now be gone.

Friday night, the Knicks entered Atlanta, home of the NBA-worst Atlanta Hawks, fresh off an embarassing opening night 13 point loss to the defunct Philadelphia Dalembert/Korver's that reminded Sip and all other Hawk optimists that the Hawks should yet again disappoint.

The Hawks then went on to MURDER the Knicks.

I sat over some pitchers and wings with Cousin and KFC. Little did I know that this would lead to one of the dumber fights of all time.

I paid attention to most of the game, but these are the Knicks, not the new-look Warriors. So I didn't really care.

What I did see was Joe Johnson chucking uncontested three after contested three. I saw Josh Smith dunking. I saw Tyron Lue. That's right, a team with Tyron Lue dominated the guard-centric New York Shitterbockers.

What came out of this game was pretty simple: the Knicks are just horrible.

They have 7 guys that want to score yet they don't have a single reliable scorer. They have 0 guys that want to defend.

David Lee may try hard, but just because he is big, white and athletic does not make him Bill Russell.

Then to compound all of this, they have the dumbest man in sports running their team.

I think this team might out-win 2005. But it may be very close.

"With the, uh, first pick of the 2007 NBA draft, the Chicago Bulls (via NY) select Ibrahim Jaaber, Guard, UPenn."

Football

Last Sunday I delivered. 2-2 baby. All I wanted was to come out even. For those of you that played the Titans, well then you were 3-2. Not too bad but not too great.

I called my homie J Schubes on Thursday. He and I do a 4x4 league and we needed to figure out our 4 NFL picks. In most weeks there are one or two games that I like.

This week, there are none.

But here are a few to boot.

Kinda like Dallas laying 3 in Washington. Not cause I am buying into all of this hype as much as because I think the Skins are terrible. Still, the Skins are coming off a bye, and Mark Brunell's career is on the line.

Wouldn't touch this one, but if you need to play it, take the Boys. Santana Moss isn't playing. The little red thing next to his name in fantasy shows that he has more catches and yards than all of the other Redskins receivers combined.

Wait, didn't these guys spend like $50 million bucks for Antawn Randle-El and Brandon Lloyd. The new Skins are slowly becoming the Baby Knicks. Which makes me kind of like them.

The Bears -13 at Soldier Field against Joey Harrington and the very bad Miami Dolphins. Like last week with the Niners, the bears could be up by 40 at halftime. Their D could kill Harrington. The only way Miami will stay in this game is if their defense or special teams makes a big play. Otherwise, the Bears could win this game by 30.

The Falcons laying 5.5 in Detroit seems to be everyone's sexy pick. America seems to think that in two weeks Mike Vick has turned into Steve Young. I don't know about that. The Lions happen to be bad.

This is not a game I would touch. The Lions offense, especially Jon Kitna is pretty underrated, especially in the dome. If you are a gambling man then sack up and gamble. Like with most NFL games, flip a coin.

And that takes us to this week's most unbettable game.

The Colts vs. New England. It is my philosophy that you never bet on a game where there are two really good teams. You just never know who is going to show up. If you pick the right one you assume you were smarter. If you pick the wrong one, it is because something out of the ordinary happened. Sounds a lot like poker huh?

My gut tells me that this will be a high scoring game. The Colts can't stop anyone and no one can really stop the Colts. The fact that the rest of America is thinking that makes me think this game will end 6-3.

All the experts are talking about the Colts nonexistent run D compounded with the Pats newfound running attack spelling disaster for Indy.

However, after going into Denver last week and putting up 34 on the NFL's stingiest scoring D, it may just be impossible to shut down the Colts.

The low in Foxboro tomorow night is 31. Not too bad. The Patriots are also coming off a short week.

I would never in my life play this game. But if I get drunk enough tomorrow during the day and feel the urge, I would take the points (Indy +3).

That's all I really got in me on this Saturday Morning. The Giants game should be pretty boring. Everyone is talking trap. You can't call a trap. It's a trap after the fact. People that call games a trap in advance make the correct call 1 in 50 times. Then once they nailed it, they call all of their friends about it. Would I give -13 tomorrow? No. But the Giants will win this game.

I'm off to see Borat now. Pretty fired up.

Good weekend to all.

Vaya con dios.

Sip