Blizzard + NFL Football = AWESOME

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The entire East Coast got hit with 9-12 inches of snow Saturday night. That's fucking awesome! I hope the snow continues through Sunday so we can get some blizzard football, the best football games happen in blizzard conditions and everyone knows that.


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Slipping on the sidewalk. Ordering in food and beer. Frank Zappa says not to eat the yellow snow...
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Fumbles. Slipping on astroturf. Tuck rule. Gotta love late-season, winter NFL football.

KBilly's Super NFL picks week 15

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No women pictures this week. Keeping it straight buisness. (Update: I added my girlfriend for JD).
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Colts coverd by a half point. I was sweating it out up until the Reggie Wayne TD.
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To set the scene: Thanksgiving 2003. Me and the fam in Las Vegas. I drop $1,000 on the Colts -14 over the Detroit Lions and parlayed it with the Over (36) at 3-1 odds. With the time difference it was about 10 a.m. in the Mandalay Bay sports book and I'm on my 3rd beer.
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To make a long story short, Payton Manning throws 5 TDs in a 40-to-something dismantling of Detroit. Then we all ate turkey.
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The Giants are still in the hunt if the Brokeback Mountain Boys continue their annual December slide. Then the Giants can go to Arizona in January and get their doors blown off by the Cardinals.
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Anyway, here's the picks.
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Home teams in CAPS:
IND -3 1/2 (WIN)
N.O. -7.5
g.b. +2
MIA +3 1/2
n.e. -7
ari -12 1/2
S.F. + 7 1/2
NYJ -4 1/2
chi + 11
cle +2
StL +13
cin +7
DEN -14
t.b. +6 1/2
min -9
nyg -3

Joe & Evan? Sweeni & Ed? How? Why?

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I guess Mike started his Christmas break early, so WFAN moved Bro and Evan to the afternoon drive slot. What's worse the geniuses at WFAN put two of the most boring people on the station - Sweeny Murti and Ed Coleman - in the midday.

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While I can deal with maybe 10-15 minutes of Bro and Evan, Sweeni and Ed are completely unlistenable. They seem like good reporters, but all they know is their respective beats and they both speak in a monotone that probably caused a few car accidents today.

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So for all of you WFAN listeners, take the above advice...Luckily, I have Sirius and Dog is in until next Tuesday and his fill-ins are way better than Sweeni and Ed.

Mike and Dog totally confused by NFL playoff scenarios

Listening to both Mike and/or Dog feebly attempt to explain the various NFL playoff scenarios this afternoon left my head spinning, despite the fact that I calculated all the potential matchups last night in a bout five minutes.

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You might think that a couple of 20-plus-year sports talk veterans might take 10 to 15 minutes before they go on the air to draw up a handy flowchart, explaining who gets what playoff seed should they win or lose whichever games remain on the schedule.

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You would be wrong.

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Mike was worse than Dog. In the first hour of his show, Mike confused the Cowboys with the Cardinals with the Eagles in one completely rediculous, completely unpreppared, stream-of conciousness explanation. And finished his rant by saying that he didn't know what would happen in the event of a three-way tie for the NFC East...Thanks Mike.

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Dog wasn't much better. He mixed up his teams too and the players on said teams, but not nearly as bad as Mike did.

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But I guess since these are highly paid professionals, we just have to trust them.

KBilly's Super NFL picks week 14...And Prague

Since everyone, or two out of three of you, is interested in my travels. This abomination was written - by me - in the most popular bar in Prague. Just to the left is Dominik Hasek and Jaromir Jagr's autographs...I was even encouraged to write on wall by the staff.
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If you never ate a Pig Knuckle with Cabbage and some sort of potato thing they make, you haven't lived.
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The bars in Prague totally rock. There's a place called Absinthe. And they serve Absinthe. Served by hotties dressed like hot-ass green fairy girls. But I went there for the culture...

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<~~These are some random girls playing golf all over the place in the main square(Named: Starometske Nam). They were cool for about 5 minutes. Then they got very annoying, so I went to the nearest bar for some $0.30 beers. And then guess who walks in? The Annoying Golf Chicks...I wanted to take a golf club and pull a Elin/Tiger thing to them. . . .
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Here's the Picks.
Home teams in CAPS:
PITT (Loss)
IND -7
cin +6.5
nyj -3
buf PK
CHI + 3 1/2
n.o. -10
BAL -13 1/2
mia +2 1/2
car +13
sea +6 1/2
TEN -13
was -1
s.d. +3
NYG -1
S.F. +3 1/2

Now THAT'S how you negotiate!

Andy Pettitte, a 37 year old pitcher who won 14 games with a 4.16 ERA in 2009, and who turns 38 before the next All-Star break inked with the Yankees for one year and $11.75 million - more than double his 2009 base salary.
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Negotiating with the Yankees is like selling them swampland in Florida.
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My prediction is that Mike will love this because "Andy is a big-game pitcher." Dog will hate this because "He only won 14 games and he's going to be 38 years old."
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But he's left handed in a right-handed heavy rotation. And Roy Halliday is a righty too.
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Ahhh, if I was only born left handed, and actually I was. Both of my parents were left handed, but became right handed because writing with your left hand smears the ink, and is generally a bitch to drive stick and use a can opener as a lefty, so they trained me to be a righty from a very young age. Obviously, my parents grew up before ball-point pens, automatic transmissions and electric can openers.
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They should have left me as a southpaw and taught me to throw a curve ball...or how to box.

Winter Mess

First snowfall came on Saturday night and winter has officially began in my books. I hate it, but at least it means we are that much closer to good weather...

Anyway...

Winter Meetings start this week, and while the Mets have a laundry list of soon-to-be injured players to pick up, the Yankees don't have much on their plate. Rumor has it that Andy has declined a 1-year, $10 million offer. Uhm, why? He accepted an $11 million contract last year; is losing a losy million that much to swallow? He's the biggest priority for the Yankees right now, and I hope they work something out.

The Blue Jays have decided that they are willing to throw Roy Holladay into the AL East in order to cough up the cash from the Red Sox and Yankees. The Jays screwed the pooch last season by not getting rid of him before the trade deadline, but they're gonna get a boatload of cash after the Sox and Yanks start a bidding war. I truly do not want Holladay to sign with the Yankees. There's a limit, even for Yankee fans, and that pushes it. However, I wouldn't mind a Lackey signing. The front office wants to keep the payroll below $200 million, but that sure as hell won't stop anyone from bitching about it.

All you Met fans can sound off...

Also, another episode of Joe Buck Live is on tomorrow tonight. Did anyone else bother with that show? I was listening this morning when he was on with Boomer and Carton and it sounds like they have a pretty decent lineup for tonight (Floyd Mayweather, Strahan, Westbrook, Urlaucher to name a few). I personally despise Joe Buck, and I wouldn't mind seeing him getting embarassed like he did by Artie Lange. That was entertainment...

Excuse me, but I have to go fail an accounting presentation...