Y'all want to help raise some money for something or other and also help me eat lunch with Mo LUNCHBOX Vaughn?

Just for fun I calculated those odds myself using the moneylines on oddshark and rough odds conversion ratios. I also estimated WVU's odds at winning @USF to be about the same as them winning home against Pitt since the USF game odds aren't available yet. I got to 20% by assuming that WVU must lose ONE of their last TWO games (each has a 30% chance of happening so there is an apox 50% at least one happens) and that RU must beat UConn (60% chance) and LVille must lose to USF (60% chance). There's also a 10% chance RU gets it's BCS bid by this Saturday afternoon.

By all means check my math or suggest alternative values or assumptions. None of it means anything for certain, of course. I just figured I'd while some work time away before Thanksgiving.

Happy holidays everyone!

(also link just goes to oddshark.com, fyi)

I believe the Vegas over/under for the Mets season win total was 77 (at least that's what I used to make a side bet with a friend). So congrats all you pessimists and condolences to all you optimists.

For any other G-Men fans in the DC market, I compared schedules with the Redskins and Ravens and created this google spreed sheet for which games will be televised locally, which might be televised locally, and which most likely won't. We'll have to wait until the networks announce their games to know for sure but this will give you an idea for now. Hope people find it useful. Feel free to let me know if I've made any mistakes, too.

Quite possibly the most boring, nerdy, fan shot ever. I just thought it was interesting when the worlds from two of the most disparate blogs in my google reader collided.

So let us all toast our cheetos bags in triumph! Now if you'll excuse me, these numerically stamped regular polyhedrons aren't going to roll themselves.

I included the question mark because Ms Thiessen doesn't name any names, but she allegedly received nude photos of a baseball player in the mid 90's who is still famous today. There aren't all that many stars still playing from the mid 90's and that time period is also, as you may recall, when Larry's first marriage was collapsing because of the 18 month affair he was conducting with a Hooters waitress that produced a child. So that's my best guess. Other popular candidates include Clemens, A-Rod and Jeter, because all Yankees are disgusting pervs, obviously.

i'm sure there are many intelligent, well reasoning baseball fans that find steroids a bigger deal than me, but does anyone else actually believe this?

"There is not another American sport where so many of the elite have been disgraced. Nothing comes close to this. Not Pete Rose, not the Black Sox, not baseball's drug trials of the 1980s, not the college basketball scandals of the 1950s."

Throwing a world series is one thing, but giving round about answers in front of a grand jury that eventually do get answered directly is a sign of the MLB apocolypse. um, what?

more on the verdict from Criag Calcaterra

Totally legit sportswriter Tim Marchman names drops Amazin Avenue Annual (as well as the site's URL) in his review of THB and BP's annuals in his book review for the Wall Street Journal. Nice.

Well, kinda sorta. This rad article by Phil Birnbaum has some interesting takeaways from his sifting through the Deadspin leaked team financial statements, chiefly that it doesn't pay for small market teams to sign free agents, even if it gets them to the World Series. At least in the short/near term. That and lots more implications worth discussing from the article.

in that they are both blue.

i just wanted to bring up Avatar because Aliens is on AMC right now and it made me remember when James Cameron would make awesome movies where the marines were these totally bad ass heroes as apposed to moronic amoral psychopaths. also there is no way some roided up smurf on a pterodactyl is taking down vasquez or wierzbowski or hicks. come on, Cameron, get it together.

i dont know why i cant make this thing do fan shot pictures but check this out: a horrible, horrible, joke.

sorry.

stop dumping on my boy francoeur!

look how mean you are being! how would you feel if this was happening to you? not good, that's for sure. so quit it, meanies!

original painting plus way more awesome stuff found here.

the topic de jure is all over the interwebs but Cameron savages Omar most viciously. ouchie.

Nothing in particular brought this up except I read it today and thought it was a good article. It coincides with my opinion that if fans of baseball are disgusted by obscene and immoral behavior of pro players (like steroids, huge salaries etc) then they should go watch their local high school team and shut up. and then take the money you wouldve spent on MLB products and donate it to charity.

whoops, slid off into a semi rant there. anyway, the article is good and includes a Bill James quote and is not related in any way to the Mets' super sucky suckfest of June.

Simple, concise and totally awesome. Damn, his science is too tight!

*well he kinda says that.

Anywho, Steve Phillips' job now is to talk about baseball players and he totally sucks at it. Poz tells us in his usual entertaining way just why Phillips totally sucks.

robby neyer watched ALL of last nights game, then examined our poo poo line up and came to the same conclusions we all have. jerry may suck at game managing but omar sure didn't give him much of a bench to work with. anyone got any positive mets stories to post? this is getting a little redundant.

a stern admonishment to the DAVID WRONG crowd. found via neyer's not so sweetly named blog.

Or so says ex-teammate Darryl Hamilton in an excerpt from Jeff Pearlman's latest book on Clemens, found in a typically gossipy Deadspin post.

I know I was personally hoping for Piazza to go ape and stab Clemen's head off with that chunk of broken bat, but I think the restraint Piazza showed was definitely the wiser decision. Also, Darryl Hamilton? That was the best player willing to dish on Piazza? Not terribly impressed by your source work, Pearlman. Also, die Clemens.