Quick Picks

I'm less than 24 hours removed from writing almost 3500 words about Reb Yisroel Salanter, so no details today. Onto the prognostication:

2-2 last week, 1-0 guaran-Dachs-tees:

Titans over Ravens (in the guaran-Dachs-tee of the week), Panthers over Cardinals, Giants over Eagles (Jeter Christ how I hate both teams), Chargers over Steelers (sorry Elie, after much thought I think SD not just covers, but wins outright).

In other news: Tim Tebow is as awesome as Tim Thomas sucks, Eddy Curry is really fat, and I would rather have Smoltz and Sheets than Burnett, even without factoring in the fact that we'd be saving about 3 million a year.

A Blast From The Past

Classic video. Enjoy.

How Bout Dem Knicks!

Forget the NFL playoffs. Forget my short encounter with a short punk porn star with pink hair who used to be somewhat frum (no, the curtains don't match the drapes, thanks for asking). Forget the Johnnies' huge upset over Notre Dame. Forget UNC's stunning upset at home to Boston College. Forget the continued reports that Phillips/Garrett are here to stay. Forget finals. Forget papers. There is only 1 big news of the day, on this day.

The defending NBA champions, with a record this season of 29-5, came into the Mishkan, the true Mecca of Sports, the one, the only, Madison Square Garden, and got beat convincingly by your NEW. YORK. KNICKS!

Wilson Chandler was a beast with 31 and 8 (Thanks Isiah!), Al Harrington dropped 30, D-Lee with 14 and 14, plus we held Ray Allen to 16 points and KG to 6 and 9. I'm just sayin, we beat the defending champs, clearly we're the best team in the league. D'Antoni rules.

Well that was B.S.

It's always a little fishy when the refs get more 1st downs than the offense, but hey, San Diego won fair and square, right? Whatever, the blog goes down to 1-1 and I still have 350 pages of finance crap to read by 1. Not good times. Let's get to tomorrow's picks

Baltimore at Miami

Earlier this season, Baltimore beat Miami in Miami, and it wasn't close. I see no reason for this to change, and it may be an even bigger blowout. In my guaran-Dachs-tee of the week, Ravens win, 31-13.

Philly at Minnesota

The Eagles may be better but I can't in good conscience pick them, so let's say Peterson runs over them all day for 150 yards and 2 TDs, and the Vikings win 27-21.

NFL Playoff Prognostication

Even though the Boys aren't in it we can still make picks and make money, right? With our mind on our money (and it really goes without saying but our money on our mind), here's what's going to happen in tomorrow's games.

Atlanta at Arizona

Michael Turner will have a big day but Matt Ryan won't, and the Kurt Warner/Larry Fitzgerald combo will be too much for a Falcons team that has sucked on the road for most of the season.

Cardinals win 35-23.

Indy at San Diego

Peyton Manning won the MVP again today, tying him with Brett Favre for most all-time. He'll back that interesting decision up with a good game tomorrow. The Chargers won't be able to stop Indy's passing game, plus they have big injury concerns on offense with Gates and Tomlinson missing practice. They'll both play but it won't be enough. Also, remember Norval Turner makes Wade Phillips look like Jimmy Johnson.

Colts win 38-28.

I will be back tomorrow with my prognostication for Sunday's games. This is Moishie Dachs for YouTube Blog.

Oh and by the way, while we're on the subject, if you haven't seen this yet, go for it. In fact, we'll just call it the YouTube Video of the Week, I believe.

UPDATE: So I'm handling some business on Bodog when I see this prop:

Will Tony Romo be engaged to Jessica Simpson by week 1 of the 2009 NFL season?

Any wager after outcome becomes public knowledge will be graded no action. Announcement must be made before the start of week 1 of the 2009 NFL season for yes option to be graded a winner. Max $100

Yes	+350
No	-500 Isn't gambling awesome?

The Greatest Blog Ever

I like to think this blog is pretty awesome, but clearly it's at best the 2nd-best out there. Unfortunately this other blog has only extremely sporadic posting (I know what you're thinking, shut it), but here is its latest entry. It is the greatest blog post ever. That's real science, so I'll drop that one again. It is the greatest blog post ever.

Also, yeah, Barkley's the man.

Crisis Averted

Yesterday there were reports saying that Viacom and Time Warner were in a contract dispute, with Viacom wanting Time Warner to pay more money. With the deal running out as the clock struck 2009, rumor had it we Time Warner subscribers would be losing 18 channels, including Comedy Central, Nick, the MTVs, the VH1s, Spike. Not good times. Dachs needs his Daily Show/Colbert combo. Not to mention such awesome shows like Flavor of Love and The Fairly Oddparents. But they came to terms, sort of, and now we don't lose any channels.

See? Told you 2009 was gonna be awesome.