College Football Week 9?
Apparently, this is just a regular thing now. At least for one more week. Good news, it’s a Friday night here locally and TOB is four fingers into a light brown, green label (nice). Time to get weird!
How do they get horses across the ocean? Did our ancestors sleep during the day because the bugs and random noises at night are super annoying? Questions to ponder the next time you accidentally take 50 mg instead of the 5 mg you intended…or you’re TOB’s wife and you sleep outside in a tent on a Tuesday night for reasons unknown.
Great commercial from last year that TOB has yet to mention:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rYENgQkAO8
Classic.
NEW SEGMENT ALERT! Friend of the site Andy Woodhouse has been firing off some spicyy hot takes lately. Shohei Ohtani hitting 3 homeruns and striking out 10 Brewers? “Mid, the Brewers were a historically bad hitting post season team”. Victor Wembanyama putting up 40 and 15 with 3 blocks in 29 minutes? “6 or 7, he’s the least interesting athlete in the world”. Every week we will reach out to Andy “A” Woodhouse and see what incredible accomplishment he finds uninteresting. Please leave any of your own queries in the comments. On the table for next week: moon landing, penicillin, sliced bread.
What’s the deal with NBA sports gambling? Great timing for 13 players and coaches to get arrested and the FBI to call in Adam Silver to ask what the hell is going on. That sounds like a joke, it is not. This would be way worse if the NFL season was over. Two views of this seem to be taking hold:
1. Gambling sites and the general gambling acceptance are ruining sports. This is what the detractors feared, and they were right.
2. This has always been happening; thank goodness these multibillion-dollar sites have the software to track shady bets and bring these scoundrels to justice.
Gambling has certainly always been a part of sports; the Black Sox scandal is over 100 years old. However, could you always take over / under bets on the 8th man of the Charlotte Hornets? Could you always bet on the next pitch to be a ball or strike? What about the next offensive play (run or pass)? The last five years of legalized gambling have entered territory that no old school sports gambler ever imagined. Even so, TOB can’t help but think this is similar to the “random drug testing” done by various leagues. You only get caught for one of two reasons:
· You are so dumb that you ignore the team telling you, “Hey, you may get tested in the next week or so, be cool.” Manny Ramirez falls into this category. Players on good PED cycles can turn off the drip to pass a test, then fire right back up
· The team is so sick if this guy, they want him off the team and out of the contract. This is the A-Rod.
Super-secret option C, Chauncey Billups realized Scoot is not “him” and wanted out. He didn’t want to just quit, nor get fired (both admit defeat), so he does a few nefarious things that he can likely get out of criminally, but he won’t be able to coach in the NBA ever again. Whoops, guess I’ll just have to sit back and count the interest on my money as a Hall of Fame player instead of tarnishing all I did as a mediocre coach. Rozier and Damon Jones fall into the first category.
Top 10 Breakdown of why no one is good will wait until next week. Feels like a bi-weekly piece of content.
Games that TOB will ignore his kids at the pumpkin patch tomorrow to check in on:
· UCLA vs Indiana – Just to see if Indiana beats anyone worse than they beat Illinois (sorry Dragon and co.)
· Ole Miss at Oklahoma – Ole Miss took a big step forward in losing to Georgia in a great game last week. TOB sees Oklahoma winning this game, yet Ole Miss makes the playoff. Schedule bruh
· Mizzou at Vandy – Start of Mizzou’s tailspin (or was it losing to Bama then sneaking past Auburn). Whether it started two weeks ago, or this week, Mizzou will likely end with 4 losses…if not 5.
· Illinois at Washington – Illinois needs this to keep any sort of playoff hope alive.
· Texas at Miss St – Could be the end of the Texas playoff run. Miss State is nasty at home. Not the team, Starkville
· Texas A&M at LSU – Brian Kelly hot seat alert. Too bad he can’t get any talent with those stringent LSU academic standards
Light week, not a bad pumpkin patch day.
Hockey season has picked up, and though it is not a primary, or even secondary interest of TOB, hockey is an incredibly fun sport to attend. They also have a rule at the end of the game that TOB would love to see translated to other sports (pulling the goalie). This succeeds about 10% of the time, and backfires with an empty net goal about 40% of the time (like all TOB stats, that is completely invented based on watching a few games). Let’s talk baseball. How many fielders would a team play without in the top half of the 9th in order to get one more out in the bottom of the ninth? Is it one for one, two for one, three? TOB has no idea, and this will never happen, but it was fun to think about during a one run ALCS game 7 (while under the influence of a few things).
Quick, name all of the professional sports teams from St. Louis…that are female only. What a concept, a bar for sports that don’t exist here. TOB is not criticizing women’s sports, just the business idea. A bar that shows women’s sports is a very good idea, but ONLY women’s sports? TOB is generally aware of a few “soccer” bars in the area, which existed even before the MLS arrived. However, they would also show football, baseball, hockey, etc. Perhaps a shift to women’s sports “focused”, not “only”. TOB will monitor the situation, especially since said bar is right next to an all time TOB football watching spot (shout out to the OG Post – Maplewood).
Next week’s topics:
· MLB Playoffs / Awards – well, maybe…unlikely. Keep rolling Jays!
· Local pumpkin patch reviews – weather pending – same note as last week, this weather is crushing the pumpkin patch industry.
· CFB “analysis” and further non-sense predictions - Always
-TOB
