Tubasaluki: Quoting music since 2003

I do believe I am forcing myself to do this. Football picks is, bar none, my favorite feature on this site. However, out of the four teams that I pick (Seahawks, Cougars, Salukis….that OTHER team) only one is in action. And, its a preseason game, meaning the starters will play not quite enough to warrant traveling from Cheney to Seattle.

But, you can bet on the game, so I feel obliged to make a pick. And remember, until you lose your house on an exhibition game wager, you don’t have a problem.

The Seahawks are, according to Bodog, three point favorites.

And why shouldn’t they be? This game will be decided by the team with the best future Arena Football League stars, and we…um…have them?

Alright, so I’m just using this as an excuse to plug my Adopt a Seahawk page. As some of you may know, I contribute to 12 Seahawks Street . And if you don’t know that, I highly recommend going there and finding out. Good stuff on the Street. By the way, my posts are easy to find, as they are the ones written by ‘Alan.’

Anyway, the contributors pick a new Seahawk and they make a fan page for him. This year, I’m taking Ryan Plackemeier, aka Gus the Mule. The Rye man is the Seahawk’s new punter. Its not much, but here’s what I got so far.

Anyway, Gus the Mule will single footedly change the course of this game with some of his booming punts. This will allow the Seahawks to cover the spread. I’ll say…

Seahawks 23, Dallas 17
Game ball goes to: Ryan Plackemeier. Who else.

Anyway, I’ll continue plugging myself now, because that’s what I do. I was intrigued by the whole Maurice Clarett getting arrested and basically completely falling from what little grace he had. So, I got to thinking, couldn’t this have been avoided?

Now, instead of Skip Bayless’ thesis on how the NFL Should Have Let a Teenager Take Them Down (which is so poorly written, that at one point I started wondering if we was agreeing with the NFL’s decision in a very sarcastic way) I went with my The NFL Should Help Athetes Complete Educations thoery, which I personally believe, is much better.

Three things I’ve learned since the last post

~ New kicks look awesome. Did I really learn that? Maybe not. At any rate, Finish Line is my new favorite store in the Carbondale Mall aka The Most Depressing Place on Earth. They don’t even have an open food court.

~Deadspin is a hilarious website that I have been addicted to the past three weeks.

~Governor Rod Blagojavich is the worst politician ever. When he was asked why the ballpark in Marion was getting an extra million dollars when a child care facility elsewhere was nothing more than a steel skeleton (because state funding for the project ran out) good ‘ol Rod replied that funding for that project was promised by previous governors, and so he didn’t have to oblige. That’s right, in an election year, the governor said that he didn’t have to care about kids just because previous governors did. This is also the same man who has pushed for a health care for all kids program. It might, in fact, be called the All Kids Program. And ladies and gentlemen, we now have another reason why I’m really quite glad I am not a resident of the State of Illinois.

Play ball, batter up, we’re taking the afternoon off,

Alan