Dallas travels to the Iggles tonight. Philly is a 3 point fav. I like the Birds (-3).

The Giants have lost 3 straight and looked awful in each game. They host the Chargers today. I like the Giants (-5) to snap out of it.

The Bears host Arizona. Both of these have been impossible to fathom. I'll take the Bears (-2.5) at home. More . . .

But if you try sometime....

Lots of unhappy folks out there tonight, and lots of politicians thumping their own chests. The reality, as usual, probably lies somewhere in the middle.

After 6 hours of watching C-Span, I'm signing off for the evening. This is an open thread, all topics welcome.

The biggest game of the day will be played in Tuscaloosa where the Crimson Tide host LSU. Remarkably, LSU has won the last 4 played in Tuscaloosa. Yet Alabama is a 7.5 point favorite. I like the Tigers (+7.5).

Ohio State travels to Happy Valley to face Penn State. Terrelle Pryor, the Ohio State QB is from Pennsylvania. Ohio State still controls its destiny in the Big Ten, facing Iowa next week at the Horseshoe. The thing is . . . Ohio State just is not very good this year. I like Penn State (-5.5). More . . .

As regular readers know, the sports teams I live and die with, the ones where I suffer (as do the people around me) when they lose, are the Florida Gators and the New York Yankees. I love all sports, from NFL football to track to soccer to cycling, but those are the teams I am emotionally invested in.

Throughout their history, the Yankees have been TEH EVIL. The newfangled Yankee Haters think they are originals, but Yankee Hating is a longstanding tradition. There was even a Tony Award winning musical about it.

What is new is that Florida has become TEH EVIL nationally (the Ole Ball Coach (aka Evil Genius) inspired plenty of hatred in the SEC and FSU but not so much nationally.) For the time being, Florida has supplanted Notre Dame as the most hated college football team in the country. I dunno, but, like Woody Allen in Annie Hall, the Evil Queen in Snow White is starting to look appealing to me.

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Attention! It's Friday Morning. That is all.

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It's Thursday morning. That is all.

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Yankees win!

The New York Yankees won the 27th World Championship in their storied history by defeating the Philadelphia Phillies 7-3 in Game 6 of the World Series. The Yankees won the series 4-2.

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My election post mortem - um, it's the economy stupid? Don't run crazy people in New York? Old people in Maine are bigots?

I dunno, I suppose you can force a narrative out of this but I do not see one here. 2010 will be decided by what happens between now and Election Day 2010. I think there is nothing to be garnered from last night's results.

But my head is so immersed in the escapist world of sports right now that you should not go by me on this.

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I'm going to share my thoughts with you on something almost none of you care about -- should Joe Girardi have started A.J. Burnett on short rest last night? I actually told my father before the game that I would have held Burnett back for Game 6 because he was better at Yankee Stadium than on the road (Burnett had a good history starting with 3 days rest.) So I am doing an "I told you so" now? No. Thinking about it, I was wrong and Girardi was right. [More...]

Travel day for me.

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Afghanistan, health care and swine flu seem to be the main topics of the day.

It's Game 5 of the World Series, and Dancing With the Stars tonight.

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