Spaceman Spiff

Kids were still out trick-or-treating.

What's with "Lost" actors & driving violations?

Miami: 24 Miami at Pittsburgh (3.5) Atlanta at Carolina (5.5) Baltimore at Tampa Bay (3.5) Buffalo at New England (8.5) Cincinnati at Kansas City (3.5) (3.5) Denver at St. Louis New Orleans at Cleveland (3.5) N.Y. Jets at Tennessee (3.5) (4.5) Philadelphia at Houston (6.5) Seattle at Detroit (3.5) Chicago at Green Bay Dallas at Jacksonville (2.5) San Francisco at Arizona (7.5) (3.5) Indianapolis at N.Y. Giants Minnesota at Washington (4.5) (3.5) San Diego at Oakland

THURSDAY Oregon State at Boise State SATURDAY Mississippi at Missouri Penn State at Notre Dame (Boo!) Clemson at Boston College Tulsa at BYU Colorado vs. Colorado State East Carolina at UAB Minnesota at California SMU at North Texas Georgia at South Carolina New Mexico at New Mexico State Ohio State at Texas Texas Tech at UTEP Oregon at Fresno State Tiebreak #1: How many total points will be scored in the Penn State/Notre Dame game? 49 Tiebreak #2: How many passing yards will Ohio State's Troy Smith have against Texas? 213

This one's for AoO: .

I'm 1-0, not 0-1. I'll get my picks in soon...

Bring back Stamboli to team w/ him. Stamboli has a goofy sort of charisma that can get over in the midcard (he & Nunzio were starting to get good reactions right before they released Johnny). Tweak the FBI gimmick by making them bookies/gamblers (I know it's a retread of some stuff they did before, but they really didn't go all out w/ that idea). Or, as I'm watching Rob Conway job to Snitsky on Heat, move Conway to SD to team w/ Chuck.

I think it shows the need for Tom Gordon to return ASAP. While he should be better than what we've been using, Gordon isn't exactly known for coming up big in pressure games.

Maybe we'll get Chuck back on TV. Sweet!

Phils win 8-7!

Tie game in the bottom of the 9th! Phils still have runners on 2nd & 3rd w/ 1 out, w/ Victorino up.

Hey, Braves take the lead 7-6 in the top of the 9th. This bullpen is horrible.

Choc-lit. It's not spelled "cholcolate", so how do you get an "l" in there before pronouncing the "k" sound?

Wait until you get a teaching job, then pursue it. Several of my friends are teachers, and that's the route they went. Your school would most likely reimburse you for some/most/all of your tuition (and maybe books). Find an online program, or maybe a community college or local branch campus of a bigger school near you, to run it through. The only downside to that would be adding masters schoolwork onto your job workload.

I was at both Phils games today. 2nd game was really fun (even though it started out like it was going to be a clunker), the 1st...not so much. I saw no reason to take out Madson in favor of Rhodes. My buddy & I looked at each other and just said "oh, shit" whan the move was made. A few pitches later, we just shook our heads. Don't know if the broadcast mentioned it, but the scoreboard put up "sprained albow" as the culprit. Neat factoid from game 1 - both of Utley's HR's were hit to the exact same spot (1 section over from us). They were grabbed by 2 people 1 row & 1 seat apart from each other.

*I* was the one who came up w/ that. Alf swiped it.

Looks like tonight's Phillies game has been cancelled, so SD *might* air tonight. I don't recall this happening before, so I'm not sure what will air instead of the regularly scheduled game.

Didn't this happen like 2 years ago?

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SD is pre-empted in Philly, too. Airs Saturday @ 8 PM.

Eddie's, but he's denied those rumors.

Sure does.

I don't see the Dolphins making the SB. We're going to miss having Ricky more than people think.

I couldn't find it on the site I was using for the others (I found the date of the strip, but the site brings up a different one), so I scanned it from "There's Treasure Everywhere".

Also, I think that would've worked better had Calvin been talking about Susie.