CanadianChris

I finally saw gas dip below 90 cents last night...89.9 while visiting my parents in Gananoque, ON.

I'm thinking so. The show swerved me into thinking this was a non-elim leg. It sucks that there's only one team left that I really like (Toni and Dallas). On the rest, I'm either meh or into active dislike.

Am I ever glad I don't have to touch the Jets again. I could see everyone advancing next week, too. Week 10 is when I think things will start to get interesting.

The fans at Wembley must have no clue what's going on now.

THANK YOU VILMA!

Come on, Bob, tell your team to get their asses in gear here.

That's right. CBS can only show one game in any given market this week, so if you're getting Cincinnati/Houston, you won't get an early game.

Check the highlights for this last play in the Jets game. Leon Washington was carrying the KC punter on his back for nearly 10 yards. Hilarious.

Jets fans should be screaming for Mangini's head after this game, win or lose.

Fuck that fun-loving Brett Favre.

Wow, is Favre ever having fun out there.

Then they have to do the best with what they have. Look at the Rangers, they gave Bobby Holik 4 years, 28 million. It didn't make them successful or either good. You can't look at an isolated mistake and say that it proves your point. While the Rangers were dicking around doing nothing, the Red Wings, Stars, Devils and Avalanche were at the top of the league in both spending and -- surprise! -- Stanley Cups. You can't have a league where a third of the teams are out of contention before the season even starts. Sports isn't free-market capitalism, and a "survival of the richest" mentality only degrades the league.

That presumes that every team takes in the same amount of money, though, which isn't true. You can't choose to spend $100 million if you don't have $100 million. A team in, say, Edmonton is put at a disadvantage right off the bat because their owner doesn't own a cable network and can't command huge local rights fees. Now, if you want to say that teams that can't hack it should just be folded, well, that diminishes the entire league, both due to loss of revenue (from the owners' perspective) and loss of jobs (from the players' perspective).

Even if you spend it well, you're still shut out of most of the high-level free agents. You're depending on most of your draft picks panning out extremely well, as well as who you are able to sign exceeding expectations. Basically, you need to get quite lucky to have even a one or two year window when you can contend for a title. Contrast that to big-market teams, who are never out of contention for long, assuming even a semi-competent front office, because they can spend big money for top free agents in addition to their draft. It's unfair. Better to let the teams be able to spend the same amounts of money, and let competence in the front office, scouting and coaching be the difference.

World Series.

The point isn't that the haves will always be successful. The point is that they'll be successful much more often than the have-nots. For every Tampa Bay, there are a dozen Pittsburghs. Look at this season in baseball -- the playoff teams included two from Los Angeles, two from Chicago, Boston, and Philadelphia (with both New York teams coming close). Milwaukee was in the top half of the majors in salaries. And yet people still point to Tampa as proof that the system works.

Dan Dierdorf is incredulous at how much the Jets are passing the ball. Is he the last person on earth to see Brett Favre play?

No surprises this week: NY Jets - 3 Baltimore - 2

Yeah, it's called "No way does the Rose Bowl committee ever choose Minnesota over OSU".

It seemed like they just came out flat tonight. That's been the story most of the time, though. Come out flat, get down early, mount a comeback that comes up short. I'm not impressed with the coaching so far, although the talent just doesn't seem to be there either.

My sophisticated analysis: The Senators are not a good hockey team.

Gogogogo Buckeyes.

I don't know why they can't just go to a soccer-style system, with three points for a win and one point for a tie, and no shootout. I guarantee that teams would play hard to grab two extra points at the potential expense of losing one.

Uh...you're about two weeks behind on that news. They mentioned it during the Colts/Ravens game 2 weeks ago. Uh...there's a NEW report about the supposed staph infection. Christ.

WCW had a mascot called Wild Cat Willie in the mid-90s. That may be what you saw.