Thursday Pickin’ Season V, Week 4

Quote of the Week:   “I don’t even know what that second Idaho is supposed to be.”     –Ash

TB comes to you live, or tape delayed as the case may be, but that doesn’t have quite the same cache, from the Madison, Mississippi, Corner Bakery. What an atmosphere! Playing some late model Dylan overhead, there’s a confused looking old dude in the booth across the room from me, a chick in the front who appears to be waiting on someone and two fifty-something dudes who are really happy to see one another. Coupla tennis moms just walked in. Otherwise the place is empty and the food is marginally average.

But the wifi is good and they have a really good soda fountain and you know not all places get the mixture just right, but this place does. So, I’m here, and it’s a long story why. Which reminds me, I get really hungry on Saturdays watching college football, checkin’ on my picks, watchin’ two or three games at a time, antsy for my Bullies to get underway when they have a night game. I also have a really bad cold this week, so I’m feelin’ a bit incoherent.

And hey! I won the week last week! Because all y’all were TURR-I-BULL. Sweet even gave me list of the week, well deserved I might add. He bestowed co-song of the week on Irv and Mac. I won my POTW to move my season record to 2-1 and my 3-2 bonus picks raised my record on those to 6-9.

The MTGU was 9-19, which may be our worst week ever, and 38-44 dropping our collective tally to 36-47 and 93-132.  If that don’t make you lose your appetite, I don’t know what will. Then again, if that does make you lose your appetite, I don’t know what else will, so I guess I’m not too much help if your dieting, which is another subject altogether so quit asking nonsense questions like that. Excuse me while I hack up some loose lung. I’m feelin’ kinda dizzy after that.

What else? Oh, Buzz won a game. One game. Not his POTW. He’s now 0-3, 1-12.  Shout out to Nelson for winning the biggest DOTW, Stanford and to Irv for calling Florida. Here are last week’s standings, remember, only bonus picks are in parentheses, and the top 8 won their POTW. MDry and Flyin’ J busted the curve with 4-1 bonus pick records. That helped Sweet, TJ and Nelson get some free points. Last Week’s Results:

1. TB  (3-2, LOTW)  61
2. BR  56
3. Fig  56
4. Krebs  (1-0) 56
5. Harmony  56
6. Big Ed  (2-3)  44
7. Coach TeaJay  (1-3)  39
8. Sweet  (1-4)  39
9. Nelson  (0-3)  39
10. MDry  (4-1)  38
11. Flyin’ J  (4-1)  38
12. TKH  (3-1)  32
13. Fish  (3-2)  26
14. Face  (2-1)  26
15. Tiny D  (2-2)  20
16. SDog  (2-2) 20
17. Larry (2-2)  20
18. TDW  (2-3)  14
19. Pitalo  (2-3)  14
20. Ash  (1-2)  14
21. Folly J  (2-3)  14
22. Mac (0-2, SOTW)  13
23. Irv  (0-2, SOTW)  13
24. JLou  10
25. MD  10
26. RSR  10
27. Smily J  10
28. BW Buzz (1-3)  8

Season Standings:

1. BR  180
2. Fig  180
3. Krebs  178
4. Face  150
5. Harmony  150
6. RSR  139
7. Flyin’ J  138
8. SmilyJ  134
9. Coach TeaJay  128
10. Big Ed  121
11. TB  114
12. Ash  114
13. Folly J  104
14. Pitalo  96
15. Larry  96
16. TKH  93
17. Mac  91
18. JLou  88
19. Sweet  85
20. MDry  77
21. MD  76
22. Nelson  66
23. SDog  50
24. Tiny D  47
25. Irv  33
26. TDW  30
27. Fish  30
28. BW Buzzzzzzzzzzz  8

Here are my Picks of the Week and Here’s Your HandyDandyLinktotheOdds:

• UCLA  -7
• Vandy  +16
• Ole Miss  -18′
• So  Miss  +4′
• Louisville  -14

POTW  LSU  -20′ DOTW  So Miss  +4′

My Tunes and bear in mind that I started this post intending to write about being Hungry for a win, how I get hungry on Saturdays, etc, but my head cold kind of turned it into a……oh man, I need to stop typing right now and go back to bed:

• Hungry Heart–Bruce Springsteen
• Cherry Cherry–Neil Diamond or Peaches–Presidents of the United States
• Cheeseburger in Paradise–Buffett
• Ice Cream Man–Van Halen

SOTW–Dixie Chicken–Little Feat