A week for the underdogs

Week 10 has become a week for the underdogs. 

What am I talking about? Well, if you were following the NFL games this week, you know.

The Chiefs beat the Steelers. The Raiders beat the Bengals. I think those two sentences pretty much sum it up.

The Bengals are an underdog story themselves, so for them to be on the other side of being an underdog is not only a paradox, it’s confusing.

The Steelers lost Big Ben. And their backup quarterback. They’re in trouble.

Moving along to the undefeateds, yes, there are still two.
The Saints blew away the Buccaneers, as they should have.
The Colts, on the other hand, barely beat the Ravens. But, in their defense, the Ravens are a pretty good team.

My favorite story of the week is the Lions. Yes, they beat an awful team in the Browns, but the game itself was thrilling. Poor Stafford broke his collarbone in the “last play” before the penalty that ultimately cost the Browns the game, but still went out to throw the winning touchdown. 

The Eagles (you knew this was coming) played a fairly good game at Chicago Sunday night. They ended their decline by beating the Bears, 24-20.

It is the offseason, after all.

…and it hasn’t been a very exciting one.

Thankfully, there’s still football for about another month, and hockey is in full swing. But, they only play every so often.

Because I meant for this to be a Phillies blog, I won’t be writing very often. I will try to keep my football pool going, but I can’t promise that, because I only have a month left in the semester and it’s considered “crunch time”. I may write about a Flyers game after they’re over, I still have to see what I want to do during the off-season.

Of course, if anything Phillies-related happens, I will write about it.
As far as that goes…
– Utley won a Silver Slugger, and Rollins and Victorino won Gold Gloves.
– Happ is hoping for the Rookie of the Year. 
– Free Agency is becoming a huge issue, as to who the Phillies want to keep and who they want to let go. Lee has already been wrangled in again, and Feliz’ option has been denied. The Phils have until Dec. 1st to decide what they want to do. 

The Flyers play again tonight at 7 against the Devils. Let’s go Flyers!!!

The Eagles play the Bears at Chicago next Sunday at 8:30.

DON’T TRADE HAMELS

Among the many rumors circulating around the Phillies’ offseason, there has been talks of trading Cole Hamels to the Blue Jays for Roy Halladay.

No. No. NO.

Yes, Halladay has been awesome in the past, but he’s older than Hamels, and who knows if he’ll be the same player he was before??

Not smart, kids. Not smart at all. But what was smart was turning down this rumors. The Phillies wouldn’t give up Hamels anyway, it isn’t a smart move.

Be sure to keep up with your Phillies/MLB off-season news on MLB Network. Hot Stove, a show on everything from trades to club news, will be airing again on Wednesday. They also have a blog, which will be fully running soon.

Guess you can’t win it every year…

It stung, but it didn’t hurt.

The Phillies will be back next year!! 🙂 Look out, New York, cause you won’t get so lucky again.

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Although baseball is over, football is in the thick of its season.

…And then there were 2: Indianapolis and New Orleans holds steadfast onto their perfect season.
On the other end, and then there were none: With Tampa Bay’s win over Green Bay today, every team in the NFL has at least 1 win.

The Eagles were knocked off tonight with their tough loss to the Cowboys. It’s ok, boys. You’ll get San Diego next week. 🙂

I’ve been slacking….

I know, I’m sorry guys…I’ve been slacking like CRAZY.

Unfortunately, it’s that time of the semester where everything is due at the same time…I haven’t been doing anything but homework for the past week. Thank you for that, Rowan…

But anyway, enough of the excuses, I’m going to try to get caught up in one post. Bare with me.

BASEBALL:
– The World Series is in full swing.  For those of you who have been living under a rock (and I mean that in the most loving tone 🙂 ) The Yankees seemed to end the Phillies’ hope by taking a compelling 3-1 lead in the Series. But, the Phillies aren’t called the Fightin’s for nothing! They played a beautiful game 5 to move the Series back to the Bronx. Good luck Phils!! I’ll be rooting for ya!! 😀
– Chase Utley is having an amazing Series. Being my favorite person on the face of the Earth (EVERYONE knows how much I love Chase 😉 ), I definitely think he deserves World Series MVP.  He has been chosen by ESPN and SportsCenter to win the title, even if they don’t win the Series. Good luck to my Chase!!! 

FOOTBALL:  
– Week 8 has gone by with minimal drama, just good ol’ fashioned football games. There are 2 undefeated teams left- the Colts and the Saints. As far as the other side of the spectrum, there is 1 team without any wins- the Buccaneers. The Eagles have taken over the lead in the NFC East by annihilating the Giants. Have the Giants shown who they really are in this game? We shall see…

**Tonight is Game 6 of the World Series- 7:57 PM on Fox** (check local listings)

Highlights from Youtube=awesome.

Here’s the highlights from the game last night.

Props to: xdsxsnipexdsx

Enjoy!!

How ’bout them PHILS???

Game 1 is officially in the books.

What a game it was. The Phils definitely shut up the criticism. Good job guys!!

Chase and Cliff were the Yankee killers. I would love to see at least Chase do it again. 🙂

Let’s go get ’em tonight!!!!!

(photo courtesy of the Courier Post)

(photo courtesy of the Courier Post)

On the eve of the epic-ness…

All I’ve been hearing is comparisons.

Who’s better: the Yankees or the Phillies??

Why answer the question before the series even starts?? That makes no sense.

But, whatever the answer to the question above is, it won’t matter until the games are played.

GO PHILS!!!! 🙂

Results football pool, week 7

Here’s how I did for this week:

1:00 games-
New England @ Tampa Bay–New England
Green Bay @ Cleveland–Green Bay
San Francisco @ Houston–Houston
Minnesota @ Pittsburgh–Pittsburgh
Indianapolis @ St. Louis–Indianapolis
San Diego @ Kansas City–San Diego

4:05 games-
Buffalo @ Carolina–Buffalo
New York(j) @ Oakland–New York(j)
Atlanta @ Dallas–Dallas
Chicago @ Cincinnati–Cincinnati
New Orleans @ Miami–New Orleans

Sunday night game:
Arizona @ New York(g)–Arizona

Monday night game:
Philadelphia @ Washington–Philadelphia

Final result–> 8-5
…winning record, but I could’ve done better…

We STILL have undefeated teams:
Indianapolis Colts~6-0
Denver Broncos~6-0 (BYE week)
New Orleans Saints~6-0

…and we STILL have winless teams:
St. Louis Rams~0-7
Tampa Bay Buccaneers~0-7
Tennessee Titans~0-6 (BYE week)

The shocker teams had their BYE this week, so we shall see if they remain the best and the worst of the NFL

New Jersey has been officially split in half.

This is quite possibly the most exciting World Series matchup, ever.

The Philadelphia Phillies vs. the New York Yankees. It just sounds epic. It actually already has a nickname: the Liberty Series.

North Jersey vs. South Jersey. This is basically what it comes down to.

A-Rod, Derek Jeter, and Mark Teixeira vs. Ryan Howard, Chase Utley, and Raul Ibanez.

Mariano Rivera vs. Brad Lidge.

And, for the first game at least: CC Sabathia vs. Cliff Lee.

It will be epic. Yes, I’ve said it before, but I’m saying it again because it’s true.

(photo courtesy of the Long Island Press)

(photo courtesy of Philadelphia Front Page News)