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Baseball owners continue to be the dumbest in sports. First they gave up financial control of their game to the players in the 1980s, then they let commissioner Bud Selig institute the ridiculous “All-Star winner gets home field in the World Series” mandate. Now this. A designed one-game play-in? In baseball? What’s the point? It [...]
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There’s no room for error now. The Seahawks have to go 4-0 in the final two weeks if they are going to make the playoffs. That’s two wins of their own along with two losses by Detroit (or two by Atlanta), which would force a tie at 9-7 that the Seahawks would win based on [...]
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- Tags: k.j. wright, playoffs, red bryant
How Hawks can make playoffs
12 Dec 2011As the Seahawks prepare for what should be a home victory tonight against the Rams, the playoffs are well within reach – believe it or not. All it will take is an arm extender with a firm grip. The Seahawks actually would be in the driver’s seat for a wild-card spot if they had won [...]
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Playoffs?? Hey, it’s worth asking
21 Nov 2011It might seem ridiculous to ask, especially considering their ongoing offensive struggles, but can the Seahawks make the playoffs? Or is every win just pushing them farther away from drafting one of the top quarterbacks? After their 24-7 win in St. Louis on Sunday, they are riding a two-game winning streak as they head into [...]
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- Tags: chicago bears, playoffs
OTPB Playoff Picks: Divisional round
In: Football
15 Jan 2011Modern sports has become too nice; today’s athletes are more comfortable hugging and tweeting than pushing and shoving. So thank goodness for the AFC playoffs, which finally has brought vitriol back into the sporting world. Is some of it manufactured? Sure, but you can’t help but feel a little jazzed when Antonio Cromartie calls Tom Brady [...]
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- Tags: nfl picks, playoffs, rex ryan, trash talk
OTPB Playoff Picks: Wild-card round
8 Jan 2011Three games during this weekend’s NFL wild-card playoff action are must-see-TV. The fourth? Well, I’m sure the Seahawks will give it a go, but when the biggest attribute people can point to is a loud crowd, I don’t hold out much hope that the game will be entertaining. But you never know. The way things [...]
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- Tags: Michael Vick, nfl picks, playoffs, seahawks, wild card
Seahawks get the job done to win the Worst
In: NFL
3 Jan 2011As hard as it is to believe, the 7-9 Seattle Seahawks have the same shot to win the Super Bowl as the 14-2 New England Patriots. Well, not really, but you know what I mean. When you get to the playoffs, anything can happen, and Seattle at least gave itself the opportunity to shock the world [...]
OTPB NFL Picks: Week 14
In: NFL
9 Dec 2010Last week was the first time since 2000 that no team clinched a playoff berth in Week 13, more proof of the league’s parity, and yet a small victory in the fight against the kind of shenanigans that the Colts pulled last year, ruining their shot at a perfect season. This week, a host of [...]
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- Tags: flex schedule, nfl picks, playoffs, tom brady
Clear path for Caps to Cup
In: NHL
22 Apr 2010As soon as Washington ripped the hearts out of Montreal by rallying from a 4-1 deficit in Game 2, you knew from that point that the series with the game Canadiens was over. And now it looks like the rest of the Eastern Conference has capitulated to the Caps, making their run to the Stanley [...]
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- Tags: capitals, ovechkin, playoffs, you suck flyers
OTPB NFL predictions: Week 17
In: NFL
31 Dec 2009So, the Colts threw away their shot at perfection and screwed up the AFC playoff race by removing their starters in the second half of last week’s game against the Jets. Not only did Indy infuriate its normally placid fanbase, it created a firestorm across the country as talking heads debated the merits of Jim [...]
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- Tags: nfl picks, playoffs, quitters, week 17
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