It’s a slow celebrity gossip day so we’re extending our talents into the athletes not dating Madonna realm of sports! We have devised a method of predicting the winner of this year’s World Series between the Tampa Bay Rays and the Philadelphia Phillies. It’s a method often used by scientists that predict the future and involves matching up seven different Rays with seven different Phillies (we’re taking that to mean “from Philly”). Based on cultural, scientific, comic, gastronomical and other factors we’ve picked a winner in each matchup, which should accurately predict which team will win the fall classic! So, here goes:
Looks like the Phillies win 4-3! And we were kinda pulling for the underdog – GRRRR! Oh well. When it happens you know you heard it here first!
****UPDATE 10/29/08 – The Phillies are world champions after defeating the Rays in the last three innings of a game that started Monday, but was delayed due to rain. We predicted the winner correctly, but unlike our scorecard, the Phillies only needed five match-ups to win their series 4-1. Congratulations Philadelphia! (We weren’t too happy with the Phillies this year after holding on to Rollins in a five player keeper fantasy league. We did manage to get Victorino late in the draft though, so we had a little Phillie love in da house)
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oh you always make me laugh, and the blog is getting better. keep it up.
I know there are plenty of women out there – as well as gay men – who would rather eat Billy Ray Cyrus than a Philly Cheesesteak.
I don’t understand it either, but it’s enough to make a cheesesteak victory seem less decisive than you’re making it out to be.
Pink is from Philly? I had no idea.
Given the legendary 25 yr. curse on the city, however, I don’t know if any other team can be called the underdog….
D’awww! Didn’t we have a better closer than Billy Ray?!?! Damn damm damm – it’s hard to imagine any human beating a cheesesteak sandwich! If it had just been Rocky III in game six we’d be poppin’ the corks in Tampa!
Yup the Rays were favored in Vegas. I read one article that said the odds were skewed because they gave Tampa unreasonably bad odds to start the season and they have to balance out the potential of paying out 200:1 bets. That doesn’t seem to make sense because for every dollar bet on the Rays winning there had to be $200 bet on the Red Sox, Yankees, Tigers, White Sox, and all the other American League teams, right?
This is all boring compared to debating whether or not Blu-Ray is better than Pink!
Weren’t the Phillies the underdog?
Damn straight! Phillies in 5, though!
Sally – We’ll have our merchandisers check into the stuffed Raymond Burr idea, I think we could make it fly if we called it “Teddy Burr.”
I don’t know much about baseball, but this is funny! Who does all these drawings? They’re great! I want a stuffed Raymond Burr! And a sandwich
HAHAHA! Thank goodness for Philly Cheesesteak in game 7!