Operation Reverse Psychology

It’s pretty clear, that my rooting for a team, or betting on them, is a sure fire way for them to lose, usually in dramatic fashion. With the Baseball season in danger of ending way to soon, thus limiting weeknight televised sports to NBA (most worthless regular season ever), and NHL (too hard to watch neutral teams when not in HD), I’ve decided to take drastic measures. I am jumping off the Rays bandwagon, and am pledging my full support to the Phillies. Not just the Phillies either, all things philly from here on out. If I go to Penn Station for a sub, no more italian sub (best ever) I gotta go cheese steak. I might buy an Eagles T.O. jersey on ebay, and maybe even an old Iverson jersey. The day after thanksgiving, I’ll go to the mall, and drill santa clause with a sno-ball. I might even pretend I’m Andy Reids son, and wave a gun at people on the highway, while my brother hides drugs all over the house. This has to work. It’s the only way we can make the world series go to at least 6 games. Here we go Phillies, I’m pulling for you.

Though this plan will work for baseball, I still have yet to figure out what to do in my NFL survivor league. Again I am still alive, no blemishes thus far, but this is usually where I slip up. It’s not that I can’t guess who a different winner will be each week. The problem is, I don’t know which team to pick against anymore. The Lions, and the Bengals equally suck, but one of them is gonna win at some point, and it scares me. I’ve had to use up all the 1st place teams, and have no faith in Buffalo, or New England. Basically from here on out, I gotta pick against Cincy, and Detroit every week, and pray that I guess right each week. In the NFL, everyone wins at least once, right? Are they both really that shitty? Which one will face a team of guys who all figured they would have an easy win, and got hookers the night before? It always happens, look at teams like the chiefs, the raiders, the Rams. They suck, but still won games. All I can do, is keep betting against Cincy, and pray for that number 1 pick. It would solve 2 problems.