Sometimes the Bear Gets You

Remember when I told you all about 2 of the Blogfathers and a Blogfollowers attempt to hit up the Celts-Bruins double-home playoff games on one Saturday, followed by a Sox matinee and Marathon Monday expedition on that Patriots' Day?

Well, I wanted to make a photo diary. What were the chances of that actually happening? 10 percent? 20 percent? Zero?? I'm the same guy who brings a camera on vacation and leaves it in the hotel the whole time. I'm not good with these things. Plus the times I really want to remember are the times were I usually am too impaired to make it happen. Damn. What follows is a super piss-poor example of a photo journal, with jusssst enough to make it funny that I even tried. Woo, Sorry for Partying.

10:35 AM: Gotta take the T on a day like this. The goal of this pic was to justbarely get us all in the corners of it. That way ppl on the T wouldn't think we were trying to take a self-pic. Nice.


12:15 PM: Celtssss brooooo. Let me innnnn.


DX was there:

They gave out Boston is a Brotherhood T-Shirt. I've since warn it twice more. The Celts have lost 3 three times. Needless to say, that shirt is retired for awhile.

We were upgraded to 10th row Loge from balcony for free. Good seats...

...you know, cept for the hoop..

Came down to the wire...

Met up with some ill Boston bros at the Greatest Bar, maybe the best place to go if you're around the Garden. If you're at Fenway, then it's obviously the Tavern. Notice my uniform change and the vintage B's jersey. Thing's a men's medium I've had since I was 12 years old. Look at that Bear on the sleeve. Just don't make em like that anymore...or with the fat mustard and shit all over it.

7:59 PM: Back to the timestamp for effect. I had 3 pictures total from the Bruins. Here, I set the camera setting to "My Vision" and this is what I got.

11:59 PM: Over 12 hours later, back home. Good looks to Jules on the picture.

Marathon Monday: My seats at the Sox were too tight to reach in and get my camera out. I'm only joking 10 percent. So squished. Jake thinks he is going to run one of these:

This sums it all up:

Sorry for wasting some of your life.

--Nick

Sunday Locks: Balt -3, Phil/Minn Under 41

I got some good news for the blog late last night. Im connected to a message board that has some sports handicappers as members. I got permission (well, found out its allowed) to copy some of the picks and explanations they post on here as long as I'm not profiting (as in selling, not winning). So I will be posting some of their picks against the number for you bros who like to make the occasional bet with your legal sportsbook located in Las Vegas or overseas. I am not claiming these plays will hit like crazy so make sure you realize that. Its just for a little fun as something I think our betting readers will enjoy. Anyway on to todays locks, Baltimore -3 and Philly/Minn under 41.

I like Baltimore -3 today as my personal lock. I think the Raven defense will embarass the gimmicky wildcat formation. The Ravens defense is ferocious and studious. Lewis is somehow having a great year again and Reed is at the top of his game. I love them because of 3 reasons, intuition, bias, and numbers. Intuition in that I just see Ed Reed scoring after picking either a duck from Ronnie Brown or a floater from Pennington to Ginn Jr. Bias in that I just think Miami is wiggity whack. And numbers because the guys from Football Outsiders are stat/number crunching monsters and have a proven rating system that depends on pure data input, no eyeball tests, and it has had Baltimore as the 2nd best team by the numbers almost all season. Jump on my back if you want, but both of the tempting road favorites did kill a lot of people yesterday.

Sunday's lock (Tom Friedman): Philly @ Minn Under 41 pts

One key stat a lot of handicappers look at when analyzing a total is red-zone percentage and this matchup pits two teams that aren’t effective inside the 20. Minnesota reached the red-zone 44 times this season and mustered up 19 touchdowns and 17 field goals, which was ranked 28th in the league. Philadelphia was ranked 22nd but it didn’t light up the scoreboard either, scoring just 31 touchdowns in 61 trips for a 49.2 scoring percentage.

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