Not this year, admiral.
Both Army and Navy are going bowling this year, so this isn't the end of the line. Both Army and Navy can put up points. The O/U on this game is 54. Most years, I'm diverting the rent money to bet the under. This year, for the entire season, these two teams combined have gone under exactly once.
The fear is...well, the fear is that we have sucked at this for two and a half months, so what's left to be afraid of? I'm tossing a couple stars at the OVER, and that also solves one of my other problems, that being that I don't like to bet against the service academies. This way, I'm rooting for them to tie at 49-49.
There will be several other games on Saturday, nobody that we know about, smaller schools, and there are lines posted if you feel the need to bleed. Not us.
Army/Navy, Saturday on CBS, 1:30.
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On an unrelated topic, am I the only person who's gagging on the extreme level of highly inappropriate adulation being heaped on the newly departed Ron Santo, and the cross-contamination of mourning and profit mongering?
OK, it's sad that the man passed, and for the prominence he achieved over his careers in Chicago it's worthy of some extra coverage and to chronicle a life well-lived. But--lying in state at Holy Name Cathedral and televising the funeral? Have these people no sense of decorum at all?
The guy was a baseball player and radio announcer, not a head of of state or great humanitarian. Just a likeable guy with a nice story behind him. Determined and admirable, a life worth memorializing. What happened here is bizarre. Notwithstanding the fact that his family agreed to all the macabre celebration, this death carnival of brand marketing is another example of why the Cubs are the most loathesome of sports businessess. That all the lemmings fell right in line with this foolishness is no surprise. Think I'm being harsh?
How much you want to bet that the memorial CD is already in the works?
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