<p>You can tell a lot about a person by their favorite episode of "Seinfeld". If someone's favorite is "the Contest", they have a sick sense of humor. If someone says "the Soup Nazi" they're a conformist and try to act like everyone else. If someone says "the Finale", they're a bloody liar and you shouldn't be friends with them.<br />
<p>So I may finally have a job. That's right, after six months of unemployment, I may finally be hired somewhere. But there's a catch, they still have to do a background check. Now, I don't have a criminal record and everything on my resume is accurate, but the first thing that pops up when you Google my name is my PIC column. Now, I stand by my column. I enjoy writing it.
I realize absolutely nobody cares about this except Red Sox fans (and even with them it's shaky), but here we go.<br /><br />Step 1. Resign Alex Gonzalez. The real American League Gold Glover at shortstop. I realize he only hit .261 last year, but so what? He's fun to watch, makes things a lot easier for pitchers, and doesn't defense win championships?<br />
<p>This past week is among the saddest of my sports fan year. The NBA has started. Honestly, I wouldn't mind it so much if it didn't mean ESPN would morph into NBA 2Night and PTI and Around the Horn would engage in 30-minute debates over whether some guy named Rasho Rastonevic would make the Warriors a contender. I honestly don't care.
<p>First off, sorry to the two people (and Dan Opp) who put up with me double-posting the last baseball blog. Blogger was being a bastard. Also, I'm fairly certain Rhode Island has the worst wireless internet in the country. I'm better off sending in my PIC blogs via smoke signal. Anyway, on to the picks.<br /><br />(HOME team in CAPS)<br /><br />Jacksonville (+6) over PHILLY
<p>First off, sorry to the two people (and Dan Opp) who put up with me double-posting the last baseball blog. Blogger was being a bastard. Also, I'm fairly certain Rhode Island has the worst wireless internet in the country. I'm better off sending in my PIC blogs via smoke signal. Anyway, on to the picks.<br /><br />(HOME team in CAPS)<br /><br />Jacksonville (+6) over PHILLY
Email from Nate at 7:06 p.m. on Friday, about four hours before the Cardinals won the World Series.<br />
>Nathan DeGraaf: Justin, I hope life is treating you well and all your friends and family are eating caviar and shitting gold (what can I say? I'm optimistic). I'll weigh in on the lat two games of the series in a minute, but first a little anecdote I'm sure you'll enjoy. <br />
<p>Welcome back to the MLB Blog Exchange (Or as Nick Gaudio calls it, "The thing I'll make fun of but secretly wish I had been invited into. I'm going to go write another faggoty poem and try to convince people Rebello's a virgin, hoping people look past my propensity toward fucking fat chicks.")<br /><br />From the files of DeGraaf:<br />
<p>I don't know if you've noticed, and judging by my readership stats, you haven't, but my picks have sucked this year. Normally I would blame this on a weird season, but I think it's just me. For starters, I have two fantasy football teams that are a combined 3-9. My Steelers Super Bowl pick is getting more laughable by the day.
Nate and myself are blogging during the baseball playoffs. Not that any of you are reading anyway. I can say whatever I want. Watch me. I don't like Chinks. See that? <br /><br />Nate's thoughts on the LCSes in progress:<br />
<p>I didn't write a column this week...too busy. But don't worry, the columns are going to be particularly nasty in the coming weeks; we're talking a throwback to 2004 when Court used to IM me after seeing my drafts with: "Are you sure you want this in print?"