SEC Football predictions, Week Two. Home teams in bold just because. Also, they’re all listed first this week because I think they’re all going to win. What’s a Norfolk State?
Alabama 37, Tulane 6
Vanderbilt 20, South Carolina 19
Georgia 41, Central Michigan 16
Auburn 21, USM 13
Kentucky 35, Norfolk St. (Who?!?!?) 12
Wake Forest 28, Ole Miss 24
Mississippi State 14, SE Louisiana 10
Arkansas 20, ULM 17
Florida 60, Miami 13
Idle 20, Tennessee 17
The ever-prescient Jerry Reed.
When it came to redneck Jerrys of the ’70s, I always preferred him to Jerry Clower.
Idle has no chance, they are playing it in Knoxville.
Interesting Vanderbilt pick.
Big SI cover story on Bama this week.
You forget, Smitty, Knoxville is also the home town of Idle.
Dumb b-ref question: on pitcher gamelogs (like this one), what do “StC,” “StS,” and “StL” mean?
I’m guessing one of them is Strikes Swinging, one is Strikes Looking; haven’t figured out the first one.
Contact?
Norfolk State takes me back to my sailor days when we’d listen to the NSU cheerleaders proclaim:
“We’re the girls from NSU. We don’t smoke and we don’t chew.
Norfolk! Norfolk!”
Strikes with contact – either foul or in play
Drew, thanks.
NSU won last week. Cats have a tough one on their hands.
They beat Virginia State, which isn’t particularly impressive. Rough week for the schools with “Virginia” in their name.
Yahoo news has it splashed as a headline only 600 people attend Braves-Marlins game. All I can say is God Bless those hearty souls. The ACC is an embarassment again this year, but look for Miami to rebound in the next couple of years.
James Parr is starting tonight, which means (for better or worse) I’ll be compelled to actually pay attention to the game.
The Nats pitcher, Shairon Martis, is making his big league debut too. Interesting
I remember that for a couple of years back around the turn of the century, I was in an online fantasy competition with a team named “Norfolk and Chance.” Say it out loud to figure out why.
Gosh, I guess I’ll have to save “Man In Motion” for his next start, should there be one.
Simpson and Sciambi keep promoting their new e-mail address (joeandboog@gmail.com) for questions and comments.
So I will take the newfound opportunity to ask Joe Simpson how he can criticize so many players’ hitting when his career hitting numbers are what they are.
What a dog slate of games this week. Not just the SEC but for the whole country. Out here we’ve got Oregon State-Penn State as the headliner, with ASU-Stanford and Washington-BYU as the marginally interesting games. That’s…not much.
Dan, I guarantee that I would be a worse major league hitter than Joe Simpson, but I still feel fully justified in criticizing Jeff Francoeur.
right alex……….and i’m not a pilot but i know a plane crash when i see one.
The problem with Simpson is that he doesn’t realize what a good hitter is.
I LOVE seeing a batter take the first pitch when the pitcher has no idea where the plate is. Thank you, Greg.
The ump just called ball 4 a strike and prevented Gregor from drawing a bases-loaded walk, but at least he brought one of the guys home, instead of hitting into a double play, popping up or striking out, which is what we do all too often.
6 IP, 2 H, 0 R, 3 K, 3 BB — welcome to the bigs, kiddo. Nice job.
For today at least, Mr. Parr can climb the highest mountain and cross the widest sea.
Now, will the bullpen screw it up, and if so, how?
Great, they gave up a hit and one of my players got hurt.
Mac –
You stole my St. Elmo’s Fire joke. It was the last one in my arsenal for this depressing season.
Still…he’s no Billy Hixx and the New Breed.
Well, we could also call him Klinger.
Recapped.