I went 2-2 on my week #9 predictions, running my season total to 23-10. I don't like odd numbers, they are weird. So, this time, I will predict my usual 4 games and have a 5th game bonus thrown into the mix. That way, when I go 5-0 tomorrow, I will be 28-10 on the season!! Or not...
Game 1. Hamburg Kraken (7-2) vs Blackrock Reapers (6-3). Can the Kraken end their 2 game skid? I say yes. I also say, (music please), "Kraken don't fear the Reapers, nor do the wind and the sun and the rain. Come on baby, we can be like they are, don't fear the Reapers" -- gimme some more Cowbell!!
Game 2. Moscow Musketeers (4-5) vs Lexington Lancers (4-5). Two teams with the same record, but one team is better on paper. Both team mascots are sword or pointy thingy wielding medieval dudes as well. Technically, I think Musketeers are French, not Russian, and they used rapiers, not swords -- but whatever. Speaking of the French, are they really cheese-eating surrender monkeys, or is that a myth? Oh, and by the way, I think the Lex Lancers lose.
Game 3. B.F. Brawlers (4-5) vs Damn Dawgs (3-6). This should be a good, close game, I think. The Damn **freakin** Dawgs win in a mild upset over the B.F. **bitchin** Brawlers. I kind of like putting **expletives** in front of and between things. This could get **ass-kickingly** addicting. I am not sure that I can **fargin** stop this way of typing my **mofo-ing** picks. **Sunuvabich, shitarsky** make it stop!!
Game 4. Minn Mafia (6-3) vs Atlantis Stormriders (8-1). The little team that could, the Mafia have the largest "average level" to "effective level" margin in the league (at least on the good side). Well done!! I am still not sure what all goes into the "effective level" calculation, but the Mafia are proof positive that it is a pretty good predictor of how good a team really is... With all that said, I think the Mafia lose this game. Sorry Mafia, I like ya, just don't see 2 upsets in a row for you. Now don't go ordering a hit on my ass, ok? Thanx.
Bonus game 5. Kingston Cobras (2-7) vs AZ Wolves (1-8). If anyone reads my predictions, (which I think is a small number of you), you would know by now that I try to make sense of the team city and mascot combo. In this case, I am 99.99% sure that there are no Cobras in Jamaica. There may be Wolves in Arizona (I still don't think so), but there is no way Cobras are indiginous species to the small Caribbean Island nation where Kingston is located. I could wrap my head around some Cobras brought in as pets once their venom was removed, I guess, but that is a reach. Anyhooo, I like the Cobras to win this battle of two pretty-good-teams-if-they-were-not-in-this-particular-elite-league matchup.
Jeremy.
Game 1. Hamburg Kraken (7-2) vs Blackrock Reapers (6-3). Can the Kraken end their 2 game skid? I say yes. I also say, (music please), "Kraken don't fear the Reapers, nor do the wind and the sun and the rain. Come on baby, we can be like they are, don't fear the Reapers" -- gimme some more Cowbell!!
Game 2. Moscow Musketeers (4-5) vs Lexington Lancers (4-5). Two teams with the same record, but one team is better on paper. Both team mascots are sword or pointy thingy wielding medieval dudes as well. Technically, I think Musketeers are French, not Russian, and they used rapiers, not swords -- but whatever. Speaking of the French, are they really cheese-eating surrender monkeys, or is that a myth? Oh, and by the way, I think the Lex Lancers lose.
Game 3. B.F. Brawlers (4-5) vs Damn Dawgs (3-6). This should be a good, close game, I think. The Damn **freakin** Dawgs win in a mild upset over the B.F. **bitchin** Brawlers. I kind of like putting **expletives** in front of and between things. This could get **ass-kickingly** addicting. I am not sure that I can **fargin** stop this way of typing my **mofo-ing** picks. **Sunuvabich, shitarsky** make it stop!!
Game 4. Minn Mafia (6-3) vs Atlantis Stormriders (8-1). The little team that could, the Mafia have the largest "average level" to "effective level" margin in the league (at least on the good side). Well done!! I am still not sure what all goes into the "effective level" calculation, but the Mafia are proof positive that it is a pretty good predictor of how good a team really is... With all that said, I think the Mafia lose this game. Sorry Mafia, I like ya, just don't see 2 upsets in a row for you. Now don't go ordering a hit on my ass, ok? Thanx.
Bonus game 5. Kingston Cobras (2-7) vs AZ Wolves (1-8). If anyone reads my predictions, (which I think is a small number of you), you would know by now that I try to make sense of the team city and mascot combo. In this case, I am 99.99% sure that there are no Cobras in Jamaica. There may be Wolves in Arizona (I still don't think so), but there is no way Cobras are indiginous species to the small Caribbean Island nation where Kingston is located. I could wrap my head around some Cobras brought in as pets once their venom was removed, I guess, but that is a reach. Anyhooo, I like the Cobras to win this battle of two pretty-good-teams-if-they-were-not-in-this-particular-elite-league matchup.
Jeremy.
