Royals Loss May Hurt, But....

Losing Game 7 of a World Series will always hurt, losing a close game will hurt a little more, being 90 feet away from keeping the game going is painful. While this loss hurts, at least the Royals fans have a feeling at the end of the season. This is a huge deal for a fan base that has not seen the postseason for 29 years. I am sure there were some seasons along the way where fans had feelings at the end of the season, but I think there were many more where the fans had just moved on to another sport by the end of the year.

Over the 29 years between playoff appearances the Royals had some really bad times. In the 29 year span they had 8 winning seasons. Of the 21 losing seasons with 13 of those seasons losing 90 games or more and 4 of those seasons they lost over 100 games! From 2004 to 2006 they lost 100+ games each year going 176-310 winning just 36% of their games. Between 2004 and 2012 they did not have one winning season.

Royals World Series Game 7 Review

Hats off to both the Royals and Giants on a great series and a drama packed Game 7. The Giants and one in particular one player played better for 4 games and won their third title in five years. However the Royals have nothing to be ashamed of, they had a great season and an amazing post season, it is hard right now because they were so close.

Thanks to the FOX broadcast I will not be using a certain players name in this post, I will just call him The Player. This is no disrespect to this player or the Giants, however from the 6th inning on last night FOX forgot that there were other players on the field and even as other players for the Giants were getting hits, or defensive players were made by the Royals this player sitting on the bench is all that was talked about. Yes this pitcher is a very good pitcher and had an amazing and record setting World Series, but the gushing by FOX was comical by the end of the game. 

Sports Today 10/30/2014

Today kicks off week 9 of the NFL season and week 10 of the college football season, both have important games. Also the second knockout round game of the MLS playoffs is tonight.

College Football
#2 Florida State at #25 Louisville - 6:30 PM Central - ESPN
This is likely Florida States toughest remaining game this season. A win here should guarantee them a spot in the four teams college football playoff in January. How many times have we seen a team that should win a game go on the road for a Thursday or Friday night game on national television and lose? I don't know the exact number but it has happened many times. Louisville is a very good team with their only losses coming on the road at Virginia and Clemson. I am glad this game start early because I think it will still be a game in the fourth quarter. Florida State will pull this game out late with a 38 - 31 win. 

NFL Week 9 Picks

Picks for Week 9 of the NFL season:

Thursday October 30th
Saints at Panthers - Saints

Sunday November 2nd
Jets at Chiefs - Chiefs
Buccaneers at Browns - Browns
Cardinals at Cowboys - Cardinals
Eagles at Texans - Eagles
Jaguars at Bengals - Bengals
Chargers at Dolphins - Chargers
Redskins at Vikings - Redskins
Rams at 49ers - 49ers
Broncos at Patriots - Patriots
Raiders at Seahawks - Seahawks
Ravens at Steelers - Ravens

Monday November 3rd
Colts at Giants - Colts

College Football Week 10 Picks

Here are my picks for the Top 25 and Big 12 games for week 10 of the college football season:

Thursday 10/30
#2 Florida State at #25 Louisville - Florida State

Saturday 11/1
#1 Mississippi State hosts Arkansas - Mississippi State
#3 Auburn at #4 Ole Miss - Ole Miss
#5 Oregon hosts Stanford - Oregon
#7 TCU at #20 West Virginia - TCU
#9 Kansas State hosts Oklahoma State - Kansas State
#10 Notre Dame at Navy - Notre Dame
#11 Georgia hosts Florida - Georgia
#12 Arizona at #22 UCLA - UCLA
#13 Baylor host Kansas - Baylor
#14 Arizona State hosts #17 Utah - Arizona Sates
#15 Nebraska hosts Purdue - Nebraska
#16 Ohio State hosts Illinois - Ohio State
#18 Oklahoma at Iowa State - Oklahoma
#23 East Carolina at Temple - East Carolina
#24 Duke at Pittsburgh - Pittsburgh

Remaining Big 12 Game
Texas at Texas Tech - Texas Tech