Surprised no one has talked about the offseason moves so far.

Everyone is waiting on Greinke to sign in either LA or Texas.  He signs in Texas and Hamilton goes off somewhere else.  Seattle, Boston, New York have been mentioned as possible destinations.  Greinke signing also affects Annibal Sanchez as the Dodgers will probably go after him hard if they lose out on Greinke.

Justin Upton was getting pursued hard by the Rangers but the trade fell apart for whatever reason.

Boston signed several players in the last month--David Ross, Shane Victorino, and Mike Napoli.  Ross was signed as a backup which is fine.  Napoli got a 3yr deal to play first base at market value which is ok since they needed another hitter after trading Adrian Gonzalez.  But they paid Victorino 13 million.  I can't figure that one out if Victorino doesn't bounce back and supply some sort of offense.   I don't really like paying outfielders 10+ million dollars just for defense and intanglibles.

Twins weren't kidding when they said they were looking for pitching.  Traded Span to the Nationals for Alex Meyer.  Traded Revere to the Phillies for Vance Worley (Twins own his rights through 2018) and propect Trevor May.  I think they did well in both those trades especially the Phillies one.

Phillies acquire Michael Young from Texas for a reliever and a pitching prospect.  Ugh, even with Texas paying 10 million of Young's salary why do the Phillies feel the need to get older?  They'd better win something in the next two years otherwise that team is going to go downhill fast.

Rays acquire  Yunel Escobar from the Marlins for a minor league IF.  The minor league IF (name escapes me at the moment) seems like the Marlins got a good player.  Escobar is an enigma he seems to be a good player but he's been traded several times and you hear the same stuff each time.  He's a bad teamate seems to be the common theme.  The Rays got very little production out of SS so this works for them too.  Rays also willl probably move one of their young pitchers not named David Price for a young hitter.

Mariners are looking for anybody who can hit.  They signed Jason Bay as a reclamation project and are pursuing Josh Hamilton.  They're not going after Michael Bourn which is a good move since they need more power and Bourne doesn't provide that.  They're probably gunshy too after wasting a whole bunch of cash on Chone Figgins a few years ago.

BJ Upton signed a five year 75 million dollar deal with the Braves.  It seems like the Braves overpaid a little for him.

The only thing I have to say about the Marlins is that I wish the voters of Florida gave the Rays a new ballpark instead of the Marlins.

Pirates overpay Russell Martin and I'm really close to picking another MLB team (or just another one in addition to the Pirates) to root for.  This type of signing is a typical Pirates signing that will blow up in their face.

ARod will be out for a while after hip surgery.  Yankees are interested in Youkillis which makes for a very interesting signing and plotline.  Back to Arod, he has 647 HR and I don't think he'll reach 700 at the rate his body is breaking down.  He's also signed through 2017 although I think I read somewhere that insurance will cover part of the contract.

I liked it but if you're buying tv series make sure you want to watch it more than once otherwise you'll probably be throwing your money away.

You answered part of the question in the previous post:

I'd add that most of the GOP votes were 50 and over people.  You just cannot win without getting a decent amount of votes from the younger generation.  The GOP immigration efforts over the last few years turned off a lot of Latinos as well.  Bush Jr.  was smart enough to not ignore or piss off this voting block, probably because he was Texas governor.  Romney didn't do himself any favors with blacks over his "47% comment."  And the numerous dumb things said by Republican candidates about rape led to women overwhelmingly voting for Democrats.

Also, Obama had a far superior GOTV operation and local ground game.

Last sobering thought:

There was a total of 892 million spent on this election.

Nah, Titans already have three wins and two more games with the Jags and another one with the Jets.  I think they end up with four wins.

Jags also have one victory as well.  I'd say they are more of a threat than TEN.

The annual "toilet bowl" game is on 12/9 Chiefs@Browns.  Loser has a heads up on the top draft pick.  Chiefs also play the Panthers the previous week.

Munchack will probably be fired by the Titans.  The old man (aka Bud Adams) already voiced his displeasure over the Bears buttkicking.

And I can't see them winning that many games given the absolutely shitty defense and suspect offense they continue to trot out.

I'd say he needs six wins to survive for next year.  And I don't think he gets it.  The more games that Hasselbeck starts the higher the chances for a loss.

It's going to be a very bloody coaching firing period.

Here are all the teams that could be looking for new head coaches:

PHI (Reid is a guaranteed goner)
CAR (Rivera might be gone, dependent upon team finish)
TEN
BUF (Gailey's out the door after busting with the high priced D)
NYJ (dependent upon finish)
DAL (not sure how likely it is Garrett is canned but the seat is warm)
SD (dep upon finish, Norv almost got canned last yr)
CLE (new owner + president=Shumer will be canned)
KC (can't see Crenel coming back after this season)
MIN (if they finish 5-11 it could be a possibility)
ARZ (unlikely but if Whiz ends up with 10+ losses after that start, it has to be considered)

The last two are just guesses but they could happen so I left them in there. I'd say PHI, KC, BUF and CLE are almost guaranteed to fire their coaches.  I could see SD rallying to get the last AFC spot and Norvell avoids the ax AGAIN.  Much to the chagrin of Chargers fans.

Not really keen on the ending on the last episode.  But I'll have to wait and see how it all plays out before passing judgement.

This episode was kinda boring at least when compared to the rest of the season.  I really hope they kill off Quinn as his story has been boring the crap out of me.  Not as bad as Colin Hanks last year but I end up just watching for his scenes to be over.

The strong point is still the evolving Dexter and Debra relationship.