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Before we begin, here are some quick-hit thoughts about the debacle that is known as the 2007 San Diego Chargers:· Phil Rivers is absolutely killing the Chargers this season. The Vikings-- entering the game as the worst defensive team against the pass, dared Rivers to beat him deep and he couldn’t do it. I’ve been a Rivers backer the past three years or so, but I can’t believe how bad he looks

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After a couple of weeks of crappy games, we’re finally getting to the nitty-gritty part of the NFL season. This week, aside from the Pats-Colts game, we have Cowboys-Eagles which should be a great game and the Ravens-Steelers which should also be a slobberknocker.Crappy NFL games = Pretty good times.Excellent NFL games = Awesome times.I’m officially excited.Let’s look at Week 9 games (Team listed

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1. The Chargers laid the smack down on the Texans, cruising to an easy 35-10 win. The Chargers are slowly regaining their 2006 form. Phil Rivers only needed 11 passes to throw for three touchdowns (two to Gates, one to Chris Chambers), LT didn’t need to score -- he only had 90 yards rushing and the defense forced five turnovers.The only complaints I have is that the defense only had one sack, and

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Just to let you know right off the bat, I’m putting a 41 cent stamp on my picks this week. San Diego County smelled like a humongous ash tray this entire week and I was terrified of going outside and breathing in all of that crappy air so I stayed inside for three days. And since the news was so depressing and all, I wanted to avoid the outside world all together. So I didn’t watch the NFL

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Three things before we get to my picks this week:1. As predicted, the Red Sox won last night behind Josh Beckett. But Manny Ramirez set off a crap storm the day before in Boston. Check out what he said:“We're confident every day. It doesn't matter how things go for you. We're not going to give up. We're just going to go and play the game, like I've said, and move on. If it doesn't happen, so who

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Are you prepared to live in a world where the Colorado Rockies are the National League Champions?I know I am.I don’t care that they beat the Padres three weeks ago in that one game playoff. I don’t care that no one watched the NLCS this year. I don’t even care that-- according to the K’ster, their entire team is really into Christianity and will probably turn their team logo into the Born-Again

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It’s Week 6 in the NFL so there are some trends out there. For instance, home underdogs are 17-8 against the spread this year and underdogs overall are a whopping 43-28-5. So if you’ve been laying point against the spread you’re a much smarter person than me. And probably a whole lot richer.Let’s look at the lines this week playing a game of “What We Know and What We Don’t Know” (team listed

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Oktoberfest La Mesa was this past weekend so I took Friday off of work and skipped my NFL Picks blog. Sorry about that. But just for the record my picks sucked and they wouldn’t have helped you anyways. Needless to say, this past weekend was a crazy one. Not just because I ate a crap load of food or because I drank an inordinate amount of booze. It was everything else that happened. To

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First off, let me get this out of the way: Trevor Hoffman cost the Padres a playoff birth when he blew two saves in the span of three days. He totally blew it. Had he been able to retire Tony Gwynn Jr. on Saturday or one of the Rockies on Monday, the Pads would be playing Game One of the NLDS in Philly today. No ifs, ands or buts about it.I wasn’t going to weigh in on this because broke up

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You wanna know how I feel today? I feel like puking my guts out, that’s how I feel. Every time that I’ve read anything about the Chargers over the past week and every time I’ll read something about the Chargers this week I feel like reenacting the “Lard Ass” pie eating contest scene in “Stand By Me.” It literally makes me sick to see how bad these guys are playing. Sick to the stomach.Hold on for

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I’ve been so busy at work this week that I haven’t had the time to weigh in and rant on Drew Brees ruining my chance at winning the office pool with his four interception, one fumble performance on Monday night; the Lakers potentially trading Lamar Odom and Brian Cook for Shawn Marion; or Brian Giles’ go-ahead three run homer in the ninth to win the game for the Pads on Tuesday. I also didn’t

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Are you still spitting out blood? Still feel a little woozy? Is your jaw as sore as mine? After a summer spent dreaming about a potentially euphoric fall -- the Padres making it to the World Series and the Chargers making a Super Bowl run, San Diego sports fans got woken up by a Chuck Liddell right hook combo to the chin this Sunday. In the morning we saw the Chargers, continuing to look

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After the Monday Night Football game the other night El LamGal and I were trolling On-Demand for a movie to watch and on a whim I selected Snakes on a Plane. I heard about the movie when it first came out and I heard that critics panned it, so I wasn’t quite sure what to expect-- well, other than snakes on a plane of course. 90 minutes later, not only was I pleasantly surprised but I couldn’t

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You know the saying that goes, “You don’t know that you have a good girlfriend until you’ve been with a bad one?” Well after watching Norv Turner’s coaching performance while the Chargers were getting shellacked by the Patriots yesterday, everyone in my group of friends felt like we just traded Kelly Kapowski for Glenn Close’s character in Fatal Attraction. I was really excited about this game

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Once you… were in my… REARVIEW MIRROR.”--Pearl JamI think that just about sums up my Week 1 performance that saw me go a putrid 6-10 against the spread. Ouch! The good news is that I still won some scratch on a Charger-Colts parlay. Woot! Remember kids: It’s not about picking the right teams, it’s about betting on the right teams.Let’s just hope they put that quote on my bust when I’m inducted

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This past weekend was a pretty solid sports weekend highlighted by the Chargers winning their season opener 14-3 and me drinking so much that I passed out sometime after the game ended as guests slowly filtered out of my house. I don’t know which Sunday performance was worse -- my drinking performance or Britney Spears’ performance at the MTV Music Awards. Rookie mistake not mixing in a glass of

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I’ve always wondered how I’d fare against other gamblers when it came to picking against the spread. We’ll I’m about to find out. This year, I’m playing in the Bill Simmons / ESPN Pick’em Challenge. I’ll be blogging my picks each week a la Simmons and comparing how I do with other readers, most of whom are sure to gamblers themselves. Something tells me this is going to end with me maxing out

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Before we get to the football preview I have a couple of house keeping items to take care of. An anonymous reader correctly points out that in my “Deconstructing the Patriots” blog I said that Gerald Green was the defensive end for the Patriots when I really meant Ty Warren. Gerald Green was the Celtic who got traded for Kevin Garnett. Somehow I got them confused. Sorry about that. I should be

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Hola LamLoggers! Due to the Labor Day weekend I only blogged once last week. I’ll make it up to you guys this week with a blog today, a football preview blog tomorrow, and another blog on Thursday night / Friday.God only knows how I can do this for you and still maintain a full-time job…A lot of people have been asking me if I’ve gotten back with the Padres after breaking up with them a couple of

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The Chargers won their preseason game on Saturday, beating the Cardinals 33-31 on a last second Nate Keading field goal. I’d spent about 12 hours at the beach that day so by the time the game started I was as dead as a doorknob. I managed to watch each of the team’s first drives, a little bit before the half, and the last minute or so when the Cardinals took the lead before Billy Voleck drove

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I’m not the only one calling the Padres out on their crap. Check out what their best player, Jake Peavy had to say about the organization last weekend to the U-T (the day after Carlos Zambrano, a pitcher Peavy compares favorably to, signed a $90 million deal with the Cubs):“I'm not optimistic about staying here as much as I'd like to remain a Padre. I hope it's not the case, but I think it's

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It took me -- and every other Charger fan I knew, about six months to get over that playoff loss to the Patriots in January. I’m not kidding. I was totally pissed off for a solid six months. As a sports fan, that was hands-down the single worst loss I’ve ever experienced. At this point, instead of rehashing the crappy details of that crappy day, I’ll just say that January 14, 2007 totally

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I’ve always wondered why batters drop the bat when they charge the mound, rather than take the bat with them. Well, someone finally took the bat with them and let me tell you, it wasn’t pretty. This almost beats the time when Izzy Alcantrara, a Red Sox minor leaguer, kicked the catcher in the facemask before he charged the mound, punched the pitcher, and then challenged the rest of the team to

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“I just want to scream ‘Hellooooo!’ My God it’s been so long, never dreamed you’d re-turn…”--Pearl JamWith that said, the LamLogs are back! A nearly four month hiatus was exactly what I needed to get this thing going again. My blogs were becoming boring, predictable, and uncreative. In other words, I was becoming the Kevin Towers of blogging. Now, I feel like a middle aged woman after a botox

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