Wednesday/Friday Edition, October 9th-11th

WEEK SIX PICKS Er, if you're scoring at home it's Tim 1, Computer 0. That's right, I put that rascally plan to replace old Timmy with some rusty number crunching machine on the back burner for at least a couple more weeks, and methinks it may be a mere harbinger of the thrashing that lies ahead for the robot geekheads and their diabolical plan as they take on rock-solid Timmy Two-Tone ("Eight-six-seven-five-three-o-nine-ee-ine") PickMaster ForeCaster Hasta La Vista Rasta Blaster... If you missed the beginning of all this you can visit the Week 5 Picks for a rehash. Indeed with my confidence soaring it's time for another trip to Monty Python land before shellacking the "bag of bolts" once again. The Albatross Sketch Salesman: (shouting) Albatross....albatross....albatross.... albatross....albatross...albatross....albatross....albatross Man: Two good humors please. S: I haven't got any good humors, I've just got this bloody albatross....(shouts) Albatross M: What flavor is it? S: It's a bird mate, it's a bloody bird, it's not any bloody flavor....(shouts) Albatross M: It's got to be some flavor, I mean everything's got a flavor. S: All right, it's bloody albatross flavor, it's bloody sea bloody bird bloody flavor....(shouts) Albatross M: Do you get wafers with it? S: Course you don't get bloody wafers with it, it's a bloody albatross isn't it...(shouts) Albatross M: I'll have two please. S: I've only got one you friggin' dimwit....(shouts) Albatross....albatross.... albatross....albatross -- Monty Python Ah, I feel much better after that. All the troubles of the world just wash away. So to recap, it's me vs the O/D Ranks machine spewing forth its venemous data (yeah, there was some research article posted about all this nonsense, Read it here). To Battle then! O/D Ranks Line Week 6 Away Line Home O/D Line Pick Value Atlanta -5 N.Y. Giants -7 N.Y. Giants -2 Baltimore -6.5 Indianapolis -7 Indianapolis -.5 Buffalo +7.5 Houston -7 Houston -14.5 Carolina -2 Dallas 0 Carolina 2 Detroit -4.5 Minnesota -14 Minnesota -9.5 Green Bay -4.5 New England -3 Green Bay 1.5 Jacksonville +2 Tennessee 1 Tennessee -1 New Orleans +1.5 Washington -3 Washington -4.5 Pittsburgh +6.5 Cincinnati -3 Cincinnati -9.5 Cleveland -6 Tampa Bay -6 0 Kansas City -3 San Diego -3 0 Oakland +7 St. Louis 1 St. Louis -6 Miami -3.5 Denver -6 Denver -2.5 San Francisco +3 Seattle 7 San Francisco 4 ANALYSIS: Oh, so thinking it's going to steal a little of Tim's thunder by picking the Bengals now is it? So the rules for Mr. O/D Computer are that a pick only qualifies if the O/D Line is 7 points away from the vegas spread. Thus my humbled foe wields three weapons in week six: Houston, Minnesota and Cincinnati. Without using a hint of technology to throttle this imposter to my standing as world's most longwinded blowhard ~ er, mojo working professional football bettor mister Tim ~ here then are my selected games to answer the challenge. Tim draws three cards... flips 'em over... to reveal... CAROLINA, ST. LOUIS, and DETROIT (tete a tete on the last one) That's correct, I'm going with three dogs to trump the computer picks Last Week: Tim 2-0, O/D Ranks 1-1 tim@twominutewarning.com Return to TwoMinuteWarning.com Copyright © 2002 by TwoMinuteWarning.com, All Right Reserved