Time for the 'Great One' to shine!

Yes, it's the middle of football season, but I'm still a big baseball fan and this weekend starts the League Championship Series. Today' I'll give some looks to the NLCS today since it starts Thursday and the ALCS tomorrow in time for its Friday start night.

Let's look at the NLCS. It's the Phillies and Dodgers in what many are calling the "right two teams" to be in this spot. Having seen both teams pummel the Brewers at Miller Park this year, I'll go along with that. (The Cardinals certainly don't enter that discussion!)
I'm not going to tell you something you don't already know, but there is some good stuff over on Deadspin.com, previewing the series here, in a rather funny style.
For me the series comes down to the big-time players. Yeah, that guy at the top of the page needs to do his thing for the Dodgers if they want to overcome the studs the Phillies are going to show them. I'm saying this one comes back to Philly for that reason alone. The Phills have too good of pitching to let the Dodgers get out in four our five games.
That means this one ends in Philly and at that point it's anyone's series. I'm still liking the Dodgers, though. Joe Torre is too good and too smart and as good as Jerry Manuel is, Joe finds a way to beat him.
My pick: Dodgers in seven. Should be a great series!



My next feature is a bit of a somber note. The world lost one of its best entertainers today in Captain Lou Albano. Read this story from Newsweek.com and I must say it is right on. He was always a bit weird to watch. I mean as a young kid, you don't know what to think about guys like that. But as I grew older and had a chance to go back and read and watch things about that period, he was a wild man and was awesome.
Albano went beyond the ring with what he did in pop culture. He's linked to a Cyndi Lauper video (Girls just want to have fun) and played Super Mario, too. He was just a real like cartoon character. A 12-bell salute to you Captain Lou!

For some uplifting, it's time for the Nussie Hunter portion of the broadcast. I'm going to give you a reason to pick one team in the NLCS to root for here. Was combing the Web to day and hit up Co-Ed Magazine.com's WAGs of the NLCS and I found this. Her name is Heidi Strobel and she is the mother of Cole Hamels' newborn child. She's appeared in Playboy and is an alum of Survivor. This is why I'm torn!

One upset Prince makes a 17-4 game interesting

Two men at the center of a controversy get us started on this Hump Day edition of Wilber's Way. I dunno bout you, but I was off to bed by the time the fun started in LaLa Land last night with the Brewers getting pounded by Manny and the Dodgers.
Manny had been hit in the seventh by Chris Smith (the young buck has been involved in two instances now during his brief time in the bigs) with little commotion raised.
Then Guillermo Mota makes himself known against the team he played for last year by throwing at Prince, who did not like being thrown at with two outs of a 17-4 game in the top of the ninth.
After the game, all hell broke loose. See for yourself here.

Moto got tossed immediately, but in order show the full perspective of this incident, we need to take a look back. This might just be one of the funniest baseball fights ever as Mota takes a shot at Mike Piazza who didn't like it at all.

All I can say is, I'm tuning in tonight! Might be some fun as it is the last time the two teams play this year.

Also of news today is a move by ESPN to change is social networking guidelines for thier employees. Word actually came down through one ESPN worker's Twitter. Here's the link.
My take on the matter was initially one of, WTF is the four-letter word in sports talk doing? But the more I thought about it, things in Bristol are fitting to get out of hand now that this Erin Andrews thing seems to be done by someone within the complany. Sad day, looks like I won't be hearing anything out of Molly Qerim for a bit now will I? So sad.



Speaking of Twitter. I do actually follow some Packers blogs to see what is going on in Packerland and came across something I just couldn't say no to posting. It looks like the NFL's No. 1 draft pick was enjoying his final days of summer with some quite beautiful women (that's how the top pick rolls right?!)
There's more here, as he looks like he had a damn good time. Plus started the day with one girl and dragged a different one into the woods. Haha. Oh Matthew!

Speaking of drafts, I'm finalizing my fantasy football league and have things together for my team names, but always am in the market for a witty name. If you're having problems, the fine folks over at "Kissing Suzy Kolber" have some help for you. First, these are awesome and they do it every year. And second, that might just be the best blog name I've seen.

OK. Now to the feature event of the day. I know yesterday I went with a boycott of the Megan Fox boycott and had a full blog of Nussie Hunter. Well, have to keep the spot alive today.
I watched Fast and Furious the other night and while Jordana Brewster and Michelle Rodriguez are fine in their own right, I thought Gal Gadot stole the show. Upon doing some research, I discovered she is the 2004 Miss Universe. Well, damn. She is out of this world hot, so why not run with it.