This is to note that I owe Lawrence $5 on our Gonzaga bet. (Gonzaga!)
(Actually, I would have paid him on Saturday night, but I needed to break a $10, and forgot to do so because we were all distracted by the bidets at the Turkish restaurant.)
(“distracted by the bidets at the Turkish restaurant” is not a phrase I ever thought I would write on this blog.)
Also, Lawrence has bet me $5 that the Cubs will not win the World Series this year.
Gonzaga!
This is to note that Lawrence has bet me $5, straight across, against the Gonzaga men’s basketball team winning the championship this year. (I have Gonzaga, he has the field.) This is a little late, since the tournament has already started, but Gonzaga has not played yet.
Since I know he follows basketball more than I do (heck, Helen Keller follows basketball more than I do, at least when she’s not hiding from the Nazis) I’m curious to see who his pick is. Perhaps he’ll weigh in in comments.
This is to publicly document that I’ve bet Lawrence $5 that the Chicago Cubs will win the World Series this year.
This is to document that Lawrence has bet me $5 even money that the Texans will finish better than 8-8 next season.
This does not apply to most of you. However, this blog has a new policy:
We will no longer put ourselves in a position to lose more than $5 to Lawrence on any single bet.
We might as well get down to it. This week: the 2011 TMQ All-Unwanted All-Pros. After the jump…
NFL teams that still have a chance to go 0-16:
Indianapolis
A few notes: someone pointed out to us yesterday that Indy is just engaged in “sucking for Luck”; that is, they’re deliberately tanking the season in hopes of getting a first round the number one draft choice. We agree that this is probably the case: but all the Loser Update is intended to be, is a tally of who has a shot at going 0-16. Motivations aren’t a factor in the LU.
Secondly, we owe Lawrence $100. However, the link he posted says nothing about the Texans clinching the playoff berth. Here’s a better one.
Thirdly, this is only tangentially related to the loser update, but we’ve been threatening to link it all weekend: Elektrosjokkfotball. Basically, imagine two teams of Swedes playing soccer, where all the players (and the ref) are wearing shock collars, and the two observers/commentators have the controls. (I can’t tell for sure, but there may also have been alcohol involved.) I’d watch a lot more soccer if it was like this. (Push the “CC” button for English subtitles. Hattip: TJIC on the Twitter.)
Last December, TMQ Watch responded to TMQ’s assertion that “Favre’s 297-game streak will never be broken”, offering Peyton Manning as an example, and stating
TMQ never contacted us to agree on terms. However, we are honorable people, and we clearly lost that bet. Accordingly, in lieu of paying TMQ $5 directly, we are making a donation to A Call To Men, an organization TMQ praised in that same column.
We apologize for the delay in posting this week’s TMQ Watch. We’re taking a class on alternating Tuesday nights; last night was the first meeting, and it appears this class is going to eat up a significant chunk of time. Ah, well, onward and upward.
After the jump, haiku. Not our haiku, of course (we have already made our feelings on that subject known) but TMQ’s annual predictions haiku.
I have given up on the Cubs winning the World Series and paid Lawrence his $5.
However, I feel like I’ve gotten more than $5 out of entertainment out of our bet, so overall, I’m a winner.
This is to note that once again, I’ve bet Lawrence $5 even money that the Cubs will win the World Series this year.
Also, my bet with Lawrence on Gonzaga has been paid.
Once again, Gonzaga lets me down, and once again, I owe Lawrence $5.
Oh, well. There’s always the Cubs.