Regnis, the thing about the ChiSox -- the top of the order has done fine all season. So has the starting pitching, really. What's killed them are the last four slots. They have fallen off the table.
I'm going to do a blog on the Nebraska football team. Herbstreit picked Nebraska to make the Big 10 championship game. Well, I almost did, too. The fact is, this was no mega-long shot. They were +300 to win their division. They don't play the top three teams in the other division, which is usually my cue to find something to bet. In fact, it was the last (non)decision I made. My partners and I were discussing Nebraska the night before the season kicked off. It was a good, intellectual debate. What I said at 9 PM was "I'm going to find something to do with them." They were +1700 to win the Big 10 (Ohio State in other division), so to me that was a wash with the +300 to win division.
By 2 AM, I emailed everybody (since I do have the final word), "I just can't do it. They aren't good enough."
As an old distance runner, I'm a little more sensitive to conditioning issues, and Nebraska, for whatever reasons, has had serious, obvious conditioning issues for two years. That's why the NW coach made the reference to his offensive linemen "only puking" four times during practices this year. It was a not so subtle dig at the Cornhusker conditioning.
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