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July 07, 2008
CFL Pick ’Em, Week 3: No boatloads of points this week: two and a half upsets will guarantee that anytime. Hamilton was a big SpoFi fan favourite back in the day; are those days threatening to return? Yikes. Make your picks inside.
posted by DrJohnEvans to fantasy at 09:39 AM - 28 comments
It appears that technical difficulties are causing SpoFi to display last week's pick 'em thread as having been posted today. Please believe me when I tell you that it was posted last week.
posted by DrJohnEvans at 09:41 AM on July 07, 2008
Calgary by 10 Edmonton by 14 Winnipeg by 3 Hamilton by 7
posted by apoch at 09:47 AM on July 07, 2008
Montreal by 19 Toronto by 6 British Columbia by 11 Saskatchewan by 21
posted by tommybiden at 09:56 AM on July 07, 2008
Montreal by 6 Toronto by 12 BC by 3 Saskatchewan by 9
posted by Monica Poland at 10:28 AM on July 07, 2008
Montreal by 8 Toronto by 16 BC by 2 Saskatchewan by 20
posted by Ying Yang Mafia at 11:02 AM on July 07, 2008
Maybe I'll have more luck this week... Montreal by 8 Edmonton by 5 BC by 7 Sask by 10
posted by JPR at 01:53 PM on July 07, 2008
Given the relative success of my arbitrary system, I continue it into this week. This time I will use information obtained from the highly accurate wikipedia and pick my winners based on either the year the city was established or the province confederated, picking the winner from the older of the two. Calgary est. 1875-Montreal est. 1832 Montreal by 3 Toronto est. 1793-Edmonton est. 1795 Toronto by 2 B.C. conf. 1871-Winnepeg est. 1738 Winnepeg by 7 Saskatchewan conf. 1905-Hamilton est. 1849 Hamilton by 4
posted by THX-1138 at 01:58 PM on July 07, 2008
Anaconda, if you're reading this: I completely missed your Week 2 picks, since you posted them in the Week 1 thread. They're still valid and all, I just overlooked them and thus didn't put them in the table. I've put them in my spreadsheet and you'll be back in the scoring table next week.
posted by DrJohnEvans at 02:44 PM on July 07, 2008
Yeesh. I thought I had this CFL thing down after week 1. Nope, week 2 was a bust. So, let's try to turn this thing around. Calgary by 10 Edmonton by 3 Winnipeg by 10 Hamilton by 7
posted by BoKnows at 04:02 PM on July 07, 2008
I went to the Sydney International Film Festival a few weeks ago. Montreal by 11. The feature film was Guy Maddin's 'My Winnipeg'. I thought I should see it, given some of my comments in last year's CFL Pick 'Em. Edmonton by 7. The film is, in essence, a homage to the city he grew up in. Winnipeg by 10. However, it still looks and sounds like a frozen shithole. Sorry, guys. Saskatchewan by 15.
posted by owlhouse at 06:26 PM on July 07, 2008
We have no past we won't reach back Montreal by 7 Keep with me forward all through the night Edmonton by 11 And once we start the meter clicks B.C. by 14 And it goes running all through the night Saskatchewan by 18 Until it ends there is no end
posted by MrFrisby at 10:24 PM on July 07, 2008
Calgary by 10 Edmonton by 6 BC by 13 Hamilton by 4
posted by HATER 187 at 01:30 AM on July 08, 2008
Calgary by 7 Edmonton by 4 BC by 23 Hamilton by 17 Surely BC will not loose 3 in a row.
posted by Folkways at 08:13 AM on July 08, 2008
Montreal by 6 Edmonton (hi to Erik Cole!) by 9 BC by 3 Saskatchewan by 11
posted by NoMich at 08:47 AM on July 08, 2008
Tough week. I never thought I would see BC and Winnipeg battling to be the team not to go 0-3 to start the season; Montreal has bounced back nicely from the illness of Cavillo's wife; Edmonton keeps surprising you, but as a diehard Double Blue fan I gotta believe; and Lumsden single-handedly beat the Argo's last week, but I dont know if he's enough to beat the Grey Cup champs... Montreal by 9 Toronto by 5 Winnipeg by 6 Saskatchewan by 12 I think if I regret one of these it will be the Toronto/Edmonton pick. But as I said - you gotta believe in the Argo's...
posted by Reever at 03:22 PM on July 08, 2008
I come here simply for owlhouse's picks. Not that there's anything wrong with the CFL pick 'em! Good stuff every week. Oh, and not that there's anything wrong with Winnipeg, either...still miss the Jets...well, not really but I do miss the Nordiques. Oh, well, good luck.
posted by tselson at 11:11 PM on July 08, 2008
Montreal by 6 Toronto by 11 B.C. by 7 Saskatchewan by 2
posted by DrJohnEvans at 11:35 AM on July 09, 2008
Oooh ... the Stamps need to rebound after takin' it on the chin in Edmonton. Yes, they're on the road and the Als are smokin' hot ... but I think they might be able to squeek one out in la belle province ... Stamps by 5. Esks have to have some confidence after that gutsy performance last week. Toronto ... they're fallible. EE by 8. Lions are gonna be hell-bent for leather ... and the Bombers just might be ripe for the pickin' ... BC by 18. Saskatchewan has the two dirtiest wins of the CFL season so far ... they do not deserve to be 2-0 ... and the Tabbies can be dangerous ... depends on who shows up. But I'll give this to the home squad to keep it interesting ... TiCats by 7. Oh, and watch out folks ... the basement will not hold me for long!!!
posted by Spitztengle at 07:47 PM on July 09, 2008
Week 3 Picks Montreal by 8 Toronto by 1 Winnipeg by 1 Saskatchewan by 8
posted by Anaconda at 03:48 AM on July 10, 2008
Well, that was ugly.
posted by DrJohnEvans at 09:14 AM on July 11, 2008
Dammit. Thursday night football. Shit. B.C. by 8 Sassy by 14
posted by The_Black_Hand at 09:54 AM on July 11, 2008
Dammit. Thursday night football. Shit. Geezus TBH don't you have access to a computer befor Thursday? You really crack me up with your Friday posting ritual.
posted by Folkways at 05:05 PM on July 11, 2008
I'm leaving for Hawaii tomorrow for the next two weeks so I figured I'd leave some picks here. Week Four Calgary by 16 Winnipeg by 10 Saskatchewan by 9 Edmonton by 11 Week Five Winnipeg by 7 Edmonton by 21 BC by 5 Toronto by 10
posted by Ying Yang Mafia at 05:52 PM on July 11, 2008
I'm headed for Las Vegas early next week, so here are my Week Four picks. Calgary by 19 British Columbia by 14 Montreal by 11 Toronto by 6
posted by tommybiden at 06:11 PM on July 11, 2008
I'm headed for nowhere for infinity pi r squared. Here are my picks for the next binary elves: goatse
posted by NoMich at 10:14 PM on July 11, 2008
Dammit. Thursday night football. Shit. According to Matt Dunigan (in his autobiography Goin' Deep), it was not embracing Thursday night football that ultimately led to the failure of the US expansion in the mid-90s. Ironically, today it is this Thursday night scheduling that pisses of both SpoFi Pick 'Em players AND CFL fans who have a hard time gettin' to and home from an 8 o'clock Thursday night start. The rationale, according to league and team officials, was that this way people could still head to the cabin/cottage for the weekend. ??? Guess that's why only 31,000 showed up in Edmonton last night, hey? If anyone can figure this one out, do let me know.
posted by Spitztengle at 10:37 PM on July 11, 2008
I think NoMich needs a weekend at the cottage.
posted by DrJohnEvans at 10:09 AM on July 12, 2008
Holy upsets, Batman. Hamilton runs absolutely roughshod over the Argos' home opener, and Edmonton pulls off a last-minute touchdown after nearly blowing their home-opener lead. Montreal stays consistent, but Saskatchewan is the only team that reminds us that it ain't 2003 all over again.