Point-Counterpoint: DET v. NYY

Hard to top the excitement of last week that was the first ever poetry week here at the HBCC. If you're suffering from any withdrawal symptons, you can revisit all the magic using this convenient list:

• Muerte, Mi Amigos. Muerte!
• HBCC Poetry Week: Park II
• HBCC Poetry Week Presents: "Autumn Temptations"
• HBCC Poetry Week Presents: "Haiku"
• HBCC Poetry Week Presents: "Cafe Con Price Check"
• Most Beast Haiku Ever Dropped
• HBCC Poetry Week Presents: "A Letter from Barcelona"

It was fun, and maybe if we get that popular demand sh(t on our side we'll open up the request lines and do it all again (Do it to me one more tiiiimmmeee, once is never enough...)

But for now we've got bigger frish to Bobsled, namely the playoffs. Yes, I said it, the Playoffs. I didn't want to say this but, The Detroit Tigers made it into the Major League Baseball Playoffs!
[Handsome: "Are you sure?" Bobsled: "Yes I'm sure, bitch!"]

Yesterday at work I was thinking, "If I was just picking my nose with the window shade open, do you think that girl in the building across the street who seems like she might be kinda hot saw me? And if she did, will she be able to recognize me in Starbucks tomorrow morning and then make a big scene like, "EW, that's the freak from across the street who picked his nose and then ate it wiped it on a piece of paper before putting it in the garbage can!!""

But here at HBCC central we have this fancy little thing called a site meter (normally in PR-talk I would say: unique, robust, state-of-the-art, one-of-a-kind, life changing. but its not. its just fancy). And this site meter tells us how people find our website - a google search, a link, etc. Well, yesterday I was perusing the site meter and I found that recently someone linked to our site by Googling the phrase, "Sports Blogs for Kids." At which point this housewife woman working from home while taking care of the kids (I see you women's lib) probably thought, "Oh this is great, just what I needed to help raise my children has happy, healthy, active Americans." And clicked this HBCC link. If you also just humor us and click the link you will see why this brings us great hapiness and funny laugh ha ha ha's. Thank you for visiting.

(Ohkay, I'm coming to the point) So I clicked this link. And yes its on the Yankees getting beat by the Tigers back in August, but then I read the comment from the most prophetic Handsome and thought, "Holy Isht. It's like he knew what was going to happen." And that was deep.

Today starts the playoffs. And just like Handsome said, its the Tigers of Detroit vs. the Yankees of the Bronx. Anytime there's a major playoffs (PLAYOFFS, such an important word!) in the world of sporting events, I always love all that ESPiN bullshit like, "We've assembled our key panel of analysts to help breakdown the series and tell us what the keys to this series be."

So I thought to myself, we should do this too. We should totally be analysts. We should throw a "Point - Counterpoint Party!" So we're in the process of assembling the HBCC panel of panelanalysts to give us an insightful look at what the keys to the DET - NYY Series be.

I'll kick it off:

Bobsled Commando - Maybe if we were the Detroit Tiger Woodses I'd feel a bit better about this series. But as it stands, we are just The Tigers. And some of those 'Tigers' are the little pussy cats who rolled over to accomplish a record setting season for most losses, ever, just a few short years ago.

But my heart is true to Detroit. Detroit is the best. We're like the underdogs in everything, especially now that the American auto industry is in the toilet. We got a monorail (People Mover), casinos, insane crime levels, DEVIL'S NIGHT (seriously, if you don't know about Devil's Night, read this), Yzerman, the best Auto Expo and one of the worst maintained freeway systems you'll ever see. Even Gridskipper was able to poll enough people to determine that most people find Detroit to be a more masculine city than New York. So, I'm with Detroit. Even if my gut says NYY, my heart says DET, and not just because I'll never cheer for a team with Alex Rodriguez.

Plus, hearts and guts aside, it has to do with the time that Travis America and I were in Las Vegas staying at the Mirage and we were walking by the cage for the white tigers and there was this crowd standing there watching the tigers, like families and all that, and one of the tigers walks up to the glass, stands by the edge of the pool, turns around in a circle, turns in another half circle, positions himself accordingly and drops two bowling bowl sized turds in the wading pool. Parents quickly escorted confused children away. We stayed and cheered.

Prediction: Tigers in Three (3)
[We're collecting opinions from other expert key analysts, hopefully before the game starts tonight. Check back for more today. Thanks.]