Triple Lindy

Props to Freelove for bringing it home last night! Well played, sir! Looks like it's House Money Week at the Daily Parlay. What better way to celebrate than with a classic from 1986, the quintessential Rodney Dangerfield cinematic experience, Back to School. It had everything - beer, broads, the guy from The Karate Kid, and the guy from The Legend of Billie Jean and Christine who you wanted to kick in the crotch (but not in a mean-spirited kind of way). Best of all, it gave a growing, post-Boomer society another movie to throw out quotes for. I mean, who hasn't yelled out to a buddy when you needed a fifth for a pickup hoops game "Melon! We need you!"

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"Where should we build our (baseball) factory?"

"How about Fantasyland?"

When MLB decided to put a franchise in the Tampa-St. Pete metro area, they needed a guy like Thornton Melon in the room. Baseball in Florida? It can't miss! Look at all the spring training games there! All those old people with nothing to do. Oh, they'll come, Ray, they most assuredly will come. Yeah, how's it working out? And the Evan Longoria minor league decision early this year - great move if you were running a team in Fantasyland. If there's no hard feelings, fine. But this move reeks of a bean-counter decision, and while there is a place in baseball for bean-counters, bean-counters have a tough time bringing home runners in scoring position with less than 2 outs. (But they can move the runner over with a grounder to the right side.) Yankees (Kennedy) over Rays (-120)

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"Oh, we were doomed from the start. I'm an Earth sign. She's a Water sign. Together, we made mud."

Hockey? Nashville? OK I guess, it's not like there's anything great going on in Toronto (potentially horrid Mike Myers movies aside). The Preds have never won a post season series, they're not about to start now, but they don't have to get swept because I think Dan Ellis can stand on his head for one game. Plus, we could probably use another NHL.com blog from this guy. (Yeah, I don't know him either.) Nashville (+125) vs. Detroit

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"Do not go gentle into that good night..."

“It means... I don't take sh*t from no one”.

Here is my inspiration for Back to School day at TDP: The Golden State Warriors. Face it, the dream is about to die. They won't make it to the playoffs, and even if they do, they can't win the whole thing. Hey, Thornton Melon didn't graduate from Grand Lakes U either - someone had to run Melon's Tall and Fat. Doesn't mean you can't go out in a 27-part-question answering, Triple Lindy-ing, son gets the girl from Chas blaze of glory. Playing the part of Chas: the Phoenix Suns. Golden State (+5, -110) vs. Phoenix.

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Units to wager: 1

Units to win: 6.88
Result: Loss (by 1 point - thanks a cargo pantload, Austin Croshere!)
Units +/- to date: +26.02

Later this week - NBA Eastern Conference preview, as set to Back to School.

--Doneycat