Pickem Dash Football

We are all human... except Chris, he's a robot. But for the rest of us, most of our picks are made by rationalizing pickem decisions made from reasons lying somewhere between emotion and wisdom. Generally speaking, the more clouded your judgment or distorted your reasoning is... well let's just say the more money you are going to lose in Vegas. I do a lot of research for my picks, but when it comes to regional matchups or games involving the Longhorns, I'm as guilty of being a homer as the next guy... although, I usually employ a reverse homer approach. For example, I often pick against Texas. This way if Texas covers, I'm happy (this usually means a win for the good guys). If they don't cover, well, at least I got the pick right. It's win/win! The same works for ou, but in the reverse. Being a homer is one thing, but this award goes out to one of you that has taken emotional picking to a whole new level (no seriously, worse than my reverse homer approach). The ...

This is a quicky pickie that won't require much type-y. The High Roller Award And the Pickie goes to... Kirby. Kirby bankrolled the most players this year. Although his post season win didn't give him a positive net cash flow for the pickem year, I'll make up the difference in malted beverages next time we are out (Kirby has called in his winnings to be paid in kind via beers). Now that's high roller treatment baby... or something.

We keep a small-ish group here, but there is plenty of room to ride somewhere between Amanda (she puts up with my online picking friends, but probably deletes all the emails) and Gary (who is frequently referenced, misquoted, and translated here). If you are winning, it's hard to ride the entire season under the radar *coughchrissneeze* without being called out. But with 15-20 people every year, that leaves the majority in of the league landing somewhere in the middle, regardless of perceived skill. So fear not, award recipient, there is always next year and we all find ourselves somewhere in the middle, like, most of the time. The Silent (but not so) Deadly Award And the Pickie goes to... Mark. You may not have noticed, since he clearly played under the radar, but Mark had a bit of an off year. It’s cool dude, it happens to the best of us. Runners-up: uhh... several of us

Through my Pick'em years, I've seen all different kinds of pickers... casual pickers, technical pickers, ooops-I-almost-forgot-to-send-these-in pickers, and people who have the picking style of a morgan ensburg at bat... just to name a few. I've already given out awards for picking early (presumably "going with your gut") and picking late (maximum research), so here is one for something........ a little in between. This award goes to one of you who tried to follow his brain, always picked with his heart, and despite sub-par results, still had the courage to stick with it week after week. The Wizard of Oz Award And the Pickie goes to... Bob. Bob, I'll leave it up to you to decide whether this is better than getting an award for prematures... Follow the 2008 Pickies online at http://pickem08.blogspot.com/

The presentation of this award leaves at a loss of words. In fact, I'm not even sure this email makes it through to everyone's inbox (maybe not even the award recipient's box). The Carnality Award And the Pickie goes to... Crystal. Congrats and stuff. For some of Crystal's greatest hits this year, you can go to the website and search for "CJ" or "Crystal" and find most of the post stuff. All her private dirty notes to me will stay... private.

Most awards shows have that "other" show where they give out all the awards not worthy interesting enough for the big show. Since I gave out the Guest Poster of the Year Award earlier today, it seems like a good time to break and give a few technical pickies. Post with the Most Unique Visitors: http://pickem08.blogspot.com/2008/08/week-1-ncaa-results.html 20 different people visited this post... Hmm... I guess interest waned from there. Runners up (tie): http://pickem08.blogspot.com/2008/12/2008-bowl-pickem-challenge-official.html http://pickem08.blogspot.com/2008/12/week-14-ncaa-bonus-results.html (each had 14 unique visitors) Most Active Day on the Website: October 1st What were *you* doing that day? Most Used Label: results (71) And possibly more interesting, the least used labels were (all tied at 1) - brewing - errors admit make them - ou sux - three illegals without insurance or id - vote

I remember it like I just spent 4 1/2 minutes trying to find it... On September 8th, the website was blessed with its first (and *sigh*, only) guest post. It's not like it was worth any extra points, and I'm probably the only person that appreciated it, but it's deserving of some hardware (er, software, er whatever these imaginary awards are). The Pickem08.blogspot.com Guest Poster of the Year There was only one of you... And the Pickie goes to...... Gary. By far, my favorite guest post … EVER.