the 4th star

Not to help those who remain alive and kicking in the 4th Star Suicide Pool: Zombie Edition, but Yahoo! Sports is providing some excellent gambling advice for Week 10 in the National Football League.

Don’t know about you, but I have a good feeling about the Raiders this week. OK. So we all make mistakes. God knows typos and this blog have been in bed together for years now. I say TIE, you say POSE! TY-POS! TY-POS! Mistakes happen, and when you go editor-free (like I do over here) sometimes you miss a few things. These are the dangers of walking the tightrope without a net. One mistake, and your argument loses some of its shine. That’s the business, I guess. Grow an extra layer of skin and move on. No excuse for Yahoo!, though. You’re telling me they don’t have enough people working over there? Puh-leez.

Let’s get to the suicide pool. Thanks to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Tennessee Titans, there’s a little more room in the 4th Star hot tub this week. We say goodnight to Wingman2, Hustlerama, and DKUN, the latter two having met a horrible, Creamsicle fate in Florida on Sunday. As for second in command Wingman, his 49ers pick was a reach from the start. He must have been looking for a way to get out.

Three of us remain: Young upstart MDB is proving himself to be quite the NFL player. On the other side we have Ian Hudson, who is trying to throw his legions of fans off the scent by changing his handle in the comments. Just like that, he’s Hudsy. Everyone update their records, please. In the middle of these two captains of industry sits yours truly. The menage is complete. Let’s see what you got!

Before I reveal my pick a reminder to all the stations on the network that the following four teams — Indianapolis, Minnesota, Denver, and New Orleans — remain quarantine with the H1N1 influenza virus. Do not touch them, do not pick them up. As an aside, have the others noticed how difficult this is without those teams in the mix? Geesh. As tempting as Oakland is (it’s not), I’m going with the Miami Dolphins to beat Tampa Bay at South Beach. There’s no possible way the Bucs can win two in a row, right?

Oh crap.