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Jiggy's 2008 Football Picks Season Record
Wins: 30 | Losses: 27 | Ties 3:
NFL Free Picks Winning Percentage: 53%
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2008 FREE NFL PICKS WEEK 15
The Moldy Salami
Gamblers (and I suspect athletes, generals and traders) often plead with the fates. Their pleas take many different forms. But the one that has been highlighted recently is a quotation often heard at the World Series of Poker. “Just one time.”
This prayer asks Yahweh, Jesus, Allah, the Seraphim, Vishnu, Rama, Enkidu (or was it Baal) or Donald Trump , [pick your poison (or was it poisson - French jokes have recently been re-allowed in this column) ] for the chance to get what you deserve, regardless of what you have been getting before.
An example of this logic would be the following: a degenerate gambler who always picks the Lions straight up might ask during the game, ‘please Donald, just this one time, let the Lions win.’ This is a disaster of logic because if one bets on the Lions without points, one deserves every single shred of agonizing money losing splendor they signed up for.
 We can have a philosophical and philological discussion of the deservedness of fate. In these debates Jiggy invariable (and inviolately) takes the position that fate doesn’t exist and moral distribution of pain doesn’t exist either. Jiggy believes that the world is moving in a random walk. The world is defining itself every second. The previous second’s only influence on the next is some notion of continuity. But there is no morale link. Talk to the innocent people that died in the Tsunami and the poor people killed by those asshole terrorists in India. Of course you can’t talk to dead people, so instead, talk to their family and friends and see if they agree with Jiggy.
Editorial Note: I am also a rationalist. If one can prove to me (or even provide enough evidence to overcome a reasonable doubt) that all those people in those two events that were killed somehow deserved it, then I am willing to change my mind over to believe in a rationalistic, moralistic distribution of suffering.
 The same is obviously true of the inverse (or is it converse) that these same truths hold for good things. I am not sure that the guy boning Evangeline Lilly (and there must be at least one right now) did something to deserve that. I mean, did he rescue a whole nunnery from fire? Did he feed the hungry for ten years? Did he work to have Herm Edwards removed from decision making roles in the NFL? Probably not.
But Jiggy was completely shaken this week in his beliefs. After another sub par week. Though technically 2-2 is par, for a numbers and NFL genius like the Jig, anything but 4-0 is subpar. After another subpar week, jiggy was watching MNF with one of his many concubines, we will call this one his wife, because that is who it was. Well, I was eating some moldy salami. This may sound like a euphemism or a set up for a great joke, but sadly, it is neither.
Well, the upshot of this is that the Jig has been stapled (or super glued – whichever you think is funnier) to the toilet seat for the whole week. I am not sure how many have pissed through your anus, but it is delightful. Now imagine that 10-14 times per day for a full week. It has passed now, thanks for asking.
Now, the causality discussion… First of all, we know that humans are causal animals – in a potentially (and likely) non causal world. But, I am nothing if not human. [note: one could be far more specific and call me a lesbian loving, football obsessing, moldy salami eating human – but sometimes brevity is the sole of wit.) So, as the bagel I ate minutes before is dripping from my bottom like a beautiful brown slushee, I was wondering why I was feeling this awfulness.
 Now, there is no question that there is a direct causal relationship between the moldy salami and the anal leaking. But my fellow philosophers, what caused Jiggy, a rational machine, who loves him some cured meat, to eat a moldy salami? I know that ain’t right. You could argue that I was being cheap and didn’t want to throw away the second half of it. But rather, I think that the problem was far deeper.
I had advised some of my better paying clients to take the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on Monday Night. With 20-20 hindsight, this was a ridiculously stupid bet. At the time it was probably only marginally stupid. When Deangelo (which in erdu meand ‘Of Angelo’) Williams ripped off his like 23rd touchdown of the night late in the 4th quarter, putting the game away, my stomach started doing little cartwheels. And then, when the game ended, the real fireworks began – and they are just stopping today (Saturday). So let’s take our newly causal world and let’s see if we can’t cure Jiggy’s woes with a nice 4-0 week.
The Donald knows, that Jiggy can’t handle another week of dehydration and cramping (and I know those two do have a causal relationship).
Editors 2nd Note: For a more discrete discussion, not of causality, but covariance, please Ask AC.
JIGGY'S FREE NFL PICKS
Tenny at Houston – Tenny -3
Jiggy knows that the Titans have already locked up their division. Sure they may take their little feet off the gas pedal, but there is a little known fact about the Titans… Their defense eats little teams for breakfast. So look for the Titans to wipe away the Rockets.
Pitt @ Baltimore – Pitt +3
The Ravens have a great defense. But do you know which team has given up the fewest points in the NFofL? That is right my little strumpet, it is the Yellow Mother Effers from Pittsburgh. Look for the terrible towels to put these dirty birdies in their place. Take the money line!
Seattle @ St. Louis – Seattle -2.5
Wow. Two of the worst teams to wear cleats. I will take the Seachickens and give the points.
San Francisco 49ers @ Miami Fish – Niners +6
Oh yeah, let’s ride that potent mike singletary pony. Daddy loves a pony.
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