What are people to do now in Wrigleyville if the Chicago Cubs actually are close to clinching or getting blown out? No booze to calm those nerves or forget the devastating loss!

“Bars and restaurants surrounding Wrigley Field on Monday reluctantly agreed today to stop serving alcohol after the seventh inning of potential title-clinching Cubs playoff games, but only after City Hall made a last-minute concession: The prohibition will end if the games go into extra innings.”

I wonder how much money bar owners will lose from this rule. Will people go to bars outside of Wrigleyville that don’t have to abide by this restriction? This is interesting. I believe it’s legal, but what kind of break will these owners of the establishments receive for their lost revenue. We probably won’t find out anyways as the Cubs never win anything.

(I googled “no alcohol” and this picture of Lindsay Lohan came up)

I generally side with young guys when they are at war with rich old dudes.  I sided with Torre over Steinbrenner, back Obama over McCain, and tend to root for Homer Simpson whenever he tangles with Mister Burns.

But, It looks like former Raiders coach Lane Kiffin is making me change my philosophy. Granted, we’ve only heard one side of this story so far, but if Al Davis is to be believed, Kiffin is a real shit.

Six months down, one game to go. Yes, we know the regular season still has one game to go, but the staff at the Crackle is impatient, so we’ve decided to celebrate the end of another baseball year today.

We’ll do the same at the end of every major sports season, because we know you can’t emotionally move on to the playoffs unless you know what King Ing and the California Correspondent really think.  We’re here for you.

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Naturally the feel good story of the baseball season has been the Tampa Bay Rays. And wouldn’t it be a story book ending if they finished the season winning the pennant and the World Series. Well, there are some sportsbooks in Vegas that hope that doesn’t happen. VegasWatch interviews Jay Rood, Race & Sports Book Director for all 12 of the MGM’s books and finds out some interesting facts.

“What did you guys have the Rays listed at to win the AL East, and World Series, back in March?
The Rays were 75-1 to win the AL and 150-1 to win the World Series.

What team winning the World Series would cost you the most? The least?
The team we’d get hurt by the most is again the Rays and the team we’d get hurt by the least will be the Angels.”

Now who wouldn’t love those odds. Go Red Sox!

This is just too funny. BlackSportsOnline has video of Emmitt Smith unknowingly on the air mouthing the line, “Still owe me sex” from Young Jeezy’s “Put On.” You know that the Superbowl and Dancing With the Stars champion wasn’t paying any attention to what Stuart Scott was saying as he was still vibing along to Kanye’s rhymes. All ESPN has to do now is give us more Emmitt and we will all be happy.

We almost have our 8 post-season teams finalized. In the AL there’s the Rays, Red Sox, Angels, and Twins or White Sox. And in the NL we have the Cubs, Dodgers, Phillies, and Brewers.

So, which teams would make the most interesting 2008 World Series? Here are the top match-ups we’d wanna see.

1. Cubs vs Rays: The “Blue Moon” Series

The team with the longest World Series drought vs. the team that has never made it to the playoffs. Talk about two teams unlikely to meet in the World Series. Does anyone have a Farmer’s Almanac to check if there’s a blue moon rising? Continue Reading

Jonny Gomes shows you that when you dont have a funnel in the clubhouse you have to improvise!

-Via BigLeagueStew

The Arizona Cardinals Anquan Boldin took a nasty helmet to helmet hit from the Jets Eric Smith late in yesterdays blowout win. How there was no flag on the play is beside me, but when you launch yourself and lead with your helmet like Smith did you endanger the life of another human being. Here is hoping that Boldin will be alright and resume his high caliber of play. And to Eric Smith paying a large fine for his wreckless action.

Tomorrow afternoon, Tom Perkins, the famed venture capitalist whose firm is responsible for funding the likes of Amazon.com, America Online, Compaq, Electronic Arts, Genentech, Google, Intuit, Lotus, Macromedia, Netscape, Segway, and Sun Microsystems, plans to sail his megayacht, The Maltese Falcon, into San Francisco Bay for the first time. Why is this significant? Well, Perkins kept his megayacht out of US Waters for the first couple of years to avoid those pesky US luxury taxes — and now after getting a good tan in the Mediteranean he’s ready to show you that his is bigger than yours. About 289 feet bigger in fact. Show up at the Golden Gate Bridge at 2pm Saturday if you’d like to have your ego crushed this weekend.

The Onion says it better than I, or anyone else could.

“After losing eight of our last 12 games, forming Carlos Voltron is our only hope to save our playoff chances,” Manuel said. “We really need power this late in the season, and the 2.5 million pounds of thrust in Voltron’s solid-fuel boosters should give us the lift we need.”

– Thanks to Brian for the tip.