redsoxfandave has first choice. After he picks, Peter picks from what's left. Then Section 36, then Ryan. Note: Prizes B, C, and D have multiple available.

Prize A: 2 tix to a Sox game.

Prize B: Pac-Men CD. (punk band I used to be in)

Prize C: a bunch of Red Sox baseball cards (will include some 80s cards, and other fun surprises)

Prize D: choice of baseball card magnet (Francona then and now, Rice/Boyd, Owen/Greenwell, Dewey/Hurst)

Thanks to everyone who played and for all the responses to how/when you found my blog.

And don't forget, tomorrow the truck rolls!

Congrats to the winners. 1st = Ryan, Half = Peter N., 3rd = Section 36, FINAL = redsoxfandave.

I will put up the prizes soon, and dave will be on the clock with the first pick.

Click to make bigger. The entries are in: We have 19 contestants plus me. Everybody gets 5 squares. There will be 4 or more prizes which will be announced Monday. Winner of the final score gets to choose a prize first. Halftime winner chooses second. Third quarter winner picks third. Lowly first quarter champ gets the last choice.

I placed everyone in the grid in the order they entered the contest starting at top left. I put in all 20 names left to right. Then I repeated 4 times, each time starting one square to the right, so everybody will have 5 completely different sets of numbers. Then I drew numbers for the Steelers and Packers, in a video.

In case you don't know the rules: Let's say it's Packers 14, Steelers 10 after the first quarter. It's the last digit that counts (it doesn't matter which team is winning the game), so look on the grid for Packers 4, Steelers 0: Ryan. He wins the first quarter. Simple. You each have 5 sets of numbers. Each set is its own individual score. So there will be one winner for each quarter. If the game goes to overtime, the "final score" winner will be determined by the final score, not the score at the end of regulation.

Now, let's look at some of these numbers... 0-0 is always a strong contender, since the game starts at 0-0, and since the two most common scores in the game of football are 7 and 3. So even if a team leaves 0, it's one score away from getting right back to 0. Tex, the first to enter, fittingly got the golden double goose egg. I got 3-0 Packers, and Boston Fan in Wichita got 3-0 Steelers. JS got 7-0 Steelers, and my mom got 7-0 Packers. Patrick nailed 7-7. Those are your biggies. 6s, 4s, and 1s are also good. But with 2-point conversions, anything can happen. Good luck. And happy birthday, mom! Hope you get a b-day prize.

Also, Carvey is hosting SNL right now, and he and Myers did Wayne's World! And Carvey did a Church Chat! The Church Lady danced with Justin Bieber! And now he's doing Regis! '92 is back!

The *official* release is out, only three months after my version. Which I pretty much nailed.

Since I never read any sports/gossip sites I don't know if this is "what everyone's talking about" or "something I discovered," but either way, it's kinda funny.

It's funny how in the "Pettitte retires" articles, they hype him up as the "all-time post-season win leader." Which is just like saying "Gary Coleman sent more e-mails than George Washington." I think Bernie is also *technically* the all-time post-season HR leader and they're always blabbing about that. And isn't Graeme Lloyd the all-time post-season strikeout king? No one ever had more outfield assists in the third inning of playoff games than Chad Curtis, right.... And Don Zimmer is the all-time post-season farts champ. Of course, all this shows just how much the Yanks were in the playoffs. But the point remains, nobody before 1969 had the chance to play more than 7 post-season games per season except for a few of the best-of-9 World Series years. And only the players from TWO teams had that chance. Now you've got 8 teams and a possible 19 games for two of them. In fairness, Jeter would be the "post-season dugout camera shot" king even if he'd only played in one post-season game.

16 people are in the Super Bowl contest. Gotta get it to 25, then everybody gets 4 squares on the grid. If you haven't entered yet, go here, and leave your comment about how you found this blog, and you'll be automatically entered. You have until this Saturday at 11:11 p.m. And I'll post the grid by Sunday morning so you'll know what numbers you're rooting for. Thanks. Prizes! Could be a million dollars, could be game-used belly button lint.

You know I wouldn't miss a chance to link to an article about Weird Al.

Or to make a Groundhog Day reference.

More of my NYC pics from a few days ago. Here's an apocalyptic shot of St. Patrick's Cathedral with Atlas in the foreground.

I was really getting pics of St. Pat's because I liked how the snow was built up on it.

More snowy pointy things.

Okay, back downtown, here are the shots I took from the other side of the Winter Garden, next to Ground Zero.

The Jersey City, New Jersey skyline across the river.

I've decided this bird represents "liberty," and the lightpost along with it forms a "statue," so I've titled it "The Statue of Liberty." Behind it, The Statue of Liberty.

More TSOL action.

The ducks didn't mind the snow, and they even swam in the icy water.

No skateboarding on the snow....

I effed with this pic to make the Verazzano-Narrows Bridge visible.

And now back uptown, James Cagney Place, my favorite street in NYC--because no cars are allowed, and you can sled down it. (Or play snow football, as these rare non-texting teens are doing.)