A Few Random Updates

My football picks are looking about as good this week as they did last week, but we'll wait until after tonight's game for a record. At least I survived in the suicide pool.

Today starts the network, scripted TV series (unless you are a fan of Parenthood, Outlaw, or anything on The CW), and today is the first day of 2010-11 sitcoms, with the season premieres of CBS's How I Met Your Mother, Two and a Half Men, and Rules of Engagement, and the series premiere of Mike and Molly. In fact, all of the full season sitcoms premiere this week, as follows (new shows starred):

Monday 9/20:

CBS How I Met Your Mother 8PM

CBS Rules of Engagement 8:30PM

CBS Two and a Half Men 9PM

*CBS Mike and Molly 9:30 PM

Tuesday 9/21:

*FOX Raising Hope 9PM

*FOX Running Wilde 9:30PM

Wednesday 9/22:

ABC The Middle 8PM

*ABC Better with You 8:30PM

ABC Modern Family 9PM

ABC Cougar Town 9:30PM

Thursday 9/23:

NBC Community 8PM

CBS Big Bang Theory 8PM

NBC 30 Rock 8:30PM

*CBS $#*! My Dad Says 8:30PM

NBC The Office 9PM

*NBC Outsourced 9:30PM

That's right, 16 of the 24 live action, network, half-hour sitcoms debut this week. The other 8 will be midseason replacements. NBC's Parks and Recreation is the sole returning sitcom to be given a midseason slot, and with most of Season 3 shot (because of Amy Poehler's pregnancy) it can serve as an insurance policy should Outsourced fail.

The September sitcom rankings will be released on Friday, October 1, after 2 episodes for each of the new shows. Parks and Rec will continue to be ranked, based on last season, but the new shows that have not yet premiered will remain out of the rankings. A page devoted to the rankings can now be found on the toolbar on the right under "Pages"

Again, my weekly college football rankings are available at http://www.bcsfanpoll.com/user/arrabin56/. Please join if you follow college football at all!

Enjoy whichever part of Night 1 of the 2010-11 TV Season you choose to watch!

A Little Bit of This, A Little Bit of That

Although Anatevka hasn't been the Fiddler song stuck in my head all week. (Fun Fact #20- That video might be better than the "Forever" down the aisle dance. Watch it. Right now. This blog will be waiting for you. Enjoy.)

First thing- I had a very bad prediction weekend. A record of 7-8 is incredibly disappointing. Improvement should occur next week. At least the game that mattered I got right.

The Jets game was very disappointing, but I was quite impressed with the stadium. I don't know if any other stadium has 4 video scoreboards (Fun Fact #21- My NFL stadium visits are limited to the Meadowlands and the Superdome) but I thought it was fantastic, and will be great when there are out-of-town games going on.

I went to the lone Mets win of the series against the Phillies. They still have the ability to be a competitive team next year if Bay and Beltran return to their career averages and Santana is back by the end of April, but I still say 2012 is the year.

College football is by no means my area of expertise, but, Fun Fact #22- I vote in a weekly poll at http://www.bcsfanpoll.com/, and if you follow the sport at all, I highly suggest it. Here's my top 25:

Alabama (2-0)	1
Boise State (1-0)	2
Ohio State (2-0)	3
Texas (2-0)	4
TCU (2-0)	5
Florida (2-0)	6
Oklahoma (2-0)	7
Oregon (2-0)	8
Iowa (2-0)	9
Nebraska (2-0)	10
Wisconsin (2-0)	11
LSU (2-0)	12
Utah (2-0)	13
USC (2-0)	14
Arkansas (2-0)	15
Miami (1-1)	16
Penn State (1-1)	17
Georgia Tech (1-1)	18
Florida State (1-1)	19
Auburn (2-0)	20
Michigan (2-0)	21
South Carolina (2-0)	22
Pittsburgh (1-1)	23
Virginia Tech (0-2)	24
Stanford (2-0)	25

You can check out my polling history at http://www.bcsfanpoll.com/user/arrabin56/. My history goes back to week 7 of 2008. And make sure to join yourself, speak on the forums, and apply for official pollster status after 4 weeks!

A whole lot of primaries were today, and while (Fun Fact #23:)I am a registered independent, I am rooting strongly for Nassau County DA Kathleen Rice in her Democratic primary for New York Attorney General. I found her very likable in the few times I met her when I interned at the Nassau County Democratic Committee, and from everything I have heard she has done a very good job, especially on DUI/DWI cases, setting up a separate Drunk Driving Court.

I feel very split about the New Hampshire and Delaware Republican Senate primaries to replace Republican Judd Gregg and Democrat Ted Kaufman respectively (remember Fun Fact #8? I just used it there.) On one hand, if the Tea Party/Conservative candidates win, this increases the Democrats odds of winning these two seats. On the other, if the more moderate candidates win, they hold a better chance of defeating the Democrats, but I'd much rather have them in the Senate than their conservative counterparts. We'll see what happens.

I don't know if I've mentioned it yet, but you are now able to see all the Fun Facts from different blog posts at http://arrfiles.blogspot.com/p/fun-facts.html.

TBS cancelled My Boys today, which is not really notable to me, because I never watched the show, but there is another side of this. The star of My Boys, Jordana Spiro, who is underratedly attractive, was set to star in Love Bites with Becki Newton, and filmed the pilot. The preview of the show looked very good. And then TBS forced her to drop out. NBC pushed Love Bites to midseason, announced they would recast the role, but have yet to do so. So the question will now be whether Spiro is back in or not.

That's all for now. Time for some Civil Prodedure. I'll check in tomorrow.