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Soccer

2015-16 EPL Prediction Contest

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It's that time of year again. Here are your past champions:

YearChampion
2011 HomerDome (18 pts)
2012 MagUidhir (19 pts)
2013 Philo (21 pts)
2014 Philo (32 pts)

This year will crown our 2015* Champion. Can Philo go for a three-peat? Will nibbish finally break through and unseat him? Someone else? Who knows!

*Years are based on the day of the first fixture of the season.

And a reminder on scoring:

  • 3 points for correctly predicting the finishing place of a team in the final league table
  • 1 point for being +/- one position in the final leage table
  • A bonus point for correctly picking the league champion
  • One bonus point for each relegated team correctly predicted, up to three total. (Position doesn't affect this. If you pick them 18th, and they finish 20th, still a bonus point cuz they're going down)

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WGOM Advice

Truck Time with Twayn…with Mags! Fuel Filter Edition

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Following hot on the heels of the "wildly" "popular" sway bar replacement post, here's my much quicker, much less sweary fuel filter replacement.

My car had been starting pretty rough. My BiL suggested that a clogged fuel filter could be impeding the fuel pump from creating the initial flow of gasoline from the tank to the engine until a sufficient siphon could be created to help the pump by pulling the fuel into the engine. Seeing that a replacement filter was $8, I figured it was worth a shot. Continue reading Truck Time with Twayn…with Mags! Fuel Filter Edition →

WGOM Advice

Truck Time with Twayn…with Mags! Sway Bar Edition

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"If the women don't find you handsome, they should at least find you handy."

So, I decided to share my automotive repair experiences. Now, I'm definitely no Twayn, but I like to think I can be somewhat useful. What follows is replacing the front-end sway bar on my 1998 Buick Century. Click to embiggen all pictures. Continue reading Truck Time with Twayn…with Mags! Sway Bar Edition →

Soccer

EPL 2014-15 WGOM Contests

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FANTASY LEAGUE

If you want in the fantasy league, click here and then look for league ID 392381-385243

PREDICTION CONTEST

Here are the 20 teams in the EPL this season. Copy/paste them, and then re-arrange them into the order you think the table will finish this year. Put a spoiler around your comment and submit. I'll compile the spreadsheet in the upcoming days.

Leicester City
Stoke City
Aston Villa
Tottenham Hotspur
Chelsea
Liverpool
Queens Park Rangers
Swansea City
Manchester City
Crystal Palace
Burnley
Sunderland
Everton
Newcastle United
West Ham United
West Bromwich Albion
Manchester United
Hull City
Arsenal
Southampton

Reminder of the scoring:

  • Correctly put the team in the spot they finish = 3 points
  • Correctly put the team +/- one spot they finish = 1 point
  • Correctly picking the champion = 1 point
  • Correctly picking a relegated team = 1 point/correct pick (3 max. possible)
MLB

My Favorite Non-Twins

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Things have been a little down around here lately, and not necessarily without reason. But let's not lose sight of the fact that, at it's heart, baseball is fun. And in that spirit, here is my lineup of my favorite non-Twins. Here are my guidelines:

  1. Players cannot currently employed by the Twins
  2. Players can be either NL or AL players
  3. One each of LF-CF-RF (Sorry Adam Jones & Cutch)
  4. As we support an AL team, there is a DH
    • This DH can be any player whatsoever

These are just my favorite players to watch. Not the best, not who I would build a team around, just guys who in their own way bring me some measure of joy when I watch them play ball. And of course, there is no accounting for taste. So y'all should share your favorites too. Follow my rules or don't, it's up to you. I'm not your mother.

WARNING: GIFs abound after the jump
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