SOS: This prognosticator is in need of lots of help

I look at my 3-7 as a 5-5. I’ve written before on how if we were picking based on the odds, I would be the champion of this contest.

But this is strictly a Moneyline contest (That’s Nevada’s fancy way of saying when you’re just picking winners and losers without odds) so it’s not like my “5-5” as I look at it will be reflected in the standings of our Fearless Prognosticators contest.

No I went 3-7 last week and now have fallen below .500 for the season. Not only do I have the distinction of heading on my way again to being “The Best Last Place Picker in America” again, I have become the first prognosticator in this contest in the last two years to fall below .500.

Maybe I can make a career out of being such a bad prognosticator in the same way Bob Uecker has made a career out of being such a bad baseball player.

Eucker’s career average in the Major Leagues was .200, which in baseball is known as the Mendoza Line, named after Major Leaguer Mario Mendoza and has basically become the standard of hitting futility.

I don’t know why it’s called the Mendoza Line because Mendoza actually had a career average a little above .200. Maybe it should be called the Uecker Line.

Anyway Uecker has joked that if he knew .200 would have become the standard for hitting futility, he would have struck out one more time so his career average would have been below .200.

Uecker was actually an outstanding defensive catcher which is why he lasted several years in the Major Leagues as a backup catcher. But I digress.

Since I still haven’t figured out how to capitalize on my futility as a prognosticator I will keep plugging away.

As it stands now it looks like our Fearless Prognosticators Contest is become a four-person race, minus yours truly of course. The other four prognosticators are within three games of each other.

Dustin Della of Suncrest Bank remains in first but barely at 3216-1 after going 5-5 last week. Mary Quijas of Juicy Burger jumped into the thick of things after going 7-3 last week and is now 30-18-1.

She’s one game behind J.R. Flores of J.R.’S Barbershop, who also went 5-5 last week and is now in second place just one game behind at 31-171. David Horowitz of Horowitz Jewelers is 2919-1 after going 5-5 last week.

Do I have to post my record?

OK I’m 23-25-1 afer going 3-7 last week, so I’m below the Mendoza Line when it comes as a prognosticator.

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