Here is this week's survey, a bit belated: Give your opinions:

1. With the Indians screwup, there are now 8 teams left in the title chase: Dodgers, Braves, Pirates, Cardinals, As, Tigers, Red Sox, Rays.

Which one do you want to win? Which one do you think will win?

Want? The A's... for Billy Beane

Think? The Dodgers

2. Which NFL team is the biggest positive surprise so far?

Which NFL team is the biggest negative surprise so far?

+ Us

- tie between Steelers and Giants

3. Who is the most overhyped NFL player?

RG3

4. Which part of the government shutdown affects you the most?

It all does... Stock portfolio be shrinking...

5. It is now early October, where will you be going to do your leaf peeping to see the fall colors....or where do you most like to go to do that?

Actually live in an area of Texas with four seasons now (vs. many years in Houston which has 2 or 3 seasons most years)...

But while living in Houston would go to Lost Maples State Park (near San Antonio) if wanted to see colors.

It's a unique park in an area that is able to sustain Maples due to soil type and topology producing an acceptable climate in the midst of a fairly hot and arrid region. about the only place you can see Maples.

http://www.tpwd.state.tx.us/state-parks/lost-maples

Here is this week's survey, a bit belated: Give your opinions:

1. With the Indians screwup, there are now 8 teams left in the title chase: Dodgers, Braves, Pirates, Cardinals, As, Tigers, Red Sox, Rays.

Which one do you want to win? Which one do you think will win?

Now that Cleveland is out, won't watch another game.

2. Which NFL team is the biggest positive surprise so far?

Which NFL team is the biggest negative surprise so far?

The Hoyer led Browns

I think shitsburgh being as bad as they are is hilarious. Love it. Better beat them 2x.

3. Who is the most overhyped NFL player?

Ben Rapelisburger

4. Which part of the government shutdown affects you the most?

My 401k

5. It is now early October, where will you be going to do your leaf peeping to see the fall colors....or where do you most like to go to do that?

Central Ohio is epic in fall time, doesnt get much better. I'm in the Gahanna area which is beautiful the farther out east you go. The Hocking area is the best scenery ive ever seen in fall, about 1 hour south of Cbus. Great time to go check out Old mans cave and the state park.

Here is this week's survey, a bit belated: Give your opinions:

1. With the Indians screwup, there are now 8 teams left in the title chase: Dodgers, Braves, Pirates, Cardinals, As, Tigers, Red Sox, Rays.

Which one do you want to win? Which one do you think will win?

Want to win? I don't care. Think will win- Tigers.

2. Which NFL team is the biggest positive surprise so far?

Which NFL team is the biggest negative surprise so far?

Positive- KC, followed by the Browns assuming they win tonight.

Negative- Giants for sure, but I doubt anyone had the Steelers @ 0-4.

3. Who is the most overhyped NFL player?

RGIII by a country mile, no one else is close on the ESPN hype-o-meter, seemed to have toned it down, now that the Deadskins are merely mediocre.

4. Which part of the government shutdown affects you the most?

Damn National Park shutdown, if you arrived @ Yellowstone or the Grand Canyon this week, and were told the park was closed, you're going to have some mighty POed tourists. Doesn't really affect anything, as the real operations are run by concessionaires. Incidentally, went down to the Towpath yesterday for a nice fall ride, only to find "Towpath Closed" WTF?? I can understand the visitor centers- however- the Towpath is "Federal Land" You want to tell me to stay off my own property?

5. It is now early October, where will you be going to do your leaf peeping to see the fall colors....or where do you most like to go to do that?

No special place, though I have to admit the overlook in Bedford Reservation is really nice.

Here is this week's survey, a bit belated: Give your opinions:

1. With the Indians screwup, there are now 8 teams left in the title chase: Dodgers, Braves, Pirates, Cardinals, As, Tigers, Red Sox, Rays.

Which one do you want to win?

Even though they beat us last night, I now would like to see the Rays win it all. Fresh blood and all that. Eff the Cardinals and Red Sox who each have won a couple of times in the last few years.

Second choice: probably The Braves

Which one do you think will win?

I think it could well be the Tigers year. Unlike the Super Bowl loser which has not come back to win the title the following year since 1971, there is no such stigma to the World Series loser. The Motor City Kitties may be poised to take it all.

2. Which NFL team is the biggest positive surprise so far?

If the Browns win tonight and take over first place in the AFCN, they will be the biggest surprise winner of the NFL season so far.

Second choice would be Kansas City. They play the also surprising Titans Sunday and if they go to 5-0 that is a majorly unexpected. If the Titans win, they could carry the mantle of one of the most surprising teams...as they would be 4-1. But for them their QB is out for a while so it will be tough.

Which NFL team is the biggest negative surprise so far?

Sorry, but many even national analysts say that the Steelers sucking this bad is not that much of a surprise.

The Giants sucking as bad as they do is a bigger surprise...so go with the Gints.

3. Who is the most overhyped NFL player?

RGIII sure gets the hype for a guy that ain't doing all that great. Now, based on last year's performance....his hype seem justified. But that injury derailed him, but you wouldn't know it by the national media that still spoons all over him.

The two Texas QBs, Matt Schaub and Tony Romo may also be in the running here. And now, apparently, Andy Dalton.

4. Which part of the government shutdown affects you the most?

None of what I do business with is being shutdown. Bankruptcy Court and the IRS are all up and running.

The one area though in which I may get fucked is with the National Park Service. DARWAF's. I have my fall trip coming up...and in these I often visit a number of NPS units. While several that I plan to go to can't be shut down because they are simply natural settings that you can't close, there are a couple that I was looking forward to seeing that could be shuttered because they are located in structures: Thomas Edison's lab in NJ, and the Steamtown Railroad museum in Scranton PA.

5. It is now early October, where will you be going to do your leaf peeping to see the fall colors....or where do you most like to go to do that?

As mentioned above, I am going to Eastern PA along the Delaware Water Gap/Pocono mountain area. It should be prime time when I go.

Even I-80 going across northern PA should be a scenic ride if the weather is right.

Here is this week's survey, a bit belated: Give your opinions:

1. With the Indians screwup, there are now 8 teams left in the title chase: Dodgers, Braves, Pirates, Cardinals, As, Tigers, Red Sox, Rays.

Which one do you want to win? Which one do you think will win?

Red Sox - I had family in Boston when I was little and went to a game.

2. Which NFL team is the biggest positive surprise so far?

Which NFL team is the biggest negative surprise so far?

Lions

Giants

3. Who is the most overhyped NFL player?

Can I still say Ray Lewis?

4. Which part of the government shutdown affects you the most?

FX Rate

5. It is now early October, where will you be going to do your leaf peeping to see the fall colors....or where do you most like to go to do that?

Don't need to leave London, but I'll be heading to Bedford where I grew up, it can be pretty there.