2007 World Series Odds

Its spring time and the baseball is about to begin in a few days. Its time for my World Series odds preview and predictions. These odds are courtesy of Bodog.com.

American League:

7-2 New York Yankees
7-2 Boston Red Sox
9-1 Chicago White Sox
10-1 Detroit Tigers
10-1 Los Angeles Angels
13-1 Cleveland Indians
18-1 Minnesota Twins
20-1 Oakland Athletics
22-1 Toronto Blue Jays
40-1 Texas Rangers
50-1 Seattle Mariners
80-1 Baltimore Orioles
90-1 Kansas City Royals
90-1 Tampa Bay Devil Rays

National League:

8-1 New York Mets
9-1 Los Angeles Dodgers
11-1 Philadelphia Phillies
12-1 Chicago Cubs
13-1 St. Louis Cardinals
15-1 Atlanta Braves
20-1 Milwaukee Brewers
20-1 San Francisco Giants
25-1 San Diego Padres
30-1 Arizona Dimondbacks
35-1 Cincinnati Reds
40-1 Houston Astros
50-1 Florida Marlins
50-1 Pittsburgh Pirates
55-1 Colorado Rockies
100-1 Washington Nationals

My take on these odds: First of all I'm glad the Rockies are not picked for last place in the NL again but I'm still perplexed by their odds. No, I don't have delusions that they will win the world series but they will have a better record than Pittsburgh and Florida. The rest of the NL West is too highly rated, especially San Francisco who will have a tough time getting more wins than the Rockies. Even though the Mets are ranked at the top of the NL, I still like their 8-1 odds. Although any pick can be argued in the NL, its that up in the air.

For the AL, Cleveland and Minnesota are decent bets. They are both expected to do well. Boston and the Yankees are obviously the top of the AL and the league. I wouldn't bet on either team but if you want a sure chance they will both give it to you. I might like the Red Sox a little more than the Yankees this year. The White Sox are a tad too favored, they likely won't win the division.

Rescue Me 4.04 Spoilers

This episode will air in June, 2007.

Sean and Maggie are in a fight but he wants the relationship to work out. Then Sean notices there is some guy in his apartment and Maggie says she's moved on. Sean doesn't believe it because he left only hours ago. Sean tries to reason with Maggie but she's being stubborn. Sean then threatens divorce and slams the door in Maggie's face while the dude looks on with confusion.

Franco is purchasing an engagement ring for Natalie.

Janet and Tommy are in couple's counselling. They talk about being broken up several times but never going through with a divorce. Tommy's question for the shrink is weather or not to give the marriage another chance or to file for divorce. The shrink asks some family history on them as Tommy and Janet run through their whole mess of problems. Just as Janet finishes up on the last bit of history the shrink picks up the phone and calls someone named Dick, telling him that the joke was great and he almost believed they were a real couple. Tommy and Janet look at each other in confusion.

Teddy and Ellie are temporarily staying at her very elderly mother's house. Teddy wonders if she's dead and this prompts some words of exchange between the mother and Teddy. Ellie then suggests that Teddy go to alcohol rehab so that they can be a regular couple. Teddy seems all for it but questions the cost. Ellie says that she will use her mother's money to pay for it.

Lou and the other Jerry share a conversation at the rival firehouse when Lou spots woman leaving the kitchen area. Lou tells Jerry that they need to have a chat.

Later on the crew is out on call. Lou is telling Needles that they are a bit lost in the building when they hear a woman calling out to them in Spanish. The guys find her pregnant and with her water broken. Upon examination they see the baby's head is almost out. Lou lies her down and the guys prepare to deliver the baby.

List of Summer 2007 Premiere Dates

Now its as good time as any to start listing the premiere dates for this summer. We've got the FOX and NBC dates for now, I'll add to the list and keep updating it once I know more.

May 22 (Tuesday): On the Lot
May 24 (Thursday): So You Think You Can Dance
May 29 (Tuesday): America's Got Talent
May 30 (Wednesday): Rescue Me

June 3 (Sunday): The 4400
June 10 (Sunday): The Loop
June 11 (Monday): The Closer
June 13 (Wednesday): Last Comic Standing
June 18 (Monday): Age of Love
June 25 (Monday): Hell's Kitchen

June TBD: Big Love, Biggest Loser

July TBD: Big Brother, Monk, Psych, Top Chef

September 30 (Sunday): Dexter

September TBD: Nip/Tuck

Updates 4.12.07

Survivor Fiji: Episode 7 Spoilers

Its jury time on Survivor as another season of expandrf jury pool to 9 is set up. The reward challenge is something about racing to throw balls. Ravu finally wins a challenge as the tribe gets to enjoy some eats. Rocky will end up aggravating his tribe mates over it. Yao Man will be chosen for the exile, thus keeping the rest of the tribe in the dark about the hidden immunity idol. However, Yao Man will also finally find the hidden immunity idol back at camp.

For the immunity challenge, its a blindfolded vocal lead and then throwing stuff at skulls. Moto will win this challenge and send Ravu to tribal council. Rocky will be voted out, presumably because the guys think they can vote off Lisi whenever they want. Also, Rocky will be the first member of a 9 member jury.

NFL 2007 Schedule: Week 1 & Turkey Day

Taking a break from TV for a moment, we have to get down to a little football. While the 2007 schedule has not yet been announced, we do now know what the primetime matchups for week 1 are and the Thanksgiving games.

Week 1:
Thursday, September 6th.
New Orleans at Indianapolis

Sunday, September 9th.
Chicago at San Diego 4pm eastern
NY Giants at Dallas 8pm eastern

Monday, September 10th.
Baltimore at Cincinnati 7pm eastern
Arizona at San Fransisco 10pm eastern

Thanksgiving Day:
Thursday, November 22nd.
Green Bay at Detroit 12:30 pm eastern
New York Jets at Dallas 4pm eastern
Indianapolis at Atlanta 8pm eastern (NFL Network)

Also, the entire schedule will be announced on Thursday, April 5th on ESPN at 2pm eastern!

Update: The schedule release got pushed back until April 11th. And the NFL Network had a one hour special at 1pm eastern instead.

Road Rules Lives!

After a more than disappointing start to the newly resurrected Road Rules season, MTV is casting for another edition of the show likely to be filmed this summer. MTV is also casting for the 20th season of the Real World, which some speculate may be its last season as it concludes their contract with MTV. Supposedly the 20th season of the Real World will go back to the original style of the show and focus on the people's lives rather than their party habits. I'll believe that when I see it. No word where this season will be located. The 19th season is currently filming in Sydney, Australia.

CW Spring Finale Dates

First up was NBC and now I have the CW's finale dates. I'm fairly certain about all of them except One Tree Hill's, the date is outside of sweeps but is entirely possible since the next original episodes have been pushed back to May 2. Once I get another network's dates I'll make a compiled list of all dates.

April 24 (Tuesday): Pussycat Dolls

May 7 (Monday): Girlfriends
May 13 (Sunday): 7th Heaven
May 14 (Monday): All of Us, Everybody Hates Chris, The Game
May 15 (Tuesday): Gilmore Girls
May 16 (Wednesday): America's Next Top Model
May 17 (Thursday): Smallville, Supernatural
May 22 (Tuesday): Veronica Mars (2 hours)

June 6 (Wednesday) One Tree Hill

One Tree Hill 4.16 Spoilers

This episode will air May 2, 2007. UPDATE: The CW announced today that they are pushing back the new epiosdes of One Tree Hill.

These spoilers are slightly different that what I wrote up previously but I'll share anyway. I have a feeling these might be the more correct of the two.

This episode will be the continuation of the prom episode cliffhanger as it is still prom night. Peyton will not make it to prom and Lukas will be alone. Nathan and Haley share a nice night together and Dan turns on the charm for Karen. Lucas will finally put the pieces of the puzzle together about what happened to Keith. There will be a witness who saw Dan kill Keith, supposedly its either Mouth or the girl named Abby.

Survivor Fiji: Episode 6 Spoilers

This is the big episode that CBS has teased for weeks. I can't believe they thought we were going to fall for all that merge talk. Its really the tribe reshuffle that I've been talking about for weeks.

Early on in the episode the tribes will gather and 2 new "captains" will be selected, Earl and Edgardo. They will each pick a tribe member alternating someone from their old tribe and someone from the other tribe, also the newest selectee getting to make the next selection and so forth. The tribes shake out this way: Earl, Michelle, Yao-Man, Cassandra, Stacy, and Boo. And then Edgardo, Dreams, Alex, James, Mookie, Anthony. Lisi will be the last one chosen and will head to exile island without a team. Earl's team will get to live on the "haves" beach while Edgardo's team goes back to the "have not" life.

Its not looking likely for a reward challenge due to the tribal switch. The immunity challenge is a ropes obstacle course. the "have nots" tribe of Ravu loses again. Anthony is voted out. Also, it appears that Earl and yao-Man do find the hidden immunity idol at their new camp.

Gilmore Girls 7.19 Spoilers

This epiosde will air in April, 2007.

Some mild spoiler for this epiosde: Paris and Doyle are supposedly breakingup this episode as well as Rory and Logan having more disagreements. Lorelai will be in the market for a new car so she will need to ride a bike around for a while. Lorelai will ask Luke to go car shopping with her and this is where they really rekindle at least their friendship. There is also some business with Lorelai's dollhouse and it possibly being destrpyed.

Friday Night Lights Finale Spoilers

This episode will likely air on April 11, 2007.

The finale for this season will have the Panthers at the state championship game, which is being filmed at Texas Stadium where the Dallas Cowboys play. I also hear that the finale will not resemble anything like the Friday Night Lights movie. My guess is that this means the Panthers will not win the State title. I think if that's true it might bode well for a second season.

Veronica Mars Cancelled or FBI?

After an odd turn of events as E! Online reported that Veronica Mars was actually cancelled, the network and studio have confirmed that no decision on Veronica Mar's fate has been made. Word is that Rob Thomas has been asked to develop a featurette of sorts that showcases Veronica 4 years in the future as a full fledged FBI agent. It sounds as if there is little chance Veronica will return to her college years at Hearst in the fall but there is hope that this flash forward will pan out. I, personally will take my Veronica in any form they want to serve it in.

Fresh Meat 2 is Coming

MTV has already decided what the next Real World/Road Rules challenge will be after the upcoming Inferno 3, set to premiere on April 11. The next installment which has not yet begun filming, will be the second season of the Fresh Meat challenge. More information and updates to come on this story!

Update on 6/26/07: The next challenge will in fact be the Gauntlet 3. No word yet on if Fresh Meat 2 is still in theworks or not but I'll keep updating.

Top Design Spoilers

Nothing too detailed in the spoilers for the first season of Top Design. however, I can divulge details about what challenge each episode contains and the speculated winner.

Episode 1.06 (March 14): The 6 designers are split into teams of 3 as they decorate a party room for Bicardi Limon and Elle Decor Magazine.

Episode 1.07 (March 21): The 5 remaining contestants will create a dining room for Top Chef head judge Tom Colicchio.

Episode 1.08 (March 28): The final 4 designers design a hotel room at the Viceroy Hotel in LA.

Episode 1.09 (April 4): The last 3 standing will recreate an Elle Decor magazine cover.

Episode 1.10 (April 11): The final 2 contestants each design a entire loft apartment in LA in this first season finale.

As for the winner, word is that the judges are impressed with Goil's work enough to give him the title of Top Designer.

Amazing Race Winners Revealed?

Warning: Big spoilers ahead.

So we all pretty much know that the "shokcing ending" tonight on the Amazing Race will be that somehow Rob & Amber get eliminated. Not sure exactly what the problem will be, either bad luck, a mistake or the other teams plotting against them. We'll surely find out in a matter of hours.

Now the interesting thing that has been brought to my attention is the finishing position of the top 3 teams. I'm fairly confident in the top 3 but I take the positions with a grain of salt. Nevertheless, I do think the information is worth sharing. I hear that Eric & Danielle win, followed by Dustin & Kandace taking second and Charla & Mirna bringing up the rear. There also seems to be a general consensus that third place will certainly be Charla & Mirna, first and second are a little more unsettled but thats the word on the street.

American Idol 6: Final 12 Odds

Its odds time again now that American Idol is down to its top 12 contestants. I'm not really sure anyone really deserves to win at this point so it should be an interesting season. These odds are courtesy of pinnaclesports.com

Melinda Doolittle +186
Lakisha Jones +300
Blake Lewis +735
Chris Sligh +835
Stephanie Edwards +1050
Jordin Sparks +1130
Chris Richardson +1186
Gina Glocksen +2202
Sanjaya Malakar +3397
Brandon Rogers +5000
Phil Stacey +5000
Haley Scarnato +15000

My take on these odds: Remember early favorite never win, so I wouldn't cast my vote for Melinda just yet. It baffles me that Sanjaya is ranked above anyone. I also find it odd that both Gina and Chris R. are ranked lower than people who are not as talented as them, they'd be my good bets as well as Blake. As I said before, nobody really stands out to me so any good hunch can turn out to be a good bet. I'm rolling the dice on my favorites.

Survivor Fiji: Episode 5 Spoilers

So much has already been revealed about this season's Survivor that my episodic spoilers are probably redundant. But I will continue on for those of you who still enjoy reading them.

First of all, Yao-Man and Earl will work together to find the hidden immunity idol on their camp but are likley not sucessful this episode.

The reward challenge consists of some sort of sumo jousting battle with huge blocking pads on a balance beam over water. The reward contains some luxuries Moto has been enjoying. Moto finally wins the reward and gets to enjoy, among other things, toilet paper. Lisi will get chosen to go to exile island where she will learn about the hidden immunity idol clues. She'll share this information with her alliance.

The immunity challenge is one of those story-memory games where the survivors all run to different stations and answer questions in order to collect items. Rita will likely mess up in the challenge as Moto loses again, and she'll get the boot too.

Some future episode spoilers: There will be a tribe switch next week where most of Ravu goes to Moto, thus becoming the "have nots". The Moto curse will continue as the new Moto tribe will lose supposedly every single immunity challenge until the merge. The Jury will be formed after 7 get the boot and the merge will happen after 9 are gone. Yao-Man and Earl will control one hidden immunity Idol, getting Yao-Man into the final 4 and Earl into the final 3. The trio of Alex, Edgardo and Mookie will control the other idol. Supposedly there is third idol at the merge camp.

Desperate Housewives 3.19 Spoilers

This epiosde will air sometime around April, 2007.

Gabby gets blackmailed with some steamy photos of her and Victor. She tells the cops about the situation but the pictures appear in the newspaper anyhow. Gabby then has a confrontation with Victor's campaign manager who says he should have been told about the situation and would have dealt with it. Gabby doesn't understand what the fuss is all about, so what if the public knows about their romance? She also didn't want to upset Victor. The campaign guy explains that the cops set up the whole ordeal since they knew any sort of controversey to come out at a time like this would favor the current mayor. Victor enters the conversation and asks the manager to take care of the situation as it stands now. Predictably, the solution is for Gabby and Victor to announce their engagement.

The cops enter Mrs. McCluskey's hospital room as she admits that she has done osmething wrong and has been caught.

Susan is at a wedding cake tasting with a caterer named Maggie. Susan and Maggie get to talking and Susan finds out that Maggie is a bit desperate for a date. Susan then decides to set her up with Mike and they can double date at a dinner the next night with her and Ian.

A realtor named Russell is showing a couple a vacant house when he opens the door to find Edie and Carlos having sex on the floor.

Friday Night Lights 1.19 and 1.20 Spoilers

These episodes should air on March 21st and 28th respectively because the season finale is set to air on April 11, 2007.

Episode 1.19 will have Lyla arguing with Buddy Garrity at the car dealership. Lyla will become so upset she will drive one of the cars through the dealership. Landry will end up being Trya's math tutor. Coach Taylor will endure some more heat for his dealings with Smash. There will also be a bomb threat at Dillon High School.

Episode 1.20 will contain the "The Mud Bowl", which is the semi final game before the state championship. Its called that because the game will be played in a rural football field and it will be raining throughout the game. It also sounds like Dillon pulls out a close win and is on to the state championship game. Would we have it any other way?

Update: Its has been brought to my attention that it might be Tyra, not Lyla, that drives the car through the dealership. I see the plot working either way but the information could have been incorrect the first time or they decided to change it.

Desperate Housewives 3.18 Spoilers

This episode will likely air April, 2007.

Victor is at the park holding some sort of debate versus the current mayor for his own mayoral campaign. In the middle of the debate something distracts Victor and then he asks someone that works for him to have Gabby put in his limo.

Lynette is at the pizzeria and she encounters a demanding customer. The guy complains about his food and Lynette becomes very upset. Jason comes to her rescue and assists with the customer. Later on Tom and Lynette are at the ER getting treatment for some minor injuries. The doctor asks what happened and they say it was due to some kinky sex.

Mr McClusky finally makes an appearance as he excitedly argues with his wife about some hooligans that work at some plant.

The ladies, except Bree, all play poker at Gabby's house while they admire Gabby's new handyman named Toby who is very attractive.