You Pick'em: Could This Be the Final Week ... I Don't Know ... You Gotta Pick'Em!

Riding Shotgun on a Salt Truck on the Greenway (Dec. 4, 2009) - I apologize for being late in putting up You Pick'em this week but I'm so tired having to get up a midnight this week to remove the tarp at Stone Bridge and then again at 5 a.m. to put it back on. Sheeessh.

Full disclaimer: That was not true.

As is the story that Stone Bridge, which a couple of weeks ago had a helicopter fly over its field (true story!), this week paid a cropduster to seed the clouds with snow crystals (if you believe that second part then you believe like the county assessor that my house is still worth more than I paid for it. Ha!)

Seriously, I have it on good word that Stone Bridge AD Dave Hembach has contacted Bob Ryan and Ryan will shovel off midfield for the coin toss with his Gold Shovel ... also, with a large crowd expected, the SB booster club ordered 5,000 pounds of ice for the game Saturday ... and that is just to dump on the field.

I could go on ... but I sense my wife is reading this column and giving me that look she gives me at parties ... the "will you shut up or I'm gonna grab my 9-iron later look".

Any-who ... we tease because Stone Bridge would like a "slow track" when facing Massaponax on Saturday at 1:30 and Mother Nature seems to be a Bulldog fan as she is expecting to dump some white stuff on an already soggy ground. And yes the field has been covered (I'm betting Massaponax fans have become friends with those Google Earth maps ... I used one last week to find my keys).

Last week we had our Thanksgiving Special and we had three BIG WINNERS! Walter McCowat (Fan Zero ... not because Walter is a Zero but because Walter was probably the first person to ever read a word we wrote back in 2005!) was the winner in the Stone Bridge game with a 24-14 pick, just off by seven points on the 21-10 final (we go by how close you come to each team's score, thus 24 was three away from 21 and 14 was four away from 10).

That is Walter's win No. 5.

Chalking up win No. 9 to tie for third on the all-time list was Tim Lieb, who may have stolen The Oracle's (aka Jason Treon) crystal ball this season when it was sent to the cleaners. Lieb had Handley defending its home turf with a 28-21 win. Not close exactly to the 33-7 final but who could have called that score!

And the biggest win of the week? Potomac Falls varsity basketball coach Jeff Hawes called Broad Run's big win over Sheeeeeerando, 39-14, real close to the 36-13 final. How big of a win was this? Hawes now has two wins, breaking his tie with his young son Hayden! Of course Hawes won ... it is basketball season!

Two games again this week:

Cowboys vs. the Indians ... er,

Massaponax at Stone Bridge
Broad Run at Powhatan

How to Play You Pick'Em:
Simply send us your final score for the game ... email it to dan.sousa[at]verizon.net.
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Leave it as a comment for the world to see on this post
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Leave it on our Fan Page on Facebook
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Twitter it to us! (Twittering in Florida after midnight while driving barefoot is illegal)

Fine print: Anybody who emails me thinking the first part of this column was serious may not play. My fourth grade basketball team (shout out to Ryder, Matt B., Eric, Ryan, Matt L, Aaron, Andrew and Alex!) may only play if they hustle tomorrow morning. Fans who yell from the stands upon the first holding penalty in the game "they have been doing that all game ref!" can not play. Anybody that can say Massaponax Powhatan back-to-back three times in a row, real fast, can not only play but wins a t-shirt (if we had'em). I crashed a party once on Spring Break and ended up married. Shouldn't both Wegman's officially be in Hunt Country as you always have to hunt for a parking space.

All-time You Pick'Em Winner's List (udpated Dec. 4, 2009)
15 - Jason Treon (aka The Oracle)
10 - John Koren
9 - Tim Lieb, Ryan Price (aka The Price is Always Right)
7 - Chris Tully
6 - Jane Baker, Greg Dawson, Ryan Rogers
5 - Walter (Fan Zero) McCowat, Sam (Walk The) Plank
4 - Ryder Sousa
3 - Jamie Eberly, Chuck McDaniel
2 - Kathy Athey, Jeff Hawes
1 - Steven Balik, Leon Barber, Andrew Berdhal, Zirkle Blakey, Joe Conroy, Larry Hall, Hayden Hawes, Carl Lukat, Marco Mastrangelo, Patrick McNanley, Phil Murphy, Trevor Scales, Dave Scarangella