Big day Sunday in Philly .

It starts Saturday night when Pearl Jam will perform in the last event at the Spectrum.
That should end sometime after midnight ...enough time to go home ,grab a quick snooze and get the tailgate party ready.
Then Sunday at 1PM the Giants are at "The LINC " to beat the [b]Eagles .
That should last until 4-4:30 PM . Time enough to grab a cheese steak on the way to Citizen's Bank Park to watch the Yanks beat the Phillies.

Here in NY it will be all Fox Sports all the time (unless you are an unfortunate Jets fan) . Game one is the Giants v Eagles ...Game 2 is the Vikings loss to the Packers(sorry Brett ;this time it aint in a dome) ... time for a quick dinner and shower before settling down to Watch the Yanks whip the Phillie cheese.

To top it all off there's a fanatasy Football match up of very interested parties.Will Spit's team be the unmovable force against my runaway train ?

speechlesstx

For me it's just a trip to the couch to watch Julius Jones get humiliated by his former team, catch a little of Jimmy Johnson increasing his Chase lead and watching Aaron Rodgers carry several of my fantasy teams to another win (hopefully showing no mercy to a really fine pianist and gaining ground on my niece and your runaway train of a team). Hopefully by then the Phillies will be ready to wrap up their thrashing of the Yanks.

tomder55

Suffice it to say that Jones (if I don't waive him this week) will be consigned to my bench.

spitvenom

I am debating on getting tickets to both games since both stadiums are across the street from each other. But I am pretty sure I won't have a place to sleep that night if I spend 120.00 for standing room tickets to the Eagles then another $427.00 on standing room tickets for the Phillies. Plus septa is talking about going on strike on Sunday just to prove a point which will make traffic unbearable. Plus if they both lose there might be mass suicides down there.


I am slowly but surely moving up the Fantasy ranks. I'm coming for you Both of you!

tomder55

Yeah I read that this morning . The mayor should get a court order for them to return to work if they try that stunt.

speechlesstx

My niece just might hinder all of our championship plans.

spitvenom

How crazy is it that the Giants and Eagles fan are playing each other when our teams are playing each other.

She might trip us all up

George_1950

For what it's worth:
Yanks' payroll $201.5 M
Phils' payroll: $113.0 M

I'm not for caps or taxes, but would repeal any antitrust exemptions that exist for professional sports, and all professions as well. Going for the Phils on this one, in 7.

tomder55

George , it is true that MLB has anti-trust exemptions but that has nothing to do with the teams payrolls. In fact ;the Yanks indeed do have the highest payroll and that definitely contributes to their success....although it is not the only factor ....note the Mets payroll.
However ;the Yankees also contribute greatly to the success of MLB. Not only is there a hard "luxury tax " that they pay into the league to subsidize the rest of the teams. But by them being the team everyone likes to hate ;they contribute to the gate receipts for every team they play on the road.

I do not mind hard caps on salaries if that's what's agreed upon in the collective bargaining process. But ;there are many teams that are taking the money from the wealth transfer called the luxury tax ;and are NOT putting it into their payrolls.
My compromise would be both a hard cap and a hard floor for team salaries so that teams like the Pirates would not be able to game the system.

spitvenom

Tom did you see the NY Post today? The Frillies pretty funny!!!! They could have at least put Victorino in a hula skirt!!!!