Fearless Weekend Predictions; same bat time

Written by Grubby | 24 July 2009

Fearless Weekend Predictions is a weekly column running on Friday afternoons where our resident soothsayer (or whoever we can get) locks down what will transpire in the coming 72 hours. It’s better to get these out before the 7-year is open.  The crystal ball gets cloudy.

If you were a carnie, what kind would you be?  Personally, I'd like to be the guy that sits up at the front with a paper-stock megaphone.  For some reason, that role seems like it would be of a higher echelon in the carnie world to me.  All that to say, "Come one, come all" to our inaugural FWP on Stadium Drives.  This is a weekly series we started a few years back at our previous internet home and now it has been rebirthed.  Like Kate on NCIS.

It's fair to say that the sports world is a bit barren until August, but alas, we shall make due.

On with the prognostications!

Steve Spurrier will not vote on Proposition 8. Yep, now that the Who-Didn't-Vote-For-Tebow-gate mystery has been solved, the Ol' Ball Coach will turn his focus to more important matters.  Namely, whether or not state governments should regulate gay marriage.  And abstain.  Not a topic normally covered by your average college sports blog, admittedly, but this my friends is no average sports blog.  And hey, what else is there to talk about in July?

More after the jump

Jeremy Mayfield will finally put down the pipe and pick up a set of keys. To a Kubota.  He's just the kind of Kentucky born and bred big name that can promote Lawnmower Racing to the front page of mid-size local dailies throughout the mid-south.  Seriously, have you seen it in action?

The WNBA All-Star game will set an attendance record. It will still be less than the number of people currently watching Cohron lose in Match Play on Tiger Woods '08.  To me.  And I'm writing a blog post between shots.  Just for fun, let's recap Twitter responses to "What are everybody's plans for the WNBA All-Star game?"

• Sleep
• They have one of those?
• ... watching the game while we stab ourselves in our retinas with rusty nails
• count weiners
• The WNBA:  It's okay!

The only thing worse than 3 almost-30-year-olds playing TW and drinking cold Bud Lights on a Friday afternoon will be... Whatever you're doing.  Seriously, we have a 4th controller.  Swing on by!

That's it for our inauguration on FWP.  JC will get us back to reality next week.  Now, back to beating that ass.

Breaking News:  And the gauntlet has now been thrown down.  Cohron says if he doesn't get more responses he will live blog the WNBA exhibition and leave it on the front page. All week.  Come on people, get those tweets in @JoshCohron!  Nobody wants all that noise.