2018 Classic Rock Draft

Pick/Owner/Artist/Title/2017 Rank
1 Jim Guns N Roses Knockin' On The Heaven's Door 459 
2 Sam Tom Petty Free Fallin' 9 
3 Bill ZZ Top Sharp Dressed Man 357 
4 Drew Led Zeppelin Whole Lotta Love 492 
5 Drew Tom Petty Free Fallin' -9 
6 Bill Black Sabbath Paranoid -16 
7 Sam Boston More Than A Feeling -7 
8 Jim Elton John Rocket Man -17 
9 Jim Rolling Stones It's Only Rock And Roll 376 
10 Sam Eagles Peaceful Easy Feeling 314 
11 Bill Rolling Stones Paint It Black 501 
12 Drew Who Baba O'Riley 494 
13 Drew CCR Have You Ever Seen The Rain -12 
14 Bill Aerosmith Crazy -41 
15 Sam Santana Black Magic Woman -343 
16 Jim J. Geils Band Centerfold -51 
17 Jim Poison Every Rose Has Its Thorn 120 
18 Sam Tom Petty, Stevie Nicks Stop Draggin' My Heart Around 374 
19 Bill Def Leppard Pour Some Sugar On Me 412 
20 Drew Deep Purple Smoke On The Water 471 
21 Drew The Outfield Your Love -300 
22 Bill Guns N Roses Sweet Child O' Mine -5 
23 Sam REO Speedwagon Can't Fight This Feeling -266 
24 Jim Black Crowes Hard To Handle -106 
25 Jim Tom Petty Mary Jane's Last Dance 167 
26 Sam Journey Seperate Ways 290 
27 Bill Pink Floyd Young Lust 501 
28 Drew Pink Floyd Wish You Were Here 476 
29 Drew Ten Years After I Love To Change The World -197 
30 Bill Joan Jett I Love Rock And Roll -11 
31 Sam Jimi Hendrix Fire -269 
32 Jim Emerson, Lake, Palmer Karn Evil #9 -277 
33 Jim Led Zeppelin All My Love 487 
34 Sam Tom Petty Here Comes My Girl 400 
35 Bill Journey Any Way You Want It 501 
36 Drew ZZ Top La Grange 313 
37 Drew Cheap Trick I Want You To Want Me -44 
38 Bill Steve Miller Band Rock N Me -21 
39 Sam Blue Oyster Cult Godzilla -280 
40 Jim Molly Hatchet Dreams I'll Never See -390 
41 Jim AC/DC Hells Bells 102 
42 Sam Fleetwood Mac Gypsy 441 
43 Bill Lynyrd Skynyrd Simple Man 402 
44 Drew Pink Floyd Comfortably Numb 98 
45 Drew Foreigner Cold As Ice -38 
46 Bill Bon Jovi Livin' On A Prayer -13 
47 Sam Stevie Nicks Edge of Seventeen -72 
48 Jim Black Sabbath War Pigs -43 
49 Jim Eagles Take It Easy 48 
50 Sam Tom Petty You Got Lucky 321 
51 Bill Van Halen Everybody Wants Some 501 
52 Drew Rush Tom Sawyer 65 
53 Drew Twisted Sister We're Not Gonna Take It -61 
54 Bill Pat Benatar Heartbreaker -33 
55 Sam Supertramp Give A Little Bit -105 
56 Jim Bad Company Shooting Star -140 
57 Jim Cream Sunshine Of Your Love 336 
58 Sam Tom Petty Runnin' Down A Dream 216 
59 Bill Aerosmith Livin' On The Edge 501 
60 Drew Van Halen Panama 238 
61 Drew Led Zeppelin Babe I'm Gonna Leave You -71 
62 Bill Beatles A Day In The Life -19 
63 Sam Buffalo Springfield For What It's Worth -141 
64 Jim Def Leppard Rocket -161 
65 Jim Lynyrd Skynyrd What's Your Name 501 
66 Sam Tom Petty You Wreck Me 342 
67 Bill Def Leppard Photograph 361 
68 Drew Pink Floyd Hey You 501 
69 Drew Billy Idol Mony Mony -63 
70 Bill Who Behind Blue Eyes -23 
71 Sam Beatles Here Comes The Sun -168 
72 Jim Fleetwood Mac Gold Dust Woman -66 
73 Jim Peter Frampton Do You Feel Like We Do 461 
74 Sam Eagles One Of These Nights 200 
75 Bill Rush Fly By Night 501 
76 Drew Derek and the Dominos Layla 185 
77 Drew Animals House of the Rising Sun -81 
78 Bill Fleetwood Mac The Chain -42 
79 Sam Led Zeppelin Dazed And Confused -193 
80 Jim Robin Trower Bridge Of Sighs -426

Positive picks taken in odd-numbered rounds - predicted to go up.
Negative picks taken in even-numbered rounds - predicted to go down, and noted with (-).


RESULTS

DREW 2841 

Bill 2553

Jim 1512

Sam 1076

Full point distribution breakdown:

Positive Picks

Bill 1977

Drew 1518

Jim 664

Sam 246

 

Negative Picks 

Drew 1223

Jim 798

Sam 730

Bill 426

Top 5 Picks

Bill 150

Drew 100

Sam 100

Jim 50

Amount of Picks correct (Positive, Negative)

Jim 5, 9

Sam 5, 7

Bill 8, 7

Drew 9, 9

 

Bill's Fantasy Music Station

Here at WDDB, we're playing what would best be considered Mainstream Rock, with no band garnering more than 4% of the playlist.  And for simplicity's sake, we have just four tiers:

The Top Tier - 4% shares of the playlist
You'll hear these artists every 25 plays, or about once every 2.5 hours.  

Aerosmith
Foo Fighters
Metallica
Rush
Queen
YES

The unique thing about this tier of six, is that each group gets their own daily feature at a set time.  KSLX has "Get the Led out," and KUPD has "Mandatory Metallica."  We have Aerosmith at 9am, Foo Fighters at noon, Metallica at 3, Rush at 6, Queen at 9, and YES at midnight.  Each is a block of three deep tracks you won't get anywhere else.  


The Middle Tier - 3% shares of the playlist
You'll hear these artists every 33.3 plays, or about once every 3.3 hours

Asia
Alice In Chains
Guns N Roses
The Offspring
Van Halen

The Bottom Tier - 2% shares of the playlist
You'll hear these artists every 50 plays, or about once every 5 hours

Billy Joel
Black Sabbath/Ozzy Osbourne
Boston
The Cars
Creedence Clearwater Revival
Collective Soul
David Bowie
Dire Straits
Dream Theater
Gerry Raferty
Journey
Lynyrd Skynyrd
Megadeth
Motorhead
The Police
Red Hot Chili Peppers
The Scorpions
Stone Temple Pilots
Styx
U2
The Who
ZZ Top


*The Flexible Tier - A combined 12% share of the playlist
You'll hear one of these artists every 8 or 9 plays, or about once every 50 minutes

Listener Requests
AC/DC
Fleetwood Mac/Stevie Nicks
Rolling Stones
Led Zeppelin
The Doors
The Eagles/Joe Walsh

*We play these bands equally, and capped at 2% as well, but they also share their portion with any requests we receive. Obviously, the most requested band will be OAOB, so that might end up the top played act, even more than the top tier.  We honor as many requests as we get, so if we're popular and 10% of our plays are requests, so be it...in that case, these giants share merely the remaining 2% of plays.  Why so little?  Because we know you can go somewhere else to get them in spades, while we're not uniquely passionate about them.  (We don't play Tom Petty, Steve Miller Band, Def Leppard, or Pink Floyd in regular rotation either, for the same reason...but you could also request those if you wanted to.)  This is also the tier that holds all "miscellaneous" plays, such as one-offs like Live (almost any song from Throwing Copper), The Hollies (Long Cool Woman) or Kid Rock.

Now I know what you're thinking.  "That's only 95% of the playlist.  What about the final 5%?"  Well although this may seem narcissistic - hey, it's my station - 5% of a day is almost one hour, and every night from 11pm to midnight, we take a break from music to play the Best of Sports Limelight!

NFL 2016 Playoff Picks

NFC

 

Division Winners:

Redskins

Packers

Panthers

Cardinals 

Wild Cards:

Seahawks

Vikings

AFC

Division Winners:

Patriots

Steelers

Colts

Broncos

Wild Cards:

Jets

Chiefs

 

 

Super Bowl:

Patriots over Seahawks

New Fantasy Logo

 

 

Cardinals Memes

It's time to check back in with the kindest, most gentle, and most knowledgeable fan base in all of sports!

When I think Minions, I think Arizona Cardinals.  You just can't separate the two.  It's always fun to see fictional characters used presumably without permission...not unlike the phenomenon of depicting Calvin peeing on all kinds of logos.  

The entire country roots for the Cardinals.  You can't travel to any state without it being Cardinals Country!  (Though Alaska is pictured and Hawaii isn't, so do with that what you will.)  Arizona Cardinals:  The real America's Team.

Well I'm stumped; the logic is air-tight.  Take that, Tom Brady...and also MLB, I guess.

Literally stomp his head and kill him!  At the moment of this screen shot the 49ers have 12,000 points while the Cardinals have none...but that's about to change in a big way.

For being obsessed with the 49ers (their "rival" - along with the Cowboys, Seahawks, Patriots, and Steelers...and heck, the Spurs and Lakers, because why not?), they sure pretend they don't know who the 49ers are a lot.

Remember Jerry Maguire?  Of course you do!  So here is a meme that has no application to the movie and makes no sense. 

An accurate depiction of a field goal attempt. 

Motivational Posters Don't Always Make Sense

Two instances when the above isn't true:

1) Your excuse-making is enough of a tantrum that it does in fact burn calories - such as stomping and jumping up and down.

2) Your excuse not only burned calories, it was an activity meant to burn calories.  For instance, George Costanza experienced shrinkage, and his excuse was that he was in the pool.  Swimming is an excellent calorie-burning activity.

The NBA Is Not What Inspires Me: A Master List

-First names on jerseys

-Ads on jerseys

-"Los" on jerseys

-Derrick Rose doesn't want to be all sore in meetings

-Star players shutting themselves down for the season if their team is bad

-Crooked referees

-Rigged lotteries

-Flopping

-Ridiculous salaries for jobbers

-Paying $20 million players just to make them go away (Josh Smith, Stephon Marbury, etc.)

-Ringer trades

-Trading for guys only to release for cap space 

-Preferential treatment for star players

-James Dolan, owner of a perennial losing team, sending a scathing email to a lifelong fan

-Shoving the same 4-6 teams down our throats on TV all season.  (Usually includes Lakers, Celtics, and whatever team LeBron James is on.)

-Seasons that last 9 months

-Playoffs that last 64 days

-If you are losing with under a minute left and the other team has the ball, it isn't over...just foul them a bunch of times to keep getting the ball back.  (Try that in football or baseball and see if you can catch up.)
-Championship series games beginning at 9:15 PM Eastern.

2014 NFL Over/Under Prediction Results

I did this back in July, and wanted to pay it off. 

Had I made these bets, I'd be down 14 hypothetical betting units (having won 43, and lost 57), and breaking it down to its simplest terms, I'd have been correct about 13 teams, and incorrect about 19.  Not a great season of over/under predictions! 

In fact, 13-19 is the exact record the New York Giants have played to over the past two seasons.

Here are my predictions from July, pasted below...

Team	O/U Line	Prediction	Hypothetical Bet
Arizona Cardinals	7	Under	2
Atlanta Falcons	8	Over	5
Baltimore Ravens	8.5	Under	1
Buffalo Bills	6.5	Over	6
Carolina Panthers	8.5	Over	1
Chicago Bears	8.5	Under	2
Cincinnati Bengals	9	Under	2
Cleveland Browns	6.5	Under	5
Dallas Cowboys	8	Under	1
Denver Broncos	11	Under	1
Detroit Lions	8	Under	3
Green Bay Packers	10	Over	3
Houston Texans	8.5	Under	20
Indianapolis Colts	9	Over	7
Jacksonville Jaguars	4.5	Over	1
Kansas City Chiefs	8	Over	2
Miami Dolphins	7.5	Over	2
Minnesota Vikings	6.5	Under	4
New England Patriots	10.5	Over	6
New Orleans Saints	9.5	Over	1
New York Giants	7	Under	3
New York Jets	6.5	Over	2
Oakland Raiders	5	Under	1
Philadelphia Eagles	9	Over	5
Pittsburgh Steelers	9	Under	1
San Diego Chargers	8	Over	1
San Francisco 49ers	11	Under	4
Seattle Seahawks	11	Under	1
St. Louis Rams	6.5	Over	2
Tampa Bay Buccaneers	7	Over	2
Tennessee Titans	6.5	Under	1
Washington Redskins	7	Over	2
			100

Thoughts from the weekend

The Giants' 27-0 loss at the Eagles only reinforces the concept that no small sample size in the NFL should be treated as too much of the overall picture.  For instance, three consecutive wins over lesser competition did not change the fact that the Giants' roster is not good.  For all the criticism Jerry Jones takes in his running of the Cowboys - both fair and unfair - one thing Jones understands that Giants' GM Jerry Reese seems not to, is that you build a team with focus on the offensive line.  The Cowboys' 30-23 win in Seattle, sends the Cowboys to 5-1.  And it reinforces what our friend Dallas said on Sports Limelight two weeks ago:  Investing in the offensive line with early draft picks, pays dividends.  Yes, Reese spent a first round pick on Justin Pugh in 2013, and he's been solid - not terrible, not great, just solid - but it hasn't been nearly enough, and it showed last night as Eli Manning didn't have much of a chance to lead a scoring drive while laying on his back.  Simply put, the Giants' offensive line last night made the Eagles' defense look as good as they were portrayed in that stupid twitter video put out by the Eagles. 

Other thoughts...

*The new Budweiser commercial featuring the yellow Labrador is both touching and depressing.  Touching because labs are adorable (and I will admit I am always a sucker for labs), but depressing because it's as if they are saying, "All right, we know you dude-bros aren't going to stop drinking and driving on account of the innocent people you kill with your cars, or on account of your families or friends...so will you at least do it for your dogs?"

*The Bills-Patriots game Sunday was the first ever all-AFC matchup to air on FOX.  Nothing profound to say about that, just found it interesting.

*The air raid siren that the Jets play seemingly after every defensive snap (successful play for the Jets defense or not), sounds awfully loud on TV.  I have an uncle who is a long time season ticket holder for the Jets, and I hope this siren isn't causing him hearing loss. 

*I love that Peyton Manning is three touchdown passes away from Brett Favre's career record.  For me, when it comes to the recordbooks, ideally Favre will be left with nothing but "Most career interceptions thrown."  Never forget, he broke the INTs record first; then he played long enough to set the TDs one. 

*Mainly from Sunday's action though, I'm just left with sadness in my heart for Victor Cruz, as a person.  The Giants' season is over, but I already knew that, and this team is going nowhere with or without Cruz in 2014.  But to see him lose his season the way he did, just doesn't seem fair.  I realize there are 31 other teams who have players with knee injuries, but following these guys so closely really leads to...what's the term you humans use...empathy?  (I'm not familiar with this concept, but am trying to get better at it.)  And from both a "Giants on the field" perspective, and a "Murphy's Law" perspective, if someone had asked me, what is the worst possible injury that could happen to the Giants, and at what part of the body?", other than Eli Manning's right shoulder, I'd have said Victor Cruz's knee.