Sunday Stuff

Hi,
Since I don't make picks for Saturday, I'm going to take Sundays off from talking about TV, but I will still make a pick for tonight.
While being unemployed, I have found several things to take up my time, including this blog. Every Wednesday night I play ultimate frisbee at Lake Park west campus. The league is sponsored by a church, and anyone is welcome to join. I love playing cards, and have been playing poker both live and online and dealing cards for Chicago Charitable Games. CCG holds poker events throughout the suburbs on the weekends. I was able to win an Omaha Hi/Lo tournament a few nights ago, and with Rockford Charitable Games coming back to the suburbs this week, I am hoping July turns out to be a pretty good month for poker. I am also in the process of writing a screenplay. It is a poker themed movie, and I have a basic outline for the story and 18 pages written. I hit a point in the story where I can't figure out what I want the people to say, so I might just move past it for now and come back to it later.
It has been an amazing summer to be a Cubs fan. Coming into the day, the Cubs were 20 games over .500, and have the best record in the Major Leagues. Yesterday's game was quite the roller coaster, as the Cubs blew a 7-0 lead, but ended up winning 8-7 in 11 innings. A bad team might have just rolled over and died after that kind of let down, but the good teams rally together and win these kinds of games, and that is exactly what the Cubs did Saturday. The Cubs collapse overshadowed the debut of pitcher Rich Harden, who went 5 1/3 innings giving up 0 runs and striking out 10 Giants. Harden was recently acquired in a trade that sent Sean Gallagher, Matt Murton, Eric Patterson, and a minor leaguer to Oakland for Harden and relief pitcher Chad Gaudin. This trade was most likely made in response to Milwaukee trading for Indians' starting pitcher CC Sebathia, even though Cubs' GM Jim Hendry says otherwise. The Cubs will have at least a tie for the best record in baseball at the all-star break for the first time since the inception of the All-Star Game in 1933. The game will be as important as ever for Cub fans, as eight Cubs will represent the National League: Alfonso Soriano, Kosuke Fukudome, Geovany Soto, Aramis Ramirez, Carlos Zambrano, Ryan Dempster, Carlos Marmol, and Kerry Wood. Also, the winning side will get home-field advantage in the World Series, which could definitely be crucial for the Cubs this season.

What's On?
My pick for tonight without a doubt is the all-new episode of Law & Order: Criminal Intent on the USA network at 9/8c. Tonight, detectives Logan and Wheeler investigate the killing of a rock star. The team of Logan and Wheeler is not as good as Goren and Eames, but it still makes for some pretty good television.