The Pinstriped Lords of Evil appear to be well on their way to winning another World Series title after they thumped Philadelphia in Game 4 last night.

And while watching the game last night at a local pub, I heard the large group of Yankees fans say where they were from. We had one New York, a Tennessee, a Dallas -- not to mention a member of the Stomp Off-Broadway team who now lives in Vegas but grew up here in South Carolina.

Thankfully, I had an extra hour overnight to digest the college football weekend and merge into my NFL mindset.

Saturday was a ranking-crazy type of day, and I'll need every bit of time possible to dissect exactly what happened. But hey, I do it all for you, my flock of readers.

[EDITOR'S NOTE: Ian, no one reads this dreck. You're kidding yourself by thinking anyo...]

On with the rankings:

So Chiefs running back Larry Johnson wants to act like a homophobic bigot.

From an Online story on Monday's KansasCity.com (I apologize in advance for re-posting this):

On Monday in the Chiefs locker room, Johnson used another gay slur after saying he wouldn't speak to reporters.

Everyone is talking about how SEC officials are protecting their top two teams -- Florida and Alabama. And instead of getting frustrated with SEC commish Mike Slive, maybe it's time to take out some frustration on the Big XII brass.

Simply, that league is not doing enough to protect its top team, Missouri.

How else can you explain the Big XII giving six points per touchdown to Nebraska, Oklahoma State and Texas when they played Missouri. If they gave the standard 2.5 points per touchdown for those three games, the Tigers would have finished that stretch 2-1.

Couple longer-than average stories again this Friday, not to mention the first installment of the Southern Conference basketball roundup I do for the Sports XChange wire service (which is distributed to USA Today, CBSSports, etc.).

The first is another beer-related story -- that theme will never die -- on a grocery store that is allowing beer lovers to fill 64-ounce growlers.

It's Halloween, which means candy, costumes and ... broken fake pumpkins?

Apparently the kids today don't have the gall to break real pumpkins anymore. Tonight we discovered this goodness waiting for us in the driveway:

Notice the white cord strewn about? Take another look:

This week's poll comes to you via a bit of karma.

On Sunday, one day after the college football weekend was over, this doozy was hanging out in the garage...

It doesn't get any more clear-cut than that.

On with the rankings:

Credit card, schmedit card. Today, I paid off one of the biggest debts of all.

The Jersey Bet.

When the Chiefs dropped a Week 3 game to the Philadelphia Eagles, I lost the first of what will likely be four jersey bets this year. (The second came in Week 5 to Dallas. But whatever.) The long and short of the bet: If your team loses to another one of our buddies' teams, you wear the opposing team's gear out sometime in the near future.

Today, I had to rock the Eagles' junk.

Couple features I did that ran this week, again mixing sports with something else (just to keep my anti-sports sis happy).

The first is a quicker read on a high school football team's option offense attack.

The second is a longer story on a local activist group that is working toward keeping the beaches and parks in the area as clean as possible.

Enjoy.

The first edition of "Ian's Facebook Friends Give Him Stuff To Think About" comes now. Mike McMillan, a former co-worker at the Anderson Independent-Mail gave me one of the biggest laughs tonight when he linked to an Onion article about the newspaper industry.

A quick story that I couldn't ignore tonight while reading the fake new outlet's latest piece of excellence: