Don't be ridiculous: You have no hats left to eat.

Inspired by Mike Lupica, I venture momentarily into Football According to Felz ...


This is a man who has implied for months that Eli Manning was ready to take the Giants to the Super Bowl.


This is a man who claimed the following on January 1: "Suddenly, rather amazingly, there is speculation about Herm Edwards coaching the Chiefs next season ... Here is how Edwards can get a contract extension: If the Jets are back in the playoffs again next season. If they aren't, then both he and Bradway are gone."

Less than a week later, Herm Edwards has a contract extension from the Chiefs.


When it's time to own up and admit he was wrong about Eli, he focuses on Tiki Barber's postgame reaction: "Did the Giants look like they got outcoached yesterday? Sure. When it's 23-0, it's on all of them. But if you think coaching was the headline here, and Barber clearly did, you were watching the wrong game."

Except the NY Post back page screams "Out-Foxed", the Star-Ledger's lead article mentions the coaching as its primary stroryline, and Newday's headline is "Outcoached & out door".

Coaching wasn't the headline, except it was. Coaching was the headline in every article except Lupica's.

Even if one disapproves with Tiki's reaction, it's very easy to prove that "coaching was the headline here." Just go to the bodega and look at the headlines.


This is a baseball blog and I've never talked about football before. I'm not really talking about football, though, I'm talking about credibility, or lack thereof.

Because it should be clear by now that this man has no inside knowlege, no understanding of the sports world, and doesn't even report the truth. He reports his Wishful Thinking version of the truth.

With that in mind, how can anybody take him seriously when he writes yet another love letter to Theo Epstein?:

"Just because Manny Ramirez gives an interview and says he wants to stay with the Red Sox doesn't mean he's going to stay with the Red Sox.

Or that the people in charge want him to stay.

I still believe Miguel Tejada for Manny and Matt Clement is still very much in play, and will until Tejada gets traded somewhere else.

I will also eat my hat if Theo Epstein doesn't end up back with Boston in some capacity before spring training."

Manny Ramirez no longer wants to be traded. Miguel Tejada no longer wants to be traded. (Again, those pesky headlines.)

Lupica still believes the trade is very much in play. Okay, fine. You can believe anything you want. It's quite possible the trade is very much in play.

But it's obvious that Lupica is making this up. He's pulling it out of thin air. He hopes Manny ends up on the Mets just like he hoped the Giants would make the Super Bowl.

This is not clear-headed sports journalism. It's a diary kept by a teenage girl. It's a little pink notebook with Eli and Theo and Omar written in big block letters, surrounded by hearts and smiley faces. It has no basis in reality.


Lupica will "eat his hat" if his Theo doesn't end up back in Boston "in some capacity" before spring training. Uh huh. Sure you will.

I have no ability to predict the future, but I feel confident that Lupica is eating that hat. Not because of any inside info regarding the Red Sox front office, but just because of Lupica's prognostication track record.

Lupica's hit rate is about as low as Eli's QB rating. (Zing! See what I did? That was totally Lupica-esque right there!)