“The Affair”, Seahawks and Cubs are about to really heat up…..

By Fernie Ruano Jr.

Aww…..Things are about to really heat up on “The Affair”, Showtime’s month-old melodramatic and SEX-intensive series centered on Noah Calloway (Dominic West) and Alison Lockhart’s (Ruth Wilson) affair. And you know it is because Noah and Alison are having so much sex – and great choreographed sex- that it’s the only thing you talk about around the water cooler with your friends and at the dinner table with your husband, whenever it’s not 10 p.m. on Sunday night and you’re not thinking about it, which is practically never since it’s about to get better because Noah and Alison are about to get caught.

If you’re a fan of “The Affair”, you too are thisclose to finding out – if you haven’t figured it out already - who is the first person to scope out their “secret relationship.” Will it be Noah’s wife Helen (Maura Tierney), who apparently never leaves her parents’ house, but is starting to question her husband’s whereabouts? Will it be Alison’s husband Cole Lockhart (Joshua Jackson) after deciding to give the ranch a break and figure out his wife has been absent from the house a whole lot lately? Or does the detective who has been questioning Noah and Alison on a murder have the answer everybody wants to know?

Regardless, the Chicago Cubs - yes, the Chicago Cubs - will be playing in the World Series by 2017 because their newly-appointed manager Joe Madden is a quirky-math geek and will crush numbers to death in the process of making real superstars out of Sterlin Castro, Jorge Soler and Javier Baez; it’s still way too early in the 2014-15 NBA season to slap Chris Bosh with the tag of “franchise player”; Arizona (7-1) and Philadelphia (6-2) are overvalued at the midway point of the NFL season and will be relying heavily on Carson Palmer (UPDATE: Palmer shattered one of his knees in like 17 pieces and likely done for the rest of the season) and Mark Sanchez, respectively, for an extended period of time, which means the Seattle Seahawks will have the No. 1 seed in the NFC locked up by Christmas. And Ruth Wilson is hot; very hot.

Ruth Wilson: She is an English actress. She is a lightly-freckled redhead. She speaks with a sultry and aggressive tone. What’s there not to like about Ruth Wilson? Wilson is tormented, playful and seductive as a lost soul entangled in an affair and does a fantastic job of getting you to like her – at least to this point – even as she’s pinned up against the wall of a rustic hotel having sex with Noah. She cleans up in a haze, uses the word "hot" as if it was going out of style and has perky breasts. And sells the part so well.. So, what's there not to like about Ruth Wilson?

Seattle Seahawks: It seems like only yesterday when the Seattle Seahawks’ locker room was a bigger mess than your living room the morning after you wake up with your secretary all over you on the couch because it’s 7:30 a.m. on a Saturday and you took her home with you because your wife is in a week-long marketing conference in San Francisco. Remember?


Remember, when nobody could stand QB Russell Wilson because he wasn’t “black enough”, Marshawn Lynch would show up to practice crying because he couldn’t afford to buy a value meal at McDonald’s and Percy Harvin was tearing the whole thing down? Well, don’t look now, but the Seahawks are 5-3 and staring at a home date with the Giants, a visit to Kansas City and a return home to host Arizona. What are the chances Arizona arrives at 8-2 and with DREW STANTON just a game ahead of the Seahawks  in the NFC West standings? Pretty good….

Joe Madden: The 2014 baseball season has been filed for a while now and like in most of them we learned the team with the most superstars doesn’t always win (Dodgers, Nationals, Tigers, Angels) and that Madison Bumgarner is really good. And now exhausted to the point he can’t lift up his left arm to brush his teeth, according to Erin Andrews. We also learned you don’t need a very good manager to make it very far (Ned Yost), but it helps a little if you have a really good manager (Bruce Bochy), and that Harold Reynolds and Frank Thomas don’t belong within 35 miles of a live microphone with a cameraman aiming right at their respective faces; We learned we should live life to the fullest because you never know when it will be taken away from us (Oscar Taveres). We also learned the Chicago Cubs just got a whole lot better and interesting by firing Rick Renteria and hiring Joe Madden, who will produce some of the best and therapeutic postgame press conferences in the history of press conferences, get Sterlin Castro to smile and care, make everybody on the 2015 Cubs’ roster better and be hoisting a World Series trophy over his head by October 2017.

Chris Bosh: R-E-L-A-X dude… it’s just five games. Let’s wait a while before we label Bosh a “quiet leader” who “just gets it done”. Remember, there’s still like four years and 340 days remaining on his contract.

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