You probably sit around thinking: I wonder how that guy - me - writes his column.

You’re thinking: I bet he has an eight-inch high stack of notes on each team on his desk, several analytical computers at his disposal and a back-channel pipeline to each team’s trainer so he knows the up-to-the-minute injury status of each player. Then, he bears down at his computer, puts on Queen’s “We are the Champions” and gives 110% of his attention to his column, offering up insight into our teams that even the coaches don’t know about their players.

Every Wednesday, except this one, you would be spot on.

Tonight, I’m slipping a little.

I would say tonight I’m at about 5% concentration level. My mind is focused on what I’ll be having for dinner and my fingers keep updating the Phils’ game on my phone.

Luckily for me, there are several interesting matchups this week, including the marquee one in Palmerton Friday night, so my choice of leftover chicken Milano with homemade pasta (I make fresh pasta - helps when you have no social life), leftover meatloaf and baked potato or doctored up nachos is not totally consuming my brain.

Hopefully next week, I can put more effort into this column, but if the Phillies are still alive and my beloved Minnesota Twins somehow survive (they didn’t), I might actually have to take the week off.

9 - Panther Valley

There are probably a few teams that could hold this spot, but after losing 73-8 to Schuylkill Haven last week, this kind of feels like a good fit.

8 - Jim Thorpe

This could just as easily have been Lehighton. They finish the regular season against each other, so we’ll settle this argument then.

7 - Lehighton

See No. 8.

6 - Northern Lehigh

At 3-4, realistically the best the Bulldogs can finish is 5-5 - they end the regular season with Palmerton. But tonight’s game is very intriguing: The Bulldogs play Tamaqua (3-4) which has won three straight and is also eyeballing a .500 finish.

5 - Tamaqua

You win, you get rewarded. The Blue Raiders did the latter and now make a big jump.

4 - Pleasant Valley

Good enough to beat most, not all, of the teams in Monroe County, but not quite over the hump with the Lehigh Valley teams.

3 - Marian

You just knew that Stan Dakosty would get this program headed in the right direction. Good to see the Colts being relevant again.

2 – Northwestern

Uh oh, Trap game? At Bangor, coming off a pasting of Pottsville. This will really tell us how good Northwestern is if they can dispose of the Slaters and go to 8-0.

1 - Palmerton

Here’s a statement from Capt. Obvious, that being me: This is the biggest game of the season, to date, for the Blue Bombers. ... And to be even more Capt. Obvious, the biggest game of the season in the Times News coverage area. For some reason, maybe it’s the 18-17 loss to Blue Mountain on Sept. 1, or the narrow 28-21 win over a very good, but not great, Notre Dame of Green Pond team on Sept. 29, but these Spartans just don’t seem to put the “Oh no, here comes North Schuylkill” in me like teams of the last few years. But then again, that’s easy for me to say, I’m not Palmerton coach Chris Walkowiak, who has to figure out a way to stay unbeaten. But he’s got a pretty good ace in his handful of face cards in Matt Machalik, who will be the difference, again. I usually don’t make predictions, but what the heck: Palmerton 35, North Schuylkill 21.