The Major League Baseball All-Star Game happens tonight, and if you’re the type who needs an animal with mystical powers to tell you what will happen, this octopus at Sea Life in Arizona says it’s going to be the American League. It’s good to know that when one psychic octopus dies, another can rise up and take his place. Last year I won $500 on the World Cup by strangling the sh:t out of a carp.

The game was predicted by placing equal amounts of food in boxes labeled “American League” and “National League”, then allowing the octopus to choose which food (and by proxy, which team of adult humans) it preferred. The best part of the video is the Octomom bystander comments, which boil down to “it was so awesome seeing the octopus do things”. I wonder if this is how Arizona chose their immigration laws, by dunking a white guy and a brown guy into an aquarium and seeing which one gets molested first by a squid.

Regardless, this method is at least as fool-proof as the ESPN writer method, which is just reading what most people think and saying the opposite to try and piss them off.

[h/t Eye on Baseball]

Since being reported on Tuesday that Brett Favre would indeed not play in 2010 it has not-in-the-least-bit-surprisingly been updated that Favre still hasn’t made up his mind. Between reports of Favre’s brother saying one thing, Favre’s cell phone texts saying another, and the Minnesota Vikings supposedly willing to pay him $20 million to return, we’re mired in the same annual summer clusterf*ck and it shouldn’t surprise anyone. So how do we get out of this? We ask an octopus.

Employees of the Underwater Adventure Aquarium in Bloomington, Minnesota decided to see if their prized cephalopod mollusc Loki could mimic the psychic success of Germany’s Paul the Octopus, which correctly predicted eight World Cup matches, including all seven of Germany’s matches and Spain as the eventual champion. The aquarium staffers dropped two mussels into Loki’s tank, one with a picture of Favre and the other with a picture of Favre with a line through it. And the results should not shock anyone.

Video after the jump.

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