Let’s get into it. The contest is to pick 10 teams against the Vegas over/under totals. The #10 is your top confidence pick, with #1 your shakiest. Without further ado… 10) Chicago White Sox (over 85.5) - This pick is more an indication of my disregard for the competition in the AL Central than with [...]
These are the win totals according to pinnacle. For spreads where one side is -120 or higher I will note so accordingly. We will get into analysis, predictions, and occasional reminders of how badly I kicked Lou’s ass in this contest last year in upcoming entries. Atlanta 88 Arizona 72.5 Baltimore 76 Boston 95 (over [...]
1) I do not have long term betting experience with soccer, but regardless, this week is the first time I have ever seen a soccer total goals scored line of 3.5. And it seems pretty deserved with Chelsea v Stoke City. This could honestly be Chelsea v X, Drogba looks flat out dominant at the [...]
SF Giants @ Houston Astros (+126) – Two Units Oswalt has been much better recently, not that he has really been bad at any point. And the Giants have been struggling.
April is traditionally a slow gambling month. Despite the NHL and NBA playoffs kicking off, there’s not usually much action to be found. Thankfully, a couple of items have popped up for this weekend: Les Habitants From Puck Prospectus: December 19th is the line of demarcation for me. That’s when Montreal’s prime mover, defenseman Andrei [...]
Louis and I have bet a pub crawl, and it should be a pretty good one considering it’s based on an entire season for a whole shitload of teams, on mlb over/unders for the season. You rank team totals on confidence from 1-10. Let’s see what I like. TEN POINT PICK – SF Giants over [...]
I’ve never done well betting on baseball games. Sure, I’m smart enough to know that when an overmatched scrub shortstop is up against a hard throwing closer, strikeouts and popups will result(or as Chip Caray would say, “Fisted!”). Translating that into an appreciable edge is something I’ll leave to gamblers braver than I. These annual [...]
Lots of inspiration this week… Follow-ups and excerpts from the Marvin Harrison story. Jason Fagone also wrote an awesome story on Tim Tebow a few months back. All these humanizing details tend to take the edge off the fact that Tebow’s entire role-model persona doesn’t work unless he can convey that, fundamentally, he’s better than [...]
“Mr. Steinbrenner deserves another championship.” – Joe Girardi Halloween winners on the subway in Boston. I love this headline: FAT footballers to receive free Big Macs in Thai sponsorship deal. Somehow, I’m not sure this is exactly the best idea… Thailand’s top footballers will receive free burgers as part of their new three-year, £545,000 sponsorship [...]
“The biggest things in life have been achieved by people who, at the start, we would have judged crazy. And yet if they had not had these crazy ideas the world would have been more stupid.” – Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger. Wenger may not have been referring to the Snuggie specifically in the quote above, [...]