Miracle Covers

Tuesday

One play tonight San Diego (Cashner) +104 hosting the Braves and Hudson.

MLB Plays 6/11

Running late on the day.  Will add more/make pretty later if time permits…

Brewers @ Marlins (+1.5) -167 22 Units

Indians @ Rangers Under 9.5 -105 22 Units

Phillies @ Twins Over 8 -103 22 Units

UPDATE

“What a night for Wily Peralta…this is a major step forward for him in his career path.”

Actual quote from the Brewers/Marlins game after Peralta left the game allowing 3 runs through 6 innings to my 2013 baseball gambling fetish.  (You can’t spell fetish without fish)  There is rooting for the home team, and then there is whatever that is.  For better or worse, the late games, all @ 22…

Yanks ML +106 @ A’s

Astros ML +143 @ Mariners

Braves @ Padres (+1.5) -154

MLB Plays 6/10

I just was looking at the Marlins game history.  They only won 6 games in May.  Yesh.

Brewers @ Marlins (+1.5) -162 18 Units

More to follow…getting back on the train

UPDATE

Also taking Indians (+1.5) -150 @ Rangers 18 Units.  Just getting my feet wet again.

Monday

Two more losing plays for us on Sunday, pushing the May record to 3-4.  Neither was as bad as the score indicated, but they of course count the same.  Three potential plays today, all of which are going to be passes 1-2 hours before game time as I am in no mood for crappy bookmaker lines.  All are 7-10 off of Pinnacle.  For reference, they are all home teams, both Chicagos and the Marlins.  Slightly tempted to take the Royals, but it’s not quite good enough for a play.

I had some notes this morning on today’s totals as well, but seeing as though my numbers site for those is down, that will be a pass today as well.  Potential for soccer tomorrow as well as a full slate of MLB again.

Sunday

0-2 yesterday we’ll try and do better today.

Cardinals (Lynn) @ Reds (Arroyo) -103

Braves (Minor) @ Dodgers (MaGill) +150

Thursday

No plays in MLB yesterday, but a fun day nonetheless.  The White Sox and Mariners conspired to produce the best Miracle Cover of the season.  After 13 innings of scoreless baseball, both team scored 5 in the 14th with the Sox ultimately winning 7-5 in 15.  Both teams used their entire bullpen yesterday and it’s affecting today’s lines and not something my rudimentary system knows how to deal with.  Seattla & Chicago are both showing as plays at the moment, but it’s unclear right now if I’ll be playing them or not.

As far as our leans yesterday, Boston & Texas went under but Milwaukee got smushed.  The Brewers have just been awful with only 8 wins since May 1.  It’s their starting pitching that has been the problem and easily the worst in the NL.  Kyle Lohse has a 4.39 and everyone else is over 5.00.  If they still had Fielder and a healthy Corey Hart, they could probably get away with being .500 or so, but instead they have been taking a zero at 1-2 positions a night and it’s just not working.  I’m not sure if it’s feasible to bring back largely the same team next year so their GM will need to decide this summer whether to blow up part of the team and start over.

NL Superdork June Update

For the two people who care, here is where my team stands after two months in the NL Superdork:

And for the second month running, the first place team is the one I ripped for having a horrific draft.  I managed to touch first place for a day or so but then dropped back down into the pack.  The Blasters in 3rd have dumped wins and took advantage of Casey trading a $1 Tony Cigriani for Yonder Alonso about a week before Cigriani was demoted to AAA.  They also basically swapped Cole Hamels for Matt Kemp, a move that hasn’t worked yet but will pay off in the 2nd half once Kemp returns from the DL.  I have been toying with the idea of punting saves after missing out on Heath Bell by a dollar in FAAB bidding.  Kevin Gregg who I picked up hasn’t had a save opportunity in three weeks (Go Cubs Go!)

The lineup is improving though I need to make a trade to boost my average and steals at some point as Uggla and Upton (and Headley and Venable to a lesser extent) are really dragging the batting average down.  It’s Gonzalez, Votto, Pence and a bunch of schmos there.  I should get to add Rendon this week once he plays a game at 2b.  Colvin is only in the lineup this week because I needed to make a bench spot to pick up Carlos Martinez, who will hopefully join the Cardinals rotation in July.

Lastly, I just want to emphasize the importance of the end of a draft/auction.  These are the last 5 players I picked up in the auction, all for $1:

22,12 285 Team Lou $1 Ziegler, Brad (P ARI)
22,2 275 Team Lou $1 Villanueva, Carlos (P CHC)
23,6 292 Team Lou $1 Schumaker, Skip (2B LAD)
23,10 296 Team Lou $1 Hudson, Daniel (P ARI)
23,12 298 Team Lou $1 Gregorius, Didi (SS ARI)

Hudson obviously hasn’t pitched yet this season, but Ziegler and Villanueva have combined for 3 wins and a 3.45 ERA.  Gregorius and Schumaker are combined for 70 RP and a non-shitty batting average, even if the power and steals have been negligible.  I likely would not be scuffling around the money places without these guys.  In fantasy, plate appearances are the single most important currency for an offense, and for pitching, the middle relievers matter a lot more than people think.