Thursday
Keeping up with the regular plays here after the NHL trade deadline. There’s no real tanking issue in the NHL, mainly because the draft is such a complete and total crapshoot. Nearly all of the first round are awkward high school juniors which makes for strangely decent television. Maybe we will liveblog it this year or attend in person…
Play today is Vancouver who sent Roberto Luongo back to Florida at Dallas for Mike Modano’s jersey retirement. Dallas finds ways to lose lots of winnable games and hopefully this is another one as this is a lost season for Vancouver who has lost three in a row. Canucks +126. Columbus or the Islanders for anyone feeling particularly frisky though neither is really close to being a play for me.
Wednesday
Colorado was a winner yesterday 4-2. Nothing doing today in either NHL or NBA. Not that there have been many NBA plays in general as I am using a pretty strict system. We’ve had 42 plays in NHL this season good for a 23-19 record and a +12.25.
Tuesday
Columbus was a 2-1 winner last night, hope some of you were following along. One play again tonight, Colorado +145 @ Chicago.
Monday
1-1 yesterday as Philadelphia was a comeback winner in OT 5-4 but Phoenix lost, unaware the game lasts for 60 minutes and not 40.
Columbus is the play tonight +105 @ Toronto. Calgary +160 for anyone feeling adventurous.
Streaking
In the wrong direction. Should have played Capitals yesterday. Another effort today…Flyers +115 @ Washington.
UPDATE: Flyers were a winner this afternoon in OT. 1/2 unit play on Phoenix +122 tonight in a very rare home game versus St. Louis. First start for Ryan Miller in goal for the Blues and some 90% of the money is on St. Louis. This one is free on real TV with the Center Ice Preview.
Saturday
Bad beats in two different sports yesterday and the only logical response is to double down. Florida +160 @ Columbus. Capitals are also a good option at Boston for those looking for more action.
NBA
New Orleans +8 @ Phoenix. Lots of coulda shoulda woulda NHL games from the last couple of days that I was too lazy to post but would have been winners. Turns out back-to-backs are a good thing when no one has played for three weeks.
UPDATE: Found us a hockey game for tonight…St. Louis +110 @ Vancouver Anaheim. Pretty rare when we get to wager on an actual good team.
2014 MLB Regular Season Win Totals
They’re finally here. Pat and I and any fellow degenerate gamblers can now spend the next 5 weeks poring over these numbers and placing our bets to be paid out (or not) six months later. I’ve come to the conclusion that I’m much more useful at betting sports with lower point totals (soccer, hockey, baseball) than any of the others. I’ll leave it for others to speculate why this might be the case. It may be worthwhile to sort out your plays on these futures sooner rather than later before the juice creeps up and out of control. Also note that the Dodgers and Diamondbacks start on the asinine date of March 22nd in Australia.
Arizona Diamondbacks – 81.5
Atlanta Braves – 87.5
Baltimore Orioles – 81.5
Boston Red Sox – 88
Chicago Cubs – 70
Chicago White Sox – 76.5
Cincinnati Reds – 84.5
Cleveland Indians – 80.5
Colorado Rockies – 76.5
Detroit Tigers – 90
Houston Astros – 62.5
Kansas City Royals – 82
Los Angeles Angels – 86.5
Los Angeles Dodgers – 92.5
Miami Marlins – 69.5
Milwaukee Brewers – 80
Minnesota Twins – 70.5
New York Mets – 74
New York Yankees – 87
Oakland Athletics – 88.5
Philadelphia Phillies – 76.5
Pittsburgh Pirates – 84.5
San Diego Padres – 79
San Francisco Giants – 86.5
Seattle Mariners – 81
St. Louis Cardinals – 91.5
Tampa Bay Rays – 88
Texas Rangers – 87
Toronto Blue Jays – 80.5
Washington Nationals – 89.5
NBA
“We came together…(and) asked each other if we really want this. We looked each other in the eyes as men and we all came together and decided we wanted to do this. So we came out firing.”
That is a quote from Andre Drummond after the Hawks/Pistons’ game a few nights ago. Drummond had a big night and the marque play of the game. The article goes on to note that the “Detroit big man finished 0 for 8 on free throws.” They wanted it so bad, Detroit wasn’t going to take the Hawks’ charity.
The win “snapped Detroit’s three-game losing streak and handed Atlanta its eighth straight loss.” The menu tonight in the NBA is pretty horrific. If we are to believe that in every NBA game there are experiences that could later be mistaken for quotes from Normandy survivors, nights like tonight put the League to the ultimate test. I am a sick person so there is a big part of me that wants to bet on the Milwaukee/Philly game, but I just don’t know what the Hell to do.
Los Angeles Clippers @ New Orleans Pelicans +4.5 -111 @ 17
***UPDATE***
Oklahoma St @ TCU +13.5 -105 @ 15
UFC 170
Here are my UFC 170 plays:
Stephen “The Wonderboy” Thompson wins inside distance +200 and the fight does not finish at -105
Demian Maia wins by decision +400
Ronda Rousey vs Sara McMann Over 1.5 rounds at -170
Overall good month sports betting, but bad month of poker. I wish we could bet on the Olympics all year!
