Golf Pick ’em League – WGC
Picked Louis Oosthuizen this week. The bracket he is in looks to be one of the two easier ones. He is a #1 seed and provided he gets there the third round will be the first time he plays someone I have heard of before.
MLB Over/Under Win Totals
Hot off the presses. As ush, any lines with decent juice (120 or more) will be noted. This is the earliest I have ever caught the MLB lines so it will be interesting, if only for me, to watch how these evolve.
Atlanta Braves : 87.5
Arizona Diamondbacks : 82.5 (Under -124)
Baltimore Orioles : 78.5
Boston Red Sox : 83
Chicago Cubs : 72.5
Chicago White Sox : 81
Cincinnati Reds : 91
Cleveland Indians : 77.5
Colorado Rockies : 70.5
Detroit Tigers : 92.5
Houston Astros : 59.5
Kansas City Royals : 77.5
Los Angeles Angels : 91.5
Los Angeles Dodgers : 91.5
Miami Marlins : 63
Milwaukee Brewers : 81
Minnesota Twins : 67.5
New York Mets : 75
New York Yankees : 88
Oakland Athletics : 84.5
Philadelphia Phillies : 84
Pittsburgh Pirates : 77
San Diego Padres : 74.5
San Francisco Giants : 88
Seattle Mariners : 77.5
St Louis Cardinals : 86
Tampa Bay Rays : 86
Texas Rangers : 86.5
Toronto Blue Jays : 89
Washington Nationals : 92
THOUGHTS
- Amazing that 92.5 is the highest number on here at the moment. Has to be the lowest high mark in recent memory.
- Why does it always have to be .5, give one team an over/under at .8 – Spice things up
- You can tell these lines haven’t been perverted yet by people like me. There are hardly any lines with significant juice, that will change over the next couple weeks.
Gold, Jerry
Gold? Popes? Golf? Obama? Where is miraclecovers going? The majority of experts interviewed recently still are bullish on gold, but the big news is that a rising minority are expecting gold to drop a decent amount going forward. What that sounds like to me is that the majority are sleep-walking and there is a not-so-silent minority who are wide awake on this issue. Gold is way too expensive for me to buy so I am living vicariously. As of this entry gold sits in the general neighborhood of 16 hundo. Lets watch!
Very Early Baseball
Was checking out some very early baseball lines and there was nothing too noteworthy except for the AL East. Looking at the odds below, no team is worse than a 9:1 shot which is impressive in a 5 team race. The Red Sox are probably being given too much credit at +625 but who knows. And most amazingly, the favorite at this moment are your Toronto Blue Jays. Dickey indeed.
Division Winners: Winner of 2013 AL East |
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| Sun 3/31 | Winner of 2013 AL East | |
| 05:00 PM | 1301 Baltimore Orioles | +900 |
| 1302 Boston Red Sox | +625 | |
| 1303 New York Yankees | +240 | |
| 1304 Tampa Bay Rays | +350 | |
| 1305 Toronto Blue Jays | +180 | |
Da Popa
| Thu 2/28 | Who will be the next Pope? (all-in) | |
| 03:00 AM | 1051 Marc Ouellet | +485 |
| 1052 Peter Turkson | +304 | |
| 1053 Francis Arinze | +1005 | |
| 1054 Angelo Scola | +480 | |
| 1055 Leonardo Sandri | +1241 | |
| 1056 Gianfranco Ravasi | +1634 | |
| 1057 Oscar Rodriguez Maradiaga | +1634 | |
| 1058 Angelo Bagnasco | +1417 | |
| 1059 Jean-Louis Pierre Tauran | +1789 | |
| 1060 Tarcisio Bertone | +394 | |
Northern Trust Open
I have entered a golf pick em league where each week the goal is to pick someone who is going to finish super high up on the leader board. Apparently leader board is two words. This week I am going with a rather bland, pedestrian pick of Bill Haas who has done very well here in recent years including winning it last year. Side action bets for 5 units
Charl Schwartzel at roughly 20:1
Sergio Garcia at roughly 19:1
Let’s watch!
NFL Plays
Saints ML +112
Jax Jags +3.5 -106
Bills +3 -115
Browns ML +116
Just looked at those last 3 picks. Jags, Bills, Browns ML. That is Murderer’s Row, ’27 Yankees type stuff. Was my keyboard laughing at me while I was typing that? Likely more lunacy to follow.
NCAA Picks
Had a solid day yesterday. Pretty sure I went 4-1 which should bring things back around .500 for the season. Let’s keep the mo’ going.
Clemson (-9.5) @ Furman *
Manhattan (+8) @ Harvard
Pacific @ Fresno St (-4.5)
South Dakota St @ Hofstra (+13)
Southern @ Wyoming (-19)
UNC-Wilmington (+19.5) @ Ohio
* I did about 10 seconds of research and it seems the rule of thumb for home court advantage in college bball is roughly 4 points. Something to keep in mind moving forward.
NCAA Picks
Five picks today, and only a slight majority of them are underdogs. I will get a hang of this…
Baylor @ Boston College (+12.5)
Dayton @ Colorado (-2.5)
N Colorado @ Cal Poly (-2.5)
NC State @ Penn St (+12)
Wichita St @ W Carolina (+17)
NCAA Picks
Pretty sure I went 1-2 after I wiped the W Virginia silliness off. Let’s see what underdogs I am infatuated with on the 24 hour day…
Florida Atlantic (+6) @ Mississippi St
Georgia St (+13) @ BYU
Texas Southern (+16) @ Northwestern
Of the bunch I really like the Florida Atlantic pick over Miss St. FL Atl may very well win the game. See what happens.
