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.
NCAA Picks
4 Plays tonight on the eve of the 24 hour marathon session. Again, mostly dogs.
Fordham (+21.5) @ Pittsburgh
UPenn @ Delaware (-8)
Troy (+16) @ Texas A&M
West Virginia (+10.5) @ Gonzaga (SEE UPDATE…)
Of the 4 I really like the first 2, and especially the Delaware play. With that said I will go 0-2 on those, push on the Troy bet, and cover W Virginia, the one I like the least. God Bless America.
UPDATE
I was strolling around today and I realized I had screwed up my pick on W Virginia. The W Virginia pick is null and void. This only further guarantees not only W Virginia covering but now they may possibly win the game outright. WV, you are welcome.
NCAA Picks
So primarily because it is a football Sunday I forgot to post my NCAA picks. I am going to post what I had primarily so that I have a written record of it.
Florida International (+14) @ Boston College
Manhattan (+17) @ Louisville
Milwaukee @ South Carolina (-5)
Oakland @ LA Lafayette (+4)
Tennessee-Martin (+27) @ Cincinnati
UC-Riverside (+10.5) @ Illinois-Chicago
Again, just looking at my picks I clearly am not giving dogs their due, at least in relation to Vegas. And the survey says…4-1-1. 4-7 record the first 2 days puts me at 8-8-1.
NCAA Picks
Rankings, momentum, recruiting classes, new coaches. These are all super things that people can look to to try to gauge the relative strengths of a team as a new season starts. But is there honestly a better determinant in figuring out just where a team lies in the pecking order, than by asking a team one simple question?
Coach : Well, we are really fired up about our team this year. We have some strong guys coming back from last year, combined with a new crop that we are just all kinds of excited about. We are confident in our abilities heading into this year.
Reporter : That’s great, coach. Now, I’m sorry, I just don’t have the paperwork in front of me. Do you open at home, or on the road this year?
That’s what it really boils down to. Of the 18 games pinnacle has lines up for today so far, exactly 3 of the teams are road favorites. This is a little misleading since it’s college bball there are mini tourneys going on where no one is technically home, but you get the point.
Went 4-6 yesterday on picks. Let’s see what I like today…
Portland (+15.5) @ Ohio
I am trying a new technique with the early season so far, which obviously was decidedly mediocre last night. But the point is that of the 18 games this is the only one that fits. If pinnacle posts some more lines I’ll have more to play with, we’ll see.
