Wednesday Night Baseball

We're going to go ahead and post tonight's picks to give the lunchtime readers a chance to see the plays, but if you can wait a little while on some of these, you might get a slightly better number. All lines from Matchbook:

Giants +158, 1 unit to win 1.58 units

So, apparently Barry Zito has been an avid reader of the blog since we proclaimed him our hero and posted his picture a couple of times, because he left a profanity-laced tirade on my voice mail last night after seeing the picture of King Felix on here yesterday. In the end, he promised to regain our respect in his start tonight, so we'll go along for the ride. Two awful pitchers, two lame offenses, we'll take the +158 in a 1-0 shitfest that could go either way.

Mariners +202, 0.50 units to win 1.01 units

Explanation from Grover: "Mariner-hating has officially jumped the shark. At this point they are so despised by bettors that they get +200 against the #2/#3 starter for a .500 team. The matchup stats favor the Mets, thus the half-unit play, but we couldn't live with ourselves if we ignored this completely out-of-whack number."

A's -115, 1.15 units to win 1 unit

Don't tell Barry we're supporting his old team tonight, my cell phone is low on minutes for the rest of June. Definite pitching edge to Oakland tonight and we prefer going against the Phillies facing a lefty starter than a righty.

Dodgers -101, 1.01 units to win 1 unit

We're not sure if we're persistent or just stupidly stubborn, but we're going to keep beating the "Gavin Floyd can't maintain a .200 BABIP all year" drum until we break the damn thing. Stults was impressive in his last outing and the Dodgers should have enough offense to pull out a much-needed home win tonight.

Haven't looked at the college game yet, but we'll post that later if we like it. Otherwise, we'll call it a season in the CWS and pocket the earnings until next year. Probably will have something for Thursday morning at Wimbledon (2-0 so far today with one big dog pending), but won't get a chance to look until later tonight. Good luck everybody.