Friday, August 15, 2008

Friday Night Baseball

There were a lot of good-looking plays for tonight, but I've managed to whittle the list down to these four. Does my use of the word "whittle" give away my redneck roots? Lines from Matchbook:

Indians -135, 1.35 units to win 1 unit

I foolishly expected the public to be on Cliff Lee and the Indians early this morning when the line was just -117. Of course, I overestimated them again. It doesn't matter that Lee (who we were saying was for real back in May) is better than Weaver, I had forgotten that the Angels were "the best team in baseball."

Royals +191, 1 unit to win 1.91 units

Meche is quietly pitching very well this year. These ain't the 1960's Yankees playing tonight, folks.

Reds +104, 1 unit to win 1.04 units

Arroyo is the better pitcher today, but all you see when you look at the ESPN scoreboard is Arroyo (10-9, 5.44 ERA). Works for us.

Giants +143, 1 unit to win 1.43 units

Grover is out of town, but I'm sure he would be upset if his favorite pitcher won tonight and we weren't on it.

Probably back later with overnight picks for Olympic hoops. With Grover offline, there's nobody around to keep me in check. Are there any sites other than Pinnacle where I can get in some action on handball and badminton?

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

I think picking the Nats as one of my picks, jinxed my whole set of picks from the simulator yesterday.
I need a software fix that filters out any game the Nats play in! :)
With that, here are my simulator picks for today. With the bankroll hit I took yesterday, I will lower my max bet to $300 for the meantime. Good luck with your picks! vr, Xei
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LAD($175)
Pit($300)
Fla($300)
Hou($255)
Bos($300)
Tex($211)
Oak($153)

Unknown said...

Yeah, xeifrank, we'd like to be tough to keep playing the Nats when it looks like the "right" play, but they have really punished us so far. It's hard to even look at their games any more. Good luck.