Archive for the ‘Baseball’ Category

After breaking out of our little (well not so little) slump, we have put together back to back winning POD’s with our win last night on Minnesota…I am putting this play out rather early as I anticipate a line move here…It seems very low for this game.

After being swept in the 3 game series with St. Louis, thus giving up their lead in the division, the Reds have bounced back with 5 straight wins putting up 31 runs (6.2 average) in that stretch, and that was without leading homer hitter, slugger Votto who should be back in the lineup tonight. They are 44-21 versus teams with a losing record and 15-5 the 2nd half of the season. They are 12-4 in August.

After a stretch where the Diamonbacks won 6 of 7 games, they have since come back to reality and their normal play by dropping 5 of (Read full Article Here)

In my opinion, and it is just my opinion, but I believe that playing the underdog on the runline is one of the worst bets in all sports. Obviously there are some who will disagree with me, but if you asked an opinion of 100 handicappers on any issue related to sport betting, you may get 100 different opinions.

My thoughts are, that if you play the dog on the runline getting +1.5 runs, 90% of the time you have to (Read full Article Here)

With The MLB Trade Deadline Fast Approaching…Handicapping Major League Baseball Gets Tougher…or Does It…????

Many of you showed your concern about the 2nd half of the baseball season and how most services seem to falter the first two weeks of the 2nd half of the season, now I am getting e-mails about concerns about the upcoming trades and how it will impact the handicapping process.

My reponse to this is basically the same as to the concerns about the 2nd half capping… (Read full Article Here)

I have written about it, preached it, taught it and I live it. "How you bet can be more Important as Who you bet"…especially in baseball betting. A very good example is why we are around the +100.00 unit mark for the year with still 5 months to go. If we go back and look at the last 5 games we lost, you will see we were down 5.51 units. Going back to our last 5 winners we profited 9.25 units. In baseball, winning percentages mean very little. Units is all that counts. You can be under .500 in win percentage but still be up units if (Read full Article Here)