MLB 5/19 - Anti-Mythology Day

Your relatives you are stuck with; but all others you may like, dislike, or ignore as you choose.

Season, 29-26-9 - + $2,116.57 - +11.6% RoR [versus average line of +109]

5/19 - $363 each – flat bets - [3% of bankroll, 10,000 +/- profit/loss]

F5 – Giants, RL, +110 – Gausman/Miley

Comment: What good reason is there the Giants cannot just go right on winning? “Won’t get swept at home" does not qualify as a reason.

Yep - reminds me of the Jays / Braves last game a few days ago.....

@rdrflyer

 If I am not mistaken, didn't I call that one to? 

Won't get swept is never an angle IMHO. Rooting for SF

@rdrflyer  

@barneybeans 

@KeyElement

 Good memory , me as well.. Hence my reference! 

GL today...

Come on Giants. Chooo chooo this train is going all year baby.  Red Sox and Giants in the World Series!!

Let me add:

Baltimore under 4.5 F5 - Good pitching always trumps good hitting.  Rays have been hot but will slow down today.  Most books show 4.  I pushed it to 4.5 at a good price @-135

Cardinals FG -220 - Sometimes games at this price still has value.  This here is a great example of it.

GL Key 

F5 – Orioles, RL, +115 – Yarbrough/Means

Comment: If Means does not bounce back in this spot I will be highly surprised. He has the perfect opponent in Yarbrough and the Rays. Yarbrough has been an unreliable starter, and he will be asked to give some distance today because of a shortage of rested bullpen arms. The Rays may leave him in too long just for that reason. There is also a large offensive edge as the Rays are just 5-10 in 5 inning action versus lefties and have failed in their last 5 straight. In those 5 losses they have averaged just 30.2 points per game on offense, versus a major league average of 39.82

@backdooor_cover

 I dunno pal. I have the Cardinals as the odds on favorite, but my line says -166. I hope that computation is correct, because if it is, the -220 won't matter. If the computation is correct you could lay -anything, but I won't lay it at that number. 

@KeyElement

 So sac is now claiming to be the biggest Giants fan in the History of covers so your play should make him happy at least, and Giants at plus money again so it would seem that the Gamblers are not really thinking My Giants are as good as we are, now of course this is the game they lose, lol. Now of course that does not effect your play, just saying, though I did not think as high of a number that you had I just thought they should of been minus money.

GL today and when the Fisher of Men shows up tell him he lives on the wrong Coast to root for my Giants but he can have a piece of my Red Sox since he can not find The White Sox or Cubs in his own City, I know that City has some weird thing about those teams and it is one or the other but if I grew up there I would go for the better team which would be my White Sox right now.

@barneybeans

 Now your rooting for My Giants like sac?

Giants!! 

I heard a strange stat today. The 5 pitchers who threw a no hitter this year have a combined career record that's  21 games under .500

@JEG53

 What a pinhead. The Giants are favored you despicable critter. I had to lay the half run to get the positive payback. Damn good thing neither the Giants or myself need your advice or help to win. I will however, compliment you on the new computer. I see it has spell check and your grammar and spelling are both much better than they were on your old Commodore 64. Thank your daughters for me. They have cured a major source of frustration on Covers.

@undermysac

 Interesting yes, but most of those guys are still "works in progress" and their W/L records will turn around at some point. Just the same, baseball is a funny game.

@KeyElement

 Who ever it is that throws  a no no, it's  always great to see that performance. When every pitch is just "ON" and every batter is helpless.

The single best performance I ever saw had to be Kerry Wood's 20 K game. The one hit allowed could of easily been ruled an error on SS Alex Gonzalez. 

@undermysac

 Oh No, my friend. The classic was Nolan Ryan's seventh and last. The last guy up was a youngster, Danny Heep I believe, but don't quote me on  that. Ryan got him down two strikes and just looked him right straight in the eye, like "Here it comes kid, if you can hit it, good for you". Then he rocked, grunted, and fired one right down the middle. The kid just freakin froze on that pitch, couldn't believe he didn't "waste one", and the rest is history. 

Like the Os a lot today too! Also gonna keep rolling with Ks against the Tigers, today I have Gilbert over 5.5 at +120. . Wasnt being a dick yesterday I really wanted to know what numbers you had 1st 5 on the Giants. I know your not the type to think every game is fixed thats why I was looking for some actual answers from a non paranoid internet weirdo 

@BABYFACE024

"thats why I was looking for some actual answers from a non paranoid internet weirdo" 

Moi? 

GL , always love reading your stuff

but I’m on reds today 

Haha internet weirdo maybe but I figure youre not the paranoid "the fix is in" conspiracy theory guy like 90% of ppl that post on here. I know you trust your #s and the math thats why yesterday seemed weird. How often do you avoid a good #s play cause it seems way off?  

F5 – Rangers, +140 – Kluber/Yang

Comment: No fool on earth is going to back a 33 year old rookie versus the established and World Conquering Yankees, right? Maybe one internet weirdo, but that’s about it.

@trainwreck66

 What's the Pinocchio for?