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Ward had good stats, but he hung onto the ball way too long on quite a few plays. I wouldn't put the loss on him, but he didn't elevate his play today.

Unreal they didn't call targeting on that play. 

You're going to need another RB. Benson is a backup at this point & Achane has had injury issues, not to mention dealing with bye weeks. Pretty solid team overall, considering it's a 12 team league.

Best record in baseball (by a 1/2 game), trailing 2-0 to another potential playoff team in the 5th inning, but yeah, they suck. Complete morons on this site. If you thought they sucked, why did you bet on them today? Oh, but I'll bet you don't have any money on them. right? You just randomly decided to let your feelings on them be known while they trail half-way through an afternoon game. 

Doesn't start until Jan 1 & from what I read the tax amounts to about 3% of winnings. Having said that, these books already have a built-in advantage with juice & also tend to cutoff customers who win big or at the very least lower their limits. Just a matter of time before FanDuel & the rest implement a tax. 

Reds are closer (4.5 games) to a playoff spot than the Rays are, so I seriously doubt they have given up with 60 games left to play.

@piratesgold

 7 of the past 10 games have been decided by 7 pts or less. 

Yeah, best record during the regular season & got to the conference finals, but they stink. If the Rangers stink, does that mean there's 3 good teams & 29 terrible ones? You might believe they're a bit overrated based on their record, but if you really believe they're a bad team, you know nothing about the sport.

Dallas had no finishers & nobody who could create offense on their own. They had to work to the max to get their goals. Florida's offense has been much better in the post-season, especially considering they just beat one of the 3 best goalies in the league last round. The keys are going to be Florida staying out of the box & if the real Skinner is the guy from the past few games, or the guy from the first 2 rounds of the playoffs. If Edmonton doesn't score on the PP, this will be a quick series. 

@hotflaznboi

 Because no matter how much money is on one team or the other, two games worth of bets is much better than one & three would be that much better than two. Pretty simple really. Although, I personally don't believe this shit is fixed. However, if it was, there's no way a sweep benefits anybody's bottom line. 

Never been sweeps in both conference finals during the same post-season, but of course, there's a first time for everything. Those of you who think sports are nothing but entertainment & conspiracy theories though, might want to bet Minnesota since two 4-0 series definitely doesn't benefit the league in any way. 

@Bet2Win33

 I lied. This will be my last comment on the matter, instead of the prior statement. I'm not naive at all. I do believe money controls many things in our world, just not to the absolute all-encompassing level that you seem to believe. 

Sometime in the future if someone or a group of people come forward & it's proven that a supposed major conspiracy has taken place that fixed an entire pro or college sports season, election, epidemic, or anything else worthy of national or international headlines, I'll come back & admit I was wrong & stop drinking the Kool Aid so to speak. I seriously doubt I'll have to hunt this thread down anytime soon though. 

@Bet2Win33

In your first scenario, I know who the book would WANT to win, not need to win, but none of this matters. I'm done arguing the point about whether the world & by extension, our lives are totally rigged. I'm never going to convince you or anybody else that believes in these concepts that you're wrong & you sure as hell aren't going to convince me that everything of any importance is predetermined just because large amounts of money are involved. 

@HebrewLazers

 Apparently, you also believe Covid was a hoax, or do you just believe that the vaccine was a hoax? I don't know about you, but I knew two people who died & numerous others who got sick, some severely. I received the vaccine & had no ill side effects & never contracted Covid. Might that have been the case without the vaccine? Maybe, but guess we'll never know. P.S. I don't really believe what I'm saying, but have to do this because the tracker they put in my shot relays information back to them, informing them of my thoughts & actions. Damn, now they know the truth! By the way, the implant in my brain is now telling me to let everyone on the forum know that Boston will beat Indiana, however it will take them 6 games & Minnesota is destined to be the next NBA Champion. You know what that means? That's right. Take Indiana & Dallas!

@Bet2Win33

 So everything is controlled & fixed & there's no way to predict what the powers that be want the outcome to be? How convenient for those that believe in conspiracy theories. Was the 2020 election the only presidential election to be fixed, or was 2016 fixed as well? As far as the main issue at hand, the NBA, other major sports leagues & sportsbooks are making obscene amounts of money no matter who wins, so there doesn't seem to be a reasonable risk/reward ratio to make an ongoing conspiracy such as the one you describe be worthwhile. The same holds true for politics. Why is it that individuals that subscribe to these theories never believe in just one or two, it's all of them? On the other hand, I don't believe the vast majority of this bullshit, but I'd be willing to at least discuss a conspiracy being at play in the JFK assassination or perhaps manipulation of the stock market by corporate America & the ultra-wealthy. 

@HebrewLazers

 Well Marjorie, just one if you must know. Didn't realize scripted games in the NBA & Covid were somehow related. By the way, why do you capitalize boosters? Drop out of school in 10th grade, sweetheart?

Also, I've never seen anyone talk about fixed games after they've won a wager. It's always after they lose, or at the very least they claim not to have bet the game. If you brilliant people think it's scripted, you should also have a damn good idea why it's scripted & which team will benefit. Of course, you wouldn't be correct every game, but if you have half a brain, you should get it right 2/3 of the time at a minimum. I'll ask again. How does having Indiana & Minnesota win over the defending champ & a team from the 2nd largest market in the country further the NBA's goal of making as much money as humanly possible?

@Bet2Win33

 No idea what that is a reference too, but it doesn't really matter. Nobody has answered any of the questions I posed in my previous post. Probably because that would take analytical thought & critical thinking skills. 

All you morons who think the NBA is scripted/fixed please explain how the NBA benefits from teams in Indiana & Minnesota getting to the conference finals as opposed to the MVP led former champions & the team from NYC? Conspiracies or fixed events are supposed to have an end goal that benefits the individuals or entities involved in the conspiracy. And, if you seriously believe in all pro sports being fixed, why the hell would you continue to bet on those sports??? Fucking ridiculous that people believe everything in life is staged now thanks to the internet. All these events being predetermined whether it's sports, elections, space travel, wars, population control through chem trails ect. is completely off the rails. There would have to be hundreds or thousands of people involved depending on the scale & complexity of the conspiracy & all those people would have to keep their mouths shut their entire life, even after death lol. For the sake of argument, let's say all the shit you people believe is true. You obviously can't do shit about it so you might as well forget free will & just put the bullet in your mouth tonight.