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Elon and St. Tom...   what a great parlay...   You know a fella has some math/stats/situation combos going, when he's capping these titans of college athletics.  I'm on board,, gimmie  Elon, Ill skip St. Tom.     

I've never done this before, but I'm going to bump an old thread.   It's short and sweet, but maybe pertinent to predicting the Royals going forward.  Most of the posts were wrong in one way or another, mine included.  

I believed they were a top third team then at best,  I now have to rank them somewhere between  the 5th and 8th best team.   I was in LV this weekend and I thought the +2500 line that was pretty much the available line was generous and I bought in.   I have it around +1500,  the Skankees are a major problem Imo, but if they weren't the line would lower.

I ended up going through high school here (Sitka). A lifetime ago I climbed those mountains for deer and fished the ocean for king crab and halibut. Later our company here ended up being the biggest wildlife ocean excursion tour company (Allen Marine) in the state.  I've lived in over twenty different places in the U.S.  and this damn place, despite the ungodly amount of rain. is still the most beautiful to me.  I love hearing when people spend their hard earned money on coming here, and end up thinking it was worth it.  

I would never trust "The Answers" supercomputer.  That dolt all but gambled away everything he ever made while in the NBA, his computer sucks IMO

Congrats DoYouMind69, you cant keep a good team down. 

Right on C34, way to go.  Hope you won some gas money.

I appreciate your post davesmh,  I'm in the old "bullet points" kind of presentation mode, so forgive me for this style of response to each of your comments.

---(1)  what is your line this game?

---(2)  they are indeed 3 games over half and half since July, playing a little better than average ball.  The Dodgers claim is pure would've could've should've stuff

---(3)  Ross had one of his top 3 games of the year last outing, I agree.  His last good game was the 1st day of May, in between he managed to give up 30 runs in 21 innings...  whoa!!!  that cant be correct..... yes it is

---(4)  This point is what you have to hang your hat on.  Their BP is a horror show.  Maybe the better play would be a wager on the 1st 5 inn.  That is what I have based almost 90% of my baseball betting on this century,  Thanks for reminding me of that.   

I may have over looked the home field attendance advantage the Swingn' A's rely on though.   They raked in just under 5000 paying fans on Monday,--dare to dream the zealot mob that may show up Tue. to push their team to victory

I'm not sure I'm picking up what you're putting down Big5

The Wsox are terrrrrible, no debate.  That said, 2024 Ross Stripling has no right whatsoever to be a -172 favorite in this world or 90% of any worlds in any alternate universes.   The only few arguments against this, are:

(1)  Chitown has lost 21 in a row, tying the AL record, never bet against a streak, ...  why would they win tomorrow if they couldn't stop the streak today?  They 

(2) The 2024 Southsiders are one of the worst hitting teams in the history of the sport, ---- I have no rebuttal, none, I concede that this probably gives Stripling a boost in A's backers confidence, but it is overpriced faith indeed IMO.

(3) Stripling will have "extra incentive" to not be the one to lose to this shoddy band of jesters.  Yea,, I guess, is he going to try and throw his fastball harder than two starts ago when he should have been fighting for all he's worth not to get his 10th loss against 2 wins.    I get it he probably would have a better W/L if not on the A's, but actually we are only talking about a couple of flips of the record.   He's stinks this year, period.  

The alternate RL is a juicy fruit for the picking, if that is too scary, at least take them straight up.

KC may have just screwed the pooch.  They were on a pretty good roll and pissed this one away in the kind of way that can crush a slightly above average team.  I can see them going on a 3-7 streak and wandering what might have been.

@MrBator

  The Puke trade is actually worse than most realize.  They gave up Deyvison De Los Santos, who is arguably having the best year of any player (hitter) in the minor leagues this season.  Miami got away with grand theft, the Dbags deserve every negative thing they get out out of that trade.

With only 90 minutes to spare, my "you learn something everyday" streak continues... Thanks aron25 and diondimucci

 Kimbrel got robbed!, what more could the guy do to earn his 7th win on the year.  They just have to tell him to not panic, and stick to his gameplan.

The sooner the M's are eliminated from the post season race, the better for all baseball fans.  They have put on one of the biggest smoke n' mirrors shows for a half season ever.  It's time to boot them to the curb, they are arguably  less capable of of getting a player to circle the bases than even the Marlins or White Sox