No choices? Again?

Yes, that is the truth of the matter. No teams made it through the two-filter gauntlet again today, so I have no value-based recommendations.

Last week: 9-3 (+269)
So far this season: 16-6 (+592)

Check back tomorrow.

Friday blues

Giving -400 on the Yankees was a decided risk, and I had some doubts about that. But Mussina was going and the Royales with Cheese hadn't beaten anybody for quite a while. And still, the Yanks had the tying run at third with one out, a great chance to at least tie the game with Jason Giambi at the plate. I guess the late hour caused Joe Torre to not put a runner in for Gary Sheffield, allowing Giambino to ground into the game-ending DP. So it goes.

Yesterday: 2-2 (-316)
This week: 9-3 (+269)

Today:

• No teams passed through the two-filter test, so check back tomorrow, because several teams got through the first filter.

Big Friday

A win is a win. I saidI thought the Rangers would beat the A's, which they did. Good for me. I also said I thought Millwood would be a major reason why. He wasn't, giving up 7 runs in 5 innings, leaving the game with the Rangers in a 7-run hole.

Sometimes you win in spite of yourself, and sometimes your best efforts are freakish losers.

Yesterday: 1-0 (+100)
This week: 7-1 (+585)

Today:

• Diamondbacks -140
• Giants -151
• Yankees -400
• White Sox -116

This is a lot of favorite action, but my system lends itself to finding the best favorites.

Good luck.

Light duty

Another pair of fairly easy wins yesterday.

Yesterday: 2-0 (+200)
This week: 6-1 (+485)

Thursday baseball is a light schedule day, so I have one pick:

• Rangers -162 (Millwood far more likely to snap the Rangers out of a short losing streak than Halsey is to lift the A's out of their 5-game skid)

Good luck.

Still rollin'!

I admit, I thought the Tigers were going down last evening. I changed the channel. I played with the dog. I yelled at the kids. I grumped about the White Sox not being on TV, even with MLB ExtraInnings.

And when I checked the carnage in K.C., I was happy to see that the Royales with Cheese had reverted to form and surrendered a bucketful of runs.

So:

Yesterday: 2-0 (+200)
This week: 4-1 (+285, after correcting Monday's arithmatic)

Today:

• Tigers -217 (KC pitching change may narrow the market on this one, my quotes are from Wagerline)
• Dodgers -126 (See my previous blurb about not investing real funds on the Dodgers for religious reasons)

Good luck.

Royales with cheese

Can the Kansas City Royals stay this bad this long? The current skid is a 10-gamer, and the Tigers are playing very good baseball. Seems the Royals have to win sometime. The bettors know this, but the bettors have an aversion against bad teams. So do I.

• Tigers -217
• White Sox -161

Yesterday: 2-1 (+87)

Good luck.

Monday morning blues

The White Sox' holding that 4-2 lead late in the game would have made my weekend much better, but hey, who's to quibble over 3-1 on the bases and 1-0 on the ice.

Yesterday: 1-1 (-81)
Last Week: 7-3 (+323)

Today:

• Cubs -115
  
• Tigers -177
• Mariners -121

Good luck.

Weekend wonders?

Nothing like a 3-0 Saturday to make the weekend worthwhile, eh?

Let's review the results:

MLB
Yesterday: 2-0 (+200)
This week: 6-2 (+404)

NHL: 1-0 (+128)

NBA: 0-1 (-110)

And now, Sunday's picks:

• Devil Rays -132
• White Sox -181

Good luck.

Treading water

I seem to be in a win-one-lose-one cycle. Maybe today we'll break out of it.

Thursday: 1-1 (even)
This week: 4-2 (+204)

Today:

• Dodgers -139 (this pick is in the interest of full disclosure, I hate the Dodgers and would never bet real money on them. But the system says the Dodgers are a value pick.)
• Cardinals -173

While we're at it . . . .

• Buffalo Sabres ML +128
  

Good luck

2-sport thursday

Downer yesterday, and the current results:

Yesterday: 0-1 (-136)
This week: 3-1 (+204)

Today:

MLB
Pitt +112
Det -170

NBA
Pho +5

Good luck.

Wednesday in the desert

Little time for self congratulations, but:

Yesterday: 1-0 (+100)
This week: 3-0 (+340)

Today's pick:

• Diamondbacks -136

Good luck.

Tuesday bases

Yesterday: 2-0, up 240 points. In the interest of full disclosure, my odds quote on the Red sox was off, um, by, well, alot. By the time I invested in them they were -171. So it goes, I guess. Still they won, so I was up 100 on the Bosox, and 140 on the Giants.

Ok, here you are for today:

• Det -175.

Good luck.

Back! Yes!

Been a long time, but here are two decent picks for tonight, Monday May 15:

• Red Sox +135 at Baltimore.
• Giants +135 at Houston.

Neither of these is a lead-pipe lock to win, but both seem to offer good value. The Red Sox are teh better pick of the two, the Giants actually grade on my system as even money. I'm just posting them because you get far better than even money on SF.

Good luck.