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Saturday, July 26, 2014

MLB Saturday

Sr Louis Cardinals at Chicago Cubs
It's zSaturday matinee at Wrigley Field.  Catch that Redline to Addison stop and make sure to get there in time. The Cards are reeling and letting last nights game get away has to sting. Although the mighty Cardinals has bounced backed from these type of losses in the past their game against losing teams have not faired well this season and second half has started 1-5. The pitching also favors the Cubs today with Jake Arrieta on the mound. The Cubs are 4-1 when Jake pitches at home.  St Louis pitcher Shelby Miller is in a funk and opposing hitters are making him pay. Lay the favorite.

Chicago Cubs -118 for 1 units(L)

Thursday, July 10, 2014

MLB Thursday

San Diego Padres at Los Angeles Dodgers
San Diego has been a team good pitchers feast on and we have a good pitcher on the mound for L.A. in Clayton Kershaw. He's putting up zeros and looking to extend the Padres offensive misery. The Dodgers are overwhelming favorites and most will agree this should be a game for Dodges to get better and keep the pressure on the Giants. However the Friers sending a good arm from a Cuban comer to counter with Odrisamer Despaigne. He has 19 innings under his  belt, all against NL West and very effective.  The Dodgers do not impress at home and they have been on a slide. We look for the Padres to steal this one.

San Diego Padres +258 for 1 unit(L)
San Diego Padres +1.5 at +115 for 1 unit(W)
Didn't win, but that was worth the shot. We covered it on the Runline.

Tuesday, July 08, 2014

MLB Tuesday

Atlanta Braves at New York Mets
The Mets are making a stand at home. They returned to NY and took the Texas series. Now they won game one as a home dog and position themselves to go ahead on the Braves. Atlanta will not be easy tonight as their all star pitcher Julio Teheran takes the mound. He is pitching 16 quality games out of 18. Julio's game does diminish on the road, but he has faced quality opponents and one outing in Coors Field. Tonight his opponent Jacob Degrom has been struggling on the mound. His home numbers are terrible 0-4  and his recent WHIP has ballooned to 1.525 The Mets are 2-8 when Degrom takes the ball and of his last 6 losses only one game covered +1.5 run line. We will go with Atlanta run line tonight.

ATLANTA BRAVES -1.5 at +115 for 1 unit(L)

Wednesday, July 02, 2014

MLB Wednesday

Philadelphia Phillies at Miami Marlins
The Phillies are reeling and they need a stop. Taking the ball  is Cole Hamels who is 2-4, but 10 quality starts out of 13 and on the road perfect 6 out of 6. The Phillies behind Cole has warmed in June going 4 out of 6 although 4 of those starts ended in ND.  This also looks to be spot for Hamels to improve. However behind everything I like about Phillies pitching today our money backs the home dog Miami and Tom Koehler. He just took a ND against Hamels in Philadelphia pitching 7 hit 2 run game. Koehler showing return on 6 quality starts out of 8 at home. Miami has logged three losses in a row, but expect much better showing at home. Take the home dog.

MIAMI MARLINS at +115 for 1 unit(W)

Monday, June 30, 2014

MLB Monday

Back to the grind. Time to get your asses back to work. The season is coming to mid way and we look to increase our angles.

Cleveland Indians at Los Angeles Dodgers
This line has tightened up quickly and there's good amount riding on both sides. Houston sends their best money pitcher and he certainly has higher quality games then Dan Haren. The line also points to Houston as Kluber is better on the road coming off a impressive win against Arizona. Haren has two No Decisions in a row and the pen looks to factor into this game. Houston to sneak off with game one does sound appealing, but this one looks like a regression game for Kluber and improvement for Haren, We have the Dodgers  to climb into the first place in NL West. Going with the usual suspects.

L.A. Dodgers +109 for unit(W)

Sunday, June 29, 2014

MLB Sunday

For this Sunday selection I'm putting up three teams good for parlay.
Atlanta Braves(W)
Toronto Blue Jays(L)
Detroit Tigers(L)

Saturday, June 28, 2014

MLB Saturday

Cincinnati Reds at S.F. Giants
The Giants are fading. Once one of the hottest club around running away with NL West has tanked losing their 9.5 game lead.  Now the Dodgers are on their heels with nowhere to go, but to fight their way back. The Giants will need their starters to get going and nobody knows better than Matt Cain on the hill. His first half misery continues into 2014, 1-6 record with 1-3 home record, Cain's last 3 starts were losses and last win was recorded on 6 of June. The Giants are riddled with injuries and they will host the hot streaking Cincinnati Reds. featuring Alfredo Simon who is a hot commodity at 10-3 and 7-1 away. The Reds already taken game 1 looks to be in great position. However there seems to be strong home resistance for the Reds moneyline and Cain is in a spot to improve here. We're going to lay the short favorite with Giants

S.F. Giants -108 for 1 unit

Monday, June 16, 2014

MLB Monday

The weekend has come and gone, but the games continue on shaping the season as we enter the summer.

Chicago Cubs at Miami Marlins
The Cubs take the Philadelphia series on the road and split the road series losing to Pittsburgh winning against the Phillies. Chicago has been the basement team in NL Central, but they're recent road win has to be encouraging. Today Chicago will send Jason Hammel who has been in the money. He is a quality producing pitcher and backers have done well. However Chicago will go into one of the most hostile parks in National League and face Miami"s number 2 money pitcher Tom Koehler. Although 5-5 he is much better at home with 1.05 WHIP and coming off two road games where he kept it close enough for Miami team win. He should have a quality start today and we expect the Marlins to take care of business at home. We also like late inning Over as tonight's number has gone 4-1 in last 5.

MIAMI MARLINS -105 for 1 unit(L)
Total Over 7 at -110 for 1 unit(W)


Wednesday, June 11, 2014

MLB Friday

It's Friday the 13th! Maybe not triple witching hour, but interesting things have known to occur. Hey we're not gamblers we're speculators and the difference is we do it with advance knowledge. Past performance is not an indication of future returns, but it is one of the strongest indicator.

Toronto Blue Jays at Baltimore Orioles
Camden Yards baby! The O's are on the move, 4 out of last 6 and 3 out of last 4, winning the Boston series and winning the Toronto opener. Since giving up 11 runs on June 8th Baltimore pitching has shut it down allowing only 3 runs in last 4 games. Today Ubaldo Jimenez 2-7 takes the ball and he is the weak link in otherwise money making rotation. The Blue Jays have stumbled losing 5 out of last 6 and 3 in a row. Today's pitcher Drew Hutchinson was knocked out in 3 inning in his last start. However he is much better on the road with the Jays going 6-2. We will go against the Orioles. We like the bounce back spot and the plus money.

TORONTO BLUE JAYS +108 for 1 unit(W)

Wednesday, June 04, 2014

MLB Wednesday

Chicago White Sox at Los Angeles Dodgers
This looks like L.A. Dodgers over priced with surging White Sox. Yeah the White Sox makes lots of errors, but got to love Danks on the mound. Hats off to Beckett, but not this game tonight.

Chicago White Sox +170 for 1 unit(W)


Friday, May 30, 2014

MLB Friday

San Diego Padres at Chicago White Sox
Thumbing through the charts I always look at the money makers, not the front runners, but at this stage of the season teams are still setting themselves in position. Right now Oakland, Detroit, St Louis is falling off the money and Chicago WS, Minnesota and Miami are moving up. This is more of who's under the radar kind of chart. Out of the teams stated I like the Padres at White Sox game with Ian Kennedy taking the mound for San Diego. Ian coming off a win against the Cubs pitched a good game solid 6 inning of work 2 hit 1 run quality start and that was a rare home win. Kennedy has shown consistency on the road, but overall his numbers are 3-6 with the Padres going 4-7. John Danks for the home team is improving. His whip is down to 1.07 and the White Sox are on the rise. Going with the South siders.

CHICAGO WHITE SOX +117 for 1 unit(L)

Thursday, May 29, 2014

MLB Thursday

Kansas City at Toronto
The Jays keep on keeping on and KC stands in its way. I understand Toronto's offense in a relentless groove, but they're giving up tons of runs too. We're going to ride the Over in tonight's match up with Dickey and Shields looking for late inning runs. We are not going against James Shields as he is capable of going deep, but KC are visiting and that gives us the scoring edge.

KANSAS CITY at TORONTO G
GAME OVER 8 at -102 for 1 unit(W)

Wednesday, May 28, 2014

MLB Wednesday

Los Angeles Angels at Seattle Mariners
Game 3 AL West match! Started with Young out doing Skaggs then the Angels bats backed up Weaver and now we have two good pitchers on the mound with C.J. Wilson going for the Halos and King Felix for the Mariners. The Angels are on a roll right now winning 7 out of last 10 and C.J. at 6-3 is pitching 70% quality games. He's beaten KC and shut down Tampa in his last two starts. On the other side Felix is on a 3 game win streak. Pitching deep and going through the line up like butter. Looking at these two pitchers Felix doesn't have much room to improve tonight, but he does tend to go on a roll whereas C.J. has not been going through the line up as easily as Felix and his non quality games have come on the road. We going with King Felix and the Mariners to cool the hot hitting Angels to take this at SafeCo.

SEATTLE MARINERS -118 for 1 unit

Tuesday, May 27, 2014

MLBTuesday

Tampa Rays at Toronto Blue Jays
We look to the race in American League East.  The Rays are struggling to keep heads above water at 23-28 just couple of games ahead of bottom feeding Boston. Coming off a crushing defeat in game one of this series game two will feature Alex Cobb for Tampa who has returned to the rotation in a win against Oakland against hot streaking Mark Buehrle. Now Cobb has not given up any earned runs since the start of this season, but not quite back in form and he'll be getting stretched out here. It'll be an improvement over Beddard, but will it enough to stop the Jays offense ? We don't think so.
Rolling with the Blue Jays at Rogers Centre.

TORONTO BLUE JAYS -105 for 1 unit(W)

Sunday, May 25, 2014

MLB Sunday

Washington Nationals at Pittsburgh Pirates
The Pirates are doing much better thanks to Washington offense going quiet. Now riding four game win streak the Pirates will look for Liriano to get a W. The Pirates have won 5 of last 6 Francisco Liriano starts, however Liriano himself have collected no wins this season. He is lacking quality starts unable to go deep, 3 out of 10 starts and 1 out of 6 at home, despite Pirates team win. The Bucs have provided plenty of support behind Liriano, but Doug Fister will be a tough customer at PNC Park. Going with the Nationals to bounce back today in Sunday day game.

WASHINGTON NATIONALS +116 for 1 unit(W)

Saturday, May 24, 2014

MLB Saturday

New York Yankees at Chicago White Sox
The Yanks are struggling with 4 losses out of last 5. It seems like just back 1 week ago the Yankees pitching was shutting down opponents and winning games. Now 3 out of those 4 losses comes at allowing 5 runs or more? Yes, the arms are over used at this point and Adam Dunn spoiled David Robertson's chance to close for the second time in May. If you look at Yankees last 10 games their starters have gone 7 inning or more only twice. Matter of fact New York starters has gone 5 inning or less 50% in their last 10 games. Today's matinee will have Yankees sending Left hand pitcher Vidal Nuno in 7th start since his promotion. He has not gone more than 6 inning and has not thrown more than 82 pitches this year. Most likely New York will have to let him go closer to 100 pitches this time around. He'll need to survive 6 or more inning to relive Yankees pen. It will be a tall order.  The White Sox will send veteran John Danks who's been getting banged around this season, but much of that has come on the road. Danks in friendly confines of US Cellular Field is pitching 75% quality games. John Danks in a bounce back spot and we like to Chicago to continue tormenting the Yankees. FYI the White Sox has moved into third place on the money rankings. Let's go Pale Hose, looking to hand the first consecutive 3 games loss in a series to New York this season.

CHICAGO WHITE SOX +106 for 1 unit(L)
WTF, this one was in the bag. 3 run lead going into the 9th and we lose.  

Thursday, May 22, 2014

MLB Thursday

We are looking at an old angle which is purely statistical in nature, but the match up is not bad either.

Los Angeles Dodgers at New York Mets
If you have been tracking this series you know the Mets have been dismal with runners on bases. Despite their hitting advantage New York has dropped first two of three and now they face Zack Grenike looking to be the first 8 game winning pitcher. Zack is one of the games elites and runs will come at a premium. He is coming off a dominant start in Arizona going 8 inning scattering 5 hits and no runs, but considering his quality games drops to 40% on the road this would be a spot to going against him. Jon Niese taking the ball for New York may not rank in the elites, but he is pitching quality games. Coming off his first non quality start in 8 consecutive games this is a bounce back spot for Niese. Dodgers weak defense has been masked so far. As for the old angle, this is a game with 75% public laying money with the Dodgers. That is a FADE. Qualifies with home dog against a sweep with quality pitcher on the mound. Keep your eyes on the money ranking the Mets are #14 and the Dodgers are #21.

NEW YORK METS +141 for 1 unit(W)

Tuesday, May 13, 2014

MLB Tuesday

Detroit Tigers at Baltimore Orioles
Back to the Yard. The Tigers stop the slide taking the series opener. Round two will feature Drew Smyly coming off a rough outing against Houston, but normally is reliable and tough against Baltimore. The Tigers excel on the road at 9-4 and so far 3-1 against the East. However they open as slight under dog which is a rarity and this spot has finished 1-1. The trend points to Detroit as Jimenez has only 1 quality start out of 7 and none at home. Again this trend it also looking to turn. Baltimore in midst of surge looks very dangerous and under rated. All the quality of a team we like to put our money on. We will go for Baltimore to knot up this series

BALTIMORE ORIOLES -105 for 1 unit(L)
Blown save!

Saturday, May 10, 2014

MLB Saturday

People, what is going on? It's Saturday, little quiet for a Saturday, but we do have games all day long. I'm keeping busy. Didn't go out for lunch, that's for wimps, double checked my charts and made my calls. So nah I'm not lounging drinking beers on the couch.

Cleveland Indians at Tampa Rays
Tampa's got problems with 4 game slide. Is there some sense of urgency? some resolve? The unexpected defeat with Price and Archer on the mound the Rays will send Erik Bedard. The Canadian is a well traveled lefty who is coming off a dominant game against the Yankees, second 1 run games back to back, and Cleveland has issues with left hand pitchers. But the Rays are to be faded. Bedard in spot to regress and McCallister looks to buck his trend. This line should be watched all the way down to the minute as Tampa stop in on everyone's mind.

CLEVELAND INDIANS at +111 for 1 unit(L)

Thursday, May 08, 2014

MLB Thursday

Baltimore Orioles at Tampa Rays
The Rays Ace will take the mound today and David Price gets much love at -168 home favorite. Baltimore sending Ubaldo Jimenez the biggest money loser in the rotation. The O's are 1-5 when Jimenez takes the ball, whopping 5.19 ERA and 1.56 WHIP.  Although one sided looking proposition and Baltimore will be hard pressed in this spot, the Rays are not cashing in their runners. David Price is alternating wins and losses. The wins are there for him, but opposition are hitting. Price comes into this spot following a win at NY Yankees. Jimenez comes in following a 7 inning shut out at Minnesota getting his first win and Jimenez is a pitcher who has been improving with the progress of season. I can't say he's going to improve, but he has success against Tampa. We like this game to go Over the declining number and like the odds with Baltimore.

Play of the Day
GAME TOTAL OVER 7 at -115 for 1 unit(L)

Bonus
Baltimore Orioles +165 for 1 unit(W)