Comments on: Monday (buzzkill) edition: Wha’ Happened?

By: lattewarrior

lattewarrior — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 20:00:12 +0000

Lattewarrior’s Top Five Sports Betting Moments from this past weekend’s Vegas trip:

5) Taking the Cubs and Dodgers to score more than 7.5 runs on Saturday.

This was the first game on the day’s schedule and I generally bet this type of game just to get my day going. Sort of like having a beer with tomato juice. Anyway, after grabbing the MLB sheet and looking at the lines that game was the only one to stand out (LA is given too much credit as a pitchers’ park and I had a sneaking suspicion that Carlos Zambrano would melt down, just as he did last year at this time –in a Tale of Irony we were in Vegas watching at the same sports book when he and Michael Barrett exchanged wild, girlish haymakers in the dugout, and I made money on that game, too). Anyhoo, I made the bet and the teams covered. It was glorious.

4) Nearly hitting a six-team MLB parlay Thursday night.

I was five-for-five, with only a Johan Santana win over the Padres separating me from a payday that would have essentially paid for the entire trip. The Pads won 2-1. Johan leaves a Minnesotan feeling jilted once more.

3) Winning $40 when one of my buddies ate an entire 18-inch two-topping pizza in under 30 minutes.

He buzzed through everything but the crusts in the first 15 minutes, allowing him to coast to victory. The performance reminded me of the Vikings/Cowboys Thanksgiving game in 1998 with my buddy playing the role of Randy Moss.

2) Taking Boston -3 and KG to top 21 points in Thursday’s Game 1 one of the NBA Finals.

Raging Violet owed me and, unlike No. 57, was happy to oblige.

1) Taking the field against Big Brown in Saturday’s Belmont. Six of the seven dudes in our group took this bet, which paid +300. We walked away with more than $1000 in profits and went on to drink our faces off the rest of the evening in celebration. Unfortunately, the member of our delegation who didn’t play the field, lost $120 taking Big Brown and wheeling his trifecta with many of the other horses.

It was a great trip and if not for some horrible late night (read: high B.A.C) stints at the craps and Pai Gow tables, I would have come back with more money than I left with. Still, that much fun and that many beers should cost a fella more than $160.

By: jama

jama — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 16:22:58 +0000

I’m going to go the other way, no not what you think. I’m saying the Pummeling in Paris is the biggest disappointment.

For one I was up at 8am on a Sunday and was intrigued to see if Roger would finally get his grand slam. By about 8:20 I knew he had no chance. So basically I woke up a little earlier than usual for 15 minutes of suspense, if it even lasted that long. I have probably watched more tennis than the rest of the Randballers combined and that was the most disappointed I have ever been with a match.

P.S. The Twins are still going to win 72 games as I predicted.

By: Joker

Joker — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 16:19:31 +0000

How does tennis even make it on that list? Unless it’s Anna Kournikova bending over to tie her shoe, I’ll probably just skip right by it.

By: Michael Rand

Michael Rand — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 16:08:24 +0000

don’t forget Bret Boone. +1, Brandon, by the way.

By: Brandon

Brandon — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 15:54:34 +0000

Closest I ever came to caring about horses was arguing with my girlfriend about how much I hate Sex and the City.

By: Jon

Jon — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 15:43:50 +0000

Between Rondell White and Juan Rincon, I think Minnesotans have now seen two pretty great examples of the downhill side of the steroid-using career.

If only Mike Lamb had a similar excuse…

By: Nathan

Nathan — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 15:39:25 +0000

Jon’s absolutely right. He ain’t the same post-roids.

By: Dave MN

Dave MN — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 15:08:18 +0000

Big Brown Glue: Goes on Brown, Dries Clear. Will fail you if your expectations of its holding power are too high

By: roughkat

roughkat — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 14:28:04 +0000

Most disappointing was the Twins, since it was the only one I cared about. By Sunday, I was tired of seeing the Twins get rocked all weekend. Maybe we should start thinking about walking Crede every time.

I’m sure Big Brown will now become a millionaire stud. How much would a bottle of Big Brown glue go for though?

By: muxhut

muxhut — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 14:24:44 +0000

Big Brown’s no-show reminded me entirely too much of 18*-1*. In both cases I wasn’t watching because of any love for the participants, I was watching *to see history*. In both cases there was so much hype, it was such a foregone conclusion. In both cases things started slow … and somewhere in the middle I realized it was too slow, and that big push just wasn’t going to come, and it was sad / painful to watch the historic potential just fizzle away. In fact, with Tiger taking 2nd in the Masters, the Celtics fizzling in the playoffs (although they might eke through courtesy of bad officiating) … is this the theme of ‘08? So much potential/expectation, and just … fizzling? If so, I think I’d rather watch the T-pups. Consistency feels relatively grand.