Chopping Lines: Back to the Meth Lab
READ MORE: American League Championship Series, Chicago White Sox, Chopping Lines, Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, MLB Betting
8:05 p.m.
Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim
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Chicago White Sox
Hmm, last night caught a lot of people by surprise. Not tonight, though. If Ozzie Guillen’s White Sox lose tonight’s game they are the biggest fraud in major league sports. A team with this much advantage and a team that’s been strident about how disrespected and overlooked it’s been all year has to come to play tonight. We’ll take last nights loss as a wake-up call for the White Sox. Mark Buehrle’s been a little sluggish after the All-Star break but he’s been a number one starter for the Sox at times as well. Jarrod Washburn is suffering from, er, a strep throat or the runs or something. Needless to say, the White Sox should be bigger favorites in this game then they were last night and we’d be shocked as pink pickles if this doesn’t go their way.
PICK!: CHW -184
Chopping Lines: Maxin’ Relaxin’
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8 p.m.
Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim
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Chicago White Sox
Best Line: CHW -188, LAA +206
Well, this should be easy. The Chicago White Sox fresh off their three-game sweep of the Boston Red Sox enter tonight’s first game of the ALCS rested, ready, and with the most dominating pitcher in the league the second-half of the season in Jose Contreras taking the ball for game one tonight. The exhausted Angels, on the other hand, lead with Paul “Surfin’” Byrd. Nothin’ against Byrd, whose had a fairly serviceable year as an Angels’ starter, but it’s a tough spot to be put in as the only live arm on a team probably in need of some serious decompression since last night’s victory over the Yankees. Yet, the betting public is obviously hopping on the big number as only 53% are taking Chicago at this time. Hmm. We’re hopeful that our Division Series mush is over and done with, but those of you betting against us will have a nice payout if the Angels do somehow make a pit-stop at one of the Midwest’s famous meth labs and gear up for this game. If you see Darin Erstad yanking his teeth out in the third inning, we’ll know that’s the case.
PICK!: CHW -188
Another Bullshit Night in Suck City
READ MORE: ALDS, Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, Monday Night Football, New York Yankees, Oddjack Betting, Pittsburgh Steelers, San Diego Chargers
Well, that was great. We dont’ feel too bad about the whole Angels/Yankees game because we’ve admittedly been horrrrible with the LDS picks so far this year. Hope everybody who saw we picked the Yankees made a huge killing on our incompetence and mush. Last night’s loss dropped us to 2-8 between all four series’. And then we totally went against our own hunch on Monday Night Football and followed the hot team regardless of that nagging feeling that Schottenheimer would some how make us angry. And it happened. The Steelers came with a much better game plan and Troy Polamalu is destined to be one of the best defensive backs ever to play football. Alas, this is what happens when we overthink these things too much. Sometimes it’s just best to follow a hunch instead of getting bogged down in ridiculous statistics about the ATS numbers after bye-weeks, defensive match-ups, coaching histories on Monday nights after an SU victory of 21 points or more, weather patterns, astrological signs, and the collective SAT scores of the defensive line. In two and a half words: Eff that shit.
MLB Betting: FINE…
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8:00 p.m.
New York Yankees
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Los Angeles Angels
(Series tied 2-2)
Best Line: LAA -112, NYY +106
We’re taking off our pussy pants and actually making a play on this ballgame tonight even though it’s been a disatrous MLB post-season for us thus far. Both of these teams must be exhausted, having that nagging jetlagged feeling and a scattered focus coming off of last night’s Yankee come-from-behind victory and Bernie Williams farewell. Do the Yankees have momentum? Possibly. But can they really light up Bartolo Colon again and can Mussina deliver another stellar outing. It’s a tough call and basically a pick ‘em regardless of what the line says. The betting public is piling on the Yankees so far, but we think that’s just because a post-season doesn’t feel right without a Northeastern squad in it. So, we’ll ride the public and bet on the Yankees, which based on our mush thus far almost guarantees an Angels victory.
PICK!: NYY +106
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Chopping Lines: Wang, Bang Sweet Chien-Ming Wang
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10:00 p.m.
New York Yankees
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Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim
With last night’s first inning implosion by balloon-headed pitcher Bartolo Colon, the Angels not only gave up their best starter, but also gave up momentum to the Yankees who are seemingly riding the crest of the AL East title into the LCS once again. And we thought these guys were toast? Tonight the Yankees’ show off their Chien-Ming Wang as he goes head-to-head with one-time Angels post-season hero John Lackey. This is Wang’s first start ever against the Angels and even though he’s been pitching a little shaky(thanks to a Wang-ed up shoulder), we like the pitcher’s advantage of having faced a team for the first time. Lackey posts an ERA above 6 against the Yankees and with seemingly everyone in that lineup a little more locked-in, we’re foreseeing an offensive explosion from the pinstripes side this evening.
PICK!: YANKS +115
MLB Betting: Chopping Mini-Lines
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1:05 p.m.
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Detroit Tigers
The White Sox have been hanging on for dear life to that once comfortable lead in the AL Central, but today they can finally clinch. That is if they can get passed the Detroit Tigers and a person named Jason Grilli who pitched a great game against the Seattle Mariners in his only other start this year. It seems unlikely that the White Sox will boot this one. However, the theory about young pitchers applies here and the White Sox seem like a team to come up short and frustrate the crap out of their faithful fans.
PICK!: DET +160
2:05 p.m.
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Milwaukee Brewers
Yick. Eric Milton’s season has been gawd awful all year(accept, OF COURSE, when he pitched against the Phillies last week), and there doesn’t seem to be any reason he should win this game today. Especially since Milwaukee is trying to end out their season above.500 for the first time since 1992. There’s a loser’s motivation on both sides here that makes it a tough call. But we love sausage races.
PICK!: MIL -137
3:35 p.m.
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Oakland Athletics
Obviously, the books are expecting a phone-in game from the Angels, with their division already clinched and the rest of the team in decompress-mode. Angels’ starter Bartolo Colon may be on a pitch count and Barry Zito may be in the middle of writing a song about ponies or some shit. It’s a tough call considering the Angels’ lineup today could be a little thin, but we’ll still take the Angels with some change.
PICK!: LAA +108
Chopping Lines: Calling All Angels
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7:05 p.m.
Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim (77-59, J. Lackey)
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Boston Red Sox (80-56, T. Wakefield)
Best Line: LAA +116, BOS -126
This could be a dream week for Yankees fans (and I’m talking mainly about me here) with the Bombers set to pelt the last place Tampa Bay Devil Rays and the Boston Red Sox taking on the solid Los Halos of Anaheim - who, like themselves, are stuck in the middle of a nasty Divisional/Wild Card race. Sorry for the BoSox but the O.C. features John Lackey tonight, who allowed just 3 runs over six innings in his lone start against the Red Sox this season for a no-decision. But against that line-up, it’s more like a perfect game. You want better than that? Lackey is kinda hot lately tossing in at least 6 K’s in each of his last 16 starts. On the flipside, the L.A. papers are burying Halos’ Garrett Anderson, who needs a fluffer for his soft wood. I say the remedy lies in Tim Wakefield’s gay knuckler. Tonite we’re California dreamin’.
BENZAPICK!: LAA +116
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