Oddjack Betting: Cleaning Out Our Pujols

READ MORE: American Gambling News, Houston Astros, Indianapolis Colts, Oddjack Betting, St. Louis Cardinals, St. Louis Rams

· We won’t make the mistake of not owning up to our little competition with the king shark over at American Gambling News. We will reluctantly acknowledge the fact that he’s beating us so far in head-to-head competition—for now. Yes, last night’s pick of the Rams at +14 seemed to be working out just fine, until the Indianapolis Colts defense(which is getting as much press as, oh, the ‘85 Bears D right now) started taking over the game. What. The. Fuck. Get Mike Martz off the sidelines and put him in a hermetically-sealed bubble or something. We know that idiot is still tinkering.

· And, ooooh, that must have hurt for all those people who picked the Astros last night. Yow. Worked out for us, actually. Good thing Albert Pujols has a soft spot for dogs.

· The betting public has moved onto the Astros for tomorrow night’s game, however. STL sporting -150 right now. That’s a little too high a number for us against Roy Oswalt—but we could change our minds by the afternoon. Hangover still telling us to pick the Astros.

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.