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I said this in so many words in another thread, so just copy/pasting here. From last month: I DO NOT think this team needs a total tear down. Hell, we're 6/7? games back of the division and the markets are still giving us better odds to win the WS than Cleveland. The markets talk the truth and this team has talent. I won't go into the boring stuff, but the whole staff needs to be sacrificed. Katz can stay, but the rest need to go. We need a nutritionist, strength and conditioning staff, etc. and we need to hire full analytics team. Read up on Voth going from the Nationals to the Orioles. Baseball is like golf and all individuals on this team are different. Some may need 2/3 pitching coaches in their ear, others may need none and just Cueto giving them advice. All are different, and as such, think it'd be smart to have 2 pitching coaches and 2 hitting coaches. You're limited to 6 uniformed coaches per game, but doesn't mean you can't have more. Now onto the roster. It may feel like we're on a desert island, but it's really not that bad. Simple moves ... resign Abreu and Cueto. Cueto xFip and xERA are not great. He may even be likely to throw 4.25ERA ball next year and beyond, but that said ... rubber arms are worth something. And if he's going to be able to give you 175IP you take that in the 5 slot and don't look back. Now I don't think we exactly created a great atmosphere for him where he's going to accept less than market value, but if you can get him in the range of 2yr, $18mm you take it. (for those of you who think that's high - think joe kelly, think leury, think VV, etc.) One less spot to worry about. Secondly you sign Abreu. You don't let your best hitter and leader walk. you just dont. i don't care his age compared to vaughn and the fit go-forward, etc. You resign your franchise guy who has said he'll take a discount. I'd be giving him $15-20mm a year, some kind of player/club option deal where it's basically a year to year deal but that he's getting paid for his services fairly. The hot topic guys: Grandal ... i get it, this board hates him. catchers fall off cliffs. he looks like hes running in sand. his knees are shot. i get it all. that said catcher is not an easy position to just go out and fill. look at the mets, yankees, houston, etc. those are the top teams in baseball and they've had trouble for years and years. grandal is under contract, let's get him an offseason of rest and lets call a spade a spade. he's an overcompensated 90-110 game catcher. that's it. he's not your DH now on off days. he's not your power guy. He's a 7/8th in the lineup guy. good news is the shift is going away and he gets shifted on a ton. get him to 22 doctors and figure those knees and a routine and let's just get slightly above average WAR out of him. Moncada ... ahhh, third base and the white sox ... always. i've always struggled to like the guy. but his D is solid and he has a good eye, maybe too good of an eye. robot umps would help him. he needs to expand his zone a bit (which is the opposite of most this team). But you just take what you have. it's not a hole. he falls into that 7/8th in the lineup. he's also in the boat for nutritionist and yoga guy. go see ceases yoga guy. not sure if his diet changed from twinkies yet, but seriously, he needs to fix that s%*# and who knows. im fine w him like grandal. Vaughn/Eloy - I'm a sucker, but i think you can't trade eloy at his lowest trade value. even coming back strong lately, hes been so injured ... you have to keep him for one more year. then you can see what his trade value is go-forward. he's a DH, so is vaughn (at least with Abreu). it's not great, and it's one of the things holding this team back. previously ive said you need an eloy for podsednik type trade ala carlos lee... i wouldn't be mad at that, but i think it's worth one more year. You just slot Eloy at LF and Vaughn at DH and don't look back. rotate around with Vaughn at 1B for when Abreu need DH days. Done. Again to create a hole just becuase this year was brutal. Robert - obviously nothing. Anderson - obviously nothing. Rotation - leave it. I doubt it'd happen, but maybe even try and sign Gio to a 4yr/60mm type deal. i know, i know ... but think of us saying that last offseason ... i doubt he takes it. he believes in himself, but i'd try it. Cease/Kopech/Lynn/Cueto/Giolito with Crochet and Davis Martin, etc should be able to be an okay rotation. Bullpen. leave it. we dont need to spend money there. the guys are fine. let it be. kelly will be better (by default) and we don't need focus there. This roster sounds the same so far huh? I sound crazy huh? The deal to be made is so simple. 1 - Sign Conforto. Lefty, OBP, Right Fielder. Check, check, check. Guessing he's in for a pillow deal of like 1/$20mm ... even better. It fits our window and allows us clarity. (1a) you can convince me Joey Gallo, but i just see Adam Dunn and i Just see it not being a great fit on this roster ... 2 - I think we already have to do it, but resign Pollock. He's going to need to play 75-100 games with our OF and injuries. I'd add Tyler Naquin as well. Same idea. You need someone who can start. No more Engel, No more Sheets, No more Leury ... just none of it in my outfield. 3 - Goodbye Sheets, Burger, Engel, Harrison. They're not good. You're not going to get much for them. maybe can get a bullpen arm out of one? 4 - 2B - as much as i'd love to go after a guy like Trea Turner, it's just not happening with JR. So just give me any of our meh minor league guys. OF - Eloy/Robert/Conforto/Pollock/Naquin IF - Moncada/Anderson/Romy/Abreu/Vaughn/Leury (shoot me) C - Grandal/Seby/AAAA guy So you're thinking to you self ... that's the same team. Yes, yes it is. Because this isn't the time to tear down the team. We built this thing over 5-6 years and we have one more year of really going for it before decisions need to be made. The problem is TLR and staff and we all know it. We need a hitting coach that focuses on real data and not singles and a manager that is alive. We also need a RF w a lefty bat on a short contract (ideally) ... and that's available too. If you structure deals for Abreu, Conforto and Cueto at 1 year with some sort of options ... then after 2023 you have: Yaz - $18.25mm off the books Abreu - $18mm (lets just pretend it's a 1yr 18mm and option stuff) off the books Pollock - $10mm off the books Kelly $9.5mm off the books Conforto $20mm off the books Leury - only $5mm, 1yr to cut. Total: $80mm 2024: Lynn - $18mm off the books Hendriks - $15mm off the books Anderson $14mm off the books Graveman $8mm off the books Total: $55mm None of these guys have trade value to return young talent to turnover into anyways, so you have to roll with them. we are stuck for next year based on this plan. The flexibility opens up afterwards. sometimes the best solution is the one right in front of you. and in this case, it was the solution we were all looking for this past offseason ... sign conforto and fire this staff.

estrada and acuna both with doubles. gunnar and the O's got SHUT DOWN yesterday. oh so close to a 100x payout again. today's picks: doubles parlay: eloy, matt olson, and will go with estrada again others i gave thought to -- yaz on san fran, ketel marte, will smith, robert or yoan.

looking for the silver linings ... 5 games in 4 days, no off days. A 15 inning game. The twins for intents and purposes are completely done and maybe we get a half version of them coming up? Next 9 games we need to go 7-2 with a sweep of cleveland They need to go 4-5. That puts us 1 back with 6 to go and the tiebreaker. If we don't sweep but still go 7-2 against Cle, Det, Min and they go 4-5 against CWS, TB, Tex? (i forgot who they play, think its TX) .... then we are still 1 back, but would need to jump them 2 games in the final 6.... aka in a miracle situation the Royals go 3-3 and we need to go 5-1 against the Padres and Twins.

going to be spotty a bit ... but trying to keep up with some picks gunnar henderson, thairo estrada and acuna doubles parlay today. like gunnar the most of those in a big detroit park and facing a bad lefty.

weird few days on my end. let's make some money going into the weekend! Brian Anderson and Garrett Cooper hit Josiah Gray very well in career. Shorter sample size than I'd like but get this, Josiah Gray has let up 20 hr's in the last 10 games. TEN! Joey Wendle intrigues me as well. WAS ranks as the 4th friendliest place for batters to hit doubles ... i love miami tonight around even money. I love wendle/anderson and cooper and i love that the books generally dont give the marlins love. im taking them TT over. de la cruz is another name to watch. blue jays/orioles has the makings of a ton of runs. I haven't found the cheat code or what i want out of that game yet, but i have a feeling 15+ runs will be scored. Some names that have good histories today: carlos correa (go twins), yandy diaz, matt chapman, austin nola, freddie freeman, bryce haper. javy baez. i'll put emphasis on freddie freeman top line is guys i like for doubles, bottom is for TB. Freeman, cooper, matt chapman, Vladdy, Bichette, boagerts, wendle Abreu, Andrus, witt, devers, TB: correa, Yordan, Michael harris, tucker, jrod, Realmuto, semien (any of the above too)

sorry if someone else wrote this, kinda skipped to the end. with cleveland winning tonight they've played 140 games and have a 75-65 record. assuming a 11-11 finish which is ... probably favorable? they end up at 86 wins. since they'll likely have the tie breaker we'll need 87 wins. we are 72-69. We'll need to finish 15-6 (14-6 if we hold on tonight to win) in order to win the division. obviously for every game they win above 11-11 it gets that much tougher. Finish 13-9? They have 88 wins. We'd then need 89 and to finish 17-4. Needless to say, i'm not a fan of math after thinking this through. So much can happen. Let's hope for a sweep of Rox, a loss tomorrow by CLE and we beat them head to head. That current 3.5 game deficit turns into 1 game VERY QUICKLY. I know they're all must wins, but this week is especially important.

back to back days on fire. the colorado game hurt big ... very big ... i had that thing wrapped in parlays to the max. Cost me about 60 units ... and that kids is why you don't parlay. i was even on the day with absolutely destroying the board. Toronto, sox, harper hit that homer ... jose ramirez went 3-3 i believe ... abreu, eloy .. bichette hit a double. and again was on the bloodhound path for the doubles parlay ... bichette had 2 doubles, eloy would've had a double in the 8th, but the lead was huge and with his hammys he just took the single ... jose ramirez got on base non stop. seeing as those bets give 80-100x return and i've hit once this week and very close in 2 others? i hope some of you are tailing me ... how you structure bets makes a HUGE difference, but if people are taking these you're up. It's NFL today -- so didn't do as much in depth research. Some names of guys I like. JT Realmuto, Arozarena and Yandy are hot, Matt Chapman to an extent, Justin Turner and Max Muncy, Matt olson, but he's been a bit off too, good history against Marco Gonzalez though hasn't been great of late. Jake McCarthy. Doubles parlay ... going to do a round robin today. costs a bit extra to do the extra combos, but why not? feel like i've been close on guys the last few days so gonna do it. I like: Arozarena, Justin Turner, Bichette, McCarthy ..... and Matt Chapman Like astros -1.5, sox against a lefty in irvin whos been struggling of late (though still better home splits), and braves against a lefty at even money.

Some positive news! it still worries me when you corner a leader like putin though. i hope that nuclear doesn't come into play... the world may need to negotiate some things that are questionable on the surface, but its above my pay grade.

Recap: Yesterday was a nice rebound after a bad day. carroll hit a dinger, hoskins hit a homer. sox did the impossible. i ended up 6/8 and missed a 7 leg parlay by a mookie betts over 1.5 TB. woulda paid $900 on a $5 wager... grrr. Anyways, i LOVE the board today. i don't say that lightly. In order of love: Over in Colorado. Bumgarner and Urena is set at 11.5. Vegas is not usually wrong, but i don't get it. I'm not seeing how this isn't 12.5 or 13. Both guys suck and it's Coors. Arizona much better of late. Toronto against Arihara. He was demoted to the bullpen, making a start again. Simply put he's just not very good. I think you'll see him last 3-4ip tops and then it's bullpen time. I think toronto tags them early, but if not, should chip away. gausman hasn't been as sharp of late, but think they get it done. Sox - lynn we all know has been on fire. adrian martinez is a sinker baller. he also throws a change and a slider.. no fastball. who hits sinkers well you ask? well, abreu crushes. eloy crushes. pollock does well. and vaughn is ... meh, but passable. martinez has actually been okay this year so far since getting the call, but i think the sox hot streak ultimately wins out and can see a few doubles in a big park from someone like abreu and eloy. i like them 1.5 ... or maybe even like -3. crazy to say, but if lynn is locked in? oakland is bad ... i'm feeling like a 6-1 type final. bryce harper hasn't been locked in since returning ... that said .. he hits .500 over 18 ab's w/ FIVE homers against fedde. owns him. total base prop. other notes ... jose ramirez hits archer well, oscar gonzalez is locked in at the plate. like those plays. things i like, but dont love, but if you love gambling? under f5 in tb/yankees, over in the philly game. wind blowing, suarez not great of late, fedde not great ever. over in mets/marlins. cookie carrasco hasn't been very sharp of late and coming off an injury. lopez not historically great against mets. over f5 in the cle/min game. triston has let up 2-3er in 4/5 starts. archer has been poor of late and his night and away eras are his weak spots. jeff mcneil bats .500 against pablo lopez. $5 doubles parlay: jose ramirez, jose abreu (or eloy dealers choice), and bo bichette.

what a game! i can't believe it ... i finally succumbed to being tired last night after 8 ... shoulda known that this team is different than Tony's team. Woke up to a surprise. Has any Sox player even vaguely said things like "we won this one for Tony" or the likes? Like, I'd imagine if like Dave Roberts had a heart issue there'd be many statements like oh, man, we just kept fighting. know we had to win for coach and keep this going until he comes back. instead you have guys vaguely referencing how much nicer it is with him gone ... crazy.

Corbin is still letting up homers. Basically 1 a game. 22 from righties. 7.19 night ERA v 5era during day. 8era on road. Last time out against phillies lasted less than inning and let up 6 runs … Syndergaard not much better. Over over over. Cesar Hernandez bats .406 over 32abs, bohm .357 2hr, hoskins .333 w 3hr, Segura, and maybe jt/harper. I like f3 or f5 reds. Alexander walks people and love lodolo Diamondbacks playing better. like the idea of ketel and corbin carroll. Sox are at a nice price?? I tend to shy away from them ... but lord help me, i may put in a bet. Willi castro …. 6/8 and a hr against lynch. i don't generally like backing poor batters, but i like him to record a hit and maybe pair that with like a hit from will smith or acuna? Ketel, .300, 40abs, 2hr, cron does well. Betts .583 12abs Doubles parlay: Ketel, Bichette, Betts

Not saying, just saying ... if I'm the Sox and don't want tony back I think theres a path ... Task 1: find a few guys in the clubhouse to talk anonymously. Drop a few negative quotes. Task 2: rehash the old stories of DUI and the underlying racism undertones of the past Task 3: push the health narrative more You just need a good ol' Fox News/CNN spin on Tony and that should seal the deal. I'd feel bad about it, but i hate tony. feed him to the wolves.

assigning probabilities to the above? I'd say 5%/25%/70%

This will be interesting to say the least. Obviously the corpse of Tony wants to come back. He's a super villain and it's nearing Halloween. It's the scariest thing for all Sox fans. His team for sure is leaking stuff to Heyman. On the other side I think it's clear the Sox are leaking their PR news too. A complete guess on my end, but I have a feeling "most" of the Sox office is trying to distance themselves from Tony and are in our camp. I think that JR and others in the Sox org. don't have the balls to fire him or tell him he's no longer welcome. I also think this retirement ceremony can kick rocks. Without it I'm not sure how Tony just shows up to the park one day. This is an invitation from an opposing team ... he gets his face out there showing "hey i'm good to go, healthy, can travel, etc." Puts the Sox in a tough position. What should happen is the Sox just man up and release him of his duties. What might happen is the Sox go deep in the Hahn bag of lawyer tricks and find a way to frame the health issues as a way to keep him away. What likely happens is the old bag of bones is back with this team on Tuesday

Is this one on the table? I didn't see it in the CBS article. To me the simplest way to implement and keep both sides happy is to do what tennis does. It's super simple, efficient, and quick. I'd give each team 10 ball/strike challenges per game. Just like tennis they can pull that replay with ball going through the box and if it catches any bit of the box at all it's a strike. In tennis it takes absolutely no time and in baseball would be the same. There's always like 15-30 seconds in between pitches and if you challenge immediately it's reviewed and onto the next pitch with no time wasted. It allows the union and umps to keep their jobs. It allows the large majority of fringe calls to be corrected, and takes a good amount of human error out of the game while leaving human error which is good for the game. (imo).

This thread is LOL. This board talks about firing Hahn ... fire yourselves! Listen, I don't condone what Tim Anderson did in his personal life, but like, it's his personal life. I don't know about all of you throwing stones at glass houses, but home life effects work life. It just does. The first few months of this season Tim Anderson was looking like a MVP candidate. Stuff spilled out, his life went into a blender and his play suffered big time. There is zero question that Tim Anderson is this teams SS for the remainder of his contract. Everybody who want to retain Andrus please go pull his baseball savant page and spend time on there. It's not good. Elvis Andrus is in the Josh Harrison/Jonathan Villar/A. Simmons phase of his career. He is going to maybe have 1-2 years left. He is not an answer to a team trying to make a push. He just isn't. And we already have Leury. Also, he's basically Leury.

Define extremely weak. Harrison has been more than adequate at 2B since June. He's batted around .280 with 6 dingers, playing strong D ... Romy has been very good since being up ... I think we fall in love with the flavor of the day. Andrus is having a hot stretch and he's a new toy. You'll fall out of love with that toy soon.

Just save this though, cause if it happens we'll be calling for a DFA of Andrus like we did for Harrison. Truth is with the crop of available second baseman you just pick one & stick with it. None are good. What you can't do is spend $5mm on Harrison, $5mm on Leury, $5mm on Andrus, etc. That's the biggest issue with Leury. Leury's are grown on trees. Guys who are good enough to be in the majors as UTIL for 4-5 years from like age 26-31 when they're in their athletic prime and then cut again for the next round of guy who can bounce around the infield and play decent 75 game ball. You can't spend payroll on a guy like that unless you're a top 5 payroll team. Romy and Sosa are your answers.

booty stomped. that's the definition of yesterday. there was no treading water. toughest part about gambling is dusting it off, keeping the same focus applied to the last days research and doing it again. that said, I really just don't like any of the short schedule today. the phillies have historically done very well against Sandy and Gibson has been average at best of late. I like the over 7, but i think this is a day to watch the NFL, Cease, and to rest.

In that scenario you're paying the house a good chunk, so unless the payouts are wide enough, it probably wont make money ...

recap: arozarena went off, boagerts pulled up w injury, devers nothing = flush the lotto ticket away. hiura cashed. renfroe hit a dinger, cashed. That braves game was everything i though it could be ... the -2 ticket seemed like an easy cash multiple times. thats gambling though, sometimes the oakland A's ... in the coliseum ... drop 9 runs? the michael harris one is heartbreaking to me. he had a single and stretched it into 2 bases, but was deemed a single and advance rather than a double. D'Arnaud sat? Don't get that, but he did. Olson hit a dinger. Riley did riley ... walked ... good at bats, no ticket cashed. lastly, the doubles parlay did not cash. We got 2/3 to hit a homerun on the ticket and michael harris advanced to second on a single hit ... which feels oh so close to me. i know none of them hit, but this gambling bloodhound was on the right track ... Overall, an even day. tread water and hopefully be slightly up while treading waiting to hit another doubles parlay. 9/7 bets: Total Bases 1.5: Charlie Blackmon, Renfroe, Rhys Hoskins, Ketel Marte, Mike Trout, Randy Arozarena, Yandy Diaz, Randal Grichuk, David Peralta, Judge There's a lot of data behind all of this. blackmon 22abs, .545ba, particularly always strong splits at coors (duh), renfroe .333ba in 21abs against freeland, also on a big hot streak + coors. rhys hoskins has a .438ba agianst rogers and that includes rogers from last year that was unhittable. he's not that version so far this year. ketel bats .409 in 22abs against darvish. the last two guys are in top 20 of doubles over last two weeks. the rays beat up pivetta his last start out ... really just love them today. the judge logic applies from yesterdays rain out. and grichuk mashes lefties and at coors. All that i said above on Atlanta applies, to a degree today. Another lefty on the mound, but this is the kid that came back in the Montas trade. His stats are pretty solid, though that was AAA and this is his second career start. Anything can happen with young guys especially playing a lineup like that. Books wont be kind, but if I'm chasing anything there it's the hottest bats in Harris and Riley. With Acuna and Olson as maybes, but probably not. Likely to pass overall. sometimes the best bet is the one you lay down. $5 Lotto ticket: Over 1.5 bases Trout, Blackmon, Ketel $20 Doubles Parlay: Hoskins, Ketel, Arozarena (or Yandy??) Just regular game lines i like: adjusted over at 5.5 for both the rays and the braves game. parlay those together. pays +109. strider is damn good, but he just went a CG. i think they'll limit his innings today a bit. As long as the A's can score 1 or 2, which should be feasible then you're asking only 4-5 runs out of the Braves which against a lefty should be doable. on the rays end they just have pivettas number and he hasn't been as sharp of late. rays bats are hot.

also ... we have Romy and Sosa and 2B is not a premium position. Even if those guys aren't really the long term answer either, it's not very smart to block them with Andrus at age 35.

This. Honestly he'd be great in the Leury role. But that's it - and we already have Leury. I've been a proponent of trading for him in the past, but that's when he was still stealing 20-30 bases a year and had a respectable OBP. I'd just be happy he's helping right now, because bad results are around the corner too. since coming to the sox this is his best OBP since 2017, his best slugging percentage of his career, his best OPS of his career, and his best batting average of his career. needless to say ... he's locked in right now and it's wild if somehow he becomes the savior to this team and we get to the playoffs in large part because of him -- but he's not this guy.

Recap: Adley rutschman big game 2, chapman? not so much. Anibal sanchez has found something ... seemed like a great matchup on paper, but why it was in my like, not love category. Same with martin perez ... woof. tucker had a hit, but no extras, same with altuve. both pitcher props fell one short ... though the seattle game was spot on ... 3-2 final and the under. in the love section, TB hit on Xander, Freddie and Betts with only Betts hitting a double. Turner sat. Altuve and Tucker did not hit. Not a great day at the office, but I'm also chasing big hits while hopefully staying afloat until that hit. Luckily it was out of the way day 1 and it's house money. 9/6 bets: Don't love a whole ton today. Everything below kind of has a "but, this could go wrong angle" $5 lotto ticket play: parlay of double from arozarena, devers and over 1.5 bases from boagerts. $5 pays $200. don't love this at all, hence why in lottery ticket category. arozarena has 6 doubles in 13 games, devers has 5 in 13 games and has heated up over the past weekend after being cold. simply put xander is one of the hottest bats in baseball right now. pitching matchups aren't great ... rasmussen has let up something like 9 hits over last 4-5 games TOTAL. but liken it to a scratch off. If you just feel like throwing $5 to the wind and playing some hot bats for the hell of it? this isn't a bad ticket. aaron judge over 1.5 bases. paying +106. has hit it in 5 of last 7 games. hit a homer in 3 straight. joe ryan has been letting up contact of late and particularly HR's. at end of the day, i'm riding the hot bat at plus money. the coors effect.. kuhl on mound. if you can find hiura on a book he's a great pick. otherwise, wong does well against righties and renfroe has been heating up - think he has like a 10 game hit streak. honestly? the brewers have been poor on offense of late, so not in love with these, especially since the books juice up coors. But getting 2 bases at coors can happen in many ways. I kind of like taking renfroe Total bases over 1.5 and then maybe pairing it with like Judge over 1.5 and should pay +250 or so. not sure where i land on oakland tonight. cole irvin has an under 2era at home. if i had to guess the line without seeing it, it's probably like -275 for atlanta on the road... which is asinine for someone who has been a solid pitcher in the MLB for a while and has under a 2era at home. That said ... atlanta kills lefties and are killing teams night in and night out. grossman has a great history against irvin, as does acuna. riley is hitting. 364 with a .450OBP this year against lefties. 24 of his 35hr are against lefties. the whole team really hits lefties ... up and down the lineup... someone will win this - irvin or the braves and me thinks its likely the latter. Riley, d'Arnaud, Grossman, Dansby, Harris, Acuna, Olson ... all kill lefties. Of those, Riley, Dansby, Harris, and Olson are incredible doubles hitters and Oakland is a huge park. as long as Irvin doesn't spin a gem today (hes let up 5er up in 3 of last 4) I think there's a combo in here to make a lot of money. It's just finding that combo ... Braves -2 at -109 Doubles props: Michael Harris who leads the league in doubles over last 30 days, has speed, and in a big park in Oakland going off at +410! he has 13 doubles in 25 games. if you played $100 ticket for 25 games he started, you'd have $410 * 13 = $4,130 - $1,200 = $2900 profit at those odds. simply put, it's good odds. D'Arnaud, Riley, Olson going at +330, 270, 310 respectively for a double. Robbie Grossman who is 4/6 in his career against irvin is +130 to record a single ... Austin Riley -127 for over 1.5 bases ... Olson -104. Harris +145, Arnaud +114 Just sayin ... for shits and giggles I'll do my daily doubles parlay as: Matt Olson revenge game back in Oakland + Michael Harris + Renfroe and his hit streak + coors to get that double. $15 pays $1,020. Thanks for reading ha. I kind of actually use this as my internal note process - so if you don't want to read - i'm sorry. I use it as a check of would i recommend to a friend as to whittle down some picks.

Also, although I know its more fun to gloat on a miss than a hit ... I also called a 3-2 final ... give me some props there if you're going to tear me down for the andrus call. haha.