John U.

In Texas, Lt Gov Dan Patrick’s defeat means state-regulated sports betting may finally have a chance in the Tx Leg.

Do Brewers celebrate with beer?

Impressive display of hitting tonight.

Eastern Michigan plays its 9th game in 9 weeks Saturdayat Ohio. There have been teams that played 8 in 8. I don’t recall 9 in 9. They looked tired last week. Bobcats to roll in Athens?

There is a game this weekend in which one team is in a situation that maybe has never happened before. I am sure smart handicappers will figure it out if they haven’t already.

Carolina is a 3.5 pt favorite at Philadelphia. Let that sink in.

21 strikeouts in an ALDS deciding game. I am not sure what history will record as the right words for that.

Both these managers are freaking out and are trigger happy to pull the pitchers after a walk or two baserunners. Hyper-reactive managing is not paying off for either team. After the season maybe someone asks Venable if he should consider smoking weed to mellow his hyperactivvity

Questions I would ask Venable after pulling Fedde with two on. Why do you disrespect Fedde? And bring in Hicks who has slightly worse stats? Was 61 pitches Fedde’s limit? He has thrown more than 61 pitches in 15 games. Why?

Always great to be at Circa!

I do not recall ever making a bet involving “mumps” before, but here we are.

How long before some Bears fans want Case as QB1 rather than Caleb when he returns?

I don’t have a clue about the Bears offense with Case Keenum. I do suspect their D may be challenged. Eagles Team Total over 23.5.

High five @WesReynolds1 for the +355 W on US to win by 4-6. Nice comeback from the near dead!

I will sometimes say during a bet “cmon mama needs a new pair of shoes”. After I told my wife I had a big day yesterday, she said “So you’re telling me I need to buy more shoes.”

Seems rare to have two guys on the same team reach the 30 HRs mark in the same game. Special night for those two young White Sox guys.

When Democrats increased Illinois betting taxes, casino owners were unkind in their outrage. But when the president led a bad tax law and enabled the CFTC to allow PMs to take sports bets — which both harm their businesses nationally — the casino owners blame the PMs, not Trump

I see AI being used to make picks and get data. So much more is being done. Good topics for podcasts, radio shows etc would be how sharps and experts are using AI to build models of different sports, identify mispricing, consider alternative survivor strategies, etc.

As this season begins, AI is playing a major role in my handicapping. Used to be that questions like “what is Butch Jones’s ats record as an underdog” took some digging and maybe manual counting. Now these answers are 5 seconds away.