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Thanks Strohs for the kind words and great analogy about Mccullers. GL
Houston/Phil over 6 -240/+100 - What's in a name? The books seem to think the name Verlander is worth -150 in road odds. I find that a bit excessive as he did not pitch well the first time Philly saw him. Let me rephrase that. It was basically batting practice for 5 innings. And now he is -150? In Philly? That would be -220 at least in Houston. Oh, and so much for the home crowd being able to lift the home team simply because they are yelling and screaming and extremely motivated while they pump up the home team to grand new heights. If that were truly the case, you would expect the home team to manage at least 1 hit. But then I have been saying the home crowd mystique and effect on the home team playing better is bullshit all along so I will just leave that alone. I wouldn't want to say I told you so or any childish shit like that.
But I digress so back to the game tonight. When I saw, Syndergaard was listed to start today I was going over in my mind all the horrible things I was going to say about what a boneheaded decision that was. Then this morning, when I actually started capping, I realized Philly really didn't have much choice. They could have started Wheeler, but he got hammered by Houston earlier in this series and they are going to go with him in the next one with Nola pitching game #7 if that happens. Because this is a computer screen you can't see me shuddering violently at what I just said. Or they could have thrown Falter out there, but he hasn't pitched in a month, and he wasn't all that good as a starter. Syndergaard also didn't do all that badly in his last couple of starts so the decision doesn't look all that bad in the new light of day. But his starts before his last two and recent relief duties haven't been good. Couple that with he is nowhere near the pitcher he used to be, and he probably won't go many innings and you can see why the over looks much better than even Philly +2 1/2 at -240. I wouldn't blame you for a little + money on Philly but I will stick with the safer over. GL
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Thanks Strohs for the kind words and great analogy about Mccullers. GL
Houston/Phil over 6 -240/+100 - What's in a name? The books seem to think the name Verlander is worth -150 in road odds. I find that a bit excessive as he did not pitch well the first time Philly saw him. Let me rephrase that. It was basically batting practice for 5 innings. And now he is -150? In Philly? That would be -220 at least in Houston. Oh, and so much for the home crowd being able to lift the home team simply because they are yelling and screaming and extremely motivated while they pump up the home team to grand new heights. If that were truly the case, you would expect the home team to manage at least 1 hit. But then I have been saying the home crowd mystique and effect on the home team playing better is bullshit all along so I will just leave that alone. I wouldn't want to say I told you so or any childish shit like that.
But I digress so back to the game tonight. When I saw, Syndergaard was listed to start today I was going over in my mind all the horrible things I was going to say about what a boneheaded decision that was. Then this morning, when I actually started capping, I realized Philly really didn't have much choice. They could have started Wheeler, but he got hammered by Houston earlier in this series and they are going to go with him in the next one with Nola pitching game #7 if that happens. Because this is a computer screen you can't see me shuddering violently at what I just said. Or they could have thrown Falter out there, but he hasn't pitched in a month, and he wasn't all that good as a starter. Syndergaard also didn't do all that badly in his last couple of starts so the decision doesn't look all that bad in the new light of day. But his starts before his last two and recent relief duties haven't been good. Couple that with he is nowhere near the pitcher he used to be, and he probably won't go many innings and you can see why the over looks much better than even Philly +2 1/2 at -240. I wouldn't blame you for a little + money on Philly but I will stick with the safer over. GL
