Six Straight Winning Weeks of Picks
My longest
streak of winning weeks on the “Ink” has now reached six. In that span, since
Week 2 of the NFL season, I’ve gone 27-13 for +144.76 points. It’s not a huge
total, and the last couple of weeks have been moderate successes, but I’ll take
six straight winning weeks any time.
Of course, no
one gets this far without some luck. I have to admit that I was extremely
interested in the Monday night NFL game heading into last weekend with the
Ravens -7.5 against Jacksonville. I had every intention of making a pretty large
pick on Baltimore, and almost made it on Friday to take advantage of the “half
juice” at the place where I check to get the spreads, odds, and what a pick of
X points wins. But when the spread climbed to -10.5 points by Monday, I just
couldn’t touch it. That same night I also left the World Series game alone. I
kind of liked the Cardinals, but I have the Rangers in a series pick. Obviously,
with the series tied at 2-2, Game 5 seemed pivotal – though with the rain out
last night that’s still debatable – so I didn’t want to go against my series
pick again. Of course, it turned out that both games would have been losers for
me.
For the week,
I was 4-2 for +18.54 points. It’s very surprising to me that college football
is carrying this streak by far over the NFL and the MLB playoffs because I’ve
never been a big fan. I’ve gotten into it more and more in the last couple
years, but I pretty much have to stick to the “big” schools to know what I’m
talking about. Yet, for the fifth straight week I won my one pick for 15 points
to win 14.29. On Saturday, LSU -20.5 over Auburn was my winner.
On Sunday,
the “juice” gave me a marginal loss for the second straight week in the NFL with
points in a 1-1 week for -0.71 points. The Packers couldn’t cover -9.5 over the
Vikings for -15 points. The Steelers, the team I should have pounded, got me
the split for +14.29 points by easily covering -4 over the Arizona Cardinals.
Finally, I
started the World Series strong with a win in Games 1 and 2. I actually went
against my series pick in the opener with the Cardinals (Carpenter) at -120
over the Rangers (Wilson) for 5 points to win +4.17, and followed that up with
the Rangers (Lewis) at -112 over the Cardinals (Garcia) for 5 points to win +4.46
points. In Game 3, I really thought the Texas bats would get all over Kyle
Lohse, but the Rangers (Harrison) -1.5 (+105) over the Cardinals (Lohse) gave
back 5 points. So, once again, baseball wasn’t all that productive at 2-1 for
+4.96 points.
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