Cardinals Game 7

St. Louis Cardinals (+120) @ San Francisco Giants

• Its a rematch of Game 3 in which the Cardinals won 3-1, but showed good pitching on both sides.
• The big thing that needs to happen is that the Cardinals need to actually score some runs.
• Cain has allowed at least one home run in each of his 4 outings in October and has had 3 earned runs in each of his playoffs appearances thus far.
• Lohse on the other hand only has 4 earned runs combined in all 3 of his playoff starts. 
• Basically the idea is that Lohse needs to keep pitching well, and the cardinals' bats need to make another appearance.

Cardinals Game 5

St. Louis Cardinals (+121) @ Washington Nationals

• I was going to do a big long detail description for the game and even started doing it and then decided against it....instead here are some bullet points.
  
  • I believe that if the Cardinals can be patient they will get runners on base vs Gonzalez who showed that he could be walk-friendly having 7 walks in just 5 innings in game 1.  
  • I also believe that postseason experience will come into play here, the Nationals did get a taste of being on the brink of elimination and in fact it was the Cardinals that looked inexperienced down the stretch with their line of strikeouts.  But I believe that it will be different come tomorrow's game as the Cardinals seem to prefer playing as the underdogs anyways.
  • I believe that if the Cardinals can score 4 runs they should be in good shape to win this game, so focusing on advancing runners after walks and doing their best to just nickel and dime a run here and there should be good enough.  (turns out the o/u for the game is set at 7 so that seems to fit in with what I was thinking anyways) ((well now it seems that 4 runs will in fact not be enough so the Cardinals need to stop leaving runners in scoring position and make this comeback happen))
  • I expect the Cardinals to come away with the win in this game, as I believe that there will be more opportunities for the Cardinals due to nerves and lack of experience on the side of the Nationals and I would be surprised to see St. Louis be unable to take advantage enough to pull out a win and advance to play San Francisco.

week 6 betting

I've decided to subtract $100 assuming that if I had gone though with my idea of betting on the cardinals playoffs in time that I would have also bet on that game and do plan on continuing the bets on the playoffs while not having them be involved in my actual $1000 for each week.  Especially since last week I had my best week ending up $462 going 7-3 on my picks including upsets by the STL Cardinals and West Virginia boosting my total.  This week is sort of weird as there are a lot more upsets involved which could end up backfiring and taking away from the $883 I'm up after the first 5 weeks (including the $100 that I planned on subtracting).

1. Saturday- Wisconsin (+120) @ Purdue
2. Oregon State (+190) @ BYU
3. Stanford (+263) @ Notre Dame
4. Stanford +8 1/2 @ Notre Dame (-110)
5. Mizzou +21 1/2 vs Alabama (-110)
6. Mizzou (+1075) vs Alabama
7. West Virginia -3 1/2 @ Texas Tech (-110)
8. Indianapolis +3 1/2 @ NY Jets (-110)
9. St. Louis Rams (+160) @ Miami
10. Green Bay (+170) @ Houston

• Wednesday- St. Louis Cardinals (-104) @ Washington

Cardinal(s) Rule

I've decided that since there would be no way for me to be living in an area where sports betting was allowed and watch the cardinals play in the playoffs without betting on the games that I would have to add a new rule to allow me to bet on such games.  Basically since all of the games don't have odds out I would have to allow myself the opportunity to bet on these games throughout the week (either by adding on to my $1000 a week or by just taking it out of that) I haven't decided on what to do about that but nonetheless am going to be taking the cardinals -108 tonight vs the nationals, as well as taking the cardinals at 15 to 1 to win the world series and 7 to 1 to win the national league (tho I believe these odds were made before the wildcard games were played, but since we aren't talking real money here I'm gonna allow myself to go back in time and make these bets).

tldr: new bets

1. Monday- St. Louis (-108) vs Nationals
2. NL Champs- St. Louis Cardinals (+700)
3. World Series Champs- St. Louis Cardinals (+1500)

Week 5 Betting

Well last week didn't go too bad...went 6-4 in picks ending up $190 for the week and missing out on an extra $340 due to Arizona beating Miami in overtime.  I'm a little late on picks this week so no thursday game picks, but I did add a baseball pick with the wildcard games starting tomorrow.

1. Friday- STL Cardinals (+153) @ Atlanta
2. Saturday- Oklahoma -5 @ Texas Tech (-110)
3. Mizzou (-275) vs Vanderbilt
4. Virginia Tech (+195) @ UNC
5. West Virginia (+230) @ Texas
6. Sunday- Atlanta -3 @ Washington (-110)
7. Atlanta (-160) @ Washington
8. Baltimore -6 @ Kansas City (-110)
9. Minnesota -5 1/2 vs Tennessee  (-110)
10. Chicago (-210) @ Jacksonville

Weekly Betting 4

Well it was looking like I was gonna have another week up $200 when Seattle donked all over Green Bay on monday night leaving me up only $40 for the week instead....so lets try again this week with picks that include my first over/under pick...

1. Thursday- Stanford -6 1/2 @ Washington (-110)
2. Saturday- Penn State (+110) @ Illinois
3. Arkansas +13 @ Texas A&M (-110)
4. Mizzou (+120) @ UCF
5. Wisconsin +13 1/2 @ Nebraska (-110)
6. Minnesota +7 @ Iowa (-110)
7. Sunday- San Diego -1 @ Kansas City (-110)
8. New Orleans @ Green Bay-Over 54 1/2 (-110)
9. Miami (+240) @ Arizona
10. New England -4 @ Buffalo (-110)

Week 3 Betting

After getting myself up $200 in week one I decided to take it easy and have a useless week that ended up having me down one whole dollar.  I went 5-4-1 on my picks last week and watched as my two upset picks failed and one that I decided to switch out at the last second (Stanford over USC at +246) happened.  So overall not a great week, but not really a bad one either.  So hopefully this week ends up being a positive one with none of my picks getting too out of control.

1. Thursday- NY Giants (+120) @ Carolina
2. Saturday- Mizzou +10 @ South Carolina (-110)
3. Illinois -2.5 vs LA Tech (-110)
4. Arizona State -7 vs Utah (-110)
5. USC -16 vs Cal (-110)
6. Sunday- Philadelphia (-185) @ Arizona
7. Atlanta (+150) @ San Diego
8. Atlanta +3 @ San Diego (-110)
9. Denver (+115) vs Houston
10. Monday- Green Bay (-170) @ Seattle

Possible Winnings- $947