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QUOTE(ARamMe @ Apr 1, 2005 -> 12:42 PM) My stereo type is Sanyo. I just bought a cool one at walmart for cheap so I have lots of my cash for beer with the ladies. I also boght the Ron Santos book about the old cubs and it is cool too. He was the greatest shortstop of all times and it is sad that the media here hates the Cubs and would not give him the Halls of Fame like they did for Dusty Baylor. dusty baylor... !!!! ... that's my joke!!!!!

QUOTE(YASNY @ Apr 1, 2005 -> 09:13 AM) That's great news. I hope you all have a great day and a lopsided Sox win! lopsided??? ... it's gonna be 1-zip white sox with MB facing 27 batters

QUOTE(mreye @ Apr 1, 2005 -> 08:55 AM) Apr 4 Partly Cloudy 65°/48° 10% Rock & F**kin' roll! I'll have my one year old in his backpack and sox hat...

when will the first april fool thread start????

QUOTE(JayMariotti @ Apr 1, 2005 -> 10:25 AM) It figures you aren't smart enough to understand me. what are you doing here anyway... you can't get any $$$ out of us... I didn't know whores worked for free....

QUOTE(Leonard Zelig @ Apr 1, 2005 -> 01:00 AM) I always thought that a bookmakers best scenario was to have equal $$$ on either side of the bet, that way they are guaranteed to make money. in theory, yes you want equal action on both sides, but juice won't carry you thru to thanksgiving ( the "magic" date in football wagering) a bunch of years back, right when I was getting started, the bears opened up the season on labor day monday against dallas. Dallas was just coming off a super bowl win, and favored by 7. The bears at the time (not much different from now) were not good and especially horrendous on monday nights. Dallas lost no players from the super bowl champ team. I didn't write down a single Bears play, everybody was jumping on dallas like it was free $$$$. I started to poop, and called my "mentor". I was told not to adjust my line( I wanted to get bears action) I was told to continue taking all the dallas action I could, and sit back and enjoy. Seriously, I was told to sit back and enjoy. to make a long story longer, five minutes into the game emmit smith goes down. Bears win outright..????? I cleaned up ( which usually doesn't happen the first week) I asked my mentor what he knew... his only response was to chuckle... ??? I don't know if he knew emmit was injured prior to the game or what, he just told me to stick to the lines and never adjust them. if the public is jumping on one side "leave the number alone"... moving the number could cause you to get caught in the "middle" ironically this is what eventually got me out of the "business" (for amusement only of course.) years later I thought I knew more than the system and began adjusting spreads. this created "middles" that got some of my associates angry, and I liked my legs so I settled into retirement from the book ( for amusement only) like I said it doesn't happen all the time, but a couple times a month, was all it took to cash in... when spreads do move... ALWAYS take the side that is getting less attractive.. for example if a team started at 3 and moves to 6 you are safe to give as many as 10... if vegas is making it harder to bet your team don't back off.. bet more!!!

QUOTE(JayMariotti @ Apr 1, 2005 -> 10:05 AM) You wish you could have my life. You get to see Mark Priors calves everyday on WGN, but I get to see much more than that ????????????????? and we care why ?????????????????

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Mar 31, 2005 -> 03:09 PM) I don't buy that at all. It is well known that Vegas makes money on the spread. That 10% that the house gets from you is where they make their money, as long as the bets are balanced against each other. If they lost that game, they would have had huge losses in your scenario. In reality they probably had 100,000 bets for Duke, 100,000 bets for MSU, and kept the 10% as a pure guarenteed profit, instead of hoping it fell their way. Betting operates as a commodity and is priced as such. Stocks are always trading where there are equal numbers of buyers and sellers. If there are more buyers, the price goes up until they balance out sellers and buyers, and vice versa. Spreads operate the exact same way. whatever.... I ran a book for 8 years(for amusement only ) and this is what I was taught... vegas could care less about 10%... they want the home runs... it doesn't happen every game, but it happens...

QUOTE(ptatc @ Mar 31, 2005 -> 12:08 PM) This is correct. Remeber all betting lines are where they feel they can get the most action, not where they think the team will actually finish. not necessarily... lines are often set to get the public to bet a certain team... for example... duke minus 4 over mich state... duke only minus four points??? when just about everyone has them in the final four... the public got smoked cause they fell into vegas' trap... chris berman said it best " when vegas is begging you to take a certain team, you're usually the one who ends up begging" vegas KNOWS EVERYTHING WE DON"T... espn tells you what they want you to know.. not what you need to know...

QUOTE(Dick Allen @ Mar 31, 2005 -> 01:35 PM) I was in Ft. Lauderdale a month ago and our hotel, the Sheraton Yankee Trader, was sold out, as was its sister hotel, the Yankee Clipper, and every large hotel in its category and higher in a 30 mile radius. They oversold their rooms by 15. People were getting sent far away, and they were pissed. Either Jesus was born on President's day weekend, or your statement is erroneous. I would be willing to bet the building engineers had about 20 rooms unavailable... btw the yankee trader is a cool place I stayed there in 1997 for a Bears game... which got bumped to monday night and I watched my greatest baseball moment that sunday night.. edgar rentaria hit a blooper and the ENTIRE stadium went silent (imagine 45000 SILENT fans) till that ball landed in the infield for a MARLINS world series... defeating.. the cleveland indians....

QUOTE(EvilJester99 @ Mar 30, 2005 -> 12:15 PM) Its still very sad that in a city as big as Chicago and the surrounding burbs that the Sox can't sell out almost every game.... baseball games NEVER sell out... cubs/sox/yankees/red sox you name it every ticket is NEVER sold... the teams always hold tix back... that's like saying a hotel was sold out... the last time every room was sold in a hotel Jesus was born....

QUOTE(Cali @ Mar 29, 2005 -> 03:13 PM) Is that not the greatest invention of all recorded human history? jack bauer is the greatest ....

the story sounds like a hook put in the water ... and you all just bit....

QUOTE(Steff @ Mar 24, 2005 -> 01:50 PM) Beats me... I don't remember. just don't tell mreye I've been around that long....

i didn't know france enforced rules...

don't you still owe me a beer?????.. . I don't remeber if it was you or not... it was from the soxnet.net board.... I won a contest... i don't remember what your question was, but my answer was "no one in the wrigley bleachers were paying attention".... maybe not a good argument... "i don't remember who" "i don't remember why" "i don't remember the question"

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QUOTE(YASNY @ Mar 24, 2005 -> 01:09 PM) Kind of like Bill O'Rielly's show on Fox News. bill o'rielly=tool ever notice how he says he's gonna give someone the last word and then interupts 'em.. fair and balanced :puke

QUOTE(tonyho7476 @ Mar 24, 2005 -> 01:13 PM) She's starting to turn into a pig. Getting pregnant won't help that out. how big is her tokhes gonna get now???

seems britney spears is pregnant... still speculation /rumor i'm sure... but the website with the stroy is jammed right now... reviewjournal.com or something... drudge also has a link... i need to find better use of my time...

QUOTE(winodj @ Mar 24, 2005 -> 12:59 PM) http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/24/opinion/24dowd.html?hp ny times = liberal rag...

QUOTE(mreye @ Mar 15, 2005 -> 09:37 AM) Mariotti again: Is he finally getting it? he's just a good newspaper salesman...

I'm taking the panthers on the money line.... My $100 pays $725 ... or loses $100

peter jennings wed evening when talking about the US/Iraqi raid on a insurgent base north of bagdad in which some 80 terrorists were killed... he said it was the "deadliest day for the insurgency".... why not say it was the most successful day for coalition forces???? no bias here... if it bleeds it leads...

chicago police used to have a web site where crime stats were posted with a nice map of the city... I can't find it anymore... but, wrigleyville ALWAYS had more violent crime than cellville....