August 30, 200619 yr Here are the bets I made with a Cub fan at the beginning of the season. $1 per game in the win column. Currently up $26 $25 Garland wins 15 games. Winner $25 Sox are 10 games out on August 15th. Winner. $25 Sox win the WS. Pending Now, down, he wants another bet. He wants to bet me $25 that the Sox don't catch the Tigers. With 31 games left and 5 game deficit to make up, I am not going to take that bet. Unless.... If you are familiar with golf, you may know a bet called the scotch game. A 2-man team bet worth 6 total points per hole. Low ball (individual score) is worth two points, low combined total strokes is worth 2 points, closest to the pin (prox) is worth one point and a natural birdie is worth one point. If you get all six points on one hole you get an umbrella, meaning points are doubled for a total of 12. Each point is worth a $.25 or $1. I am thinking of countering his offer with an umbrella proposal. If I take the bet on catching the Tigers, an Umbrella clause would be imposed on all bets. If I sweep, all bets double in value. That would mean the Sox win the WS and I win somewhere in the neighborhood of $250. If I lose the Tigers bet I could still win the WS bet but at worse I am still up $75 roughly. Think he goes for it?
August 30, 200619 yr QUOTE(My Dixie Normus @ Aug 29, 2006 -> 11:40 PM) Think he goes for it? bets I made with a Cub fan Nuff said.
August 30, 200619 yr Yeah, you definately have to get some kind of edge for taking a 5 game handicap on a bet. Either he gives you killer odds, or some kind of a pot sweetener.
August 30, 200619 yr QUOTE(My Dixie Normus @ Aug 29, 2006 -> 11:40 PM) Here are the bets I made with a Cub fan at the beginning of the season. $1 per game in the win column. Currently up $26 $25 Garland wins 15 games. Winner $25 Sox are 10 games out on August 15th. Winner. $25 Sox win the WS. Pending Now, down, he wants another bet. He wants to bet me $25 that the Sox don't catch the Tigers. With 31 games left and 5 game deficit to make up, I am not going to take that bet. Unless.... If you are familiar with golf, you may know a bet called the scotch game. A 2-man team bet worth 6 total points per hole. Low ball (individual score) is worth two points, low combined total strokes is worth 2 points, closest to the pin (prox) is worth one point and a natural birdie is worth one point. If you get all six points on one hole you get an umbrella, meaning points are doubled for a total of 12. Each point is worth a $.25 or $1. I am thinking of countering his offer with an umbrella proposal. If I take the bet on catching the Tigers, an Umbrella clause would be imposed on all bets. If I sweep, all bets double in value. That would mean the Sox win the WS and I win somewhere in the neighborhood of $250. If I lose the Tigers bet I could still win the WS bet but at worse I am still up $75 roughly. Think he goes for it? What is August 15th and if you made all these bets thinking the Sox were going to repeat, why would you think they would be 10 games out? Nobody ever thought Detroit would even sniff first place at the begining of the year. So did you think we were goin to be 10 games behind Minny or Cleveland?? That bet doesn't jibe. It sounds like a bet the Cub fan would have made.
August 30, 200619 yr QUOTE(Controlled Chaos @ Aug 30, 2006 -> 08:16 AM) What is August 15th and if you made all these bets thinking the Sox were going to repeat, why would you think they would be 10 games out? Nobody ever thought Detroit would even sniff first place at the begining of the year. So did you think we were goin to be 10 games behind Minny or Cleveland?? That bet doesn't jibe. It sounds like a bet the Cub fan would have made. He meant that the Cubs fan picked them to be 10 games out, hence how he won the bet.
August 31, 200619 yr He meant that the Cubs fan picked them to be 10 games out, hence how he won the bet. Yeah, the Sox were only 6.5 out on August 15
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