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04/23/2006 10:05:11 AM

PlayersOnly Sportsbook baseball betting

With the MLB Home Run Derby in the books, we now turn our focus to the rest of the week’s events, including the MLB All-Star game in Comerica Park, and more specifically PlayersOnly sportsbook’s coverage of the event.

PlayersOnly Sportsbook baseball betting
With the MLB Home Run Derby in the books, we now turn our focus to the rest of the week’s events, including the MLB All-Star game in Comerica Park, and more specifically PlayersOnly sportsbook’s coverage of the event.

Betting baseball, in particular exhibition baseball, is an inexact science at best, where only monkeys with typewriters and brain dead gypsies can claim to know what will happen for certain.  For the rest of us, let us examine what we can. 

PlayersOnly online sportsbook offers one of the most attractive baseball over lines in the sportsbook industry, a whopping +109.  This is fourteen cents higher than what the standard has been, an amazing number for those who think this will go over.  However, the consensus with sportsbooks is that this baseball game will go under the required 9.5 runs, namely because of the lack of star power in the lineup.  However, baseball is a game of pitching, and bad pitching usually nets high scoring baseball games.  We point to the injury of Roy Halladay, the lack of Pedro, and the overall sanity or lack thereof of Kenny Rogers, and we see an over that’s right for the plucking.  A six to four baseball game would do the trick. 

While most internet sportsbooks have been conservative in their support of the American League, PlayersOnly sportsbook is supporting them in full, or rather, under the impression they will win.  The -134 money line is proof of that.  However, PlayersOnly sportsbook is also being cautious and discouraging betting on the +1.5 line, offering it at -171.  Although the -1.5 line at +161 for the American League is higher than most sportsbooks, we sense a bear trap, the kind that makes the average Joe spend his last five bucks on lottery tickets.  If you are hell bent on betting the American League, we suggest a different sportsbook.  However, if you want to take the Nationals or the over line, there is no better sportsbook than PlayersOnly.

On the baseball proposition front, PlayersOnly internet sportsbook does not offer anything on the All-Star baseball game itself.  Rather, PlayersOnly sportsbook offers a number of different props on the rest of the MLB baseball season, from betting baseball batting champions to save leaders.  For example, Derek Lee is getting a horrifying -202 to win the National League batting title, due to his insurmountable lead.  A far more interesting baseball proposition would be the National League Home Run champion, where Lee and Andruw Jones are both getting more than two to one.  We like Derrek Lee at +346, and for you longshot hunters, two players tying +900.  With both Lee and Jones seemingly going down to the wire, only a fool would take Jones and his paltry +245 in lieu of these other options.


07/24/2005 04:05:16 PM

PlayersOnly Sportsbook baseball betting

It is a week before the mlb baseball trade deadline, a time when teams get desperate - a potential bait does everything it can to make themselves invaluable or make themselves not valuable at all.

PlayersOnly Sportsbook baseball betting
It is a week before the mlb baseball trade deadline, a time when teams get desperate - a potential bait does everything it can to make themselves invaluable or make themselves not valuable at all.  Case in point, take Gary Sheffield.  Faced with the possibility of being traded to Seattle, Sheff went on a tear, boosting the Yankees into first place for a few minutes.  On the other hand, look at a player like Jason Schmidt, who has been floated around to everyone save the Orix Blue Wave, and has thus tanked the baseball season to avoid getting traded.  At least, that’s what my personal conspiracy theorist tells me.  And no, he isn’t Mel Gibson.  Although I often wish he was, him being Jesus’ right hand man and all.

PlayersOnly Sportsbook baseball betting for the coming week
In any case, let us look to the baseball events of this Monday.  A huge beef we have with PlayersOnly internet sportsbook is their blatant disregard for labeling pitchers on their baseball overnight lines.  Rather, we are given the city names in parenthesis, as if we didn’t know the Astros play in Houston, the Phillies play in Philadelphia, and the Angels play in Los Angeles.  Although technically, they play in Anaheim.  I’m assuming also that the home baseball team is listed in the bottom slot, although in this business, it’s hard to assume anything.  We need the sportsbooks to spell things out for us, if only to protect our own hides.

PlayersOnly Sportsbook baseball betting pitching matchups
After going on Yahoo to check the baseball pitching matchups, we found a delightful one with the inconsistent Barry Zito going up against the always reliable C.C. Sabathia.  Yes, Zito has been red hot, and PlayersOnly sportsbook has acknowledged as much, giving the A’s -185.  That’s exactly why it’s time to go the other way, and the Indians are not a shabby baseball team, and Sabathia is not a shabby baseball pitcher. Take the +165.
Staying in the American league, PlayersOnly sportsbook is giving a healthy -150 to Orioles at home against a converted reliever, some douche named Joaquin Benoit.  While his ERA of 2.32 may seduce you, most of that was done in relief work.   As a starter, he’s been pretty much shelled, albeit his lone start was against the Yankees.  Besides, betting on a man named Joaquin Benoit is virtually gambling suicide.  Take the O’s.

PlayersOnly Sportsbook baseball betting futures
On the baseball future front, PlayersOnly sportsbook has actually removed all action on the mlb World Series and the pennant races.  While some might say it is a bit premature for such an act, perhaps there has been a large amount of betting on a particular baseball team, and to protect themselves PlayersOnly sportsbook has closed shop.  Either way, the only future baseball betting you have on PlayersOnly online sportsbook will be for baseball games a day in advance.




 
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