Iron Mike's Sports Blog

October 15th, 2007

NEW ENGLAND BEATING THE SPREAD

Can New England do it ? Brady

We all know the only NFL team to go undefeted in one season was the 1972 Miami Dolphins. They finished the regular season 14-0 and won all 3
playoff games to finish with a 17-0 perfect season. This New England team is simply blowing people out while averging over 34 points a game.

But as a fellow gambler my question is not if they could win all their games, can the keep covering the point spread?

New England is a perfect 6-0 Against The Spread and we all know how hard it is to cover 6 games in a row. If somebody has accurate information about the most time a team has ever covered a pointspread in a row,we would love to hear from you.

In the mean time lets keep watching this team. They are a 17 point favorite on the road versus Miami. Each week will get harder.But if they could ever pull this off, this would be some kind of streak Vegas would hate to see.

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October 13th, 2007

RED SOX VS. INDIANS , THEY BOTH HAVE LOVELY ACCESSORIES

I really love the accessories the SOX and TRIBE players wear.

Come on Clowns do we really want to see this?

I am trying to watch playoff baseball and I cant. There are to many accessories on the players distracting me.

First you have Beckett (Sox), wearing what appears to be Soap on a Rope with a lovely Hemp Chain. Or it could be the IDOL that Greg Brady wore when he wiped out surfing in Hawaii. How can you pitch with a bar of Dove Soap around your neck. He should have used a bar of Irish Spring and tried to pitch a no hitter, but it probably wouldn’t match the Hemp Necklace.

Then you have Super Manny with his Doo Rag and dread locks. Unlike Super Man he doesn’t care about concealing his identity, he took off his helmut about 10 times so we can see who he was.

Next you have Cabrera(Tribe) sporting a really cute Pearl Necklace, that truely compliments his uniform.

Finally you have 40 yr old Lofton (Tribe) sporting a Mr. T. Necklace left over from the 80’s. “I pitty the fool”, Not really he runs like the wind.Only 1 more stolen base in post season he’ll be #1 all time.

Great night for fashion, but the Loss didn’t look to good on the Tribe.

I hope I can get back handicapping rather than the distractions of Fashion in this series.

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October 12th, 2007

CAN YOU WIN BY BETTING AGAINST THE PUBLIC ?

You can not win betting against the public.

Back in the early 80’s, I use to bet against the public to win money betting on sports.

Here was my approach that got me no where. I had a friend that was a bookmaker. We use to get a consensus of his players by making a mark next to the team his players would bet on.

Then we joined a consensus service of the top handicappers in the nation( I know now these handicappers were just marketing genius’s that knew nothing about beating the point spread).

Anyhow, our next approach would be take a public consensus on the parlay cards my friend would sell. I am sure you know about these cards, the one’s you have to pick at least 4 winners to win

Then we would add everything up and come out with our plays. We would have some weeks that we won so many games we really thought we were on to something. We always kept track of our wins and losses but never could we win over a long time period.

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October 11th, 2007

LAST SECOND HEARTBREAKER, WHEN YOU THOUGHT YOU BEAT THE SPREAD

Ugly losses

You know the feeling. Your team is up by 25 points. Your laying 19. There is 20 seconds left. Your team is on defense.

Then all of sudden the team you bet against, that has a total of 68 yards of offense, starts to move the ball.

Two roughing the quarterback penalties and a unbelievable catch by some kid who has not seen action all day and now your teams opponent is on your 5 yard line with 3 seconds left. You start to sweat, you already marked a winner.

Low and behold they run some basic play for an easy touchdown. You think the fix is in.

The extra point is good. Game over. You lose. You kick the dog, scream at the kids and swear you will never bet again. You just got BACKED DOORED.

It seems to happen all the time. But don’t worry. Believe it or not I am a firm believer “What goes around comes around”. You will get your lucky WIN. This happens to everybody. Hang in there and remember, the only thing that matters is the final score.