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Its still fun to dream about KG and LeBron playing together

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That would have been sick. There would have been no one putting odds against The Cavs anywhere.

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Tribe should of won the ALCS

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Woulda shoulda coulda....The team that gives uo 18 runs in the last two games of an LCS should not have won. The Tribe did conduct themselves with sportsmanship and class through the whole thing though. I have a new respect for your team.

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The Fumble, The Drive, The Shot

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WE had THE CURSE. Nothing worse than a curse. But we're over it now. You Know what Johnny...er...I'm sorry...Mr. TheFish, I hearby grant you some Boston ju ju for the Cavaliers. Go Cav's.

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Good sports year, by far.

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I get tremendously jealous of the kids I see, nine or ten years old, who are now under the impression that at least one Boston sports team is supposed to win a championship every year or so. They can't imagine how long I suffered. Then I just get giidy all over again. Then I remind myself that all glory is fleeting. It's a real roller coaster.

Thank you Johnny. Yeah, Sundays game with The Pats and The Colts will be a clash of the titans. Two undefeated teams battling it out for a chance to go undefeated for the first time since '72. I thinm I'm picking The Pats on that one though.

I got yer back kiddo. I saw what you wrote in another post about the good thing about being a teenager is you can still throw a fit. Funny stuff.

Pats/Colts is a 4:15 kickoff Sunday. I have an advanced degree in how the gambling aspect of football works. If I were to divulge the school or my proffessor's names I might get whacked but any questions on odds or point spreads or other such scams, ask away.

Here is a nice little scam to get you started. Go find Friday or Saturday's newspaper and look in the sports section for advertisments for "experts" giving you their weekly "pick of the week" for a "guaranteed winner". The have names like "The Proffessor" or "I.M. Bettor" or some such nonsense and charge as much as forty bucks for the call. They advertise they will give you a guaranteed winner or refund your money. Here is what they do.

The pick one game has a half point in the spread so there can be no tie. Then they set up a two line phone and two answering machines. Let's say The Bears are playing The Packers and The Packers are laying 6 1/2 points to The Bears. One answering machine picks up and tells you that The Bears are a lock to cover the spread and goes on the give you some reasonable reasons why they came to that decision. However, every other call goes the the second answering machine that tells you how The Packers are a lock and gives equally reasonable explanations of why this is the case.

Now exactly half the people got the right information. If five thousand people call at forty bucks a whack they get to keep half of twenty thousand dollars or ten grand outright. The other people, despite however much they bet and lost, get back the price of the phone call. The phone company adds the charge to your bill and forwards it automatically to the "sports line" so they never even have to process a credit card.

The set up fee to do this is probably a thousand dollars and with newspaper adds and such you can operate it for about eight hundred a week. I've known guys who made a quarter of a million in a single football season. The kicker is, the people who got the right info not only call back, but they brag to their friends who then want in on the action and call as well. If you get a guy who is lucky enough to get the right answering machine three weeks in a row he might even take a hit once thinking it was just an "off week".

Please don't take this as an endorsement of this particular action. It is illegal in some states as well and clearly it is unethical. I intended this post as a warning not to fall for such nonsense. Still it could pay for college if you think about it .

You'd be surprised Johnny. P.T. Barnum was right, there is a sucker born every minute. We have Indian Casino's springing up all over America now. They bribe the towns with promises of windfalls of cash and make infrastructure improvements to the town where they set up shop in the form of some new roads and maybe a grant to the local library. They spend hundreds of millions of dollars to accomplish all this and yet some people still head to a casino thinking they have a snowball's chance in Hell of coming away ahead. They actually believe that a casino has all this money to spend on buildings, kickbacks, labor, crystal chandeliers and every other damn thing and that you still have a decent chance of winning their money.

Don't get me wrong. Everyone knows someone who went to Foxwwods or Atlantic City or Vegas and hit for a few grand. Someone has to come out ahead from time to time to keep the mooing masses interested. However your chances of it being you are mighty slim. Don't get me started on State lotteries.

Edited 11/4 8:35 PM

Yay Patriots. It was a squeaker but we're still undefeated baby. 9 and freakin 0.