Ben Burns
Last week ‘s Bad Beats column either spawned the most intellectual conversation ever had in a Sports betting forum or the dumbest, depending how you look at it.
To quickly summarize, some of you believe there is no such thing as a bad beat. A loss is simply and ultimately a bad bet.
Losing stings when a game goes just like you thought it would, but you end up on the wrong side.
Those times when your team’s running game was way too much for the other team’s injury-ravaged D-line. But a tipped pass is intercepted and returned for a meaningless touchdown, preventing you from covering.
Or when you play the under in hoops, and the game is 30 points under at the end of regulation … before going into overtime.
One man’s greatest comeback victory is another’s worst beat.
That was the case in last Tuesday’s Red Sox-Orioles game.
We’ll go out on a limb and bet the majority of you who were invested in that game were on the Sox.
