MLB Betting – 2011 All-Star Game Preview & Pick
Will the American League All-Stars show up in Arizona with a chip on their collective shoulder?
Will the American League All-Stars show up in Arizona with a chip on their collective shoulder?
The National League hasn’t won the MLB All-Star Game since 1996. The baseball odds aren’t likely to be in the NL’s favor this year, either, judging by the incredibly poor job manager Charlie Manuel has done of filling out the roster.
The five most recent World Series have lasted only 22 games combined — three sweeps and two that ended with Game 5.
In this year’s World Series, which opens today, the Yankees have been installed as a favorite of about 2-1 on the series line. Oddsmakers are asking bettors to lay a fairly steep price with New York against a Philadelphia team coming off an impressive showing in the National League Championship Series in which it handled the Dodgers as a small series underdog.
The Major League baseball season is winding down, and this year seems quite quiet as th leaves turn to orange and red in New England. The pennant races are just a myth, but there is money to be found in the late season swoon of some of the teams that apparently have found the grass greener on the golf course, as the road is paved with gold. That road has been highly profitable, if you dig into the what becomes apparent quite frequently late in the season.
A baseball fan’s work is never done.
We’ve spent all year building up a working knowledge of Major League Baseball and how to make a buck or two off America’s national pastime. Are we going to jump off the gravy train now that football has started? This is exactly the time to bet on baseball. The market is soft, the teams that are out of the playoff hunt are losing as fast as they can, and the teams still in contention are giving it their all to make it to October.
Home Run Derby betting is the hot play of the week before British Open betting gets underway on Thursday, and Monday’s Home Run Derby is always one of the most anticipated events of the Midseason Classic. Offshore sportsbook odds are favoring St. Louis slugger Albert Pujols and Philadelphia’s Ryan Howard to take over the crown won by Minnesota’s Justin Morneau in 2008.
It’s going to be a fun-filled weekend with the UFC 100 odds up on the sports card for betting as the entire UFC 100 fight card is packed with tantalizing matchups.
But even so, UFC is not America’s pastime. Baseball is.
That being said, baseball will be taking a bit of a break mid-July, as per usual, as they get set for their All-Star Game and break.
I think the biggest surprise so far in the American League would have to be the Seattle Mariners. Seattle is currently 9-5 and sitting #1 in the American League West division. The Mariners have the 2nd best record in the entire American League at this time. Seattle is doing this with their best catcher Johjima on the disabled list right now.
The question today is: which teams have made the biggest strides toward fulfilling their goal of unseating the Philadelphia Phillies as World Series champs, and because of the changes (or even lack of same), who offers value in the BetUS odds?
Let’s start with the numbers:
The MLB free agent signing period is well underway and sports betting fans need to start paying attention as there is no doubt that some of the signings should greatly impact the chances of certain teams against the BetUS online sportsbook MLB betting spread.
Francisco Rodriguez, K-Rod to online betting fans because of his ability to strike-out opposing batters, today signed a 3 year 37 million dollar deal with the New York Mets.
The signing, almost a year after the Mets signed top pitcher Johann Santana, was the lead story on some of the major sports broadcasting networks throughout the night.
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Don’t be surprised if the Philadelphia Phillies somehow manage to beat the Tampa Bay Rays, by bashing their fantastic young pitchers senseless en route to winning the second World Series title in franchise history.
Now, after guiding BetUS MLB wagering fanatics to a respectable 3-2 wagering mark in the BetUS Sportsbook on the first five games of this World Series matchup, including calling Sunday’s 10-2 overwhelming rout ‘dead-on’ in the BetUS Locker Room, finishing off the 2008 MLB season with one more winning wager is going to be an almost literal, ‘piece of cake.’
Series: 2-1 Phillies
This Game 4 matchup is a contest that the Philadelphia Phillies would love to win if they are to have any chance at beating the Tampa Bay Rays in the 2008 MLB World Series!
The fact of the matter is that the Phillies clearly don’t have the starting pitching to match up with a Rays team that genuinely looks like they could – not only go from worst to first – but could maintain their newfound level of excellence for years to come!
The Tampa Bay Rays started their turnaround 2008 campaign with a trade – they sent outfielder Delmon Young and infielder Brendan Harris to the Minnesota Twins in exchange for shortstop Jason Bartlett and starting pitcher Matt Garza. Bartlett has had a solid season, but it’s Garza who has paid off the most for all those doing MLB betting.
The Philadelphia Phillies (99-72 SU, 76-89-6 O/U, 81-90 RL) and Tampa Bay Rays (104-69 SU, 80-90-2 O/U, 92-80 RL) will take square off at Tropicana Field tonight at 8PM Eastern for Game 1 of the 2008 MLB World Series in the BetUS Sportsbook and tonight’s pitching matchup figures to be a thriller with Phillies left-handed staff ace Cole Hamels (17-10, 2.92 ERA), going up against talented Rays lefty, Scott Kazmir (13-8, 3.54 ERA).