The morning line is up for the Belmont Stakes with Ice Box still the slight favorite over Fly Down and First Dude.
Dave in Dixie | +2500 |
Spangled Star | +2000 |
Uptowncharlybrown | +1600 |
Make Music for Me | +1000 |
Fly Down | +450 |
Ice Box | +340 |
Drosselmeyer | +1200 |
Game On Dude | +1600 |
Stately Victor | +1000 |
Stay Put | +1600 |
First Dude | +450 |
Interactif | +1000 |
Odds courtesy of BetED. As rumors about WWE's the Undertaker go rampant, we focus on betting winners.
MLB baseball odds winners are aplenty as well. Matt Rivers has another for Saturday. It's on the Houston Astros laying -115 at Bodog
Once again Ryan Dempster is extremely overrated according to the oddsmaker and to get Roy Oswalt at this near pick-em price is a bit too good to pass up.
Houston is not a good team at all this season and probably even inferior to Derrick Lee and the Cubbies. But Oswalt has been once again very very good this season and should be just that today. Forget about that last outing where he was squeezed and had the argument with the umpire leading to the ejection. Oswalt has been on a ton this season and Lou Pinella's underachieving and fairly gross Cubs should not be able to do all that much. Chicago is talented with Lee, Ramirez, Soriano and Fukudome among others but they do not win this game about half the time, no how no way.
Dempster is a quality hurler when the sinker is working and should hold his own here against the 'Stros but the road is never easy and Houston has looked better at times of late with Lance Berkman finally showing once again he is an elite player along with solid enough pieces in Lee, Pence and Bourne.
It's not easy trusting this Houston team anymore as the Killer B's in Biggio, Bagwell and Bell are long gone leading what used to be a quality franchise but at home with Oswalt looking to atone for the adventure that took place last outing I am fine with the Astros at this fairly cheap price.
The pick: Houston
For more information: The last two poor days have not continued the amazing last few weeks but I'm still well ahead of the game and feeling really good. I will get back to those monster winning days today and do so with conviction. 16 of 26 winning days and about to be 17 of 27.
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