Streamlining, when employed properly, is of course effective in every line of work. In the 1970s and 80s, a lot of gamblers would focus on local teams and conferences where regional information was often more accurate and punctual than what Vegas could acquire.

The Internet and the Information Age, to say the least changed that. By no means did progress eliminate streamlining, it changed the focal point.

At one juncture, many moons ago, one of the most influential persons in moving a line was professional handicapper “Doc” in the Big 10. “His plays could move the line five, six points” says Steve Linden, one of the high rolling founders of MasterLockLine.com, the online betting syndicate.

Times changed and team or conference experts were no longer based on “location, location, location” but on the ability to adapt and expose which teams were the flavor of the moment to go with or against.

Focusing on a specific team now involves ascertaining undervalued and overvalued squads and riding them until oddsmakers caught up.

Forensic handicapper Stevie Vincent of BetOnSports360.com says teams that inevitably become streaky spread wise are squads that have a high winning percentage but don’t blow teams out, or losing teams that don’t get blown out often.

Mike Godsey of GodsTips.com says he agrees, it is part of his “dichotomous ATS and SU” theory. “We discount 98 percent of trends, but this has proven to be the exception to the rule. Basically if a team has a great SU record but horrid ATS record or visa versa, you ride for that to continue as it is the sign of which teams are most under or overvalued.”

Linden says of the professional handicappers they monitor, unlike last century, there are fewer who simply excel by focusing on a specific team or conference, but instead they do notice, “The elite services do consistently go for or against the same teams for extended periods.”

With college basketball just around the corner, the number of teams undistinguished to the masses, but crystal clear to the sharpies increases multifold. Good times lie ahead for gamblers who streamline, but do so a bit differently now than they did in 1986.

Joe Duffy is CEO of OffshoreInsiders.com, which features the top handicappers from the former Freescoreboard scorephone. His plays are part of Dream Team at GodsTips.com

Monday, October 16, 2006

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MLB

Weather at Busch Stadium: 70 chance of rain, first pitch temperature, if they start on time, is 55 degrees. Wind blowing in at 14 MPH. We will update the weather at JoeDuffy.net

·        St. Louis 2-8 Mondays

·        Mets 9-2 grass

·        Mets 2-7 Mondays

NFL

·        Chicago 21-5 after allowing 250 total yards in the previous game

·        Arizona 1-6 versus teams with a winning record

·        Arizona under 19-8 as home underdog

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Sunday weather:

Hou-Dal: 40 chance of rain at kickoff, currently raining

Injuries:

Tenn:Bennett probable, L White game time decision

Buf:-Clements game time decision

Det:Williams prob

Sea: Alexander out

Phil: Stallworth out, Westbrook prob

Mia: Culpepper, Booker both out

KC: Johnson starts

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As mentioned in other articles written about the To Bet a Man Square Massacre, I am a Ronald Reagan conservative. Nobody is more dismayed by the Prohibition of the 21^st Century than I am. I painfully acknowledge that the Reagan Revolution has been hijacked by the Big Brother Devolution, which has lead to the basic civil right to place a bet having been infringed upon.

That is unless you want to play bingo in a church hall or bet on the No. 4 horse in the second race. The insurgents in the conservative movement know who butters their bread. John Kyl and Bill Frist may be hypocritical but they are not stupid. Every phony has his price.

What attracted me to the Conservative Movement more than anything else was the foundation of personal responsibility and accountability. The Reagan Revolution saw this across the board whether it was holding convicted criminals accountable, allowing the successful to keep more of their income and by believing the individual and private sector always thrive more without government interference.

Deregulation was commonplace. Most importantly, my brand of conservatism believed in creating new streams of tax revenue. This was in lieu of raising taxes on the rich, defining the wealthy as anyone who makes one dollar more than I do.

In the Baptist Press, Bill Frist wrote a first person account why he knows how to spend your money more responsibly than you do.

The father of the Big Brother movement apparently wants to replace the first letter in his last name with “Ch” because he appoints himself the Savior of you and me. Conservatism’s bastard child aimlessly scribbled, “People who gamble online are almost twice as likely to become problem gamblers as those who gamble in other places. Problem gambling destroys lives and families.”

Frist has chosen not to revive Reaganism, but McCarthyism.

Apparently if you want to bet a four-team $20 parlay, you are destroying your family. Clearly your values are not as family friendly as that of Frist and Thomas Foley. Send perverted messages to minors on a computer and Big Brother wants to cover it up. Bet lunch money on a baseball game and Frist wants to lock you up.

I will be the first to admit, most Americans do not put the utmost priority on their right to gamble, though I’d venture to say the number of enraged is significantly higher than far right wing periphery realizes.

The Big Brother conservatives believe in personal responsibility alright. Your family values are their personal responsibility.

Every opinion poll known to mankind confirms American families believe Frist has failed miserably in leading his party in the Senate. Undeterred, he still believes government needs to be the caretaker of your family. You are too dim-witted to know online gambling is the greatest affront to the American family since that effeminate dinosaur Barney started emasculating our children thanks to tax supported PBS.

Legalizing and taxing online gambling is the perfect marriage for true conservatives. However the beliefs in personal responsibility and new forms of tax revenue have been sabotaged.

The To Bet a Man Square Massacre may not be the reason that Frist and his cronies have approval ratings that hover around the Duke football team’s winning percentage. But his attack on your rights under the subterfuge of family values is at the very least symbolic of the crisis he created. Genuine conservatives, those who should be his core supporters, believe that Frist and Kyl are, how can I say this nicely—self righteous idiots whose subversive skullduggery has incapacitated the movement they pretend to represent.

Ronald Reagan must be turning over in his grave. I’d bet on it, but Jesus Frist won’t let me.

Joe Duffy, a former Young Republican Executive Board member is now CEO of OffshoreInsiders.com, which conservatively speaking is the premier source for sports gambling information.

Monday, October 09, 2006

4-2-2 SUNDAY, 45-20 FOOTBALL RUN, 21-5, LAST DAY OF SALE

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NFL

Baltimore-Denver UNDER 33.5

These are two ball control offenses. Denver has allowed just 31 points in three games. They allow just 6.5 yards per pass teams normally getting 5.8. Denver eats up the clock averaging 4.7 yards per rush to just 3.9.

Baltimore gets 4.4 yards per play on offense teams normally getting 4.9. Defensively they allow 8.2 teams normally getting 16.4. They allow 4.1 yards per play teams normally getting 4.9.

Todd Heap, Baltimore’s time eating tight end will likely play and eat up the clock.

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12:27:37 PM Green Bay Green inactive

12:15:41 PM Titan starting running back Chris Brown a surprise inactive

Irrelevant but note that we edit in Word.  Apparently when we quit out and come back to a file, Word updates with the current time.  We had Harrington starting much earlier and beat the screen by a good half hour.

11:40:22 AM Adding not only does Harrington start for Miami, but Culpepper is inactive

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Harrington starts at QB for Miami

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Tennessee: David Givens out

Green Bay: Ahman Green probable

Chicago: Desmond Clark probable

Carolina: Dan Morgan, Shaun Williams out

Miami: Dante Culpepper questionable, Harrington could start

Washington: Shaun Springs out

Kansas City: Trent Green out

Jacksonville: Matt Jones, Marcus Stroud out

Philadelphia: Stallworth questionable, Westbrook game time decision

Weather:

Some places with 20 chance of rain at kickoff: Chicago, New England, Green Bay, NY Giants, Arizona, San Francisco, and Philadelphia

Jets-Jacksonville: 30 chance of rain at kickoff

Clev-Carolina: 40 chance of rain at kickoff, currently raining

Sunday, October 8, 2006

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NFL

·        Washington under 14-3 on the road to team averaging more than 350 yards per game

·        Tampa under 35-14 total of 35 or less

·        San Diego 12-2 to teams with a losing record

·        Washington 25-9 road underdogs of 3.5-7 points

·        New Orleans 4-0 this year

·        Pittsburgh under 8-1 road

·        New Orleans under 7-0 off consecutive covers

·        Tennessee over 8-0 after scoring 14 or less in consecutive games

Saturday, October 07, 2006

35-17 FOOTBALL RUN, 2 WISE GUY PLAYS INC TENN-UGA

Joe Duffy’s Godspicks is 13-3 the last 16 football plays including MTSU Friday. Saturday includes two college Wise Guys led by a game many will be watching: Tennessee-Georgia side. We have seven winners in all. Please note our permanent URL is OffshoreInsiders.com where you get the all of today’s Joe Duffy’s Godspicks for $17.

Among the awesome angles for Saturday.

Ø A coach who scheduled this game for recruiting reasons, hence plenty of motivation run up the score

Ø A clear cut case of the difference between ratings and rankings. One team appears to have better numbers. We explain why this is not even close to being true

Ø A chalk in which 19 players had the stomach flu

CFB

WAKE FOREST +17 Clemson

This is one of the biggest games in Wake Forest history as they would actually be ranked if they can pull of the miracle. We even gave long thought to the moneyline in part because home teams after two straight wins by 17 or more to a team that scored 37 or more points last game are 41-8 SU +41.6.

Wake also has Clemson’s number at home winning the last two. The Demon Deacons routed Clemson 45-17 in ‘03 and won 31-27 last season when they scored the game-winning touchdown with 33 seconds left. Keep in mind, especially with the new rules cutting down on the number of plays in a game, run oriented huge favorites should be long looks as go against plays. After years in which the Tigers were perceived as a pass-happy bunch, they’re firmly grounded in a rushing offense that makes the faithful recall the 1980s. They’re seventh nationally in rushing yards per game (240.5), and they’re running the ball 61 percent of the time. It’s by far the greatest frequency of coach Tommy Bowden’s eight years on the job.

Clemson is now without their best receiver. Chansi Stuckey has 25 catches. He had 64 receptions as a junior last fall, when he earned All-ACC honors. “When you take that out of your offense ... it’s going to hurt you,” coach Tommy Bowden said. “You lose leadership, you lose productivity.” Clemson will turn to freshman Jacoby Ford as Stuckey’s replacement.

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Saturday, October 7, 2006

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CFB

·        Ohio State 12-2 their last 14 home

·        West Virginia 9-1 last 10

·        Michigan State 3-8 skid

·        Wake Forest 2-8 home

·        Louisiana Tech 5-15 road

·        Mississippi State 1-6 home

·        Nebraska-Iowa State, home team 12-2 series

·        Missouri 11-3 to Big 12 South

·        Navy 6-1 to Air Force

·        Tulane 2-9 skid

·        LSU 12-2 road run

Friday, October 06, 2006

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Though below our norm, thanks to Dandy Dogs splitting in baseball, and NC State outright, Joe Duffy’s Godspicks won yet again Thursday. Get the Louisville-MTSU side and total up now as we are 12-2 our last 14. Check out all the new packages up at OffshoreInsiders.com including a limited time yearly pass for less than $6.00 per day. Universal passes for the top three sites up too. We are 17-3 in the NFL so lock into those long term packages now. Get the football side and total now. Please note our permanent URL is OffshoreInsiders.com where you get the all of today’s Joe Duffy’s Godspicks for $17.

MLB

NY YANKEES (JOHNSON -1.5 P Moneyline) Detroit (Rogers)

Kenny Rogers is horrible when the game is important. In seven starts to the Yankees since 1997, Rogers has a 8.78 ERA and 2.171 WHIP. Detroit is 1-6 to Johnson. Going against runline dogs with a starting pitcher who strikes out three or less per start with a pitcher who is working on seven or more days rest is 163-116 +77.6 units. The Yanks are 32-17 versus the runline this year +20.1 to teams outscoring foes by .5 or more runs per game. They are a stunning 18-4 to the runline +16.6 if they lost four or five of their previous games.

Thursday, October 5, 2006

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CFB

Florida State-NC State

Seattle Post Intelligencer

N.C. State is the only Atlantic Coast Conference team with four wins against Florida State since the Seminoles joined the league 14 years ago. Three have come under Amato, now in his seventh season at his alma mater after spending the previous 18 years at FSU as an assistant to Bobby Bowden. No matter the reason, the Wolfpack (2-2, 1-0 ACC) has always found a way to match up with the Seminoles (3-1, 1-1) under Amato. N.C. State was the first ACC team to beat Florida State on the road in 2001, then followed that with a 17-7 win here the following season. Last year, Andre Brown ran for 179 yards and two touchdowns to lead the Wolfpack past the Seminoles 20-15 on the road, becoming the first ACC team to win twice at Doak Campbell Stadium. Even the recent losses have been close, with N.C. State losing in double-overtime on the road in 2003 and 17-10 here in ‘04. The Seminoles are more worried instead about coming out of a bye week with a league win. Florida State opened the year by beating league rival Miami, but lost to Clemson 27-20 three weeks ago to drop in the ACC’s Atlantic Division standings. Now it’s N.C. State sitting atop the division - along with unbeaten Wake Forest - after a last-second win against Boston College two weeks ago.

MasterLockLine.com

Florida State will be starting three players in the secondary with a combined one start. NC State QB Daniel Evans will be making just his second start

TCU-Utah

Associated Press

TCU went from having the nation’s longest winning streak to dropping out of the Top 25.

The defending Mountain West Conference champions are trying to keep the damage from getting even worse when they visit Utah on Thursday. Until a week ago, the Horned Frogs (3-1, 0-1 MWC) had won 13 straight and had the longest winning streak in Division I-A. That ended with a 31-17 loss to Brigham Young last Thursday in Fort Worth. The Utes (3-2, 1-0) can sympathize. Utah had an 18-game winning streak - the nation’s longest at the time - before losing to the Horned Frogs 23-20 in overtime in TCU’s Mountain West debut. After going unbeaten in the league a year ago, TCU is 0-1 in the Mountain West and out of the AP poll for the first time this season. A loss to the Utes on Thursday could all but knock the Frogs out of contention to defend their conference title even with six more games to play. Patterson said quarterback Jeff Ballard, who injured his shoulder against BYU, will start Thursday. He rested this week as backup Marcus Jackson worked with the first team. TCU is 11-1 with Ballard starting.

TCU running back Aaron Brown did not make the trip because of a sore right ankle. Lonta Hobbs, who returned last week after missing a year with a groin injury, is the probable starter Thursday. Utah had won three straight before the Boise State game, which was the Utes’ worst home loss since 1989.

Star Telegram

An MRI exam showed no significant damage to the throwing shoulder of TCU quarterback Jeff Ballard, and coach Gary Patterson said Tuesday that the senior will start Thursday night, when the Horned Frogs play at Utah. However, Patterson said, TCU will be without three key players in another important Mountain West Conference game as the Frogs try to rebound from their first loss since early 2005. Sophomore Aaron Brown, TCU’s leading rusher, won’t travel to Utah after injuring his right ankle against BYU. Brown, whose injury originally was thought to be minor, didn’t take any snaps during practices this week.Senior running back Robert Merrill also will not travel with the team as he continues to rehabilitate from off-season back surgery. The rushing load will fall to senior Lonta Hobbs, who played against BYU for the first time since last season.

On defense, junior safety David Roach will remain in Fort Worth with an injured right ankle. Defensive end Chase Ortiz, however, practiced with the first-team defense Tuesday and is expected to play with a shoulder injury.

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Wednesday, October 04, 2006

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Joe Duffy (JoeDuffy.net)

Many years ago I was a two-time executive board member of the North Fulton (GA) Young Republicans. I’m no longer young. As I got older, I preferred to describe my political beliefs aligned more with conservative ideology than any political party.

As I transitioned into a middle aged Republican, my eyes were opened to the fact that both parties are guilty of putting partisan needs ahead of the country’s well being.

I preferred to align myself with ideals. When my choice lost, rather than proving I was smarter than those who voted for the winning candidate, I judged the elected official on performance and not which letter is in parenthesis after his or her name. Conversely, when my chad hung for the right person, blind defense of such elected official could not enter the equation.

So there you have my leanings on the table, but I honestly believe I’ve always had a political slant, yet never a bias.

I generally have been pretty accurate predicting the outcome of elections, my rooting interests never shading me.

Most observers were shocked at the last major election. The Republican Party became the first since Franklin Roosevelt to win both the White House and gain seats in both houses while already holding a majority.

Mind you, I can’t say I have the political handicapping skills to match my sports prognostication abilities, but I foresaw the Democrats losing the last elections much more so than the Republicans “winning”.

Their Presidential frontrunner Howard Dean and lead attack dog Tom Daschle rallied the far left but alienated the center—the undecided—with melodramatic, Chicken Little, sky-is-falling rhetoric.

Dean plummeted quickly in his party’s own primaries and Daschle, once unbeatable is now a private citizen thanks to a contingency that tired of their refusal to keep the debate honest. George Soros, Hollywood and Air America cheered the venom and histrionics, while the undecided gave more power to an unpopular majority party.

Republicans clearly, two years later, are hell bent on returning the favor. The right wing counterparts to MoveOn.org, Al Franken and the incorrigibles have commandeered the party. Republican insurgents such as Jerry Falwell, Anne Coulter, and Michael Savage may feel invigorated by their party’s Gambling Prohibition. But every survey I have ever seen says that rank and file Americans believe in the right to bet five bucks on how many points will be scored on the Monday Night Football game.

This political handicapper believes—and with a conservative slant at that—the Republican Party’s insistence on kowtowing the right-wing fringe is a gamble that will fail miserably.

Joe Duffy is CEO of OffshoreInsiders.com your source for free sports picks from the nation’s top handicappers as well as exclusive sports betting information.