He is part of the highest standard by any sports handicapping site.
Matt Rivers, who was the winningest handicapper ever—nobody came close—on a large network of sites. He has a free pick Thursday is on the Padres minus 1 ½ runs at BetUs.
I can’t actually stomach laying the moneyline here with the Padres on the road but I will take a stab on them giving that extra run and a half. It’s certainly a dicey proposition as San Diego is still far from an offensive juggernaut and Carlos Zambrano did look pretty solid in besting Chris Carpenter and the Cardinals in that last game but Mat Latos is an absolute stud and the way the Cubs have regressed I’ll fade the North Siders today at Wrigley Field expecting them to wet the bed one more time.
There may be no more disappointing team in all of baseball than Lou Pinella’s Cubs. This team has been inept and pathetic and have done nothing to change that logic in losing the first three games of this series and now Derrek Lee is off to Atlanta.
On the exact opposite extreme we have a Padres’ club that somehow just continues to win and boasts the best record in the entire National League. It’s amazing and I could not have been more wrong with the Friars as I thought they had to come back down to Earth but they’re not only not doing that they seem to be getting better in blowing everybody out of the water now in the division.
Latos has been an absolute superstar this season and right now the righthander really is as good as anybody around. This guy just does not allow anything at all, pretty much ever. If we see that Zambrano sinker come back to life then the Big Z can be a tough hurler. But after looking all right last time out if anything I think Zambrano is due to implode a bit.
Look for Gonzalez, Ludwick and the Padres to complete the four game sweep and relatively easy in the end.
The pick: San Diego -1.5 +100 at Bodog
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