OffshoreInsiders.com Senior Sports Handicapper Matt Rivers has a comp pick Thursday is on the Minnesota Twins (+154) to San Francisco.

Reasoning: There is no doubt in my mind that Tim Lincecum is more than due to be lights out in one of these starts as the former Cy Young award winner is too good to be as bad as he has been at times. With that said though it’s not like this Giant offense without Buster Posey is exactly the 1917 Yankees. Lincecum may be really good and get little support in a tight low scoring defeat. Bruce Bochy’s club has started to struggle a lot of late and unless their pitching is phenomenal they are going to be in trouble pretty much every night out.

Ron Gardenhire’s Twins have played great now for about a month. The first few months to the season were horrific as this team somehow lost almost every single game. But I said then and I will continue to say how the Twinkies are a playoff type team that didn’t just all of a sudden lose it overnight. Morneau and Mauer have been injured but one has pretty much been in the mix throughout and guys like Young, Span, Cuddyer and Casilla have helped this organization get to the playoffs a bunch recently.

Things aren’t going to come easy today as I do think Lincecum looks better tonight but Brian Duensing is a solid enough lefthander who should be just fine against the punch and judy Giants and in the end to get a quality takeback like this is definitely with a shot.

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OffshoreInsiders.com Senior Sports Handicapper Matt Rivers has a free winner and it is on the Minnesota Twins (+138) to San Francisco.

Reasoning: This isn’t an easy game traveling across the country and playing under National League rules but Carl Pavano has been in this league for years and with the way Minnesota has picked things of late up I’ll take a stab on the surging Ron Gardenhire’s. Plus Gardy and the Twins are as National League as an American League team could ever be so things shouldn’t be all that foreign here.

The defending World Series champion Giants are in first place and are a team that is dangerous thanks once again to their phenomenal pitching. Madison Bumgarner proved last season that he is a young and talented lefthander who can get the job done. The southpaw has been very good once again as the low 3’s era proves but the Giants’ offense is not good without Buster Posey and therefore the kid is an unbelievable 3-8 despite being great at times.

Bruce Bochy’s club just doesn’t hit the ball that much. Even with their great catcher healthy they are somewhat offensively challenged and now without such a key cog are lacking in a big-time way. Therefore to trust this team when laying some money doesn’t feel right.

The Twins had the horrific first few months to the season. I’m still not sure how this franchise lost as much as it did in that time but the last month has been much improved and right now with Joe Mauer back to go along with Young, Cuddyer, Span and a few others the Twins are once again a quality enough club.

Pavano has been a lights out innings eating beast of late and against such a weak lineup should be just that one more time. I’m sure the pitching will be ahead of the hitting in this thing and it’ll come down to that one swing of the bat or one bounce of the ball.

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OffshoreInsiders.com says that two familiar faces, Florida State and Virginia Tech are the divisional favorites in the Atlantic Coast Conference Atlantic and Coastal divisions. Miami though is also among the ACC Championship favorites.

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It’s become an every year statement.  Vegas oddsmakers have Florida and Alabama the favorites to play in the SEC Championship game with the Georgia Bulldogs the most likely spoiler.

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Oklahoma and Alabama top the BCS Championship odds 2011. Also of note, Florida State at (+900) appears to be back in the national championship picture according to the top college football picks website OffshoreInsiders.com.

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OffshoreInsiders.com Senior Sports Handicapper Matt Rivers has free winner Monday is on the Los Angeles Angels (-124) to Florida.

Reasoning: The only reason why I am not making this a paid play is because Anibal Sanchez can be really really good at times. With that said though the Marlins have played beyond atrocious baseball of late and I’ll therefore back a stud in Jered Weaver and what is right now clearly the better overall team Anaheim.

Certainly the Angels are not the team they used to be and in the end should be around that .500 mark but the way Florida has performed over the past month is as bad as they could ever come. The fish went from two games out of first place to the cellar in about the quickest I have ever seen a team perform such a feat. They have lost 18 of their last 19 games and just watched their manager Edwin Rodriguez throw his hands up and give in. This team has talent with Stanton, Ramirez, Sanchez and Morrison but they are right now a total dead team.

The Marlins bats have not done much and today face a guy in Weaver who is lights out a lot of the time against 9 regular hitters. Now throw in a pitcher hitting and I’m sure Weaver will be very very good, if not great. Sanchez has the stuff to match Weaver but in the end the fish have been floundering and it’s asking a lot to see a 180 today against a potential Cy Young award winner.

Anaheim isn’t great but Kendrick, Abreu, Trumbo, Wells and Hunter are professional hitters who combined with a horse on the mound should be too good in the end.

Top expert pick on this game: Los Angeles Anaheim

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OffshoreInsiders.com Senior Sports Handicapper Matt Rivers has free pick Saturday is on the Red Sox (-1.5 +115) on the runline to Milwaukee.

Reasoning: Randy Wolf has been very good, especially in that last start against the Cubs and the Brewers are a dangerous and hard-hitting club that can bash away. With that said though the Red Sox have been ungodly of late and with a stud in Jon Lester on the bump I just don’t give Milwaukee much of a chance today.

Wolf is an experienced veteran who has been there and done that. The lefty could hold his own but he is up against a ferocious lineup that just keeps on destroying pitcher after pitcher and I can’t help but back Terry Francona’s sizzling squad today at Fenway Park assuming that nothing changes. Gonzalez is the MVP to this point and Crawford, Pedroia, Ortiz, Youkilis and Ellsbury form by far the best offense in the game today and to be honest it’s not even all that close. Take out that horrific first week to the season and Boston would be heads and shoulders above everybody else. Plus the Sox have gotten next to nothing out of two key starters in Lackey and Dice-k.

Lester is a stud that can hurl a complete game shutout anytime he takes the mound. The guy has beaten Cancer and won pressure packed World Series clinching games so I have no qualms whatsoever about him here against very good hitters, if not great, in Braun, Fielder and Weeks. Milwaukee always has a chance to put up a crooked number or two with their bashers but in the end I still see this game as a mismatch and the way the Sox have been rolling I’ll continue to ride that train here.

Top expert pick on this game: Boston on the runline from Matt Rivers

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OffshoreInsiders.com Senior Sports Handicapper Matt Rivers has a free pick Friday is on the Anaheim Angels (+114) to the New York Mets.

Reasoning: Anaheim is certainly not what they used to be and the Mets have looked a lot better of late but let’s not exactly crown Terry Collins’ squad just yet. New York is still a franchise in regression and without David Wright and Ike Davis is not the most talented of teams. I am not at all saying that Jose Reyes and Jason Bay and Angel Pagan and Carlos Beltran don’t have enough to be a dangerous team that can’t win this game but the Mets are still a sub .500 squad overall that is not going very far this season.

The Angels are that squad which is a good team to back when getting a solid amount and are a good team to fade when they are laying too much. Anaheim is very mediocre themselves, but they also have a few players that are no joke in Kendrick, Abreu, Hunter and Trumbo. Are they great no but like the Mets these four guys can be very good at times.

Chris Capuano is a solid lefty that like his team as a whole could be pretty good. But he isn’t really anything to write home about even if things have been better of late and he isn’t on a higher level than the decent enough Joel Pineiro so the pitching matchup is a wash.

The bottom line here is that either pitcher can pitch well and that either team can win this game. With that thinking I’ll grab a decent enough takeback on the visitors from the left coast and take my chances.

Top expert pick on this game: Anaheim

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