{"id":11032,"date":"2011-04-02T14:02:52","date_gmt":"2011-04-02T14:02:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/?p=11032"},"modified":"2011-04-02T14:02:52","modified_gmt":"2011-04-02T14:02:52","slug":"ncaa-final-4-updated-odds-and-free-mlb-pick-from-matt-rivers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2011\/04\/ncaa-final-4-updated-odds-and-free-mlb-pick-from-matt-rivers\/","title":{"rendered":"NCAA Final 4 Updated Odds and Free MLB Pick From Matt Rivers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The morning line for the 2011 Final 4, Virginia Commonwealth vs. Butler and Kentucky vs. Connecticut has not seen a lot of movement and are presented below.<\/p>\n<p>OffshoreInsiders.com Senior <a href=\"http:\/\/offshoreinsiders.com\/\">Sports Handicapper<\/a> Matt Rivers has a free pick Saturday on the Houston Astros (+225) at Philadelphia.<\/p>\n<p>Reasoning: I never mind teams that are coming off of horrific losses and that is the case with the Houston Astros after blowing the 4-0 lead very late yesterday. Professionals just seem to\u00a0bounce back\u00a0a lot more than they don\u2019t no matter the situation and at this quality take back why not back the visitors from Houston?<\/p>\n<p>Of course Cliff Lee has the upside of any pitcher in the game today, save maybe Roy Halladay, and could twirl a gem against any team and that certainly includes the mediocre at the very best Astros. But there is something right now about Charlie Manual\u2019s offense with Chase Utley out that I do not like. Ryan Howard and the boys did not look very good yesterday at all. They did win in the end thanks to a bunch of key singles but I do not\u00a0believe this team is locked and loaded. We saw a bunch of ice cold hitting from the Phils last season as they struggled immensely at times.\u00a0How they wound up winning 97 games or whatever truly was\u00a0a miracle as they just weren\u2019t that good a lot of the time.<\/p>\n<p>Wandy Rodriguez gets the ball for the Astros and the lefty at times can be awesome. He was not that good in the first half of last season but this kid has high quality stuff and certainly can neutralize Howard, Raul Ibanez and whatever lefty is\u00a0in the Philadelphia lineup.<\/p>\n<p>If Lee is lights out and just too good then I will tip my cap. But Rodriguez can match him with some zeros of his own and after yesterday\u2019s rough beat and at this big-time take back I am fine with Hunter Pence, Michael Bourn and the Astros today.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/offshoreinsiders.com\/index.php?PageID=140\">Top expert pick<\/a> on this game: Houston Astros<\/p>\n<p><strong>For more information: <\/strong>An ultra rare losing 2-2 Friday as the big play on Oregon laying four won but did not cover. A tad of rough luck there. A 2-0 sweep on the diamond in my first two baseball plays including the Orioles plus 170 and the White Sox by a million runs. Still feeling super good and ready to inflict more pain on that Crookie.<\/p>\n<p>Three winners today, 400,000* UConn-Kentucky, 300,000* VCU-Butler and a 200,000* Pirates-Cubs. The numbers speak for themselves and they grow even larger right here and now! <a href=\"http:\/\/www.offshoreinsiders.com\/index.php?Page=Packages\">Click now to purchase<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here is the morning line for the 2011 Final 4<\/p>\n<table border=\"1\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"7\" width=\"901\" valign=\"top\"><strong>NCAA BASKETBALL &#8211; SAT 4\/2<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"1\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"4\" width=\"368\" valign=\"top\"><strong>GAME<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"159\" valign=\"top\"><strong>HANDICAP<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"159\" valign=\"top\"><strong>MONEY LINE<\/strong><\/td>\n<td colspan=\"2\" width=\"216\" valign=\"top\"><strong>TOTAL POINTS<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"58\" valign=\"top\"><strong>Sat 4\/2<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"40\" valign=\"top\"><strong>811<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"237\" valign=\"top\"><strong>Va Commonwealth<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"33\" valign=\"top\"><\/td>\n<td width=\"159\" valign=\"top\"><strong>+2.5\u00a0-103<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"159\" valign=\"top\"><strong>+136<\/strong><\/td>\n<td colspan=\"2\" width=\"216\" valign=\"top\"><strong>OVER 133.5\u00a0-108<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"58\" valign=\"top\"><strong>03:09 PM<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"40\" valign=\"top\"><strong>812<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"237\" valign=\"top\"><strong>Butler<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"33\" valign=\"top\"><\/td>\n<td width=\"159\" valign=\"top\"><strong>-2.5\u00a0-107<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"159\" valign=\"top\"><strong>-150<\/strong><\/td>\n<td colspan=\"2\" width=\"216\" valign=\"top\"><strong>UNDER 133.5\u00a0-108<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"58\" valign=\"top\"><strong>Sat 4\/2<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"40\" valign=\"top\"><strong>813<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"237\" valign=\"top\"><strong>Kentucky<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"33\" valign=\"top\"><\/td>\n<td width=\"159\" valign=\"top\"><strong>-2.5\u00a0+100<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"159\" valign=\"top\"><strong>-144<\/strong><\/td>\n<td colspan=\"2\" width=\"216\" valign=\"top\"><strong>OVER 140\u00a0-119<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"58\" valign=\"top\"><strong>05:49 PM<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"40\" valign=\"top\"><strong>814<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"237\" valign=\"top\"><strong>Connecticut<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"33\" valign=\"top\"><\/td>\n<td width=\"159\" valign=\"top\"><strong>+2.5\u00a0-110<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"159\" valign=\"top\"><strong>+130<\/strong><\/td>\n<td colspan=\"2\" width=\"216\" valign=\"top\"><strong>UNDER 140\u00a0+102<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr height=\"0\">\n<td width=\"58\"><\/td>\n<td width=\"40\"><\/td>\n<td width=\"237\"><\/td>\n<td width=\"33\"><\/td>\n<td width=\"159\"><\/td>\n<td width=\"159\"><\/td>\n<td width=\"215\"><\/td>\n<td width=\"1\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The morning line for the 2011 Final 4, Virginia Commonwealth vs. Butler and Kentucky vs. Connecticut has not seen a lot of movement and are presented below. OffshoreInsiders.com Senior Sports Handicapper Matt Rivers has a free pick Saturday on the Houston Astros (+225) at Philadelphia. Reasoning: I never mind teams that are coming off of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2011\/04\/ncaa-final-4-updated-odds-and-free-mlb-pick-from-matt-rivers\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">NCAA Final 4 Updated Odds and Free MLB Pick From Matt Rivers<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports_betting_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11032"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11032\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11034,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11032\/revisions\/11034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}