{"id":11535,"date":"2011-06-03T12:19:59","date_gmt":"2011-06-03T17:19:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/?p=11535"},"modified":"2011-06-03T12:19:59","modified_gmt":"2011-06-03T17:19:59","slug":"cubs-vs-cardinals-mlb-picks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2011\/06\/cubs-vs-cardinals-mlb-picks\/","title":{"rendered":"Cubs vs. Cardinals MLB Picks"},"content":{"rendered":"

OffshoreInsiders.com Senior Sports Handicapper<\/a> Matt Rivers has a free pick Friday is on the Chicago Cubs (+160) at St. Louis.<\/p>\n

Reasoning: Certainly I don\u2019t love backing the underachieving Cubbies without Alfonso Soriano around but\u00a0the Cardinals just lost Matt Holliday and after Jaime Garcia\u2019s last outing why not grab a ton of coin here with the at least potential of the Cubs.<\/p>\n

Chicago\u2019s going nowhere this season but\u00a0they are not a terrible team to back as the big dog.\u00a0No doubt when they are the big chalk I will run to the window and fade the heck out of them but in this spot I\u2019ll take my chances with Ramirez, Fukudome, Castro and others. The days where this franchise was pretty good appear to be gone but they aren\u2019t terrible and Ryan Dempster and that sinker can be very good at times.<\/p>\n

The first month of the season was awful for the Chicago ace but\u00a0the Dumpster has settled in and has been looking very good once again. I\u2019m not saying he is\u00a0on the\u00a0high level of Garcia when the southpaw is on but the lefthander was pounded in that last game and who knows if that was the beginning of a little rut.\u00a0I will give any player a pass for one egg but the previous one wasn\u2019t\u00a0as good as\u00a0before and quite possibly we have a bit of a downward\u00a0trend developing.<\/p>\n

All in all the Cardinals at Busch are obviously the superior team as the records clearly would attest to. But the Cubbies have enough, especially with an improving Dempster, to compete and win the game in the end.<\/p>\n

Top expert pick<\/a> on this game: Chicago Cubs<\/p>\n

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OffshoreInsiders.com Senior Sports Handicapper Matt Rivers has a free pick Friday is on the Chicago Cubs (+160) at St. Louis. Reasoning: Certainly I don\u2019t love backing the underachieving Cubbies without Alfonso Soriano around but\u00a0the Cardinals just lost Matt Holliday and after Jaime Garcia\u2019s last outing why not grab a ton of coin here with the … Continue reading Cubs vs. Cardinals MLB Picks<\/span> →<\/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-11535","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\/11535","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=11535"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11537,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11535\/revisions\/11537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}