{"id":1255,"date":"2007-03-19T12:39:51","date_gmt":"2007-03-19T17:39:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2007\/03\/sharpies-weigh-in-on-baseball-humidors\/"},"modified":"2007-03-19T12:39:51","modified_gmt":"2007-03-19T17:39:51","slug":"sharpies-weigh-in-on-baseball-humidors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2007\/03\/sharpies-weigh-in-on-baseball-humidors\/","title":{"rendered":"Sharpies Weigh in on Baseball Humidors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple style='tab-interval:.5in'><\/p>\n<div class=Section1>\n<h1><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Joe Duffy (<a\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.offshoreinsiders.com\/\">www.OffshoreInsiders.com<\/a>) <o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/h1>\n<p class=MsoBodyText>Major League Baseball announced that for the first time<br \/>\never, baseballs must be stored at a uniform temperature. Some clubs will be<br \/>\nusing humidors, while all will have some kind of temperature controlled<br \/>\nfacility.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  <\/span><o:p><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText>Thanks to the thin air of <st1:City><st1:place>Denver<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>,<br \/>\nthe Colorado Rockies Coors field was easily the source of the most runs of any<br \/>\nballpark in the Majors for their first eight years of existence. In three of<br \/>\nthe last four years, they fell to second. The perception is that the<br \/>\nsignificant drop in runs traces back to the fact that <st1:State><st1:place>Colorado<\/st1:place><\/st1:State><br \/>\ninstalled a humidor in 2002 to store the baseballs. <o:p><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText>The numbers support this assessment. Coors Field averages<br \/>\ndropped to an all-time low of 10.7 last year, as opposed to 15 runs at its peak<br \/>\nin 1996. <o:p><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText>But what are the consequences for gamblers? \u201cThe intention<br \/>\nand likely result is uniformity,\u201d states <span class=GramE>Cy<\/span> McCormick<br \/>\nof <a href=\"http:\/\/www.masterlockline.com\/\"><span style='color:black'>MasterLockLine.com<\/span><\/a>.<br \/>\n\u201cThe early consensus is the variances from stadium to stadium will be much less<br \/>\nthan ever.\u201d<o:p><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText>Speaking of uniformity, it is also the first time teams<br \/>\nare mandated to use baseballs manufactured in the current year. <o:p><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText>Stevie Vincent of <a href=\"http:\/\/betonsports360.com\/\"><span\nstyle='color:black'>BetOnSports360.com<\/span><\/a> thinks scoring will be down.<br \/>\n\u201cThe sample in <st1:State><st1:place>Colorado<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> is<br \/>\nstatistically significant enough to believe the trend will repeat itself across<br \/>\nthe board\u201d.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  <\/span>But he adds gamblers may not<br \/>\nwant to forget that the ramifications of the long-overdue crackdown on steroids<br \/>\nwill be felt gradually, not overnight as many baseball fans foolishly assumed. <o:p><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText>\u201cIf, as widely believed, power totals were greatly bloated<br \/>\nbecause of the use of steroids, the concentrated effort to eliminate steroids<br \/>\nwill not un-ring a bell.\u201d Vincent notes that players who bulked up because of<br \/>\nyears of being on the juice \u201cwere not going to become 90 pound weaklings just<br \/>\nbecause they stopped.\u201d<o:p><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText>Vincent believes with each offseason in which players do<br \/>\nnot use steroids, the power totals will slowly move back to rates of 15-25<br \/>\nyears ago. <o:p><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText>McCormick cautions that the sharp player will have a<br \/>\nlimited window to exploit.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  <\/span>\u201cIf run<br \/>\nproduction is down, posted totals will quickly drop accordingly.\u201d<o:p><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText>\u201cThe oddsmakers know what they are doing,\u201d he reminds us. <\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText>Going back to his \u201cJD of the ACC\u201d scorephone days, Joe<br \/>\nDuffy has been considered the undisputed king of the underdogs and small<br \/>\nfavorites.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  <\/span>Now CEO of <b\nstyle='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='color:blue'><a\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.offshoreinsiders.com\/\">OffshoreInsiders.com<\/a>, <\/span><\/b>his<br \/>\nplays <span class=GramE>are<\/span> exclusively part of <a\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.godstips.com\/\">GodsTips.com<\/a>. <br style='mso-special-character:\nline-break'><br \/>\n<![if !supportLineBreakNewLine]><br style='mso-special-character:line-break'><br \/>\n<![endif]><o:p><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'><span\nstyle='mso-spacerun:yes'> <\/span><\/span><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'><br \/>\n<\/span><o:p><\/o:p><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/body><br \/>\n<\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Duffy (www.OffshoreInsiders.com) Major League Baseball announced that for the first time ever, baseballs must be stored at a uniform temperature. Some clubs will be using humidors, while all will have some kind of temperature controlled facility. Thanks to the thin air of Denver, the Colorado Rockies Coors field was easily the source of the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2007\/03\/sharpies-weigh-in-on-baseball-humidors\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sharpies Weigh in on Baseball Humidors<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports_gambling_strategy_articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1255","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1255\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}