{"id":8429,"date":"2010-10-07T15:44:10","date_gmt":"2010-10-07T15:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/?p=8429"},"modified":"2010-10-07T15:44:10","modified_gmt":"2010-10-07T15:44:10","slug":"handicapper-matt-rivers-giants-braves-pick-stuns-the-pick-nation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2010\/10\/handicapper-matt-rivers-giants-braves-pick-stuns-the-pick-nation\/","title":{"rendered":"Handicapper Matt Rivers Giants-Braves Pick Stuns the Pick Nation"},"content":{"rendered":"

Your free pick<\/a> winner for Thursday comes from Matt Rivers. It\u2019s on the Giants minus 1 \u00bd runs at SportsBook<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Matt says: When I say this is a bottom of the barrel comp play I mean this is a bottom of the barrel comp play. To lay a run and a half with the mediocre at the very best San Francisco offense against a decent enough sinkerballer in Derek Lowe is asking a lot. Plus one never fully knows which Tim Lincecum will show up each start. But with that said \u201cThe Freak\u201d is still a top-notch hurler and better than Lowe, even if not completely on his game.<\/p>\n

I would say that these offenses overall are fairly similar in that neither is all that good. Losing Chipper, Prado and a few others has hurt Bobby Cox\u2019 club and right now besides young Jason Heyward and Brian McCann the Bravos don\u2019t have too many threats. Omar Infante has had a nice little season but he is still Omar Infante and therefore I don\u2019t see the boys from the Atl exactly getting off with the bats.<\/p>\n

Buster Posey is a total stud and with a few others by the Bay and the potential of Lincecum in a small play I will back the G-Men. If the two time Cy Young award winner brings his A-game then this is a total bargain. I\u2019m not all that sure that will happen so\u00a0this is\u00a0a small play. But the Bravos have not been very good away from Turner Field all season long and with the way they come limping into this thing I\u2019ll back that Freak.<\/p>\n

The pick: San Francisco -1.5.<\/p>\n

For more information: <\/strong>Matt Rivers has a very solid 2-1 day on Wednesday with the 300,000* Phillies minus 1 \u00bd runs plus a little along with the 200,000* Yankees. I certainly didn\u2019t predict the Halladay no-no but I\u2019ll take it for sure. 400,000* of profit yesterday and the run is up to right around 3.5 million* of profit in a tad less than the last month.<\/p>\n

Two more rock solid locks today and note your times as the game from the Trop goes early. 300,000* Texas-Tampa Bay plus a 200,000* Nebraska-Kansas State. 2-0 sweep?\u00a0Another 300,000* winner leads the way. Maybe another 300,000* no-hitter? Probably not but a winner nonetheless. Click now to purchase<\/a><\/p>\n

BetUs<\/a> has some groovy prop bets on this game:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Rot#<\/td>\nPosey vs Heyward Most Total Bases<\/strong><\/td>\nMoneyline<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
901<\/td>\nBuster Posey<\/td>\n+100<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
902<\/td>\nJason Heyward<\/td>\n-130<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Rot#<\/td>\nLee vs Sandoval Most Total Bases<\/strong><\/td>\nMoneyline<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
903<\/td>\nDerrek Lee<\/td>\n+100<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
904<\/td>\nPablo Sandoval<\/td>\n-130<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Rot#<\/td>\nMcCann vs Huff Most Total Bases<\/strong><\/td>\nMoneyline<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
905<\/td>\nBrian McCann<\/td>\n-115<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
906<\/td>\nAubrey Huff<\/td>\n-115<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Rot#<\/td>\nInfante vs Sanchez Most Total Bases<\/strong><\/td>\nMoneyline<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
907<\/td>\nOmar Infante<\/td>\n-115<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
908<\/td>\nFreddy Sanchez<\/td>\n-115<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Rot#<\/td>\nCabrera vs Guillen Most Total Bases<\/strong><\/td>\nMoneyline<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
909<\/td>\nMelky Cabrera<\/td>\n-130<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
910<\/td>\nJose Guillen<\/td>\n+100<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Your free pick winner for Thursday comes from Matt Rivers. It\u2019s on the Giants minus 1 \u00bd runs at SportsBook. Matt says: When I say this is a bottom of the barrel comp play I mean this is a bottom of the barrel comp play. To lay a run and a half with the mediocre … Continue reading Handicapper Matt Rivers Giants-Braves Pick Stuns the Pick Nation<\/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-8429","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\/8429","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=8429"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8431,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8429\/revisions\/8431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}