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Game Day: June 11th, 2026

White Sox continue to win games taking two from the Braves without Murakami and Colson Montgomery and that is sort of scary.  They'll get Kyle Teel back soon, Austin Hays, Murakami and Montgomery will return too and that's a pretty significant boost.  Shane Smith could rejoin the rotation at some point.  He did make the all-star team last season and he could potentially put it together again this year.  Hagen Smith also looks ready for a look and that is potentially two big arms added to a rotation that has held up rather well this season.  Davis Martin is an all-star.  Anthony Kay has pitched well.  Sean Newcomb looks likely to join the rotation and Sean Burke has pitched well enough to be considered a solid four.  Smith and Smith with Sandlin and Schultz working in long-relief, the White Sox don't have to make any trades to remain competitive and that bodes well for a team that is on the hook for some high dollar contract extensions.  Murak...
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Pick Result: "Stinkin' Dodgers" Two-Team Parlay - LOSS

Dodgers had a 6-1 lead after five innings, Ohtani was cruising and this game looked like a win.  88 pitches into the seventh, Dave Roberts has Ohtani work the seventh.  Tyler Callahan battles him for an eight-pitch walk.  Jake Mangum collects a base hit and it's first and third with no outs.  Ohtani bears down.  He nails Jared Triolo on three pitches.  He offers a 100 mph four-seamer to Spencer Horwitz and strikes him out with the sweeper.  Two down, Brandon Lowe at the plate.  Ohtani is working the heater on the outside of the plate and he isn't getting the calls.  3-0 to Lowe, he gets the green light and knocks a fastball into the gap for a double.  That's it for Ohtani, 6.2 innings, 102 pitches, 3ER, it could have sent better but it's a quality start and he was in line for the win into the eighth.   Kyle Hurt exploaded in the eighth and the Pirates steal a game from the Dodgers.  A ninth inning home run from Ohtani wasn...
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Today's Pick: "Stinkin' Dodgers" Two-Team Parlay

"Dodgers?  We don't need no stinking Dodgers!"  I'm no fan of the Stinkin' Dodgers but I like Ohtani on the bump tonight in Pittsburgh.   I am no fan of the Dirty Tigers either but Framber is my guy and he gets the ball tonight in Detroit.   These are the two games I like the most tonight.  It's been a losing season thus far for the Pickstreak blog but I've looked closely at the losses and we are a base hit or two in a game or two from being up five units as opposed to being down five units.  There is no law that says our luck must turn around but I feel like I'm playing well and I am enjoying the season so let's run it. This parlay pays out at (+134) and that isn't exceptional but I ran some rough numbers through my squid brain and I feel like the value on this bet is fair. LAD (-200) ML @ PIT I do not understand how Yamamoto goes off at (-370) last week and Ohtani is at (-200) but I won't complain about it.  If there is something I am mis...
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Game Day: June 10th, 2026

It's a humid day in the Midwest, temperatures are approaching ninety degrees and although we aren't quite yet to the official first day of summer, the summer season and the summer weather has been in full swing for a few weeks now. MLB should do something special for the Vernal Equinox.  I always appreciate the Equinox and the Solstice.  The Vernal Equinox is the longest day of summer.  After June 21st, the days will begin to get shorter into the Winter Solstice at which point they will again grow longer.  It is, in an abstract sense, an expansion and a contraction of time.   The baseball season also has an ebb and flow to it but it is erratic.  It isn't so much parabolic as it is linear.  If we were to graph the enthusiasm and the "fever" of baseball fans from the beginning of March to the end of October, with the Y-axis set at summer's midpoint how would that line travel along the X-Axis?   I don't know the answer but it is an interest...
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Pick Result: "Brave Fish" Two-Team Parlay - LOSS

Braves lose 6-5 on a walk-off home run in the bottom of the tenth inning.  That's a tough loss, I wasn't up for the conclusion of the game, but to lose the bet with a one-run lead and two outs in the bottom of the tenth inning on a walk-off home run, well, that is just how it has went for me the past two seasons and in some way it is the nature of this gambling game.  You have to get the last out before you can cash your ticket.   Raisel Iglesias is one of the guys you'd want on the mound in that situation.  It didn't go our way.  Rookie Braden Montgomery gets the big hit and the White Sox spoil our parlay bet. I'm almost immune to the losses.  If I would have been following the game live, it may have stung more than it does as I write this post.  Checking the scores in the morning, it registers merely as a loss and not so much a dramatic destruction of my hopes and dreams. Exciting game in Chicago.  Credit Erick Fedde and the White Sox bullp...
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Today's Pick: "Brave Fish" Two-Team Parlay (+182)

I often think about getting a saltwater fish tank.  I really love the tropical fish.  I sometimes think that it's no good to support that industry because the fish are much happier in the sea but then I think about it more, I know that I will give them a better home than the fish store and if I get a large enough tank and take good care of it, a few of those captive fish will have a good life under my care.  So I might go for that one day.   Today, I'm going in for a two-team parlay that pays out at (+182).   I passed on Skenes, I passed on Cole and I'm passing on Burns.  I like Max Meyer and the Marlins and Grant Holmes and the Braves tonight. MIA (-155) ML vs. AZD Max Meyer (6-0) starts tonight at home against Arizona.  D'Backs traveled Monday and were likely fooling around all afternoon in Miami.  I have heard Miami is good for that.  They have their work cut out for them tonight.  Max Meyer is pitching really well and his n...
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Game Day: Tuesday, June 9th

It is going to be an interesting run into the All-Star break. I'm looking at the standings and it's a weird distribution. There are many teams that I don't want to give any credit to:  Rays, White Sox, Cardinals, Twins, Nationals. And more than a few teams I want to give too much credit too:  Tigers, Blue Jays, Red Sox, Mets and the Reds.   I tried to write the Angels off and couldn't.  They could make a run with some new faces on the bench.  The Royals pulling a 180°, that is seemingly the script every season.  Casey Schmitt on the Giants is an all-star.  Luis Arraez is a great hitter.  If Devers starts raking and Eldridge finds his power stroke, that Giants team has a dangerous lineup.   The Mets are playing good baseball.  The Reds are holding on awaiting the return of Hunter Greene and Elly De La Cruz.   The All-Star break is scheduled for July 13th.  The trade deadline is August 2nd and is in many ways a mys...
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