Another free play gets the cash yesterday as the Pirates kept it rolling against the White Sox. Will have another in a moment.
Sad day in the memory lane as it was on this date back in 1986 that Maryland basketball star and the Number One draft pick of the Boston Celtics Len Bias passed away suddenly from a cocaine induced seizure. I remember well the shock waves that sent through the sports world. One day he is celebrating getting drafted by the Celtics and being photographed in his Boston hat and the next day we are notified he has died. Evidently Bias was out doing some partying with his buddies and did too much blow and that was that. ESPN did a really good show on Bias a couple months back. When they rerun it I suggest checking it out if you have not seen it yet.
Okay, let's cash another free play. Tonight I am suggesting a small wager on the Royals against the visiting Red Sox. Yes, I will back Pino taking the ball in place of Ventura tonight. Getting the Royals at home in the K at a good price here. Two teams going in opposite directions. Cannot see the Sox taking out the AL All Star team here, lol.
On the business side we narrowly missed last night with the Rabid Dog as the Brewers fell in KC by a single tally. Had the based juiced with one out in the 8th frame but then popped up and struck out killing the rally. Tough one to lose as the game was clearly there for the taking. Long term the Rabid Dog record is stellar, cannot hit them all. Tonight I do have a huge Triple Star in play. I have had 12 Triples in baseball this season and cashed all but two. Love the game tonight as much as I have any all season frankly. It is up and loaded.
Finally, I am going to take a brief moment to address a situation that arose on the forum last night. I just happened to take a look at the forum and saw a poster has given a play of Ted's on the forum. I looked at Ted's page and did not see that is was a free play so thought someone was giving out a guys subscriber play on the forum which as most of us know is a no no. It should be pointed out this has been done before and it is clearly not fair to paying subscribers. When the poster saw the post had been deleted he got upset and wanted to know the reason. I simply got on and stated that giving out pro plays on the forum does not fly. I figured that would be that. Time to move on. But no, the poster proceeded to go on full tilt telling me to grow up, that he would not purchase anything ever here, that I was a cry baby, blah, blah, blah. Basically an immature and childish rant. Listen guys, I was not aware it was a free play. I was simply trying to step up for a fellow pregame pro. The intentions were good. Obviously we cannot have forum posters passing out pro picks prior to the game starting as I stated. And it HAS happened before. I did NOT see where it was a free selection and wish I had. It is just unfortunate people have to fly off the handle so easily. I have been a part of Pregame since day one. Those who know me know I do not try to stir anything up. I was SIMPLY trying to look out for the best interests of Ted and the site in general. There are all types of personalities that make up this site and come through it and I get that. Mostly reasonable people and then some, well, not so much. Hell, that is no secret. Anyway, I did want to just address it briefly and move on. Good luck this weekend guys, enjoy the games.