Thank you for the kind of words Stef...please call me Red. still shaking the morning fog out, ever wake up and feel like its a Friday from start to end? looking at day mlb games and getting the shivers. as for LL we have some good matchups tonight for certain.
Cal gets another shot against texas and ven faces mexico for the first time in a bid to get a rematch with Japan, both of which they lost to.
Mexico comes in with a day of rest and preparation, while Venezuela comes in straight off a tight comeback loss to japan yesterday. momentum for these kids tends to be everything, and after watching the replay of yesterdays game I don't think the cardenales have lost any. they played yesterday to the final out, and I think they would have loved to have just one more inning. so my initial lean is on them, but mexico since its first two games has gone on to put up some offense winning both elimination games by 10 plus each. Still Venezuela has shut out a pretty decent offense in Uganda and kept japan under wraps till late in the game.
Ive been riding texas and their pitching/defense since regionals. they shut mid atlantic to 3 runs. but they beat cal 2nd game of the tournament by a few runs, so revenge factor for these kids may hold sway and if cal can put up a few more runs than they did in the first matchup it may be enough as Texas scoring has dropped dramatically since they came into Williamsport. Still they held cal to four runs in that loss, while cal has topped ten runs in its three wins. if cal can get between 6-8 runs it may be too much for Pearland to come up with a win here.
just some rambling thoughts here before I post anything final, I see logging back in that 5dimes has finally put more than the initial ml and rl bets hopefully can find some good vantage spots to take shots at
looking at the series bets which just came out I like the US to win it all at +110
the us bracket price on mid atlantic at -180 really isn't bad of a price, like I said earlier last week, I think they walk right through this thing though they have admittedly had closer calls than I expected
on the int bracket -380 is too much IMO for Japan who squeaked by Venezuela and only beat their other possible deposer Mexico 3-1 early in the run. at +260 field bet on either mexico or venez almost has to get a call up