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Ben Burns: Bad Beats July 14th

Bad beats: Are we whiny?

Ben Burns
Ben Burns

Losing stings when a game goes just like you thought it would, but you end up on the wrong side.

Those times when your team’s running game was way too much for the other team’s injury-ravaged D-line. But a tipped pass is intercepted and returned for a meaningless touchdown, preventing you from covering.

Or when you play the under in hoops, and the game is 30 points under at the end of regulation … before going into overtime.

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MLB Gambling Bad Beats

Bad beats: Did you commit gambling’s biggest sin?

Ben Burns
Ben Burns

One man’s greatest comeback victory is another’s worst beat.

That was the case in last Tuesday’s Red Sox-Orioles game.

We’ll go out on a limb and bet the majority of you who were invested in that game were on the Sox.

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Ben Burns’ Bad Beats

Bad beats: Bad defense and the bad Nats

Through Saturday, the Twins had committed the second fewest errors in all of baseball.

That’s what makes Wednesday’s loss in Milwaukee so tough to swallow.

Leading 3-2 with two outs in the eighth inning, emerging Twins ace Nick Blackburn (+$154 on the season) was cruising toward his second straight complete game, when J.J. Hardy blooped a harmless single into center field.

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MLB Sportsbook Bad Beats

Bad Beats: Sportsbook Rule Interferes With Sure Win

Rules are rules … sucky, freakin’ rules.

Sometimes a sportsbooks rules help us. But more often it seems they don’t.

Everytime one goes against us, it acts as a reminder that the odds are stacked heavily against us. Take Friday’s Brewers-Tigers tilt in Detroit.

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MLB Baseball Handicapping Bad Beats

Ben Burns – Bad Beats

What in the world was in the Gatorade this week?

(Vodka goes best, by the way).

Pop-ups were causing havoc in New York and Tampa. Birds were doing the same in Cleveland. And in Chicago, Milton Bradley still doesn’t have a clue.

We’ll start at the backyard known as the new Yankee Stadium, where Gold Glove-second baseman Luis Castillo handed Mets’ backers an atrocious bad beat that may not be topped this season.

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MLB Baseball Handicapping Bad Beats

Burns’ Bad Beats: Hinch manages D’Backs to loss

Going by the Book guarantees nothing.

But it would be nice if your manager at least acted like he was aware when he was taking huge statisical gamble.

For example, in Tuesday’s Diamondbacks-Dodgers game, Arizona manager A.J. Hinch’s squad was in a bind.

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Baseball Handicapping Advice For MLB Bettors

Bad beats: Blown saves frustrating MLB bettors… 

There have been just 44 complete games tossed through the first two months of the season.

They have occurred in less than six (5.8) percent of this year’s games.

In contrast, there have been 209 blown saves-about 28 percent of games–already this year.

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Bad Beats: NBA Betting

Bad beats: Athletes teasing total players

Burns’ Bad Beats 

Nothing hurts more than when a player intentionally elects not to score the uncontested and, for bettors, winning touchdown or basket.

Those of you who had over 193.5 in Game 1 of the Rockets-Lakers series know exactly how it feels.

Fantasy players might remember when Brian Westbrook did it against Dallas in 2007.

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CBB Betting Analysis

Burns’ Bad Beats 

David Payne writes for Ben Burns.

If times weren’t tough enough, does it feel like our little hobby, betting college hoops, is becoming more and more difficult?

That’s because it is.

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2009 CBB Handicapping The Brackets

Mid-Majors: Bracketbusters Breakdown

David Payne writes for Ben Burns

Come March, it pays to have paid attention to BracketBuster Saturday.

Since its inception in 2003, the made-for-TV event has produced an average of 14.5 NCAA tournament teams per season.

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Super Bowl 43 Betting Recap

Super Bowl Bad Beats – Do the side or total qualify?

David Payne writes for Ben Burns.

Admit it. Pittsburgh and the under were the rights sides of the Super Bowl.

That’s not a lot of solace for anyone who played the Steelers -7 and / or under 46.5.

In fact, those tickets are as worthless as the majority of the Super Bowl commercials. (Lame.)

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CBB Betting Analysis

Ben Burns’ Bad Beats

David Payne writes for Ben Burns.

ESPN analysts Jay Bilas and Bob Knight were singing the praises of Washington’s Jon Brockman Saturday on “College Gameday.”
Anyone who had the Huskies Thursday against USC probably isn’t as impressed with Brockman.

An All-Pac-10 candidate, Brockman went 0-for-8 against the Trojans, including a bloopers moment that Washington backers weren’t laughing about.

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Handicapping Overtime Covers

Burns’ Bad Beats – OT bites G-Tech backers

David Payne writes for Ben Burns  

Is there a bad beat tougher to swallow than the dreaded overtime cover? 

Your underdog has kept pace and even led for the parts of the game. But a couple of bad breaks seem to rattle your squad. 

The favorite grabs the momentum and forces overtime with a late run.

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Gambling On CBB Mid-Major Teams

Mid-Major Moneymakers: Overrated or Underrated?

David Payne writes for Ben Burns

These three teams have been steady producers for bettors this season. But will it last down the stretch?

James Madison (12-7 / 9-4): Underrated

The Dukes should have plenty of value the rest of the season, especially if the public looks only at the score of Saturday’s 71-57 loss to Colonial favorite George Mason.