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Last week we sought out to break the bank, and that we did. Monday night's game was absurd and we hit it from every angle sweeping even the props.
With this being a holiday week, take time to enjoy the moment. The game will always be here, make sure you treat it as such.
Watch some games with some family and make a little cash.
And pour gravy all over everything because here comes the gravy train....
Last article plays
Jazz vs. 76ers
76ers -3 1U +1
Neth/Fra live Draw 1u +185 small play-1
Brazil\vs Uruguay Over 2.5 5U MAX -5.8
Saturday
Minnesota ML 3U -4.6
Maryland +14 3U +3
Live Under 17.5 Neb first half 5U +5
Under 60.5 2U +2
Syracuse +10.5 5U MAX -5
ML -.5
Okie St +6 5U MAX +5
Wast St -10 5U MAx +5
TT live over +5
Teaser +5
Ravens/Bengals 2nd half under 20.5 2U -2.2
Colts TT over 10.5 2nd half +2
Pitt/Jax Under 21.5 2nd half 2U -2.2
Michael Thomas scored TD -140 5U MAX +5
Kamara scores a receiving TD 1U +1
David Johnson pass receptions over 3½ 5U MAX -6.5
L.Fitzgerald pass receptions over 4½ 5U MAX -6
TD 1U +1.8
Saints 3rd Q ML 5U +5
Vikings 2nd half +5U
Over 42.5 Live +5U
Vikings+3 -5.5
Vikings +3.5 -5.5
Germany ML 3U -3.4
T Hill over 85.5 Receiving yards 2U +2
Receptions over 5.5 2U +2
Mahomes Rush Yards over 15.5 2U +2
Completions over 24 Completions 5U +5
Passing TD over 2.5 3U +3
Chiefs +10 over 57 teaser 7 points 2U +2
Rams TT over 19.5 first half 5U +5
Over 63.5 Live 5U MAX+5
Spurs TT over 122.5 Live 3U +3
Over 248.5 +5
Chiefs +7.5 Live 2U +2
Spurs/NO 3rd Q Over 57.5 5U MAX +5
KC +9.5 2U +2
Northern Illinois -6 (buy the hook if need be ) -117 -3.8
Duke Over 170.5 -3.3
Zona first half over +3
Zona TT O +2
Zags -2.2
Zags -6.5 +3
Zona TT over 83.5 game 2U -2.3
+45.3U
Last weeks article read 217.1 + 45.3 = +262.4U
Chasing +300U. Let's do it!
New plays
Philadelphia 76ers TT over 119.5 1U
UPDATE 7:11
76ers TT over 28.5 3rd Q 5U MAX
GOBBLE this up...... Much love UPDATE 10:48 CST
Lions +3 first half 5U
Bears/ Lions 1st half under 21.5 2U
Game Under 45 Buy the hook 2U
UPDATED 12:49 CST
South America
Boca vs River
over 2 5U MAX
UPDATE
Spain
Barca/ Atl
BTTS 3U MAX
UPDATE
Notre Dame -12.5 5U MAX
UPDATE 2:20 CST
Teaser 7 point 2U
Colts-2
Broncos +10.5
Colts over 14.5 TT first half 2U
Mack over 72.5 rush yards 2U
Monday Night Football Party
Keke Coutee over 4 Receptions 2u MAX
Update
Gonzaga -15 first half 2U
Over 90.5 TT 2U
Update 926 CST
Oregon -12 first half 3U
UPDATE 1:35CST
Champions League
Juventus First half -115
Ronaldo scores goal
Roma +.5
Ajax TT over 1.5
Manchester City/ Lyon
Both teams to score and over 1.5 -130
Update 249
Juventus ML -155 5U
Roma +.5 5U MAX
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How mounting mistakes make Astros setbacks harder to ignore
Jul 10, 2025, 3:10 pm
The late ex-catcher and longtime broadcaster Joe Garagiola wrote a book called “Baseball is a Funny Game.” He wasn’t kidding, whether he meant funny as amusing, peculiar, or both (he meant both). The Astros lived it this past week, following a very satisfying three-game slap down of a previously red-hot Dodgers team in Los Angeles by having a Cleveland Guardians squad that staggered into Houston on a 10-game losing streak sweep the Astros three straight. As I put it during one of our “Stone Cold ‘Stros” podcast episodes this week: baseball, like a word that rhymes with spit, happens. The Astros try to clean it up this weekend with a chance to kick dirt on the Texas Rangers’ presently extremely faint American League West hopes. While no fun to endure, the Astros getting swept is no big deal. They weren’t going the rest of the season without any more bumps in the road. Unless they falter badly and/or Seattle has a huge rest of the way, the Astros' 29-10 surge before the Cleveland series is the stretch that will most define them making the playoffs for the ninth year in a row. The Astros hadn’t lost a home series since early April. Their longest losing streak all season remains just three games. They have to beat the Rangers Friday night to keep it that way.
Erratic starting pitchers Lance McCullers and Jack Leiter match up in the series opener, then it’s a pair of humdinger matchups. Saturday Framber Valdez goes to battle opposite Jacob deGrom. Sunday Hunter Brown starts on four days rest for just the second time this season countering the Arlington team’s Nathan Eovaldi. Framber tries to bounce back from his worst showing in over two months. Brown tries to rebound from his worst start since July 6 of last year. deGrom is quite a story. There has been no more dominant starting pitcher in his generation. It’s just that deGrom almost makes McCullers’s injury history look not so bad. Jacob deGrom won National League Rookie of the Year in 2014. He won back-to-back NL Cy Young Awards in 2018 and 2019, then finished third in the short 2020 COVID season. In 2021 he was off to what if maintained would have been one of the greatest seasons ever. 15 starts with a 1.08 earned run average. 92 innings pitched, a comical total of just 40 hits allowed, with only 11 walks, and 146 strikeouts. Sicko stuff. Then his shoulder fell off. deGrom missed over a year, came back and made 11 starts in 2022. All of that as a New York Met. The Rangers then crossed their fingers and gave him a five-year 185-million dollar free agent contract. DeGrom lasted six starts in 2023 before needing his second Tommy John surgery. The Rangers of course went on to win the World Series without him. deGrom returned to throw 10 innings late last season and looked good. With everyone around the Rangers holding their breath, deGrom has not missed a start this season. While not striking out batters near his rate in the past, deGrom has been fabulous. He’ll take the mound against the Astros sporting a 9-2 record (for a losing team) and 2.29 ERA. deGrom's career ERA is 2.50. He is 37 years old.
Options dwindling
All you can ask of players is that they prepare well, be mentally focused, and play their best. There is only so much juice to be squeezed from lemons. Zack Short, Cooper Hummel, and Taylor Trammell each played every inning of the Guardians series. They are 30, 30, and 27 years old respectively. Short has the highest career big league batting average of the three. That average is .169. Hummel sits at .167, Trammell at .165. Short went zero for 11 with seven strikeouts. Hummel went one for eleven and struck out in his last six at bats. Trammell actually had a good series going three for eleven including a three-run homer and a double. Bigger picture, manager Joe Espada is filling out a lineup card with one hand tied behind his back.
Espada’s task got no easier with the latest seemingly Astros-nomically inept medical work. It is mind-blowingly ridiculous that Jake Meyers further damaged a calf muscle while taking the field Wednesday night, just three days after he left a game with that calf ailing him. Organizationally the Astros look like a clown show on this (pretty sure Kyle Tucker and Yordan Alvarez would co-sign). At least the All-Star break arriving after play Sunday will cover four days of Meyers’s absence, which is a good bet to extend beyond that, maybe well beyond that. That absence will be sorely felt. Beyond his elite patrol work in center field, Meyers’s offense this season made the leap from atrocious to well above average. About to come off the injured list, Chas McCormick gets one last chance to revive his Astros’ career. Decent prospect Jacob Melton is a center fielder who remains out injured. Kenedy Corona was called up this week when Christian Walker went on paternity leave. Corona also plays center field but is not a meaningful prospect. If Meyers is to miss months not weeks, general manager Dana Brown almost has to pursue an outfielder via trade.
For Astro-centric conversation, join Brandon Strange, Josh Jordan, and me for the Stone Cold ‘Stros podcast which drops each Monday afternoon, with an additional episode now on Thursday. Click here to catch!
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