My apologies for coming out with a late football post but I’ve been busy pretty much bowling. Onwards.

Bets

Houston, we have a problem. I was up 3.3 units the last time I updated. I am now down -10. A 4 unit Giants bet went south and then I put 4 units on the Baltimore Orioles. This left me with an AI 6 unit plunge on Madison Bumgardner and I was rejuvenated. However this was not to last after a 5 unit 49ers bet, followed by a 5 unit San Francisco Giants bet. I had to re-deposit 10 unit back into the account. Current record: NFL – 9-10, +1 unit, CFB 3-5 -2 units, MLB 1-2 -4 units. With the juice It adds up to -10. From the record, please don’t follow my picks, just know what I’m doing and why I’m doing it.

1pm Teaser – 2 units to win 6.5 – I’m adding points to all the teams getting nice point totals and hoping they don’t get blown out. This is the Lions +11, Browns +18, Redskins +11, Titans +10.5, Jets +16. Adding points to the home teams seems pretty obvious to me with the Browns and Lions. The Skins, Jets, and Titans games just feel like they will be close to me.

Vikings -7 – 4 units – I tend follow what happens a bit too closely perhaps but the Vikings defense seems other worldly. They shut down OBJ and Eli looked like a college QB. Take that thought that defense wins games and I’m not worried that much about Bradford and the rest of the shaky offense. Houston looked god awful against the Patriots and have beat some mediocre teams to be 3-1 (Bears, Titans, and the questionable Chiefs). Call me the public on this one.

Rams +2 – 4 units – I love, love, love the Rams defense. I can’t stress that enough because Aaron Donald is the best DL in the league and their secondary is legit. Sure Case Keenum is a goof but Gurley will get back on track. To add that they are getting 2 points at home. Back up the truck.

DraftKings

After a nice DraftKings week last week I set myself up with a little more ammo for this week. I was really big on Steve Smith until these winds started popping up. I also think it’s ludicrous not to have LeVeon Bell in your lineup. I got him in 3 of the 6 but he’s an expensive guy and there are a ton of other possibilities. I’ve targeted OBJ, TY Hilton, and Brandon Marshall as all having big weeks. In the TE spot I think it’s either Zach Ertz or Zach Miller. Vikings, Rams, or Pats D.

Fantasy Football

Wild Turkeys – In a must need week against little bro, the Turkeys got a boost start from DJ’s 32 points. Tough decision on Ryan Mathews or Golden Tate but I think I’ll be hoping for a Golden bounce back. Sam is rolling out a lineup that looks like my DK team with OBJ and B Marsh. This one may get close.

Big Johnson’s – Also getting the big game from DJ but I blew it with a John Brown play. I should have realized that without Carson playing, his 14 targets the prior week meant nothing. I’m projected to win but my opponent has an empty roster spot. Let’s see if he fills it in within the next 2+ hours.

Jameis Has Crabs – Just a really strong team with Freeman, McCoy, Matthews, Crabtree, Reed, and Jordan Howard. I do not see a loss this week up against a Carson Wentz led team.

The Corporate influence is real at Barstool Sports. Here is an article written by Business Insider about the current workings inside the company.

Pres and Erika Nardini

It’s one thing to be paid to write an article about Barstool and it’s another to have been following it for years and write about the changes taking place. Here’s what I’ve noticed:

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  A Case of Eye Herpes

  There are more comments in the comment section and they are getting more upvotes – I like to pay attention to what writers get the most comments. Big Pres articles would get over 100. Shitty writers will get around 10. Pres’s recent post about his eye herpes received 118 and the top comment, “The 80 mg of adderal xr everyday can’t be helping” received 379 upvotes. These are huge increases from past months which means the growth from corporate dollars is happening.

• More money leads to more eyeballs –When Portnoy showed his video of watching KFC’s heart get ripped out ala Ralph Wiggum, there were over 240k people watching. That number seems huge to me because it’s only a live feed of “couch” Clancy watching a baseball game.
• Traffic is Up – In the last 5 years the site has grown from 1.4 million unique readers monthly to 8 million as of January, and was reportedly valued at $10 million to $15 million in the stake sale. I’m curious to see their visitors over the past month. This also means that every monthly viewer is worth .12 cents. Rnningfool.com is worth $360 dollars.
• Who listens to these Podcasts? There’s Pardon My Take. The Rundown. KFC Radio. Mailtime. I certainly don’t but they seem to be ranking pretty high so people must be. Seems like a waste of time to me.
• One bite. Everyone knows the rules.
• Outdated Posts – Can they please stop with the Wake Up With, Smokeshow of the day, and Guess that… Worst type of posts which have been played out years and years ago.
• Too Many Employees – I’ve stopped caring about most of the writers because there are so many of them.
• Too Much Merch – This is the weirdest piece of merchandise I’ve ever seen.

This is 11 from Stranger Things who is probably 12 years old. Their target audience is males between the ages of 18-35. No 18-35 year old should be wearing a shirt with a 12 year old girl. So, so, so creepy.

Finals Thoughts

I still check it often and read what I want. I care less than I did before because other people are caring more. I see people who never knew Barstool existed posting Barstool Sports videos on Facebook and sort of cringe with how fast they are growing and the mainstream mediums they are reaching. I wish the company as much luck as possible but they are the definition of selling out and these types of situations tend to implode due to greed and egos. We’ll wait and see.

The Sixers pre-season opens tonight against the Boston Celtics and this is not what you want to read about your first round pick.

He left the very first pre-season game with cramps.

Bob Cooney of the Philadelphia Daily News on 97.5 The Fanatic:

I just got off the phone with somebody who I really trust in the NBA, and he’s like there’s no way his agent is going to let him play this year. That’s an injury that you don’t mess around with, and he thinks he’s going to keep him off his feet all year.

76ers Outlook

For the 4th straight year the 76ers will be awful. The O/U going into this year was 27 games and that was expecting Ben Simmons to play. Are we down below 20 this year?

The team with 3 first round pick centers? The team with a starting PG, Jerryd Bayless, who will be on his 7th NBA team in 8 years? The team with Dario Saric who averaged 11.7 ppg in a Euro league while shooting 50% from the field against inferior competition? The team where Nik Stauskus and TJ McConnel routinely get minutes?

Moving into year 4 of the tank and this team is still a dumpster fire. I’ve heard the supporters and even they have to be getting nervous at this point with the latest Ben Simmons injury and talk that he would have rather went to LA.

I understand what the Sixers plan was and their hopes that high draft picks would save the franchise. It’s still in the wait and see mode. My main question is how many years do we wait and see before the “process trusters” are going to be waiting a decade and then saying, “see, I told you so, they finally made the playoffs.”

I truly don’t want to be a Sixers hater. I’d like to think I’m not on the band wagon but I’m not a disgusted fan either. I look at the situation as a fan of basketball and write how I see it unfolding. At this point, unless Embiid is a 20/15 guy who can take over games single handed, I guess we’ll be waiting until next year when Ben Simmons decides to, maybe, play for the Sixers.

The pictures are unable to write to the disk so I’m hoping this problem fixes itself. Until then, there will be no pictures.

Bets

I can’t really explain it but I didn’t make a single bet this weekend on Saturday or Sunday. I bet 1.8 units on Washington on Friday night which hit. I was going to bet on Clemson because the Shee told me to on Saturday and just never got around to it. Then on Sunday I woke up at 9:38 which was after my Jags pick and then at a family function which took me past the start of the 1pm games. By the 4pm games I was pretty drunk and didn’t / couldn’t place a bet. As such, I stay at 9-8, +11 units for NFL and 3-5, -2 units for CFB. +3.3 units with the juice.

Draftkings

This was one of those weeks where I wish I had more money in Draftkings. I only entered 4 lineups but they all cashed and I was pretty hot with all my players. My most impressive lineup scored 213.52 pts and would have placed in 142 place out of 256,000 for a $600 cash if it was in the Sunday Million. Instead I had it in a $20, 5 person tourney where I raped Condia. I also placed 582 out of  64k in the $9 Slant which was a 6x cash. This week put me in the black after 4 weeks of the season at +29 dollars after being down 80. Hopefully this will boost my credibility and I can keep the train rolling into next week as I begin to enter more lineups.

Fantasy Football

Wild Turkey’s – The Turkeys can’t catch a break. This is how fantasy football plays out sometimes but I went up a team who rocked me with 142 and my 110 projection isn’t going to get it done. I have a team problem with Willie Snead being hurt, and Alshon and Golden Tate just flat out sucking.  Sitting at 1-3 is not a good look but I’m hoping the luck will turn around.

Big Johnson’s – The Big Johnson’s got a cake match-up with the other team putting up 57 pts. I only needed 95 the team was pretty solid all around to move to 3-1.

Jameis Has Crabs – Acting as the most dominant team in the league for another straight week has me at 3-1.  Benching Forte for Jordan Howard this week is what good GM’s are made of.

Eliminator & PigSkin Pickem

For the 2nd straight year I was eliminated with an Arizona Cardinals pick against the St. Louis Rams. Same exact week, same exact results as last year.

I went 7-7 ATS this week which has me holding on to a 1 point lead over 2nd place. I managed to pick 10 correct in the Softerware Pickem where I am now in 2nd place and 3 behind the leader.