[Ernie_Money]

I am going to try and low-key it for a while. May have been a bit too boisterous in my debut last week and although most forums were super-nice, 1 or 2 responded super-negatively so I will consider myself lucky to have had a good week and I will tone it down for a while and just make picks and hopefully reach most of my weekly goals.

I plan on taking the free $1000 Mansion SportsBook bet this week (today, actually), and then I'll bet the other side (Miami, for about half) elsewhere and look to get a free $450 or so, which will help my Week 2 goal out a bit. Hey, free money is free money. I'll post that bet and the hedge when I make it. Today, I like this one:

Houston Astros, $159 to win $150.

Reasoning:

Houston has won 12 straight games over the Phillies. They swept them all 4 series the last 2 years. Cole Hamels is coming off a gem, but his ERA is 8.53 during the day, while it is 3.13 at night. Clemens shows no signs of slowing down and the Phillies bullpen has been terrible, blowing 3 leads in the 9th inning and another lead in the 10th this past week and then they also lost in extra innings yesterday in Game 2.

Week 2: Record 0-0
Week 1: Record 5-1, +$913

[bigboydan]

good luck ernie