The Locks is particularly fired up for baseball this week as our New York Yankees come to the Bay Area for their one set against the Athletic Supporters in Oakland. We're dialed in with tickets for the Wednesday night game thanks to our brother-in-law. However, since we get the shit sandwich pitching match up on Wednesday night (Chad Gaudin vs. Brett Anderson), we're thinking of rolling to the Oakland-Alameda Country Stadium tonight to watch AJ Burnett fire bullets at the A's. We shall see.
But before we get too far ahead of ourselves, we need to stretch out our right arm, extend it over our right shoulder and apply several firm pats onto the upper portion of our back. The Locks is delivering on its money making promise and continues to do so. We had a great weekend capped off by a great Sunday. Based on the recent hot streak, we decided to extend yesterday's UML section to include five games and nailed four of them. In fact, we were finally the beneficiaries of bad bullpen work (thank you San Diego, Baltimore and Milwaukee). Though a White Sox bullpen meltdown kept us from going 5-for-5. Overall on the day, we landed at 9-6. That success pushed our BAT back over $200 and has us feeling invincible.
Since implementing our Unpickable Master Locks, we have managed to go 21-8 (72%) in those profiled games. We'll look to improve on that winning percentage with today's three winners:
Unpickable Master Locks:
Arizona @ Atlanta - A make up game that gives us some day baseball. Can't complain about that. The DBacks, however, will be complaining after getting their first look at Tommy Hanson. This kid is the real deal. We've been waiting for his inevitable rookie misstep and it just hasn't happened. His stuff is that good. The Braves need to bounce back big after a disappointing weekend series vs. the Phillies. We think their up to it. Chipper and the boys hit Max Scherzer pretty well and they won't need to put up too many runs with Hanson throwing flames. Take the Braves (-170) to win 5-2. LOCK IT UP
Minnesota @ Texas - This one feels pretty easy. The Rangers are playing good, inspired baseball and can now taste the playoffs with their lead in the wild card race. The Twins are continuing to play shockingly poor baseball and are horrible away from the Metrodome. The Rangers give the ball to another Tommy H. (Hunter) and he's been unhittable of late. The Twins turn to double-digit loser, Francisco Liriano. We expect Texas to continue to play solid ball (great defense, great bullpen, timely hitting) and the Twinkies to continue to baffle. Take the Rangers (-138) to win 7-3. LOCK IT UP
St. Louis @ LA - Here is a very interesting game between arguably the two best NL teams (sorry Philly). The Cardinals turn to the wildly dependable Chris Carpenter while the Dodgers trot out a knuckleballer who hasn't started a game in the bigs since 2006. Forgive us for leaning toward the Cardinals in this one. With yesterday's stunning 9th inning comeback following two separate rain delays, we think this St. Louis team has got a little destiny working for them. We don't feel the same about the Dodgers. Joe Torre has torched another bullpen just in time for the stretch run and LA will not be able to recover from that. Haeger the knucklehead will get knocked around by Fat Albert and Matt Holliday. St. Louie (-155) is victorious in MannyWood, 7-3. LOCK IT UP
Remaining Games:
Angels (-116)
Brewers (-120)
Giants (-113)
Royals (+200)
Padres (+105)
Yankees minus 1.5 runs (-125)
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