Blog Start Up

I started a modest blog that focuses on sports betting. Eventually it will link to a couple of my sites and get a little snazzier. If any actual, live people (as opposed to anonymous handles) wish to comment, please reach me at integritysports@aol.com.

https://theskepticalgambler.blogspot.com/2019/07/trump-eagles-and-reading-in-rain.html

Additional entries can be accessed by clicking the right column. I will probably do a few more articles before football kicks off.

Thanks,

Bob Dietz

Quote: redietz

I started a modest blog that focuses on sports betting. Eventually it will link to a couple of my sites and get a little snazzier. If any actual, live people (as opposed to anonymous handles) wish to comment, please reach me at integritysports@aol.com.

https://theskepticalgambler.blogspot.com/2019/07/trump-eagles-and-reading-in-rain.html

Additional entries can be accessed by clicking the right column. I will probably do a few more articles before football kicks off.

Thanks,

Bob Dietz

Interesting blog, thanks. I don't think you saw my response to you in the other thread, but I appreciate your blog not being an advertising link. I suggest you might put the main page link into your signature.

FWIW, I'm accessing via Android. For anyone to see your other entries from this link above, just click on the title bar.

Thanks. I tracked down the other response.

I ain't sellin' nothin'. My Deuce Bigelow days ended at the age of 60. Man-whoring is a young man's game. I hear that even mickey crimm is taking Wednesdays off.

That was an interesting read. You might want to make your link go to the main page instead of that last article.

OK, officially hijacking this thread with a dead hippo video [trying to get an idea what you are about with your signature]

warning: very gross.

How much are you planning to charge for picks?

Quote: SM777

How much are you planning to charge for picks?

The first one is free (-;

Red is on some other forums and he does not push his services. He has enough suckers already J/K.

BUT SERIOUSLY, he doesn't seem to be pushing anything from what I have seen, he seems to be a good guy who just happens to be in the sports business. I have a feeling he is a winning sports bettor.

The line in question comes from Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness (the novella on which the movie Apocalypse Now is based). The character, Marlowe, is making a dry comment as he and a couple of Brits are guiding a steamship filled with cannibal helpers down the Congo.

Quote: AxelWolf

The first one is free (-;

Red is on some other forums and he does not push his services. He has enough suckers already J/K.

BUT SERIOUSLY, he doesn't seem to be pushing anything from what I have seen, he seems to be a good guy who just happens to be in the sports business. I have a feeling he is a winning sports bettor.

Ah, okay. There's a few out there. Finally found one not peddling something.

Quote: SM777

Ah, okay. There's a few out there. Finally found one not peddling something.

I make no guarantees to that. As I said, he IS in this type of business. I don't know how his business model works, I dont think it involves jacking around with people on forums. So I dont think that's why he is here. He has not ever tried selling anything to anyone on the forums that I know of, and he has answered some tough question on another forum.

Quote: SM777

How much are you planning to charge for picks?

I actually haven't "charged for picks" in many, many years. I've been doing this professionally since 1979. For the last 11-12 years, I've been working with a handful of people on a percent-of-profit basis. It's a private thing, I handle the money, and I don't take on any more people. There's only one guy I've known less than 10 years.

Part of the reason for this kind of approach is that the sport in which I specialize (college football) has enormously fluid lines these days, so just assigning a side is a little bit prehistoric. When you bet is almost as important as who you bet (in college football). The same applies to college basketball, but I don't really bet college hoops except for futures. So people have to trust me to try to get the optimal lines as well as the proper teams. And we shoot for a fair number of middles. The only exception to this is I will offer, for a few people who have followed me in The Wise Guys Contest, to plug them into the same reportage emails as my people get. This is a pain in the ass for the outsiders, as they are not going to get the range of lines I get, or the futures odds, so they are at a disadvantage there. Plus I often don't release the email reporting until within a couple of minutes of kickoff, and they have to scramble to get the plays in anyway. It's likely I won't enter The Wise Guys this year, so I probably won't even offer this.

In summary, no "picks being sold." But if you need a man-whore for a bachelor party...I'll contact Axelwolf.