My preferred sports gambling website (
www.wsex.com) has an exotic wager on some nationally televised baseball games called "Super Six Sluggers." They pick six sluggers, and create a market for which one of the six will have the most total bases (not including walks) in the game. You can buy and sell "shares" of each slugger. Last week I made $45 on a sure thing (by short-selling shares of a player who'd been removed from the game with no chance to win). So I was looking for something similar tonight.
With Howard having a HR early in the game (4 total bases), Troy Glaus hit a double, and seemed to hurt his leg scoring on a base hit. So I shorted 5 shares of Glaus at $11. I win $55 if Glaus doesn't win this competition. I could lose $500 if Glaus wins it outright. Well they didn't pull him from the game, but Shawn Green had 5 total bases and Howard and Burrell had 4, at the time Glaus came up for what looked to be his final AB in the 7th (Arizona was at home and leading by 2).
Of course, Glaus drives a pitch the other way, into the swimming pool. I think back to all the comments made here about how I'm the worst gambler ever. I'm about ready to throw my computer and my TV out the window.
And then Shawn Green singles to tie Glaus with 6 total bases, cutting my likely exposure in half. And then of course Burrell hit his second HR of the game to win the competition with 8 total bases.
Of course, Glaus has to get up again in the 8th inning, to make me sweat even more. (he walked). MOTHERFUCKER. Can't I ever get an easy one? I mean, aside from betting Brothers Grimm to make under $18.0M this weekend?
That is all.
