Sox and M's care to wager? How about a friendly fiver for the series and another fiver on total runs ?

Normally I'd be game. I know you're a hell of a BOTL, and I love baseball and cigars. However, there are two truisms I've learned in Seattle.

1. As usual, The Seattle Mariners have many assets. However, as usual, starting pitching is suspect. Even with Schilling on the DL, Boston starting pitching is better. Criminy, Seattle is starting Jeff Weaver tonight. Jeff Friggin' Weaver. Sure he had a good outing last time...too good, we're looking for alien pods outside his home. However, until that game he had a double digit ERA.

2. Betting on sports when you are from Seattle seems to be bad juju. No kidding. I won $5 on a Superbowl when I was 17. Won $11 on a horse that same year, only time I've ever bet on a horse. Every other time friends have been betting on sports, even if it had nothing to do with Seattle, I made a note of who I'd have bet on. I'd have lost nearly every time.

With the way the Sox and M's are playing, and having been born in Seattle, it'd be like just agreeing to send you some free cigars. I already had enough trouble once finding what you didn't already have. I'd go Chapter 7 trying again!

Holy crap. He's one-hit them through two innings. ERA almost under 8. Gooooooooooo Weaver.

spoken like a true fan......lol

Hey, if I wanted to gamble, I could just mail something at a local post office. They are either insane, incompetent, or just hate me. Maybe a combination of some or all of that. And their prices have gone up, raising the stakes.

BTW, it's 2-1 Boston.

i'm watchin but I posted the offer before the first pitch, anyway the offer still stands...lol

It's nice to see you are smarter than the average fan.......

6-2 M's. 11 batters in the half inning.

You know, if you told me the Sawx would spot the M's a bunch of runs....

I'd have given you a couple for the line but not 7

What a weird game. Looked like it would be a pitcher's duel. Then the M's bat around on an odd combination of hits, errors, etc. in the fifth. In the span of three pitches in the 7th, Timlin makes an amazingly athletic play to avoid getting clubbed with the barrel end of a broken bat, then gives up a home run, then gives up another home run just a few feet from the last. All on three pitches.

I think the baseball gods are messing with me for not taking the bet. And Felix pitches tonight against A. Nonymous. If Felix has figured out his mechanics (he had been rushing his delivery), could be a tough night for the Sawx.

And for this bonehead who didn't take the bet.

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hey Pac I outta send you a fiver for not taking the bet......lol

^Like you need an excuse to smack someone around!