Dang those Cleveland Indians Monday, Oct 22 2007
Sports Talk 12:22 pm
When I was in Vegas last May I bought a ticket from the NYNY Sporst Book: The Cleveland Indians to Win the 2007 American League Championship. The odds back then were 4.5 to 1. So I bought a $10.00 ticket. In fact it was the first of my many tickets I bought during my 3 day visit. All other bets were single game bets on games that were going on at the time. I paid out well on those games since I knew the pitching matchups. Of the 10 or so bets I made I think I only lost 1 or 2 of them.
But my Vegas luck ran out last night as the Indians pulled off the choke of the decade. Up 3-1 in the series they proceeded to crumble with last night’s game thankfully ending their demise. After winning their 3rd game they proceeded to get outscored 30-5 over the remaining 3 games. They lost last night 11-2. It was 3-2 in the seventh inning. The vaunted bullpen was not so vaunted.
Anyway, my ticket remains posted on my corkboard at work. I was all ready to mail it in for $55 depreciated US dollars but now I’ll keep it as a reminder of how close it was to winning a very difficult propositional bet.
October 29th, 2007 at 8:56 am
Well, after winning that series, the team went on to dominate the pitiful Rockies in 4 straight. This was so anti-climatic it makes me cry to even think about it. There is NO way that team should have represented the NL. Even though the NL is quite the pathetic league they could at least have put the RIGHT team there. I think Arizona should have just had a bye to the World Series. The embarrassment would definitely have been lessened.