...suck at life.

A lot of people who read my blog think I'm a Cubs or a Sox fan. I have gone to a ton of games for both teams since I moved to the city, but I'm not a fan of either team. I go to those games because I have friends that are big fans of those clubs and I just really enjoy going to baseball games over the summer. I'm actually a big Tigers fan. The Tigers didn't have a great team this year, but they are in the worst division in baseball. I was very confident that they would be able to make an appearance in the postseason. In my opinion, the post season is a big crapshoot. The key is to get there and hope for the best. Well, the Tigers were in first place since May and even had a 7 game lead entering into September. That, unfortunately, wasn't enough. On Tuesday, they completed one of the biggest collapses in MLB history. Despicable really. There is nothing more frustrating than watching a team that you invested a lot of time, emotion and, unfortunately, money in just die at the finish line.

I did learn an important lesson to not bet on my own team. You have enough of a sweat without money on the line. In a drunken Vegas argument about if the Tigers would win the division or not, I ended up putting 5k on the line. It's impossible to say, but I'd estimate this wager occurred at about 5am Vegas time. I do know it was after a night of hitting the clubs pretty hard. I don't typically bet that big but the Tigers had a 5 game lead and I was being the cocky drunk that I can be. That being said, the bet was over the course of a few months so it didn't bother me too much. The one big mistake was that I actually gave odds against the field. So dumb. I bet 5k to win 4k. Come September, that seemed like a deal. That changed rather quickly. It seemed downright awful when the Tigers had to go play a 1 game playoff at the Metrodome. The line for the Tigers on that game was something to the tune of +160. Not fun to be giving odds in a situation like that.

As a side note, I think the Twins are making a huge mistake by moving out of the Metrodome next year. They have such a massive advantage when they play there. I'm confident they are going to lose that when they are playing outside. Furthermore, how the hell do they plan on playing games theres in April and October? It's going to be so cold and shitty outside that I just don't see how you can play baseball.

Back to the game...The actual game had to be one of the best baseball games I've ever seen. If the Tigers had won, it would have been the best baseball game I'd ever watched. Having a sweat on it made it that much crazier. The lead changed like 4 or 5 times. The emotional roller coaster it put me through was insane. I thought the Tigers had it won in extra innings, but I guess it wasn't meant to be.

The bottom line is you have enough of a sweat on your own team. You don't need to have money on the line too. This is something I have usually stuck by. I won't make this mistake again. The disappointment of losing just stings too much when you have both emotion and money on the line.

Unfortunately, I've had to go through a bunch of painful loses in huge games over the past few years - Illini in championship bball game, Tigers playing the worst world series I've ever seen, Bears in superbowl, Illini in Rose Bowl (never really had high hopes on that one), Bulls in the insane playoff series vs Boston last year. That's sports for you though. Thankfully, I think both the Bears and Bulls teams could make some noise during their respective seasons. I don't really think the Bulls are quite there yet, but they have a promising future. When we add Dwade and Bosh next year, we'll be a dynasty again. The Bears are looking good and anything could happen with them.

Gotta love sports.

Bears are on a bye this week and I get to see them play in Atlanta in two weeks for Sunday Night Football. I'm really excited for that.

I've barely played in October because I've been pretty busy with work stuff. When I have played, it's been a disaster. I'm losing at like -25% ROI for the first 100 or SNGs I've played. Obviously, thats a really small sample size. I started off last month in similar fashion and ended it really well, so I know I can turn it around. I'm likely going to put in a big session tonight. Hopefully I start running hot.