I guess I’m not ready to start my own hotline

After three weeks I’m again on my way to having the “Best Last Place Picker in America” title again. So I guess that idea for a hotline advising people on which games to pick isn’t such a good idea, at least not yet, anyway.

I always wondered about all these so-called experts about all the betting advice services they provided (for a fee of course), if they were so good at what they do why do they have to work for a living?

I’ve written before I’ve had this idea for a hotline, 1-800-YUCHUMP (please don’t call that number as I think it’s actually a real number) in which I tell people what games they should bet on. For a fee of course.

And my special would be the “Lock of the Week” which would only cost $3.95 per minute. And again I speak very slowly.

This all comes to mind because I’m not doing a good job when it comes to the technique in which bettors “hedge their bets.” That’s a fancy betting term for playing it safe.

With the exception of one stupid pick in which I picked Houston to beat Baltimore, I’ve tried to play it safe for the most part, picking home teams and huge favorites, and it’s not working.

Maybe because hedging one’s bets works better when betting against a point spread as opposed to the moneyline (that’s a fancy bettors term for simply picking the winner without a point spread).

I have a couple of friends from my old stomping grounds in Carson City, Nev., who are actually pretty good at hedging their bets. At the end of the year they actually have made about a couple thousand dollars or so by hedging their bets.

Maybe I can ask them to become partners in my 1-800-YU-CHUMP hotline. I’m sure we can all speak slowly.

And of course the state motto in Nevada is “It’s not whether you win or lose — it’s if you cover.”

Anyway Dustin Della of Suncrest Bank had a good week last week to go 6-3-1 to take the lead at 20-9-1. Mary Quijas of Juicy Burger is right behind at 19-10-1 after going 5-4-1.

David Horowitz of Horowitz Jewelry who’s going for the three-peat and J.R. Flores of J.R.’S Barbershop are right in the thick of things at 1811-1 after going 5-4-1.

And of course yours truly keeps falling farther behind as I’m now at 16-13-1 after going 4-5-1.

As always all of our prognosticators hope you can visit their businesses whenever possible while following current guidelines. And may you all have a blessed week.