The Sports books in Vegas are shitting yellow because there are so many Giant's future bets out there. The Giants were 100-1 to win the Super Bowl but that doesn't matter to Giant Fans. Many of them who were out there during the summer put $100 on the Giants to win it all.
Right now the Giants are 3-1 favorites to win it all.
So if the Giants win it all....it won't be just the Packers fans that will want to kill themselves.
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But it will be a good start.
I thought the point of making book was to balance the odds so you couldn't lose.
That's the goal. Imbalances in past bets are a sunk cost. The best you can do is to set odds that will balance future bets. If you don't do that, then you'd just get killed on the new bets as well as the old ones.
blake, That is the point. But, when you have idiotic NYer's betting blindly on a team, strutting around Vegas w/ their Yankee/Giants gear and betting the mortgage, it's tough. There are just so fucking many of them..just like the rats in NY.
Wait, you're saying people who bet on football are not entirely rational?
Suck on that, economists!
Just NYers, blake.
Most of the time, they get fleeced by Vegas. Every once in a while they trip over a truffle.
Even with all that Vegas abides and the casinos are still standing. Imagine that...
I thought it was The Dude that abides.
"I don't know about you but I take comfort in that. It's good knowin' he's out there. The Dude. Takin' 'er easy for all us sinners."
To get serious for a moment--sorry, Troop--where's the irrationality here? Obviously the people who took NYG @ 100-1 weren't irrational. Was it the bookies who set incorrect odds? That's a tough argument to make.
If the NFL season were a multiple-round coin-tossing contest, every team would start the season with 31-1 odds. By the time 4 teams were left, the odds on each would be 3-1.
If anything, the Giants were underbet at the start of the season, not overbet.
I thought it was The Dude that abides.
I'll bet you're right.
He and his carpet are well, the micturition incident notwithstanding.
Hey, sorry to go off topic, but Freeman Hunt had her kid. Congratulations for that.
Thanks, Chip. =)
Congratulations Freeman Hunt Post You could have bet on size, weight and time too.
Darcy is right, I think.
That's the last scene in The Big Lebowski, w/ Sam Elliott repeating the Dude's classic line, "The Dude abides."
You'll remember when The Dude gets busted all he has foir ID is his Ralph's card. I have my Ralph's card in my wallet..leaving for the west coast tomorrow morning. Taken the southern route thru Mo., Oklahoma, Texas, NM, AZ. I always like to get off the beaten path. May stop in Roswell and get my freak on!
Vegas never gets worried. Never. They run the action. They run the narrative. They own the odds. They never worry. Never.
Go Pats
I think it's a damned shame that they harass card counters in Vegas.
From now on all my comments will be non compos mentis...or whatever Sixty tells me the correct Latin phrase is for with no rhyme or reason.
Perhaps non sequitur is apt. Or Titusesque. Any loaf in a storm, eh?
But your choice was good. Or, perhaps another old favorite "Omnes relinquite spes, o vos intrantes". That always rings true.
I can't bake. I am a very good cook, but I am a baking disaster.
So I bought my favorite kind of pie (cherry). Frozen. Marie Callender's. It didn't have a top crust - it had that crumb thingy on top.
Anyway, I have been anticipating this cherry pie since I bought it over the holidays. And it was terrible. It was so sour and bitter. That crumb topping was creepy tasting too.
*sigh*
Thanks for listening.
So I bought my favorite kind of pie (cherry).
Damn, and I forgot to stockpile Hostess Cherry Pies. My fave.
Darcy, the best streusel topping is very easy to make, for a large rectangular pan, use two sticks of butter, two cups flour and one cup sugar, use a pastry cutter or your hands and moose it up into crumbles, top your pie or coffee cake or whatever, delicious! Keep it in the oven at 350 until lightly golden brown.
Of course this will clog your arteries, what is Latin for this stuff will kill ya?
Moosh, darn autocorrect.
Mmmmmmmm, pie
You could show me how to do all that and I'm afraid I'd still fuck it up, Allie. My mom was great at baking and...well, it's just not gonna happen.
My baking disasters now extend to frozen pies, for goodness sakes. lol
Lorem ipsum arteriis et occident vos et vestros impeditio, or at least that's what Google translate claims.
But I do appreciate the thought!
Baby, don't you cry
Gonna make a pie
Gonna make a pie with a heart in the middle
Bibere venenum in auro - Drink poison from a cup of gold captures the sentiment, I think.
Aww. And I thought things were going all "No Sugar Tonight".
But the company at TY is sweet.
Allie "Paula Deen" Oops. "First take 2 sticks of butter.."
Aww. And I thought things were going all "No Sugar Tonight".
I may be blind but I'm not Def.
Baking is like chemistry, you must be presice with measurements , temperatures and ingredients, or poof it goes up in smoke and is unedible. Cooking allows you to be wonderfully creative, to hell with measuring, a dash this , a dollop of that and its a masterpiece!
I envy bakers. It is an art. I guess you nailed it, Allie. It's all that math or somethin'. ;-)
Nick, Paula Deen made butter into the enemy, it's the flour and sugar that makes butter dangerous. Turns that good healthy fat into small dense LDL and triglycerides .
She got diabetes from the carbs , not the fat.
Love that song, Bruce.
Diet, exercise and genetics all play a role in the development of things like diabetes and heart disease. We only have choice in two of those areas.
You're not nerdy enough to bake, Darc. :-P
Baking is like chemistry, you must be presice with measurements , temperatures and ingredients, or poof it goes up in smoke and is unedible.
You know, Allie - this reminds me of an incredibly fun book I saw at B & N weeks back and actually wanted to blog about. It's called Pasta by Design and illustrates the geometric shapes and mathematical formulas for scores of crazy tortellini, mostacioli, and whatever other little "olies" I can't think of at the moment.
It's wild and I bet anyone who's into metrics, pasta or just plain shapes by design would get a kick out of it. Or at least get a kick out of the fact that something like this could even be written.
Ritmo, pasta is incredibly fun to make, my mother and I used to make it. Where my family came from in Europe, there were many Italians, Germans and Croatians, Hungarians stayed closer to the Danube, but we kept their love of spice.
Too bad I don't eat pasta anymore, but sometimes the pasta I made was too pretty to eat, lol.
Italy was across the Adriatic sea from Yugoslavia, that probably accounts for the Italains in that region. I suspect some Italian genetics got mixed up with my German genetics. My dad was swarthy and with black hair , used to wear a wife beater T shirt in the backyard as he was tending his tomatoes, looked kind of like the Godfather. Nothing at all like the "typical" German.
Sounds like the author Italo Svevo - a nom de plume which means Italian Swerbian. He was an irredenist.
Exactly Sixty, I think I may be a Italo Svevo! Mama Mia! Nick and Trooper, Paisano!
There you go. It is good to learn about where one comes from. This year I learned that I had a great (some number) grand mother who was from Ireland. Erin go Braless! Or something...
Svevo was first a citizen of Trieste and only secondarily an Italian. Trieste-ians, if that's what they were called, although not exactly Germanic were much more restrained/subdued/introspective than the Italians of the trunk of Italy, or at least the caricature of Italians that is held outside of Italy. There are other famously reserved Italian city residents, the Turinese especially so. But Trieste was uniquely an edge place, which surely must have intensified Svevo's already proliferating uncertainties concerning just about everything. But the flip side of his uncertainty is the lack of dogma in Svevo's writing.
I love to write this kind of bullshit. Who needs so called reality?
In Zeno's Conscience Svevo wrote from the heart - he wanted a cigarette. He had deep convictions, in his real life and in his fiction. Life imitated art. Smoke 'em if you got 'em.
I am about to pinch a loaf, which is odd, because I only generally pinch in the morning.
tits.
Until a couple years ago when a guy from Naples opened a good real Italian pizza restaurant the best pizza was a couple places owned by Albanians. They never corrected people when they believed they were Italians..all these Cheeseheads still say Eyetalian. But, I knew and would bust their balls. They're good guys and bust right back. That's rare in Wisconsin. This is a "no ball busting" zone.
I've done a lot of genealogy work on my family. My latest is having my DNA analyzed. I did the Y-DNA test first, that is fathers to sons only. I'm mostly English, but I have some cell clusters from Sweden, Germany and the Neatherlands. My latest test is all the DNA, from the women included, which should be really interesting because my mother's parents were from Sicily. I'm interested to find out just exactly how much Indian blood I have.
Pretty sure I don't have a drop of Italian blood.
Lots of Swedish and Irish. So, I'm Viking when I'm strong and Irish when I'm mad and strong. lol
I have adopted the Italian love of good food and wine though. Can I join?
Sure, as soon as you learn how to bake. You can't fry pizza.
Here in NC we would deep fry a pizza. Yum...
I can bake! I just can't BAKE, bake. lol
I never should have admitted that.
I would love deep fried pizza. Hungry now.
Me too. I'm going to make a roast beef sandwich.
I didn't know you lived in NC, Sixty. Beautiful state. I have friends who live there and have invited me to come to stay and attend a pro tennis tourney this summer. I hope I can do that.
North Carolina certainly has some beautiful places - the Outer Banks, the mountains, and many places in between. I am in the Piedmont, in a place with a lot of history. I like it here, especially when we have a mild winter, as we are this year. Many shrubs are already blooming. Spring is just around the corner, he said, looking over his shoulder expecting a sudden cold snap and blizzard...
I think NC is where I would move if I could...move. The mountain area is lovely. And anywhere near any coast is special. I'm stuck here due to my house suddenly plunging in value far below what I bought it for over 10 years ago. *sigh*
NC or Texas. I love Texas. San Antonio is my favorite place in the U.S.
I was stationed with the 82nd Abn. Div. at Fort Bragg, NC (Fayetteville). It snowed once about 4 inches and was gone in about a week. The worse place in NC is the Croatan National Forest. We did a field exercise there during the summer for about 2 weeks. I was bitten a thousand times by black flies and very small but very potent mosquitos.
I hate mosquitoes, Allen. I swear that once, a friend and I were nearly taken down by them on a golf course. I was bitten so many times that my legs and arms were throbbing. A couple of guys ahead of us mercifullly had some bug spray. It sounds funny, but it wasn't. *shiver*
That's very interesting about the DNA sequencing and testing, Allen. Is it expensive?
Years ago, I helped some lawyers in a litigation matter concerning the patent rights to the fluorescent dyes they used to sequence. The technology is fascinating at so many levels and very ingenious. I'd like to write a blog post about it but I'm afraid it would take too much alphabetic sequence.
I work outside year-round. Summer is mosquito, tick and chigger season. Haven't seen any black flies here - always thought they were Y*nkee insects.
I usually pull a half dozen ticks off myself every year, sometimes get stung by hornets or wasps, am not bothered by honey bees or bumble bees but ants bite me every year. Don't like ants.
All in all, insects don't bother me much, don't use insect repellent, and so far have not caught Lyme disease or RMSF.
AllenS - my brother was in the 82nd Airborne. He saw action in Panama - got a battle ribbon for that - what was that whole war, something like 36 hours? Yeah, he was all for avoiding hostiles and hostilities. ;^)
NC mountains here. Wonderful scenery. Eric Rudolph picked the right place to hide out.
Lived in the Piedmont for five years. Hot, hot, hot. Glad when I left. I live closer to five other states' capitals than my own. We get overlooked out here in the hills. That's okay, though, just leave us alone.
chick,
Here is the website for the DNA testing. I started out with the Y-DNA and then the Family Finder. They send you a kit and you have to take two samples (scraping the inside of your mouth) and then depositing the ends into some little containers. They had enough of my DNA for the second test. Kind of interesting.
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