Game Picks - Sunday: June 28, 2009

Another day in Paradise. Last night, the town of Lake Worth had their fireworks. They always set them off the Saturday before the Fourth of July. They were spectacular. Florida seems to do the best job with fireworks of any state in the Union. This picker has sat on the beach of Fort Lauderdale and watched the Fourth of July fireworks set off from a barge just off the coast. Talk about awesome!

Awesome still doesn't describe the picks from Florida. With only one good day out of ten, it seems that Karma is the offset of having so much sun and fun by the pool. Well, this picker will take that trade off any day. Of course, if you are foolish enough to post bets based on these daily picks, you may not feel the same.

Here are Sunday's picks:

• The Reds over the Indians: Warning! Emotional pick for Micah Owings. Didn't Huff just pitch for the Indians the other day? Man, all these days just blur together.
• The Blue Jays over the Phillies: Tallet over Moyer. The Phillies have been playing like crap forever but their one win last night in their last ten increased their lead in the NL East. Incredible.
• The Nationals over the Orioles: Like Lannon over any Oriole pitcher.
• The Royals over the Pirates: Greinke!
• The Braves over the Red Sox: Hanson throws an incredible game and Penny gets rubbed the wrong way.
• The Marlins over the Bay Rays: The Marlins have to win one of these games. Miller over Price seems to be the ticket. One thing in the Bay Rays favor though. Price can't throw strikes, but the Marlins don't walk much.
• The Brewers over the Giants: The Giants sucked wind last night and blew a game they should have won.
• The Tigers over the Astros: Jackson should be better than Ortiz.
• The Cubs over the White Sox: Zambrano should best Danks, who has not been nearly as good as last year.
• The Twins over the Cardinals: Pineiro and Liriano are both questionable. So we'll go for the upset.
• The Rockies over the A's: Cook over Mazzaro. A proposed movie about Moneyball was just axed by the studio. Maybe it's because of how this year's A's have taken a lot of lustre out of Beane's supposed genius.
• The Dodgers over the Mariners: Kuroda was very good his last time out. Of course, he is from the Bedard school of health.
• The Angels over the Diamondbacks: Like this kid, Scherzer, but let's face it, the Diamondbacks stink.
• The Yankees over the Mets: The Mets look positively down and out. Wang will beat them today, especially with Livan on the other side of the match up.
• The Padres over the Rangers: It's too bad the Rangers don't have any pitching besides Millwood and Feldman.

There it is. Now back to the pool!

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Week: 42-50
Month: 162-174