A Large Regular

Twitter I just joined Twitter. You can follow me at @ALargeRegular . In the immortal words of Bartles & James - I thank you for your su...

Pick of the Day My first choice was Chris Carpenter and the Cardinals against San Francisco but the price of -$200 was just too high. Almost...

Red Sox Magic Number - 84 With the 4-0 win over the Orioles last night - the Red Sox magic number is now 84. I wanted to comment that 84 was...

Sports Betting Interesting column looking at the economics of paying for picks . I've always thought of those "guaranteed winners...

Pick of the Day Tonight I'm going with the Red Sox with Jon Lester starting over the Orioles with Jason Berken toeing the rubber. Nick G...

Flotsam and Jetsam Miscellaneous thoughts and observations. Trent Green fills in for Peter King on Monday Morning Quarterback and does a mu...

Pick of the Day Today I have a bit of a quandary. I'm trying to narrow my pick of the day (POTD) down from three choices which all have ...

Flotsam and Jetsam Miscellaneous thoughts and observations. The MLB trading season gets underway with the Indians shipping Mark DeRosa to th...

Connections (I wrote a variation of this two years ago but I thought I'd run it again today.) The historian James Burke had a very enter...

Red Sox Magic Number - 85 With the 1-0 victory over the Braves yesterday - the Red Sox magic number is now 85. Today most people think Ochoc...

Pick of the Day Tough loss last night as the Tigers roared out to a 4-0 lead only to lose 5-4 to the Astros. Today I like the Phillies takin...

Flotsam and Jetsam Miscellaneous thoughts and observations. Jermaine Dye is quietly having one of the best seasons of his career. The 35-yea...

Red Sox Magic Number With the win over the Braves last night - the Red Sox new magic number is now 86. There are 86 metals on the modern per...

The Steroids Era in a Nutshell Last night Alex Rodriguez hit his 564th HR to pass Reggie Jackson and move into 11th place on the all-time li...

Pick of the Day Today's pick of the day (POTD) is Detroit with Justin Verlander taking the hill. Bodog has the Tigers as a slight -$119 ...

I Love Gay Head I was unable to post yesterday because business took me over to Matha's Vineyard. The above is a picture of the cliffs a...

Pick of the Day Today I'm getting right back on the Red Sox horse for my pick of the day as they play a quasi-home game down in DC. Jon ...

Red Sox Magic Number - 88 With the Red Sox victory and the Yankee loss last night - the Red Sox new magic number is now 88. In my mind I ass...

Pick of the Day I'm bringing back my pick of the day (POTD) which was very successful for those of you who were paying attention back a ...

Excellent Poker Story You have Phil Ivey, a Las Vegas dancer making $50,000 the hard way, beer pong and a guy named Doug getting dumped by h...