First of all, sorry to anyone who followed my lead and bet Mexico last week. They should have smoked S Africa like they did to Guatamala. I will still take them tomorrow v. Jamaca. Anyway, onto a prop bet for tonight's All Star game that looks tooooooo easy, so it probably isnt:
PUJOLS to have more hits, runs, rbi's than ORTIZ -115
Consider this(much of which I learned on ESPN earlier)...The NL only has 2 First Basemen on the team. Derrek Lee is starting at 1B and Pujols at DH. The only person that can relieve Lee at first is Pujols, which basically means Albert will play the whole game. The only way he doesn't is if Lee plays the whole game at 1B and LaRussa rotates at DH...that WONT HAPPEN. Dusty Baker has told LaRussa he doesnt want Lee to play the whole game which means Pujos plays half as DH and half as 1B.
Over in the AL, they are carrying 3 players at 1B...Ortiz, Konerko and Sweeney. Now we know Papi is starting and is tired from the Derby and all his hacks. He will play no more than 4 innings and probably only 3. Therefore, I'm taking Pujols with at least 4 at bats tonight against Ortiz, who will bat twice at the most!
BTW...small play on the OVER 9 1/2 for 3 more units!!!