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Sportsbook Consigliere

Oct 1, 2020 • 12 tweets • 3 min read • Read on X

Story time from the book:

We made it to October 1st, and all things feel right with the day in sports. ⚾️ & 🏈 on a Thursday.

We have postseason baseball games..the Twins are out, the Yankees are in, and the Astros keep banging the can.

The storylines are strong & the drama...

of postseason baseball makes for an electric day in the book...

Opinions are plentiful, experts scattered throughout, bettors questioning every manager’s move and anyone with a set of eyes yelling at the umpire’s strike zone...

I’ve shared many October days in the book with...

complete strangers, watching games and listening to bad beats...

No NBA, no NHL, no college football today...just baseball...

Aces trying to save their team’s season pitching into the shadows...baserunning gaffes costing teams a run and a guy his first five inning total...

Terence Mann said it best:

"They'll watch the game and it'll be as if they dipped themselves in magic waters. The memories will be so thick they'll have to brush them away from their faces. People will come Ray. The one constant through all the years, Ray, has been baseball...

There is nothing more magical than your team’s run in October...

As a kid, I lived the 1979 “We are Family” team in Pittsburgh...I can still name the starting line up...and the song brings back all the memories every time I hear it...

In the book, you remember stuff cause you..

had a ticket on it...

For all you White Sox fans holding a future on them, pennant or World Series, may you get to the next day...you will truly become “America’s team” as it will be the world against the Astros...

Wait, what’s that? There is a Thursday night NFL game...

tonight? Really?

Hold on here, Ray Kinsella...

It’s Football Night in America...0-3 Broncos at 0-3 Jets...

Brooklyn Joe, an old friend, would ask on a day like today “Davey boy, who you like tonight in football?”

Nobody...

“Whaddya mean nobody? You gotta like somebody..

in the football game.”

I don’t care about the football game...I’m watching baseball...it’s October...who gives a shit about the Broncos and Jets...

“You are ridiculous. You know the Yankees are going to win the World Series. And they aren’t playing today. So forget baseball...

and give me a play in the football.”

Brooklyn Joe was a persistent mo’fo. He wore me down.

“Okay Joey. Jets and over.”

He looked at me over his readers.

“Ah...you are full of shit. You are just sayin that cause I like Denver.”

You asked me for a pick, there it is...

“Never mind, Davey Boy. I’ll be watching football. You go watch baseball.”

I nodded. He paused.

“You gotta game today?”

White Sox.

“C’mon. You think they are going to win today or you just rooting that future ticket in?”

Both.

“Oakland’s pitcher isn’t lefty today...

A’s are winning today.”

Ok, jagoff. We’ll see. What do you know anyway. You will be watching Broncos-Jets.

“Fair enough, Davey Boy. Enjoy the baseball.”

October weekdays in the book are the best.

People will come, Ray. People will come...

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Story time from the book:

At lunch with my dad, years ago, an old bookie guy told us..

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understand?”

I nodded.

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