Cashing In

Your "Bad Beat" for Tuesday is on:

Rays (under 8 1/2) at Anaheim

This is really good!

Joel Pineiro was great and Matt Garza settled down and ate a lot of innings. The Angels led 4-1 into the top of the 9th inning as the over players were in horrific shape and pretty much had no hope.

Until...

Willy Aybar homered in the final inning with one out to get within two runs at 4-2. Then with two outs and a man on first the visitors from Tampa were down to their final out. Brian Fuentes was struggling a little and walked Ben Zobrist allowing Evan Longoria's double to tie up the game just like that.

With the game tied at 4 and a 5th run going to happen all of a sudden this thing reversed course and became an over!

If you care, the Angels won the game 5-4 in 11.



Your winners for Tuesday are on:

3* Celtics (plus 7 1/2) at Cleveland.

2* Angels (plus 105) vs. Tampa Bay.

One play on Monday a small 2* easy winner on the Magic!



The Cavaliers were awesome in game three but that has been it so far. Cleveland has struggled and LeBron's elbow is still not 100%. The King at times has looked really good but at other times has looked bothered and disinterested.

Meanwhile Rajon Rondo is becoming a superstar and a guy that can dominate this series. Neither Garnett, Allen or Pierce are what they used to be but there is still a lot of experience and potential with any of those guys and certainly capable of competing.

The Cavs at home are dominant and if they are feeling good and come to play they can beat anybody going away. But we haven't seen that team for the bulk of this series and therefore I'll take my chances with the dog and the points.



Scott Kazmir has not been very good this season but going up against his old team that traded him away could be the antitdote to change things around.

We saw John Lackey shove it up his former team's butts last week as Lackey dominated the Angels and now it's Mike Scioscia's turn to have a player look great against former players.

Kazmir was on his way to stardom with Tampa and then had a rough stretch and was disposed of like a piece of meat. Now it's the lefty's turn to get some revenge here in the Big A against a suddenly semi struggling Tampa team.

Joe Maddon's squad had been great through the first month but the last week has not been as great including that perfect game against them by Dallas Braden.

Tampa may be the better team and Jeff Niemann is a quality young arm but some plus money at home with Kazmir in this spot is worth a play.