An Idiot’s Brush with Baseball Betting Odds
By Michael Williams (8/10/2006)
There are many ways of making a fool of yourself with things that are really
out of your league.
Baseball betting odds can be quite mind boggling for people who
have no idea about the rules of baseball in the first place. Or so I thought.
My first encounter with a baseball betting odds happened when three of my
brother’s geek friends came to visit for the summer. Actually they are quite a
decent bunch who are neither athletic nor the outdoors type. You know the type,
very intelligent and no muscles at all. Definitely not the type who would play
baseball! I would wager my last dollar that they could not swing a bat and hit a
homerun!
Now I was really beside myself with amusement when one of them discovered
baseball betting odds on the net and invited the rest of the geek troop to bet.
I warned them that you would lose your shirt in less than a minute because you
have no idea what you are doing. I asked them what do they know about baseball
betting odds? Of course they ignored me. Soon they were all huddled around the
computer as if it’s the most beautiful thing in the world. I was beside myself
with amusement and irritation at the same time.
I was so convinced that they will soon lose all their money quit when an hour
later, there was a great uproar and rejoicing. “What happened?” I asked. The
geeks won a hundred bucks on baseball odds. How? Is that possible? Last time I
checked none of them knows anything about baseball. Well, turns out that
baseball betting odds are actually more like a mathematical puzzle! You
calculate the odds on both sides and decide which one has a higher probability
of winning! I stared at them feeling like the real idiot!
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