Alan Mendelson Going For The Jugular

[redietz]

I get to put together another package? Great!! Where am I sending it? Mickey, what's your address?

Um, mickey, you helped me post my "Tipsters or Gypsters?" records in the Retro Road Trip thread. You want to repost them for me? I appreciated your reorienting them for me. I am bad with this online posting stuff. And those futures tickets...oh yeah, they were my late cousin's, E.R. Dietz. Well, we could post them anyway. And Alan has a package somewhere with some cool stuff in it.

The thing about sports handicapping. Your record is pretty much public. Everybody knows when you've had a bang-up season or sucked to hell.

By the way, E.R. Dietz will be coming back from the dead soon, sort of a tribute to MDawg. Probably at WoV. I'll give you a heads up. He needs to learn to post photos. It'll be a humor thread.

FYI, back when mickey was helping me prove my personal history, E.R. Dietz (my late cousin) posted some very impressive futures tickets. Somebody should probably look those up. The thing about E.R. -- he always made a killing in sports, but then he'd find ways to blow it. Since he's coming back from the dead, he'll be explaining this stuff at WoV. He's kind of the Super Dave of sports betting.

I'll be glad to post up here any proof you send me via internet. I don't give my address to anyone. Now besides records of win/losses which I figure you want to send, we will need proof of monetary win. After all, a professional makes money. Anyone can make picks without betting. The proof is in the money you made. Tax returns must specifically show gambling income but will not be conclusive that you made the money betting sports. You will also need to prove that it was your main source of income.

Another trick scamdicappers do is to buy future tickets on every team, hoping for a long shot to win. No different that buying both sides of a game for large amounts, counting the Vig as cost of doing business. Anyone looking to impress with pictures of winners knows this scam. It’s looks great when you can show a ticket paying off on a long shot and say you knew it was coming. Or showing you “knew” team X was going to win easily and you bet $10,000 or more on them? The $1000 Vig is nothing compared to what you can make off suckers looking to win with your advice.

Not saying Red pulls these stunts but what you ask is reasonable if he is who he says he is. Naturally we won’t see any of this, but without the proof you ask, either can be assumed to be possible.

If you guys would notice, I made the same argument Boz just made in the Retro Road Trip thread. I explained how futures tickets were no proof of anything. Unless, of course, say, the president of a company was doing it with you, in which case one would think such a person wouldn't bother to lie about it for the sake of some handicapper.

Mickey, you've got it ass backwards, as per usual. A public professional handicapper is judged on his record, not how much money he makes. If he makes a fortune, but his clients, partners, and people who follow him get games that lose, then he really isn't much of a professional handicapper, is he? Jimmy the Greek, for example, became known for giving people games wherein he liked the other side just so he could get the line nudged in his favor.

Boz, honestly, LOL, would you be willing to lay money I couldn't pass a polygraph on anything I say? The enterprise is called Integrity Sports for a reason, and if you call around to the top public handicappers and inquire, you won't get one peep that I have ever fudged even a single number. Go ahead and call around. You think a certain heavy hitter looked me up because I was a loser? A flash in the pan? Anytime you want to do the polygraph thing, you let me know. In fact, I offered polygraph testing in the first big public ad I did in Game Plan magazine back in 1979. Full page ad across from the Notre Dame summary, as I recall. Kind of an embarrassing ad, really. I think it included my IQ. Worse, a personal photo. I was young; what can I say?

And Boz, it isn't kosher to use the word "scamdicapper," without referencing Mike McCusker, who invented the term. It's McCusker's "Tipsters or Gypsters?" that mickey posted for me. My being monitored and evaluated by the guy who invented the term should mean something, eh?

Wait! Wait! I made a terrible egregious error. Coach would be calling me a liar. The ad was in the 1980 Game Plan, not 1979. Whew. I bet coach would have had a field day with that one.