Originally Posted by redietz View Post
Originally Posted by AxelWolf View Post
Originally Posted by redietz View Post
I find it pretty funny but a tad strange that most of you really have no idea what you're talking about, but seem to have strong opinions anyway. I think they call that Dunning-Kruger in the psychological literature. Well, make that all of you except Boz, really. Boz knows his stuff. Now obviously Boz is a neutral party, so you can direct questions at him also.

I get a kick out of cyberbabble. No, not everyone in The Wise Guys was a "tout." In fact, the gentleman known as "Southern Comfort," who had arguably the best overall Wise Guys ATS record ongoing for decades, was not a "tout." He was years ahead of his time. He was plugged into arbitrage and middles-shooting via offshores with auto-alarms back before Windows existed as a system. He is the only handicapper who said he never had a losing calendar year, and I believed him.

There were other private handicappers in The Wise Guys.

Cyberbabble purposefully paraphrases something I said, which is that I had the best or second best record ATS in the Wise Guys for the cumulative time I was in the contest. Obviously I wasn't first or second every individual year; that's beyond ridiculous.

I have no idea what Axelwolf was referencing. I'm not going to read an entire Street and Smith without some guidance as to what the question is.

Good try, though, cyberbabble. Nothing like being anonymous and wrong. You know, you could have saved everyone some reading time by ending your post with, "I don't know anything specific." That about sums up your post.

As to, "too much competition to get any traction," yeah, that was good, cyberbabble. That's why Mr. Walters hired me. He felt sorry for me.

If you guys have no legitimate, respectful questions, I'll drop the daily 11 PM EST check-in and make it once a week on Monday night at 11 PM. Todd has my email so he can contact me any time.

Have a good one! Axelwolf, if you have an actual question of some kind, just email me. Half the time, I can't tell what the hell you're talking about. I don't know if it's me or the Captain Morgan, but I think a private email is the way to go.

Boz, if you have the time and inclination, consider helping these guys out. I don't know if these folks are all slot machine experts, poker players, or just general maroons, but the lack of sports betting savvy is pretty startling.
I had a very simple question.

I just want to know if this magazine is the (or associated with) Tipsters or Gypsters published by Mike McCusker, the one you are always talking about?
http://ia801402.us.archive.org/22/it...ears)_text.pdf

Jesus, Axelwolf, this is why I'll limit myself to once a week. But because I'm into sports betting education, here we go:

This is Street and Smith, about the most famous, kind-of-old-school college football pre-season magazine. It published forever. If I remember correctly, I think I read Street and Smith because it tried to give kicker/punter summaries for most of the college football teams in a clear fashion when many other magazines kind of blew off returning kickers unless they were all-conference or had some kind of notoriety. Pre-internet, I religiously read Street and Smith and GamePlan and another one whose name eludes me. I still read them post-internet but cross-referenced them with other sources.
Let's go one step at a time.

While you might think me to be asking if that was the correct magazine, or associated with it was dumb/odd/strange/crazy... It's really not. I think it would be hard to find many people who have ever heard of those magazines, but that can be a different debate(even a side bet). Let us take that out of the equation for now.

I googled "Tipsters or Gypsters published by Mike McCusker", and this is what came up in the top 5 or so....

WINNING STYLE | —~

Internet Archive
https://archive.org › download › street-smith-pro-f...
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Our winning record monitored and verified by Mike McCusker of Las Vegas. To order. McCusker's Tipsters or Gypsters, send $17 to P.O. Box 19477, Las Vegas, ...

That link took me to the link I posted up here, and that's why I asked the question in the first place. I think most reasonable people without inside direct knowledge of those publications would be wondering the same thing.