Originally Posted by coach belly View Post
Originally Posted by redietz View Post
Mickeycrimm, I thought, was very generous to not take you to school by loading up machines on his home turf.
What difference does it make?...nobody was ever going to Montana,
he generously threatened to shoot me if I did.

Originally Posted by redietz View Post
What must you do to assure yourself a chance to win?
I have no chance to win unless I can get you to agree to a bet.

You've brought your challenge up 3 times, complaining that nobody will bet you,
now I'm offering to take your action, and all you want to do is play word games.

Shit or get off the pot, ditz.

I am ready to make a sports bet with a self-proclaimed pro,
and you won't take my action?

Coach failed the test. I am somewhat surprised. As per my original offer, I could take any teams I liked, with a minimum of 200 plays and no maximum. The minimum/maximum mention was fluff to distract him. I could have had this drag on for days or weeks, but I have things to do.

The trick is that I'm allowed to take any teams I like. That means (drum roll please): I am allowed to take opposite sides of the same game. Monet would have gotten that in two minutes. I'm pretty sure Mission would have had in about the same. Would coach have gotten that in hours, or days, or until his money was in escrow? Any theories?

The beauty of that wager is that it can be made at 50%, also. If you shop for lines and play for middles and know what you're doing, you will hit some middles throughout the season. Maybe not many, but all you need is one to be above 50%. Also, you can start off the first week actually handicapping, and if you lose, you can then switch to opposite sides of the same game for as many plays as you can fire, and you will eventually get to 45%, probably sooner than later. In addition, you could actually handicap, start off well, and only go to the opposite sides strategy if you were in danger of falling under 45%. In theory, you could (and the odds favor you to do so), maintain a percentage above 45% and never have to unveil the opposite sides strategy. You could save it for the next chump, or the same chump the next year.

Now this is a sucker bet, obviously, just as what Argentino is proposing is a sucker bet. A lot of misdirection and fluff in both, but when the terms are pinned down, you can't lose unless your opponent, in my case, vetoes betting both sides of the same game. If he does, you simply say, "Not my original offer." Kind of like Argentino. In Argentino's case, he's offering even money on something he has a 40-45% chance to lose. Also a sucker bet. Also "word games" with denomination switches and special plays.

Coach, really, how likely is it you would have come up with vetoing betting opposite sides of the same games by yourself? LOL. A pre-school angle. Argentino's stuff is third or fourth grade, so I have to give him credit.