brodybuck21 said:

Skenes is going to no hit them on like 70 pitches

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He's thrown 24 straight scoreless innings vs Cincy

Skenes is going to no hit them on like 70 pitches

Haha suck it Pham

I fucking hate Tommy Pham

Jaxbuck said:

The only thing that makes sense at all is they took some serious sharp money north of 10 and moved it down for that reason.

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That does make sense, although it's certainly not a comforting explanation at all. Still, even 7.5 for a true road game with a first-time road start for Sayin is quite a few points in terms of being confident about coming out with a W. I still think the Buckeyes are going to kill them, which is probably a bad sign.

Jagdaddy said:

It's strange to me that the betting line has moved from opening at Ohio State -14 or -13.5 to Ohio State - 8.5 or 8 without there having been major injury news or a weather report showing lots of rain or wind (it's expected to be partly cloudy and mild with modest wind at game time). The same thing happened for the first two games, albeit to a less glaring extent. Maybe Vegas is just being super-aggressive, even compared to past years, in setting opening lines favoring Ohio State because they can get lots of action at a bad price from our huge fan base and at a good price for otherwise leery non-OSU bettors or maybe somebody's spilling bad information somewhere to drive the lines down. I hope it's just Portnoy dropping huge losing bets on Ohio State's opponents, but I'm sure that would be too awesome to be true.

Normally I'm very leery of being too optimistic when a line moves like this, but in this case, I'm not.

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It's moved down to -7.5 in most places.

With a big public money team like OSU, opening the spread high and then adjusting down won't help really because most public money bets late. Only the sharps tend to jump on weak lines early.

This one got hammered down. Breaking through 10 is a big tell. The only thing that makes sense at all is they took some serious sharp money north of 10 and moved it down for that reason.

Now, sometimes syndicates will play the game where they hit one side of a number to give that signal of sharp money so the books will move the line down and then they go 2x or more on the better number but again, OSU being such a big public team negates that. That type of thing is usually done (allegedly) on smaller, less liquid market type games.

Could be a lot of noise signaling nothing but a line dropping from -13 to -7.5 is something worth being aware of. I would not feel super comfortable if I held an OSU -13 ticket right now.

No Urban rumors yet?

Thump said:

I remember women's roller derby back in the 80's on ESPN and ole Georgia Haas was the heel manager.

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It peaked for me with Raquel Welch in 1972.

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Skubal seems like a good dude! He visited Fry in the hospital and Vogt drove him there.

BB73 said:

They had the rhabdo thing in 2011, a recruiting violation regarding Cade McNamara, and a flare-up on racial discrimination just a few years ago.

Some of those things were smaller stories because it was at Iowa.

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yeah, I think Chris Doyle was in on 2 of those things, right?

jarv said:

Guys, I think Kirk would agree that he's no Woody Hayes.

But he's coached at one place for 30 years and unlike the last guy to do it, didn't have a major, major scandal. Pretty commendable to stay in one spot and not take off the moment he's offered anything else, especially in this day and age. He might be the last to ever do it.

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They had the rhabdo thing in 2011, a recruiting violation regarding Cade McNamara, and a flare-up on racial discrimination just a few years ago.

Some of those things were smaller stories because it was at Iowa.

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She's no Bobby the Brain Heenan, but she is nasty enough for me to avoid.