Excellent defensive display in the NFC East tonight. The line movement was interesting in that one, especially on the total. Three quarters of bettors were on the over, yet the total opened at 48 and dropped down to 46.5 or lower. A move like that generally indicates either that either a good deal of smart money is on the under, or that the books favor the under, so they want to do everything they can to encourage bets on the over. Either way, the books would have had a bad night on that front – the teams didn’t just go over, they obliterated the total.
Strange vibes coming out the Yankees camp. Jorge Posada came out in an interview this week and suggested that Joba Chamberlain would be better coming out of the bullpen than as a starter. He said that the tendinitis that kept Chamberlain out of action for a month or so was a sign that he can’t hold up to the strains of being a full time starter. I think that Posada s exactly right, but that’s not the point. What is surprising is that Posada would come out and say it when the organization has seemed committed to the starting path. That’s not the kind of thing that would have been tolerated back in the day, but now it was said in an interview on the Yankees’ own network. That’s all a round-about way of saying that I don’t have a lot of faith in this current admnistration in the Bronx.
Very interesting move by the Brewers today in firing their manager with two weeks left. It was the right move, I guess – they were in freefall and needed a shake-up. It just seems very risky and could backfire. On the other hand, I’m not in the clubhouse so I don’t know how Yost’s relationship with the team was going, and so my opinion isn’t worth much here. Either the brass in Milwaukee will look brilliant or this will look monumentally stupid. The best hope, it seems, would be for the Brewers to hope that some of the karma is ther stadium rubs off on them – The Cbus went for seven hitless innings today after a no-no yesterday while they were borrowing Milwaukee’s stadium because Houston’s was in the path of Hurricane Ike.
