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Beat the Guru: AFL Week 5
Adam Markowitz
Thursday March 27, 2008
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It’s not bad being the Guru right now. I just rolled off another 6-2 week, which put me back in front of the
“Arena Guru” of AFO. My record of only two people beating me on a week remains in tact. I’m closing in on the best record in this competition. My
Orlando Predators swiped a victory from my personal nemesis, the
Georgia Force.
Oh, and I get to serve out a bunch of humble pie to an unnamed SaberCats fan who has made fun of me about saying the
Dallas Desperados are going 19-0 all season. Now that your Cats have lost to Dallas without Clint Dolezel, how does it feel my green and gold glasses-wearing friend?
Meanwhile, the 8-Ball had another miserable week, going just 2-6 and dropping to 9-23 on the young season. How’s the pick of Columbus to win the ArenaBowl look for you now, Mr. 8-Ball?
Though no one beat me this weekend, props go out to four of you who successfully matched my 6-2 mark from a week ago. You should be proud of your feeble attempts to beat me, and know that you would’ve made a lot of money had you flown to Las Vegas last week. Honors go to phillysoul04, InsideSix, Rush43, and es46ne10.
Disclaimer: This information should be used for entertainment purposes only. Should you choose to actually lay real money on these games, that’s purely your choice, and neither I nor ArenaFan are responsible. All lines are courtesy of Olympic Sports as of Thursday evening.
Arizona Rattlers (+14.5) @ Chicago Rush: All residents of Arizona, please be on the lookout for the following signs: “Missing: Siaha Burley. If found, please contact Jeff Smoker at 1-800-NOSCORE.” Coming into last week’s game with the
New York Dragons, Smoker had run eight TD drives on the season. Not bad, except for the fact that the Rattlers had been stopped on the other 13 possessions he led. I really don’t care that he went 22/31 against a lousy Dragons team. Let’s see what the nasty Chicago Rush defense can do. This one should get ugly early.
Here was ArenaGuru's pick for the game. Hopefully, you got a push at -8. I got it at -9. He said he was trying to be funny and not serious about the pick.
San Jose SaberCats (-8.5) @ Kansas City Brigade: The quote of the week was actually made last week by Brigade Head Coach
Kevin Porter. “You look at our division, and everybody has at least one loss, and Chicago and Colorado play this week, so one of them will two. We’re in good shape.” Yep Coach, you’re in good shape all right. After watching a QB in his first career start (James MacPherson) drop 92 on you, do you still think you’re in good shape? Oh yeah, the defending champs are coming to town, and they can’t be in too pleasant of a mood after losing at home to Dallas last week. How does that big contract of Porter’s look now to Brigade fans? If James MacPherson can drop 92 on you, how many points is Mark Grieb going to put up?
Guru’s Pick: SaberCats 108-50
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