PASSION, GRAMMER AND A DISCLAIMER TO AN EARLIER ENTRY.

Well, I am getting ready for a new week and I got an email that you might find interesting. Please read disclaimer below so we are all on the same page...

This is from a parent of the tackle football team we opened the season with from Roosevelt Elementary in Norman, Ok.

rooseveltparent08 aka Wendy writes...

Fat Jack,

After being directed to a blog that you wrote this past week I was moved to write to you. Let me start by saying that I have really never considered anything you say or do worth responding to because, quite honestly, I think you are a total jerk. Not only do you make your living off the misfortunes of others, but because I actually knew you in high school.

I would like to begin by suggesting that with all the big bucks you must be earning, that you pay someone to proofread your blog, your grammar is horrible. It's very obvious that English was not your strong subject.

Secondly, as a mom of one of the boys on the other football team I would like to point out that your blog entry titled "A Few Clients and Jackass at Little League" is not only ridiculous, but untrue. You know as well as I do that the story you tell is not the way the game went down. The ball did not hit the ground twice before your "spider monkeys" were ready to pounce on it, it was caught in the air! Your spider monkeys hadn't even broken through the line! I have the video if you would like to review it.

Maybe rather than blaming the other team for your loss, you should own up to the fact that your offensive coach is incompetent. You had the entire game to score and you were shut out!!!! (To think you didn't win with "Baby Jesus" on your side). But truly, the most disturbing part about this situation is that someone with such little sportsmanship and regard for others is a role model for young boys on the Titan's team. It's no wonder our world is headed the direction it is when someone like yourself is leading our young.

So please, have a little respect for yourself (AT LEAST for your team) and take the loss like a man! Take some responsibility and try to remember that you (as sad as it may it be) are setting an example for others!

OUCH!!! THAT REALLY HURT. I mean REALLY REALLY hurts!! This woman REALLY HATES ME. I mean really really hates me. I don't know what I did, besides make a joke about our football game, but she hates everything about me.

I think it is funny she didn't include her name but it is a small town and it didn't take long to figure out who has the amount of time,energy and rage to take the time to write me about a blog entry.

DISCLAIMER- It has been brought to my attention that there might a few people that were not amused by my blog entry entitled " A few clients and a Jackass at Little league". To these people I apologize; The last thing I meant to do is fire up rooseveltmom08 or any of the other parents of the boys from Roosevelt Elementary. I did not mean to imply that they didn't beat my sons tackle football team fair and square. I did not mean to imply that the fact that one of their parents picked up a live ball in the end zone was the reason we lost the game. Most importantly, I didn't mean to imply that i give a crap as to whether my sons team wins or loses in their football game. I simply thought it was a funny and odd thing that would be amusing to blog about. If my entry has in any way tarnished or tainted Roosevelt's dominating victory over the Truman Titans, I sincerely apologize. As for rooseveltmom08, I offer her my apology and I promise you this. The next time our team plays Roosevelt's 4th grade tackle football team, I am going to go to the 50 yard line before the game starts. I will stand there for exactly 2 minutes. My hope is that rooseveltmom08 will join me at the 50 yard line for a sportsmanship embrace. A simple hug between a VERY angry mom from Roosevelt and a Jackass, bad grammar, loser, crook, jerk that is trying to build a bridge between the idiots and the passionate. BTW, I'm the idiot and you are the passionate.

Hope this clears some things up and starts mending some fences!

A WINNING WEEK AND SOME OTHER HANDICAPPERS

We are coming off a 7-3 week and another winner Monday night with the OVER. Things are going great and most of my clients are happy. I don't spend much time talking about other handicappers. This is on purpose. the fact is, there are 3 types of people that sell selections. Here is a quick lesson in what most of these services are about.

 

Type 1-  The "scam artist". Unfortunately, about 90% of all handicappers fall in this category. these are guys that can sell ice to an Eskimo. Have you ever had a vacuum salesman come to your door?  When you went to the door, you had already made up your mind, you were going to calmly and nicely tell the gentleman you didn't need a vacuum and then close the door. You open the door, start into your explanation as to why you will not be buying anything from him today. You explain how you don't need a vacuum, you dont want a vacuum and if you did, you would simply go to Lowes and buy one. Then something happens, you black out, only to come to while writing a $2000.00 check for your new Robinson 4000 Gl vacuum cleaner. Well, that salesman is also a handicapper. He sells you stuff you don't need by day and sells gamblers his losing picks by night.  The easiest way to spot these crooks , is to remember, if they were any good at picking games, they wouldn't be calling you. They would be busy and make plenty of money betting on their "so called" winners and wouldn't need to call you.

 

Type 2- the "honest loser"- The fact is, it is very hard to consistently pick winners against the spread. There are some companies that really want to be honest. they don't lie to their potential clients to get them to sign up. Instead, they charm them with stats and trends and other things that make for good radio. they tell you about a team that , when playing on the road, with their black uniforms, when their qb was named Charlie, when it was below 56 degrees, when playing a team with a cougar or puma as a mascot, hasn't lot in the last 56 years!!!  They present this in a southern charm way that makes you want to sign up and join this "good ole boy" in the winners circle. The problem is, the guy that goes with this approach hasn't HAD A WINNING SEASON IN 3 YEARS!!!  He was 2-8 2 weeks ago, he has had 2 different 5 STAR GAME OF THE MONTHS.. whatever the hell that is.. both were losers. He is very dangerous because, although you want him to win, he will take you all the way to the poor house. If you hear Greg Roberts on the air... RUN THE OTHER WAY!!! At least until he figures out how to win. I have gotten his selections for 4 years and am pulling for him. Unfortunately, I am still waiting for him to turn a profit.

 

Type 3- The Winner- Their are very few guys that fall into this category. the fact is, most of the guys that can turn a profit betting on games, don't sell their selections. I am asked all the time " Jack, if you can make money betting on the games, why do you need to sell me the picks?" I have always found this to be a strange question. My answer is, WHY NOT SELL THE SELECTIONS?  I am yet to find someone that can explain why it is a bad thing to sell my winning selections to other gamblers. I bet the games before the lines move, then I release the selections to guys all over the country and they pay me a small fee so they can make money too. Who is the loser there? I frankly don't know why more people that can win betting on the games don't do the same thing.  As I said I am not the only one that is in this category. I know of 2 others that also bet their selections and are pretty good at finding the winners.

 

Hope this helps if you are trying to decide to sign up. The fact, I know the 3 categories and know most of the handicappers that are in each of these groups,hopefully will help you make the correct decision  when looking for someone to help you pick winners.

A FEW CLIENTS AND A JACKASS AT LITTLE LEAGUE

Well, a very busy weekend in the books and I have a few seconds to reflect. My reflections have just confirmed the high amount of idiots I crossed paths with over the last few days.

 

This time of year,I receive about 100 emails/week. Most are questions about the service. Some are compliments or thank yous from happy clients  but I ALWAYS  get 2 or 3 emails from guys that are just plain stupid. Each week, I try and personally return all of these emails , even the ridiculous ones. This week I got one from this idiot named Jeremy. Now, I got 20 emails telling me how good the season was going and I know I have collected over 30k this season BUT  Jeremy promised me that I in fact was not making any money this season and had lost money.  These emails use to drive me crazy. I would spend countless hours going back over my selections with these idiots until I showed them where they, forgot a few selections or put some of their losses into my record. Over the years I learned, the amount of frustration that I would have to endure in proving these morons wrong just wasn't worth it. Now, I don't even try. I figure if I can make 900 of the 1000 clients happy then I am way ahead. There are always going to be born losers that sign up, get mad, quit, lose on their own and quit gambling. It is the natural process, not everyone can be smart enough to sign up, get out of the way and collect their money each week.

 

My sons 4th grade football team which I will from now on refer to as the Titans had their first game Sunday. I am the coach and it has already been a learning experience. I have talked about idiot parents in many entries. Well, I am about to decide that everything is kicked up a notch when you put pads on. this includes the parents and other coaches. In the fourth grade, offensive plays and scoring are the hardest thing to teach. Anyone that has ever seen Lord of the Flies knows that. If you tell a 9 year old " go tackle that other 9 year old" that comes pretty natural to him, but tell him to block while another kid hands the ball to another kid who will then run and then...... well you get the idea. They also lose interest and it is harder to teach.  We were down 7-0 and punted the ball inside the other teams 5 yard line. My kids were smelling blood and were getting ready to get all over the QB, when their center snapped the ball over the head of his QB. Now as the ball took its second bounce in the end zone and my kids were getting ready to pounce on it like a pack of spider monkeys after a banana.. The other teams Jackass of a coach picked up the ball !!! My kids weren't sure rather to tackle the coach with the ball or just try and take it out of his hands. When he was asked " why did you pick up the loose ball that was getting ready to be recovered for a TD?" He responded, "Because I am a Jackass and I didn't want Fat Jacks team to get a touchdown and take the lead."  Well, maybe he didn't say that but that is the only explanation I could come up with.  The good thing is, we will play them again and if he touches the ball again, I am going to tackle him myself.  Shame on the idiot the first time, shame on me the second time. 

 

Have a great weekend. We are having a great month and October is traditionally my most profitable month of the football season.

GOOD WEEK AND THE FAIR

We had a very good weekend last week with the selections. I will never understand the guy that says " I dont bet enough to sign up for your service" and when I ask how much they lost this week, they respond " about 200.00". It seems they would be better off investing that 200.00 into my selections and then collecting 300.00 each week with those selections. I dont know,maybe its just me.

 

I took my kids out of school to go to the fair on Monday. I really wonder who is deciding which days we wont have school and then they decide to have school during the fair. If it was up to me, we would schedule "teachers meetings" and " parent conferences" ect during the Fair. The kids get to go to the Zoo, the museum ect but no Fair? I promise those kids would learn a lot more at the fair then they will at the Zoo.  State Fair Lesson #1.- Stay in school!  That seems like a pretty big one.  We explained to the kids that went with us that they were just 2 or 3 bad decisions away from being forced to run the Big Kahuna Roller coaster. I do wonder how they decide who will work which booth. I would much rather work the " load the toad" game on the Midway than to have to secure peoples belts on some ride. I guess its not what you know, its who you know,even at the fair.  I lost/paid over $20.00 looking in the "freak exhibits". No matter how bad the freak ride I just left was, I somehow got suckered into looking in the next cage. I paid 4.00 for all of us to go look at a 300lb snake that was going to "turn our dreams into nightmares" only to see a medium size boa constrictor taking a nap. Then , they got me to pay 5.00 to go see a "monkey with a human head" that was suppose to" frighten and amaze us all at the same time". this monkey had a face that I guess might be found on a human, a human that had a Monkey face. The final straw was the woman with no teeth that was dressed up like a spider. It was sold to me as a "half spider, half woman" .  It cost me 4.00 to see a bad Halloween costume with a lady that looks like she was on crack. I guess that is what I get for going to the Fair and acting like a "normal guy behaving like an idiot".That exhibit was free for the kids that went with me. We did have a great time.

 

Looking for another huge week so get signed up.

4-2 SATURDAY AND ISSUES AT SOCCER

We are off to a good start this week but it could be a WHOLE lot better. We had an intentional safety and a TD overturned on Saturday or it would have been a real big day. Oh well, a winning week is a good week.

I went to my 6 year old daughters soccer game yesterday morning. The weather was beautiful but a storm was brewing. We played this team that had " that coach". He was about 30 years old, about 5'9 and 250 lbs. He was decked out in OU gear and I could immediately tell, along with HIS Oklahoma Sooners,he had his sights set on chasing down a 6 year old girls soccer title. His team has 3 girls that had power kicks like Pele and 1 girl with the speed of a leopard and the strength of a lion. They worked together like a "mini soccer symphony" with pinpoint accurate passing and shots that David Beckham would admire. Our team is made up of 6 little girls that love pink, love fashion, love bows in their hair and don't like to sweat. I am positive, their coach had bet 1000s on the game because as the score soared to 14-2 , the words " ONE MORE GOAL" could be heard echoing throughout the soccer complex. I am pretty sure he played his, Soccer Assassins -13 goals and over 16 1/2 goals. During the game, our fans got a little excited about the poor officiating the 12 year old referee was giving us, the fact the other coach was acting like a Jackass and some of our parents dont like to lose either. At half time, our coach, came over and told our parents to stop yelling at the 12 year old official and no matter what their parents threw at us (cans, gum, chairs ect) we needed to act like adults. I might have taken offense to that if I was a parent that cared about 6 year old soccer or if most of his comments weren't directed at his wife. She was the main focus of his lecture. After an hour and 17 min of soccer excitement, it was over. Final score....you know, who gives a crap what the final score was!! They won, we lost, they are still south side idiots that need to get a life and I still don't care about 6 year old soccer!!! Although, Caytie DID look awesome and loved her snack.

We have our first 9 year old tackle football game today. I am the head coach so it may get hot! Have a great day.

SOME FANS ARE DOUCHE BAGS- IS "DOUCHE BAGS "A DIRTY WORD?

Sorry for the delay on an entry but as you can imagine, I have been VERY busy. the first week went well and I turned a nice profit. this last week wasn't as good. I lost Thursday, Friday and Sunday and pushed on Saturday. For most this would still be an OK season so far but the bar is really high for my clients and I. We will have a great month and season but I hate to lose. EVER. My wins have all been easy and my losses have mostly been due to turnovers ect. so I am close to having a huge run. Sometimes it is as important to know why we lost as it is to just know we lost. If I was picking teams like Cincinnati against OU I would be worried but my wins are teams like Michigan State -21 and won by 35 and Philly on Sunday -8 and won by 35. the losses were teams like Pittsburgh -12  and won by 10. FINE. Look for a good week.

 

I took my son to the OU game on Saturday. I am amazed at what I see every time I try and take him to a game. I have never understood guys that yell at the coaches. I heard " throw it to the tight end!!" and " you call that a block?"  Now most of the  idiots yelling stuff are 5'1 guys that are ALWAYS bald and clearly morons. My son asks,"dad, why is he yelling at the field?" I say " Son, he is a moron." That is all I can come up with. Even if the idiots yelling knew the rules and had a clue what they were talking about, the coaches would never hear them and if they did do we really want them listening to the bald guys in the good seats?   I think it would be great if just once, Brent Venables would turn around and say, " hey baldy in the 5th row, thanks for the tip I was wondering if I should blitz and you really helped." " you are the man!!"  Budweiser should do a commercial about those guys.

 

I will try and give a 4th grade football and 6 year old soccer update later this week.

 

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