Baseball betting is a little different than betting on basketball or football. Instead of a spread, it uses a money line mainly. This makes for an interesting adventure. Baseball bettors don’t need to figure out how much better one team will be over another. They simply have to pick the outright winner and decide if the money is worth it.

Let me explain. Rather than have a spread, like – 3 points, the baseball money line morphs that spread into money. For instance, you might have the New York Yankees playing a really bad teamlike Kansas City. If this were football, the Yankees might be a 14-point favorite. However, in baseball, the line is dollars and cents. So, you might see the Yankees at -245.

A line of -245 means that you must wager $2.45 for each $1 that you want to win. Not all games are this high. Many are -105 to -130. But, when a dominate team plays a weak one, the number goes up. Since baseball betting is about picking straight up winners and money lines, many bettors think it’s easier to win money with.

The answer to this thought is mixed. First, it is easier in that all you need to do is pick a team to win the game outright. However, the trick is to not pay too much. Let’s look at that Yankees game. Suppose you bet $245 to win $100 and they lose. You’ve lost $245. If you normally bet to win $100 per game, you would need to win 3 games to get back the money you lost on one game.

Here’s a tip. If you are going to bet on baseball, don’t bother with favorites over -165. Stick with favorites under that amount and you won’t get nailed when a big favorite loses.

Author blogs on internet sports betting at AdvantageSportsBetting.com. He also writes weekly on bookmaker en ligne and pari en ligne.

From our deconstruction of hundreds of Hollywood blockbusters and sitcoms at www.clickok.co.uk/

The Hero’s Journey is the template upon which the vast majority of successful stories and Hollywood blockbusters are based upon. In fact, ALL of the Hollywood movies we have deconstructed are based on this template.

Understanding this template is a priority for story or screenwriters.

The Hero’s Journey:

a) Attempts to tap into unconscious expectations the audience has regarding what a story is and how it should be told.

b) Gives the writer more structural elements than simply three or four acts, plot points, mid point and so on.

c) Interpreted metaphorically, laterally and symbolically, allows an infinite number of varied stories to be created.

and more…

EXAMPLE: Shameless 03.07 (Frank and Sheila get married) – [Hero's Journey, basic]

FADE IN: Intro characters: now I’m not saying the Chatsworth Estate is the Garden of Eden

Loop: Frank’s stag night in the pub.

Time Pressure: two days to the wedding.

A Story: Frank wakes to find the builders in the garden; Sheila gives Frank