There’s nothing quite like October. For kids, there is Halloween where they get to dress up like there favorite superheroes and get free candy. Teenagers and college students get to dress up like jackasses and seductive creatures as an excuse get as drunk as possible together. And for degenerate sports lovers, we get to experience the holy grail of sports entertainment.
When the NFL starts at the beginning of September it feels like Christmas for weeks on end. The first echoing week 1 of Scott Hanson saying, “And now 7 hours of commercial free NFL football.” Is better than the first time discovering amateur pornography. However, that is just the start of it.
Maybe, for an inexplicable reason, you’re not the biggest NFL football fan. Well even for those pathetic individuals you’re in luck because soon after the start of NFL football AND college football we enter the MLB playoffs. While the regular season of baseball is longer than the illiterate middle school student reading aloud to the class, the playoffs are filled with excitement and agony. Starting with the one and done wild card game.
This goes on throughout the month of October and BOOM right in the middle of October we get the NBA back. While all of this is obvious news to all of you, I just want to take a moment to appreciate what we have for the next month. With NFL football, college football, MLB playoffs and the start of the NBA season there are unlimited gambling opportunities to lose money every day in October.
In fact, the only day of October where there wasn’t either an MLB playoff game, football, or regular season basketball game on was Wednesday, October 10th. THAT’S IT! (And for the sake of transparency the Warriors and Lakers played in Las Vagas in a preseason game that night.)
So live it up. While many people take this month for granted or tell me that it’s not a big deal and to get a life, to that, I say you don’t understand the sensational time of year we are in with nothing but undeniable opportunity. So enjoy this month of top-tier sports entertainment because before you know it October will be over and either the Dodgers, Redsox, Astros, or Brewers will be World Series Champs. And then January will be over, and some team will be National champions, and then February will be over, and some team will be super bowls champs, and then March Madness will be over, and you will be left with nothing but the meaningless NBA regular season and a much lower bank account statement.
If you made it this far in my first blog, thank you, below are my lead pipe locks for Thursday, October 18th with a trifecta of sporting events.
1.) Broncos -1
2.) Portland -3
3.) Astros Moneyline
4.) 6 point 3 team teaser: Arizona +7, Lakers +7, and 76ers -8.5
Lock it in.
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