His mother is a mudder... his father is a mudder.

I overheard an incredibly interesting conversation during the game today. Some guy behind me was talking about how he's won a bunch of money betting on baseball. His "system" is simple: put $10 on the underdog in each game (playing the money line). That's it.

According to his math, he needs about 35% of the underdogs to actually win on any given day to break even, and he was telling his friends that he made a bunch of money betting this way last year.

This could be the most interesting gambling-related development this side of "betting on double-digit home underdogs" during last college football season. (They put up some ungodly numbers like 30-13 against the line)

I am now going to spend the next three hours scrounging through old newspapers to try to find old baseball lines and figure out if this really works.

If it does, I'm on my way to living in a house made of solid gold.