vork22
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Mesa is not what you remember anymore bit I love the valley! Year round golf and tons of opportunity for the kids.
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Fryowa
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I'm too trusting of people to go back. I like not locking my doors or car and letting my kid take off with his buddies around town for 12 hours in the summer.
Funny story along those lines, my 11 yo son and a friend took off from my place on foot to go fish bullheads under a local bridge one morning this summer. About 2:30 they come walking up my driveway with a 5 gallon bucket full of bluegill. Apparently they strolled over to pond on the edge of town that they thought (and most people thought) was public, but it's not. They started fishing and the owner came out of his house and instead of chewing their asses like he had every right to do, he asks if they want to catch gills instead and take some home.
I asked what they used for bait since they left my place with corn (bullheads), and he said the guy brought out a bunch of night crawlers....
Where'd you get the bucket??? "The guy gave it to us out of his garage."
So I said something too the effect of, "Wow, that was nice of him, what a good guy. Put the fish by the other garage and I'll clean em up. You guys can eat it for supper."
"We're not hungry."
"You're not?"
"No that guy's wife brought us taverns and Gatorade while we were fishing."
I shit you not....
If my mom ever heard I talked to a stranger as a kid in the Phoenix metro she would have skinned my ass alive. I was so scared of getting poisoned Halloween candy in Mesa (elementary schools scare the shit out of little kids for good reason) that I don't think I ever ate any.
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They still favored? I saw Leistikow tweet that sharp money was coming in on ISU once it got to Iowa (-2). Has anyone heard about movement back? How late can a line shift?
Ree4
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I went to Arizona for a week this spring for the first time since I was a kid - and I missed Iowa. The colors down there - ugh. Just drab in every direction as far as the eye can see. Foliage was incredibly sparse. I missed green grass, trees and water. There was some beauty there of course, but it wore out on me after a day or two.
He had 13 carries for 27 yards last year in Tempe against them. Also 6 catches for 54 yards. And ironically our current punter had 5 punts in that game.
It is hot rock and sand. Everything is dead or needs watered heavily. Not appealing at all in my opinion. I'll take the corn fields.
Fryowa
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Elite is still at 2.5, I took the money line at -140 though, don’t like betting spread that close.
Fryowa
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The website below is the best one (imo) for odds, the first two columns are the opening and the consensus odds respectively. The columns after that are the individual books that make up the consensus. If you click on individual lines it tells you all movement as well as the date and time of the movement.
http://www.vegasinsider.com/college-football/odds/las-vegas/
Ree4
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Honestly I only see cornfields once a month, I live in Iowa City and work about 3 minutes from home, and I rarely go out of town for anything other than to visit in-laws.
I don't like giving up that many, but I've got a feeling. We'll see.
Fryowa
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If I’m ever in the slightest doubt of the spread I go money line, especially in college ball. NCAA football is almost guaranteed money straight up as opposed to the NFL where teams are so much closer talent wise. You can take $1,000 and easily make say $75 in a weekend by grinding landslide favorites. Sounds dumb, but who wouldn’t take it if someone offered it to you outright? I look at it as that’s two tanks of gas in my car just betting on games Like Alabama vs Rice, or Ohio State vs. NM State or whatever.
Is it as fun? No. But it’s insurance against taking a total bath on closer games, and if you’re not feeling like you want to sweat over a bunch of other games it’s mostly guaranteed easy money.
vork22
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I miss that about Iowa, but I can’t take how Iowa is like a time warp back to the 80’s. Here you have unlimited options for things to do, food to eat and you are 10 minutes from anything you would ever need to buy. When I go home I can only take about a week of it. I do miss the people, fishing, the green and the changing of the seasons but I’ve gotten too used to this year round:
Except when a big 10 team loses to a mac team or whatever. Then you are out a grand.
At $75 a week X 3 weeks of non cons, that's over 4 years to recoup your 1000. AND only if you don't hit a team that it happens to again.
I play the money lines. It doesn't matter to me, as long as I think it is fair and gives me a chance to win.
But no, I'm not laying down $1000 at -1400 odds. Because you will be lucky to break even in the long run.
Is it safer? Yes. You could play for years and never lose. But when you do it's going to sting.
Fryowa
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Not out a grand. $50-$75 a piece.
Fryowa
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Funny how different people are; that’s the exact reason I like it. Slow paced, inexpensive, and with Amazon I can buy anything I can’t get in person. I don’t have a mortgage or car payment anymore, so my monthly bills including internet, utilities, cellphone, home and auto insurance, and Netflix/Hulu come to right at $490. Two tanks of gas gets me a whole month, and I’d guess about $200 a month in groceries. Property taxes are about $1100 a year, so I’m way less than a grand a month to keep this ship running.
I’ve got thirty something friends with a mortgage, 2 car loans, a boat loan, camper loan, and god knows what else who give me shit about not keeping up with the Joneses, but if I lost my job tomorrow morning in NW Iowa I could have another job somewhere else by noon and never miss a beat worrying about how I’m gonna survive or how I’m going to make my payments. They have more fun, but I wouldn’t enjoy it anyway if I knew the bank had my balls locked away in a vault.
I am going to splurge next month and buy a new snowblower, though.
My (deceased) dad’s 28 year old Craftsman is finally getting to the point where maintenance time >/= operational time so I’m buying a 414cc Ariens Platinum 30” SHO. I’m 39 years old goddammit, I can spoil myself once in a while—F it. I “test drove” one last winter; this thing will eat 2’ of snow and put it three houses down no problem. And it has heated handgrips. YOLO
JoeyLabasForPresident
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You should’ve lead with heated handgrips. Sign me up.Funny how different people are; that’s the exact reason I like it. Slow paced, inexpensive, and with Amazon I can buy anything I can’t get in person. I don’t have a mortgage or car payment anymore, so my monthly bills including internet, utilities, cellphone, home and auto insurance, and Netflix/Hulu come to right at $490. Two tanks of gas gets me a whole month, and I’d guess about $200 a month in groceries. Property taxes are about $1100 a year, so I’m way less than a grand a month to keep this ship running.
I’ve got thirty something friends with a mortgage, 2 car loans, a boat loan, camper loan, and god knows what else who give me shit about not keeping up with the Joneses, but if I lost my job tomorrow morning in NW Iowa I could have another job somewhere else by noon and never miss a beat worrying about how I’m gonna survive or how I’m going to make my payments. They have more fun, but I wouldn’t enjoy it anyway if I knew the bank had my balls locked away in a vault.
I am going to splurge next month and buy a new snowblower, though.
Fryowa
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You can get ‘em as an aftermarket kit too, and they fit any Ariens model snowblower. You just splice it into the wire harness that the light runs off of. They include epoxy for the handle grips and all the washers/hardware. $75 shipped.
pythagoras
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I took Iowa on September 2nd at +4 with William Hill
I can't imagine this game being as close as it has been in the past.
Lot's of changes have been made on both teams since then. Both improving.
But if it's close, I don't think Iowa is a legit top 20 team. If everything was reversed, I would say the same thing about ISU.
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