by Mario Mergola | Nov 22, 2023
I have a close friend of mine who asks me regularly, “How did your picks do?” This year, I’ve given basically the same answer every time. “They’ve been… fine.” They haven’t been great, but they haven’t been...
by Mario Mergola | Nov 16, 2023
If there’s a theme for a given week, I list it. There’s a theme, and it’s an important one. The spreads are moving aggressively. We usually see this in the first week or two of a season where perception is so dramatic that it must shift numbers....
by Mario Mergola | Nov 8, 2023
We’re now past the halfway point of the season, and we do need to reflect on how rocky it has been. Usually, by now, we have seen some peaks-and-valleys that can lead into the second-half of the year. That hasn’t been the case. It’s been small hills...
by Mario Mergola | Nov 1, 2023
We are halfway there. I can’t believe it. But, then again, I can never believe it. The season almost always moves quickly, but I can easily see why this one has felt like a blur to this point. It’s because there has been no movement. Anywhere. Usually, by...
by Mario Mergola | Oct 26, 2023
Much better. Last week, I wrote about how impossible it was for the games to continue to play close to their spreads, and we finally got some relief from it. With the relief came a much better record. We obviously want that to continue this week, but we also need to...
by Mario Mergola | Oct 18, 2023
What a frustrating set of outcomes. I mentioned it last week — and I refuse to give excuses because this is the nature of the game — but we have seen too many games fall to within a single point of the final spreads. Unfortunately, we have also landed on...
