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Long before I had even ever heard of the syndicates or knew that
there are people out there who successfully gamble for a living, I traveled a
long road in my search for winners. After realizing that I sure wasn't going to
beat the line-makers with my own opinions, and after having gotten burned by
several scam operators masquerading as handicappers, I decided to turn to the
people who are supposed to monitor the services. There are two organizations
out there professing to be the Consumer Reports and Watchdogs of the Sports
Service Industry. If you've been around at all, you know of whom I speak. So I
called the bigger of the two operations and ordered year-end reports from
someone I'll call Babe Ruth. Now keep in mind, I paid for these reports but I
was shocked to see what came in the mail a few weeks later. All I wanted to
know was which services had done well and which ones had not. Instead I got
pages and pages of incomprehensible mish-mosh broken up into a staggering array
of categories. 1st half, 2nd Half, college, pro, weekly, monthly, totals,
return on investment, money won, big plays, etc. etc. etc. The biggest insult
was that the services were actually allowed to divide their plays into
different clubs or groupings. What kind of shit is that? How can these people
allow more than one set of games from any given service? I think Don Wagner
alone had about 8 services. Joe Atkins had Inside Information, Raider, Late
Steam, and Early Steam among others. Get a load of this.... services are
allowed to have their 900 numbers monitored separately too. In a classic case
of the wolf guarding the hen-house, Babe Ruth actually has her own 900
number. How sick is that? As I perused the pages of these reports I had
paid good money for, I began to understand that this was but another joke, and
that the general public was the jok-ee being played yet again. Why does
Consumer Reports accept no advertising money? Because they
refuse to compromise the integrity of their results. Where do you think
these monitoring services get all of their cash? You guessed it! All of their
income is derived from the services they oversee, so they have a direct, and I
believe conflicting interest in making as many people look good as possible. And that’s just what they do…. ad nauseam.
That’s why no complete record is ever printed. That’s the reason for all the categorize. The way the whole thing is rigged, just
about everyone gets to be number one in something, somehow, someway, even if
its just for a week, and that service can proudly climb to any roof-top and
scream WE’RE NUMBER ONE!!!! And they do.
There’s another monitoring service out there, I'll call it Sports
Botch, run by a guy I'll call Jack Rootbeer. Guy
hates my guts and I've never said two words to the man. Mr. Rootbeer will
only tell you which services are in his top ten.
He possesses all the social graces of a Mexican sea slug with herpes.
I defy anyone out there to get Jack to release a list of every service he
monitors, let alone seasonal results in any sport. It’s
not gonna happen. If they're not doing well, Jack won't tell you Jack shit.
That’s how fiercely he protects the people he is supposed to be watching over.
Believe it or not, the two companies I've been talking about are actually
considered to be the most reputable monitoring services in existence. What
about the ads that claim some audacious record from “The Handicapper’s Report
Card” or “The Book of World Records?” These are fake monitors that don't even
exist! Some touts even have counterfeit monitors working for them, in the
same building, probably in the next office or cubicle. They will verify that 80-20
record for you. They have also seen pigs fly and talked to the Easter Bunny
personally. There is no one monitoring
the sports services industry today
that will A. accept no money from the services it watches
over, B.
Allow each service to release only one set of plays per sport. C. Tell you who is being monitored,
and give you their record no matter how they are doing. D. Give you a proper accounting
of an entire season, instead of chopping everything up into little pieces. So as far as I’m concerned, there are no legitimate monitors
at all. No one to protect us from our protectors.
No one to stand up for the little guy. Just more slick
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