Fear Itself is Afraid of Cole Hamels

Cole Hamels is awesome. It's become blatantly obvious now that all those idiots who were giving up on him last season...well...are idiots. (Please note that TheWizWit team called this one back in March. Yes, we're that smart.) After one sub-par year (see very end of this post) fans were ready to give the ole' heave-ho to the 2008 NLCS and World Series MVP. People called him soft, immature and made entirely too big a deal out of his comments during the World Series (if you didn't understand what he meant when he made those comments then you probably listen to WIP too much). But thankfully, Cole has gone out there in 2010 and made each and every person who tore into him last year look pretty dumb.

Like Andy Reid time management dumb.

Called It: vol. 2

This needed to be brought to your attention. In last week’s NFL spread picks, we went 11-4-1 and are picking winners at 57% clip.  Do you know how good that is?  No?  Well read this:

Now to be a successful handicapper you have to make up for the vig on the losing bets so to breaks even you need to have a win percentage of 52.4 percent. If you can achieve a long time winning percentage of 55 percent it is considered very good. Anything over 60 percent is excellent however most bettors don't sustain this percentage over the long run. [casinogambling.about.com]

And I'm just some random dude picking, not a real handicapper.

Called It! vol. I

The score was 24-3.  The Saints we're getting pummeled by the Miami running game.  The Saints' heralded aerial attack was grounded.  It looked like the middle of the end for thewizwit.com's #1 Power Ranked team, when, at 5:53pm EST, the following text messages were sent:

Maurice
Saints still win this game.  U heard it here first
Chris
Haha I'll mark it down

Two hours later, I can proudly proclaim:

I Called It.