Brad\'s Bobeche Blog

The 24th season for the Betting Baseball Gourmets and Jerry has emerged victorious. Jerry was able to score 24 more points than I did. We aren’t the best record keepers so we’re not sure how many season each of us have won. Our best guess is that I’ve won around 18 or 19 compared to Jerry’s 5 or 6 victories. However, it should be noted that the only victory that matters is the most recent one.

Some time Jerry and Susan and June and I will meet up in some neutral city somewhere in the US and I will be paying for a somewhat expensive dinner. The first five years of the bet the loser was required to fix a complete gourmet dinner for the four of us, fortunately, I won four of the first five years. we than changed the rules to the loser having to buy an expensive dinner for the four of us until just recently when we added the element of taking a trip to a new city for the dinner. Earlier this year we went to Santa Fe where Jerry was on the hook for 2 meals (sometimes we get behind) and the before that we dinned in New Orleans at my expense. We’ve been talking about SC next year and Cooperstown the year after. I’ll keep you posted on our final plans.

Click on this line to see the final score sheet.

also thank you to Travis for hosting our score sheet for another season.

FINAL:: Johnson 694 Smith 718

Team    Points
St. Louis   78
Philadelphia    89
New York Yankees    94
Boston Red Sox  96
Pittsburgh  94
Colorado    73
Tampa Bay Devil Rays    96
Seattle 74

Johnson

Team    Points
NY Mets 88
LA Dodgers  82
LA Angels   94
Detroit Tigers  88
Washington  89
San Francisco   91
Kansas City Royals  93
Baltimore Orioles   93

Smith

I’m not sure who to attribute the quote “Even a blind squirrel finds an acorn sometimes”, but they sure hit the nail on the head when it comes to explaining how Jerry won the bet this year! AS of this morning he’s ahead by 31 points, I might not be mathematically eliminated, nevertheless, we are just waiting for the fat lady to sing. I think she’s warming up, and she’s standing next to Jerry in the winner’s circle. It won’t be official until next sunday afternoon, however, let me be the first to congratulate Jerry on his well deserved victory. I guess this is the point I should say “Wait until next year!” and “Even a blind squirrel finds an acorn sometimes”