CONTENT PROVIDERS: Drop The Handicapping Stuff!!

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Philip Hogan, an Rx content provider, suggested the best way to go Sunday night was Denver and the Under. Uh-huh.

Wild Bill (who often provides worthwhile content, given the pressures of that trade) thought the best wager in the Mich/OSU game was the Under.

Content providers (before the advent of the Net they were called columnists) get into handicapping current games because they run out of compelling things to write about. An ariticle is written and content provided, usually not because the writer has much to say, but because he or she is under contract to provide copy. Fill up the empty space.

Same thing for print columnists, whether they be pontificating on sports, finance, politics, entertainment. Entertainers who are under content to do x number of movies a year, or x number of albums, will usuallly strike out as well most of the time, as the only need for their stuff is that they are under contract and they need the money.

Wherein derives the folk truism that "95% of everything is shit."

Which is why the Forum is generally more interesting than the commercial content. The posters, most of them, are not professional scribes, but in speaking from genuine anger, concern, outrage, wonderment and the like, the material is usually more engaging than something static that was produced because it was called for by contract.

How many read all or most of the article content on this site?
 

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they look genius when they are correct..... but really bad when they are wrong..... and im sure they lost alot of people some cash with the last couple
i was luckily on the correct side of both games......
 

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MikRetSam said:
they look genius when they are correct..... but really bad when they are wrong..... and im sure they lost alot of people some cash with the last couple
i was luckily on the correct side of both games......

As was I, with Mich +7 and SD +2.5.

I read maybe about 25% of the weekly content, and that's probably more than most do. The site would provide much more entertaining content if they solicited freelance, but that takes a huge commitment in time, patience, and wading through a ton of turd to come up with one or two pearls. But the pearls would glow, not "take Denver and the Under." ho-hum
 

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