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While the sp matchup was in favor of Seattle on paper, I'm still not too excited about laying chalk with Seattle, especially against a better offensive team. They have a way of making the Barry Enrights of the world look good sometimes, and I gotta give CJ a little more credit than Barry, lol, and I wasn't terribly concerned with Seattle lighting up CJ (or anyone else for that matter), and was willing to take that chance.
Seattle's pen also ranks near the bottom of MLB rankings, and while texas' isn't statistically much better, I just felt that was another area where Texas could capitalize better than Seattle.
I also felt like I'd get a motivated Texas team with them being off 3 straight losses, and during a 162 game season I feel motivational factors can be important.
Basically i felt like Seattle had to do a lot more right to win the game than Texas and that Texas was worth the shot once they got driven to a dog price. Had I waited I could have gotten +108...but I thought public action on Texas might actially move it back down.
In the end I felt like it was worth the shot at + money
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