Opening Day

It's always a big drunken mess in Detroit for Opening Day.  The last few years, I have been fortunate to have it off and avoid the mess, or attend at my leisure.  This year, however, they moved our Opening Day to a Monday, and I was forced to drive into the city around the same time the game was starting.  The drive was a little slower than normal, but nothing outrageous until I hit the exit.  Long story short, it was so busy downtown, it took more than 45 minutes just to get off the freeway.  In that time, where 99% of us were being patient and waiting our turn for the light, one of the less than patient people tried to shoehorn his way into my lane between my car and the one behind me, misjudged where his front end was, and rubbed my back panel.  Ugh. The scraping sound of car on car contact made me look into my mirror, and I was pretty shocked to see my car was part of that noise.

The only good thing about being completely stuck in traffic at that time was that I was able to get out, check the damage, confront the guy who hit me, and snap a picture of his license plate with my phone.  After a long, drawn out argument about pulling over to trade info (he wouldn't admit there was any contact between our cars) I got him to pull over and trade info.  After looking at the matching damage on our cars, he admitted he was in the wrong and would pay for the damage without reporting it to the police.  I let my skepticism be known, and reminded him I have all his info and his insurance company would know right away if I had any issues getting him to pony up the cash.  During all this, a nice woman approached me in my car and handed me a piece of paper with two names and a phone number on it, saying they would act as witnesses for me if there were any problems.  Hopefully there won't be any issues, but only time will tell.

Aside from that, Opening Day was a mixed bag for me.  The Tigers got the win, which is always nice....but of my three picks for the day, that was the one that would pay the worst, and is the only one I won for sure.  Atlanta was blanked, and Cincinnati is currently in the 9th down 1-0.  I wouldn't be surprised if it ends that way too.  It would be fitting for the 4 teams I picked to score a total of 5 runs.  Oh well, no matter how poorly I do, I am going to stick with the picks.

Update:
Games I picked are now all complete.  1-2 on the day for -1.65 units

Totals to date:
1-3, -2.75 units

Update #2:
This might be throwing good money after bad, but I'm on the Mariners tonight vs the Angels.  1.5 units at +114.  Win or lose, I think this is the right side of this line.  I think the early season lines on Seattle will be exploitable, especially in their own division.

Update #3:
Got down on Rangers -140 for 2.8 units and Brewers -114 for 1.14 units on Tuesday.  Rangers win (+2), Brewers lose (-1.14) and the Mariners won on Monday (+1.5).  Those three bets total +2.57 units, bringing me almost back to even for the year.

Totals to date:
3-4, -0.18 units