Finding Peace In the Angriest of Times

For every minute of anger you sacrifice 60 seconds of peace of mind- Emerson

This is my favorite time of year. I spend my mornings sleeping in, my afternoons walking the dogs around the city or finding hiking trails.

I do chores while discovering music, I cook dinner with a little more patience. I spend more time with my mom and Wally on the phone trying to find humor in our current conundrum.

I have four weeks of peace before it all starts. The calm before the storm, if you will. She knows as well and has started making plans with her friends to keep herself busy on Saturdays which I appreciate but it makes me sad as well.

I found like almost all of Twitter that draftkings and its's asking their clients to pick up the tax tab beyond absurd. Win or lose you're going to pay vig? This is the most asinine thing you'll ever hear or read in their justification.

This is a company who seeks out problem gamblers and gives them VIP hosts and accounts but will limit someone they suspect (no actual proof needed) might win giving them zero ability to profit much of anything at all.

I was semi raised by maybe the best and easily the longest tenured book in Denver. He used to give a pie to every guy who lost 2 weeks in a row. He never wanted anyone to go full on broke though, that's the worst fear of any book or agent is a broke sheet.

These legals are working with a set of rules that even the Mob would think is criminal. They're making it impossible to beat a game that is incredibly difficult to have any edge at all to begin with.

I've known a lot of BM's and agents over the years but one said something that's always stuck with me, "the best can never win at the rate or the amount that the worst losers can lose at and it'll never be that close of a race" with that in mind, how would a billion dollar company think they need to extend their advantage?

With the capital they have they could spend so little of their overhead to hire the most talented men and women on that side of that counter and make infinitely more than the short sighted version of bookmaking they're doing now.

I can't be bothered by the things I can't control but its entirely frustrating and so easy to get angry over what could be great for everyone involved being squandered in such a foolish manner.

I can't go to betbash and that saddens me. I can't do coffee group this month for the first time in 3 years, which really sucks as well but I wouldn't feel great about doing either.

My mother and sister go back to work Monday and for the first few days I'm going to attempt to help where I can.

The thing I'll miss most about betbash is discussing college football with so many. I respect everyone's opinion and I love intelligent conversations about a upcoming season.

Im uncomfortable talking in length about any team for too long but will answer what I feel confident about in spurts.

I want to attempt to do the same thing here. I did some Q&A's on our discord the last 2 years. I'll do a Q&A starting this Monday evening where we can go over power 4 conference prices for futures where before this season I have never paid attention to but I think there's certainly some juicy prices and it will be a good starting point.

All opinions and questions will be welcome. If it goes well and you guys enjoy it I'll do a NBA futures discussion at some point preseason as well.

I hope you are able to disagree civilly with relatives and friends about politics. I hope you're laughing and smiling more than anything else in a time where it's not coming easy to do for so many.

Thank you for the space as always. Your friend, Eddie