BG: Full-season lurker. Not for the picks, but for the reasoning behind them.
I have a degree in Journalism, was a sportswriter for two years right out of college, and have been around sports my whole life. After getting into betting full time, I was posting plays "across the street", with good write-ups, and enough winners, that eventually I was a linesman over there for more than a year. The only reason I got out was because I got involved, for pay, with a rival (and much smaller) site. That eventually got me to Costa Rica, where I work in the "biz" (but with different people now)...
I can tell you that when I look to people's threads, I don't look for WHO people pick, but WHY they pick them.
I am quite sure because of my write-ups that I could have gone tout. But that's not what interests me. I have heard enough bad things about them that I always just enjoy my time on both sides of the counter. I like to bet. I like to make lines. I like to take bets. All of that is far more enjoyable.
Sorry for the rambling - my point is that I would, too, be plenty pissed if anyone took these picks and passed them off as their own. But since I left my linesman status from "across the street" in early 2004, I have not seen any game writeups that I get more excited about than yours daily, in the baseball. Agree or disagree, I always like getting a different perspective on things. I guess if you are as popular as you, and you WIN like you have been, there are always people that are going to realize that the best way for them to give out winners is to give out someone ELSE'S winners....
Don't let a couple of bad apples spoil the whole bunch. If you want to respond to me individually, ask WIL for my e-mail....
GL tomorrow and all weekend....