


The geolocation-tracking firm registered 7.4M accounts over the weekend, which was up 32% from a year ago. I’m just sayin’.GeoComply announced that more than 100M geolocation checks were processed Saturday and Sunday on mobile sports betting apps across 23 states with the Super Bowl the main event of the weekend. Sale is one of them, and if this is really the end, you’ll have to eat your cash. But at 80-1 odds it’s worth a couple bucks because there are so few players in baseball history, comparatively speaking, who are just better than everyone else. To be clear: I do not think it will happen. If Sale completes a full season without getting hurt he would be lightyears beyond these guys even pitching at a B+ level, which is as bad as he gets. It’s Rick Porcello Cy Young Award territory, by definition.


These are good pitchers who, in order to win the Cy Young Award, would have to pitch at maximum skill over an entire season and hope the rest of the field disappoints. For context Sale’s odds are identical or similar to Sonny Gray’s, Chris Bassitt’s and Lance Lynn’s, among others. Jacob deGrom is the favorite at +500, which is insanity given his injury history (he’s the inverse of Sale, in a way, in that his injuries are being undercounted here) with Gerrit Cole, Dylan Cease and Alek Manoah, a personal favorite, right behind. Sale (+8000) is nowhere near the head of the pack. Obviously it’s unlikely, but I don’t think it’s as unlikely as the odds suggest and worst case scenario you have a really fun April imagining winning on an 80-1 payout. If you’re looking for something riskier with a better payout, I’d take Chris Sale +8000 to win the AL Cy Young Award. On top of that, the more balanced schedule means they’re playing more outside the AL East bloodsport division and, even within the division, are the Orioles gonna Do It (finish above last place) again? I doubt it. They sucked balls last year compared to expectations yet still won 78 games, and while they lost some guys they added guys too and they probably won’t, like, give up this year. No beating around the bush, the best Red Sox-related bet of the season is for the team to win more than 78.5 games, which it absolutely will do, hence it’s a good bet. Yes, I make bets, irregularly and not for a lot of money, but I don’t live the life. The bad news: I’m not a gambler, in the truest sense of the word. Welcome to the Over the Monster gambling column. To that end, this is a new regular column about betting on the Red Sox. With online sports gambling now legal in Massachusetts, we at Over the Monster would like to obtain sportsbook sponsorships.
