It all started about 5 years ago.  I was battling a problem with sports betting.  I really wanted to quit.  You could say that I really needed to quit.  Sports.com gave me a free $50.  I didn’t want to bet it because I feared it would catapult me into betting regularly again if I won.  Instead, I bet it on the democrats to win the 2008 election.  That’s right.  I bet on the democrats to win the election that was 4 years from the time that I made the bet.  So, I shipped that obv.  It felt kind of could.  The money didn’t matter.  It was kind of a cool thing to see that bet come in after I had successfully recovered from a sports betting problem in the previous 4 years.  I requested a cashout, but Sports.com required that I sent in verification.  Now that seemed like a lot of work for $100, so I decided to wait and just bet it on something.

Fast forward a few months.  Hailey and I had been watching American Idol every week.  I felt that the bet was to bet on the guys to win at -110 several weeks  into the competition.  The girls seemed pretty weak to me.  I didn’t make the bet in time and when the competition was down to 36 the line had dropped to something like -330.  There was no way I was going to bet 100 to win 30ish, so I decided to bet it on a person to win.  I scouted the bets for a few weeks.  I thought Kris Allen would be a good person to wager on.  Every 12 year old girl was going to vote for him like they voted for Jason Castro last year.  KA seemed like a lock to make the last 4 to me.  When he hit 25 to 1, I jumped all over it for my case money in the Sports.com account - $100.  It’s amazing how this has transpired.  I remember making large compulsive sports bets all those years ago.  In the end, I actually made money, but it was very bleak there for a while.  I was making 500 - 1,000 bets almost randomly.  I faded disaster then, kicked that habit and now somehow have $2,600 in my account.

Ah, it feels sooo nice!  I’d like to thank the supposed 38 million votes that came in from Arkansas out of the near 100 million votes made.  Yeah, you may have stolen most of your name from my beloved, but I sure as heck don’t care about that now.  Yes, I’m going to send my i.d. verification now.