{"id":904,"date":"2008-12-31T13:35:59","date_gmt":"2008-12-31T18:35:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=904"},"modified":"2008-12-29T23:36:44","modified_gmt":"2008-12-30T04:36:44","slug":"my-new-years-resolutions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/my-new-years-resolutions-904\/","title":{"rendered":"My New Year&#8217;s Resolutions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As we stand here on the brink of a whole new year, I thought that I would do what we are all supposed to do at this time of year and make some resolutions. Don;t worry &#8211; I won&#8217;t talk about going to the gym or spending more time with my wife. We&#8217;ll just focus on sports betting.<\/p>\n<p>1. I won&#8217;t get sucked in by losers. No more Jacksonville, and all of the other teams like Jacksonville out there in all sports. No more falling hook, line and sinker for a team that ends up in the gutter.<\/p>\n<p>2. I will be more objective about the Manning brothers. Oh, who am I kidding &#8211; that will never happen. My response to them is irrational and eternal. I just plain hate those guys.<\/p>\n<p>3. I will go into the Triple Crown accepting that it probably isn&#8217;t going to be won. It will be less crushing when it doesn&#8217;t happen that way.<\/p>\n<p>4. I&#8217;m going to pay at least a bit of attention to the WNBA this year. I&#8217;ve heard too much about all of the betting opportunities it presents not to.<\/p>\n<p>5. I&#8217;ll learn to respect Marvin Lewis and Charlie Weis &#8211; two guys who have worked hard to reach the pinnacle of their profession. Nope &#8211; that&#8217;s not going to happen, either.<\/p>\n<p>6. I won&#8217;t gloat too obnoxiously when Michigan wins a national championship. I&#8217;m better than that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As we stand here on the brink of a whole new year, I thought that I would do what we are all supposed to do at this time of year and make some resolutions. Don;t worry &#8211; I won&#8217;t talk about going to the gym or spending more time with my wife. We&#8217;ll just focus [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[135],"tags":[601],"class_list":["post-904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports-handicapping","tag-new-years-resolutions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=904"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/904\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":905,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/904\/revisions\/905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}