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Phillies vs Rays odds like upstart Tampa Bay to claim this season's Fall Classic. Can these nobodies from Tampa really win the big one, or are the Phillies getting slighted in World Series odds?
The Playoff Probabilities
hardballtimes.com 10/19/2008 — The latest from MLB Playoff Odds:
Lg% WS% Boston .467 .265 Tampa Bay .533 .290 Philadelphia .445
Jamie also adds this note:
I edited the World Series numbers to reflect the greater advantage the sports betting market is placing on the AL entrant. ...
World Series Probabilities
hardballtimes.com 10/20/2008 — Here are MLB Playoff Odds' probabilities for the World Series, starting on Wednesday:
WS% Tampa Bay .545 Philadelphia .455
With a note from Jamie:
The offshore sportsbooks opened Tampa as a 58% favorite in the World Series. Most or all of the difference between ...
Rays Take Out Sox, Then Vegas —
Surviving Grady
Somewhere, somehow, there has to be someone who got drunk in Vegas last spring and, for a couple laughs, put money down on Tampa Bay to win the World Series at 200-1 odds. Perhaps it was your crazy old Uncle Hector. Well check it--that old fruit might be a friggin' millionaire by next week. ...
So Whose Next? —
Jorge Says No!
Watching the Rockies and the Rays make the World Series in consecutive seasons has been thrilling for me. As a fan, these teams seem to enjoy winning more because with every victory they are defying the odds by achieving something that no one, outside of the team, thought was humanly possible. ...
World Series and MNF Betting Line 411 —
Sports Handicapping
The Broncos will travel to New England to take on the Patriots in primetime on Monday. Here's a look at that contest and the rest of the schedule in your Daily Sports Roundup. World Series Odds Las Vegas gives the Philadelphia Phillies a much better chance to end 25 years of misery in ...
Rays-Phillies World Series Odds Posted —
Sports Handicapping
OffshoreInsiders.com reports that the Devil Rays, or we should say the Tampa Bay Rays have now officially been posted as 180 favorites to beat the Philadelphia Phillies in the 2008 World Series. Philadelphia is getting back 160 as the sportsbooks . OffshoreInsiders.com
Potential Phillies-Rays 2008 World Series Odds —
Sports Handicapping
The official odds will be posted shortly after the opponent is officially determined, but Cy McCormick of MasterLockLine.com tells us he projects a probable Tampa Bay Rays-Philadelphia Phillies World Series will see Tampa -115. Check back our MLB odds after the matchup is official. ...
What are the odds? —
Extra Bases
History tells us the Red Sox can do this, can look at their 3-1 deficit in the American League Championship Series, shrug their shoulders, win three straight and roll into the World Series. Math tells us there's chance that will happen, but not much of one.
If the Red Sox and Rays were two ...