Another perfect week for our picks last week. And now we will endeavor to do it again.
Ravens are on the road for the third straight week. We don't like that. Titans at home giving up 2.5. Take Tennessee.
Florida's team- the Jags, are in Dallas playing the hapless cowpokes. Take Jax + 3 and under 40.
Browns are giving up one to the homeless Chargers. We are riding the Browns to the Super Bowl. Brownies -1 at the mistake by the lake. Cleveland has done something no other team has done in the NFL. Ever. They have won in OT; lost in OT. Tied in OT. Won in regulation and lost in regulation. How cannot you not love a team like that? Think 69 Mets.
Bears at Miami. Tannehill is out. Not sure what that does to the line. 52nd Street Irwin isn't answering his texts. If you got Bears and +7 earlier in week you are great. Any line with the Bears is good. They are going to win.
Game of the week: KC at the cheaters. KC is getting three. We aren't touching this game because the last few weeks KC has been playing shaky. Maybe they were looking to this game and if they were, we would pick them.
Congrats on being 17-13-1 thru week five.
ReplyDeleteYou were not perfect last week. Almost. You had Browns Ravens over 47. Final was 12-9. Lost. But I’m still plus four betting your picks so far this year. Thanks for that. This week not so good. Fins game was one of the most exciting I’ve attended in a long time.
Nice 0-fer
ReplyDeleteGreat review of Judge Milt's Hirsch's new book in the DBR:
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Miami Judge's Book Casts a Noirish Light on Dade Circuit
Miami-Dade Circuit Judge Milton Hirsch has published "Laredo Slider," the sequel to his 2004 debut novel "The Shadow of Justice."
By Zach Schlein | October 11, 2018 at 05:51 PM
A headline-generating judge in Miami-Dade Circuit Court’s criminal division is also a published author drawing from his own experiences on the bench.
Judge Milton Hirsch has been the subject of news articles for his rulings, including his finding that Florida’s “Stand Your Ground” law is unconstitutional. But outside the courtroom, he creates his own stories, releasing his second book, “Laredo Slider,” a sequel to his 2004 debut novel “The Shadow of Justice.”
Both books center on Clark N. Addison, a fictional Miami criminal-court judge who graduated summa cum laude from the University of Miami School of Law, served as an assistant state attorney and was the youngest man appointed to the bench in Hirsch’s rendition of Miami, where attorneys with such names as Blackjack Sheridan loom over courthouse proceedings.
Hirsch isn’t shy to admit he pulls from his day-to-day experiences and legal know-how to construct Addison’s adventures.
“I always tell my law clerk and my bailiff, ‘If you would just keep a diary, there would be a TV show called “Real Life Bailiffs of the Gerstein Building,” and you’d be on TV every week,’ ” Hirsch quipped.
The judge’s experience on the Miami bench is clear in one poignant scene in the early passages of “The Shadow of Justice,” depicting a bond hearing in a cocaine possession case.
For Hirsch, the real art is balancing nuance and fact, building credulity, and holding reader interest as the plot unfolds.
“There are a number of trials scenes. Some are directly related to the development of the plot and others are seemingly unrelated until you get to the end and you figure out why I was telling you about that trial,” Hirsch said. “Obviously, to write fiction that’s readable, you have to engage in some abridgment, but they are good in the sense that they faithfully reflect what goes on in the courtroom. … I try to confine the trial scenes to allotments that the reader can absorb. Nobody wants to read a trial transcript.”
Yet, there are few similarities between the judge and his protagonist, even as his stories blur the line between fiction and reality.
For starters, Hirsch served as assistant chief of narcotics prosecution with the Miami-Dade State Attorney’s Office before rising to the bench. And although he lectures at the University of Miami School of Law, unlike Addison, he is a Georgetown alumnus.
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Plus, Addison leads a more hard-boiled life than the Miami jurist. In both books, he becomes unwittingly entangled in crimes tied to his life and profession. “The Shadow of Justice,” for instance, finds Addison in pursuit of the truth behind his close friend’s murder, while “Laredo Slider” makes him a high-profile witness to a political assassination at Wrigley Field.
Readily citing the likes of authors such as Agatha Christie and Raymond Chandler, Hirsch has no qualms about wearing his literary influences on his sleeve.
“I don’t know what lesson to draw from this, but the greatest and most influential figures in the genre of detective fiction … had no exposure to the criminal justice system whatsoever,” he said, contrasting his own legal experience against that of his heroes. “Dashiell Hammett actually was a Pinkerton man, so although he didn’t know much about trials, he did know something about real-life investigations. And although he later in life suffered from a variety of psychologically debilitating conditions, ranging from drinking to writer’s block … you’d be hard-pressed to find a single work of detective fiction better than ‘The Maltese Falcon.’ ”
Closer to home, Hirsch defers to an accomplished Florida author for anecdotes on the surreal fodder for fiction that the state and the city of Miami provide.
“Carl Hiaasen claims — and I believe him — that every time he writes a book, they send him on a lecture tour around the country. And he says that inevitably he gets to Des Moines, Iowa, and a little old lady with blue hair walks up to him and says, ‘Oh, Mr. Hiaasen … how do you invent these grossly exaggerated, impossible, fictional vignettes that you claim occur in Miami? How do you dream them up?’ ” Hirsch said. “And he says he has been instructed by his publisher not to say, ‘Lady, you have no idea. I take what happens and I dumb it down until I can sell it to you.’ ”
“ The Shadow of Justice” and “Laredo Slider” are available via Amazon Kindle.
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SO, YOU WANT TO WATCH AND LEARN HOW TO BECOME A FLORIDA SUPREME COURT JUSTICE .....
Interviews are scheduled for the 59 applicants. Those interviews are open to the public. They will be held in Miami at MIA on November 3 and 4 and in Tampa adjacent to their airport on November 8 and 9.
You have to feel for Judge William Thomas and Judge Daryl Trawick. They will be the last two applicants interviewed on day two. I sure hope the JNC members are taking their no-doz (do they still sell that stuff) that day.
Miami interview location:
Miami International Airport Hotel
Terminal E; Level 2 to hotel lobby (7th floor conference rooms once in hotel)
(Door #11 if arriving from outside the airport)
305-871-4100
Nov. 3 – Miami
9:00 a.m. Alexander Bokor
9:30 a.m. Amy Boulris
10:00 a.m. Jeffrey Burns
10:30 a.m. Howard Coates
11:00 a.m. John Couriel
11:30 a.m. Cynthia Cox
1:00 p.m. James Duncan
1:30 p.m. Manuel Farach
2:00 p.m. Jonathan Gerber
2:30 p.m. Edward Guedes
3:00 p.m. Bradley Harper
3:30 p.m. Terrance Ketchel
4:30 p.m. Mark Klingensmith
5:00 p.m. Jeffrey Kuntz
5:30 p.m. Bruce Kyle
Nov. 4 – Miami
9:00 a.m. Barbara Lagoa
9:30 a.m. Norma Lindsey
10:00 a.m. Robert Luck
10:30 a.m. Mark Miller
11:00 a.m. Carlos Muniz
11:30 a.m. Hayden O’Byrne
1:00 p.m. William Roby
1:30 p.m. Cymonie Rowe
2:00 p.m. Leonard Samuels
2:30 p.m. Edwin Scales
3:00 p.m. Anuraag Singhal
3:30 p.m. Elijah Smiley
4:30 p.m. Donna Greenspan Solomon
5:00 p.m. William Thomas
5:30 p.m. Daryl Trawick
CAP OUT .....
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PART TWO - TAMPA
Tampa interview location:
Airport Executive Center
2203 N. Lois Avenue
Tampa, FL
(813) 348-4963
Nov. 8 – Tampa
9:00 a.m. Michael Andrews
9:30 a.m. J. Andrew Atkinson
10:00 a.m. Ross Bilbrey
10:30 a.m. Hunter Carroll
11:00 a.m. Angela Cowden
11:30 a.m. James Daniel
1:00 p.m. Bryan Gowdy
1:30 p.m. Jamie Grosshans
2:00 p.m. Laurel Lee
2:30 p.m. Robert Long
3:00 p.m. Mark Mahon
3:30 p.m. Scott Makar
4:30 p.m. Michael McDaniel
5:00 p.m. Timothy Osterhaus
5:30 p.m. Thomas Ramsberger
Nov. 9 – Tampa
9:00 a.m. Eric Roberson
9:30 a.m. Clayton Roberts
10:00 a.m. Samuel Salario
10:30 a.m. Tatiana Salvador
11:00 a.m. Stephen Senn
11:30 a.m. Pat Siracusa
1:00 p.m. Jonathan Sjostrom
1:30 p.m. Adrian Soud
2:00 p.m. John Stargel
2:30 p.m. Anthony Tatti
3:00 p.m. Matthew Thatcher
3:30 p.m. M. Kemmerly Thomas
4:30 p.m. Waddell Wallace
5:00 p.m. Thomas Winokur
CAP OUT .....
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SCt ruled that these picks belong to new Governor.
ReplyDeleteCaptain: Are the interviews still going to take place in light of today's ruling from the Florida Supreme Court?? If Gillum gets elected, what are the chances of Scott and Gillum reaching an agreement on the appointments??
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