Assaulting the bookmakers like Jennifer Freeman, the top sports handicappers NFL preseason picks take center stage tonight, after the PGA Championship and the Jim Gray-Corey Pavin preview today.

Matt Rivers has a baseball pick Thursday is on the Orioles getting 117 at Cleveland according to BetUs.

Kevin Millwood has been horrific pretty much all season long but Buck has his boys playing at a much higher level since his arrival and to get some coin back like this against Jeanmar Gomez and the Indians is worth a shot. Since Showalter’s arrival a week plus ago this Baltimore team has lost just once, think about that. The confidence level is higher and the team is feeling great about itself.

Gomez has been impressive in his small sample of big league starts with that 2-0 record and 1.56 ERA but he is still “Jeanmar Gomez”, a guy that we really can’t get all that carried away with. No doubt he is better than the confidence lacking Millwood but all in all with the way the O’s have come on of late they are definitely the better team of these two. Santana and Hafner are still out and this team when healthy was a 73 or so win team to begin with. The Tribe has looked better over the past month or so themselves but they are by far the less talented team on the field today and besides Shin Soo Choo have very little.

Millwood is certainly an x factor because he can implode with the best of them but at least he did have a much better last start and maybe, just maybe, may be on the uptick. He is an experienced veteran who has been there and done that. The guy was great years back with the Braves and should still have a little more than his has shown for the majority of the season. Hopefully that last outing against the ChiSox was the start of something new and if not it is still a very winnable game as Gomez and the Indians are not exactly Wainwright and the Cardinals.

The pick: Baltimore +117 at Bodog

For more information: No breaks at all of late but I keep plugging away. When the ancient Melvin Mora belts a game winning grand slam against you things are just not going well. But I’ve isolated a winner today and will grind out these dog days of Summer and get ready for real football. Others can have these preseason games as I’ll take a pass on this day.

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