SuperBook puts out line for Ohio St/Michigan game: Ohio St -13

lol

And Nitty just explained how maybe two teams in the last 50 years have coasted its way that easily to a title, this OSU team will either be challenged and show something they haven't had to yet, or they're about to take that L to somebody, hopefully to UofM, or PSU or both :)

I agree with you about gambling. It's not my thing, either. I have a bunch of friends who bet on sports so often. They win more than lose, but I just cannot take that risk.

But when you win, you feel so good about yourself because of the copious amount of time that you have spent observing, analyzing, digesting & forming really strong opinions.  And then you get even more drugs.

I see what your POV is, but from a gambler's perspective (or any addict's POV) it's a misunderstanding.

Feel good now vs. Feel bad later, is how a "rational" (in quotes, as no one is truly rational) person would think. 

But for gamblers--and all addicts alike--the payoff is in the "Now". Gambling is about the thrill, aka the stiumlation, aka the "hit" (thus the cormorbidity with drugs/alcohol abuse). It's not about the money, the sports, the skill, etc.

The "high" is not found in the actual winning or the losing. They language they use is, sure, but as crackheads stories (rationalizations) are irrelevant, so is the gambler's story (rationalization). The "hit" comes from the thrill itself (and anticipation of the thrill), the "moment" of being in the middle of the "gamble" itself, or the anticipation, e.g. "Gimme just one more chance! The Jets are going to pull the upset!" It's what happens when you fry your reward-circuitry. You become totally de-sensitized from over-use. Don't believe me, just fast for a full day and the next day eat one single egg, notice how phenomenal it tastes and how full you feel. We acclimate, no matter how much or how little.

The general theory is that the high from gambling (and all substance abuse), is utilized to fill the lived, conscious experience with highs/lows/stimulation and stress/assurance that the addict would otherwise get in living their ACTUAL, real life--which is why so many cliches of the deadbeat parent exist, they are avoiding their ACTUAL life, and retreating into a fantasy life, but still require the normal ebbing and flowing "experiences" of life, which they achieve through their addictions/fantasies (fantasies, because they are not confronting ANY of their reality, and thus live a life in their head unchecked), instead of confronting their actual life. Addiction is about distraction from reality.

Time-until-payoff is huge in addiction. The stories that come after the fact, are largely irrelevant.

If it was really about the gamble of being happy in the future, they would be investing in stocks, or growing a vegetable garden, building a deck, buying a house, or raising children (kidding!).