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Online Casino Takes Barry Bonds Odds
26 Feb 2006
For many baseball fans, this could be a bittersweet year in baseball. Barry Bonds, one of the greatest baseball players of all time, and a member of the All-Time Homerun list with 708 homeruns, (placing third), has hinted that this could be his last year playing before retirement. At 41, he is a living legend, even with the injury-plagued 2005 season he endured. Because of his greatness in the all-American sport, Pinnacle Sports, a leading online casino sports book site, is taking odds on this baseball giant and how he will fare this season. So far the online casino has set Bonds as a 6/1 long shot to set a new career homerun record by smashing 48 round trippers.
‘Although he's 41 years old and approaching the twilight of his career, Barry Bonds is still the most dominant offensive player in the game today,’ said Simon Noble of Pinnacle Sports. ‘Even if he finishes the season just short of the most sacred record in baseball, Bonds has indicated his health will dictate whether he returns for a 22nd big league season in 2007.’ There might still be home after all. Online casino baseball fans will surely want to watch Bonds carefully this season – not only because their bets will be riding on the king – but also because of Bonds’ strength as a great baseball player. But sports are always more interesting when online casino odds are involved!
Knowing that the San Francisco slugger is best known for his power numbers, Pinnacle Sports is also offering betting options on how many homeruns Bonds will hit this season. Now a 5/2 favorite with online casino odds bettors, fans are betting that Bonds will slug between 40 and 50 homeruns this season. At a 50/1 long shot, the online casino sports book has listed the odds on the single-season homerun king hitting 60 or more bombs this year.
