OffshoreInsiders.com Senior Sports Handicapper Matt Rivers free Friday pick is on the Chicago White Sox (+160) to Seattle.

Reasoning: Ozzie Guillen’s Sox certainly have been awful for a while now but Felix Hernandez or no Felix Hernandez this Seattle Mariner squad just can’t be laying such a big price. King Felix has as much of an upside as anybody and I certainly love upside but the Seattle lineup is weak and all in all the M’s are just a bad baseball team that can lose anytime they take the field.

I definitely can’t say the White Sox are any better than bad because that is what they have been for a while now. With that said though “the good guys” still have powerful hitters in Konerko, Dunn, Beckham and a few others and are going to start to play better ball at some point in the near future. They have to as they are a lot better than what they have shown and a lot better than today’s opponent.

Phil Humber has shown some glimpses this season. Just ask the Yankees about that as he almost no-hit the Bombers at the Stadium. The guy is far from Cy Young, I readily admit that, but he is at least serviceable and should hold his own against the punch and judy Mariners. Humber shouldn’t be better than him. I don’t trust Hernandez but he should be able to outclass the M’s lineup and put up his share of zeros.

I don’t trust either side in this game and in a small play I’m therefore fine with taking back a solid number like this.

Top expert pick on this game: White Sox

For more information: Another tight one run loss for Matt Rivers yesterday on the Brewers but still well ahead of the man and ready to put some more notches in my belt today. It’s funny how the luck has certainly gone against me over the past week and yet the numbers are still fairly staggering.

A pair of Friday plays, one on the diamond and one on the hardwoods, as I roll into the weekend in style. 400,000* Dodgers-Mets and a 300,000* Bulls-Hawks. Don’t just watch me win. Win with me. Get Rivers locks at OffshoreInsiders.com