We've come to the part of the year where picks will be few and far between. There's just too much unknown, like "will four September call-ups throw seven shutout innings of relief?" The series will remain active through the end of the regular season, but my strong feeling, after last week, is to protect the 20|PERCENT| profit over the last 21 days.

I'm not going to blog college football picks, I don't think, but with permission I may return for college basketball season.

Pittsburgh +145, one unit. Big James McDonald fan here.

San Diego/Colorado over 9.5 (120), two units. Cory Luebke has never taken his command show on the road in the majors, and I suspect he's going to find Coors Field responds less well to his flyball ways. The Rockies are a bit too big a favorite for me to comfortably take them behind Francis, who's something of a wild card. Let's bet the thin air.