For anyone who has tried to quit smoking, drinking or attempt any other similar monumental challenge in life, I have an extremely minor comparison feat to test you with. Do you think you can possibly go 30 full days without betting pre-season  MLB baseball??

They don't have support groups for this but if they did the first question they would ask you is this: Is there any motivating reason for one baseball team to defeat the other, therefore why are you betting on the outcome? That being said, the second might be does anyone (including the manager) really know who will be in the starting line-up day to day and how many innings they will play?

Please do not take this personally, but if anyone doesn't feel foolish enough yet to get the message, stop reading this article. As I have confidence in you and know you can wait until around St. Patricks Day when the NCAA College Basketball Tournament begins to resume with full confidence and wagering vengeance.

Dinner is served
Unfortunately, most all of our favorite top online sportsbooks do offer daily Spring training baseball lines for those who cannot wait for the regular baseball season to begin. Game odds and runs totals are often based on starting pitching rotations, but beware the caveat. For starters, especially noted starting pitchers remain in the game precious few innings, protecting their valuable arms for obvious reason. They usually make way for many relievers that will not make the trip out of Florida or Arizona in a month. Then throw in these "split squad" games where it seems like you and I can get a try-out in rightfield for an afternoon.

In comparison to the football pre-season, it makes much less sense. We're talking approximately 30 meaningless games in comparison to 4 or 5. And at least one to two pre-season football games are played with starters playing 60-75% of the time. That's not a ringing endorsement for betting exhibition football either but wagering on exhibition baseball has no logical foundation whatsover.

In fact, baseball pre-season might make less sense than betting coin flipping odds and some of the other happenstance proposition wagers offered for the Super Bowl. Some may lay claim to the laws of probability there but when you don't know who the players in the line-up will be combined with their main incentive to stay healthy for a 162 season, you have no foundation for any scientific reason.

One very weak Betting Suggestion
In approximately the third week of Spring Training most managers take a look at the Win/Loss records of their teams and start to take some relative notice. For those teams with a very poor record it is an indication to begin developing a more "winning attitude" and therefore through history managers have been known to press players a bit harder. The effects result in maintaining regular season starters on the field, keeping starting pitchers in a little longer and therefore more wins likely. Conversely, say a 15-5 win-loss record means we can shut down the engine and rest the starting guys and key players for the April season opener.

Overall, if you must bet something in Florida I would highly recommend the best horse racing in the U.S. at Gulfstream Park available through most reputable sportsbook websites or OTB outlets. Or perhaps even dog racing at Tampa Greyhound Track if you can locate it online. NBA season is back underway with good lines while the Sixers, Knicks and Lakers are tanking it out for the top draft choice. As an investment, I can support a plan to back a baseball team in the Over/Under Future Line for the regular season. Top sportsbooks like BetOnline, BookMaker and SportsBettingOnline are receiving a good deal of current wagering action there.

But whatever you do, I beg you to resist the urge to believe you have the skill and/or knowledge to know who is going to win a damn pre-season baseball game. It won't be remotely as difficult as quitting smoking or drinking, but you can do it.