MALACHI'S "BIGTIME" PICKS...JAN. 5th, 2012

I don't want to sound like a person about it, but have you ever considered the very real possibility that maybe you're just not very good at soccer? I know, I know. When you don't post, you win, right?

The thing is, a lot of the time I look at your picks and I honestly have no clue why you would make that pick. Yesterday you took a game in Northern Ireland where both teams were something like 1-5 their last six, and yet you still chose a side when everything about it said just stay away. Today you had a Catania side who play very well at home against a Torino side who play very poorly on the road - the short line should've made you ask some serious questions, but you took it anyway. You took a game between two Belgium sides fighting for position near the bottom of the table, two sides that don't score a whole lot, in what should be a fairly closely guarded affair given the situation - and yet you took the over when nothing about it suggests it would be a high scoring game. And now you took an over with an Osasuna side that rarely scores...

Again, I'm not saying any of this to sound like a person. It's just that you seem like a good guy and I feel bad seeing you struggle day after day with no one else having the balls to stand up and tell you maybe it's time to hang it up.

There's no shame in admitting you're not very good at something, especially when nothing suggests you're ever going to get any better.

I'm sorry, but sometimes the truth hurts...