The 2011 Stock Lemon Fundraiser Event!

When we mentioned a few months ago that we had a paypal button on the left side of our blog that you could use at any time to donate to our cause here at Stock Lemon, we were merely trying to take advantage of the booming economy and pay for some of the costs we incur with this site.

Mainly, we were looking to add a little revenue in exchange for our time commitment to providing you with the otherwise completely free picks that you know and love, about 56% of the time.

While it's our promise to always keep our free picks just that--free--we have called upon any generous cappers (an oxymoron, we know) to help us out by simply donating any amount they so choose to the paypal account of stocklemonblog@gmail.com.

And we must say, the response has been expectedly underwhelming. But with your help, we can still reach our goal in the 2011 Stock Lemon Fundraiser!

A 6-1 Free NFL Picks Encore (85% YTD)

Now that's how things are supposed to go around here. Following an impressive 5-1 (83%) start to the NFL season, our Free NFL Picks had an even better encore in Week 2, going 6-1 (86%), bringing them to 11-2 and 85% in 2010.

Now would be a good time to continue our running joke of asking you greedy degenerates for a finder's fee on our picks, via the Paypal donation button on the lefthand side of the page.

It was a winning day, so we don't mind going through a little recap. First, the lone loss. The Panthers failed to beat the lowly Buccaneers, meaning they didn't cover the -3 1/2 point spread and that they might even be more lowly than the Bucs. Our system still takes last year's numbers into account this early in the season, and we were confident that the Panthers defense could overcome the, well, lowly offense. Not the case. We wouldn't be surprised to see the Bucs finish 2-14 after a 2-0 start, and for that matter, an 0-16 Panthers squad is possible, too.

As for the winners, there was much to like today. After slow first halves, the Packers and Falcons did what good teams do to bad teams, kicking the crap out of their lesser opponents. The Packers took care of the college-like -14 spread against the Bills while the Falcons easily handled a -7 spread against the Cardinals.

The Bears and Dolphins, at +7 1/2 against Dallas and +6 against Minnesota, respectively, did much more than cover, both winning their games. Great value picks in both cases, as the much hyped Cowboys and Vikings were the sexier public plays.

We don't think the Broncos are a very good team, but better than the team that lost to the Jags last week. Likewise, we don't think the Seahawks are a very good team, period. A Week 1 win over the 49ers will prove to be a fluke, as it did today, with the Broncos flipping the tables on Seattle and easily covering a -7 spread.

And then there were the Chargers. Like the Packers and Falcons, this was just a good team easily covering a paltry spread (-7) against a not-so-good team. As Kendra Wilkinson, wife of NFLer Hank Baskett, demonstrates in our Lemmy-censored image above, the Chargers were a thing of beauty today.

And that's how we arrive at a 6-1 day and 11-2 start to the 2010 NFL season. Our accurate NFL picks have lived up to the hype so far, and we certainly hope that continues for 19 more weeks (counting playoffs, duh).

And the records update:

2010 Free NFL Picks

Week 1: 5-1

Week 2: 6-1

Overall: 11-2... 85%

Another Free NCAA Football Pick Win

Another day, another reason for our readers to hit that Paypal button on the lefthand side of the page.

Our Free NCAA Football Picks came through again on Thursday night, improving our Free NCAA Football Picks record to 14-8-1 (64%), including winning nine of the last 13, to give us a head start on the college football weekend.

The remainder of our Free NCAA Football Picks will be posted tomorrow night with a few late additions possible on Saturday Morning.

We will see you then!

Why Yes, We Do Accept Donations

It's time for our most important post of the year.

A number of you have asked us (in our dreams) if we accept donations, and we are here to tell you that yes, we do indeed.

We're riding high after a 13-5 weekend of football action (72% if you're scoring at home), including a 5-1 mark in the pros, so might as well take this opportunity to get greedy. As we've done for nearly three years now, we will continue to provide free picks in all sorts of sports, particular football with our Free NCAA Football Picks and our Free NFL Picks.

Thing is, these picks take time. We spend a significant portion of our day pouring over our time-tested systems and distributing that information to you, and we never ask for anything in return except for when we write posts begging you for your spare change.

If you've tailed us and would like to give us a cut of your newfound riches, we would appreciate it. To donate, click the PayPal button at the top of the lefthand column and enter any amount with as many zeros as you want to the PayPal address of stocklemonblog@gmail.com.

So go ahead, buy us a beer for the inevitable lows that every bettor experiences, or give an extra dollar to stick in a piece of lingerie at a respected establishment for the inevitable highs that we hope continue.

Thank you for your support and we will be back with more winners this week!

Welcome to the New and Improved Stock Lemon!

If you've been hitting F5 all night waiting for us to pump out some more 2010 World Cup coverage (coming later tonight, for you nighthawks), you've probably noticed some changes throughout the night. As you can see, we have implemented a new template here at Stock Lemon for the first time since our inception in December of 2007.

We feel like the layout, while not drastically different, gives us a cleaner overall look. The use of charcoal as a background color for the text makes the site more readable, while the addition of a left sidebar gives us the potential for more content in the future, including polls and other links.

But enough about how we feel about it, how do you feel about the changes around here. Shoot us an e-mail at stocklemonblog@gmail.com.

Keep in mind that we will continue to provide betting analysis on all major sports and sporting events, and will remain your main squeeze on stocks and sports wagers, even if we pretty much never talk about stocks.

Ad for those of you sick of the ads on the page, or those who don't like that they get top billing above our posts--you can do something about it! Just send us a donation using the paypal icon on the left and we will be one step closer to not having to put our Adsense in such prime location. Hey, we gotta eat!

So let us know, and in the meantime, check out our 2010 World Cup coverage, with much more to come as the first kick is now hours away!

Free Picks Are 7-1 In Last Two Weeks

Our Free Picks remain hot, hot, hot. The last eight picks that we've made our 7-1 overall, including four straight and spanning three different sports. 

Here's the breakdown of how our picks have done:

Free NCAA Basketball Picks: 5-1

Free NBA Picks: 1-0

Free MLB Picks: 1-0

Like we said, our picks have been hot. Hopefully, we'll have more MLB and NBA picks to supplement that nice run from the NCAA Tournament. Our only loss in the last eight was a NIT pick that wasn't technically even a Free NCAA Basketball Pick, as we indicated when we posted it, but we've included it here. 

And, like we said last post, if you've been making some cash by following our picks, don't hesitate to drop us a little bonus by using the donate button on the right side of the page. So long as you have a PayPal account, you can help stimulate this rough economy by donating some of that spare change we just won you. Of course, don't expect us to do the same if our picks start going sour. 

Regardless, our picks will remian free, no matter how much success (our failure) we might have at any give time. Thanks for your continued support of Stock Lemon.