by Mario Mergola | Nov 26, 2025
As always, I want to start this article by thanking you, the reader, for so much dedication over the years. I have said it many times, and I will say it forever: you have no idea who will actually read your writing. You have, and I sincerely thank you for that. On the...
by Mario Mergola | Nov 19, 2025
Whenever I wait to write the introduction to a column until I am finished with the entire set of picks, it’s because I want to see if there is a theme to follow. That’s what I did here, and the theme is one of the ones we seek on most weeks. Perception....
by Mario Mergola | Nov 12, 2025
That was a good week. If we compare it to what we had experienced over the prior two weeks, then it was probably a bit of a disappointment. The reality is that the prior two weeks were both extraordinary and unsustainable. If anything, they were unsustainable because...
by Mario Mergola | Nov 5, 2025
I’m going to let you in on a little secret. I made a slight change to my schedule this year and made a conscious effort to trim down how much I am writing for a given pick. Halfway through the year, the results have been quite good. But, let me be clear. As...
by Mario Mergola | Oct 29, 2025
That was nice. Even though I wrote that we should not expect a better week because of how much more ‘normal’ it seemed, we had one of our best in the history of this website. That, in itself, is abnormal. As I often write after weeks with an outstanding...
