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**Udog** · 04-19-2019, 07:54 AM

Armadillo: Friday's six-pack

— Tampa Bay Rays have outscored opponents 22-3 in first inning.

— A’s signed DH Khris Davis to a 2-year, $33.5 contract extension.

— Kyle Freeland has made 33 career starts at Coors Field; under is 27-6.

— Mariners 11, Angels 10— Seattle blew a 10-2 lead, won in 9th inning.

— Golden St 132, Clippers 105— Warriors led 73-52 at halftime.

— St Louis 3, Winnipeg 2— Blues trailed 2-0 after second period.

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Armadillo: Friday's List of 13: Random stuff with weekend here……

13) St John’s struggled with hiring a basketball coach; apparently there was an internal divide about who the school should go after. St John’s is located in Jamaica, Queens, which is part of New York City. You’d think it would be a prime job.

The basketball coach at Loyola-Chicago interviewed for the St John’s job, was offered an 8-year contract that doubled his salary, and turned it down. Not many people turn down $2M a year.

Loyola is in the Missouri Valley Conference, the 15th-rated league in America. Ramblers have been in the MVC for six years, going 27-9 the last two years, after going 27-45 in their first four years, when Wichita State was in the Valley and it was a tougher league (#10 league in 2017).

12) Porter Moser is the Loyola coach who turned St John’s down; he’s been a head coach for 15 years at three schools. Here is his breakdown:

2001-03, Ark-Little Rock: 48-34 overall, 25-19 in Sun Belt games. No trips to NCAA’s.
2004-07, Illinois State: 51-67 overall, 22-50 in MVC games, when both Creighton/Wichita were in the league. No trips to NCAA’s.
2012-present, Loyola: 141-125 overall, 6-28 in Horizon games, then 54-54 in MVC. One trip to NCAA’s.

11) 15 years as a head coach, one time in the NCAA tournament, but it was one great time, An 11-seed in 2018, Loyola made it to the Final Four, with three of their four wins in NCAA’s that year by either one or two points.

Big East was the #5 league this season, after being #2 or #3 the previous four years.

10) Then there is Iona coach Tim Cluess, who is 199-108 in nine years as coach at Iona, which is in New Rochelle. According to Mapquest, Iona/St John’s are 19.1 miles apart. Under Cluess, Iona is 124-46 in MAAC games; they’ve made the NCAA tournament the last four years and six of last eight years.

Cluess also coached D-II ball at CW Post (now LIU Post) for four years, going 98-23.

Cluess played at St John’s from 1979-81; three of his brothers also played at St John’s; he knows the NYC/New Jersey area. Not sure why St John’s didn’t hire him, but Cluess took his name out of the running Thursday.

Update: St John’s hired former UAB/Missouri/Arkansas coach Mike Anderson. His teams will play hard and play fast. He’s never had a losing season (two 16-16 seasons) and won 20+ games in 11 of 17 seasons as a head coach.

Elsewhere in the world……..
9) Chargers are going to wear their powder blue jerseys as their home uniform for the 2019 season, which is a smart decision. I’m wondering how many fans come up from San Diego to Carson for Charger home games now; they move into the Inglewood dome in 2020.

8) Tampa Bay Buccaneers might not be too happy with their 2019 schedule; they go seven weeks without playing a home game, and during those 49 days, they’ll travel a total of 20,378 miles to play in Los Angeles, New Orleans, London, Nashville and Seattle.

They play the Giants at home in Week 3, and then not again until Week 10.

7) USC has already added three grad transfers for next season, all kids who can shoot the 3; they shot 37-40-45% from the arc last year, at Akron-Columbia-San Jose State. Trojans have couple of highly-touted freshman big men coming in- they should be a lot better next season.

6) First seven games at the new ballpark in Las Vegas was 9,744, which amounts to seven sellouts. AAA Aviators are the Oakland A’s farm club.

Old ballpark was downtown, next to the Cashman Center; terrific park to watch a game. New park is in Summerlin, right near the Red Rock Hotel, roughly 14 miles from downtown.

5) LSU told athletic director Joe Alleva take a hike; not sure what this means for basketball coach Will Wade, who was suspended by Alleva but was reinstated last week.

4) Baseball injuries:
— A’s put P Marco Estrada (back) on the IL.
— Phillies put OF Odubel Herrera (hamstring) in the IL.

3) In 2015, there were 104 complete games pitched in the major leagues, only 42 last year.

2) Joey Votto popped out to the first baseman Wednesday night, for the first time in his 6,828 major league plate appearances. He still has never popped out to the catcher or the pitcher.

1) New Jersey Jets do not leave the eastern time zone at all during the 2019 season; they even have three home games in preseason, seeing how the Jets-Giants game is a Giants “home” game.

By way of contrast, LA Rams play four games in eastern time zone, a preseason game in Hawai’i and a regular season game in London. Lot of travel for them.

**Udog** · 04-19-2019, 08:00 AM

**Udog** · 04-19-2019, 08:09 AM

63Toronto -64 Boston
TORONTO is 19-21 ATS (-17.4 Units) against poor defensive teams - opponents average 29.5+ shots on goal in the 2nd half of the year in the current season.

65Colorado -66 Calgary
COLORADO is 3-13 ATS (-9.3 Units) in road games when playing against a marginal winning team (Win Pct. 51% to 60%) in the current season.

NHL
Dunkel

Friday, April 19

Toronto @ Boston

Game 63-64
April 19, 2019 @ 7:00 pm

Dunkel Rating:
Toronto
11.496
Boston
10.001
Dunkel Team:
Dunkel Line:
Dunkel Total:
Toronto
by 1 1/2
7
Vegas Team:
Vegas Line:
Vegas Total:
Boston
-145
6
Dunkel Pick:
Toronto
(+125); Over

Colorado @ Calgary

Game 65-66
April 19, 2019 @ 10:00 pm

Dunkel Rating:
Colorado
10.885
Calgary
9.505
Dunkel Team:
Dunkel Line:
Dunkel Total:
Colorado
by 1 1/2
5
Vegas Team:
Vegas Line:
Vegas Total:
Calgary
-175
6
Dunkel Pick:
Colorado
(+155); Under

NHL
Long Sheet

Friday, April 19

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TORONTO (48-30-0-8, 104 pts.) at BOSTON (51-26-0-9, 111 pts.) - 4/19/2019, 7:08 PM
Top Trends for this game.
TORONTO is 22-25 ATS (-20.8 Units) second half of the season this season.
BOSTON is 14-2 ATS (+10.0 Units) in home games after a division game this season.
TORONTO is 14-8 ATS (+22.1 Units) in road games when playing against a team with a winning record this season.
BOSTON is 291-245 ATS (-154.3 Units) in home games second half of the season since 1996.

Head-to-Head Series History
TORONTO is 13-10 (+4.3 Units) against the spread versus BOSTON over the last 3 seasons
TORONTO is 13-10-0 straight up against BOSTON over the last 3 seasons
11 of 21 games in this series have gone UNDER THE TOTAL over the last 3 seasons . (Under=+0.4 Units)

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COLORADO (41-31-0-14, 96 pts.) at CALGARY (51-26-0-9, 111 pts.) - 4/19/2019, 10:08 PM
Top Trends for this game.
COLORADO is 41-45 ATS (-12.1 Units) in all games this season.
COLORADO is 17-53 ATS (+103.2 Units) in road games second half of the season over the last 3 seasons.
COLORADO is 95-85 ATS (+188.5 Units) in a road game where where the total is 6 or more since 1996.
CALGARY is 4-14 ATS (-18.2 Units) in April games over the last 3 seasons.
CALGARY is 22-21 ATS (-10.3 Units) in home games second half of the season over the last 2 seasons.
CALGARY is 1-7 ATS (-9.5 Units) in the first round of the playoffs over the last 3 seasons.

Head-to-Head Series History
CALGARY is 9-4 (+3.9 Units) against the spread versus COLORADO over the last 3 seasons
CALGARY is 9-4-0 straight up against COLORADO over the last 3 seasons
6 of 12 games in this series have gone OVER THE TOTAL over the last 3 seasons . (Over=-0.3 Units, Under=-1.2 Units)

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NHL

Friday, April 19

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Trend Report
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Toronto Maple Leafs
Toronto is 2-8 ATS in its last 10 games
Toronto is 2-5 SU in its last 7 games
The total has gone UNDER in 7 of Toronto's last 9 games
Toronto is 3-8 ATS in its last 11 games on the road
Toronto is 2-4 SU in its last 6 games on the road
The total has gone UNDER in 4 of Toronto's last 5 games on the road
Toronto is 1-5 ATS in its last 6 games when playing Boston
Toronto is 2-4 SU in its last 6 games when playing Boston
The total has gone UNDER in 4 of Toronto's last 5 games when playing Boston
Toronto is 1-4 ATS in its last 5 games when playing on the road against Boston
Toronto is 1-4 SU in its last 5 games when playing on the road against Boston
Boston Bruins
Boston is 5-2 ATS in its last 7 games
The total has gone UNDER in 4 of Boston's last 6 games
Boston is 2-8 ATS in its last 10 games at home
Boston is 13-3 SU in its last 16 games at home
The total has gone UNDER in 5 of Boston's last 7 games at home
Boston is 5-1 ATS in its last 6 games when playing Toronto
Boston is 4-2 SU in its last 6 games when playing Toronto
The total has gone UNDER in 4 of Boston's last 5 games when playing Toronto
Boston is 4-1 ATS in its last 5 games when playing at home against Toronto
Boston is 4-1 SU in its last 5 games when playing at home against Toronto

Colorado Avalanche
Colorado is 11-4 ATS in its last 15 games
Colorado is 11-4 SU in its last 15 games
The total has gone UNDER in 14 of Colorado's last 19 games
Colorado is 12-4 ATS in its last 16 games on the road
Colorado is 1-4 SU in its last 5 games on the road
The total has gone UNDER in 8 of Colorado's last 9 games on the road
Colorado is 4-2 ATS in its last 6 games when playing Calgary
Colorado is 4-9 SU in its last 13 games when playing Calgary
Colorado is 2-5 ATS in its last 7 games when playing on the road against Calgary
Colorado is 1-6 SU in its last 7 games when playing on the road against Calgary
Calgary Flames
Calgary is 1-5 ATS in its last 6 games
Calgary is 1-5 SU in its last 6 games
The total has gone UNDER in 5 of Calgary's last 6 games
Calgary is 2-4 ATS in its last 6 games at home
Calgary is 16-8 SU in its last 24 games at home
Calgary is 2-4 SU in its last 6 games at home
The total has gone UNDER in 7 of Calgary's last 8 games at home
Calgary is 2-4 ATS in its last 6 games when playing Colorado
Calgary is 9-4 SU in its last 13 games when playing Colorado
Calgary is 5-2 ATS in its last 7 games when playing at home against Colorado
Calgary is 6-1 SU in its last 7 games when playing at home against Colorado

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