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**Udog** · 09-19-2020, 09:30 AM

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Armadillo: Saturday's six-pack

Sports franchises that sold for the most $$$$:
$3.3B— Brooklyn Nets
$2.4B— New York Mets
$2.3B— Carolina Panthers
$2.2B— Houston Rockets
$2.0B— Los Angeles Clippers
$2.0B— Los Angeles Dodgers

Americans who have died from COVID-19: 197,682
Please wear a mask when you go out.

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Armadillo: Saturday's Den: Random thoughts on a happy day

13) Good day Friday; finally got my new glasses, so my eyesight is back to 100%, for first time in 11 months. I have a list of people to thank, but unfortunately, I don’t know a lot of their names.

— Dr Mallick, my retina surgeon, who has since moved to New Jersey
— Dr Lemanski, my cataract surgeon

— My cousins Maureen/Kevin, who went above and beyond to help me out.
— Friends/drivers Luke, Christina, Dara.
— My friend Chris the bartender, who advised me on where to get a new pair of glasses back in February- they helped a lot.

— The people at Memorial Hospital who helped me thru retina surgery
— The people at the Surgery Center in Latham, where I had cataract surgery.

Dr Lemanski’s staff got me new glasses, so it is lot easier to write this site now.

People at the Retina Care Center were also very nice to me.

Its been a long 11 months, but it is good to have my vision back to 100%.

12) Tampa Bay/Oakland clinched playoff spots this week; A’s are in postseason for 6th time in nine years, with a payroll in the bottom third of the sport.

11) Michael Bloomberg is contributing $100M to Joe Biden’s campaign in Florida; money like that has to buy a hell of a lot of TV commercials. This is a good couple months for TV networks; politicians throwing money at them for commercial time.

10) WR Adam Humphries recently signed a $26M deal with the Tennessee Titans; this is a guy who had only one scholarship offer coming out of high school- Clemson. This is part of why Dabo Swinney’s team is in the college football playoff every year; he can recognize talent.

9) Boston Celtics are 8-5 in playoffs so far; they led by 10+ points in four of the five losses.

8) Cleveland Browns’ coach Kevin Stefanski came to Cleveland from the Vikings, where he had been an assistant coach for 14 years, working for three different head coaches. That’s an unusual career path for a pro football coach.

7) Lakers 126, Nuggets 114 (Lakers lead 1-0)
— Game was 70-59 at halftime; LA shot 53% from the floor.
— Anthony Davis scored 37 points; Denver needs to find a way to defend him.

6) Ruben Amaro Jr is a new TV analyst for the Phillies and he is very good; relaxed, talks the game, and as a former GM/coach, knows it very well.

5) Milwaukee Brewers are 24-26, wallowing just below the cut for the playoffs; their most talented pitchers are Brandon Woodruff/Josh Hader, but Hader has thrown only 15.2 innings all year, while a washed-up stiff like Brent Suter has thrown 26 innings- Brett Anderson has thrown 39 innings.

Milwaukee rushed Hader to the majors because their AAA team was in high-altitude Colorado Springs, where prospects got their confidence squashed by lofty ERA’s- they made him a reliever to limit his innings early in his career. But now that he is an established big leaguer, Hader needs to be a starting pitcher, so the Brewers can maximize his immense potential.

4) Late night TV surfing, ran into an old friend; the old TV show Without a Trace was very underrated, about the part of FBI in New York City that found missing people. Anthony LaPaglia was great as Jack Malone, who headed the agency. It is on Paramount Network 2-3 hours in a row, late at night.

3) ESPN signed up longtime NBA star Vince Carter as an NBA/college hoop analyst; you never know how these things are going to go, but I’ll be curious to hear what he has to say.

2) Speaking of college basketball, sounds like next season will begin November 25, the night before Thanksgiving. No freakin’ idea what the schedule is going to look like, but it’ll be fun to see kids playing basketball again.

1) If the baseball playoffs started today (they don’t):
AL East: Tampa Bay, New York
AL Central: Chicago, Minnesota
AL West: Oakland, Houston
AL wild cards: Cleveland, Toronto

NL East: Atlanta, Miami
NL Central: Chicago, Cincy/StL
NL West: Los Angeles, San Diego
NL wild cards: Philadelphia, SF/Cin/StL

**Udog** · 09-19-2020, 09:35 AM

21DALLAS -22 TAMPA BAY
TAMPA BAY is 21-2 ATS (18.8 Units) after playing a game where 4 or fewer total goals were scored in the current season.

NHL
Dunkel

Saturday, September 19

Dallas @ Tampa Bay

Game 21-22
September 19, 2020 @ 7:35 pm

Dunkel Rating:
Dallas
12.544
Tampa Bay
13.836
Dunkel Team:
Dunkel Line:
Dunkel Total:
Tampa Bay
by 1 1/2
4
Vegas Team:
Vegas Line:
Vegas Total:
Tampa Bay
-160
5
Dunkel Pick:
Tampa Bay
(-160); Under

NHL
Long Sheet

Saturday, September 19

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DALLAS (50-32-0-8, 108 pts.) vs. TAMPA BAY (57-25-0-7, 121 pts.) - 9/19/2020, 7:30 PM
Top Trends for this game.
TAMPA BAY is 119-56 ATS (+177.9 Units) in all games over the last 2 seasons.
TAMPA BAY is 34-16 ATS (+34.0 Units) in road games revenging a loss versus opponent over the last 3 seasons.
TAMPA BAY is 22-9 ATS (+8.7 Units) when playing against a team with a winning record in the second half of the season this season.
DALLAS is 12-1 ATS (+10.8 Units) when playing with 3 or more days rest over the last 2 seasons.
DALLAS is 13-8 ATS (+22.0 Units) when playing in a neutral arena this season.
DALLAS is 32-23 ATS (+8.4 Units) when playing against a team with a winning record this season.
DALLAS is 17-11 ATS (+29.8 Units) in road games when playing against a team with a winning record in the second half of the season this season.

Head-to-Head Series History
TAMPA BAY is 4-2 (+1.5 Units) against the spread versus DALLAS over the last 3 seasons
TAMPA BAY is 4-2-0 straight up against DALLAS over the last 3 seasons
3 of 5 games in this series have gone OVER THE TOTAL over the last 3 seasons . (Over=+0.9 Units)

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NHL

Saturday, September 19

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Trend Report
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Dallas @ Tampa Bay
Dallas
The total has gone OVER in 8 of Dallas's last 9 games when playing on the road against Tampa Bay
Dallas is 5-1 ATS in its last 6 games
Tampa Bay
The total has gone OVER in 8 of Tampa Bay's last 9 games when playing at home against Dallas
Tampa Bay is 8-2 SU in its last 10 games

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