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**Udog** · 09-05-2015, 08:40 AM

Armadillo: Saturday's six-pack

-- In his last nine games, Andrew McCutchen is 7-7 with two walks in first inning.

-- Mack Brown is very good on TV; need more former coaches in the booth; he was on Baylor-SMU last night and did very well. .

-- You look at the backstop in Marlins Park, to either side of home plate; there are aquariums inbedded in there. Why?

-- Giants cut punter Steve Weatherford, traded for Brad Wing from the Steelers and saved $2.5M on their salary cap.

-- Pirates are 22-32 vs NL Central teams, 58-21 vs everyone else.

-- It still amazes me that there is a professional fishing tour. Is there a minor league of fishing where guys who don't catch anything get sent down to?

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Armadillo: Saturday's List of 13: Clearing out a cluttered mind........

13) Matt Harvey has thrown 166.1 innings this year; his agent Scott Boras came out and said he should be shut down at 180 innings, per doctor's recommendations, but it looks like the Mets will ignore Boras and pitch Harvey thru the playoffs, sparing Met fans from breaking the Interweb with hysterical tweets/e-mails.

Harvey didn't pitch last year after arm surgery and there is a general school of thought that the pitcher's innings should be restricted in the first year after an operation.

12) While we're on this subject, why not just name Boras commissioner, so he can run the whole sport the way he seems to want to? Because he would have to take the biggest pay cut in the history of man if he ever became commissioner.

11) For the sake of argument, lets say that Harvey makes three more starts in regular season, then four more in playoffs and goes six innings in every start- that would put him at 208.1 innings, which is an awful lot for a guy coming off of surgery.

Two more quick points:
a) Harvey will be a free agent after the 2018 season; if he is still doing well and is healthy then, he figures to break the bank and Boras is in line for 3% of that windfall.

b) If the Mets ever shut Harvey down this season, there would be a revolt at the $1B, publicly funded CitiField, where the Mets have sucked for the past several years. They're finally good, they need to try and win the World Series this year.

10) The 1928 Boston Braves once played nine consecutive doubleheaders; they were 4-14 in those eighteeen games. Now thats an overtaxed pitching staff.

9) Donald Trump keeps referring to Jeb Bush as "low energy....." A counselor named Susan Scott explains the difference between high and low energy people:

"High-energy people are fast talkers, fast thinkers, fast decision-makers, fast movers. These are the folks who don’t sit still for long, are always making new plans and coming up with new ideas."

By contrast, those in the low-energy camp are "more deliberate in their planning, slower to make decisions, thoughtful and pensive, more relaxed, less prone to quick flashes of temper."

So being low energy isn't a bad thing, but the label apparently annoys Bush. Quotes up above are courtesy of vox.com, by the way.

8) Milwaukee Brewers had Fan Appreciation weekend scheduled for the last weekend of the season, against the Cubs. Teams suck up to the fans then, trying to get them to buy tickets for next year, usually by giving away cheap souvenirs.

Problem is, so many Cub fans are making the 90-mile drive to Milwaukee for that weekend that the Brewers moved Fan Appreciation Weekend, so that Cub fans don't reap the benefits of being appreciated by the Brewers.

7) Dustin Johnson drove a par-4, 289 hole. With a 2-iron. Here is proof.

6) 56 rookies combined to hit 155 home runs in August, a big league record.

5) SMU needs to recruit good defensive players; major college teams can have 85 scholarship kids, that is 17 a year, since most players redshirt, but unless you recruit kids who play defense, your team will lose a lot of 49-34 games. The new coach at SMU is an offensive guru, so that will be his priority, but still.......

4) I think we underestimate how difficult it is for guys from other countries to come here and blend in on teams when they're so far from home, whether they be from Asia or Central America or wherever. Can't imagine working with someone who doesn't know the language here, has to be terribly difficult for them.

3) My A's have had a terrible season, but when they traded Ben Zobrist to Kansas City, they got a pitcher named Sean Manaea who is 6-0, 1.90 in his last seven starts in the hitter-happy Texas League (AA), so maybe in a year or two, he'll be up in the big leagues and helping and something positive will have come from this debacle.

2) Eagles traded QB Matt Barkley to Arizona, so looks like Tim Tebow made the squad as a 3rd-string QB. My friend Scott who is a QB expert and Cardinal fan loves Barkley, so the Redbirds may have their QB of the future. I kind of liked Philip Sims, who Arizona will probably now cut; he reminds me a little of Cam Newton.

1) Ed McMahon was an American icon, becoming famous as the sidekick on the Tonight Show for many years; he also did a lot of commercials and hosted a talent show on TV-- he was very, very recognizable, very popular, but in his later years, he was really sick, couldn't work and wound up not being able to make payments on his mansion in Beverly Hills, which wound up in foreclosure. A sad situation.

A rich guy from the east read about his plight, bought the mansion and leased it back to McMahon at an affordable rate until he passed away, a classy act of charity that didn't have to happen, since the two men didn't even know each other.

Who was this rich guy fron the east? You may have heard of him.......

Donald Trump.

**Udog** · 09-05-2015, 08:41 AM

WNBA
Long Sheet

Saturday, September 5

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PHOENIX (18 - 13) at SAN ANTONIO (7 - 23) - 9/5/2015, 8:05 PM
Top Trends for this game.
PHOENIX is 10-20 ATS (-12.0 Units) in all games this season.
PHOENIX is 6-16 ATS (-11.6 Units) as a favorite this season.
PHOENIX is 4-11 ATS (-8.1 Units) in road games this season.
PHOENIX is 0-6 ATS (-6.6 Units) in road games in August or September games this season.
PHOENIX is 0-8 ATS (-8.8 Units) after a win by 10 points or more this season.
PHOENIX is 0-10 ATS (-11.0 Units) versus poor defensive teams - allowing 77+ points/game this season.

Head-to-Head Series History
SAN ANTONIO is 7-4 against the spread versus PHOENIX over the last 3 seasons
PHOENIX is 8-4 straight up against SAN ANTONIO over the last 3 seasons
7 of 12 games in this series have gone UNDER THE TOTAL over the last 3 seasons

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WNBA

Saturday, September 5

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Trend Report
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8:00 PM
PHOENIX vs. SAN ANTONIO
Phoenix is 3-6 ATS in its last 9 games when playing on the road against San Antonio
Phoenix is 3-6 SU in its last 9 games when playing on the road against San Antonio
San Antonio is 0-4-1 SU in its last 5 games ,
San Antonio is 1-5 SU in its last 6 games when playing Phoenix

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**Udog** · 09-05-2015, 09:59 AM

WNBA
Dunkel

Saturday, September 5

Phoenix @ Seattle

Game 601-602
September 5, 2015 @ 8:00 pm

Dunkel Rating:
Phoenix
113.604
Seattle
103.472
Dunkel Team:
Dunkel Line:
Dunkel Total:
Phoenix
by 10
138
Vegas Team:
Vegas Line:
Vegas Total:
Phoenix
by 6 1/2
142 1/2
Dunkel Pick:
Phoenix
(-6 1/2); Under

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