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**Udog** · 09-19-2015, 08:28 AM

Armadillo: Saturday's six-pack

-- Mike Olt is only player in baseball history to homer for the Cubs and White Sox in the same season.-- SF Giant centerfielders have three HRs this year; Giant pitchers have nine.-- 94 of 146 Cincinnati games this season have been started by rookie pitchers.-- Four Missouri football players were injured in a car accident Friday; two are still in the hospital, two were released with minor injuries.-- Pirates lost SS Jung Ho Kang for the season Thursday; tough loss for them.-- Five of the last six college football national champs were using a starting QB who was in his first season as the starter.

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

13) Broncos 31, Chiefs 24-- One of three worst regular season losses I can remember, just a complete debacle by the Chiefs, who turned ball over five times, giving Denver a TD in last 2:00 of each half. Its a 16-game season; hard to just give one away.

By the way, Giants-Eagles in '78 and 49ers-Bengals in '87 were other two losses that stood out to me as complete disasters. All three teams that lost were at home.

12) Florida State 14,, Boston College 0-- Good lord, recruit a QB who can throw the ball. BC was 5-15 passing for 56 yards and backup QB Flutie (Doug's nephew) did some of that. You ain't beating Florida State just by running the ball.

11) I'm still not sold on batting the pitcher 8th; don't think it helps much, if at all. I'll be very, very curious if anyone does it in a playoff game; Tony Larussa never did.

10) With over 1,700 entrants in the Westgate Football Handicapping Contest in Las Vegas, first place will be $906,625. They pick five games a week against the spread.

9) Yoenis Cespedes is having a glorious end to his 4-year, $36M contract; word is he wants his next contract to be six years. Very curious to see where he lands, because that six-year deal is likely to be worth more than $120M. Thats million with an M. .

8) Hanley Ramirez is getting paid $122,222 a day by the Red Sox; all he does now is take BP and practice playing first base, which is apparently where he will play next year. Putting Ramirez in the outfield was the kind of move that gets people fired.

7) One of my new hobbies is going thru EBay and pricing bobbleheads; if I played in the NBA for 10+ years and my bobblehead was only worth $5.95 or so, that would make me sad. A few guys are in that boat, some were good players.

Not sure why, but nascot bobbleheads seem to be worth more than lot of players'.

6) Johnny Cueto allowed two runs in seven IP last night in Detroit; Royals have to be encouraged by that performance, his best in almost a month.

5) If you're watching an NFL game and ref is Walt Anderson, know that his crew is the most experienced in the NFL, with a combined 102 years of NFL experience.

4) I wonder how many times an NFL team has won back-to-back games when they allowed a defensive TD in both games. Denver's win at Arrowhead was first time since 2010 that Peyton Manning threw a pick-6 in consecutive games.

3) Milwaukee Brewers drew 37,158 fans to Miller Park on a rainy Friday last night, because their stadium is domed. Minnesota's game got rained out, because for some freakin' reason, the Twins built a new stadium without a retractable dome on it.

Minnesota is a contending team that isn't helped by having to play a twinbill today; Games 6-7 of the World Series this year, in the AL park, will be November 3-4. I'm wondering what the temps will be in Minneapolis those two nights.

2) If you like good writing, go to joeposnanski.com. He is a writer from Kansas City who mostly writes about sports, but occasionally does some other stuff-- he had a good article last week about having a 14-year old daughter. When I read his stuff, I wish I had studied more (or at all.....lol) in school. He really is an excellent writer.

1) Atlanta Brave TV announcers were talking about baseball getting realigned in the near future, the way we suggested a few years ago. They implied that one of the biggest roadblocks to this would be adoption of the DH thru the whole major leagues, which is not a popular idea with the National League teams.

Geographic realignment would reduce travel costs greatly; no way the players' union would ever agree to the elimination of the DH, since DH's are generally lot higher paid than the average player.

**Udog** · 09-19-2015, 08:31 AM

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Long Sheet

Saturday, September 19

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CHICAGO (22 - 13) at INDIANA (20 - 15) - 9/19/2015, 7:00 PM
Top Trends for this game.
CHICAGO is 14-28 ATS (-16.8 Units) after scoring 75 points or more over the last 2 seasons.

Head-to-Head Series History
INDIANA is 10-8 against the spread versus CHICAGO over the last 3 seasons
CHICAGO is 10-9 straight up against INDIANA over the last 3 seasons
11 of 19 games in this series have gone UNDER THE TOTAL over the last 3 seasons

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PHOENIX (21 - 14) at TULSA (18 - 17) - 9/19/2015, 9:00 PM
Top Trends for this game.
PHOENIX is 12-21 ATS (-11.1 Units) in all games this season.
PHOENIX is 8-16 ATS (-9.6 Units) as a favorite this season.
PHOENIX is 5-12 ATS (-8.2 Units) in road games this season.
PHOENIX is 1-7 ATS (-6.7 Units) in road games in August or September games this season.
PHOENIX is 6-15 ATS (-10.5 Units) after a division game this season.
PHOENIX is 1-8 ATS (-7.8 Units) after a win by 10 points or more this season.
PHOENIX is 2-10 ATS (-9.0 Units) versus poor defensive teams - allowing 77+ points/game this season.
TULSA is 12-4 ATS (+7.6 Units) revenging a loss versus opponent this season.

Head-to-Head Series History
TULSA is 8-5 against the spread versus PHOENIX over the last 3 seasons
PHOENIX is 11-3 straight up against TULSA over the last 3 seasons
7 of 14 games in this series have gone OVER THE TOTAL over the last 3 seasons

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WNBA

Saturday, September 19

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Trend Report
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7:00 PM
CHICAGO vs. INDIANA
Chicago is 4-18 SU in its last 22 games when playing on the road against Indiana
Chicago is 6-13 ATS in its last 19 games when playing on the road against Indiana
Indiana is 1-3-1 ATS in its last 5 games at home
Indiana is 10-2 SU in its last 12 games at home

9:00 PM
PHOENIX vs. TULSA
Phoenix is 2-5 SU in its last 7 games on the road
Phoenix is 4-1 SU in its last 5 games
Tulsa is 4-9 SU in its last 13 games when playing at home against Phoenix
Tulsa is 5-20 SU in its last 25 games when playing Phoenix

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