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**Udog** · 06-15-2016, 07:22 AM

Armadillo: Wednesday's six-pack

-- NFL teams were 45-94 (47.9%) on 2-point conversions last year.

-- Steelers were 8-11 on 2-point triee; no one else tried more than six times.

-- Four teams (Jets-Eagles-Patriots-Panthers) didn't try a 2-point conversion, but I don't think fake PATs count in this-- the Eagles did that now and then. .

-- Texas Rangers put Yu Darvish on DL with shoulder issues.

-- Dodgers' P Kenta Maeda left Tuesday's game after he was hit hard on the leg by a line drive hit by Arizona's Paul Goldschmidt.

-- Major league hitters have a .175 average after a 1-2 count, .243 after a 2-1 count, making the 1-1 pitch a pivotal pitch in many at-bats.

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Armadillo: Wednesday's List of 13: Nobody asked me, but.......

13) Miami Marlins' TV people have to stop with the Ichiro/Pete Rose stuff. Hits he got in the Japanese League are not close to the same as hits in the major leagues.

Ichiro Suzuki is a great baseball player, a first ballot Hall of Famer, but to say he has as many hits at Rose is misleading. Its like including hits in the minor leagues.

12) Jeremy Foley retired this week as AD at Florida, after 25 years; he hired Urban Meyer and Billy Donovan, oversaw a great period of success in Florida athletics.

Not great for basketball coach Michael White; you don't want the guy who hired you to leave, but White's father is the AD at Duke and he has a brother who is an AD, so he is connected enough to have a good career no matter what.

11) Kid on Miami, Fla's baseball team openly taunted his opponents after hitting a homer against Boston College Sunday, almost starting a fracas. Someone better tell this young man that if he doesn't tone his act down, someone in pro baseball is going to plant a 95 mph fastball in his ear. Maybe more than one.

10) Pretty cool Sunday when a freshman pinch-hitter on Cal-Santa Barbara comes off the bench and hits a walk-off grand slam to send the Gauchos to their first-ever College World Series. UCSB doesn't even have lights on its baseball field- they were the third place team in the Big West, but now they're heading to Omaha.

9) I was watching movies the other night and I'm thinking; which actor died the most times in his acting career? Does anyone keep track of this stuff?

So I look it up on the Interweb; an actor named John Hurt died in either 40 or 45 movies, depending on which website you believe. Vincent Price died 33 times, before he became the Egghead in the old Batman TV series.

8) The 8th hole at Oakmont this week is a 288-yard par -3. Oy.

7) Golden State Warriors are +153 when Draymond Green has been on the floor, -30 when he has been out of the game. Green will be back Thursday.

6) 8 of the 26 basketball teams in SEC/Pac-12 are off to Europe for summer trips; Oregon-UCLA-Washington-Washington State and Arkansas-Georgia-Mississippi State-Missouri. Those trips are generally good for a team, unless your best player gets hurt and is out for the year, like what happened to USC a few years ago.

5) In his 18 years in the NBA, John Stockton missed a total of 22 games.

4) Odd fact: Kobe Bryant's grandparents once bought a house from Muhammad Ali

3) James Shields is 34 years old and is struggling badly; in his last three starts, one for San Diego and two for the White Sox, he's allowed 24 runs in 9.2 IP. No bueno.

2) Before Brandon Finnegan lost 1-0 at Dodger Stadium May 23, the Reds had not had a complete game pitched by a lefty starter since 2001.

1) 20 years ago I coached Little League, which was interesting, in both good and bad ways. We had a pretty good team; one night, we're beating this team and their 3B had a rough night, made a couple errors and his coach is ragging on him pretty good.

I'm standing right there listening to this; the coach's son is pitching and the coach isn't happy. He lets loose on the third baseman one more time and then, finally, the kid looks at him and says: "Hey!!! You're the one who put me here!!!!"

That put an end to that.

**Udog** · 06-15-2016, 07:37 AM

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Long Sheet

Thursday, June 16

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GOLDEN STATE (88 - 16) at CLEVELAND (71 - 30) - 6/16/2016, 9:05 PM
Top Trends for this game.
GOLDEN STATE is 58-43 ATS (+10.7 Units) in all games this season.
GOLDEN STATE is 24-13 ATS (+9.7 Units) when playing with 2 days rest over the last 2 seasons.
GOLDEN STATE is 23-9 ATS (+13.1 Units) after a non-conference game this season.
GOLDEN STATE is 12-3 ATS (+8.7 Units) revenging a loss vs opponent this season.
GOLDEN STATE is 21-9 ATS (+11.1 Units) after a loss by 10 points or more over the last 3 seasons.
GOLDEN STATE is 65-45 ATS (+15.5 Units) when playing against a team with a winning record over the last 2 seasons.
GOLDEN STATE is 46-33 ATS (+9.7 Units) when playing against a team with a winning record - 2nd half of the season over the last 2 seasons.
GOLDEN STATE is 47-31 ATS (+12.9 Units) versus good offensive teams - scoring 99+ points/game this season.
GOLDEN STATE is 53-40 ATS (+9.0 Units) versus good offensive teams - scoring 99+ points/game - 2nd half of the season over the last 2 seasons.

Head-to-Head Series History
GOLDEN STATE is 9-8 against the spread versus CLEVELAND over the last 3 seasons
GOLDEN STATE is 11-6 straight up against CLEVELAND over the last 3 seasons
10 of 15 games in this series have gone UNDER THE TOTAL over the last 3 seasons

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NBA
Armadillo's Write-Up

Thursday, June 16

Cleveland-Golden State (GSt 3-2)
Green is back for this game, which makes Warriors better on defense; Golden State is 4-5 on road in playoffs, with four of those five losses coming in Game 3's. Cleveland's loss in Game 4 was their first loss in eight home games in playoffs. Five of last seven Golden State games, four of last six Cavalier games stayed under the total. Warriors are 8-2 in last 10 games with Cleveland (under 6-3-1).

In the playoffs this spring, under is 50-32-1

Playoff tally: Favorites vs spread: 26-18, Over: 13-31
Second round: Favorites: 13-8, over: 12-9
Conference final: Favorites: 7-6, over: 5-7-1
Final: Favorites: 3-2, Over: 2-3

NBA

Thursday, June 16

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Trend Report
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9:00 PM
GOLDEN STATE vs. CLEVELAND
Golden State is 8-2 SU in its last 10 games when playing Cleveland
Golden State is 6-2 SU in its last 8 games
Cleveland is 3-7 ATS in its last 10 games when playing Golden State
Cleveland is 1-4 SU in its last 5 games when playing at home against Golden State

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