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**Udog** · 05-18-2017, 08:13 AM

Armadillo: Thursday's six-pack

Odds for the Byron Nelson golf tournament this weekend in Texas

9-2 Dustin Johnson

10-1 Jordan Spieth

13-1 Sergio Garcia

16-1 Brooks Koepka, Jason Day

30-1 Louis Oosthuizen, Tony Finau

35-1 Hoffman Palmer Kuchar Reed

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Armadillo: Thursday's List of 13: Doing some thinking out loud………

13) Today’s weird story: The king of the Netherlands has revealed he has been living a secret double life as a co-pilot for a commercial airline.

For 21 years, King Willem-Alexander has taken to the skies twice a month to ferry passengers around on short-haul services for the Dutch airline KLM.

Go figure.

12) They’re honoring the 1967 World Champion Cardinals in St Louis this week; they had Steve Carlton on TV for half an inning Tuesday night, mainly because Tim McCarver is one of the TV guys for the Cardinals now- he and Carlton are great friends.

Was interesting to hear Carlton, who doesn’t speak publicly much, if ever. He doesn’t own a TV now so he doesn’t follow baseball much these days, but he talked about how he and Bob Boone didn’t see pitch selection the same way when he was on the Phillies, which is how McCarver became his personal catcher at the end of each of their careers.

McCarver was great when he did Mets’ games on local TV in the 80’s and he is really good now, but why was he not as good on FOX national broadcasts? Seriously, he just sounded like a different person on national TV, less relaxed.

11) Chris Davis homered in the 12th AND 13th inning Tuesday night in Detroit; to the best of my researching ability, he is the 4th major leaguer ever to homer in consecutive extra innings:

a) August 12, 1966— Art Shamsky homered in the 10th/11th innings, but the Reds lost in the 13th inning to Pittsburgh

b) June 4, 2013— John Mayberry Jr homered twice against the Marlins- his walk-off grand slam gave the Phillies a 7-3 win.

c) September 17, 2016- Curtis Granderson homered in the 11th/12th inning of the Mets’ 3-2 win over the Twins.

10) Willie Mays (22) hit the most extra inning homers in baseball history. Pitcher Elroy Face (21) has given up the most extra inning taters- no one else gave up more than 14.

9) Conference USA will hold its basketball tournament the next few years at The Star in Frisco, TX, the 12,000-seat arena Jerry Jones owns that also is the home field for eight high school football teams in that city.

8) ESPN laid off 80 people a couple weeks ago, but is paying Mike Greenberg $6.5M a year to host a 3-hour morning show? What genius decided that was a good idea?

7) Division I basketball teams are poaching lot of transfers from low and mid-major teams, which is why we’ll see fewer first round upsets in NCAA tournament. Kid plays well at the lower level and it is almost like he expects a promotion to a higher-level program.

6) They have an actual payphone at Chase Field in Arizona; don’t see many of those anymore. Put a quarter in, make a phone call; they used to be everywhere, before cellphones.

5) Nov 16-17, Madison Square Garden has a college basketball tournament: Providence, Saint Louis, Virginia Tech and Washington (former Syracuse assistant Mike Hopkins is coach).

4) Dodgers 6, Giants 1— Clayton Kershaw has had nine starts against the Giants where he didn’t allow a run; seven of those nine starts were in San Francisco- he has a 1.31 ERA in 20 career starts at AT&T Park.

3) Before we anoint these one-inning closers the “greatest ever” keep in mind that in 1974, Mike Marshall of the Dodgers appeared in 106 games, and threw 208.1 innings- thats just about six outs per appearance. Marshall was 15-12 with 21 saves that year for the NL Champs. In the 70’s, great relievers got more than three outs to close out games.

2) Cavaliers 117, Celtics 104— Cleveland was up 22 at the half.

1— Arizona 5, NY Mets 4 (11)— Metropolitans finish their first 0-6 road trip since 1963. Backup catcher Chris Hermann hit a walk-off homer in the 11th.

Braves 8, Blue Jays 4— Atlanta scored six runs in this game before they made an out.

**Udog** · 05-18-2017, 08:24 AM

WNBA
Long Sheet

Thursday, May 18

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MINNESOTA (1 - 0) at NEW YORK (1 - 0) - 5/18/2017, 7:00 PM
Top Trends for this game.
NEW YORK is 5-14 ATS (-10.4 Units) in home games over the last 2 seasons.
NEW YORK is 5-14 ATS (-10.4 Units) in a home game where where the total is greater than or equal to 150 over the last 2 seasons.
NEW YORK is 3-11 ATS (-9.1 Units) in home games in May, June, or July games over the last 2 seasons.
NEW YORK is 2-9 ATS (-7.9 Units) in home games against Western conference opponents over the last 2 seasons.
NEW YORK is 2-9 ATS (-7.9 Units) in home games in non-conference games over the last 2 seasons.

Head-to-Head Series History
NEW YORK is 3-2 against the spread versus MINNESOTA over the last 3 seasons
NEW YORK is 3-2 straight up against MINNESOTA over the last 3 seasons
4 of 5 games in this series have gone OVER THE TOTAL over the last 3 seasons

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WNBA

Thursday, May 18

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Trend Report
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7:00 PM
MINNESOTA vs. NEW YORK
The total has gone UNDER in 9 of Minnesota's last 12 games when playing on the road against New York
Minnesota is 5-2 SU in its last 7 games when playing on the road against New York
The total has gone OVER in 6 of New York's last 7 games when playing Minnesota
New York is 2-5 ATS in its last 7 games when playing at home against Minnesota

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**Udog** · 05-18-2017, 10:00 AM

WNBA
Dunkel

Thursday, May 18

Minnesota @ New York

Game 653-654
May 18, 2017 @ 7:00 pm

Dunkel Rating:
Minnesota
117.147
New York
109.390
Dunkel Team:
Dunkel Line:
Dunkel Total:
Minnesota
by 8
157
Vegas Team:
Vegas Line:
Vegas Total:
Minnesota
by 4
154 1/2
Dunkel Pick:
Minnesota
(-4); Over

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