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**Udog** · 07-12-2018, 09:45 AM

Armadillo: Thursday's six-pack

Six NFL teams who won 4+ more games than they did in 2016:

— Jacksonville Jaguars

— Los Angeles Chargers

— Los Angeles Rams

— Minnesota Vikings

— Philadelphia Eagles

— San Francisco 49ers

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

13) You look at the benches in the NBA Summer League and you see two rows of coaches, maybe 8-9 coaches for each team. NBA teams spend lot of money on player development, which is more important now because players come into the league younger than ever before.

One of the first books I remember reading was The Open Man, Dave DeBusschere’s diary of the Knicks’ 1969-70 title team. For a 12-year old kid who was falling in love with basketball, I went thru that book pretty quickly.

One thing that stands out now was that coach Red Holzman had NO ASSISTANT COACHES; Dick McGuire was his advance scout and trainer Danny Whalen kept track of timeouts and served as an assistant coach of sorts, but Holzman did all the actual coaching.

The game has changed drastically in that regard.

12) George Karl’s son Coby is on the Lakers’ bench coaching during summer league; he is also the all-time leading scorer in Las Vegas Summer League history, with 337 points. Archie Goodwin is next, at 318 points.

11) Miami Marlins were 23-42 on June 10, but since then, they’re 15-14, hanging in there and hitting the ball well- they had 22 hits in a game in Washington Sunday. Don Mattingly has done a fine job keeping a talent-shy roster competitive in games.

10) Cincinnati Bengals may have seen one of the errors of their ways; they were 31st last year in $$$ spent on their offensive line, letting LT Andrew Whitworth bolt to the Rams.

Bengals are now 22nd in OL spending for this coming season; they hope it results in a QB who gets hit a lot less this season.

9) San Diego Padres lost their last 13 games against Clayton Kershaw, scoring a total of 12 runs off Kershaw in those 13 games.

8) An unnamed AL scout after watching the Kansas City Royals recently:

“I think someone will bite on Lucas Duda as a lefty bat off the bench. They won’t get enough for Duffy or Merrifield to move them. They’ll definitely move Moustakas and he will help someone. Won’t get the big return. Doesn’t happen anymore.”

7) Houston Astros’ contract situation in the near future:
— Verlander, $28M a year thru 2019 (Detroit is paying $8M of that)
— McCann, $17M with an option after this year (NYY is paying $5.5M of that)
— Keuchel, $13.2M, free agent this season
— Reddick, $13M a year thru 2020 (yikes)
— Gurriel, $12.4M this year, $10.4M in ’19, $8.4M in ’20.
— Altuve, $9M this year and next, then a $29M/year deal kicks in
— Morton $7M, free agent after this season
— Cole $6.75M, arbitration this winter, then free agent after 2019.
— Carlos Correa isn’t a free agent until after 2021
— Alex Bregman isn’t a free agent until after 2022

Astros have some serious decisions to make about their starting pitchers this winter; their young position players are going to keep Houston strong for a long time.

6) When the Indians blew a 4-0 ninth inning lead in a 7-4 to the Reds Tuesday, it was in large part the manager’s fault. Terry Francona told pitching coach Carl Willis to get “OP” up in the bullpen, he meant Oliver Perez, but Willis thought he said “OT” meaning Dan Otero, so Willis told the bullpen coach to get Otero warmed up.

Few minutes later, Francona went to the mound, waved to the bullpen for a pitching change and was surprised to see Otero come to the mound instead of Perez. Whoops.

5) Baseball doings:
— Indians’ OF Lonnie Chisenhall (calf) is out 8-10 weeks.

4) Injury-plagued Duke alum Harry Giles, who Sacramento drafted in 2017 despite having two ACL injuries before getting to the NBA, has played 23.3 mpg in his first three summer league games this month, scoring 12 ppg, grabbing 7.5 rpg.

3) There are 19 Kansas Jayhawk alums playing in Las Vegas this week.

2) There is guy named Chris Majkowski who is a radio engineer for Mets’ games and he has worked 4,011 consecutive games, dating back to 1993- imagine not missing one day of work for 25 years? Majkowski threw out the first pitch before the Mets’ game Wednesday.

1) Astros’ closer Ken Giles blew a 9th-inning lead Tuesday, appeared to curse out manager AJ Hinch when he was removed from the game, then was sent to AAA today. Alrighty then.

**Udog** · 07-12-2018, 09:51 AM

WNBA
Dunkel

Thursday, July 12

Dallas @ Los Angeles

Game 601-602
July 12, 2018 @ 3:30 pm

Dunkel Rating:
Dallas
110.007
Los Angeles
119.491
Dunkel Team:
Dunkel Line:
Dunkel Total:
Los Angeles
by 9 1/2
154
Vegas Team:
Vegas Line:
Vegas Total:
Los Angeles
by 7
164 1/2
Dunkel Pick:
Los Angeles
(-7); Under

WNBA
Long Sheet

Thursday, July 12

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DALLAS (11 - 8) at LOS ANGELES (13 - 8) - 7/12/2018, 3:30 PM
Top Trends for this game.
DALLAS is 1-9 ATS (-8.9 Units) in road games in July games over the last 3 seasons.
LOS ANGELES is 37-25 ATS (+9.5 Units) in all games over the last 2 seasons.
LOS ANGELES is 31-20 ATS (+9.0 Units) as a favorite over the last 2 seasons.
LOS ANGELES is 21-11 ATS (+8.9 Units) in home games over the last 2 seasons.
LOS ANGELES is 21-11 ATS (+8.9 Units) in a home game where where the total is greater than or equal to 150 over the last 2 seasons.
LOS ANGELES is 17-8 ATS (+8.2 Units) in home games versus good offensive teams - scoring 77+ points/game over the last 2 seasons.
DALLAS is 13-6 ATS (+6.4 Units) in all games this season.
DALLAS is 13-6 ATS (+6.4 Units) in May, June, or July games this season.
DALLAS is 18-9 ATS (+8.1 Units) after a division game over the last 2 seasons.

Head-to-Head Series History
DALLAS is 6-3 against the spread versus LOS ANGELES over the last 3 seasons
LOS ANGELES is 6-3 straight up against DALLAS over the last 3 seasons
7 of 9 games in this series have gone OVER THE TOTAL over the last 3 seasons

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WNBA

Thursday, July 12

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Trend Report
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Dallas Wings
Dallas is 6-0-1 ATS in its last 7 games
Dallas is 5-1 SU in its last 6 games
The total has gone OVER in 8 of Dallas's last 10 games
Dallas is 4-1 ATS in its last 5 games on the road
Dallas is 6-13 SU in its last 19 games on the road
The total has gone OVER in 5 of Dallas's last 5 games on the road
Dallas is 5-1 ATS in its last 6 games when playing Los Angeles
Dallas is 3-7 SU in its last 10 games when playing Los Angeles
The total has gone OVER in 8 of Dallas's last 10 games when playing Los Angeles
Dallas is 12-4-2 ATS in its last 18 games when playing on the road against Los Angeles
Dallas is 0-5 SU in its last 5 games when playing on the road against Los Angeles
The total has gone OVER in 4 of Dallas's last 5 games when playing on the road against Los Angeles
Los Angeles Sparks
Los Angeles is 2-6 ATS in its last 8 games
Los Angeles is 2-5 SU in its last 7 games
The total has gone UNDER in 4 of Los Angeles's last 5 games
Los Angeles is 15-5-1 ATS in its last 21 games at home
Los Angeles is 18-4 SU in its last 22 games at home
The total has gone UNDER in 12 of Los Angeles's last 13 games at home
Los Angeles is 1-5 ATS in its last 6 games when playing Dallas
Los Angeles is 7-3 SU in its last 10 games when playing Dallas
The total has gone OVER in 8 of Los Angeles's last 10 games when playing Dallas
Los Angeles is 4-12-2 ATS in its last 18 games when playing at home against Dallas
Los Angeles is 5-0 SU in its last 5 games when playing at home against Dallas
The total has gone OVER in 4 of Los Angeles's last 5 games when playing at home against Dallas

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