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**Udog** · 08-14-2019, 08:48 AM

Armadillo: Wednesday's six-pack

Odds to win Mountain West football title:

5-4- Boise State

4-1- Fresno State

6-1- San Diego State

7-1- Air Force

10-1- Utah State

25-1- Nevada

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Armadillo: Wednesday's List of 13: Mid-week musings…….

13) Phillies fired hitting coach John Mallee Tuesday, replacing him for rest of this season with 75-year old Charlie Manuel, who managed the Phillies when they won the 2008 World Series.

Manuel managed the Phillies for nine years, winning NL pennants in 2008-09. He wasn’t at the Phillies’ game Tuesday night.

12) Must be a ton of $$$ involved in running fantasy football leagues. ESPN had a live fantasy draft on national TV Tuesday night, as they wrapped up a 26-hour fantasy football marathon. Fantasy drafts are usually fun to be a part of, just not so much fun to watch.

Related comment: ESPN has gone down the drain in recent years, just don’t like the way they do things as much anymore, but the 26-hour football thing they did this week was good. Maybe they should try something like that for baseball next spring.

Actually, it is surprising that ESPN doesn’t tout NBA fantasy leagues, seeing how they talk about the NBA 365 days a year now.

11) The more I think about it, it makes sense that I suck at fantasy football because I can’t grasp the concept that quarterback isn’t the most important position on fantasy teams.

10) Mariners 11, Tigers 6— How bad do you have to be for Detroit to be -$160 against you? Tigers are now 11-41 in their last 52 games, just an awful team, but Seattle is pretty terrible too.

9) Indianapolis Colts QB Andrew Luck’s calf strain has turned into a high-ankle issue, which is bad news for Indy- they can’t pinpoint exactly what the problem is.

8) Oregon Ducks landed 6-11 center N’Faly Dante, who moved up from Class of 2020 to this year’s freshman class, as Oregon restocks a roster ravaged by five early departures last spring.

Dante figures to team with UNLV transfer Shakur Juiston to lead the Ducks back to the NCAAs; this news pushed Oregon back into the preseason top 25.

7) Baseball stuff:
— Colorado Rockies DFA’d veteran C Chris Iannetta.

6) New England Patriots’ recent history in divisional games:
— Won 28 of last 31 games with the Bills, won last 8 visits to Buffalo.
— Won 14 of last 16 games with the Jets, six of last eight in NJ.
— 6-5 in last 11 games vs Dolphins, 1-5 in last six visits to Miami.

5) Houston Astros are in line to become the first team ever not to issue an intentional walk all season.

4) Arizona State announced that true freshman Jayden Daniels will be its starting QB on August 29, with true freshman Joey Yellen as his backup; this is thought to be the second time a I-A team has gone into the season with two true freshmen atop their QB depth chart- Texas Tech in 2013 had Baker Mayfield and Davis Webb, both of whom are in the NFL now.

3) There are people in this world who actually get upset about the ketchup/mustard debates that pop up on social media. I mean, we have some screwed-up things going on in the world today, condiments should be the least of our problems.

I once had a date go in the ashcan (imagine that?) because my female companion got annoyed when I asked for ketchup to put on my food. This happened in Chicago, and apparently putting ketchup on food is mostly frowned upon there. Who knew?

2) Braves 5, Mets 3— Ronald Acuna led off the first inning by hitting a ball off the wall in deep right-center field, but didn’t hustle out of the box and only got a single. He later scored anyway.

Acuna homered later in the game and threw a runner out at home from left field; he is really, really good, but he is still only 21 and will probably get even better.

1) Awful Announcing released their ratings for local TV announcers; I’m going to do my own ratings later this month, but in their ratings, Padres-Giants-Mets were top three teams.

Nationals-Pirates-Tigers were three lowest-rated announce teams; I would strongly disagree with the Detroit ranking. Jack Morris is really good when he talks about pitching, and Kirk Gibson is a solid analyst. Matt Shepard asks his analysts good questions and they discuss the answers openly. Very unfair rating.

**Udog** · 08-14-2019, 08:52 AM

WNBA

Wednesday, August 14

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Trend Report
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Seattle Storm
Seattle is 6-3 ATS in its last 9 games
Seattle is 6-3 SU in its last 9 games
The total has gone UNDER in 17 of Seattle's last 25 games
Seattle is 2-4 SU in its last 6 games on the road
The total has gone UNDER in 9 of Seattle's last 12 games on the road
Seattle is 4-1 SU in its last 5 games when playing Washington
The total has gone OVER in 4 of Seattle's last 5 games when playing on the road against Washington
Washington Mystics
Washington is 7-1 SU in its last 8 games
The total has gone OVER in 5 of Washington's last 5 games
Washington is 2-3-1 ATS in its last 6 games at home
Washington is 4-1 SU in its last 5 games at home
The total has gone OVER in 5 of Washington's last 6 games at home
Washington is 1-4 SU in its last 5 games when playing Seattle
The total has gone OVER in 4 of Washington's last 5 games when playing at home against Seattle

Los Angeles Sparks
Los Angeles is 4-1 ATS in its last 5 games
Los Angeles is 5-0 SU in its last 5 games
The total has gone OVER in 4 of Los Angeles's last 6 games
Los Angeles is 0-5 ATS in its last 5 games when playing Dallas
Los Angeles is 2-4 SU in its last 6 games when playing Dallas
The total has gone OVER in 9 of Los Angeles's last 13 games when playing Dallas
Los Angeles is 1-4 ATS in its last 5 games when playing on the road against Dallas
Los Angeles is 1-4 SU in its last 5 games when playing on the road against Dallas
The total has gone OVER in 4 of Los Angeles's last 6 games when playing on the road against Dallas
Dallas Wings
Dallas is 2-4 ATS in its last 6 games
Dallas is 2-8 SU in its last 10 games
The total has gone UNDER in 17 of Dallas's last 24 games
Dallas is 2-4 ATS in its last 6 games at home
Dallas is 2-4 SU in its last 6 games at home
The total has gone UNDER in 8 of Dallas's last 12 games at home
Dallas is 5-0 ATS in its last 5 games when playing Los Angeles
Dallas is 4-2 SU in its last 6 games when playing Los Angeles
The total has gone OVER in 9 of Dallas's last 13 games when playing Los Angeles
Dallas is 4-1 ATS in its last 5 games when playing at home against Los Angeles
Dallas is 4-1 SU in its last 5 games when playing at home against Los Angeles
The total has gone OVER in 4 of Dallas's last 6 games when playing at home against Los Angeles

Connecticut Sun
Connecticut is 1-5 ATS in its last 6 games
Connecticut is 7-2 SU in its last 9 games
Connecticut is 2-8 ATS in its last 10 games on the road
Connecticut is 2-6 SU in its last 8 games on the road
Connecticut is 1-7 ATS in its last 8 games when playing Phoenix
The total has gone UNDER in 4 of Connecticut's last 6 games when playing Phoenix
Connecticut is 0-5 SU in its last 5 games when playing on the road against Phoenix
The total has gone UNDER in 4 of Connecticut's last 5 games when playing on the road against Phoenix
Phoenix Mercury
Phoenix is 5-2 ATS in its last 7 games
Phoenix is 1-4 SU in its last 5 games
The total has gone OVER in 5 of Phoenix's last 6 games
Phoenix is 2-4 ATS in its last 6 games at home
Phoenix is 14-3 SU in its last 17 games at home
Phoenix is 7-1 ATS in its last 8 games when playing Connecticut
The total has gone UNDER in 4 of Phoenix's last 6 games when playing Connecticut
Phoenix is 5-0 SU in its last 5 games when playing at home against Connecticut
The total has gone UNDER in 4 of Phoenix's last 5 games when playing at home against Connecticut

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**Udog** · 08-14-2019, 11:00 AM

WNBA
Long Sheet

Wednesday, August 14

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LOS ANGELES (15 - 8) at DALLAS (7 - 17) - 8/14/2019, 8:00 PM
There are no Top Trends with records of significance that apply to this game.

Head-to-Head Series History
DALLAS is 8-1 against the spread versus LOS ANGELES over the last 3 seasons
DALLAS is 5-4 straight up against LOS ANGELES over the last 3 seasons
5 of 9 games in this series have gone OVER THE TOTAL over the last 3 seasons

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SEATTLE (14 - 11) at WASHINGTON (16 - 7) - 8/14/2019, 8:00 PM
There are no Top Trends with records of significance that apply to this game.

Head-to-Head Series History
WASHINGTON is 6-4 against the spread versus SEATTLE over the last 3 seasons
SEATTLE is 7-4 straight up against WASHINGTON over the last 3 seasons
6 of 11 games in this series have gone OVER THE TOTAL over the last 3 seasons

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CONNECTICUT (16 - 8) at PHOENIX (11 - 12) - 8/14/2019, 10:00 PM
There are no Top Trends with records of significance that apply to this game.

Head-to-Head Series History
PHOENIX is 8-2 against the spread versus CONNECTICUT over the last 3 seasons
PHOENIX is 5-5 straight up against CONNECTICUT over the last 3 seasons
6 of 10 games in this series have gone UNDER THE TOTAL over the last 3 seasons

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**StarDust Bum** · 08-14-2019, 12:19 PM

WNBA (WOMEN'S PROFESSIONAL)

DUNKEL'S HIGHLIGHTED GAME

Seattle at Washington - Wednesday August 14, 2019
The Washington Mystics come into tonight’s contests with the highest Dunkel home rating on the board at 121.626. Washington is 8-2 ATS in its last 10 games versus a team with a winning record. The Seattle Storm come in with a Dunkel road rating of 105.972. Seattle is 2-5-1 ATS in its last eight games versus Eastern Conference opponents. The Washington Mystics come in with the highest Dunkel O/U rating on the board at 173.964. The Mystics have gone over in five of their last six home games. Dunkel’s Pick: Washington (-10; Over).

WEDNESDAY AUGUST 14, 2019

Seattle
@
Washington
Game 615-616
August 14, 2019 @ 8:00 pm

Dunkel Rating: Seattle
105.972
Washington
121.626
Dunkel Team:
Dunkel Line:
Dunkel Total: Washington
by 15 1/2
174
Vegas Team:
Vegas Line:
Vegas Total: Washington
by 10
160
Dunkel Pick: Washington
(-10); Over

Los Angeles
@
Dallas
Game 613-614
August 14, 2019 @ 8:00 pm

Dunkel Rating: Los Angeles
115.381
Dallas
105.988
Dunkel Team:
Dunkel Line:
Dunkel Total: Los Angeles
by 8 1/2
146
Vegas Team:
Vegas Line:
Vegas Total: Los Angeles
by 5 1/2
150
Dunkel Pick: Los Angeles
(-5 1/2); Under

Connecticut
@
Phoenix
Game 617-618
August 14, 2019 @ 10:00 pm

Dunkel Rating: Connecticut
108.545
Phoenix
110.978
Dunkel Team:
Dunkel Line:
Dunkel Total: Phoenix
by 2 1/2
159
Vegas Team:
Vegas Line:
Vegas Total: Connecticut
by 5 1/2
151 1/2
Dunkel Pick: Phoenix
(+5 1/2); Over

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