BEST BETS:
06/05/2021...............1 - 1 - 0................-0.50
06/04/2021...............0 - 2 - 0................-11.00
06/02/2021...............2 - 2 - 0................- 1.00
06/01/2021...............4 - 1 - 0...............+14.50
Totals:......................7 - 6 - 0................ + 2.00
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SATURDAY, JUNE 5
GAME TIME(ET) PICK UNITS
MIL at BK 07:30 PM
BK -3.5
O 239.0
+500 +500
BEST BETS:
06/04/2021...............0 - 2 - 0................-11.00
06/02/2021...............2 - 2 - 0................- 1.00
06/01/2021...............4 - 1 - 0...............+14.50
Totals:......................6 - 5 - 0................ + 2.50Leave a comment:
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561MILWAUKEE -562 BROOKLYN
BROOKLYN is 10-1 ATS (8.9 Units) in home games versus explosive offensive teams - scoring 110+ points/game - 2nd half of the season in the current season.
NBA
Armadillo's Write-Up
Saturday, June 5
Milwaukee @ Brooklyn
Bucks
— Milwaukee swept Miami 4-0; they’ve won 7 of last 8 games overall.
— Bucks are 7-4-1 ATS in last dozen road games.
— You’re reading ***************.com
— Over is 7-4 in last eleven Milwaukee games.
— Bucks haven’t played since last Saturday.
Nets
— Nets spanked Boston in five games in the first round.
— Brooklyn won/covered nine of its last ten games.
— Nets are 6-0 ATS in last five home games.
— Over is 5-3 in last eight Brooklyn games.
— Nets haven’t played since Tuesday.
— Milwaukee won six of last nine series games.
— Bucks covered three of last four visits to Brooklyn.
— Over is 6-4 in last ten series games.
NBA
Saturday, June 5
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Trend Report
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Milwaukee @ Brooklyn
Milwaukee
Milwaukee is 8-1 SU in its last 9 games when playing on the road against Brooklyn
Milwaukee is 7-1 SU in its last 8 games
Brooklyn
Brooklyn is 5-0 ATS in its last 5 games at home
Brooklyn is 5-0 SU in its last 5 games at home
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Saturday’s 6-pack
Odds to win the Big X football title:
7-5— Oklahoma
13-5— Iowa State
4-1— Texas
12-1— Oklahoma State
20-1— TCU
50-1— Baylor, Kansas St, West Virginia
60-1— Texas Tech
300-1— Kansas
Quote of the Day
“I got to make somewhat of a decent living in college.”
Johnny Manziel, claiming he was paid to sign autographs while he was at Texas A&M
Saturday’s quiz
Johnny Manziel played in 14 games, starting 8, for which NFL team?
Friday’s quiz
Bill Belicheck was the last coach of the Cleveland Browns, before they moved to Baltimore and became the Ravens; he was 37-45 as coach of the Browns.
Thursday’s quiz
2004 was last time a Pac-12 team won the college football national title, when USC won; Pete Carroll was their coach that year.
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Saturday’s Den: Clearing out a cluttered mind……..
13) June 4, 2016, the White Sox acquired pitcher James Shields from San Diego; he went 16-35, 5.31 in 76 dismal starts for Chicago, after having been 114-90 up to that point in his career.
What makes it (a lot) more disturbing is who the White Sox gave up to get Shields; P Erik Johnson and a young outfielder, Fernando Tatis Jr.
Whoops.
12) I enjoy fantasy baseball, but it can be freakin’ baffling, especially if you have a pitcher from the Tampa Bay Rays on your team.
Josh Fleming is on my team, and I have zero idea, none, how they decide when to take him out of games:
— April 19, they took him out when he was throwing a 1-hitter in 6th inning (65 PT)
— May 16, they took him out when he was throwing a 1-hitter after 5 innings (53 PT)
Why do you take guys out when they’re on a roll?
Then last night in Texas, they leave him in to throw 100 pitches when he was giving up a lot of hits- he gave up five runs on 10 hits in seven IP. Yarbrough had thrown a complete game the day before, so their bullpen was fresh. No idea how they do things, not that they care what I think.
11) Only one major league pitcher has ever thrown a no-hitter on his birthday; George Mullin threw a no-hitter for Detroit on his 32nd birthday, way back in 1912.
10) So far this season, American League teams are 59-50 vs their NL rivals.
9) There have been 11 times where a player hit a walk-off homer in consecutive games; last time it happened was 2011, when Albert Pujols did it.
8) Clippers 104, Mavericks 97 (series 3-3):
— Kawhi Leonard scored 45 for the Clippers.
— Road team won all six series games.
— Clippers outscored Dallas 31-20 in 4th quarter.
This is the 9th series in Dallas history where they led 3-2 in games; they won the first eight series. We’ll see how they do in Game 7 Sunday.
7) Wish the NBA playoffs was all best-of-3 series until the Finals, which could be best-of-5; just think it would be more interesting if there was a better chance of an upset.
Understood that money rules, so the more games the better, but the shorter series would make it more like March Madness, and would likely increase TV ratings.
6) Portland Trailblazers fired coach Terry Stotts after nine years; he went 402-318 in the regular season, but 22-40 in playoffs- his Blazers made the playoffs the last eight seasons.
5) Royals 14, Twins 5— Kansas City led 13-2 in the 2nd inning. No bueno. Royals are quietly 29-26, only two games out of the 2nd Wild Card slot in the American League.
4) Padres 2, Mets 0:
— Blake Snell took a no-hitter into the 7th inning.
— San Diego has won its last 12 home games.
3) They’re going to bring the USFL back? Seriously? Back in the 80’s, the USFL was a good spring football league with some legit stars- Jim Kelly, Steve Young, Herschel Walker. It was good football, but off-field issues sabotaged the league.
Now they’re talking about a re-boot in 2022; the XFL is also supposed to be starting up again next year. Sounds like a busy spring/summer next year.
2) There are 43 bowl games scheduled in college football this fall; this week, I found a printout of spreads from the 1981 bowls- there were 15 bowls back then.
1) Mike Zimmer has been head coach of the Minnesota Vikings for seven years; he is the longest tenured coach in the NFL right now, who hasn’t been to the Super Bowl. He is 64-47-1 in regular season games, only 2-3 in playoff games.Leave a comment:
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BEST BETS:
06/04/2021...............0 - 2 - 0................-11.00
06/02/2021...............2 - 2 - 0................- 1.00
06/01/2021...............4 - 1 - 0...............+14.50
Totals:......................6 - 5 - 0................ + 2.50Leave a comment:
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FRIDAY, JUNE 4
GAME TIME(ET) PICK UNITS
LAC at DAL 09:00 PM
DAL +3.0
O 216.5
BEST BETS:
06/02/2021...............2 - 2 - 0................- 1.00
06/01/2021...............4 - 1 - 0................+14.50
Totals:......................6 - 3 - 0................ + 13.50Leave a comment:
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557LA CLIPPERS -558 DALLAS
DALLAS are 65-45 ATS (15.5 Units) after playing a road game in the last 3 seasons.
NBA
Dunkel
Friday, June 4
NBA
Armadillo's Write-Up
Friday, June 4
LA Clippers @ Dallas
Clippers
— Clippers lost nine of their last 15 games overall.
— You’re reading ***************.com
— Clippers are 4-2 ATS in last six road games.
— Under is 12-4-1 in last 17 Clipper games.
— Clipper starters’ plus/minus:
Games 1-2: combined minus-134
Game 3: even
Game 4: +98
Game 5: +19
Mavericks (lead series 3-2)
— Mavericks won 12 of their last 17 games overall.
— Mavericks are 3-5 ATS in last eight home games.
— Over is 7-3 in last ten Dallas games.
— Doncic scored 31-39-44 first three games, 19 in Game 4, 42 in Game 5.
— Dallas was 55-109 on arc in Games 1-3, 5-30 in Game 4, 14-36 last game.
— Road team won all five series games.
— Teams split last 12 meetings overall.
— Clippers are 4-1 ATS in last five trips to Dallas.
— Under is 6-2 in last eight series games.
NBA
Friday, June 4
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Trend Report
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LA Clippers @ Dallas
LA Clippers
LA Clippers is 4-1 ATS in its last 5 games when playing on the road against Dallas
LA Clippers is 4-1 SU in its last 5 games when playing on the road against Dallas
Dallas
The total has gone UNDER in 4 of Dallas's last 5 games when playing at home against LA Clippers
The total has gone UNDER in 7 of Dallas's last 9 games when playing LA Clippers
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Friday’s 6-pack
Odds to win the college football national title:
5-2— Alabama
7-2— Clemson
5-1— Ohio State
6-1— Georgia
13-2— Oklahoma
20-1— Texas A&M
Quote of the Day
“They had to call it golf because all the other four-letter words were taken.“
Ray Floyd
Friday’s quiz
Who was the last coach of the Cleveland Browns, before they moved to Baltimore and became the Ravens?
Thursday’s quiz
2004 was last time a Pac-12 team won the college football national title, when USC won; Pete Carroll was their coach that year.
Wednesday’s quiz
Cleveland Indians won 22 games in a row in 2017, the American League record for most consecutive wins.
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Friday’s Den: Random stuff with the weekend here……..
13) So you want to be a big league ballplayer?
Travis Blankenhorn was a 3rd round pick of the Twins in the 2015 draft; he didn’t get to AA until 2019, but he made it to the majors last year, getting three at-bats for Minnesota. He can play all over the field, which makes him more marketable.
This season, he’s been a very busy guy:
— He went 2-11 for the Twins’ AAA team.
— He scored as a pinch-runner in his only appearance for the big league Twins.
— May 14, Dodgers picked him up on waivers.
— He went 0-3 for the Dodgers’ AAA team.
— May 24, Seattle picked him up on waivers from LA.
— He went 6-20 for the Mariners’ AAA team.
— June 1st, the Mets picked him up on waivers.
— He’s played in two games for the big league Mets.
Today is June 3rd; this guy has already played for five teams this season.
12) Mets, by the way, have used 45 players this year, the most of any team.
11) Rays 9, New York 2:
— Tampa Bay’s first complete game in five years, 731 games (Ryan Yarbrough)
Michael Kay is New York’s TV play-by-play; he was a whiny baby during this game, crying about the home plate umpire not giving New York any calls. Now he knows how everyone else feels when his team gets all the calls in key spots (Jeremy Giambi was safe at home in 2002!!!!)
10) Oh yeah, that reminds me of Moneyball; why wasn’t the manager (Art Howe) included in the A’s organizational meetings, but Ron Washington (the 3rd base coach) was? And when Howe left the A’s, why wasn’t Washington named manager, instead of Ken Macha?
Washington had to go to the Rangers to become a manager; Texas is one of the A’s rivals, and they let him go there instead of naming him their manager. You wonder how much license the movie makers took when they made Washington such a big part of the film.
9) Suns 113, Lakers 100— Phoenix was up 29 in the first half; not a good look for the Lakers to go out so meekly. An injured Anthony Davis played five uneventful minutes. Devin Booker scored 47 points for the Suns.
8) Nuggets 126, Trailblazers 115— Denver advances in six games; Nikola Jokic had his usual 36 points. Jamychal Green was +22 in 23:00 off the bench.
7) Rockies 11, Rangers 6:
— Texas has lost 15 in a row on the road.
— Colorado may be 4-22 on the road, but they’re 9-2 in last 11 home games.
6) Brewers 7, Diamondbacks 4— Arizona has lost 14 in a row on the road.
5) Pirates 5, Marlins 3— Jacob Stallings hit a bases-clearing double in the 8th inning to score the game-winning runs.
4) Edmonton Eskimos of the CFL changed their name to the Edmonton Elks; they can keep the EE logo on their helmets. Smooth transition; who knew it was so easy?
Someone should tell this to Daniel Snyder, who didn’t have the good sense to switch from Redskins to RedTails, which also would’ve been an easy transition to make.
3) Someone should also tell the Cleveland Indians, who will be rebranding soon, but they’re taking the long way to a new name- their initial list of potential new names consisted of 1,198 names. Lot of names.
My suggestion; Cleveland Spiders- the hats would be awesome and back in the 1890’s, there was a team called the Cleveland Spiders, so it kind of makes sense.
2) New Jersey Devils/Philadelphia 76ers are owned by the same organization, which strikes me as a little odd, seeing how the Devils/Philly Flyers are rivals.
1) There are only three major league baseball games this Monday, and one of those is a makeup game. Sounds like the 2021 schedule was made before they moved the amateur draft to the All-Star break- Monday is the day when the draft was usually held.Leave a comment:
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543PHOENIX -544 LA LAKERS
LA LAKERS are 5-15 ATS (-11.5 Units) in home games versus poor pressure defensive teams - forcing <=14 turnovers/game in the current season.
545DENVER -546 PORTLAND
DENVER is 26-41 ATS (-19.1 Units) after scoring 120 points or more in the last 3 seasons.
NBA
Dunkel
Thursday, June 3
NBA
Armadillo's Write-Up
Thursday, June 3
Denver @ Portland
Nuggets (lead series 3-2)
— Nuggets were 22-30 on line in their losses, 72-87 in their wins.
— Denver won 24 of its last 33 games SU.
— Nuggets are 4-7 ATS in last 11 road games.
— Jokic scored 34+ points in four of five series games.
— Denver was 20-38 on arc in Game 3, 13-44 in Game 4, 20-44 last game.
Trailblazers
— Blazers are 3-5 ATS in last eight home games.
— You’re reading ***************.com
— Denver had 61+ points at halftime in four of five series games.
— Lillard was 12-17 on arc last game; other Blazers were 9-31.
— Denver outscored Portland 67-55 on foul line last three games.
— Denver won eight of last 12 series games.
— Four of five games in this series went over.
— Over is 7-3 in last ten series games overall.
— Nuggets are 1-3 ATS in last four visits to Portland.
LA Lakers @ Phoenix
Suns (lead series 3-2)
— Phoenix won six of its last eight games overall.
— Suns are 4-7-1 ATS in their last 12 road games.
— You’re reading ***************.com
— Under is 4-1 in this series’ games.
— Suns are in playoffs for first time in a decade.
— Game 5 was 62-36 at the half; can Suns put them away?
Lakers
— How healthy is Anthony Davis? Thats the biggest ??? here.
— Lakers won eight of their last 11 games SU
— Lakers are 4-10 ATS in their last 14 home games.
— Under is 6-1 in their last seven games.
— LA is just 49-162 (30.2%) on arc in five games.
— Lakers are 8-6 SU in last 14 series games.
— Phoenix is 2-3 ATS in last five road series games.
— Under is 10-4 in last 14 series games overall.
NBA
Thursday, June 3
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Denver @ Portland
Denver
The total has gone OVER in 5 of Denver's last 6 games
The total has gone OVER in 5 of Denver's last 6 games when playing Portland
Portland
Portland is 5-1 SU in its last 6 games at home
The total has gone OVER in 5 of Portland's last 6 games when playing Denver
Phoenix @ LA Lakers
Phoenix
The total has gone OVER in 9 of Phoenix's last 11 games on the road
The total has gone UNDER in 4 of Phoenix's last 5 games when playing LA Lakers
LA Lakers
LA Lakers is 6-1 SU in its last 7 games at home
The total has gone UNDER in 6 of LA Lakers's last 7 games
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Thursday’s 6-pack
Odds to win the Memorial golf tournament:
9-1— Jon Rahm
14-1— Bryson DeChambeau, Rory McIlroy
16-1— Hovland, Morikawa, Spieth, Thomas
20-1— Patrick Cantlay, Xander Schauffele
22-1— Hideki Matsuyama, Tony Finau
31-1— Shane Lowry
Quote of the Day
“He’s feeling really good on the mound right now. Pitchers go through stretches where everything lines up for them. All the pitches are working and are kind of at the top of his game. Right now, he’s featuring his best weapons of the season so far, and he’s been able to string it together.”
Rays’ manager Kevin Cash, on 41-year old pitcher Rich Hill
Thursday’s quiz
Who replaced John Wooden as UCLA’s basketball coach?
Wednesday’s quiz
Cleveland Indians won 22 games in a row in 2017, the American League record for most consecutive wins.
Tuesday’s quiz
In the last 20 years, the ’06 Kansas City Royals have the longest losing streak, dropping 19 games in a row.
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Thursday’s Den: Doing some thinking out loud…….
13) 10-12 years ago, I read a book about college football called Meat Market, written by Bruce Feldman. It was mostly all about the recruiting period from December to Signing Day a few weeks later, and it dealt with the Ole Miss football program, then coached by Ed Orgeron.
After reading that book 10-12 years ago, if you had told me that Orgeron would making $8M a year coaching LSU in 2021, I’d have laughed at you, laughed loudly. I came away with two main questions after reading the book:
— Why would this guy give any outsider access to his program?
— Why would anyone, anyone hire this guy to be a head coach????
12) But, 10-12 years later, Orgeron has won a national title at LSU and now makes $8M a year. Go figure. He is a GREAT recruiter, and the Brady/Burrow OC/QB combination hit the jackpot for him in 2019- they’re both in the NFL now.
This week, LSU fired its offensive line coach; this fall, they’ll have two new coordinators, a new passing game coordinator, and now a new OL coach, after last year’s 5-5 disappointment.
We will see if LSU’s success is sustainable; will they land Arch Manning, the prize recruit in Louisiana? I’ve heard the kid has some relatives who were good quarterbacks, but they all played at either Ole Miss or Tennessee.
11) Dodgers 14, Cardinals 3— St Louis starter Carlos Martinez faced 12 batters; 10 of them scored. This was the most runs the Dodgers scored in the first inning of any game since May 21, 1952, when they whacked the Reds 19-1, in front of 11,580 fans at Ebbets Field.
Some notes from that game:
— Brooklyn’s pitcher Chris Van Cuyk went 4-5 in the game.
— Gil Hodges, manager of the ’69 Mets, batted 7th for the Dodgers.
— Rube Walker was the Dodgers’ catcher, and the ’69 Mets’ pitching coach.
— Guy named Dick Williams subbed in for Duke Snider late in the game; he is better known as the manager who won two World Series for the A’s in the 70’s.
10) Speaking of Dick Williams, my Mt Rushmore of Oakland A’s managers:
— Dick Williams— Only 3 years, but 3 division titles, 2 World Series titles.
— Bob Melvin— The current skipper is totally underrated, a great manager.
— Tony LaRussa— Won three straight AL titles from 1988-90.
— Art Howe— The movie Moneyball did him a huge disservice; he was an excellent skipper.
9) My Mt Rushmore of Rams head coaches:
— Dick Vermeil— Won Super Bowl XXXIV, the greatest football game ever.
— Sean McVay— Four winning seasons, three playoff spots, hopefully lot more to come.
— John Robinson— Restored team from dumpster fire status in the 80’s, had misfortune of coaching at same time that the 49ers had their great teams.
— Chuck Knox— His Rams were perennial playoff teams in the 70’s.
8) Mike Krzyzewski is going to retire as Duke’s basketball coach after this coming season; he’s been Duke’s coach since 1980, has won five national titles at Duke. Assistant coach Jon Scheyer has been named the next coach— good luck there.
7) I won’t mention the guy’s name, because it is today’s trivia question on this site, but the poor bastard who replaced John Wooden at UCLA went 52-9 in two seasons, but it wasn’t close to being good enough— he left after two seasons, and started up a brand new program halfway across the country. Guy was a hell of a coach, though, but Wooden, just like Krzyzewski will be, was an impossible act to follow.
Some casino should run a prop bet: who replaces Jon Scheyer as Duke’s coach in 2024?
6) There will be scapegoats; Danny Ainge is out as the head of basketball operations with the Celtics- Brad Stevens replaces him. Stevens will help choose his successor as head coach.
Random fact: Celtics have won one NBA title since 1986.
5) Mavericks 105, Clippers 100:
— Road team has won all five series games.
— Luke Doncic had 42 points, 14 assists.
— Dallas was minus-10 in the 5:00 Doncic sat out.
4) Knicks, Wizards, Grizzlies all got eliminated Wednesday night.
3) Two baseball games went over the total in the first inning Wednesday; Cards-Dodgers, and Mets-Arizona.
2) Now there is a story that Colorado Rockies might be hesitant to deal free agent-t0 be Trevor Story, figuring they won’t get that much for him anyway, since the team will only have him for half a season or so.
Not sure the Rockies’ front office has any idea what they’re doing- they already fired the GM earlier this season. Bud Black is a very good manager, but players win games, managers put the players in position to win the games, but if the players aren’t good enough, forget about it.
Losing Story this winter without getting anything in return would be baseball malpractice.
1) How baseball has changed; Game 1 of the 1974 World Series, A’s @ Dodgers. A’s lead 2-1 in the 5th inning, but starter Ken Holtzman struggles, and the A’s replace him with Rollie Fingers, their closer. They put their closer in the game in the fifth inning!!!!
Fingers threw 4.1 innings, gave up one run, before Catfish Hunter got the last out in a 3-2 win. The freakin’ closer got 13 outs in one game, so when you hear people say how modern closers are the best ever, consider that one for a second. Rollie Fingers was bleeping awesome.Leave a comment:
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DATE W-L-T % UNITS RECORD
06/02/2021 4-4-0 50.00% -200 Detail
06/01/2021 4-2-0 66.67% +900 Detail
Totals:..............8-6-0........57.14%,,,,,+7.00
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BEST BETS:
06/02/2021...............2 - 2 - 0................- 1.00
06/01/2021...............4 - 1 - 0................+14.50
Totals:......................6 - 3 - 0................ + 13.50Leave a comment:
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