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**Udog** · 04-17-2021, 08:48 AM

Armadillo: Saturday's six-pack

Six no-hitters, where the only baserunner came on a HBP:
July 4, 1908— Hooks Wiltse
June 18, 1960— Lew Burdette
June 10, 1997— Kevin Brown
June 20, 2015— Max Scherzer
April 9, 2021— Joe Musgrove
April 14, 2021— Carlos Rodon

Americans who have died from COVID-19: 565,318
PLEASE wear a mask (over your nose/mouth) when you go out.

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Armadillo: Saturday's Den: Clearing out a cluttered mind……..

13) At the beginning of Bull Durham, Susan Sarandon is talking:

“…….Sometimes it seems like a bad trade. But bad trades are part of baseball – now who can forget Frank Robinson for Milt Pappas, for God’s sake?”

Someone mentioned Milt Pappas on TV the other day, so I looked up his career— this guy is getting a bad rap.

— 17 years in the major leagues, won 209 games.
— pitched in three All-Star games
— was 45-25 the three years before the trade, 110-74 for his career at that time.

Now there’s no question it was an uneven trade, but not because Pappas was bad— guy had a damn good career. He threw a no-hitter for the Cubs in 1972.

12) The other side of the coin is this; how on God’s green earth did the Reds trade Frank Robinson, for anyone? The year before they traded him, Robinson scored 109 runs, knocked in 113 more, and he was only 29 at the time. Why would they trade him?

Orioles won the World Series in 1966, the year after the trade, then played in the Series three years in a row, fro, 1969-71; their pitching rotation was stacked, with Palmer-McNally-Cuellar, Pat Dobson. Adding a great hitter made them a great team.

So call it a bad trade, but don’t blame Milt Pappas.

11) Giancarlo Stanton makes $29M a year, which works out to $179,012 per game; when he donated one of his game checks to the Players’ Alliance, that was a hefty donation.

10) I’m genuinely curious about this; how many major league managers actually decide who plays every day, and how many front offices decide that for them? Are off days for “rest” scripted in advance by the front office?

I mean, Stanton makes $29M a year to DH; there is no way he should he ever get a day off, unless they want to let Aaron Judge DH. Stanton could actually play the outfield, too. The way teams coddle these guys borders on the ridiculous.

9) Let’s take a look at another pitcher’s career, the White Sox’ Wilbur Wood:
— Wood was a lefty knuckleball pitcher.
— He was in the majors for nine years before he became a starter.
— From 1971-75, Wood started an incredible 224 games, that 44.8 starts/year.
— He once started both ends of a doubleheader.
— In 1972-73, he threw an incredible 736 innings.
— In 1973, he went 24-20 in 48 starts.
— He threw 114 complete games in his career.

8) Twins’ OF Max Kepler was born in Germany; his parents were both big-time ballet dancers. His mom is from Texas, his dad from Poland.

7) Dodgers’ OF Cody Bellinger has a hairline fracture of his fibula, is out for an undetermined amount of time.

6) Mets got rained out Thursday, snowed out Friday, will now play a doubleheader in Denver on Saturday; Mets have played only eight games, Braves have played 14, Phillies 13.

5) One of the great quotes I ever heard, from a coach to his team, after the second game of the season, in the coach’s first year in that job:

“Well, it didn’t take long for the rats to start jumping off the ship”

4) Was thinking the other day about the first time I heard that ESPN was going on the air; I was in college, someone told me an all-sports TV station was starting. I was intrigued.

In the early days, ESPN showed lot of Australian Rules Football, a ton of college basketball; they should go back to showing Aussie football. Their poker telecasts later on were also really good, way better than they babbling talking heads they have on now during weekday afternoons.

They should also have a nightly baseball show; why do they not have one?

3) Dwayne Wade is joining the ownership group of the Utah Jazz, which is the youngest ownership group in the NBA. Utah’s new owner is technology entrepreneur Ryan Smith- he bought the team late last year.

Wade played 16 years in the NBA, retiring two years ago.

2) Alabama’s football team has a pretty big recruiting edge; they’ve got three former NFL head coaches on their coaching staff. Not just Nick Saban, but Doug Marrone, Bill O’Brien, too.

1) RIP to the actor Felix Silla 84, who passed away this week; you’ve probably never heard of him, but he played Cousin Itt in the 60’s comedy The Addams Family, as well as other shows.

In 1980, I had my wisdom teeth removed, and they made me stay overnight in the hospital; the guy in the next bed was watching Buck Rogers in the 25th Century with his mother. When they ran the credits to the show and I saw that Felix Silla was the robot in the show, I got all excited— “Hey, that was Cousin Itt!!!”

The guy’s mom gave me a very strange look. Go figure.

**Udog** · 04-17-2021, 08:53 AM

555UTAH -556 LA LAKERS
LA LAKERS are 0-10 ATS (-11 Units) in home games as a dog of 3.5 to 9.5 in the last 3 seasons.

559CLEVELAND -560 CHICAGO
CLEVELAND is 8-22 ATS (-16.2 Units) in road games after a blowout loss by 15 points or more in the last 3 seasons.

561GOLDEN STATE -562 BOSTON
GOLDEN STATE is 3-15 ATS (-13.5 Units) after covering 5 or 6 of their last 7 against the spread in the last 3 seasons.

563MEMPHIS -564 MILWAUKEE
MILWAUKEE is 10-2 ATS (7.8 Units) in home games off a road win by 10 points or more over the last 2 seasons.

565SAN ANTONIO -566 PHOENIX
PHOENIX is 8-0 ATS (8 Units) after a division game in the current season.

**Udog** · 04-17-2021, 08:53 AM

NBA

Saturday, April 17

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Trend Report
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Utah @ LA Lakers
Utah
Utah is 13-3 SU in its last 16 games
The total has gone UNDER in 4 of Utah's last 5 games on the road
LA Lakers
The total has gone UNDER in 6 of LA Lakers's last 7 games at home
The total has gone OVER in 5 of LA Lakers's last 6 games

Detroit @ Washington
Detroit
The total has gone UNDER in 5 of Detroit's last 5 games when playing on the road against Washington
The total has gone UNDER in 4 of Detroit's last 5 games
Washington
Washington is 5-0 ATS in its last 5 games when playing at home against Detroit
Washington is 5-0 SU in its last 5 games when playing at home against Detroit

Cleveland @ Chicago
Cleveland
Cleveland is 4-1 ATS in its last 5 games when playing on the road against Chicago
The total has gone UNDER in 4 of Cleveland's last 5 games when playing on the road against Chicago
Chicago
The total has gone OVER in 5 of Chicago's last 6 games
The total has gone UNDER in 4 of Chicago's last 5 games when playing at home against Cleveland

Golden State @ Boston
Golden State
The total has gone UNDER in 5 of Golden State's last 5 games when playing Boston
The total has gone UNDER in 7 of Golden State's last 8 games when playing on the road against Boston
Boston
The total has gone UNDER in 5 of Boston's last 5 games when playing Golden State
Boston is 5-0 SU in its last 5 games

Memphis @ Milwaukee
Memphis
The total has gone OVER in 8 of Memphis's last 9 games on the road
The total has gone OVER in 6 of Memphis's last 7 games
Milwaukee
The total has gone OVER in 6 of Milwaukee's last 7 games at home
Milwaukee is 4-1 SU in its last 5 games when playing at home against Memphis

San Antonio @ Phoenix
San Antonio
San Antonio is 18-3 SU in its last 21 games when playing Phoenix
The total has gone OVER in 6 of San Antonio's last 7 games on the road
Phoenix
Phoenix is 5-0 SU in its last 5 games at home
Phoenix is 11-1 SU in its last 12 games

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**Udog** · 04-17-2021, 08:56 AM

NBA
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Saturday, April 17

**Udog** · 04-17-2021, 08:58 AM

NBA
Armadillo's Write-Up

Saturday, April 17

Utah @ LA Lakers
Jazz (42-14)
— Utah won four of its last five games.
— Jazz is 1-5 ATS in its last six road games.
— Under is 4-1 in Utah’s last five road games.

Lakers (34-22)
— Lakers are 3-4 SU in their last seven games.
— Lakers are 1-6 ATS in their last six games at Staples.
— Over is 5-1 in their six games overall.

— Lakers won four of last five series games.
— Utah is 1-3 ATS in last four series games played here.
— Under is 5-3 in last eight series games.

Detroit @ Washington
Pistons (17-39)
— Detroit lost 10 of its last 15 games
— Pistons are 12-7-1 ATS since the All-Star break.
— Under is 6-4 in Detroit’s last ten road games.

Wizards (22-33)
— Wizards won five of last six games SU (5-1 ATS last six).
— Wizards are 4-2 ATS in last six home games.
— Under is 9-4 in their last 13 games

— Wizards won four of last six series games.
— Pistons are 0-4 ATS in last four series games.
— Under is 7-3 in last ten series games.

Cleveland @ Chicago
Cavaliers (20-35)
— Cleveland split its last six games SU.
— Cavaliers covered their last three road games.
— Five of last seven Cleveland games went over the total.

Bulls (22-33)
— Chicago lost its last five games SU (0-4 SU).
— Bulls are 3-9 ATS in their last 12 home games.
— Over is 5-1 in their last six games.

— Bulls won three of last four series games.
— Cleveland is 4-2 ATS in last six visits here.
— Under is 4-2 in last six series games played here.

Golden State @ Boston
Warriors (28-28)
— Golden State won five of its last six games SU.
— Warriors are 2-5 ATS in last seven road games.
— Under is 12-4 in their last 16 road games.

Celtics (30-26)
— Boston won seven of its last eight games.
— Celtics are 4-7 ATS in their last 11 home games.
— Under is 8-3 in their last 11 games.

— Celtics won last four series games (3-1 ATS)
— Golden State is 2-2 ATS in last four visits to Boston.
— Last ten series games stayed under the total.

Memphis @ Milwaukee
Grizzlies (28-26)
— Memphis lost three of its last five games SU.
— Grizzlies are 13-3 ATS in last 16 games overall.
— Over is 6-1 in last seven Memphis games.

Bucks (35-20)
— Milwaukee won its last three games SU.
— Bucks are 1-5ATS in last six home games.
— You’re reading ***************.com
— Over is 12-7 in Milwaukee’s last 19 games.

— Bucks won five of last seven series games.
— Grizzlies are 2-2 ATS in last four visits to Milwaukee.
— Under is 3-1 in last four series games.

San Antonio @ Phoenix
Spurs (26-28)
— San Antonio lost 12 of its last 16 games.
— Spurs are 7-2 ATS in last nine road games.
— Over is 12-5 in Spurs’ last sixteen games.

Suns (40-15)
— Phoenix won 32 of its last 39 games (4-5 ATS last nine).
— Suns are 7-3 ATS in their last ten home games.
— You’re reading ***************.com
— Over is 8-2 in their last ten games.

— San Antonio won eight of last ten series games.
— Spurs are 3-2-1 ATS in last six visits to Phoenix.
— Three of last four series games went over.

**Udog** · 04-17-2021, 10:18 AM

**Udog** · 04-17-2021, 01:09 PM

Hoop Trends for Saturday April 17
Vince Akins

ATS Play ON Trend of the Day
Matchup: San Antonio at Phoenix (10:10 p.m. ET)

-- The Suns are 14-0 ATS (10.11 ppg) after their opponent shot at least 48.5% from the field last game.

ATS Play AGAINST Trend of the Day
Matchup: Golden State at Boston (8:40 p.m. ET)

-- The Celtics are 0-11 ATS (-10.00 ppg) at home with less than two days rest off a win in which they had 6+ double digit scorers.

OU Play OVER Trend of the Day
Matchup: San Antonio at Phoenix (10:10 p.m. ET)

-- The Suns are 11-0 OU (15.59 ppg) with rest off a win in which they shot over 50% from the field.

OU Play UNDER Trend of the Day
Matchup: Golden State at Boston (8:40 p.m. ET)

-- The Warriors are 0-11 OU (-13.73 ppg) off a road game in which Draymond Green had fewer than 10 points.

Trends are verified using Sports Data Query Language (SDQL)

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