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Tuesday, April 2
National League
Colorado at Milwaukee, 8:10 ET
De La Rosa: Colorado 41-83 SU as an underdog of +100 to +150
Estrada: Milwaukee 36-13 SU in home games after a win by 2 runs or less
St. Louis at Arizona, 9:40 ET MLB
Garcia: St Louis 20-7 OVER in road games after a loss by 4 runs or more
Cahill: Arizona 20-28 SU after allowing 2 runs or less
San Francisco at LA Dodgers, 10:10 ET MLB
Bumgarner: San Francisco 40-20 SU against left-handed starters
Ryu: LA Dodgers 7-17 SU when playing on Tuesday
American League
Baltimore at Tampa Bay, 3:10 ET MLB
Hammel: Baltimore 16-10 SU as a road underdog of +150 to +175
Price: Tampa Bay 19-6 UNDER in home games in April
Cleveland at Toronto, 7:05 ET
Masterson: Cleveland 29-17 SU in April
Dickey: TORONTO 114-72 OVER in home games when playing on Tuesday
Texas at Houston, 8:10 ET
Darvish: Texas 90-50 SU after a loss
Harrell: Houston 24-58 SU one or more consecutive overs
Seattle at Oakland, 10:05 ET
Iwakuma: Seattle 16-4 UNDER after allowing one run or less in a win over a division rival
Parker: Oakland 24-7 SU as a favorite of -125 to -175
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Armadillo: Wednesday's six-pack
-- Yu Darvish retired the first 26 Astros before Marwin Gonzlez singled up the middle to break up the perfect game. Texas won 7-0.
-- New Mexico did right thing and promoted assistant Craig Neal to replace Steve Alford as the Lobos' coach. Continuity is a good thing.
-- Seven college basketball refs worked 91+ games this year; Roger Ayers has worked the most games, with 98. Thats a lot of money he's made.
-- Hard to imagine Rutgers basketball coach Mike Rice keeping his job after video of his tirades during practice became public. New Jersey politicians are now involved since Rutgers is a state university.
-- Baylor-Iowa is the NIT final Thursday night in New York City. East Carolina upset Weber State 77-74 in the CIT championship game.
-- Poor Old Dominion; not only did they go 5-25 this season, apparently they contacted Andy Enfield about becoming their new hoop coach, eight days before Florida Gulf Coast beat Georgetown. Whoops.
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Armadillo: Wednesday's List of 13: Doing some thinking out loud.........
13) Disturbing story out west about how Pac-12 head of officials Ed Rush (a former NBA ref) made some negative comments about Arizona coach Sean Miller in a referees’ meeting that took place before the Pac-12 tourney; joking or not, fact is, Miller got hit with a T in last 5:00 of the Wildcats’ loss to UCLA in that tournament.
Best case scenario, it still makes the league look very, very bad.
12) Good news for Miller this week: top recruit Aaron Gordon signed on with Miller’s Wildcats, especially since Gordon’s older brother played for (new UCLA coach) Steve Alford at New Mexico.
11) Robinson Caro fired scumweasel agent Scott Boras, signed on with Jay-Z, a signal that he wants to re-sign with the Bronx Bombers, rather than sign on with whomever (Dodgers?) offered him most $$$ next winter.
10) Wait, Jay-Z is an agent? When did that happen?
Not sure how Jay-Z owns part of the Brooklyn Nets and is also an agent; probably as long as he doesn’t rep any NBA players, he can do both, but seeing as Brooklyn Net games are televised on YES Network, owned by the Bronx Bombers, it still reeks of a conflict of interest.
9) Odd stat from the first night of baseball; in the first 26 games this season, starting pitchers induced an average of 11.04 swings/misses per start. Starting pitcher who got the least swings/misses? Steven Strasburg, who got only two misses on 36 swings.
8) Two years ago, Raiders traded 1st/2nd round draft picks to Cincinnati for Carson Palmer, who went 8-16 in 24 games as the Oakland starter. Tuesday, they traded Palmer to the Cardinals….for a 7th round pick. Ouch.
Not too hard to figure out why the Raiders lose all the time.
7) Compare Palmer’s 8-16 record to the oft-scorned JaMarcus Russell, who went 7-18 as the Raiders’ signal caller. Not lot of difference there.
6) That said, Palmer is a huge upgrade over the suspects that played QB for Arizona LY, just as he was an upgrade over the previous Oakland QBs when he went there. Larry Fitzgerald has to be happy today.
5) 28.2% of the players on Opening Day baseball rosters were born outside the United States.
4) I read this and wanted to puke: WFAN has re-signed obnoxious, rude, lazy Mike Francesa as its drive-time talk show host for another four years, at $5M a year. Seriously, it makes me ill.
You could go into any bar in America and find five guys who know more than Francesa, who used to be sharp but is now a lazy 59-year old who knows a decent amount about the NFL but is otherwise clearly mailing it in.
3) Sportsxradio's Ken Thomson had Long Beach State basketball coach Dan Monson on his excellent talk show Monday night; when he asked Monson who was going to get the open Cal-Northridge job, Monson obviously didn’t want to talk about it.
Turns out Reggie Theus is the new head Matador, which is bad news for the rest of the Big West. Theus was a great player at UNLV, a very good player in the NBA, and won quickly in his short stint coaching New Mexico State; he is a terrific recruiter and will win at Northridge.
Only question about Theus is whether he wants to use Cal-Northridge as a springboard back to NBA- he used to coach the Kings, is currently coaching in the NDBL. Lot of people in Las Vegas wanted Theus to get the UNLV job when Dave Rice got hired.
2) Took Andy Enfield less than 72 hours from the end of his season to capitalize on his success with Florida Gulf Coast and become the new coach at USC. FGCU had zero chance to retain Enfield, and they knew it. Money talks, often very loudly.
1) In a perfect world, when a small basketball school like Florida Gulf Coast loses its coach to a big money school like USC, it would be nice if the Trojans invited FGCU out to LA for a guarantee game, give them a fat payday for taking their coach away.
In this me-first world, that ain’t happening, primarily because next year, the Eagles would have a damn good shot at beating USC, since they lose only two players from this year’s rotation. Whoever takes Enfield’s place in Fort Myers inherits a nice team.
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Armadillo's Write-Up
Wednesday, April 3
Hot pitchers
-- GGonzalez is 5-1, 2.34 in his last eight starts.
-- WRodriguez is 4-0, 3.24 in his last seven starts.
-- Harvey is 2-2, 2.19 in his last six starts.
-- Maholm is 1-1, 1.77 in his last three starts.
-- Peralta is 1-1, 1.64 in his last four starts.
-- Beckett is 1-1, 2.96 in his last four starts.
-- Latos is 2-1, 2.96 in his last four starts.
-- ASanchez is 2-2, 1.26 in his last five starts.
-- Morrow is 2-1, 2.16 in his last four starts.
-- Kuroda is 1-1, 2.74 in his last three starts.
-- Hellickson is 2-1, 1.99 in his last six starts.
-- Oakland won five of last six Milone starts (2-0, 3.21). Saunders is 2-0, 2.41 in his last three starts.
Cold pitchers
-- Slowey didn't pitch in majors LY; he was 0-4, 9.30 in his last four starts in 2011, when he was last in bigs.
-- EJackson is 1-3, 6.68 in his last six starts.
-- Richard is 1-2, 8.10 in his last three starts.
-- Halladay is 2-1, 9.00 in his last four starts.
-- Nicasio is 0-2, 10.66 in his last three starts.
-- Lynn is 1-1, 8.53 in his last three starts. McCarthy is 2-2, 5.76 in his last four starts- this is his first starts since getting skull fractured by line drive in a game last September 5.
-- Lincecum is 0-2, 9.82 in his last three starts.
-- Wilson is 1-1, 6.05 in his last four starts.
-- ESantana is 2-3, 4.21 in his last six starts. Peavy is 1-2, 4.22 in his last five outings.
-- Ogando was 13-8, 3.51 as a starter in '11; he was a reliever LY. Humber was 1-1, 7.98 in his last three starts LY (last one was August 3).
-- Correia is 2-3, 4.50 in his last five starts.
-- Jimenez was 0-6, 7.33 in his last eight starts LY.
-- Buchholz is 0-5, 6.16 in his last eight starts.
-- WChen is 1-3, 5.60 in his last six starts.
Totals
-- Three of last four GGonzalez starts went over total.
-- Three of last four Rodriguez starts went over the total.
-- Last five Harvey starts stayed under the total.
-- Over is 7-1-1 in last nine Halladay starts.
-- Three of last four Nicasio starts went over the total.
-- Under is 5-2-1 in last eight McCarthy starts.
-- Last five Lincecum starts went over the total.
-- Eight of last twelve Wilson starts went over total.
-- Under is 4-1-1 in last six ESantana starts.
-- Over is 4-1-1 in last six Humber starts.
-- Last five ASanchez starts stayed under total.
-- Four of last five Morrow starts stayed under.
-- Under is 8-3 in Kuroda's last eleven home starts.
-- Nine of last ten Hellickson starts stayed under.
-- Five of last six Saunders starts stayed under total.
Umpires
-- Mia-Wsh-- Six of last nine Cooper games went over the total.
-- Chi-Pitt-- Under is 13-1-1 in last 15 Kulpa games; dogs won nine of 13.
-- SD-NY-- Six of last seven Meals games went over the total.
-- Phil-Atl-- Under is 5-0-1 in last six Everitt games.
-- Colo-Mil-- Last four Randazzo games went over the total.
-- StL-Az-- Six of last seven Knight games stayed under; home side won 11 of his last 13 games.
-- SF-LA-- Over was 18-12 in Dreckman games in '11, last time he umped.
-- LAA-Cin-- Seven of last ten Miller games went over; home side won 10 of his last 13 games.
-- KC-Chi-- Last eight Onora games stayed under the total.
-- Tex-Hst-- Under is 8-3 in last 11 Fletcher games; home side won 13 of his last 14 games behind the dish.
-- Det-Minn--Road team won nine of last eleven Wolf games.
-- Clev-Tor-- Under is 7-1-1 in last nine Danley games.
-- Bos-NY-- Under is 5-2-1 in last eight Marquez games.
-- Balt-TB-- Four of last five Davidson games stayed under the total.
-- Sea-A's-- Home team won 14 of last 19 Eddings games.
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Wednesday, April 3
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MLB weather report: Wind blowing to right field at Yankee Stadium
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Here's a look at some noteworthy weather around the majors for Wednesday, April 3. If yesterday is any indication, the domes in Toronto, Milwaukee and Houston will be closed.
Kansas City Royals at Chicago White Sox (+124, -134, 7)
Site: U.S. Cellular Field
Temperatures in the low-40s that feel like the mid-30s with sunny skies. Eight mph winds blowing in from left field in toward home plate and first base. The White Sox and the over were 7-2 in 2012 when winds blew in from left field at 0-10 mph.
Texas Rangers at Houston Astros (-181, +166, 8.5)
Site: Minute Maid Park
Temperatures in the high-60s with isolated thunderstorms and a 30 percent chance of precipitation. Wind blowing in towards third base 10 mph. Expect the roof to be closed.
Detroit Tigers at Minnesota Twins (-149, +143, 8)
Site: Target Field
Temperatures in the mid- to high-40s that feel like the low-40s with 15 mph wins blowing from right field towards third base and home plate.
Seattle Mariners at Oakland Athletics (+134, -145, 7.5)
Site: Oakland Coliseum
Temperatures between the high-50s and low-60s with winds blowing out towards center field at seven mph.
Chicago Cubs at Pittsburgh Pirates (+122, -132, 7)
Site: PNC Park
Forecasts are calling for temperatures in the mid-30s with clear skies and winds blowing out at six mph to right field.
Boston Red Sox at New York Yankees (+107, -116, 8)
Site: Yankee Stadium
Winds are blowing out towards right field at 15 mph. Temperatures in the low-40s that feel like the low-30s. The Yankees were 9-2 last season when the winds blew out towards right field between 10-20 mph. The over was 7-4.
Miami Marlins at Washington Nationals (+219, -256, 7)
Site: Nationals Park
Expect temperatures in the high-to-mid 40s with clear skies and winds blowing into the infield from left field between home plate and first at 12 mph.
San Diego Padres at New York Mets (+127, -138, 7)
Site: Citi Field
Low-40s with temperatures that feel like the low-30s and wind blowing from left field towards the right field line at 8 mph, but it will pick up speed as the game blows on and help left-handed hitters by pushing out more straight toward right field from home plate.
Los Angeles Angels at Cincinnati Reds (+118, -128, 7)
Site: Great American Ball Park
Temperatures in the low-to mid-40s, with winds slightly blowing in from left field at five mph.
Philadelphia Phillies at Atlanta Braves (+120, -123, 7.5)
Site: Turner Field
Temperatures in the mid-50s with a 30 percent chance of precipitation. Winds blowing slightly across the field from third base to first at 4 mph.
St. Louis Cardinals at Arizona Diamondbacks (+104, -111, 9)
Site: Chase Field
Sunny and clear skies with temperatures in the mid-80s and a slight breeze blowing in toward the first base line at five mph.
San Francisco Giants at Los Angeles Dodgers (+113, -122, 7)
Site: Dodger Stadium
Temperatures in the mid- to low-60s with mostly clear skies. Light winds at four mph blowing out to right field. The Dodgers and the over were 4-7 in 2012 when winds blew out to right field at 0-10 mph.
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College basketball is great the way it is, but here are a few ways I would tweak it, to try and make it even better……
-- Eight seconds to bring the ball over halfcourt, like in the NBA.
-- 30-second clock; not a huge change, but more possessions, more action. -- No timeouts called by coaches. Ever. Media timeouts are the only timeouts called. You’d see a lot more pressure defenses and good action.
-- No flopping; marginal charge/blocks are called blocks. Falling down shouldn’t be practiced, and believe me, it is in some places.
-- If coach moves up the coaching ladder (Enfield to USC, for example) the money team should try and give the coach’s old team a guarantee game, to compensate the team for poaching its coach.
-- No automatic qualifiers in the play-in games. Hell, I don’t even watch the 16-seeds play each other; last eight at-large teams should play for right to get into the final 64
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Armadillo: Thursday's List of 13: Random thoughts on another cold night.........
13) Quick math; if an agent’s take on a baseball player’s salary is 3% and that player makes $20M a year, the agent rakes in $600,000 a year for that player. If its 4%, its $800,000 a year. How much freakin’ money does Scott Boras make a year?
12) Yu Darvish induced a ridiculous 27 misses on 64 Astro swings Tuesday night, coming one out short of a perfect game. Next highest amount of misses induced this week was 18 Felix Hernandez got in Oakland Monday.
11) Over last six baseball seasons, if you bet $100 on the home team every time Lance Barksdale worked the plate, you would be 126-70, for a profit on $4,076. Not bad.
10) Where does Rutgers go from here? Its a state university within driving distance of NYC/Philly, so lot of good players nearby. They have no recent winning tradition (made Final Four in '76) but there is potential there for the right guy. They're a Big Dozen team now, don't forget.
9) Loyola Md is moving to the Patriot League, but coach Jimmy Patsos is staying in MAAC, having taken the Siena job. Good move by the Saints.
8) Pitt freshman center Stephen Adams is off to the pros, well before he is ready. Guess no one told him about Patrick O’Bryant, who led Bradley to the Sweet 16 a few years ago, got drafted in the top 10 by Golden State and has seldom been heard of since.
O'Bryant is now playing pro ball in Lithuania. Nothing against Lithuania, but if O’Bryant had stayed longer at Bradley, he might’ve stayed longer in NBA.
7) Speaking of Pitt, seems like their whole team has transferred; between the Panthers and NC State, going to be some inexperienced teams in the ACC next fall. Jamie Dixon might wish he took that USC job.
6) Four players also transferred from Tulane, including leading scorer Josh Davis; not sure if its because they were promised to play in the Big East and now they’re not going to, but Green Wave had a decent season this year at 20-15. This has to hurt.
5) 44,000 season tickets requests are waiting for whichever NBA team moves to Seattle, if one does. NBA doesn’t do lot of dumb things, but pulling the Sonics out of Seattle was one of the dumbest.
4) I’m a sucker for sausage and egg biscuits at McDonald’s, but they were out of biscuits Monday, so I had one on a McGriddle; not so good. Too sweet. Love my biscuits, though.
3) Old Dominion hired former Virginia/American coach Jeff Jones. ODU is moving to C-USA after a dismal last year in CAA; always wary when a school switches leagues because of football. CAA seemed like the right place for the Monarchs.
2) A’s drew 36,067 for the season opener, only 15,315 for Game 2; Astros drew 41,307 for their AL debut; only 22,673 saw Yu Darvish’s near-perfecto Tuesday.
1) What Mike Rice did at Rutgers is bad, but what Ed Rush did at the Pac-12 tournament was way worse; encouraging refs to screw Arizona because Rush doesn’t like Sean Miller is a fireable offense, at the very least, and no, I don’t think he was joking. Bullies seldom tell jokes.
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Thursday, April 4
Hot pitchers
-- Stults is 5-1, 2.98 in his last seven starts.
-- Zimmerman is 3-1, 3.71 in his last six starts.
-- Lee is 4-2, 1.76 in his last eight starts. Braves are 13-1 in Medlen's last 14 starts (8-1, 1.58 in his last 11 starts).
-- Arroyo is 6-3, 2.82 in his last eleven starts. Blanton is 1-1, 3.38 in his last five starts.
-- Guthrie is 3-0, 2.55 in his last seven starts. Floyd is 3-1, 2.52 in his last four outings.
-- MGonzalez is 3-0, 1.93 in his last five starts.
-- Pettitte is 2-2, 2.37 in his last five starts.
Cold pitchers
-- McDonald is 0-2, 13.50 in his last four starts. Wood is 0-2, 4.91 in his last four starts.
-- Gee is 2-4, 4.12 in his last six starts.
-- Leblanc is 1-3, 4.22 in his last six starts.
-- Porcello is 1-2, 5.84 in his last five starts. Pelfrey was 0-0, 2.29 in three starts LY, before getting hurt- he made 31+ starts from '08-'11.
-- RHernandez was 0-3, 9.42 in three starts LY.
-- Griffin is 1-1, 6.85 in his last five starts. Maurer is making MLB debut; he was 9-2, 3.20 in 24 AA starts LY.
-- Dempster is 1-2, 7.71 in his last four starts.
-- Buehrle is 1-2, 4.29 in his last five starts. Myers was a closer LY; he was 7-14, 4.46 in 33 starts for Houston in '11.
Hot teams
-- Mets won first two games, scoring 19 runs.
-- Natonals won first two games, 2-0/3-0.
-- Braves won their first two games, 9-2/7-5.
-- White Sox won their first two games, 1-0/5-2.
-- Red Sox won their first two games, 8-2/7-4.
-- Cleveland won its first two games, 4-1/3-2.
Cold teams
-- San Diego lost its first two games, outscored 19-6.
-- Miami lost its first two games, hasn't scored a run yet.
-- Phillies lost first two games, allowing 16 runs.
-- Kansas City lost its first two games, scoring two runs.
-- Bronx lost its first two games, allowing 15 runs.
-- Toronto lost its first two games, scoring three runs.
Totals
-- Five of last seven Wood starts went over the total.
-- Five of last six Stults starts went over the total.
-- Five of last seven Zimmerman starts went over total.
-- Lee's last eight starts stayed under the total.
-- Six of last seven Blanton starts stayed under the total.
-- Four of last five Porcello starts went over the total.
-- Eight of last eleven Guthrie starts stayed under total.
-- Four of last five MGonzalez starts stayed under total.
-- Four of last five Griffin starts went over the total.
-- Three of last four Dempster road starts went over total.
-- Six of last eight Buehrle home starts stayed under.
Umpires
-- Chi-Pitt-- Home side won nine of last ten Cuzzi games.
-- SD-NY-- Home side won last seven Hudson games; last four went over.
-- Mia-Wsh-- Eight of last ten Schrieber games went over total.
-- Phil-Atl-- Home team won last five Foster games.
-- LAA-Cin-- Home team is 13-4 in last 17 Bucknor games; seven of last nine games went over.
-- Det-Min-- Favorites won 11 of last 12 Hickox games.
-- KC-Chi-- Nine of last twelve Wendelstedt games stayed under.
-- Balt-TB-- Four of last five Reynolds games stayed under.
-- Sea-A's-- All three Tumpane games LY went over total.
-- Bos-NY-- Underdogs won five of last seven Dimuro games.
-- Cle-Tor-- Five of last seven Barksdale games stayed under; over last six years, home side is 126-70 with Barksdale behind plate.
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Thursday, April 4
National League
Chicago Cubs at Pittsburgh, 12:35 ET WGN
Wood: Cubs 11-32 SU as a road underdog of +150 or less
McDonald: PIttsburgh 17-5 Under at home after allowing 1 or 0 runs
San Diego at NY Mets, 1:10 ET MLB
Stults: San Diego 16-36 SU in April
Gee: Mets 13-4 SU on Thursdays
Miami at Washington, 4:05 ET
Leblanc: Miami 13-31 SU off BB games without a stolen base
Zimmermann: Washington 32-12 SU at home vs. left-handed starters
Philadelphia at Atlanta, 7:10 ET MLB
Lee: 4-12 TSR pitching off a team loss
Medlen: 15-0 TSR vs. division opponents
American League
Detroit at Minnesota, 1:10 ET
Porcello: 23-9 TSR as a favorite of -150 or less
Pelfrey: 28-47 TSR pitching off a team win
Kansas City at Chicago White Sox, 2:10 ET
Guthrie: Kansas City 6-20 SU off BB games scoring 2 runs or less
Floyd: White Sox 31-15 SU off BB wins
Baltimore at Tampa Bay, 3:10 ET
Gonzalez: Baltimore 10-3 SU away off a loss by 2 runs or less
Hernandez: Tampa Bay 23-7 Under at home off a win by 1 run
Seattle at Oakland, 3:35 ET
Maurer: Seattle 36-13 Under in day games
Griffin: 10-2 TSR with a total of 7 to 8.5 runs
Boston at NY Yankess, 7:05 ET MLB
Dempster: Boston 21-45 SU as an underdog
Pettitte: 45-22 Under pitching off BB team losses
Cleveland at Toronto, 7:05 ET
Myers: Cleveland 9-2 SU away in April
Buehrle: Toronto 5-10 SU as a home favorite of -150 to -200
Interleague
LA Angels at Cincinnati, 12:35 ET MLB
Blanton: Angels 9-16 SU in April
Arroyo: 22-11 TSR with a line of +125 to -125
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