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07/31/2007 - (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - The Atlanta Braves are making some noise at the trade deadline and will play the first of three games against the Houston Astros this evening at Turner Field.
Atlanta reached an agreement on Monday to acquire Texas Rangers slugging first baseman Mark Teixeira in exchange for rookie catcher Jarrod Saltalamacchia and three minor leaguers. The deal is not expected to go through until Tuesday.
The Braves ended a four-game losing streak with a 14-0 blowout of the Arizona Diamondbacks in the finale of a three-game series Sunday at Chase Field. Chipper Jones knocked in five runs and Jeff Francoeur went 3-for-5 and scored twice for the Braves, who are 2 1/2 games off the National League wild card lead and 4 1/2 games behind the New York Mets for the top spot in the NL East standings.
Willie Harris was 2-for-3 with four runs scored, while Kelly Johnson and Andruw Jones both drove in a pair of runs in the rout. Braves starter Tim Hudson yielded three hits over seven scoreless innings, fanning five and walking one to improve to 4-0 lifetime against Arizona.
Chuck James will take the ball for the Braves tonight, and he is 8-8 with a 3.55 ERA in 21 starts this season. James is 0-1 over his previous three trips to the hill and was beaten by San Francisco the last time out on Wednesday. He was reached for two runs and seven hits in six innings of a 2-1 loss.
James won his only career start against Houston on September 29 of last season, allowing one run and in seven innings during a 4-1 win at Turner Field.
Houston has lost two of its last three games, including Sunday's 18-11 setback to the San Diego Padres in the finale of a four-game series at Minute Maid Park. Eric Munson, Lance Berkman, Luke Scott and Chris Burke each homered for the Astros, who are 10 1/2 games off the lead in the NL Central standings.
Starting pitcher Jason Jennings was brutalized for 11 runs on eight hits and three walks in just two-thirds of inning.
Chris Sampson will try to bounce back from a rough outing when he takes the ball tonight for the Astros. Sampson, who is 7-7 with a 4.29 ERA in 19 games (18 starts) this season, owns a 1-2 mark in his past three starts and lost to the Los Angeles Dodgers his previous time out on July 23. Sampson allowed four runs in five innings of a 10-2 setback at Minute Maid Park.
Sampson, a right-hander, is 0-1 with a 1.80 ERA in two career games (one start) against the Braves.
Atlanta and Houston are meeting for the first time since the Astros went 4-3 in the 2006 season series.
<< A-Rod's quest for 500 returns to the Bronx
(Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Alex Rodriguez and the New York Yankees have been
temporarily cooled off and will begin a six-game homestand with the first of
three meetings against the Chicago White Sox this evening in the Bronx.
New York
<< Reds, Nats start series at RFK
(Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Left-hander Bobby Livingston takes his first turn as a
regular member of the Cincinnati starting rotation tonight when the Reds visit
RFK Stadium to open a three-game series with the Washington Nationals.
Livingston, who
<< Bedard, Beckett square off at Fenway
(Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Streaking lefty Erik Bedard can stretch his unbeaten streak
to nine starts tonight when the Baltimore Orioles head to Fenway Park for the
first of three games with the American League East Division rival Boston Red
Sox.
B
<< Davenport will return to play singles in September
Bali, Indonesia (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Former world No. 1 star Lindsay Davenport
will return to singles tennis in September, just three months after giving
birth to her first child.
The 31-year-old Davenport hasn't played singles on th
A's host Tigers in matchup of star pitchers >>
(Sportsbook Betting Lines) - An All-Star mound matchup will be on display tonight at
Oakland's McAfee Coliseum as the host Athletics and the Detroit Tigers resume
a three-game series.
The American League Central-leading Tigers will send young star Ju
Mets' Glavine goes for coveted 300th win in Milwaukee >>
(Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Tom Glavine will try and become just the 23rd pitcher in
major league history to reach 300 wins this evening, when the New York Mets
open a three-game series with the Milwaukee Brewers at Miller Park.
Glavine will
Mariners, Angels continue key AL West series >>
(Sportsbook Betting Lines) - The Seattle Mariners will attempt to further close the gap
in the American League West when the resurgent club aims for a second straight
victory over the division-leading Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim tonight at
Safeco Fiel
Carmona, Indians try to continue success against new-look Rangers >>
(Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Fausto Carmona will attempt to extend a string of winning
performances when he takes the mound tonight for the Cleveland Indians, who
aim to continue their recent success against the Texas Rangers when the two
clubs begin a t
Trash talk has a place in every competitive endeavor (except baseball; those stirrup-wearers are too busy chewing on their sunflower seeds and their supplements to worry about what their opponents are doing).
Fantasy sports is no exception. Any intelligent discussion of the subject would probably start with a thesis statement or a definition of terms. Thankfully, this wont be an intelligent discussion.
Let me just say that I am happy to take a place in this space alongside my talented colleagues, even our commissioner. (You should see how she bleats like a demented paper boy about league fees on our fantasy site).
Trash talking, I would argue, is primarily about amusing your friends, their sheeplike demeanors and sloping foreheads notwithstanding. The best place I have found for football trash talking is at www.SportsAlarm.com.
Beyond the entertainment factor, though, I would recognize that the sophomoric ritual has one advantage, when properly applied. It magnifies your fantasy triumphs and mitigates your fantasy failures by transforming the eventual point total into an afterthought. Winning makes it seem like your opponent really is a truss-owning, lapel-pin-wearing nitwit. And in defeat, trash talk can be the air bag to break the fall from your hyperbolic heights. The plug-necked yahoos on your team, you can say, will be sacking groceries by the end of the season.
The best trash talk, in my view, is layered and nuanced. And it doesnt focus only on your opponents team. It picks apart your opponent. The idea is to create a shock-and-awe-scale blizzard of nonsense, and the goal is to make your opponent drop his hands from his keyboard in exasperation.
What team does your opponent root for? Accuse a Giants fan of having a Joe Namath pillowcase. Wheres your opponent from? Give a look of concern no matter his reply, then say, I'll try to type slower for you next time. Is your opponent into politics? Label everyone a tax-and-spend corporate shill.
Cap all that with a liberal application of irrelevance. For instance, dont just conclude by saying your opponent is a twerp who drafts like my grandmother. Say that your opponent is a sweater-wearing, eyebrow-plucking twerp who drafts his team about as well as Zsa Zsa Gabor gave acceptance speeches at the Oscars. By the time your foe makes sense of that, his starting running back will have had puppies.
But what about you? Hmm? Recall a memorable slam? Have a tried-and-true technique? Know someone who seems impervious to insult? Take a moment and tells us about it. Put together some (fit-for-publication) thoughts. You wont be too busy returning phone messages from your friends, Im sure, to reply.
In addition to the trash talking, the Sports Alarm has a huge gallery of high resolution pictures of beautiful women and models in bikinis. The most popular models are: Lindsay Lohan, Carrie Underwood, Alessandra Ambrosio, and Paris Hilton.
New York, NY – October 3, 2007 – The dress rehearsal is over! The NHL preseason has ended and now that fans have had a glimpse of what is to come it is time to hit the book! Stanley Cup odds are live at MySportsbook.com, the world’s largest online sportsbook and casino.
The Ottawa Senators and Detroit Red Wings remain on top of the odds charts after an impressive start in the preseason. Betting lines opened for both teams at 6-1 in June. Since then the Sens have fallen to 7-1 and the Red Wings are now caught in a pack including the defending champion Carolina Hurricanes, the San Jose Sharks and the Anaheim Ducks, all at 10-1.
MySportsbook.com has also posted props on each team’s point total for the regular season. The Senators lead the charge at 108.5 followed by the Ducks at 106.5. Detroit will attempt a repeat for the prize as the Red Wings are deadlocked with the Predators at 104.5 a piece. The temporary loss of highly touted rookie Evgeni Malkin puts a lot of pressure on the stick of assistant captain Sidney Crosby - his lowly Pittsburgh Penguins are listed at 71.5.
Even if bettors are not brave enough to put their money on the underdog, an early bet on the favorites at sportsbook.com tends to produce bigger payouts than a mid-season wager. Placing a $1,000 bet last summer on the Detroit Red Wings or Ottawa Senators would have paid out to $8,000 and $10,000 respectively, opposed to a $2,500 or $3,000 payout at the beginning of the playoffs.
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