08/31/2008 - (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Texas Rangers starter Kevin Millwood has gone the distance for his ballclub in consecutive starts, and will try for a third straight solid outing when he takes the ball today in the finale of a four-game series against the LA Angels of Anaheim.
Millwood was 0-3 in four starts before tossing a complete-game gem versus Detroit on August 20 in Arlington. He allowed one run and six hits in the 9-1 victory to snap the winless funk. Millwood then took the hill six days later at Kansas City and yielded just a run and nine hits in a 2-1 victory for his third complete game of the season and 17th of his career.
The last Rangers pitcher to throw three straight complete-game victories was Kenny Rogers back in 1994.
Millwood, a right-hander, will take on the Angels for the third time in 2008 and is 0-1 in two starts. Millwood owns a 2-3 mark and a 3.72 earned run average through nine career appearances against Anaheim.
Millwood and the Rangers will try to avoid a four-game sweep this afternoon. In Saturday's 4-3 setback in the third test of this series, Scott Feldman absorbed the loss after surrendering all four runs on eight hits and a walk in six innings of work. Milton Bradley and Hank Blalock each added a pair of hits, while Gerald Laird drove in two runs in defeat.
Rangers All-Star outfielder Josh Hamilton left the game with pain due to the root canal work he had done earlier this week and was replaced in the lineup by Brandon Boggs. Hamilton could miss today's game as well, and leads the majors with 116 RBI.
Texas is 3-3 on a seven-game road trip and 33-38 away from Arlington this season.
The American League West-leading LA Angels of Anaheim pushed their division advantage to 18 games over Texas and trimmed its magic number to nine. The Angels are in hot pursuit of winning the AL West for the fourth time in five years after Saturday's 4-3 triumph.
Torii Hunter finished 2-for-4 and drove in the tying run on a groundout, while Juan Rivera plated Vladimir Guerrero on a sacrifice fly for the go-ahead run in the sixth inning for Anaheim, which is one-half game behind Tampa Bay in the race for the AL's best record and home-field advantage in the first two rounds of the playoffs.
Starter Jered Weaver gave up three runs on five hits and two walks in five- plus innings, and struck out six batters in the no-decision. Jose Arredondo picked up the win after tossing two scoreless relief innings before Francisco Rodriguez registered his 53rd save with a perfect ninth.
Toeing the rubber for the Angels today will be John Lackey. Lackey, a 19-game winner from a year ago, is 5-0 through his last nine starts and previously pitched on August 26 versus Oakland, recording a complete-game effort after allowing just a run and four hits in nine innings.
Lackey, who is 5-1 in 10 home starts this season, has pitched the Angels to a 7-2 mark over his past nine starts. He is 9-8 with a 5.39 earned run average in 24 career starts against the Rangers.
The veteran right-hander faced Texas on July 10 this season in a 11-10 win and luckily did not factor in the outcome. Lackey was rocked for six runs and 15 hits in 5 2/3 innings of work.
The Angels have won eight of their 12 matchups with the Rangers this season.
<< Detroit's Galarraga aims to extend unbeaten streak in start vs. KC
(Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Detroit Tigers starting pitcher Armando Galarraga gets the
nod this afternoon, when he takes the mound in the finale of a three-game
series versus the Kansas City Royals at Comerica Park.
Galarraga is 5-0 over his past sev
<< Blue Jays send Halladay to hill in test with Yankees
(Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Toronto Blue Jays ace Roy Halladay will try to win his
fourth straight start when he takes the hill this afternoon in the finale of a
three-game series against the New York Yankees in the Bronx.
Halladay, the 2003 AL Cy Yo
<< Indians try to salvage finale with Mariners
(Sportsbook Betting Lines) - The Cleveland Indians have dropped back-to-back games since
ripping off 10 consecutive wins, and will try to salvage the finale of a
three-game series today versus the Seattle Mariners at Progressive Field.
The Indians had
<< Miller's double leads Rangers past Celtic
Glasgow, Scotland (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Former Celtic man Kenny Miller returned
to Celtic Park on Sunday and scored a pair of goals to lead Rangers to a 4-2
win over the Hoops in the first Old Firm contest of the season.
Daniel Cousin hand
Rays' Shields tries to match career-best win total against O's >>
(Sportsbook Betting Lines) - California-born right-hander James Shields can equal a
career-best in wins today, when the Tampa Bay Rays host the Baltimore Orioles
in the finale of a three-game series at Tropicana Field.
Shields, a 26-year-old, reached
Twins try to halt critical skid in Oakland >>
(Sportsbook Betting Lines) - With the AL Central race heating up, the Minnesota Twins
have picked a wrong time to start playing poorly. This afternoon they will try
to get back on track in the finale of a four-game series against the Oakland
Athletics at
Brewers send Sabathia to hill in Pittsburgh >>
(Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Big southpaw CC Sabathia can continue what has been a
remarkable run of National League dominance today, when the Milwaukee Brewers
close out a three-game series against the Pittsburgh Pirates at PNC Park.
A 6-foot
Phils' Werth tries to stay hot in finale at Cubs >>
(Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Getting a chance to play everyday, Jayson Werth is making
the most of it. The outfielder will try to guide the Philadelphia Phillies to
a split of their four-game series with the Chicago Cubs this afternoon at
Wrigley
LaDainian Tomlinson Favorite to be 2007 NFL MVP
With the first NFL preseason game less than two weeks away, it is time to start thinking about football once again at MySportsbook.com. Reigning NFL MVP LaDainian Tomlinson is currently the 5-1 co-favorite to win the award again alongside Super Bowl MVP Peyton Manning.
This shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone after his all out assault on the record books last season. For those suffering from amnesia or were under a rock last football season, all L.T. did last season was set the NFL record for rushing touchdowns (28), total touchdowns (31) and total points scored (186) to go along with his 1815 rushing yards and 508 receiving yards. At 6-1, Tom Brady is next in line which isn’t surprising considering all of the firepower the Pats added over the off-season. With the addition of Randy Moss, Donte Stallworth and Wes Welker; it would be quite difficult for Brady’s numbers not to improve from last years 3529 yards and 24 touchdowns. There appears to be some decent value in Drew Bees at 10-1 considering he probably would have won the award last year if it wasn’t for L.T.’s record breaking season.
There is no reason to think the Saints will come back to earth this season and playing in a weak NFC, they should have as good a shot as any to represent the NFC in the Super Bowl. At 15-1, Donovan McNabb could also be worth a look. Remember, many felt he was the MVP of the first half of the season before going down with a season ending injury. Reportedly, he is in great shape and well ahead of schedule to return to form. Also, he could have some added motivation to put up big numbers this season with the Eagles using their first pick in the draft on McNabb’s future successor Kevin Kolb.
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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 won’t 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 doesn’t focus only on your opponent’s 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. Where’s 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, don’t 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 won’t be too busy returning phone messages from your friends, I’m 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.
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