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    any news on umpire crews for games #163?

    Of course, I'm specifically curious about who's calling the balls and strikes. I did a number of searches--just previous to this post--and I can find nothing. I'm considering Brewers team total over for the first game, currently showing 3.5 for game or over 2 for 1st5, with a nice +118 on the...
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    Bryse Wilson reminds me of a young Roger Clemens

    No shit. Thought that right away--1st inning. Has the same body shape with that powerful upper body. Might be a good one for years with the stamina to consistently put up 200 quality innings. Time will tell. Chuckin' a beauty, tonight. In trouble twice (thru 5) but pitched great to work...
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    LeBron signs with Lakers

    4 years, 154 million. Thank Hendrix he can now put food on his family.
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    any good examples out there of teams tanking in order to adjust their seeding?

    I'm hearing some discussion of this during the World Cup. Belgium-Germany in order to avoid Brazil, next game, is one example. I'm looking for historical examples of something similar, if anyone can help. Any sport is fine. Teams tanking for draft position isn't really what I'm looking for...
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    wazzup with Padres Lyles?

    I just noticed mlb_com says he threw 0 pitches. i.e. no action-like. They also give him a 'game score' of 40. Apparently the default for just being named starter, or taking the mound and then getting hit by lightning or whatever happened. Totally cool my way as I have ov8 closing a big enough...
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    anybody read 'The Big Fix-__Hunt for Match-Fixers Bringing Down Soccer'-Brett Forrest

    ouch I just heard this interview: <iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Q1nvawoxjG4" frameborder="0" allow="autoplay; encrypted-media" allowfullscreen></iframe> He's clearly hung up on in-game wagering being a major part of match-fixing but it doesn't sound like...
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    learning the(alleged or otherwise) lyrics to songs you thought you knew the lyrics to

    Can sometime be weird, or even painful (example of latter shortly). Looking for others experiences with same, but here's a couple from myself. I needed another shot of Rush, after posting some BS that also contained a link to a Rush tune (In the End). The follow-up wasn't my fave by them but...
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    anyone read Red Card by Ken Bensinger (2018) on FIFA corruption?

    Anybody read this? I'm about 1/3 of the way through. Nothing new, really--big money involved in tv contracts and bids to host events, like the World Cup, and this is just some more exposure of the nonsense that goes on between people who have money and people who have money but want more...
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    why I stopped using dailybaseballdata com for weather info

    Was my primary source for years, regarding wind etc. Totally out to lunch this year; there does seem to be a pattern, though, as they have their wind directions almost precisely backwards for every game this year, in case that's the only thing you have available :facepalm:. I stopped a couple...
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    trying to remember which Adam Curtis flic had the following archival footage

    I'm trying to remember which of his documentaries, and which episode, had the footage of the experiment regarding the monkey. Might have been a Rhesus Macaque but it was a monkey, regardless. Some experimenters had it tied up--immobile, in essence--with its head in a spring-locked vice setup...
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    it was suggested that the Europeans have better officiating rules than the NBA

    Is this true? Hard to imagine them being much worse, but this is the issue that I've had with this sport for a long time now. Contact can't be avoided and decisions, by the refs, need to be done in real time--I get that; upgraded rules for reviewing calls (not the charge/block only but many...
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    worth tuning in for: indians@Twins

    Shane Bieber looks great through one inning, for what it's worth. ML debut on his 23rd birthday. Even the one hit he allowed...Brantley couldn't have broken any slower on that fly...coulda easily been caught. I love great pitching. Welcome to the bigs.
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    apparently, my cousin Vanessa could throw a perfect 5 innings on the bigs

    Mind-boggling how many perfectos through 5+ we've been seeing, so far. Happening to some shit teams--e.g. Marlins tonight--but I think it happened to the Yanks about a week ago, didn't it? Goofy shit. I also heard something about how this (April) was the first ever month, in history, when...
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    anybody read anything by Joseph Buchdahl on sports gambling?

    I found one hit at this site, via a search, from 2006; a list of books on same. I heard an interview with the guy, recently, from an Australian podcast called 'The Business of Betting.' av soundcloud, if nowhere else https://soundcloud.com/businessofbetting/ep-48-psychology-of-betting Has a...
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    who's watching this Nick Kingham debut?

    I just tuned in, to catch however much more he goes. Just wondering how much of an illusion this pitching line is. Perfect in his MLB debut, through 6. 84 pitches, so far, which is often more than a pitcher will throw in their first ever go. Unless they let him toss 120+ pitches, he obviously...
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    thurs april 26

    Just some comments on the games. I have a few plays in but often doing this helps myself with the uncertainty, so take the world with a grain of salt and spend your time more wisely in the future. doin' chronillogical est 12:35 braves(Newcomb)@Reds(Bailey) --I liked Bailey a bunch about 5...
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    after 1st period--holy frig...Leafs are lucky not be down 3-0 in this one

    They look like shit. Anderson is a joke, as I said back in May, and the Leafs defense is brainless. 0-0 currently. If my blood wasn't blue then I'd be live-betting the freakin' B's. ouch Leafs need good smelling salts during intermission or they have golf plans. :facepalm:
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    does you book funk you if the world ends before the game is decided?

    End this crap in Oakland, already. I've been sitting on a solid over 8.5 that begs payment since the 2nd inning. Chisox W might help my Jays in any future wild-card nonsense, but someone needs to score. My book will call this game a push if the world ends before its finished. I may have other...
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    stats on 1st period over 1.5 goals? (gotta be a party)

    Not sure if anybody knows the win-loss, thus far, for minimum 2 goals in the first, this first round, but its gotta be gold.
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    braves @ Cubs saturday

    Have to make a case for trying braves & Newcomb, here. +130 to +140 might give me pause, but I grabbed some dog at +172. The only lefty starter the Braves have faced this year was at Colorado, in Newcomb's last start in a matchup of 1st-round picks vs Freeland. Braves won 4-0 as Newcomb was...
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