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Well, hopefully this goes better than the previous site news . Starting, well, now, I'm going to be writing for FanHouse ; mostly the MLB portion, but some NFL stuff as well. As always, nothing will change here; it's not like they'd allow this nonsense over there anyway. I've added what amounts ...
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Last week : Dallas: W, 31-22 Carolina: W,
34-0 Fortunate once again, as a Shayne Graham FG
cut the Cowboys' lead to one with 14:02 left. Only 19% of the ESPN contestants were eliminated last week, which is the lowest since I've been keeping track; in ...
Los Angeles Dodgers @ Philadelphia Phillies Series line: LAD -105, PHI -105 Game 1: LAD (D. Lowe) +123 @ PHI (C. Hamels) -131 The unpredictability of a short series applies both to the winner and the length; although both these series appear to be evenly matched, there's about a 61% chance that ...
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Los Angeles Dodgers
Tampa Bay Rays
Philadelphia Phillies
The Red Sox are still trying to figure out what their rotation should be for the ALCS. I figured they'd just go Matsuzaka-Lester-Beckett-Wakefield, but apparently they're still undecided : But there is this to consider: If the Red Sox hold Lester out until Game 3, they could pitch him at ...
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Jon Lester
Tampa Bay Rays
Tim Wakefield
Fenway Park
We ended up with 176 entries, so keep that in mind when you see what place you're in. Here's the current top 10: DJW has gotten off to great starts with the CIN U, TEN O, STL U, and CAR O. If this was the Top 12, MoneyLine would've been included, as he's at +13.2. He currently stands to lose ...
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So, the Angels play the game the right way, and do all the little things, do they not? The squeeze was, quite obviously, an absolute joke of a call by Scioscia. There's one out. You have a chance to get the run in with a fly ball or a hit, and even if Aybar--who shouldn't be hitting for himself ...
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Los Angeles Angels
Mike Scioscia
I have absolutely no idea how you watch all five hours and fifteen minutes of this , and come away with a headline of: K-Rod? Seriously? Not Shields, who came in with a guy on first in the seventh and got Youkilis, and then proceeded to pitch two more scoreless innings. Not Weaver, who ...
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Kevin Youkilis
Jed Lowrie
" MVP picks that may surprise you ". Only if you expected competence. Which would've been unreasonable. The voting for BPro's Internet Baseball Awards is now open. I hadn't realized that the Rays had the lowest BA w/RISP in the league . I had noticed that the Twins got absurdly lucky. Grant ...
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Tampa Bay Rays
Minnesota Twins
Grant Balfour
Tony Pena Jr.
Jon Heyman
Last week : Dallas: L, 26-24 Denver: L, 33-19 San Diego: W, 28-18 Buffalo: W, 31-14 Jacksonville: W, 30-27 (OT) It's inevitably going to take some luck to do well in a competition like this, but this blog's picks have been incredibly fortunate the last couple weeks, with both the Giants and ...
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Dallas Cowboys
ESPN
Kansas City Chiefs
No preview for this series; I ran out of time, and I think I've probably written enough words on Tampa already. But, as you can hopefully tell from the title, I will be live-blogging the first game, which starts at 2:30 ET. See you then.
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Chicago White Sox
Boston Red Sox @ Los Angeles Angels Series line: BOS +130, LAA -140 Game 1: BOS (Lester) +124 @ LAA (Lackey) -132 I know it's been discussed at length, but the difference between the actual records of these two teams and their third-order records really is amazing. In the real world, the Angels ...
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Milwaukee Brewers @ Philadelphia Phillies Series line: MIL +164, PHI -174 Game 1: MIL (Gallardo) +185 @ PHI (Hamels) -201 Here is the best reason I've found to take the Brewers: Everybody picking the Phillies isn't really all that surprising. The general consensus is that the Brewers are ...
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Philadelphia Phillies
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Los Angeles Dodgers @ Chicago Cubs Series line: LAD +198, CHC -218 Game 1: LAD (Lowe) +145 @ CHC (Dempster) -153 All of these lines are from Pinnacle . This series line is totally ridiculous. The Game 1 line indicates that the Cubs have a 59.7% chance of winning. Game 1 is, pretty clearly, the ...
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Chicago Cubs
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With the regular season finally over--for these purposes,
I don't think today's playoff game should count--it's time
to take another look about how the experts' win projections fared. I've included everybody who was in the last post, but also CHONE, ...
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About a week ago I sent an e-mail
to the folks over at the MGM Mirage ,
asking I could ask one of the guys at the sportsbook some questions about the upcoming playoffs. Jay Rood, Race & Sports Book Director for all 12 of their Nevada books, was ...
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The Red Sox game finally ended; they won, finishing 95-67, one game over their O/U. Here are is the final top 10 for our contest: Congratulations once again to Alexi T., who ended up needing the tiebreaker after the Blue Jays won this afternoon to go over their total of 85.5. There were five ...
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Toronto Blue Jays
Bobby Seay
J.P. Ricciardi
This will start a little before 1pm EST on Sunday. For now, I just wanted to report that it looks like Alexi T. has won the totals contest. Three totals are still up in the air: Toronto, Boston, and San Francisco. The latter two will go over if they win on Sunday (Boston has two shots at it), ...
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San Francisco Giants
J.P. Ricciardi
Cleveland Indians
Tampa Bay, 4.8-1 (Matchbook) Current Record: 96-64 PECOTA Playoff Odds: 100% Tampa Bay Rays: 2008 AL East Champs. Tampa's loss tonight means that the first of the four playoff matchups is set--Red Sox vs. Angels, with Los Angeles having home-field. The Angels will also get to choose which ...
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Tampa Bay Rays
Chicago White Sox
Minnesota Twins
Los Angeles Angels
Al Reyes
Last night's results set up quite an interesting weekend. There will probably be a live-blog on Sunday. ESPN is going to have a college basketball marathon on November 18. This week in BBRAA news: Jason Bartlett is the Rays' MVP , and apparently it's cool to submit your MVP ballot a week before ...
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Washington Nationals
ESPN
Jason Bartlett
Tampa Bay Rays
Seattle Mariners
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Last week : NY Giants: W, 26-23 (OT)
New England: L, 38-13 Buffalo: W, 24-23 Seattle: W,
37-13 Atlanta: W, 38-14 San Diego: 48-29 We were very close to the top three losing, and 57% of the ESPN pool (including this guy ) getting knocked out right ...
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