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Haren seeks to bounce back in clash with Blue JaysBaseball Betting Lines09/21/2011 - (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Dan Haren tries to bounce back from an awful outing his last time out this evening when the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim attempt to keep their playoff hopes alive in the third test of a four-game series with the Toronto Blue Jays at Rogers Centre. Haren had a two-start winning streak stopped on Friday in Baltimore, as the Orioles hit him for seven runs (six earned) and seven hits in five innings, dropping him to 15-9 on the year to go along with a 3.24 earned run average. "I've been searching for a little bit of consistency," said Haren, who exited after five innings plus two batters and allowed six earned runs to go along with four strikeouts. "I'm the same pitcher that threw a complete game shutout five days ago, and it's just frustrating to go out there and give up that many runs." Haren is 6-2 lifetime versus the Blue Jays with a 5.23 ERA in 10 games (nine starts). Los Angeles bounced back from a loss in Monday's opener on Tuesday, as Mark Trumbo punctuated a five-run fourth inning with a three-run homer, and the Angels notched a 10-6 victory. Trumbo added an RBI single for Los Angeles, which remained five games behind AL West-leading Texas. The Angels, however, did close within 3 1/2 games of Boston in the wild card race. "We don't have any wiggle room anymore," Trumbo said. "It's do or die for us. We're probably going to have to win every game from here on out." Vernon Wells and Alberto Callaspo drove in two runs apiece for the Angels, while Joel Pineiro (7-7) gave up four runs on nine hits over six-plus innings to record his first road win since June 17 against the Mets. Edwin Encarnacion had two RBI, and Mike McCoy and Eric Thames both collected three hits for the Blue Jays, who had won four straight. Brett Cecil (4-10) allowed four runs and six hits in three innings to absorb the loss. "He started to elevate the ball and didn't have a finishing type of pitch," Jays manager John Farrell said of Cecil. The Blue Jays will rely on righty Dustin McGowan, who has pitched to a 7.50 ERA in three outings this season without recording a decision. McGowan faced the New York Yankees on Friday and allowed three runs and three hits in five innings of a 5-4 win. He has faced the Angels six times (four starts) and is 1-3 against them with a 3.54 ERA. The Blue Jays have split their eight matchups with the Angels this season.
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FOOTBALL TRASH TALKNFL Football Trash TalkTrash 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. |
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