Service Plays Monday 6/14/10

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[CaliDreaming]

if anybody has C Jordan's 1000 play tonight? thanks or I will go in on it with somebody. grazie

 

[bigtime3]

chris jordan 6/14
los angeles angels -1 1/2

 

[melvin45]

how would you make the purchase going half?

 

[BrockLanders]

John Harrison - Premiums

Giants -175 (5 UNITs)
Padres -115 (5 UNITs)

The Vegas Killers - (Comps)

John Harrison - Cardinals -1.5 -140
Nolan Fernandez - Blue Jays +115
Richie Parker - Brewers/Angels Over 9.5 Even
Dave Eckstein - Giants -1.5 +121
Chad Greene - Blue Jays/Padres OVER 6.5

 

[CaliDreaming]

Thank you sir, much appreciated

 

[CaliDreaming]

chris jordan 6/14
los angeles angels -1 1/2

Thanks, much appreciated. wouldn't have thought that game, but ok.

 

[BiggDogg5n2]

PittViper
7-0 Run (100%)
Wed 3-0
Thu 2-0
Fri Pass
Sat 2-0
Sun Pass
Mon
Brewers Over 9.5
SF Giants Over 8

 

[BiggDogg5n2]

Baseball Crusher POD
6-2 Run (75%)
Fri 1-0
Sat 0-1
Sun 1-0
Mon
SD Padres-119

 

[BiggDogg5n2]

Powerplaywins
5-0 Run POD (100%)
Wed 1-0
Thu 1-0
Fri 1-0
Sat 1-0
Sun 1-0
Mon
SD Padres Over 7

 

[uga1018]

luckysamsports

sam bambino

mlb
sf giants
st. louis

 

[tannguyen94]

chris jordan 6/14
los angeles angels -1 1/2

Thanks

 

[BiggDogg5n2]

St.Bernadine Sports

Matt Dennehy
Sun 2-0

2* San Diego -115 over Toronto(10 pm) - The great road start that the Blue Jays got off to has disappeared. This team is really scuffling offensively. In their last 8 games they are 1-7, have scored only 16 runs, and are hitting .187 as a team. The starting rotation only averaged 4 2/3 IP per start and the pen had an 8.04 ERA last week. Marcum has had B2B horrible starts and the pressure is on to stop this team slide. It may be too much for him right now. Jon Garland has pitched well this year, but SD hasn't helped him much offensively. At home Garland has been amazing with a 1.15 ERA in 39 IP. Over his career he is 11-2 vs the Blue Jays. look for Garland to send the Blue Jays further into a tailspin tonight in SD.

good luck to us,
Matt D

 

[BiggDogg5n2]

Andrew Bucciarelli
35-15 run (70%)
Sat 2-1
Sun 2-1

1* St Louis -300 over Seattle Parlay with San Fran -200 over Baltimore
Wainwright didn't have his best stuff against the Dodgers on Wednesday, when he allowed four runs on eight hits over six innings, along with a season-high five walks and six strikeouts. He uncharacteristically struggled with his control and needed 113 pitches to get through those six innings. Wainwright has never faced the Mariners in his six-year career with the Cardinals.
Sanchez took the loss in his last outing against Cincinnati, giving up three runs on seven hits in five innings. It was the third straight outing in which Sanchez failed to pitch longer than 6 1/3 innings, although he had won his previous two starts. Sanchez has never faced the Orioles, but is 3-5 with a 3.39 ERA in 19 Inter league appearances (seven starts).


2* San Diego -110 over Toronto
Garland rebounded from his worst outing of the season, when the Phillies tagged him for six runs, against the Mets but still took the loss as he was out dueled by Jonathon Niese. The six-inning, three-run outing at Citi Field was a good sign for Garland, who has been mediocre away from spacious PETCO Park. His ERA is an amazing 1.15 at home, but goes up to 4.39 on the road. The numbers suggest Garland has been somewhat lucky at home and somewhat unlucky on the road as opponents' batting average on balls in play (BABIP) is .229 and .321, respectively. He's pitching on three days' rest.

 

[dough]

exec passing 2-day

comp-sea

 

[yoders]

6/14 nsa
20 padres-110
20 cards -1.5 rl -155
20 angels -155

 

[ugk]

ROBERT FERRINGO

2 UNIT #902 St. Louis (-1.5, -140) over Seattle (7 p.m.)

2 UNIT #906 L.A. Angels (-150) over Milwaukee (10 p.m.)

2 UNIT #908 San Francisco (-1.5, +115) over Baltimore (10 p.m.)

1.5 UNIT #903 Toronto (+100) over San Diego (10 p.m.)


Today's Totals
0.5 UNIT Under 10.0 Milwaukee at L.A Angels (10 p.m.)

0.5 UNIT Under 7.5 Baltimore at San Francisco (10 p.m.)

 

[ugk]

MLB NEWS AND NOTES
Monday’s Streaking And Slumping Starting Pitchers
By Covers Staff


Streaking

Joe Saunders, Los Angeles Angels

This lefty is in the process of salvaging what appeared to be a nightmare season. Saunders has allowed three or fewer runs in six of his last seven starts and the Halos are 6-1 over the same stretch.

Saunders pitched a complete game and surrendered just one run in his last start.

“I was getting quick outs,” Saunders told the Associated Press after the game. “When you feel comfortable on the mound and everything feels right, confidence is key.”

Slumping

Randy Wolf, Milwaukee Brewers

They say the road to recovery doesn’t begin until you hit rock bottom. The Milwaukee Brewers hope struggling hurler Randy Wolf found that dark hole in his last outing.

The lefty veteran allowed five home runs and was charged with eight earned runs in under five innings of work against the light-hitting Cubs. It was the fourth time in six starts the former Dodger allowed five or more runs.

"I have to deal with it and try and get better,” Wolf told reports following the 9-4 setback to Chicago. “I'm making a lot of mistakes out there and I'm not getting away with any of them. I'm better than that. I've just got to find a way to get better than that.”

 

[ugk]

HOT LINES

Monday's Best MLB Bets

Baltimore Orioles at San Francisco Giants (-200, 7.5)

It's hard to pick winners, but this is the time of year that it becomes increasingly easier to pick non-winners. They stick out like sore thumbs and sore losers.

Take the Orioles, owners of the worst record in baseball and losers of 14 of their last 16 games. It's becoming less of a streak and more of a trend.
And when things start going bad for a team like the O-Birds, they start getting worse. Fingers are pointed and blame is shifted to all the wrong places.

Even manager Luke Scott is taking out his frustration on the umps instead of his players. After being ejected from Saturday night's loss to the Mets for arguing balls and strikes, he made it sound liike his team was the victim of conspiracy rather than its own poor play.

"It has just been difficult, trying to overcome obstacles. There's just been things that just haven't gone our way," Scott said. "From large strike zones to balls right at people. That's part of the game, that happens. But what can you do? We have to find a way to overcome these obstacles."

Or you could play better baseball, but hey, let's be real. The downtrodden Orioles took another beating Sunday before boarding a plane across country to San Francisco. Bet that was a pleasant flight, unless the pilot missed his landing zone.

The Orioles have dropped 40 of their last 51 on the road and are pinning their hopes on a winless Chris Tillman. The Giants have won 11 of their last 14 at home and send a steady Jonathon Sanchez to the hill. Sanchez (4-5) is no guaranteed winner, but he's facing a group of sure-fire losers.

Pick: SF Giants


Seattle Mariners at St. Louis Cardinals (-300, 7.5)

Less than two weeks ago, Mariners pitcher Lucas French was getting roughed up by the Sacramento River Cats. Today he faces the St. Louis Cardinals.

French was called up from Triple-A Tacoma on June 6 to plug a hole in the bullpen and earned a spot in the starting rotation. It didn't take much to get the field promotion - after allowing eight hits and four runs in 5 2/3 innings of relief work (6.35 ERA), French is replacing winless starter Ian Snell.

Granted, the Red Birds' bats have been in a bit of a slump lately and they are hitting just .237 against lefties. But a return home from a West Coast road swing and the chance to face a recent minor-leaguer may be just what the Cards need to get their offense rolling.

Pick: Over

 

[ugk]

SOCCER NEWS AND NOTES
Breaking Down Group E
By Bruce Marshall


GROUP E:
Holland, Denmark, Japan, Cameroon...Drawing from past World Cups, the best of each of these sides would make for quite a quartet. We could feature Johan Cruyff's Dutch masters from 1974, the memorable Danes featuring Michael Laudrup and Morten Olsen from Mexico '86, Roger Milla and Cameroon's Indomitable Lions from 1990, and the foursome could play the games at the 2002 World Cup, where Japan could serve as host after it reached the knockout phase amid some incredible atmospheres of noise and color in Tokyo, Yokohama, Saitama, and elsewhere from that memorable Copa Mundial eight years ago.

As for 2010, however, the only show worth remembering from these four might be the one produced by Holland (1/2 odds to win group). Certainly, if qualifying form holds true in group play, the Dutch won't have much to worry about. Although gifted a very winnable group consisting of Norway, Scotland, Macedonia, and Iceland, Holland won all eight of its matches, scoring 17 goals and allowing only two in the process, and mostly continued that form through recent friendlies leading up to first-round action commencing on June 14 vs. the Danes. Moreover, past internal squabbles, as much a Dutch tradition as the distinctive orange kits, are apparently a distant memory within coach Bert van Marwijk's camp, where things have been so harmonious that most observers seemed to expect a chorus of kumbaya to break out at any time. Which is a far cry from the traditional internal issues that began with none other than Cruyff, who missed the '78 World Cup for mysterious reasons (indeed, it's hard to believe Cruyff participated in just one World Cup), to the racial divide that tore **** Advocaat's team asunder at Euro '96, to van Marwijk predecessor Marco van Basten's feud with midfield maestro Mark van Bommel at World Cup 2006.

And no wonder the Dutch are skipping to a happy tune, with an abundance of riches in attack that if nothing else gives The Oranje a puncher's chance against anyone. Fortunately for van Marwijk, the talismanic van Bommel also happens to be his son-in-law, and rather than risk angering his daughter gladly reinstated van Bommel to the national set-up shortly after taking over the reins in the run-up to Euro 2008. Where the Dutch, after thrashing both Italy and France in group play, looked to be headed to a potential earth-moving showdown with Spain before coming up flat at the top of the knockout phase vs. Guus Hiddink's Russia. Importantly, the Dutch were minus flying winger Arjen Robben for that loss to the Russians, after the balding thunderbolt was dazzling in early action. The analogy to 2010 is that Robben also enters this tourney as a bit of a question mark with a nagging hamstring injury that was re-aggravated in recent friendly action vs. Hungary. Without Robben, the Dutch are still potent; with him, they can be irresistible.

If available, Robben is part of an attacking quintet that is the strength of van Marwijk's squad. But what makes Robben's potential absence even more irksome is that Holland seemed to finally have all hands on deck leading up to the festivities in South Africa after Arsenal striker Robin van Persie, who had been out since November with ankle problems, recovered from those woes and was ready to join Robben and Liverpool's Dirk Kuyt in front of van Bommel and Inter's Wesley Sneijder, another force who blossomed this past year after being liberated from Real Madrid. The last of the Dutch contingent at the Bernabeu, Rafael van der Vaart, would at least be a serviceable replacement for Robben.

Holland will score goals, but it's how many the Dutch will ship that will likely determine how far van Marwijk's men progress in South Africa. With Man United's long-serving netminder Edwin van der Sar having announced his international retirement, the Dutch are going to need Ajax GK Maarten Stekelenburg to fill the leadership role the composed van der Sar held for more than a decade. Since Stekelenburg's ball and distribution skills sometimes appear lacking, that might prove a tall order. Elsewhere, PSV's cultured center-half Andre Ooijer has been battling injury problems; Feyenoord's Ron Vlaar is a relatively inexperienced replacement. Van Marwijk also has few options other than Feyenoord's aging Giovanni van Bronckhorst at left back. Still, we don't suspect the Dutch run the threat of getting punished at the back until they start competing in the knockout phase, to which they should advance without much trouble.

The best bet to join the Dutch in the next phase might be neighboring Denmark (4/1 to win group), which qualified at the top of perhaps UEFA's toughest group that included Portugal and Sweden. Although lacking some of the flair and star power of past memorable Danish sides, the current squad makes up for it with a rugged functionality that allowed it to post seven clean sheets in the ten qualifiers.

And it's that robust defensive backbone that should provide the Danes with their best chance of advancing from this quartet. Stoke City GK Thomas Sorenson, with 12 years of experience in the Prem, also has plenty of experience on the big stage from World Cup 2002 and Euro 2004 and has long since proven an able successor to Peter Schemichel. Directly in front of Sorenson, the youthful center-back combo of Liverpool's Daniel Agger (who also possesses a lethal long-range shot) and Palermo's Simon Kjaer might be one of the most talented in this World Cup, and they are given further support by tough tackling Juventus midfielder Christian Poulsen, whose primary role is to sit deep and protect the back four but is also allowed to indulge his creative instincts a bit more for his national side than at club level in Serie A. One of the real wild cards of the competition is the prodigiously talented Ajax 18-year-old midfielder Christian Ericksen, a visionary performer in the mold of a young Michael Laudrup. At the outset, Ericksen will likely be featured off the bench, but his influence could grow as the tournament progresses.

The Danish package, however, is something of the reverse of the Dutch, given that the Danes might find it a difficult to locate goals. More specifically, providing support for Arsenal's precocious 22-year-old striker Nicklas Bendtner, already firmly established as the target man up front and with no shortage of self-confidence. Longtime ace Jon Dahl Tomasson (with 51 career goals in 110 appearances for his country) is now more of a secondary weapon and a candidate to drop back to a wing position should manager Morten Olsen decide that isolating Bendtner might be a better strategy. The fullbacks, however, are too slow to provide much support upfield in attack, and established veteran wingers such as Martin Jorgensen (who scored a goal in France's World Cup '98 vs. Brazil), Dennis Rommedahl, and Jesper Gronkjaer are all on the other side of 30 and have slowed considerably in recent years. Coach Olsen, who starred for that '86 squad but now well-established behind the bench, usually rigidly adheres to his 4-3-3 principles, although critics say his dogmatism with his preferred formation is potentially compromised by the decreasing speed of wingers such as Rommedahl and Gronkjaer, whose quicks are essential to make the attack work, but each having lost a step (or two) from previous international events.

Cameroon (11-2 to win group) has enjoyed as much World Cup success as any African entry, although the Indomitable Lions have also been just as apt to flame out spectacularly on this stage. Their World Cup history is replete with internal bickering involving the country's disorganized federation and various no-show efforts sprinkled among their memorable showings; who can forget the five goals allowed vs. Russia's Oleg Salenko at World Cup '94? Moreover, their bullying style of play has often reinforced the undisciplined stereotype of African football, with reckless and dangerous challenges usually interspersed with needless bookings.

In recent years, the Lions have also mostly failed to figure out how to best take advantage of their most decorated performer, Inter Milan striker Samuel E'too, member of three winning Champions League sides in the past five seasons. E'too's game, however, is played at a faster speed than his teammates; finding him suitable partners who can read and anticipate his movements has been much more of a problem for his country than for his more-cultured colleagues at Barca and Inter. But Cameroon has never had the supporting cast to profit from his speed and guile, and the Lions' trademark rapid build-up has consistently lacked the killer pass necessary to unleash E'too. The recent African Nations Cup, when the Lions went out without much of a growl in the quarter-finals vs. Egypt, and recent friendly action suggests the Cameroonians are still trying to figure out how to take advantage of what should be their greatest asset.

Still, Cameroon could cause problems for some foes, especially if the referee decides not to keep matters under control. The midfield is likely to be the most-physical in the tournament, although we're not sure Alex Song is the man to run the engine room after being utilized in a more withdrawn midfield role for Arsene Wenger at Arsenal. Monaco's 20-year-old left-back Nicolas Nkoulou, however, appears to be a star on the rise, and there's always E'too. Still, former Lyon and Rangers manager Paul Le Guen continues to struggle with the problem of how to best allow E'too's talents to shine for the national side; the brute force that marks the Lions' style is a poor match for E'too, who would instead benefit from more creativity, rather than clattering tackles, from his midfield mates.

Japan (odds to win group 14-1) has become something of a fixture at the World Cup, now appearing in its fourth in a row, and will be trying to match the promising start of 2002 tourney co-host South Korea, which opened up in bang-bang style in its 2-0 win over Greece. And don't think the Japanese don't pay attention to their Asian rivals; manager Takeshi Okada is on record as saying "If South Korea can reach the last four, why can't we?, " in reference to 2002. But until Japan can win as much as one World Cup game away from its home soil, which the side has never done, it's hard to take Okada seriously.

Much like the South Koreans, more Japanese stars are now earning club football paychecks in some of Europe's bigger leagues. Powerful attacking midfielder Keisuke Honda impressed with CSKA Moscow in this season's Champions League. Wolfsburg's Makoto Hasebe is an adept dribbler in midfield. Young striker Takayuki Morimoto plays in Italy for Catania. And there are some other potentially promising components playing domestically. One of those home-based stars, Gamba Osaka midfielder Yasuhito Endo, is Asia's reigning Player of the Year. The fullbacks are glad to join in the attack, and unlike most other longshots in South Africa, the Japanese are hard to get off the ball as they move fluidly through midfield. Nagoya Grampus GK Seigo Narazaki also might be the best in Asia.

Having said all of that, manager Okada is hardly the most popular figure in Tokyo or Yokohama, considered too inflexible to adapt and adjust to the higher caliber of play in World Cups. Japan did not win a game in its World Cup debut at France in 1998 under Okada, and despite qualifying comfortably in 2010, hardly lit up the stage in the process. Moreover, the style of play became more conservative under Okada than for predecessor Ivica Osim, who had the Japanese playing more attractive football until being forced to relinquish his duties after suffering a stroke in 2007. Okada's reluctance to make better use of the Europe-based players, such as Hasebe and Morimoto, is also a sort point with supporters and the Japanese press. Moreover, Japan lacks a cutting edge up front. There is no bona fide finisher on the roster, and the lack of that dimension seems to bog down the offense when it moves into the attacking zone. Until further notice, scoring goals is going to be imperative to advance in the World Cup. And against this level of worldwide competition, the Japanese have never demonstrated an ability to manufacture scoring opportunities. Until they do, their breakthrough will probably have to wait.