Louie Mayo
MLB: TUE
(5*) Houston -151
(3*) Detroit -106
(1*) Red Sox -209
WNBA
(50*) Connecticut+3 1/2
NBA
(50*) Lakers -9 1/2
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Wunderdog
3 units: LA Angels -1.5 Runs
3 units: Kansas City -1.5 Runs
3 units: Kansas City money line
3 units: San Diego money line
Bob Balfe
NBA Basketball
Celtics +9.5 over Lakers
The linemakers did an excellent job at setting this line. There is mass confusion across the nation on how the Celtics could be getting all of these points. The public is slightly on the Celtics tonight, but a lot of sharp money will be on LA. People are thinking if a team is favored by this much then they must cover. I usually tend to agree in situations like this, but Boston is playing excellent right now and their bench is playing better than most Laker starters. Boston had the best defense is the NBA. I know that they struggled on the road in the playoffs, but they are just two wins away from a title. They must be doing something right. The Celtics have won all four matchups this year and if the Lakers win they will have to work for it. Sometimes we tend to out think ourselves. Boston has the Lakers backed up against the wall and have all the momentum. I think the Lakers 4th quarter comeback was actually a good thing for the Celtics to go through. Look for a tight game. Take Boston.
Major League Baseball
Astros -145 over Brewers
Oswalt/Mcclung
JB Sports
NBA 3* La Lakers
Stan Sharp
CWS (-115) vs DET
Analysis: Stan is Betting the CHICAGO WHITE SOX today. The White Sox have Won 7 in a row and look to take that momentum out on the road tonight in Detroit. Note Detroit is 2-13 following a loss to a division rival as a favorite this year. TAKE WHITE SOX as STAN'S BASEBALL MISMATCH BIG BET OF THE MONTH and make them a TRIPLE DIME PLAY.
BIG AL NATIONAL LEAGUE GAME OF THE MONTH!
At 10:05pm our selection is on the San Diego Padres over the Los Angeles Dodgers. San Diego's 42 year old righthander and future Hall-of-Famer Greg Maddux has been pitching lately like he found a fountain of youth. After a decent if not overwhelming start to the season, the Padres have won Maddux's last four starts and he has an ERA of 1.96 in his last three. The Padres need to schedule more of Maddux's starts at home in Petco Field as he has is undefeated (1-0) with a 1.73 ERA at home and 2-4 with a 5.01 ERA on the road. Amazingly there is a 22 year difference in age between Maddux and the starter for Los Angeles this evening. Rookie lefthander Clayton Kershaw is only 20 years old and had never pitched above the AA level before coming to the Majors. Although Kershaw's upside is huge, he does not appear ready yet to peform at the Major League level, but he will probably keep his spot in the Dodger rotation as long as veteran Jason Schimdt is out with his bum shoulder. The Dodgers have really struggled on the road this season with an overall record of 12-18 away from Dodger Stadium and 1-7 in in their last eight. The Dodgers are also 6-13 in their last 19 meetings in San Diego. NL Game of the Month on the Padres.
EDDIE ROMAN FROM GAMETIMEWINNERS.COM
Analyst: Eddie Roman
10,000 Unit MLB Stat Match Game of the Year #2
10,000 Unit MLB Stat Match Game of the Year #2
Texas Rangers +105 W/ Millwood over Kansas City
For starters, I do not like when a team is playing their first home game after a road trip of 6 or more games without a day off after their last road game. Firthermore, I really don't like it when the team in that situation is coming home to play a team who had the prior day off. That's the situation Kansas City is in today and I feel it plays in our favor with Texas.Also, the Royals are 0-4 in Meche's last 4 starts and Mecha has an ERA of 7.36 at home. The Royals are 1-5 in his 6 home starts this year and are 4 games below .500 at home overall.Couple that with the fact that they are playing a better team and that they are 4-17 in their last 21 games overall and I feel Texas is an easy winner.Millwood has been decent in his last 2 starts since coming back from the injury and out of his 4 starts on the road this year, 3 have been quality ones with two of those games coming against the Angels and Boston.To get this team at this price today in this spot is a complete steal. Texas is well worth a big wager. Take the Rangers.
2000 Unit NBA Finals Lock
Under 195.5 Points Boston at Los Angeles
It's going to take a lot to get this one there espeically with the fact that I feel Boston is going to struggle to score points tonight but to be honest, the Lakers might as well. Boston is a great defensive team and we know the effort from the Lakers on defense has to be better or else it's good night. No one's been impressed with the way Boston ha splayed on the road, despite beating Detroit in 2 of 3 on the road. I feel they will struggle to score and I feel they will slow the pace of the game down. After Game 2, the oddsmakers raised the price of this total and I feel that's a mistake. Look for a game in the low 180's tonight. Take the under.
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Ted Sevransky 4*
PICK: Chicago White Sox
REASON FOR PICK: Jose Contreras has arguably been the single most undervalued pitcher in baseball this season, and he enters tonight’s game against the hapless Tigers in the midst of a truly special run. The White Sox are 5-1 in Contreras’s last six trips to the mound, and he’s allowed exactly one run in five of those starts, two runs in the sixth. With a 2.76 ERA for the season (2.63 in six starts on the road), allowing only 1.04 baserunners per inning, we can expect a pitcher with a ‘streaky’ history to continue streaking in a positive direction tonight.
Detroit can’t do anything right. In a huge game for them in an effort to win their first series in their last ten against any team other than the equally hapless Mariners, the Tigers failed to show up. Now sitting at eleven games under .500 with 99 left to play, Jim Leyland’s squad is going to need to win at least 66 or 67 of those remaining games to have a chance at making the playoffs. Everybody knows that’s simply not going to happen – not with the entire lineup slumping, their bullpen in dire straits and a starting pitching staff that is both injury plagued and ineffective. Betting against the Tigers in this price range at home (sub .500 record at Comerica Park this year) against the hottest team in baseball makes perfect sense to this bettor.
The White Sox are 5-1 against the Tigers already this season. They’ve snapped out of an extended offensive slump, pounding out 61 runs while hitting .347 as a team on their just concluded homestand, including yesterday’s ‘refuse to lose’ come from behind win against Minnesota. Detroit starter Nate Robertson has a grand total of two quality starts in 12 previous outings this year. The ChiSox hammered him for five runs in five innings back in April; Detroit is just 4-8 when he takes the hill. Ride the hot; fade the cold and cash with the White Sox tonight. 4* Take Chicago.
Ted Sevransky 3*
PICK: Cincinnati Reds
REASON FOR PICK: The St Louis Cardinals are in dire straits when it comes to their starting rotation. Already missing Mark Mulder, Matt Clement and Chris Carpenter from Day 1 of the season, Tony LaRussa’s squad has lost both Adam Wainwright and Todd Wellemeyer in the last week, with Joel Piniero not ready to come off the DL either. That’s one heck of a lot of starting pitching to be missing at any one time.
St Louis has already pirated every decent prospect they’ve got up to the big league roster even prior to Mitchell Boggs call-up last week. Now Boggs (a second tier prospect at best), who struggled to get out minor league hitters must face the potent Reds lineup at high scoring Great American Ballpark. I expect him to struggle mightily. LaRussa voicing some concerns about his rookie hurler: “He’s going to have to have his offspeed pitches be a factor. You just can’t throw one pitch up here.”
Cincinnati has one of the sharper home/road dichotomies in all of baseball, just 12-24 on the highway but 19-10 at home, including eleven wins in their last dozen at home. Dusty Baker’s potent lineup just pounded out 29 runs in their four game set at Florida, and they scored 37 in their last six game homestand. We can expect the Reds to put up runs in bunches tonight against a minor league caliber starter and a tired bullpen behind him, giving Homer Bailey plenty of chances to pitch aggressively with a lead. 3* Take Cincinnati.
Ted Sevransky 3*
PICK: Under
REASON FOR PICK: With lead-off man Rafael Furcal languishing on the DL for the last month, the LA Dodgers simply can’t get any sort of an offensive spark going. Joe Torre’s squad has scored two runs or less ten times in their last 17 ballgames, scoring more than four runs only three times during that span. No surprise, then that LA is 19-11 to the Under in the 30 games that Furcal has missed this season.
We can expect the Dodgers offensive woes to continue in the lowest scoring ballpark in the major leagues tonight. Runs certainly won’t be easy to come by for LA against Greg Maddux at Petco Field. In six previous home starts this season, Maddux has allowed only seven earned runs, giving up just 27 hits and four walks in more than 36 innings of work. In the future Hall-of –Famer’s lone previous start against the Dodgers this year, he held LA to two hits in five scoreless innings of work.
But the Padres aren’t likely to get going offensively tonight against impressive LA rookie Clayton Kershaw either. San Diego is hitting just .225 for the season against southpaws; an even more anemic .208 at home against lefties. And Kershaw’s control problems in his first few big league starts aren’t likely to be a factor here against impatient Padres lineup that doesn’t take many walks and can’t hit for power even when they do get baserunners.
At least one of these two teams has been held to a single run or less in five of the six meetings already this season. The Padres won a major league record four straight games by the exact same 2-1 score last week; a final score that seems perfectly reasonable again tonight. 3* Take the Under.
JEN BARRY
MUST WIN 20,000* NBA FINALS LOCK
UNDER 195.5 POINTS BOSTON AT LA
Yeaup, I used the over the other night so some of you might be confused right now but believe me, this game is going to need to see overtime to get it to 196 points. If that happens, theres nothing we can do but in regulation, this wont even be close. 185 points tops will be scored in this game and thats being kind.
LA is going to play much better defensively then they did in the first two games and Boston has had problems scoring on the road in almost every playoff game they have played this season.
They will be tight and they will struggle on offense but the one thing Boston does have in their pocket is defense of their own and I feel they will turn up the pressure on LA tonight.
In the end, I expect a low scoring, defensive game that doesnt even come close to the number.
Im expecting a final score around 93-86. Somewhere around there. Take the under here, this game is not seeing 196 points.
Ben Burns
MLB 3* NY Mets
MLB 3* Colorado Rockies
NBA 5* Celtics/Lakers Under 196
Frank Rosenthal
NBA CHAMPIONSHIP FINALS
LAKERS VS CELTICS
505 CELTICS+9.5 SB
UNDER 196 SB
MLB
952 PIRATES-150 SB
957 PHILLY-120 SB+
OVER 9.5 SB
962 CUBS-155 SB
966 PADRES-130 SB
OVER 7 SB+
973 CWS-120 SB
975 RANGERS+105 SB
980 A'S+110 SB
ATS Basketball Lock Club
3 units on the Boston Celtics
JEFFERSONSPORTS
MLB MONDAY
CHICAGO WHITE SOX-122
TEXAS+104
CHICAGO CUBS-160