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Posey busts out as Giants crush BrewersBaseball Betting Lines07/08/2010 - Milwaukee, WI (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Buster Posey hit a grand slam and recorded a number of firsts in a huge performance, and Tim Lincecum was dominant on the mound as the San Francisco Giants routed the Milwaukee Brewers, 15-2, in the continuation of a four-game series. Posey, the fifth overall pick of the 2008 draft, homered twice and had four hits for the first time in his young career. He also drove in a career-high six runs. Posey fueled the Giants' best offensive performance of the season. Andres Torres, Aubrey Huff and Posey homered in the first inning, and the four total home runs were a season high. The 15 runs were the most San Francisco has scored since May 13, 2007. It was plenty of support for Lincecum (9-4), who struck out 10 and gave up one run in seven innings, a resounding rebound effort for the right-hander. He had given up eight runs in nine innings over his last two starts, both losses. Torres and Freddy Sanchez each finished with two hits and three runs batted in for San Francisco, which also won the first two games of this set and will go for the sweep Thursday. Chris Narveson (7-6) was shelled in his worst start of the season, as he gave up 10 runs (nine earned) in 3 1/3 innings in the loss, Milwaukee's fourth in a row. The rout began early as Narveson struggled with his location, leaving pitches up, and the Giants took advantage. Torres hit the second pitch of the game, a fastball up and in, to left-center for his fifth homer of the year. Two batters later, Huff clubbed a high breaking ball to right to make it a 2-0 game. Following a Pat Burrell single, Posey drove a first-pitch fastball, which Narveson again left up in the zone, to left-center for his first homer. It was the first time the Giants hit three homers in the first inning since August 22, 1999. Rickie Weeks began the bottom of the third with a home run to center, but San Francisco responded with seven runs in the next half-inning. Edgar Renteria and Eli Whiteside hit back-to-back leadoff singles, and a throwing error by Narveson on Lincecum's bunt loaded the bases with nobody out. After Torres flied out, Sanchez ripped a triple to right to make it 7-1. Narveson continued to fall apart, walking Huff before throwing a wild pitch to allow Huff to move to second. The Brewers starter walked Burrell, once more loading the bases, and was removed as Chris Capuano entered into the dicey situation. Posey came up next and slugged a 1-1 slider to right field for a grand slam. The Giants added four more runs in the sixth against Todd Coffey. Run-scoring singles from Renteria and Whiteside and a two-RBI double from Torres made it a 15-1 game. Jim Edmonds hit a sacrifice fly in the eighth off Guillermo Mota to complete the scoring. Game Notes Entering Wednesday's game, Posey had three career home runs and 13 RBI...Prior to Wednesday's game, Lincecum was 1-2 with a 5.67 ERA in five career starts vs. the Brewers...The Giants improved to 4-3 on their 11-game road trip, their longest of the season...The 15 runs allowed equals a season-high for Milwaukee, which also surrendered 15 runs in a May 21 loss at Minnesota.
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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.
MySportsbook.com and Kentucky Derby Offer Bonuses Well, not quite $1 million, but MySportsbook.com is offering a 75% rebate for Kentucky Derby lines. Check out the exclusive horse racing bonus for all the details. According to MySportsbook.com, the favorites for Saturday’s Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Kentucky are: Curlin (+250); Street Sense (+500); Scat Daddy (+700); Circular Quay (+750); and Nobiz Like Shobiz (+800). Derby organizers announced this week that there will be a $1-million bonus at the 2007 Kentucky Derby odds if the first-place horse wins by more than 6 1/2 lengths – the margin of Barbaro's victory last year. The bonus would be divided Saturday among the winning trainer, jockey, owner and a charity, with each receiving 25 percent. The designated charity is the Barbaro Memorial Fund. ''It's certainly creative, it's certainly fun and it has something for the horsemen, which we always want to embrace,'' Churchill Downs president and chief executive Robert Evans said at a news conference. ''What's really cool is it will force us to remember Barbaro.'' Arkansas Derby winner Curlin – unbeaten in three career races – tries to overcome both those obstacles in Saturday's 133rd Derby. ''We're not running against history,'' trainer Steve Asmussen said Monday. ''We're running against who they load up.'' Six other horses have run in the Derby without benefit of 2-year-old races and with three or fewer starts. The best any of them managed was a sixth-place finish by Showing Up last year. ”He exudes confidence and he's got a great presence about him,'' the trainer said. ''I feel great about the position we're in. He's not worried about anything, why should you be?'' For complete odds on the Kentucky Derby, visit MySportsbook.com. Mysportsbook.com online sportsbook accepts Visa and Mastercard credit cards.
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