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06/06/2010 - (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - In a pivotal American League East battle, the Toronto Blue Jays will try to complete a sweep of the New York Yankees in today's final matchup of a three-game set at the Rogers Centre.
If the Blue Jays are going to finish off the Yanks in this series, they will need Brandon Morrow to duplicate his last outing. The last time the hard- throwing right-hander was on the mound, he surrendered just one run in seven innings against Tampa Bay last Monday.
It was just the second win in the last six starts for Morrow, who is now an impressive 4-1 at home this season.
The young hurler has made eight appearances against the Yankees, but this will be just his third start. In his previous showdowns against the Bronx Bombers, Morrow is 1-0 with a 3.94 earned run average.
The Yankees will look to Javier Vazquez, who has seemed to settle down since his early-season jitters. Vazquez, who was sent to the bullpen a few weeks ago, has won three times in his last four appearances. However, one of those victories came in relief.
The last time the veteran righty was on the rubber, he tossed seven solid innings against Baltimore on Tuesday, allowing just one run on four hits. Vazquez walked just one batter and finished with seven strikeouts.
Vazquez is no stranger to the Blue Jays, having faced them 14 times in his career. However, he has struggled to find success against the AL East foe, posting just a 4-7 ledger to go along with a 4.17 ERA.
On Saturday, Aaron Hill lined a base hit to the left-field gap to score Edwin Encarnacion with the game-winning run as Toronto won a 14-inning pitching duel over the Yankees by a 3-2 score.
Chad Gaudin (0-3), New York's fifth reliever of the game, walked Encarnacion on four pitches to open the 14th. Fred Lewis moved the runner into scoring position with a well-placed sacrifice bunt, and Hill laced an 0-2 offering to left to score the winning run without a play at the plate.
"This was one of the biggest wins of the year for us," Hill said. "But every win is big and you have to keep going."
Vernon Wells and Alex Gonzalez each had a solo home run for the Blue Jays, who have taken the first two tests of this set and moved within 1 1/2 games of the Yankees for second place in the AL East.
Derek Jeter had two hits and a two-run homer for New York, which had won five straight coming into the series.
Blue Jays starter Ricky Romero and his counterpart, Andy Pettitte, finished with similar lines in no-decisions. The left-handers each gave up two runs on five hits, though Romero struck out seven with four free passes in eight terrific frames and Pettitte fanned 10 to go with three walks in 7 2/3 solid innings.
Both bullpens were equally stingy, as no runner in extra innings reached second base with less than two outs until the bottom of the 14th.
"Our relievers threw the ball great," Yankees manager Joe Girardi. "So did theirs. Unfortunately we didn't win [Saturday]."
Casey Jansen (4-0) anchored Toronto's relief effort with two scoreless innings to get the win in the four-hour, nine-minute affair
This series marks the first meetings between these divisional foes in 2010. New York won 12 of its 18 matchups with the Jays last season and recorded a 6-3 mark at Rogers Centre in 2009.
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Boston sets sights on another battering of hapless Orioles >>
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take the field at Camden Yards th
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Padres when these two teams continue a four-game wraparound series this
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Kansas City, MO - Kansas City has not officially named Matt Cassel its starting quarterback, but there can be no doubt now.
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After praising his leadership and work ethic through spring workouts, the Chiefs announced Tuesday they had signed the 27-year-old Cassel to a multiyear contract. Terms were not disclosed, but he will almost certainly be one of the highest-paid members of the team.
"We are excited to be able to reach a long-term agreement for Matt Cassel to be a Kansas City Chief for many years to come," owner and board chairman Clark Hunt said in a statement. "His proven leadership on and off the field will be a tremendous asset to the organization."
Patriots made him their franchise player, meaning his salary for this season will be about $15 million.
New head coach Todd Haley, taking over for Herm Edwards after a 2-14 season, refused to name a starter at any position during offseason workouts. But it was obvious to everyone the team belonged to Cassel.
"I go out there each and every day with that focus that I'm the starter," Cassel said during a June minicamp. "Competition brings out the best in everybody."
The signing will come as welcome news to Cassel's new coaches and teammates. Amiable and hardworking, online football betting he appeared to win over everyone at minicamp.
"I think he's got some unique leadership qualities. I think his teammates like him and have respect for him. I think he's doing a pretty good job on the field, too," Haley said last month. "He's doing everything that I'm asking him, that our coaches are asking him to do. I don't have one single complaint how he's carrying himself."
After one workout, wide receiver Devard Darling declared Cassel "a breath of fresh air."
"He has a lot of swagger, a lot of confidence. It's good for us," said Darling. "We trust in him that he's going to go out there and lead us all the way."
nse to accommodate his specific abilities.
Trapped on the bench behind Heisman winners Carson Palmer and Matt Leinart at USC and then unable to unseat Super Bowl MVP Brady at New England, Cassel seemed destined to be a backup all his life. As Brady was helped off the field last September, Cassel seized the opportunity he'd been waiting for since high school.
In his only sustained action since his teens, he hit 349 of 555 passes for 3,949 yards at New England. He had 23 touchdown passes and 13 interceptions as the Patriots, who had gone unbeaten through the regular season the year before, finished 11-5 and out of the playoffs.
Chiefs general manager Scott Pioli, who had been Bill Belichick's assistant in New England, engineered the trade after the Patriots became convinced that Brady would recover fully from his knee operation.
"Since Matt arrived in Kansas City, he has embraced the team and the community," Pioli said. "His work ethic, his ability and competitive presence is what we expect from our players."
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Trash 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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