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08/03/2010 - Boston, MA (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - The Boston Red Sox on Tuesday placed infielder Kevin Youkilis on the 15-day disabled list and activated third baseman Mike Lowell from the DL.
The Boston Globe reported that Youkilis suffered a right thumb injury in the first inning of Monday's 6-5 loss to Cleveland. The paper said an MRI taken early Tuesday at Massachusetts General Hospital revealed it is a torn muscle.
The 31-year-old is hitting .307 with 19 homers and 62 RBI, an offensive anchor for a Red Sox club which has seen virtually all its starters on the disabled list at one time this season.
Lowell has been out of the lineup since June 22, hampered with a strained right hip. He'd only hit .213 with a pair of home runs and 12 RBI while being limited to 31 games.
<< Phillies place Howard on DL, promote OF Mayberry
Miami, FL (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - The Philadelphia Phillies announced on Tuesday
that All-Star first baseman Ryan Howard has been placed on the 15-day disabled
list with a moderate left ankle sprain, while outfielder John Mayberry Jr. has
been re
<< Falcons' Babineaux suspended one game
Flowery Branch, GA (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Atlanta Falcons defensive tackle
Jonathan Babineaux has been suspended one game without pay by the league.
The suspension follows Babineaux's arrest last year on charges of possession
of marij
<< House returns to the Heat
Miami, FL (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - The Miami Heat signed free agent guard Eddie
House on Tuesday.
Though terms of the deal were not disclosed, the South Florida Sun-Sentinel
reported last week House had agreed to a two-year contract at the
<< Reds place SS Cabrera on DL, recall INF Francisco
Pittsburgh, PA (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - The Cincinnati Reds placed shortstop Orlando
Cabrera on the 15-day disabled list with a left oblique strain on Tuesday.
Cabrera was injured while trying to beat out an inning-ending double play in
the top
Nuggets restructuring front office >>
Denver, CO (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - The Denver Nuggets announced Tuesday that the
contracts of executives Rex Chapman and Mark Warkentien will not be extended
for the 2010-11 NBA season.
Warkentien became the Nuggets' vice president of ba
Team USA coach D'Antoni to miss Worlds >>
Colorado Springs, CO (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - USA Basketball Men's National Team
assistant coach Mike D'Antoni will miss the FIBA World Championship in Turkey
because of back problems.
The Knicks head coach will assist the team in New York f
This Week in Auto Racing August 6 - 8 >>
Watkins Glen, NY (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - It will be an enjoyable weekend of road
course racing in both NASCAR and the IZOD IndyCar Series. The Sprint Cup and
Nationwide Series wind their way through Watkins Glen, NY. The Camping World
Truck S
Panthers add depth at defense with Weaver signing >>
Sunrise, FL (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - The Florida Panthers agreed to terms with
defenseman Mike Weaver on a two-year contract Tuesday.
"Mike is a hard working, high character defenseman who averaged nearly 17
minutes of ice time per ga
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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