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04/09/2008 - Lexington, KY (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Louisiana Derby winner Pyro headlines a field of 12 for Saturday's $750,000 Blue Grass Stakes at Keeneland. The 1 1/8 mile race is one of the last major prep races for this year's Kentucky Derby.
Owned by Winchell Thoroughbreds, Pyro has been made the even-money favorite and will start from post seven with Shaun Bridgmohan returning to ride. Bridgmohan has been the only jockey to ever be on the colt's back.
Pyro has career earnings of $1.05 million with three wins in six starts, going two for two this year. In February he easily won the Risen Star Stakes at the Fair Grounds. Last year he was second to War Pass in both the Breeders' Cup Juvenile and Champagne Stakes.
Steve Asmussen, trainer of leading thoroughbred Curlin, conditions Pyro and belives the three-year-old set for a big effort.
"It looks like he's right on target," said Asmussen.
The 4-1 second choice is Fountain of Youth Stakes winner Cool Coal Man. One of Nick Zito's three-year-olds, Cool Coal Man will be ridden by Kent Desormeaux from the inside post.
Zito decided to give Cool Coal Man some extra time to run at Keeneland rather than come back in the Florida Derby at Gulfstream Park on March 29.
"I really wanted a fresh horse," said Zito. "He's two-for-two this year and he certainly looks good, so I just wanted some kind of chance for this horse in the Derby and I hope we get it. I would prefer to have run on a conventional track like Churchill Downs, but the Blue Grass is a good race and I've been lucky in it a lot of times, too. And I saw what Street Sense did last year, and if he could run that kind of race I'll take it and then maybe we'll get lucky in the big one."
Owned by Robert LaPenta, Cool Coal Man has won both starts this year and has captured four of seven lifetime races for $307,531.
LaPenta and Zito will also start Stevil in the Blue Grass. Coming off a fifth place finish in the Louisiana Derby, the gray colt will start from post four and is 30-1 in the morning-line. No rider has been named.
A pair of horses have been installed as co-third choices. Tampa Bay Derby champ Big Truck and Gotham Stakes winner Visonaire are each 6-1 in the program.
Big Truck, with Eibar Coa riding, will break from post six and Visionaire will start from the far outside with Jose Lezcano in the saddle.
Trainer Barcaly Tagg, fresh off a win in the Wood Memorial with Tale of Ekati, conditions Big Truck for Eric Fein. The colt has won three of seven career starts for $336,880.
Visionaire is owned by Vision Racing and Team Valor, and has Barbaro's trainer Michael Matz in charge. The chestnut colt was third to Pyro in the Risen Star Stakes two months back.
The three-year-old has banked $228,260 with three wins in five lifetime starts.
Here is the complete field in position oder for the Blue Grass Stakes: Cool Coal Man, Kent Desormeaux, 4-1; Kentucky Bear, Jamie Theriot, 50-1; Cowboy Cal, John Velazquez, 15-1; Stevil, no rider, 30-1; Monba, Edgar Prado, 15-1; Big Truck, Eibar Coa, 6-1; Pyro, Shaun Bridgmohan, 1-1; Stone Bird, Corey Lanerie, 50-1; Medjool, Michael Baze, 30-1; Miners Claim, Patrick Husbands, 20-1; Halo Najib, Garrett Gomez, 15-1 and Visionaire, Jose Lezcano, 6-1.
Todd Pletcher trains both Cowboy Cal and Monba.
Last year Street Sense followed a second place finish to Dominican in the Blue Grass with a win in the Run for the Roses and a second to Curlin in the Preakess Stakes.
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Albert Pujols to be This Year's Home Run Champ Says Online Sportsbook
Barry Bonds is a 50-1 long shot to be this year's home run champ odds. The favorite to be this year's home run champ is none other than Albert Pujols, however.
Now that Barry Bonds is signed and in Giants camp, it is on to his pursuit of all of sports most prestigious records: the all-time home run mark. Bonds sits just 21 homers shy of tying Hank Aaron for the career mark at 755. Word out of Giants’ camp is that Bonds is the healthiest he has been in a few years. Bonds is just two seasons removed from his injury riddled 2005 campaign where he played in only 14 games and hit only 5 home runs. He did come back last year and had a solid season hitting .270 with 26 bombs. All eyes will be on Bonds this spring and summer not only because of his home run chase but his highly publicized steroid abuse allegations. If and when Bonds breaks the record, he surely will not get the positive attention one should for breaking a record that was once thought of as “unbreakable”. Despite Bonds decent season last year, he is just 50-1 at MySportsbook.com to lead the MLB in long balls this season.
Not surprisingly, the favorites to go deep the most times this season are Albert Pujols 5-1, Ryan Howard 6-1, David Ortiz 8-1 and Alex Rodriguez 12-1. With 49 homers, Pujols finished second in the National League behind Howard (58). Pujols is considered the favorite due to the consistent power numbers that he has posted since breaking into the league in 2001. Also one must consider the fact that he played in 16 fewer games then Howard did due to an injury. Howard smashed 58 homers in his first complete season of big league play en route to the National League MVP odds award. He silenced his critics by successfully hitting left-handed pitching. Howard also displayed the ability to use his power to the opposite field. Two attributes which should keep Howard amongst the league leaders in long balls for years to come. From the American League representatives, David Ortiz leads the field. Ortiz was second in the majors last year with 54 home runs. Except for 1999 when he only played in 10 games, Ortiz has improved on his home run numbers each year he has been in the majors (1997).
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Adam Dunn 15-1
Albert Pujols 5-1
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Alfonso Soriano 15-1
Andruw Jones 25-1
Barry Bonds 50-1
Carlos Delgado 40-1
David Ortiz 8-1
Jermaine Dye 40-1
Ken Griffey Jr. 100-1
Lance Berkman 40-1
Manny Ramirez 20-1
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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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