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06/26/2010 - (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - For eight seasons with Minnesota, Johan Santana was one of the top pitchers in baseball. Luckily for the Twins, who face Santana for the first time since trading the left-hander to the Mets before the 2008 season, the former All-Star appears to be losing a step.
Santana will try to show that isn't the case this afternoon when New York hosts Minnesota in the second contest of a three-game series at Citi Field.
The 31-year-old is 1-2 over his last three starts, allowing four runs in each outing. That includes a loss on Sunday to the Yankees, who totaled eight hits over Santana's six innings of work, including a third-inning grand slam by Mark Teixeira on an inside fastball that accounted for all the Yanks' runs.
"He's not striking out as many guys as he normally does," Mets catcher Rod Barajas said of Santana on New York's website. "When he could reach back and throw that 94 or 95 mile-per-hour fastball like it was nothing, that made it a lot easier."
That doesn't bother the Twins, who would rather face this Santana than the one that went to three All-Stars Games and won the American League Cy Young Award in 2004 and '06 while with Minnesota. In 251 games (175 starts) with the Twins from 2000-07, Santana went 93-44 with a 3.22 earned run average. He has won 34 games in two-plus seasons with the Mets, going 5-4 with a 3.31 ERA this year.
Despite Santana's recent struggles, Twins manager Ron Gardenhire said he would rather see the Mets pitcher watching the game from the dugout than firing pitches from the mound.
"It's not an exciting moment when you're facing Santana, no matter which way you look at it," Gardenhire told the Twins' website.
Gardenhire also can't be too happy to see Santana given that his team has lost a season-high four straight games and has scored just five runs in its past three contests. The Twins got a leadoff homer from Denard Span in Friday's opener, but only managed his RBI ground out in the fifth inning the rest of the way in a 5-2 loss.
Kevin Slowey allowed five runs over six innings, but the Twins were able to maintain their half-game edge over the Tigers for first place in the AL Central thanks to Detroit's loss to Atlanta. The Mets, though, remained a half-game behind the first-place Braves in the NL East.
"It's just not working out for us right now and we have to play though it," said Gardenhire. "We go through stretches where the ball doesn't go your way and when you hit the ball hard it's right at someone. We just have to keep playing and work our way through it."
Slowing down the Mets' David Wright would also help. The third baseman hit a solo homer, had two RBI and scored twice in last night's win, upping his NL- leading RBI total to 59 while helping the Mets win for the third time in four games and improve to 16-5 in June.
"I'm in a good spot right now, I feel good," said Wright. "Hopefully I can continue to go out there and get the results and we can keep it rolling here."
Wright's big game, as well as runs batted in from Jose Reyes and Jason Bay, helped Mike Pelfrey win his 10th game of the season with six innings of two- run ball.
Wright, meanwhile, is hitting .389 (21-for-54) over his last 13 games. He has three homers and 19 RBI in that time and is 4-for-6 with a homer and three RBI versus today's starter for the Twins, Carl Pavano, who will try to record his fourth consecutive winning start when he faces the Mets tonight for the first time since May 22, 2005 while with the Yankees.
The Twins right-hander, who is 7-7 with a 3.60 ERA in 20 games (19 starts) versus the Mets, has allowed just six runs over 24 innings on his win streak and is coming off his second complete game of the season. On Sunday versus the Phillies, Pavano allowed just a run on four hits without a walk in going the distance, improving to 8-6 on the season with a 3.64 ERA.
The Twins are battling the Mets for the first time since taking two of three at old Shea Stadium in 2007 and have won five of the last seven in the series.
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March Madness odds and printable March Madness brackets
With the field of 64/65 set, MySportsbook.com has the Florida Gators as the 4-1 favorite to successfully defend their National Championship. Men’s Division-1 College Basketball has not seen a team repeat as National Champions since Duke won back to back championships in ’91 & ‘92. After losing three out of four late in the season, the Gators are full of momentum as they won their last four games by an average of 18 points. Not surprisingly, right behind the Gators are the other three top seeds: Kansas 5-1, UNC 6-1, and Ohio State 7-1. Many consider Kansas to be the hottest team in the country, having won 11 straight. With Kansas, it is hard to ignore all of the early exits from the “dance” in recent years. With an impressive ACC Tournament, UNC ensured themselves the other top seed. UNC has about as much talent as any other team in the tournament but with a team that’s best players are primarily freshman and sophomores, could youth be a concern. Behind freshman sensation, Greg Oden, OSU will look to do what their football team failed to do just a few months earlier. OSU seems to have peeked at the right time, as they currently have a 17 game winning streak. Since the tournament field was expanded in 1985, there has never been an instance where all four #1 seeds advanced to the Final Four. It is obvious that each of the top seeds have the talent to make it through to Atlanta. But as everyone knows, when makes the NCAA Tournament so special are all of the spoilers and “Cinderella” stories that knock off the favorites on a daily basis.
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| EAST | National Championship | Region |
| Arkansas | 300-1 | 50-1 |
| Belmont | 1000-1 | |
| Boston College | 100-1 | 40-1 |
| Eastern KY | 1000-1 | |
| George Washington | 75-1 | |
| Georgetown | 10-1 | 3-2 |
| Marquette | 100-1 | 40-1 |
| Michigan State | 100-1 | 25-1 |
| New Mexico St. | 500-1 | 200-1 |
| UNC | 6-1 | 6-5 |
| Oral Roberts | 500-1 | |
| Texas | 15-1 | 5-1 |
| Texas Tech | 200-1 | 5-1 |
| USC | 75-1 | 20-1 |
| Vanderbilt | 100-1 | 30-1 |
| Washington State | 40-1 | 15-1 |
| WEST | ||
| Duke | 50-1 | 10-1 |
| Florida A&M | 1000-1 | |
| Gonzaga | 200-1 | 40-1 |
| Holy Cross | 300-1 | |
| Illinois | 300-1 | 60-1 |
| Indiana | 75-1 | 40-1 |
| Kansas | 5-1 | 13-10 |
| Kentucky | 100-1 | 40-1 |
| Niagara | 1000-1 | |
| Pittsburgh | 40-1 | 8-1 |
| Southern Ill. | 50-1 | 12-1 |
| UCLA | 10-1 | 3-2 |
| VCU | 500-1 | 100-1 |
| Villanova | 100-1 | 40-1 |
| VA Tech | 50-1 | 15-1 |
| Weber St | 1000-1 | |
| Wright St | 1000-1 | 300-1 |
| MIDWEST | ||
| Arizona | 50-1 | 30-1 |
| Butler | 40-1 | 30-1 |
| Davidson | 300-1 | |
| Florida | 4-1 | 4-5 |
| Georgia Tech | 75-1 | 25-1 |
| Jackson State | 1000-1 | |
| Maryland | 30-1 | 6-1 |
| Miami-OH | 300-1 | |
| Notre Dame | 100-1 | 20-1 |
| ODU | 500-1 | 100-1 |
| Oregon | 40-1 | 6-1 |
| Purdue | 300-1 | 60-1 |
| Texas A&M CC | 1000-1 | |
| UNLV | 100-1 | 30-1 |
| Winthrop | 500-1 | 100-1 |
| Wisconsin | 15-1 | 7-2 |
| SOUTH | ||
| Albany | 200-1 | |
| BYU | 200-1 | 40-1 |
| Central CT St. | 1000-1 | |
| Creighton | 100-1 | 35-1 |
| Long Beach St. | 500-1 | 200-1 |
| Louisville | 40-1 | 10-1 |
| Memphis | 30-1 | 4-1 |
| Nevada | 75-1 | 35-1 |
| North Texas | 500-1 | |
| Ohio State | 7-1 | 6-5 |
| Penn | 500-1 | |
| Stanford | 200-1 | 50-1 |
| Tennessee | 100-1 | 20-1 |
| Texas A&M | 12-1 | 11-5 |
| Virginia | 75-1 | 18-1 |
| Xavier | 100-1 | 40-1 |
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LaDainian Tomlinson Favorite to be 2007 NFL MVP
With the first NFL preseason game less than two weeks away, it is time to start thinking about football once again at MySportsbook.com. Reigning NFL MVP LaDainian Tomlinson is currently the 5-1 co-favorite to win the award again alongside Super Bowl MVP Peyton Manning.
This shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone after his all out assault on the record books last season. For those suffering from amnesia or were under a rock last football season, all L.T. did last season was set the NFL record for rushing touchdowns (28), total touchdowns (31) and total points scored (186) to go along with his 1815 rushing yards and 508 receiving yards. At 6-1, Tom Brady is next in line which isn’t surprising considering all of the firepower the Pats added over the off-season. With the addition of Randy Moss, Donte Stallworth and Wes Welker; it would be quite difficult for Brady’s numbers not to improve from last years 3529 yards and 24 touchdowns. There appears to be some decent value in Drew Bees at 10-1 considering he probably would have won the award last year if it wasn’t for L.T.’s record breaking season.
There is no reason to think the Saints will come back to earth this season and playing in a weak NFC, they should have as good a shot as any to represent the NFC in the Super Bowl. At 15-1, Donovan McNabb could also be worth a look. Remember, many felt he was the MVP of the first half of the season before going down with a season ending injury. Reportedly, he is in great shape and well ahead of schedule to return to form. Also, he could have some added motivation to put up big numbers this season with the Eagles using their first pick in the draft on McNabb’s future successor Kevin Kolb.
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