Braves attempt to stop the bleeding in Florida

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09/20/2011 - (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - It wasn't that long ago that the Braves seemed like a lock to be playing baseball in October. However, a miserable September has changed all of that.

Coming off their second late-inning loss in a row, Atlanta hopes to boost its playoff hopes tonight and avoid a third straight defeat in the middle contest of a three-game set with the Florida Marlins.

The Braves seemed on their way to moving closer to the clinching the National League Wild Card spot after Omar Infante's error in the seventh inning keyed a four-run frame for the Braves. Infante would get his revenge as Emilio Bonifacio reached base safely on a infield hit when Atlanta third baseman Chipper Jones lost the high chopper in the lights of Sun Life Stadium.

That set the stage for Infante, who belted a game-winning two-run homer off Craig Kimbrel and his former team for Florida's third victory in four games.

"Omar has done a fantastic defensive job all year, probably the best second baseman in the league defensively," Marlins manager Jack McKeon said. "I'm just glad to see him come back, redeem himself."

Atlanta has now lost seven of 10 and 12 of its past 18. Its lead for the league's final playoff berth fell to 2 1/2 games over the Cardinals after they beat the Braves on Monday.

The crushing defeat came one day after the Braves blew an eighth-inning lead to the Mets. It was also their first loss in seven games in Miami this year, though they still lead the season series with the Marlins, 11-5.

"It's a funny game. Just when you think you've got it figured out, it'll kick you in the gut," Jones said.

Dan Uggla homered for the fifth time against his former Marlins club this year and has 35 homers on the season. Infante was one of the players Atlanta sent to Florida for the second baseman.

Logan Morrison had a two-run homer and Mike Stanton homered twice for the Marlins to move into a tie with Miguel Cabrera for second place on Florida's all-time single-season home run list with 34.

Stanton will try to snap his tie with Cabrera tonight against Randall Delgado, who has given up one run in three of his first five career starts, but is still searching for his first major league win.

Delgado has not gotten a decision since losing his first start on June 17 and will make his fourth start of September. He faced the Marlins for the first time on Wednesday and gave up a run on four hits and two walks over five innings of a game his team won, 4-1.

Atlanta did not score until the seventh inning after the 21-year-old righty was out of the game. He has a 3.24 earned run average on the season.

The Braves will try to rough up Marlins starter Anibal Sanchez again tonight after he was drilled for five runs over just 1 2/3 innings when he last faced the franchise on Aug. 10. Sanchez is 4-9 with a 5.09 ERA in his career when facing Atlanta.

The 27-year-old righty has allowed four earned runs over his last four starts, but followed up a one-hit shutout in Pittsburgh on Sept. 10 with a loss at Philadelphia on Thursday. Sanchez yielded two runs on four hits and a walk with seven strikeouts in six innings of a 3-1 defeat.

He fell to 8-8 on the season with a 3.62 ERA.

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Ryder Cup Odds

Europe
Tie
USA		 4-5
10-1
6-5


Ryder Cup Top US point scorer
Tiger Woods
Jim Furyk
Phil Mickelson
Chris DiMarco
David Toms
Stewart Cink
Chad Campbell
Scott Verplank
Zach Johnson
Vaughan Taylor
JJ Henry
Brett Wetterich		 9-4
4-1
5-1
7-1
8-1
12-1
15-1
15-1
25-1
30-1
30-1
50-1


Ryder Cup Top European scorer
Sergio Garcia
Luke Donald
Padraig Harrington
Colin Montgomerie
Darren Clarke
David Howell
Lee Westwood
Paul Casey
Henrik Stenson
Jose Maria Olazabal
Paul McGinley
Robert Karlsson		 5-1
5-1
6-1
13-2
8-1
9-1
9-1
11-1
12-1
12-1
20-1
25-1

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FOOTBALL TRASH TALK

NFL Football Trash Talk

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.