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fryeguy93 said:
Took a flyer earlier this week on Scott Stallings at +30000 on BetMGM
$10 bet will pay $3,010
Had a decent day finishing at -2 with an unfortunate par-5 bogey at 13 (bad drive into pine needles)

Looks like he's in position to make cut so there's home
I also hedged - somewhat, with Tommy Fleetwood at +6600 ($670)

BetMGM had a bet about Tiger and Phil both making cut (+160)
(Tiger is at +2 with 4 bogeys and 2 birds- Phil is at -1)

and a LIV player winning the tourney (+500)
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Stallings is one of the most pompous, brazen, and arrogant athletes I’ve ever met. I’ve met a number of great athletes and almost all were nice guys. I mention this because of your post and because a guy I know had an interaction with him recently in which he said the same. I do hope you win your other bets.
 
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On April 6 in Baseball History...​
  • 1970 - Willie Mays, a month shy of his 40th birthday, homers in a 4-0 Opening Day Giants win over the Padres. Mays will go on to hit homers in each of the Giants' first four games of the season, a major league record.

  • 1972 - For the first time in history, the major league season fails to open due to a general player strike. The strike, announced April 1, will erase 86 games from the major league schedule.

  • 1973 - Yankee Ron Blomberg, facing Boston's Luis Tiant, becomes the first official designated hitter in the major leagues. Blomberg walks with the bases loaded his first time up and winds up 1-for-3 in a 15-5 loss to the Red Sox.

  • 1977 - The Seattle Mariners make their debut, losing to Frank Tanana and the Angels 7-0.

  • 1982 - The largest crowd ever to see a baseball game in Minnesota, 52,279, turns out for the inaugural game at the brand-new Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome. Twins rookie Gary Gaettihas four hits with a pair of home runs, but Seattle wins, 11-7.

  • 1989 - In his first start of the season, Orel Hershiser gives up a run in the first inning of a 4-3 loss to the Reds to end his major league-record consecutive scoreless inning streak at 59.

  • 1992 - Rick Sutcliffe throws the first pitch at Oriole Park at Camden Yards at 3:20 p.m. The pitch, to Cleveland's Kenny Lofton is a ball, but Lofton ultimately flies out and the O's win the inaugural game at the park.

  • 1996 - Albert Belle shows off his arm by hitting Sports Illustrated photographer Tony Tomsic in the hand prior to a game between the Indians and Blue Jays at Jacobs Field. The angry Indians outfielder had told the photographer to stop taking pictures of him doing pre-game stretches and Tomsic complied. Belle then throws a ball from the outfield that breaks the skin of the photographer's hand in two places and draws blood. Prior to the season, Belle had been fined $50,000, the largest single-player fine in major league history, for his tirade against a television reporter prior to Game Three of the 1995 World Series.

Baseball Birthdays on April 6... ​


Baseball Deaths on April 6... ​

 
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4/6 Holidays

National Carbonara Day
National Employee Benefits Day
New Beer’s Eve
National Burrito Day
National Tartan Day
National Alcohol Screening Day
National Teflon Day
National Student-Athlete Day
National Caramel Popcorn Day
National Sorry Charlie Day

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cardvolfan said:
Stallings is one of the most pompous, brazen, and arrogant athletes I’ve ever met. I’ve met a number of great athletes and almost all were nice guys. I mention this because of your post and because a guy I know had an interaction with him recently in which he said the same. I do hope you win your other bets.
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Didn’t want to be his friend
Just want to make some money
 
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On April 7 in Baseball History...​
  • 1958 - The Dodgers erect a 42-foot screen in left field at the Los Angeles Coliseum to cut down on home runs. Left field is only 250 feet down the line.

  • 1963 - A public stock offering of 115,000 shares in the Milwaukee Braves is withdrawn after only 13,000 shares are sold to 1,600 new investors.

  • 1969 - Bill Singer of the Dodgers is credited with the first official save as Los Angeles defeats Cincinnati, 3-2.

  • 1970 - Major league baseball returns to Wisconsin as the Brewers play their first game in Milwaukee, losing to California 12-0 before a crowd of 37,237.

  • 1971 - The dismissal of Curt Flood's suit against baseball is upheld by a three-judge U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

  • 1973 - Cleveland sets day-game and opening-game records as 74,420 fans watch the Indians beat the Tigers, 2-1.

  • 1977 - Al Woods hits a pinch home run in his first major league at bat as the Toronto Blue Jays are 9-5 winners in their Exhibition Stadium debut against the White Sox.

  • 1978 - The U.S. Court of Appeals upholds an earlier court decision in support of Commissioner Kuhn's voiding of attempted player sales by A's owner Charlie Finley in June 1976. Finley's appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court will be rejected on October 2.

  • 1979 - In the earliest no-hitter in major league history, Ken Forsch of the Astros shuts downs the Braves, 6-0. Ken and Bob Forsch, who hurled a no-hitter in 1978, are the first brothers to pitch no-hit games.

  • 1983 - Major League Baseball, ABC, and NBC agree to terms of a six-year television package worth $1.2 billion. The two networks will continue to alternate coverage of the playoffs, World Series, and All-Star Game through the 1989 season with each of the 26 clubs receiving $7 million per year in return. The last package gave each club $1.9 million per.

  • 1984 - Tigers right-hander Jack Morris no-hits the White Sox 4-0 at Comiskey Park, walking six and striking out eight.

  • 1986 - On Opening Day at Tiger Stadium, Boston's Dwight Evans achieves a major league first by hitting a home run off Jack Morris on the first pitch of the entire season. Detroit's Kirk Gibson later hits two home runs of his own to lead the Tigers to a 6-5 victory.

  • 1987 - Atlanta's Rick Mahler ties the N.L. record with his third Opening Day shutout. He beat the Phils 6-0 on three hits.

  • 1996 - N.L. umpire Eric Gregg is given a leave of absence following a Sunday night meeting between A.L. president Gene Budig, N.L. president Len Coleman, and umpires union head Richie Phillips. Gregg, listed at 325 pounds but visibly heavier, makes the decision in the wake of John McSherry's sudden death during a game.

  • 1998 - On the same day that major league baseball returned to Wisconsin 28 years earlier, National League baseball returned to Milwaukee for the first time in 32 years. It's a complicated story with a happy ending: The Milwaukee Braves were an N.L. team that moved to Atlanta in 1966 the Seattle Pilots, who formed as an A.L. West expansion team in 1969, moved to Milwaukee and played their first game as the Brewers on April 7, 1970. Five years after their team owner became commissioner of baseball, the Brewers became an N.L. club. And on this day they were 6-4 winners over the Expos in their home opener.

Baseball Birthdays on April 7... ​


Baseball Deaths on April 7... ​

 
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