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Lee finally wins with Texas; Rangers edge AngelsBaseball Betting Lines07/22/2010 - Arlington, TX (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Cliff Lee pitched 8 1/3 solid frames for his first win in a Texas uniform, leading the Rangers past the AL West rival Angels, 3-2, in the first of four games. In just his third start for Texas since being traded from Seattle, Lee (9-4) scattered five hits and struck out four in the victory. He finally pitched well at Rangers Ballpark in Arlington after posting a 7.33 ERA in eight previous starts at his new home. Michael Young hit a solo home run and Nelson Cruz finished 2-for-4 for the Rangers, who have won four of five. Jered Weaver (9-6) took the loss after allowing three runs on seven hits with five strikeouts and two walks over six frames. Mike Napoli finished 2-for-4 with a solo homer for the Angels, who have lost two straight and three of four. Texas scored the game's first run in the bottom of the first on Young's home run to right. The Angels tied the game in the fifth on doubles by Hideki Matsui and Maicer Izturis. Texas went in front for good in the bottom of the sixth. Vladimir Guerrero doubled and scored on Josh Hamilton's two-bagger past Torii Hunter in center. He moved to third on Cruz's infield hit and raced home on Bengie Molina's sacrifice fly to center. Napoli's home run in the seventh made it a 3-2 game, but the Angels didn't get a hit the rest of the way. Neftali Feliz retired the final two batters for his 26th save. Game Notes Lee sports an AL-best 2.56 earned run average...Weaver fell to 1-4 at Rangers Ballpark and the Angels have lost each of his last seven starts there....Texas owns a 4-2 series edge this season...Napoli hit his 18th home run of the season, while Young clubbed his 13th for the Rangers...Cruz stole his 12th base of the campaign.
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FOOTBALL BETTING : Crabtree's base deal: six years, $32 millionIn the wake of the news that the 49ers have signed receiver Michael Crabtree after an extended holdout, there has been not a hint of the dollars to be paid to Crabtree. And since this means that his agent hasn't leaked the numbers, it means that his agent feels no specific motivation to do so. Possibly because his agent isn't all that thrilled to have his name on the deal. So the numbers will come from sources other than Crabtree's agent. And we've gotten our mitts into them. Per a league source, Crabtree has signed a six-year, $32 million contract. (The total includes guaranteed money, base salaries, and the one-time incentive based on achieving minimum playing time.) The deal also includes $17 million in guaranteed money. As reported elsewhere, the deal can void to five years based on performance triggers, wiping out a final year base salary of $4 million. But they won't be easily reached. The source tells us that, in his first four seasons (including 2009), Crabtree must either qualify for two Pro Bowls, or he must qualify for one Pro Bowl in one year and he must participate in 80 percent of the offensive snaps in a separate year in which the team makes the playoffs. In other words, if in 2010 he qualifies for the Pro Bowl and the team makes the playoffs and he participates in 80 percent of the snaps, he'll still need to make it to the Pro Bowl or achieve the 80-percent/playoffs in another season. Since the chances of Crabtree making the Pro Bowl or participating in 80 percent of the offensive snaps this year is roughly zero percent, he'll have three years to get it done. And it won't be easy. Frankly, he'll be hard pressed to make it to one Pro Bowl in three years with the likes of Larry Fitzgerald, Calvin Johnson, Anquan Boldin, Steve Smith, the other Steve Smith, Hakeem Nicks, DeSean Jackson, Johnny Knox, Percy Harvin, Greg Jennings, Roddy White, T.J. Houshmandzadeh in the same conference for sportsbook betting. So, by all appearances, it's a six-year deal. And at $17 million in guaranteed money, the per-year guarantee is a tepid $2.83 million per year. There's another problem with the deal -- it has no mid-tier incentive package. Instead, the additional $8 million that Crabtree can earn (pushing the max value to six years, $40 million) requires the kind of unrealistic, mega-star performances that no rookie is likely to ever achieve. So while the contract paid to Packers defensive tackle B.J. Raji covers five years and pays $22.5 million, he has the ability (if he's a solid player) to make up the difference between his base deal and Crabtree's five-year, $28 million haul via the mid-tier incentive package in Raji's deal. And unless Crabtree meets the performance thresholds necessary to void the sixth year, he'll be stuck under contract for another year at a base salary of only $4 million. There's one other area of concern with the deal. Crabtree, per the source, received no option bonus. Instead, he has significant money tied to a fairly new device known as a "discretionary salary advance," which unlike an opition bonus is subject to forfeiture if Crabtree decides in a year or two that he wants to hold out for a better deal. (We're also told that the 49ers have included language that would make certain escalators subject to forfeiture, too.) Meanwhile, the deal falls well short of the mark for which Crabtree and agent Eugene Parker were aiming -- the five-year, $38.25 million contract paid by the Raiders to receiver Darrius Heyward-Bey, the seventh overall pick in the draft. Even if Crabtree successfully voids the final year, he'll make more than $2 million per year less on average than Heyward-Bey. Thus, as we explained earlier in the day, this is a deal that Crabtree could have done in July, which would have given him a much better chance of making a contribution to the 49ers during his rookie year. So while the final outcome can be described as win-win, the broader view suggests that it's really a lose-lose situation. To visit this sportsbook go to MySportsbook.com for all your college football betting needs. |
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