Rangers sign GM Daniels to extension

Baseball Betting Lines

06/19/2007 - Arlington, TX (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - The Texas Rangers signed general manager Jon Daniels to a one-year contract extension that will keep him with the team through the 2009 season.

Daniels joined the Rangers in 2002 as a baseball operations assistant and was promoted to general manager in October, 2005. Texas currently has the worst record in the majors at 26-43.

"I have always been a believer in JD and his management team," said Rangers owner Thomas O. Hicks. "While we are disappointed with our record this season, I know he can take the Rangers to where we want to be, a team that is consistently a contender."

Casino-internet-casino Baseball Betting News

<< George Washington fourth in return at Royal Ascot
Ascot, England (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - The opening day of the 2007 Royal Ascot meet drew additional attention with the return to racing of champion three-year-old George Washington. Now a four-year-old, George Washington has been in training after f

<< Struggling Mariners return home to face Pirates
(Sportsbook Betting Lines) - The Seattle Mariners will try to avoid their second six- game losing streak of the season when they open a three-game interleague series against the Pittsburgh Pirates tonight at Safeco Field. The Mariners have

<< Tigers resume road trip in D.C.
(Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Right-hander Chad Durbin looks to snap a two-start losing streak and maintain a season's worth of success on the road tonight, when the Detroit Tigers visit RFK Stadium for the second test of a three-game interle

<< Giants try to dirty Sheets, Brewers at Miller Park
(Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Two teams heading in opposite directions resume a three- game series tonight at Milwaukee's Miller Park, where the Brewers will attempt to extend the San Francisco Giants' recent run of futility. Milwaukee posted its f

<< Tribe takes aim at third straight win in middle contest with Phils
(Sportsbook Betting Lines) - While one streak has come to an end for a Cleveland Indian, the club itself will look to extend its own winning ways when it continues its three-game series with the Philadelphia Phillies at Jacobs Field. The Indians ro

Orioles hit rock bottom >>
(Sportsbook Betting Lines) - The Baltimore Orioles are just 2-13 in the month of June and are now in last place in the American League East standings after losing eight straight home games to Colorado, Washington and Arizona. The team's collapse over the

Perlozzo's dismissal could be just the beginning of O's overhaul >>
(Sportsbook Betting Lines) - I wasn't exactly the Amazing Kreskin a few weeks ago when I predicted that Baltimore Orioles manager Sam Perlozzo was probably going to be the first manager fired. With some of the veterans openly questioning his decisions

Seattle hits skid >>
(Sportsbook Betting Lines) - After getting off to a great start in the month of June, the Seattle Mariners have fallen on tough times. This past week Seattle lost five straight games to the Chicago Cubs and Houston Astros. The losing strea

Eagles' TE Bartrum retires >>
Philadelphia, PA (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Philadelphia Eagles tight end Mike Bartrum announced his retirement on Tuesday. Bartrum, a 13-year veteran, suffered a herniated disk in his neck during a loss to the Colts last season and was unable t

Robredo, Canas advance at Ordina Open >>
's-Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Top-seeded Spaniard Tommy Robredo and third-seeded Argentine Guillermo Canas were among Tuesday's first-round winners at the grass-court Ordina Open, a final Wimbledon tune-up. Robr

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.