Armadillo Sports
Thursday’s 6-pack:
Most fumbles lost, the last three years:
21— Trevor Lawrence
14— Jared Goff
12— Josh Allen
11— Justin Fields
11— Lamar Jackson
10— Austin Ekeler
Quote of the Day
“I think I probably put my foot in my mouth speaking too quickly. Again, this is a day-to-day situation. We’ll just keep seeing it as that. I think every day is a new day, we’ll keep working through it. Not going to make predictions on what tomorrow brings.”
Bengals coach Zac Taylor, on WR Ja’Marr Chase’s contract status
Thursday’s quiz
Who is the all-time leader in passing yardage for the Dallas Cowboys?
Wednesday’s quiz
On the old TV show The Addams Family, the butler’s name was Lurch.
Tuesday’s quiz
In the history of the New Jersey Jets, Ken O’Brien threw the longest touchdown pass, an 85-yarder to Wesley Walker, in 1985.
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Thursday’s Den: Random stuff on a summer day……..
— Dodgers 6, Orioles 4
Shohei Ohtani homered, stole two bases on his bobblehead night.
People lined up eight hours before the game to get a bobblehead; only 40,000 of the 53,290 fans got one. I’m guessing they’re reasonably priced on EBay today.
Five of the Dodgers’ six runs were unearned.
— Astros 10, Phillies 0
Yordan Alvarez hit three home runs for Houston.
Rookie Spencer Arrighetti didn’t allow a hit until the 8th inning,
— Cubs 14, Pirates 10
Pittsburgh led 10-3 after six innings.
Cubs scored 68 runs in their last seven games.
Chicago is 17-8 in its last 25 games.
— A’s 9, Reds 6
A’s blew a 5-0 lead in 7th inning, but scored four runs in the 8th.
Seth Brown hit two home runs for a spunky Oakland team.
Since July 1st, A’s are 28-19. Sadly, the season started in April.
— Diamondbacks 8, Mets 5
Corbin Carroll homered twice, knocked in five runs.
Carroll’s 8th-inning grand slam off Edwin Diaz was the game-winner.
— Mariners 6, Rays 2
Seattle is 43-4 this year when they score 5+ runs, 25-62 when they don’t.
Mariners bullpen threw 3.1 perfect innings to record the save for Luis Castillo.
— Movie of the Day: Up in the Air (2009)- George Clooney plays a guy whose job is to travel around the country firing people. When his boss hires Natalie, who proposes firing people via video conference, he tries to convince her that her method is a mistake.
Clooney, Anna Kendrick, Vera Farmiga, Jason Bateman are the cast, with cameos by Sam Elliott, JK Simmons, Zach Galifianakis.
Very good movie, a little disturbing at times, but a good movie.
— Rams traded LB Ernest Jones and a 6th round pick to Tennessee, and only got a 5th round pick in return; Jones is entering the final season of his rookie contract and LA has promising rookies on defense, so they made the deal.
Rams have five undrafted free agent rookies on their roster, all defensive players.
— LA Chargers got a new backup QB when they acquired Taylor Heinicke from Atlanta, in exchange for a 6th round draft pick. Heinicke is 13-15-1 as a starter in six seasons in the NFL, for four different teams.
— Pittsburgh Steelers named Russell Wilson their starting QB for their season opener next week in Atlanta; Steelers’ OC Arthur Smith was the Falcons’ head coach the last three years, so this game obviously has a little extra meaning.
— Famous birthdays, August 29th:
Elliott Gould, 86
Eddie Murray, 68- Lions kicker, not the Orioles’ 1B
Rebecca De Mornay, 65
Carl Banks, 62
Carla Gugino, 53
Roy Oswalt, 47
Jamal Lewis, 45
Noah Syndergaard, 32
Hunter Brown, 26- He’s pitching tonight
— Longest at-bats in the major leagues this year:
Twins OF Manuel Margot had a 16-pitch at-bat against Andrew Heaney- he lined out. Margot was the first batter of that game, which Minnesota won, 4-3.
Brewers C William Contreras walked on a 15-pitch at-bat, the 2nd-longest at-bat this year.
— Milwaukee Brewers have $1 hot dog day coming up Monday; their TV guys were talking about the Nathan’s hot dog eating contest- the analyst was saying how gross he thinks the contest is, while the play-by-play guy was egging him on, which made for good TV.
— OF Jason Heyward signed on with Houston, after the Dodgers dumped him last week. Astros are Heyward’s 5th team in his 15-year career.
— Teams that have made 4+ errors this season are 7-12 in those games; you’d think the record would be even worse than that.
— Watching TV late at night, they have all these commercials for a product that supposedly restores hair loss. Listening to those commercials, you’d think going bald was the same as getting pancreatic cancer or some other hideous disease. Oy.