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- 0:16Speaker 1: You gotta slip in your palm man, a hole in
- 0:19Speaker 1: your chase. Black coffee on the felt Man, you look
- 0:23Speaker 1: like a mess. Three teen Parlette turned the dust in
- 0:27Speaker 1: your head.
- 0:29Speaker 2: Now you stare at the chips.
- 0:30Speaker 3: Like they made you this man. But don't you go quiet?
- 0:35Speaker 3: Don't you fade from the floor. Your name steal mean
- 0:38Speaker 3: something on somebody for show?
- 0:41Speaker 4: Put the glass.
- 0:42Speaker 3: Down, baby, look at me?
- 0:45Speaker 4: No hold on, hold on nothing nice not no.
- 0:57Speaker 5: Hold on me, but it don't get the crown.
- 1:14Speaker 6: Hold on, hold on, stay with me?
- 1:18Speaker 2: Now, what's up? Everybody?
- 1:28Speaker 7: It's towed back with you with Toadstool Sports Sunday, June fourteenth.
- 1:33Speaker 7: Not on a good run right now on the show.
- 1:37Speaker 7: Still have this lingering bullshit behind this illness, Like I
- 1:41Speaker 7: don't think I'm sick anymore, but it's just this lingering
- 1:44Speaker 7: shit that just won't go away.
- 1:46Speaker 2: I hate this shit.
- 1:48Speaker 7: I feel like I was right about both of my
- 1:49Speaker 7: plays yesterday and they both went wrong.
- 1:52Speaker 2: Texas and Boston.
- 1:53Speaker 7: Depending on the number that you got, you might have
- 1:55Speaker 7: had a push in the first five innings. On that one,
- 1:58Speaker 7: the game was two to two at the end of five,
- 2:01Speaker 7: and it was also still two to two into the
- 2:03Speaker 7: seventh inning. So at that point, I'm like, this is
- 2:05Speaker 7: going quite well here, and really we just probably want
- 2:09Speaker 7: to avoid extra innings, but I think this is gonna hit.
- 2:12Speaker 7: No it did not, as the teams both scored runs
- 2:16Speaker 7: after that, I think in the seventh and the eighth innings.
- 2:19Speaker 7: Red Sox wound up winning the game, So I guess
- 2:21Speaker 7: I'm happy about that, but they I mean, they're not
- 2:23Speaker 7: going anywhere this year anyway, and the game went over
- 2:26Speaker 7: by one run Red Sox six to three. Final not
- 2:30Speaker 7: happy about that at all. That game clearly looked like
- 2:32Speaker 7: it was correct on the under Kansas City looked like
- 2:36Speaker 7: it was clearly correct in the first five innings as well.
- 2:39Speaker 7: They had a three to nothing lead going into I
- 2:41Speaker 7: think the fourth inning, and then uh, three to two.
- 2:46Speaker 7: Then they padded that and it was four to two
- 2:48Speaker 7: going into the top of the fifth. You're in pretty
- 2:50Speaker 7: good shape when you just need that team to be winning.
- 2:53Speaker 7: At the end of the fifth inning and they're up
- 2:55Speaker 7: four to two going into the fifth, Noah Cameron lost
- 2:59Speaker 7: his steam even to give up two runs in the
- 3:01Speaker 7: top of the fifth, which is exactly what you don't want.
- 3:04Speaker 7: Although at least it was a push if he'd given
- 3:06Speaker 7: up one more run, it would have been a loss,
- 3:08Speaker 7: which would have been even more ridiculous. I'll take a
- 3:11Speaker 7: push because that was a favorite play there on the
- 3:14Speaker 7: money line, but I mean, I don't even want to
- 3:16Speaker 7: take a push. I thought we were correct about that play.
- 3:19Speaker 7: Borrows wasn't really very good. Cameron was good up until
- 3:23Speaker 7: that point, and then he just lost it. And then
- 3:26Speaker 7: of course the Bullpens came in and were absolute nightmares
- 3:29Speaker 7: on both sides, and I think Kansas City lost the game,
- 3:33Speaker 7: but I wasn't concerned about the full game final. Whatever
- 3:38Speaker 7: we move on to today, I'm hoping that I'm selecting
- 3:40Speaker 7: the right games here. Today I got two baseball plays
- 3:43Speaker 7: and that's it. I'll talk about Stanley Cup. I don't
- 3:46Speaker 7: really have a good read on that game. Don't like
- 3:48Speaker 7: the WNBA Games World Cup. A lot of competitive matches
- 3:52Speaker 7: in the World Cup set up for today, and one
- 3:55Speaker 7: huge blowout probably about to happen in the in the
- 3:59Speaker 7: World Cup. I don't really have much to say about
- 4:02Speaker 7: those games though. Although I felt good that I was
- 4:05Speaker 7: correct about most of my opinions on the well, I
- 4:09Speaker 7: wasn't right about the huge favorite yesterday. Actually pushed, which
- 4:12Speaker 7: was h Switzerland cutter somehow pushed with them. Switzerland not
- 4:18Speaker 7: a great team, man. And then I was correct about
- 4:22Speaker 7: Morocco being able to hang around with Brazil. That was
- 4:26Speaker 7: that was a draw as well. I meant a draw.
- 4:28Speaker 7: If I said something else, that was a draw as well.
- 4:30Speaker 7: And then Scotland wound up winning, so there was that.
- 4:34Speaker 7: I'm kind of happy about that because we we got
- 4:36Speaker 7: all the Scots there. They're like in my neighborhood, man,
- 4:39Speaker 7: They're everywhere out here, and I'm I'm kind of fine
- 4:42Speaker 7: with that. It's basically like just having the Irish around anyway.
- 4:45Speaker 7: So it's it's like Boston is anyway, just a little
- 4:49Speaker 7: bit more intense.
- 4:52Speaker 2: Garrett, what's up? Thanks for hanging out.
- 4:55Speaker 7: I I think that Vegas is gonna win the game tonight.
- 4:58Speaker 7: That would be my read on that game. I have
- 5:00Speaker 7: no idea about baseball. I mean, I assume North Carolina's
- 5:04Speaker 7: favored over West Virginia.
- 5:06Speaker 2: They're the better team there.
- 5:08Speaker 7: Yeah, I know it was a bad day, but I
- 5:09Speaker 7: think I think both of my players were correct. If
- 5:11Speaker 7: you look at what happened in those games, they both
- 5:15Speaker 7: probably should have won.
- 5:16Speaker 2: So I don't know what else is saying and then I'm.
- 5:17Speaker 7: Pretty sure the Braves did win, and I left that
- 5:20Speaker 7: one off my card and I think they won, right.
- 5:23Speaker 2: That pisses me off even more. Yeah, they won three
- 5:26Speaker 2: to one.
- 5:26Speaker 7: Martin Perez was actually good again, although the Mets bullpen
- 5:30Speaker 7: game looks like it didn't do too bad either.
- 5:32Speaker 2: All right, let's get into this crap here.
- 5:35Speaker 7: There are two really obvious unders today and I'm not
- 5:38Speaker 7: on either one of them, and I feel like this
- 5:40Speaker 7: first game is one of them. Miami and Pittsburgh twelve
- 5:43Speaker 7: fifteen Eastern on peacock Max Meyer against Paul Skins. We
- 5:49Speaker 7: have both teams best starting pitcher on the mound here,
- 5:52Speaker 7: and I like both of them. I mean, this does
- 5:54Speaker 7: look like an under on the surface. Oddsmakers are kind
- 5:57Speaker 7: of telling you that with a total of seven. I
- 6:00Speaker 7: got some issues with it. I'll show you in a minute.
- 6:02Speaker 7: That makes me want not want to actually give that
- 6:05Speaker 7: out as a play. Though maybe sometimes when it seems
- 6:09Speaker 7: too obvious, maybe it is. Sometimes I will be on
- 6:11Speaker 7: a game like that, but not in this case. I
- 6:13Speaker 7: also would not want to deal with these bullpens here.
- 6:16Speaker 7: Miami is a pretty good bullpen, but they use six
- 6:19Speaker 7: relief pitchers.
- 6:20Speaker 2: Yesterday.
- 6:20Speaker 7: Their bullpen is not in good shape right now. Using
- 6:24Speaker 7: some bullpen games recently, Pittsburgh only used three, but they
- 6:28Speaker 7: are not a good bullpen. Miami has the better bullpen
- 6:31Speaker 7: the rank ninth. I ordered this by Whip. Pittsburgh is
- 6:36Speaker 7: where are they? They're not good? I know that they
- 6:38Speaker 7: are twenty second. Pittsburgh is the better offense the rank six.
- 6:43Speaker 7: They do hit a lot at home, so that's another concern.
- 6:46Speaker 7: If you do want to try going with the under here,
- 6:48Speaker 7: you're dodging a Pittsburgh offense that is pretty good at home.
- 6:51Speaker 7: Miami has not been a great offense. They're nineteenth. Max Meyer,
- 6:55Speaker 7: like I said, is pitching from Miami. He's been really good.
- 6:59Speaker 7: He doesn't have a loss yet, although that might change
- 7:01Speaker 7: in this game. Two point eight five ERA, one point
- 7:04Speaker 7: zero nine Whip. He's been not as good on the
- 7:07Speaker 7: road though, four point zero five ROADIRA, so that's a
- 7:10Speaker 7: little bit of a concern. He pitches better at home
- 7:13Speaker 7: where it's pitcher friendly. On the road against a good
- 7:15Speaker 7: offense and offense that lights it up at home, that's
- 7:19Speaker 7: not necessarily a good matchup for him here.
- 7:21Speaker 2: He is still pitching well.
- 7:23Speaker 7: Obviously, He's allowed two or fewer on runs in the
- 7:26Speaker 7: majority of his starts this season, and he's been decent
- 7:30Speaker 7: in his two starts this month. Miami's won both of
- 7:32Speaker 7: those games. He won one of them against Pittsburgh. His
- 7:37Speaker 7: numbers are fine. It is a small sample size. They
- 7:39Speaker 7: have five hitters who faced him, eighteen at bats, six
- 7:43Speaker 7: to one strike a walker race, You're two seventy eight
- 7:45Speaker 7: average allowed, seven oh five ops. These numbers are not great,
- 7:50Speaker 7: but they're not bad, and he's unfamiliar to them, so
- 7:53Speaker 7: I think I would lean more towards him pitching well here.
- 7:57Speaker 7: But I don't know if I really want to bank
- 7:59Speaker 7: on it, man, because there are some negatives in there,
- 8:02Speaker 7: and I think there are fewer negatives with Paul Skeens,
- 8:05Speaker 7: who is pitching for the Pirates. He's got a two
- 8:07Speaker 7: point eight four ERA, which is actually high for.
- 8:10Speaker 2: What he usually does.
- 8:11Speaker 7: He's had a few bad outings this year point nine
- 8:14Speaker 7: to three whip. He's been good at home two point
- 8:17Speaker 7: five to six homey RA, so things do look like
- 8:20Speaker 7: they set up pretty well for mister Skeens here. He's
- 8:24Speaker 7: pitching well this month as well. High strikeout rate over
- 8:27Speaker 7: his last few outings, which is obviously what he usually does.
- 8:31Speaker 7: He has a low hit rate, low walk rate, high
- 8:34Speaker 7: strikeout rate, all the good stuff.
- 8:36Speaker 2: Numbers against Miami are good.
- 8:37Speaker 7: They only five hitters have faced him, so they're not
- 8:40Speaker 7: familiar with him. Twenty at bats, zero extra base hits
- 8:43Speaker 7: against him, eight to two strikeout walk ratio, two point
- 8:46Speaker 7: fifty average, five sixty eight ohps. Skeens is the better pitcher,
- 8:51Speaker 7: does have the better of the matchup stats here, and
- 8:54Speaker 7: by the way, I did forget to kind of just
- 8:56Speaker 7: do the overview of myer season.
- 8:57Speaker 2: But yeah, he has a low hit rate.
- 8:59Speaker 7: His walk rate is kind of high though, and his
- 9:01Speaker 7: strikeout rate is also high, so he's a little bit
- 9:04Speaker 7: more walk heavy. Skeens is the better pitcher, has the
- 9:07Speaker 7: better matchup numbers here. The money is fading at Pittsburgh, though,
- 9:11Speaker 7: and of course wager Talk has not helped me out
- 9:13Speaker 7: here by not putting the money line numbers up here.
- 9:16Speaker 2: I don't know what's going on with that.
- 9:18Speaker 7: Pittsburgh is about a minus one sixty favorite, though it
- 9:20Speaker 7: looks like here money is fading it seventy nine percent
- 9:24Speaker 7: of the tickets around Pittsburgh, fifty seven percent of the
- 9:27Speaker 7: cash on Miami. I think the thought there is just
- 9:30Speaker 7: that Miami being this crazy, like not really that crazy,
- 9:34Speaker 7: but this is much of an underdog price. I guess
- 9:36Speaker 7: the thought is just there's some value there, maybe that
- 9:40Speaker 7: you're paying attacks on schemes basically, so there might be
- 9:43Speaker 7: some value in playing a team that does have a
- 9:46Speaker 7: good starter around them, mount who could dual schemes here potentially,
- 9:49Speaker 7: and then you get the better bullpen. But like I
- 9:52Speaker 7: just said, Miami's bullpen's very unrested right now, so I
- 9:55Speaker 7: don't want to trust them. Money is actually hitting the
- 9:57Speaker 7: over in this game for whatever that where the totals
- 10:00Speaker 7: at seven. Usually again, when it's that low, you do
- 10:03Speaker 7: want to look towards an under. There are obvious reasons
- 10:06Speaker 7: why the total is this low. This is a really
- 10:08Speaker 7: good starting pitching matchup. I still don't disagree with an under,
- 10:13Speaker 7: but if I was gonna go under, I would go
- 10:15Speaker 7: first five innings only.
- 10:16Speaker 2: On this I don't want the bullpens.
- 10:18Speaker 7: You have to go under probably three and a half
- 10:21Speaker 7: in the first five there, it might even be three,
- 10:24Speaker 7: and that's really kind of pushing it. So you could
- 10:26Speaker 7: see why I kind of just didn't want to deal
- 10:28Speaker 7: with this game. I don't want to deal with the bullpens,
- 10:30Speaker 7: I think there's probably not.
- 10:31Speaker 2: A whole lot of value.
- 10:32Speaker 7: They're like, you're kind of on the razor's edge there
- 10:35Speaker 7: with that total. So I'm gonna skip the game. But
- 10:40Speaker 7: I think a first five under is still maybe the
- 10:42Speaker 7: best way to play that game, and I would slightly
- 10:45Speaker 7: lean towards Pittsburgh, I guess in the first in the
- 10:49Speaker 7: first five, I don't know that's the problem with it. Like,
- 10:52Speaker 7: if the game is somehow close at the end of
- 10:54Speaker 7: the first five, Miami might still have a little bit
- 10:56Speaker 7: of an advantage, but their bullpen is pretty used up
- 10:59Speaker 7: right now.
- 11:01Speaker 2: UFC.
- 11:02Speaker 7: I got a lot of people wanted to talk about
- 11:04Speaker 7: UFC here. That's what the I miss that. That's what
- 11:07Speaker 7: the Freedom two fifty thing was. I figured that out.
- 11:10Speaker 7: That was the UFC at the White House yesterday.
- 11:14Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 11:14Speaker 7: I mean, I just I have too much on my plate.
- 11:16Speaker 7: I just don't do it. UFC is not something that
- 11:20Speaker 7: I do.
- 11:21Speaker 2: That's just it. San Diego at.
- 11:24Speaker 7: Baltimore, Baltimore or these teams have split the series so far.
- 11:28Speaker 7: Baltimore just lost a three game win streak. Neither of
- 11:31Speaker 7: these teams that were playing that well. I don't think
- 11:33Speaker 7: coming into this series. Maybe it was just San Diego.
- 11:37Speaker 2: I don't know.
- 11:37Speaker 7: San Diego is definitely not playing well. San Diego's bullpen
- 11:41Speaker 7: is still good. They used five guys out of the
- 11:44Speaker 7: bullpen yesterday, but they used a couple of them for
- 11:46Speaker 7: some very light usage though, so I think their bullpen
- 11:49Speaker 7: is okay. Here Baltimore used two, but their bullpen's not
- 11:53Speaker 7: very good. San Diego's ranking fourth in bullpen. Baltimore is
- 11:58Speaker 7: eight seventeen. Excuse me, hitting wise, San Diego is pretty bad.
- 12:03Speaker 7: Baltimore is number ten. San Diego dead last thirtieth, kind
- 12:08Speaker 7: of close with the Mets. So Baltimore better offense, san
- 12:11Speaker 7: Diego better bullpen. Then I looked at this starting pitching
- 12:16Speaker 7: matchup and I'm like, this looks like an over to me. Man,
- 12:19Speaker 7: Baltimore is somewhat of a hitter friendly ballpark and the
- 12:21Speaker 7: totals at ten, So the audsmakers are telling you they
- 12:25Speaker 7: do not respect these pitchers, and I don't either. Walker
- 12:29Speaker 7: Bueller's pitching for the Padres.
- 12:31Speaker 2: He's been okay.
- 12:32Speaker 7: Recently, four point three three ERA, one point three to
- 12:35Speaker 7: five whip not great. He's been bad on the road though,
- 12:39Speaker 7: six point two to three. Roadyra he pitches way better
- 12:43Speaker 7: in San Diego's pitcher friendly park. Obviously, he didn't make
- 12:46Speaker 7: it five innings last time out of get Cincinnati, even
- 12:49Speaker 7: though he was kind of okay in that outing, but
- 12:51Speaker 7: he gave up eight hits in four and two thirds,
- 12:54Speaker 7: so he kind of got lucky they didn't give up
- 12:56Speaker 7: more runs than that one. He's just not a great
- 12:59Speaker 7: pitcher man. He's he's never been the same since his
- 13:01Speaker 7: injuries and whatever. He's got a hit rate right around
- 13:05Speaker 7: one per inning, which is very average, walk rate is
- 13:07Speaker 7: too high, strikeout rate is kind of low, so yeah,
- 13:12Speaker 7: not great stuff here. His numbers against Baltimore are not
- 13:14Speaker 7: great either. In fifty seven at bats, two sixty three
- 13:17Speaker 7: average allowed, that's not too bad, but nine oh five
- 13:20Speaker 7: ops is definitely high.
- 13:22Speaker 2: He's allowed five home runs to.
- 13:24Speaker 7: Them, but four of them are Pete Alonzo, So even
- 13:28Speaker 7: though he does bad against Baltimore, Alonzo does a lot
- 13:31Speaker 7: of the damage here. Thirteen strike out, seven walks overall
- 13:35Speaker 7: against them, So yeah, overall, his numbers are not good.
- 13:38Speaker 7: So I'm like, okay, things are looking like an over here.
- 13:42Speaker 7: Like really, the only component of this that looks against
- 13:45Speaker 7: the over would be that San Diego has a good bullpen,
- 13:48Speaker 7: because you got what I think are two bad starting
- 13:50Speaker 7: pitchers here, one bad bullpen, so most things look like
- 13:54Speaker 7: an over here. So I'm like, all right, Trevor Rodgers
- 13:57Speaker 7: pitching for Baltimore. He's bad six point one five IV,
- 14:00Speaker 7: one point four eight whip, None of that is good.
- 14:02Speaker 7: He is a little bit better at home five point
- 14:05Speaker 7: nine Homye Rra is still not good though.
- 14:07Speaker 2: But he's pitched a little bit better this month.
- 14:10Speaker 7: He's allowed three or fewer un runs and both starts
- 14:12Speaker 7: this month, so he is pitching a little bit better here,
- 14:15Speaker 7: and he's facing a very weak San Diego offense. So
- 14:18Speaker 7: that's where I kind of look at this and I'm like,
- 14:20Speaker 7: I don't know, man, he might actually do okay here.
- 14:23Speaker 7: He's given up way too many hits on the season, though,
- 14:25Speaker 7: too many walks as well, low strikeout rate. He's nowhere
- 14:29Speaker 7: near what he looked like last year, which it's looking
- 14:31Speaker 7: like last year was a fluke, which I thought it
- 14:33Speaker 7: might have been because his other numbers prior to that
- 14:36Speaker 7: were not very good. But against San Diego he has
- 14:39Speaker 7: been pretty good. Twenty one at bats. It's not a
- 14:41Speaker 7: big sample. Six of their hitters have faced him. He's
- 14:44Speaker 7: given up one extra base hit, which is a double
- 14:47Speaker 7: to Walker Buehler. They should, dude, they should have don't
- 14:51Speaker 7: go with the DH, just have Walker Buehler bat in
- 14:54Speaker 7: the game.
- 14:55Speaker 2: I mean, why wouldn't you.
- 14:56Speaker 7: He has the best offensive numbers against Rogers. Let's let's
- 15:00Speaker 7: go man, overall, he's got a four to one strikeout
- 15:04Speaker 7: walk ratio against them, two thirty eight batting average, five
- 15:07Speaker 7: point fifty eight ohps. So Rogers actually has good matchup
- 15:11Speaker 7: numbers here.
- 15:12Speaker 2: So I lean to the over here.
- 15:14Speaker 7: I think the over is probably still the best way
- 15:16Speaker 7: to look at this game. Rogers definitely could struggle to
- 15:21Speaker 7: some degree here, But I don't know, man, there's I
- 15:25Speaker 7: have some issues with it.
- 15:27Speaker 2: Money still does agree with nay.
- 15:28Speaker 7: Sixty eight percent of tickets, ninety one percent of the
- 15:30Speaker 7: cash on the over. The totals high, Like I said,
- 15:33Speaker 7: nine and a half or ten here, So do with
- 15:36Speaker 7: that info what you want. The money's also hitting San
- 15:39Speaker 7: Diego Baltimore sixty three percent of tickets on them, seventy
- 15:43Speaker 7: two percent of the cash on San Diego. I think
- 15:46Speaker 7: the public kind of has a tendency to just play
- 15:48Speaker 7: the team with the better offense, and that is.
- 15:50Speaker 2: Baltimore, But I don't know. Man.
- 15:53Speaker 7: As I showed you, those matchup numbers seem to favor
- 15:56Speaker 7: Rogers here, mister Rogers, so I think Baltimore first five
- 16:00Speaker 7: innings in this game makes some sense. I still think
- 16:02Speaker 7: an over is the better way to go, but you
- 16:04Speaker 7: do need a lot of runs to get that thing over.
- 16:07Speaker 7: But it could happen, and Baltimore is about a minus
- 16:10Speaker 7: one thirty something favorite here. I don't know what they
- 16:12Speaker 7: would be on the first five line, all right, Seattle
- 16:16Speaker 7: and Washington. I almost added this to my card because
- 16:19Speaker 7: this just looks like an obvious pitching advantage to Seattle here,
- 16:24Speaker 7: and I mean not even just the starting pitching, but
- 16:26Speaker 7: throughout the game. Because Seattle has the better bullpen too.
- 16:29Speaker 7: So I like Seattle in this game, but I have
- 16:31Speaker 7: not added it to the card. Seattle used four relief
- 16:35Speaker 7: pitchers yesterday. Washington used four as well. Washington, like I said,
- 16:40Speaker 7: is not a good bullpen. They're number twenty four. Seattle's
- 16:43Speaker 7: number fifteen, but they have a better ra than all
- 16:46Speaker 7: the teams around them, so they're better than that makes
- 16:49Speaker 7: it look offensively.
- 16:50Speaker 2: Washington is good.
- 16:51Speaker 7: They're number five, but they're not as good at home,
- 16:54Speaker 7: so that's another indicator against them here. And they're pitching
- 16:58Speaker 7: is not as good at home, so other indicator against
- 17:01Speaker 7: Washington here. Seattle's ranked fourteenth in offense. They've been okay
- 17:05Speaker 7: these seems, I believe, have split the two games.
- 17:07Speaker 2: In the series so far.
- 17:09Speaker 7: So again, it's another rubber match here. Whoever wins this
- 17:12Speaker 7: game wins the series, so I think both teams will
- 17:15Speaker 7: show up for that reason. Emerson Hancock is pitching for Seattle.
- 17:19Speaker 7: He's been pretty good this year. Two point seven to
- 17:22Speaker 7: four ERA point nine to five whip good stuff, basically
- 17:27Speaker 7: the same ERA both home and away. He's been pretty
- 17:30Speaker 7: good in both of his starts this month, so that's
- 17:33Speaker 7: a decent sign. One of them on the road against
- 17:35Speaker 7: a decent offense in Baltimore, so that's a good sign.
- 17:39Speaker 2: He's got a.
- 17:40Speaker 7: Decent strikeout rate on the season, but a really low
- 17:42Speaker 7: hit rate and a low walk rate, so he's not
- 17:45Speaker 7: putting guys on base, which is good, and Washington has
- 17:48Speaker 7: not seen a lot of them. Six hitters have faced
- 17:50Speaker 7: him only ten at bats. They have no extra base hits,
- 17:53Speaker 7: three strikeouts, three walks, two hundred batting average five to
- 17:56Speaker 7: eighty five ohps, so unfamiliarity. Plus the guys that have
- 18:00Speaker 7: seen him haven't hit him well. So Hancock looks like
- 18:03Speaker 7: he matches up pretty well here. And he is pitching
- 18:05Speaker 7: well as well, so a lot of things line up
- 18:07Speaker 7: in that direction.
- 18:08Speaker 2: And he's going up against Miles.
- 18:10Speaker 7: Mikolas, so this looks like a huge pitching mismatch to me.
- 18:14Speaker 7: Micholas is not good. Five point nine ERA, one point
- 18:17Speaker 7: three to four whip. I guess it could be worse,
- 18:19Speaker 7: but he's been pitching better on the road, and he's
- 18:22Speaker 7: not on the road here. He's at home where he
- 18:24Speaker 7: has a seven point nine to four ERA, and he's
- 18:27Speaker 7: allowed ten home runs at home in twenty eight and
- 18:30Speaker 7: a third in he's compared to four on the road
- 18:32Speaker 7: and thirty two and two thirds innings, So he gets
- 18:35Speaker 7: lit up at home.
- 18:36Speaker 2: This is not good. You do not want to be
- 18:38Speaker 2: on him at home, man.
- 18:40Speaker 7: I know he didn't give up any runs last time up,
- 18:42Speaker 7: but it was on the road at San Francisco. I
- 18:44Speaker 7: don't think they're a good offense. That was a pitcher
- 18:46Speaker 7: friendly park. He didn't even make it five innings in
- 18:48Speaker 7: that game, though I don't really know why, because his
- 18:51Speaker 7: pitch count wasn't that high, So I don't know what
- 18:53Speaker 7: was going on there. And I guess you could make
- 18:56Speaker 7: the argument he got a little bit unlucky the last
- 18:58Speaker 7: time he was at home and he gave up six
- 19:00Speaker 7: runs to Miami, but it was on six hits, three
- 19:03Speaker 7: home runs. But still the home runs have really plagued
- 19:06Speaker 7: him at home. His home run right overall is too high,
- 19:09Speaker 7: his hit rate is too high, strikeout rate is very low,
- 19:12Speaker 7: and his walk rate is kind of okay, but that's
- 19:15Speaker 7: about it. Numbers against Seattle are not as bad as
- 19:18Speaker 7: you would think, but they're not good. In seventy one
- 19:20Speaker 7: at bats, two ninety six average A lot is definitely
- 19:23Speaker 7: not good. But the ops isn't that high, Like they
- 19:25Speaker 7: have not hit for power really against him, seven forty
- 19:28Speaker 7: seven ops. It's somehow that's below that seven to fifty threshold.
- 19:33Speaker 7: I guess that's kind of what's giving me a little
- 19:35Speaker 7: bit of pause here. Sixteen to three strikeout walk ration
- 19:39Speaker 7: is pretty good though, But yeah, I mean I like
- 19:42Speaker 7: Seattle here, man, this is close to being on my card.
- 19:45Speaker 7: Like if I was gonna add another game, it would
- 19:47Speaker 7: be this. Seattle has seventy nine percent of tickets eighty
- 19:50Speaker 7: seven percent of the cash on them. I don't know
- 19:52Speaker 7: exactly what the price is, because again this screen is
- 19:55Speaker 7: not helping me out and not telling me. Seattle's around
- 19:58Speaker 7: minus one forty three according to but some of these
- 20:01Speaker 7: numbers can be a little bit off, which I think
- 20:04Speaker 7: is a reasonable price.
- 20:05Speaker 2: Really.
- 20:06Speaker 7: Uh oh, it looks like by the way, there's been
- 20:08Speaker 7: a switch here, Washington is now going with an opener pooling.
- 20:12Speaker 7: I don't think that really changes anything. I think Micholas
- 20:14Speaker 7: is gonna probably pitch behind him, I would guess and
- 20:18Speaker 7: follow him up. So I think you're still gonna get
- 20:20Speaker 7: Micholas in this game, but Poolan will probably be the
- 20:23Speaker 7: opener for like one inning or whatever. I don't think
- 20:26Speaker 7: that really changes things very much. Seattle would be my
- 20:29Speaker 7: play here. I would go Seattle. I would pick Hancock
- 20:34Speaker 7: must start, but don't specify a Washington pitcher.
- 20:38Speaker 2: You know what I mean.
- 20:39Speaker 7: If you want to play this game, you want Hancock
- 20:41Speaker 7: to be pitching for you, but you don't care who
- 20:43Speaker 7: Washington is gonna go with, because it's probably either gonna
- 20:46Speaker 7: be Micholas just starting the game, or they're gonna put
- 20:48Speaker 7: that opener in front of him. So there's a little
- 20:51Speaker 7: bit of a question mark there, but I think it's
- 20:52Speaker 7: gonna be pretty much the same game regardless of what
- 20:55Speaker 7: Washington does there. So I would go Seattle moneyline, full game,
- 21:00Speaker 7: Hancock must start. That's the way I would play that game. Yeah, yeah,
- 21:05Speaker 7: Mimosa that guy all right. Yankees and Blue Jays, they've
- 21:11Speaker 7: split this series so far. Yankees are the better team though,
- 21:15Speaker 7: But of course the Yankees won yesterday because they had
- 21:17Speaker 7: Schlitmer on the mound. Both pitchers did well in the game,
- 21:20Speaker 7: which I kind of thought would happen, but Schlitzler was
- 21:23Speaker 7: the better of the two, which is the case. I
- 21:26Speaker 7: think it was him against Goussman if I'm not mistaken.
- 21:29Speaker 7: Yankees have an okay bullpen. They use two guys out
- 21:32Speaker 7: of it yesterday. Toronto also has an okay bullpen, and
- 21:35Speaker 7: they also used two guys. Tyler Rodgers, the guy I
- 21:38Speaker 7: always confused with Trevor Rodgers. I get them confused all
- 21:41Speaker 7: the time. He's in Toronto's bullpen. Yankees have the twelfth
- 21:46Speaker 7: ranked bullpen, Toronto tenth. But the Yankees have a better bullpen,
- 21:50Speaker 7: Yer Ray, so I think they are probably the.
- 21:52Speaker 2: Better bullpen slightly.
- 21:54Speaker 7: Yankees are definitely the better offense obviously number two, although
- 21:58Speaker 7: they're not as good on the road Toronto twenty second
- 22:01Speaker 7: in an offense not good Will Warren, Oh wait, this
- 22:04Speaker 7: is one of my plays. What am I doing here?
- 22:06Speaker 7: How could I forget? I have two totals today and
- 22:14Speaker 7: this one is an over in this game, even though
- 22:16Speaker 7: I know this is one of those afternoon games, a
- 22:18Speaker 7: getaway day where these teams are gonna have They're gonna
- 22:22Speaker 7: be traveling and have you know, next next series beginning
- 22:25Speaker 7: either tomorrow or the next day. So I know sometimes
- 22:27Speaker 7: that means it leads to distracted hitting. But I think
- 22:30Speaker 7: the offenses are gonna be able to do something in
- 22:33Speaker 7: this game. And I know it's the Yankees on the
- 22:36Speaker 7: road without Aaron Judge whatever.
- 22:38Speaker 2: I know.
- 22:38Speaker 7: Yesterday's game was low scoring. I get all that the
- 22:42Speaker 7: game prior to that was not low scoring. So the
- 22:44Speaker 7: first game in the series did go over, and this
- 22:47Speaker 7: looks like an over to Mammy. This is not exactly
- 22:49Speaker 7: a prime pitching matchup like yesterday's was. Will Warren is
- 22:53Speaker 7: pitching for the Yankees. He has been good, a three
- 22:56Speaker 7: point four to one, one point two to one whip
- 22:59Speaker 7: and he's got a really good record he's pretty good,
- 23:02Speaker 7: but he is one of their lesser pitchers. He's good
- 23:04Speaker 7: on the road, I know, two point seven to eight
- 23:07Speaker 7: roadra but he struggled in his last outing at Cleveland.
- 23:11Speaker 7: That's not a great sign. So there are some indicators
- 23:13Speaker 7: here that he is kind of regressing a little bit.
- 23:16Speaker 7: Three straight road starts. This is gonna be his fourth
- 23:18Speaker 7: straight road start, and he's walked three or more and
- 23:21Speaker 7: two of the three so far, so that's not good.
- 23:25Speaker 7: He did not allow that many runs against Kansas City
- 23:28Speaker 7: and then against the A's, which is pretty impressive because
- 23:30Speaker 7: that's a hitter friendly location there. But the fact that
- 23:34Speaker 7: he struggled against Cleveland that tells me it looks like
- 23:37Speaker 7: his form is kind of fading a bit. I mean,
- 23:39Speaker 7: that is not a good Cleveland offense there, and I
- 23:41Speaker 7: think he had decent numbers against them too, and he
- 23:44Speaker 7: still didn't do well.
- 23:45Speaker 2: His overall numbers are still good, low hit rate, high
- 23:48Speaker 2: strikeout rate.
- 23:48Speaker 7: His walk rate is too high at this point though,
- 23:52Speaker 7: and it's been getting worse over the last few starts.
- 23:56Speaker 7: But the thing that kind of clinched it for me
- 23:58Speaker 7: is he's not that good against Toronto. They just saw
- 24:01Speaker 7: him in late May, but they've seen him before anyway.
- 24:04Speaker 7: He was okay in that start. He went five innings,
- 24:06Speaker 7: three on runs a lot on six hits that was
- 24:08Speaker 7: in New York, three strikeouts, one walks. He was fine
- 24:13Speaker 7: in that outing, but he induced a lot of ground
- 24:15Speaker 7: balls that kind of helped him out there, and that's
- 24:17Speaker 7: not really what he usually does, so I think that
- 24:21Speaker 7: was a little bit fluky.
- 24:22Speaker 2: You look at his overall numbers.
- 24:23Speaker 7: They have fifty one at bats against him, Toronto does
- 24:26Speaker 7: nine strikeouts, four walks, three thirty three average nine to
- 24:30Speaker 7: eleven ops. So I think Toronto's offense can actually get
- 24:32Speaker 7: to him a little bit here, So I'm gonna fade
- 24:35Speaker 7: him here. But of course, the main reason why this
- 24:38Speaker 7: isn't over is Toronto is going with Patrick Korb and
- 24:41Speaker 7: he sucks. He's got a four point five to five RRA,
- 24:44Speaker 7: which is not horrible, but one point four to five
- 24:47Speaker 7: whip is not good. His he RA should probably be
- 24:49Speaker 7: higher than that. He's been horrendous at home six point
- 24:53Speaker 7: one to four home ERA. So the most extreme home
- 24:56Speaker 7: road split that we have out of the starting pitchers
- 24:58Speaker 7: is this one, and it's against Patrick Corbin. So I'm
- 25:02Speaker 7: six point one four HOMEI al ray, I'm expecting him
- 25:04Speaker 7: to not do well here. Will Warren, by the way,
- 25:07Speaker 7: was worse on the road last year, so I know
- 25:09Speaker 7: he's been better on the road so far this year,
- 25:11Speaker 7: but that might start moving in the other direction a
- 25:14Speaker 7: little bit. Corbin hasn't been good this month either. He's
- 25:17Speaker 7: got six walks and four strikeouts and ten hits allowed
- 25:21Speaker 7: in addition to nine earned runs allowed in eight innings
- 25:24Speaker 7: so far. It was against offenses that can do damage,
- 25:27Speaker 7: Atlanta and Philly, although I know Philly doesn't rank well offensively,
- 25:30Speaker 7: but this is still not a good sign. It was
- 25:32Speaker 7: Atlanta in Atlanta where they actually don't hit as well,
- 25:36Speaker 7: Philly in Toronto, and Philly doesn't hit as well on
- 25:39Speaker 7: the road.
- 25:40Speaker 2: This is not good. Corbin's not a good form right now.
- 25:43Speaker 7: He's got a high hit rate, high walk rate, low
- 25:46Speaker 7: strikeout rate. None of this is good. And of course
- 25:49Speaker 7: he does not have good numbers against the Yankees. In
- 25:51Speaker 7: one hundred and forty at bats, thirty to seventeen strikeout
- 25:54Speaker 7: walk ratio.
- 25:55Speaker 2: That's no good.
- 25:56Speaker 7: Two ninety three batting average allowed, eight ninety one ohps
- 25:59Speaker 7: allowed not good. And this is without Aaron Judge being
- 26:03Speaker 7: factored into that equation. So yeah, over the total is
- 26:07Speaker 7: the call in this game. That'll be a play for me.
- 26:10Speaker 7: I like it. I think there are a lot of
- 26:11Speaker 7: indicators starts the over here, and both bullpens are pretty mediocre,
- 26:14Speaker 7: so but I think if the starters struggle here, you're
- 26:17Speaker 7: gonna see some of the lesser bullpen arms get into
- 26:20Speaker 7: So I think I never go over first five. Really,
- 26:23Speaker 7: if I think it's gonna be a high scoring game,
- 26:25Speaker 7: I think it's just gonna cascade throughout the game.
- 26:28Speaker 2: So that's what I'm gonna do here.
- 26:30Speaker 7: The money agrees though it looks public, I mean, the
- 26:32Speaker 7: public probably is gonna play an over in a Yankees
- 26:35Speaker 7: Blue Jays game anyway, eighty two percent of tickets, but
- 26:38Speaker 7: they're not always wrong. Ninety four percent of the cash here.
- 26:41Speaker 7: I know Toronto's offense hasn't been good, which might be
- 26:44Speaker 7: keeping this number down a little bit. Maybe the pitcher's
- 26:46Speaker 7: era is is kind of keeping this number down a
- 26:48Speaker 7: little bit. But eight and a half seems pretty reasonable
- 26:51Speaker 7: to me, So over.
- 26:53Speaker 2: Is the call there.
- 26:54Speaker 7: Yankees are also getting the money eighty five percent of tickets,
- 26:57Speaker 7: ninety two percent of the cash on the Yankees, I
- 27:00Speaker 7: don't really disagree with that.
- 27:01Speaker 2: Corbin is just awful.
- 27:03Speaker 7: But I think another way that you could do this,
- 27:05Speaker 7: Because if you think the Yankees probably win, which I
- 27:07Speaker 7: think they probably do, and you like the over Yankees
- 27:11Speaker 7: over their team total is another way that you could
- 27:13Speaker 7: attack this game. I don't really usually do the team totals.
- 27:16Speaker 7: I'm gonna be I'm gonna be really pissed though, if, like,
- 27:19Speaker 7: if the Yankees win this game eight to nothing, watch
- 27:22Speaker 7: that happen. That'll be exactly what happens, right, So the
- 27:25Speaker 7: Yankees go over their team total and this total doesn't
- 27:27Speaker 7: go over. I'll be outraged if that happens. But you
- 27:31Speaker 7: could play the Yankees over their team total here, and
- 27:34Speaker 7: you'll probably need them to score. I would guess about
- 27:36Speaker 7: five runs, which is pretty doable, though I'd rather have
- 27:39Speaker 7: both offenses contributing in a situation like this, and Yankees,
- 27:44Speaker 7: you know, they don't score as well on the road
- 27:46Speaker 7: at least, but I think they will light up Corban.
- 27:48Speaker 7: So those are my thoughts in that game. Over is
- 27:52Speaker 7: my play in that one. Arizona at Cincinnati. These teams
- 27:57Speaker 7: have split this series as well. Arizona is the better
- 28:01Speaker 7: team here. Cincinnati has not been very good. I don't
- 28:03Speaker 7: think they're a very good team, and it starts with
- 28:05Speaker 7: their bullpen being quite bad. They used three relief pitchers
- 28:09Speaker 7: yesterday Arizona used one. Arizona has the better bullpen the
- 28:14Speaker 7: rank seventh still in Whip. Although their ray is not
- 28:17Speaker 7: very good. It's still above four, so they're not quite
- 28:20Speaker 7: that good, but I consider them to being mediocre. Cincinnati
- 28:24Speaker 7: is dead last and bullpen Whip, but they're tied well,
- 28:27Speaker 7: actually not really, because they're tied with Minnesota, and Minnesota
- 28:30Speaker 7: has the worst bullpen ERRA now, so the Reds, congratulations, Reds,
- 28:35Speaker 7: you're the second worst bullpen now, although Colorado has a
- 28:38Speaker 7: worst RA still as well, and I thought there was
- 28:41Speaker 7: one other team that did, but maybe that was yesterday.
- 28:43Speaker 7: These numbers have moved around, but yeah, Cincinnati, bad bullpen.
- 28:47Speaker 2: That's all you need to really know.
- 28:51Speaker 7: As far as the hitting, Cincinnati's twenty first Arizona twenty sixth.
- 28:55Speaker 7: So these offenses have not been doing well recently. Even
- 28:58Speaker 7: though this should be a pretty hit or friendly.
- 29:02Speaker 2: Series. Here we're in a.
- 29:03Speaker 7: Hitter friendly ballpark in Cincinnati. These teams pitching staffs are
- 29:07Speaker 7: not really that good. Both games have gone under the
- 29:10Speaker 7: total so far, which is kind of crazy. That's definitely
- 29:15Speaker 7: an indictment of these offenses for sure. Zach Gallon is
- 29:19Speaker 7: pitching for Arizona. Here he has not been good five
- 29:23Speaker 7: point four to three e RA, one point five to
- 29:25Speaker 7: five WHIP. He's way worse on the road too, seven
- 29:28Speaker 7: point four to four road ERA. That is not a
- 29:30Speaker 7: good sign pitching on the road and a pitcher friendly ballpark.
- 29:34Speaker 7: He hasn't been good this month either. Only his four strikeouts,
- 29:37Speaker 7: three walks, eighteen hits a lot and ten to third innings.
- 29:40Speaker 7: That's a bad stuff. One of those outings was against
- 29:43Speaker 7: the Dodgers. The other was at Miami, which should have
- 29:45Speaker 7: been an easier routing for him, and he did a
- 29:48Speaker 7: little bit better there, but he still wasn't good. He's
- 29:50Speaker 7: given up a lot of hits on the season, way
- 29:52Speaker 7: too many hits. His walk rate is also high and
- 29:55Speaker 7: his strikeout rate is low. So there's really not a
- 29:58Speaker 7: lot to like about these numbers here. Gallon has not
- 30:01Speaker 7: been good, but he actually has really good numbers against
- 30:04Speaker 7: the Reds. In forty five at bats, one thirty three average,
- 30:08Speaker 7: five ninety eight ohps, twenty to five strike up walk
- 30:11Speaker 7: Razio so it's.
- 30:12Speaker 2: Like, which way is this gonna go? I honestly have
- 30:14Speaker 2: no idea.
- 30:16Speaker 7: That's that's definitely some conflicting information here, because this looks
- 30:20Speaker 7: like a really good matchup for him against these specific hitters.
- 30:23Speaker 7: Although I still kind of lean towards him not pitching
- 30:26Speaker 7: well though, just because we haven't seen it recently and
- 30:28Speaker 7: he's been so bad on the road this year. Andrew
- 30:31Speaker 7: Abbot is pitching for the Reds. He's kind of struggling here.
- 30:34Speaker 7: He was better in the last couple of years. I
- 30:36Speaker 7: don't know what the deal is this year. Four point
- 30:39Speaker 7: one ERA is not too bad, but his whip is
- 30:41Speaker 7: bad one point four to one. He's been bad at
- 30:45Speaker 7: home five point one five home e RA, so both
- 30:48Speaker 7: pitchers are in the bad of their home road splits year.
- 30:51Speaker 7: So it does kind of look like this could be
- 30:53Speaker 7: an over for once in this series. Abbott has been
- 30:58Speaker 7: a little bit better kind of this month, but he
- 31:01Speaker 7: had some He drew really good matchups though. He got
- 31:04Speaker 7: the Royals at home and the Royals don't hit well
- 31:08Speaker 7: on the road at all, and then he got San
- 31:10Speaker 7: Diego in San Diego, so those are pretty good matchups
- 31:13Speaker 7: for him. And the start before that he faced the Mets,
- 31:16Speaker 7: so he got some really really easy matchups here, and
- 31:19Speaker 7: he did fine in those three starts, but he still
- 31:22Speaker 7: walked way too many guys. He's walked multiple guys in
- 31:25Speaker 7: most of his recent outings. This is not a good sign.
- 31:28Speaker 7: He's got a decent hit rate here, but his walk
- 31:31Speaker 7: rate is clearly too high, like I was just alluding to,
- 31:33Speaker 7: and his strikeout rate is low. He's not a strikeout guy,
- 31:37Speaker 7: but I think usually his walk rate is just not
- 31:39Speaker 7: this bad. I think that's what's going wrong within this
- 31:42Speaker 7: year is his control has been off this year for
- 31:46Speaker 7: whatever reasons. Numbers against Arizona don't make it any better.
- 31:50Speaker 7: Forty three at bats only six hitters, but forty three
- 31:53Speaker 7: at bats six to three strikeout walk raceio three forty
- 31:56Speaker 7: nine average nine eighty eight oh ps. That is not
- 31:59Speaker 7: good off there. So I think an over makes the
- 32:02Speaker 7: most sense in this game. Both bullpens I don't really trust,
- 32:06Speaker 7: especially obviously not Cincinnati's starting pitching looks like you shouldn't
- 32:10Speaker 7: trust them either, Although again Gallen does have the good
- 32:13Speaker 7: matchup numbers here.
- 32:15Speaker 2: The totals nine and a half.
- 32:16Speaker 7: Basically some books have a ten out there oddsmaker's telling
- 32:20Speaker 7: you they're expecting runs in this game. Money is definitely
- 32:24Speaker 7: backing the over fifty four percent of tickets on the
- 32:27Speaker 7: under ninety percent of the cash on the over.
- 32:29Speaker 2: I agree.
- 32:30Speaker 7: I think if I was gonna play this game, that
- 32:31Speaker 7: would be what I would do, is go over the total.
- 32:33Speaker 2: Here.
- 32:34Speaker 7: The money seems to be indicating on Cincinnati a little bit,
- 32:37Speaker 7: and Cincinnati is a slight underdog. Arizona is a slight
- 32:41Speaker 7: road favorite here almost to pick the winner. Price fifty
- 32:45Speaker 7: five percent of tickets, fifty four percent of the cash
- 32:47Speaker 7: on Arizona.
- 32:48Speaker 2: I don't really agree with that. I think I lean
- 32:50Speaker 2: Arizona here.
- 32:51Speaker 7: As far as the side is concerned, I think the
- 32:53Speaker 7: over is much stronger. But Gallen, with his better matchup
- 32:57Speaker 7: numbers and Arizona having the better bullpen, I think that's
- 33:01Speaker 7: kind of the indicator that I would lean towards Arizona
- 33:04Speaker 7: just a.
- 33:04Speaker 2: Little bit there.
- 33:05Speaker 7: But over is what makes way more sense in that
- 33:07Speaker 7: game though, Atlanta and the Mets, these teams I believe
- 33:12Speaker 7: have split the series. Yeah, the Mets won the first game.
- 33:15Speaker 7: Atlanta bounced back with a win yesterday, which pisses me
- 33:18Speaker 7: off because that almost made my card. I just wasn't
- 33:21Speaker 7: really sure about Martin Perez, and I think he did
- 33:24Speaker 7: well again, although it was a close game. But Atlanta,
- 33:27Speaker 7: you know, their bullpen came through again. Atlanta used four
- 33:30Speaker 7: guys out of their bullpen yesterday. Though both of these
- 33:33Speaker 7: bullpens are generally good, the Mets used two guys out
- 33:36Speaker 7: of their bullpen. Atlanta is number one in bullpen as
- 33:39Speaker 7: I mentioned yesterday, and both ERA and whip very good.
- 33:43Speaker 7: The Mets are number three, although their ERA is not
- 33:47Speaker 7: the third lowest but pretty close. They're a good bullpen,
- 33:50Speaker 7: so you do have two good bullpens here. Offensively, obviously,
- 33:53Speaker 7: one team is good and the other isn't. Atlanta's number three.
- 33:57Speaker 7: In offense, the Mets are number twenty nine. Atlanta has
- 34:00Speaker 7: the better offense and they are pretty good on the road.
- 34:03Speaker 7: Like I said, this pitching matchup looks decent though, uh
- 34:09Speaker 7: like the pitchers could do okay here.
- 34:11Speaker 2: Potentially.
- 34:12Speaker 7: Bryce Elder is pitching for the Braves. He is still
- 34:14Speaker 7: having a good season two point six six ERA, one
- 34:17Speaker 7: point oh five WHIP, even though based on you know,
- 34:20Speaker 7: his recent seasons, I'm kind of surprised that he's pitching
- 34:24Speaker 7: this well this year. But he did pitch like this
- 34:26Speaker 7: earlier in his career, so I don't know. He's been
- 34:29Speaker 7: a little bit worse on the road three point one
- 34:31Speaker 7: four roadra but still overall two point six six ERA,
- 34:35Speaker 7: one point oh five WHIP overall numbers, those are good.
- 34:38Speaker 7: He's been good in both starts this month ten to
- 34:41Speaker 7: three strikeout walk ratio. Both games were wins for Atlanta.
- 34:45Speaker 7: He gave up three in runs or fewer in both
- 34:47Speaker 7: of them, so it looks like that bad start that
- 34:49Speaker 7: he had at the end of May at Fenway was
- 34:52Speaker 7: kind of a fluke because all the starts around it
- 34:54Speaker 7: him been good, so he has not fallen out a
- 34:57Speaker 7: formal He's got a low hit rate this season, his
- 35:00Speaker 7: walk rate is kind of mediocre, and his strike out
- 35:02Speaker 7: rate is not that high, but that's not really what
- 35:04Speaker 7: he does.
- 35:06Speaker 2: Numbers against the Mets are fine.
- 35:08Speaker 7: In thirty seven at bats two forty three batting average
- 35:10Speaker 7: allowed seven to twenty two OPS is not as low
- 35:13Speaker 7: as you would think six to four strike out walk ratio,
- 35:17Speaker 7: but he does okay against them, and their lineup has
- 35:20Speaker 7: really not been doing a lot this year, so I
- 35:22Speaker 7: think Elder does have a pretty decent matchup here. Freddy
- 35:25Speaker 7: Peralt does pitching for the Mets. He's been struggling a
- 35:28Speaker 7: little bit more recently. He's usually pretty good, but he's
- 35:32Speaker 7: got a four point zero four ERA.
- 35:34Speaker 2: One point three to two whip is a bit too high.
- 35:36Speaker 7: He does usually walk too many guys and that's also
- 35:39Speaker 7: been a problem this year. He hasn't been good at
- 35:41Speaker 7: home either, a four point seven to eight homey RA.
- 35:45Speaker 7: That's a problem. I don't know what's going on with
- 35:47Speaker 7: him pitching in this ballpark. I know he's new to
- 35:49Speaker 7: the Mets this year, but that's not good. Although his
- 35:52Speaker 7: last home start, he definitely got unlucky, allowing six runs
- 35:55Speaker 7: to Saint Louis, and that was in that game where
- 35:57Speaker 7: the Mets were returning home across country from a road trip.
- 36:01Speaker 7: It was a really negative spot for them. But he
- 36:03Speaker 7: gave up six runs on six hits and two walks
- 36:06Speaker 7: and had five strikeouts, so he got a bit unlucky
- 36:08Speaker 7: in that one. His other start this month against Seattle
- 36:12Speaker 7: was good, although it was in a picture friendly.
- 36:13Speaker 2: Ballpark in Seattle.
- 36:15Speaker 7: But I don't think he's like completely out of form
- 36:18Speaker 7: right now. Based on that pitching line against Seattle. His
- 36:21Speaker 7: overall numbers are pretty much what you would get what
- 36:23Speaker 7: you expect to get out of him, fairly low hit rate,
- 36:26Speaker 7: walk rate is too high, although in this case it's
- 36:30Speaker 7: higher than you usually even get out of him, so
- 36:32Speaker 7: he has to fix that. Like his walks are his
- 36:35Speaker 7: huge problem here, that's his one problem, I should say.
- 36:39Speaker 7: And then his strikeout rate is pretty good. Numbers against
- 36:43Speaker 7: Atlanta are a little bit all over the place. In
- 36:45Speaker 7: seventy at bats, seventeen to nine strikeout walk ratio is
- 36:48Speaker 7: not very good to twenty nine. Batting average allowed is good.
- 36:52Speaker 7: Seven seventy four oh ps is not good. That is
- 36:55Speaker 7: too high. So they don't really hit him for contact
- 36:58Speaker 7: that well, but they have hit him for power. Austin
- 37:01Speaker 7: Riley is really the one guy that does damage to
- 37:03Speaker 7: him in this lineup though, seven for sixteen with two
- 37:06Speaker 7: home runs and a walk and a couple of strikeouts.
- 37:10Speaker 7: So I guess, you know, I don't talk about player
- 37:12Speaker 7: props much, but player prop potential there for Riley against Peralta,
- 37:17Speaker 7: I would go hits plus run spless RBIs over. I
- 37:20Speaker 7: just when I look at the player props, you know,
- 37:22Speaker 7: I just kind of identify, like, oh, this guy has
- 37:24Speaker 7: a good matchup against this pitcher, although you could go
- 37:26Speaker 7: the other way and look, oh, this guy like really
- 37:29Speaker 7: struggles against this pitcher, Like you just want to find
- 37:31Speaker 7: like a big sample size and do whatever.
- 37:34Speaker 2: Although what I would say is, if you're gonna go
- 37:36Speaker 2: over with a.
- 37:36Speaker 7: Player prop, do hits plus runs pless RBIs because the
- 37:40Speaker 7: walk might not be totally wasted.
- 37:42Speaker 2: But if you're gonna go under, I would go under.
- 37:44Speaker 7: Total basis because a walk doesn't count in total basis,
- 37:48Speaker 7: So that helps you in that case. All right, So
- 37:51Speaker 7: what do we do with this game, though, I guess
- 37:53Speaker 7: is the question. I don't know, man. I mean, this
- 37:58Speaker 7: game it looks it looks kind of like an underish
- 38:02Speaker 7: game to me. But I don't know, man. I have
- 38:05Speaker 7: two decent starting pitchers here, decent bullpens. It's a little
- 38:09Speaker 7: bit of a confusing game. The money's coming in on
- 38:11Speaker 7: the over. The totals eight and a half, which is
- 38:14Speaker 7: higher than you would think. I guess for this starting
- 38:16Speaker 7: pitching matchup, seventy one percent of tickets, ninety two percent
- 38:19Speaker 7: of the cash on the over.
- 38:20Speaker 2: I kind of lean under here. The money is backing.
- 38:23Speaker 7: Atlanta as well, seventy percent of tickets, ninety one percent
- 38:26Speaker 7: of the cash on Atlanta. I somewhat agree with that,
- 38:30Speaker 7: Peralta's been a little bit iffy recently. He's in the
- 38:33Speaker 7: lesser form and he has the worst of the home
- 38:35Speaker 7: road splits here and the somewhat worse overall matchup numbers
- 38:40Speaker 7: as well. So Atlanta makes some sense.
- 38:45Speaker 2: In the game.
- 38:45Speaker 7: But you're gonna be laying Oh I thought you're gonna
- 38:47Speaker 7: be laying a favorite price, You're not. The Mets are
- 38:49Speaker 7: actually favored minus one twenty. But what I've been saying
- 38:52Speaker 7: in this series though, is also that it just looks
- 38:54Speaker 7: way too easy to take Atlanta though the team with
- 38:57Speaker 7: the way better record, and you're getting him as an underdog.
- 39:01Speaker 2: I don't like that because it just looks way too easy.
- 39:03Speaker 7: So even though I think they probably win this game,
- 39:06Speaker 7: I guess I would not want to have money on that.
- 39:09Speaker 2: So I don't like that game really.
- 39:11Speaker 7: The next game up is my other play is it's
- 39:14Speaker 7: my only other play of the day, Detroit and Cleveland.
- 39:20Speaker 2: I don't know why this is not hold on? Why
- 39:22Speaker 2: is this not letting me? I don't know what this.
- 39:25Speaker 7: Yeah, Streamyard is just fucking up, man, I don't know
- 39:31Speaker 7: what's going on here. Streamyard is not streamyard has like
- 39:34Speaker 7: a check box next to all the like media that
- 39:38Speaker 7: you have uploaded now, so like usually you just click
- 39:40Speaker 7: on the media that you wanted to well display, but
- 39:43Speaker 7: this is now a check box.
- 39:44Speaker 2: You can multi select to like delete a.
- 39:47Speaker 7: Bunch of them at once, which is fine, but I
- 39:49Speaker 7: don't know, there should be like a thing to toggle
- 39:52Speaker 7: that that mode on or something.
- 39:54Speaker 2: I don't know. I don't like this, but I told
- 39:56Speaker 2: you this is a total.
- 39:57Speaker 7: This is an under Detroit and Cleveland under seven and
- 40:00Speaker 7: a half minus one twenty. That's a decent price, I
- 40:04Speaker 7: think on this. If you want to go first five,
- 40:06Speaker 7: you could do that too. I saw an under four
- 40:08Speaker 7: at minus one thirty in the first five. I think
- 40:11Speaker 7: that's probably the best you do there. I wouldn't disagree
- 40:14Speaker 7: with that because I like the starting pitching here. But
- 40:16Speaker 7: I was back and forth on the bullpens, like are
- 40:18Speaker 7: these bullpens bad enough that we should cut them out?
- 40:21Speaker 2: I don't know.
- 40:23Speaker 7: Detroit's had some light usage out of there as recently.
- 40:25Speaker 7: These three guys. Cleveland did use their closer two days
- 40:29Speaker 7: in a row, though, so their closer isn't really like
- 40:31Speaker 7: their best two relievers are not available, but their bullpen's
- 40:35Speaker 7: been decent overall.
- 40:36Speaker 2: That they did use four guys out.
- 40:37Speaker 7: Of the bullpen yesterday, but I'm still gonna just bring
- 40:41Speaker 7: them in here because we get the key number seven
- 40:43Speaker 7: and a half on the full game. But again, first five,
- 40:46Speaker 7: I wouldn't disagree with that either. It's a close call
- 40:49Speaker 7: for me. Hopefully we make the right call here, Unlike
- 40:52Speaker 7: with Red Sox Rangers. Seriously Red Sox Rangers, like that
- 40:56Speaker 7: was like a no brainer, like, yeah, let's keep the
- 40:58Speaker 7: bullpens in in that game.
- 41:00Speaker 2: Two really good bullpens. But nope.
- 41:02Speaker 7: Anyway, Cleveland is number eleven and bullpen not bad. Detroit
- 41:07Speaker 7: is number twenty one, but their bullpen eray is in
- 41:10Speaker 7: the very low fource.
- 41:12Speaker 2: Their bullpen ray is better.
- 41:14Speaker 7: Than all the teams between sixteenth and twentieth, and obviously
- 41:19Speaker 7: better than all the teams below them too. So Detroit
- 41:21Speaker 7: a little bit better I think than maybe where they're
- 41:24Speaker 7: ranked here. The whip, I think is a better indicator
- 41:26Speaker 7: than era, but you got a kind of weigh both
- 41:29Speaker 7: of them. And then as far as the hitting is concerned,
- 41:32Speaker 7: that's the other thing. These offenses have not been that good.
- 41:35Speaker 7: Detroit's nineteenth. Cleveland is twenty six, So that kind of
- 41:39Speaker 7: helps the undercase here.
- 41:41Speaker 2: You're not looking at two prolific offenses.
- 41:43Speaker 7: Yere Detroit, they're starting to get their starting pitchers back.
- 41:48Speaker 7: Man Schooble, I'm pretty sure pitched yesterday, although I know
- 41:51Speaker 7: they lost the game yesterday, but Scooble did pitch. In fact,
- 41:55Speaker 7: I think Cleveland, by the way, I think they're looking
- 41:57Speaker 7: at a sweep pier. Yeah, so that's another thing to
- 42:00Speaker 7: look at here, Cleveland. These games have both been really
- 42:02Speaker 7: low scoring in the series. By the way, We've had
- 42:05Speaker 7: five and four as the totals in the series so far.
- 42:08Speaker 7: And I know you usually don't want to look at
- 42:10Speaker 7: that necessarily, right, Like a lot of times they'll want
- 42:12Speaker 7: to fade like recency bias here. But I just think
- 42:15Speaker 7: there's a reason why these games have gone low. I
- 42:19Speaker 7: just think this is a low total type of series here.
- 42:22Speaker 7: And of course school Ball is on the mound yesterday,
- 42:25Speaker 7: so I'm assuming he actually pitched. But Schoolbol is back,
- 42:28Speaker 7: and now Detroit is getting Casey Mize back to for
- 42:31Speaker 7: this game, and I am gonna back him in this.
- 42:34Speaker 2: I'm gonna back both starters here.
- 42:36Speaker 7: Uh So Mize had some adductor injury I don't know
- 42:39Speaker 7: exactly what it was. He's actually been injured twice this
- 42:42Speaker 7: year already, but he's been pitching well when he's been
- 42:45Speaker 7: in there. Two point two seven ERA point ninety seven
- 42:48Speaker 7: whip And what I actually like playing on a veteran
- 42:51Speaker 7: pitcher like he's twenty nine, he's been around for a
- 42:54Speaker 7: long time now, a veteran pitcher coming back from injury.
- 42:57Speaker 7: I actually liked that situation because I think they get
- 43:00Speaker 7: humped up to me back there, and I think Detroit
- 43:01Speaker 7: is in a better mindset now, Like we get Scooba
- 43:04Speaker 7: back one day and then Mize back the next, So
- 43:06Speaker 7: now they're starting rotation all of a sudden looks way
- 43:09Speaker 7: better with those two guys in there. It's like the
- 43:11Speaker 7: season might have hope, you know what I mean. So
- 43:14Speaker 7: I think the guys might be motivated here, and I
- 43:16Speaker 7: think they're gonna rally around him. They're gonna rally to
- 43:18Speaker 7: try to avoid a sweep too. So I like all
- 43:21Speaker 7: that Mize has been worse on the road. I know,
- 43:24Speaker 7: three point seven to two Roady Ira. That's still not
- 43:27Speaker 7: that bad though. And he faced Cleveland on May twenty first,
- 43:32Speaker 7: did well in that start, went six to two thirds
- 43:34Speaker 7: that was in Detroit. Four hits, allowed, two earned runs,
- 43:37Speaker 7: four strikeouts, no walks. Nice outing from him there. He
- 43:40Speaker 7: was pitching really well up until he got hurt.
- 43:43Speaker 5: Uh.
- 43:43Speaker 7: The other the other time he got hurt was in
- 43:45Speaker 7: late April. He got hurt against the Braves and then
- 43:48Speaker 7: his first game and he came back. He shut out
- 43:51Speaker 7: Toronto for six innings. So I know that was at
- 43:54Speaker 7: home and he hasn't made a road start since then.
- 43:57Speaker 7: But that's a good sign that he knows to come
- 44:00Speaker 7: back from injury right. Like he'd missed like multiple weeks
- 44:03Speaker 7: and he came back with no problem. So I think
- 44:05Speaker 7: he can do the same again here. It's a similar
- 44:07Speaker 7: situation here against a similarly weak offense. He's got good
- 44:12Speaker 7: numbers here on the season from when he has pitched,
- 44:15Speaker 7: low hit rate, his walk rate is fine, strike got
- 44:18Speaker 7: rate is pretty high, and he does well against Cleveland.
- 44:21Speaker 7: I know they just saw him, but I don't think
- 44:22Speaker 7: that's gonna help him that much because again, that was
- 44:25Speaker 7: longer ago than it looks like, because he had He's
- 44:29Speaker 7: been injured for like almost a month here, so that
- 44:32Speaker 7: wasn't that recent and they've seen him a bunch, so
- 44:35Speaker 7: having one extra start against him doesn't matter that much.
- 44:38Speaker 7: They have sixty nine at bats against him, thirteen to
- 44:40Speaker 7: five strike out walk ratio, two seventeen average allowed, six
- 44:44Speaker 7: thirty three ops, so his numbers are good against Cleveland.
- 44:48Speaker 2: I expect that to continue.
- 44:50Speaker 7: Meanwhile, I will also back Gavin Williams in this situation.
- 44:54Speaker 7: Williams for Cleveland, he's been one of their best starters
- 44:57Speaker 7: three point three to two ERA, one point one whip.
- 45:00Speaker 7: He's been really good at home two point six to
- 45:02Speaker 7: four home here Ray, so he's in the better of
- 45:05Speaker 7: his splits. He wasn't great in his last outing, but
- 45:07Speaker 7: it was he had to face the Yankees twice in
- 45:10Speaker 7: a row here, so I'm gonna give him a little
- 45:12Speaker 7: bit of a pass for those games. I think he
- 45:14Speaker 7: does do okay against the Yankees usually. He got a
- 45:17Speaker 7: win in one of them, and then the second time
- 45:20Speaker 7: the Yankees maybe made some adjustments and did a little
- 45:23Speaker 7: bit better against him, and he walked three guys, but
- 45:26Speaker 7: that was kind of an outlier.
- 45:27Speaker 2: So Williams is kind of weird.
- 45:29Speaker 7: Like the walks have been an issue for him in
- 45:31Speaker 7: the past, and they were an issue for him early
- 45:33Speaker 7: in the season, but going into May, he got that
- 45:36Speaker 7: like really under control. He changed something, although he became
- 45:40Speaker 7: a little bit too hittable, But just having one start
- 45:43Speaker 7: where he walked three guys against the Yankees, I'm not
- 45:45Speaker 7: gonna consider that to be a trend back in the
- 45:48Speaker 7: wrong direction yet. And this is gonna be a much
- 45:50Speaker 7: easier matchup against Detroit and then facing the Yankees was
- 45:54Speaker 7: you know, he's got eighty six and two thirds in
- 45:56Speaker 7: he's pitched so far on the season.
- 45:58Speaker 2: Low hit rate, pretty low.
- 46:00Speaker 7: I mean, the walk rate's okay, it's low enough and
- 46:04Speaker 7: high strike gut rate, so the walk rate is lower
- 46:06Speaker 7: than what you usually get out of him. So he's
- 46:08Speaker 7: figuring out how to pitch better than he has in
- 46:12Speaker 7: the past, you know. And his numbers against Detroit are
- 46:16Speaker 7: pretty dominant. He has one hundred and twenty five at
- 46:18Speaker 7: bats against them, and he's telling them to a one
- 46:20Speaker 7: fifty two batting average and four to twenty three ohps
- 46:24Speaker 7: fifty one to ten strike out walk ratio. It's kind
- 46:27Speaker 7: of a lot of walks, I guess, but it's a lot.
- 46:29Speaker 7: It's a lot of at bats though, and it's a
- 46:31Speaker 7: lot of strike guts. Actually, that strike out walk ratio
- 46:34Speaker 7: actually is really high. It's over five, and I consider
- 46:37Speaker 7: three to be like the the average as far as
- 46:40Speaker 7: that metric is concerned. He's got he's got really good
- 46:43Speaker 7: numbers here. He's dominated them, and I don't think he's
- 46:45Speaker 7: faced them this year either, So I like, how how
- 46:49Speaker 7: how the this sets up for both pitchers. The money
- 46:51Speaker 7: seems to agree with me on the under sixty percent
- 46:54Speaker 7: of tickets on the over eighty eight percent of the
- 46:56Speaker 7: cash on the under totals around seven or seven and
- 46:59Speaker 7: a half. Like I said, I think some books you
- 47:02Speaker 7: can still find a number like this. I'd still agree
- 47:05Speaker 7: with under seven, although if you want to go first
- 47:07Speaker 7: five under you can do that too.
- 47:09Speaker 2: I have to score it the way that I'm.
- 47:10Speaker 7: Giving it out on the show, which is this, but
- 47:13Speaker 7: I would agree with the first five under two. If
- 47:15Speaker 7: you can find it under four at like minus one thirty,
- 47:18Speaker 7: I think that's a decent way to play this game
- 47:20Speaker 7: as well. But under seven I think works as well.
- 47:23Speaker 7: But I obviously I prefer seven and a half. I
- 47:25Speaker 7: would go up to maybe even minus one twenty five
- 47:28Speaker 7: to get that hook at the under seven and a half,
- 47:30Speaker 7: although you know you got to kind of weigh, like
- 47:33Speaker 7: how much does that half run really worth, but it's
- 47:35Speaker 7: on that key number of seven, so.
- 47:39Speaker 2: It's worth a little bit more there. But I kind
- 47:41Speaker 2: of just go by feel.
- 47:43Speaker 7: I go by intuitions sometimes when I make that decision, though,
- 47:47Speaker 7: where a lot of guys will use math. But I
- 47:49Speaker 7: think that the value I think is fairly like It's
- 47:53Speaker 7: kind of subjective though in a way. I mean, you
- 47:56Speaker 7: can look at just like the history and that can
- 47:58Speaker 7: tell you, like what the value of that half run
- 48:00Speaker 7: actually is. But I don't know, Thomas, what's up you're
- 48:06Speaker 7: going with the Pirates. I agree with it, but I
- 48:09Speaker 7: don't love it. And the money seems to disagree on that. Skeens,
- 48:13Speaker 7: You're never gonna get a good price on Skiens, you
- 48:16Speaker 7: know what I mean.
- 48:17Speaker 2: And he's up against Max Meyer.
- 48:19Speaker 7: I mean, you can go back to the top of
- 48:20Speaker 7: the show and I talked about that Max Meyer is
- 48:23Speaker 7: is not a joke. But Skeens has the better matchup
- 48:27Speaker 7: numbers there, so there is that. But I also I
- 48:31Speaker 7: do not like Pittsburgh's bullpen either, so be aware of that.
- 48:36Speaker 2: All right.
- 48:37Speaker 7: Next game up is what am I looking at? Houston
- 48:41Speaker 7: and Kansas City? Sorry, Zach, Kansas City. They've lost four
- 48:46Speaker 7: games in a row. They've had close games of the series.
- 48:49Speaker 7: This series has been high scoring, which I thought. You know,
- 48:52Speaker 7: coming into this series, I thought this looked like an
- 48:54Speaker 7: over series, and of course my play yesterday first first
- 48:58Speaker 7: five Kansas City. They have a two run lead going
- 49:01Speaker 7: into the fifth inning and Noah Cameron blows it. Thanks
- 49:04Speaker 7: a lot, really really pissed about that. But I've been
- 49:09Speaker 7: correct about this being an over series. I just haven't
- 49:11Speaker 7: given out an over this game. I don't want to
- 49:15Speaker 7: give out an overplay though. This looks like the least
- 49:17Speaker 7: over conducive game in this series based on who's pitching here,
- 49:21Speaker 7: although you still have two pretty bad bullpens. Houston used
- 49:25Speaker 7: four guys out of the bullpen yesterday. Kansas City used
- 49:29Speaker 7: four as well, so if you are gonna go over,
- 49:30Speaker 7: you gotta go over full game. Houston's bullpen has been
- 49:33Speaker 7: improving recently though. They're now twenty third in bullpen, so
- 49:37Speaker 7: they're actually a little bit better right now. So I'm
- 49:39Speaker 7: gonna have to adjust what we think about them as.
- 49:42Speaker 2: We go here.
- 49:42Speaker 7: Kansas City twenty eighth, they're a bad bullpen. They're worse
- 49:45Speaker 7: than Houston at this point. I still don't like either
- 49:48Speaker 7: bullpen right now though Houston is eighth in offense, Kansas
- 49:52Speaker 7: City is twenty fifth, so Houston has the better offense.
- 49:55Speaker 7: Houston's going with Spencer Arraghetty, who does have good numbers
- 49:58Speaker 7: here two point two, one point one to nine WHIP
- 50:02Speaker 7: basically as the same era home and away wasn't great.
- 50:06Speaker 7: In his last game at Anaheim, he walked four guys
- 50:10Speaker 7: and that's kind of been the issue with him, and
- 50:11Speaker 7: he gave up four runs in the previous game in
- 50:13Speaker 7: four innings against Pittsburgh, which Pittsburgh is a good offense,
- 50:17Speaker 7: but his starts this month are not really that good.
- 50:21Speaker 7: Ten to five strike out walk ratio six point three
- 50:23Speaker 7: ERA across that span, and the walks are just a
- 50:27Speaker 7: huge issue with him.
- 50:28Speaker 2: Man. I know he has a really low hit rate.
- 50:30Speaker 2: His overall numbers look really good.
- 50:31Speaker 7: His strikeout rate is okay, but I think his numbers
- 50:34Speaker 7: are gonna regress because his walk rate is just too high.
- 50:37Speaker 7: And that's what I've been saying all season, like, yeah,
- 50:41Speaker 7: he has one of the higher walk rates out there,
- 50:43Speaker 7: so it's it's not good. His numbers against Kansas City
- 50:46Speaker 7: are pretty good, though they only have six hitters who
- 50:48Speaker 7: have faced him ten at bats two hundred average, six
- 50:51Speaker 7: thirty three oh ps, five to two strikeout walk ratio,
- 50:55Speaker 7: so he might match up ok here, although remember this
- 50:58Speaker 7: is a more hitter friendly now because they move the
- 51:01Speaker 7: walls in total is pretty low though in this game.
- 51:04Speaker 7: Considering that Stephen Klek is pitching for the Royals, he's
- 51:07Speaker 7: been pretty good. Uh three point one four ERA, one
- 51:10Speaker 7: point oh seven W. I think he's been hurt for
- 51:13Speaker 7: part of the season, one point eight e RA at home,
- 51:16Speaker 7: so he's been better at home for whatever. That's where
- 51:19Speaker 7: he's pitched well this month, at Cincinnati and at home
- 51:22Speaker 7: against Texas. He's allowed more than one hit per inning, though,
- 51:25Speaker 7: which is not great, but he has a two point
- 51:27Speaker 7: two five ERA in those two starts eleven to three
- 51:30Speaker 7: strikeout walk ratio in twelve innings.
- 51:32Speaker 2: That's solid overall numbers.
- 51:34Speaker 7: Low strikeout rate though, but a pretty low hit rate,
- 51:37Speaker 7: pretty low walk rate, so his overall numbers are fine.
- 51:40Speaker 7: He's just not really a strikeout pitcher. Houston also does
- 51:45Speaker 7: not have much experience against him. Only Christian Walker has
- 51:48Speaker 7: faced him. He's zero for three with a strikeout.
- 51:50Speaker 2: And no walks, So.
- 51:53Speaker 7: I think this game does kind of look like a
- 51:55Speaker 7: first five under here. Both starting pitchers look like they
- 51:59Speaker 7: match up okay here, So I think that's probably the
- 52:02Speaker 7: way I would approach this game. But you know, I
- 52:05Speaker 7: have some pause when I think about it. I don't
- 52:09Speaker 7: necessarily love it. The money is hitting the over seventy
- 52:12Speaker 7: three percent of tickets on the over ninety three percent
- 52:15Speaker 7: of the cash on the over. So I guess do
- 52:17Speaker 7: with that infant what you want? Totals eight and a
- 52:20Speaker 7: half of the full game. If you go under, you
- 52:22Speaker 7: got to keep the bullpens out though, Like I said, so,
- 52:24Speaker 7: I think a first five under makes some sense here.
- 52:27Speaker 7: Money is back in Houston fifty two tickets seventy eight
- 52:30Speaker 7: percent of the cash on Houston. I'm not so sure
- 52:33Speaker 7: about that. I mean, both these pitchers have their downsides, right,
- 52:37Speaker 7: Like I think Arragetty has better stuff and like a
- 52:40Speaker 7: higher ceiling because I think he is also younger, but
- 52:43Speaker 7: he's been wild. He walks way too many guys, so
- 52:46Speaker 7: that's kind of the trade off there, But we will see.
- 52:50Speaker 7: I guess next game is Dodgers White Sox. They've split
- 52:54Speaker 7: the first two games of this series, uh, both teams
- 52:57Speaker 7: winning by margin, with the White Sox winning eight to
- 53:01Speaker 7: two and then yesterday Dodgers seven to one win. Yesterday
- 53:05Speaker 7: behind Yamamoto, Dodgers only used one guy out of the bullpen,
- 53:09Speaker 7: so Yamamoto almost pitched the full game. It looks like
- 53:12Speaker 7: yesterday Dodgers hardly had to use their bullpen at all.
- 53:16Speaker 7: White Sox used three guys out of the bullpen. I
- 53:18Speaker 7: think it was a bullpen ish game yesterday for them,
- 53:22Speaker 7: if I remember correctly. But it looks like they're going
- 53:24Speaker 7: with a bullpen game again today, which is definitely concerning.
- 53:28Speaker 7: Dodgers are number six in bullpen. Their bullpen's been worse
- 53:31Speaker 7: recently though, so something to keep an eye on that.
- 53:33Speaker 7: Their ray has gotten higher, which is not good. White
- 53:38Speaker 7: Socks still are the lesser of the two bullpens though
- 53:40Speaker 7: their ranked sixteenth, which isn't too.
- 53:42Speaker 2: Bad, but their era is a little bit high there.
- 53:45Speaker 7: Hitting wise, Dodgers are number one, It's been that way
- 53:48Speaker 7: for most of the season. White Sox the number seven.
- 53:51Speaker 7: Both teams definitely can can produce offensively. Emmett she And
- 53:56Speaker 7: is pitching for the Dodgers.
- 53:58Speaker 2: I like him. I think he's decent.
- 54:00Speaker 7: Four point seventy RA is not great, though one point
- 54:03Speaker 7: two to one whip is Okay, probably his the ERA
- 54:05Speaker 7: should be lower than it is. He hasn't been good
- 54:07Speaker 7: on the road though, five point six to one Roady
- 54:10Speaker 7: ra that's a concern. Last time out, he was very
- 54:13Speaker 7: inefficient with his pitches and they pulled him in the
- 54:16Speaker 7: second inning against Anaheim and what was a blowout loss.
- 54:20Speaker 7: He'd only give up two runs, but he was struggling
- 54:23Speaker 7: in that game. Man, that wasn't good. But was that
- 54:26Speaker 7: an outlier? I don't know, because he was pitching pretty
- 54:28Speaker 7: well leading into that start, So I don't know. He's
- 54:30Speaker 7: had a decent season overall. He's got a fairly low
- 54:33Speaker 7: hit rate, a fairly low walk rate, and a pretty
- 54:35Speaker 7: high strikeout rate, so his overall numbers are really not
- 54:38Speaker 7: that bad. Like definitely indicative that his ERA is misleadingly high.
- 54:43Speaker 7: He hasn't a looted more than four and runs in
- 54:45Speaker 7: any start this season, but he might struggle on the
- 54:48Speaker 7: road against a good lineup like the White Sox. However,
- 54:51Speaker 7: only greed Chock has ever faced him before. From the
- 54:54Speaker 7: White Sox, He's won for two with a single, no strikeouts,
- 54:57Speaker 7: no walks, so she and does have an unfamiliarity edge here.
- 55:01Speaker 7: So there are some positives and some negatives?
- 55:04Speaker 2: Was she in here? Like he's bad on the road.
- 55:06Speaker 7: He's facing a good offense here, but he's facing an
- 55:08Speaker 7: offense that's never seen him before. And I think he's
- 55:12Speaker 7: better than his numbers make it look. However, again, like
- 55:15Speaker 7: I said, the White Sox are going bullpen game here.
- 55:18Speaker 7: Brian Hudson is getting the opener here. He's been all right,
- 55:22Speaker 7: But I don't think we need to go into him
- 55:23Speaker 7: too much here because he's probably gonna.
- 55:25Speaker 2: Go one inning.
- 55:26Speaker 7: And by the way, he did that two days ago
- 55:28Speaker 7: he pitched one inning which might have been in relief.
- 55:30Speaker 7: He had a completely clean inning against the Dodgers. He
- 55:34Speaker 7: went one inning and putting nobody on base, it looks
- 55:36Speaker 7: like so that was good. Didn't strike out anybody either,
- 55:39Speaker 7: but he pitched well in that outing, so he could
- 55:42Speaker 7: definitely come in and give you a clean inning. He
- 55:44Speaker 7: actually has decent numbers against the Dodgers. But who are
- 55:47Speaker 7: the White Socks using behind him?
- 55:49Speaker 2: Is the question? I have no idea. Is that Eric Fetti?
- 55:52Speaker 2: It might be.
- 55:54Speaker 7: I think it probably is because Fetti has not pitched
- 55:57Speaker 7: since the ninth, and Fetti is actually been good this
- 56:01Speaker 7: month so far. In two outings won against the Braves,
- 56:05Speaker 7: which is not a bad sign, but Fetti's not good.
- 56:08Speaker 7: I'm just kind of assuming that Fedti's gonna be pitching
- 56:11Speaker 7: here ian after the open or four point six ninety
- 56:14Speaker 7: array one point three to nine whip. Not great stuff
- 56:17Speaker 7: there from him. He's good at home though, three point
- 56:19Speaker 7: five to three homeye ra.
- 56:21Speaker 2: And this is if he pitches.
- 56:23Speaker 7: Numbers against the Dodgers are okay. Seventy at bats two
- 56:27Speaker 7: forty three average not bad. Seven to fifty four ohps
- 56:30Speaker 7: is a little high, though thirteen twelve strikeout walk race
- 56:33Speaker 7: here is certainly not good, although seven of the walks
- 56:36Speaker 7: are Freddie Freeman.
- 56:38Speaker 2: So I don't know.
- 56:39Speaker 7: I still don't think I would trust what the White
- 56:41Speaker 7: Sox are doing here, with this bullpen thing that they're
- 56:45Speaker 7: doing here, slash Eric.
- 56:46Speaker 2: Fetti whatever it is O.
- 56:50Speaker 7: Fetti is listed as a starter, and hey, I got
- 56:52Speaker 7: that right there, you go. Fetti is actually listed as
- 56:54Speaker 7: the starter.
- 56:55Speaker 2: Now.
- 56:55Speaker 7: But if I was gonna play this game, however you're
- 56:58Speaker 7: gonna figure this game, I would she and must start,
- 57:01Speaker 7: but the White Sox. I would leave the White Sox
- 57:04Speaker 7: as just action or whatever, because you still don't know,
- 57:07Speaker 7: like it looks like it will be Fetti for the
- 57:08Speaker 7: majority of the pitching duties here, but you don't know
- 57:10Speaker 7: if they're gonna put an opener in front of him
- 57:12Speaker 7: or not. This is modern baseball, man, you know what
- 57:14Speaker 7: I mean. The Dodgers are very public, and they're close
- 57:18Speaker 7: to a minus two hundred favorite here, which is kind
- 57:21Speaker 7: of crazy given that the White Sox are a decent team,
- 57:24Speaker 7: although I don't I don't like the White Sox pitching
- 57:26Speaker 7: that they're putting out there today. Obviously, ninety percent of
- 57:29Speaker 7: tickets and cash on the Dodgers minus one, ninety whatever
- 57:33Speaker 7: just seems way too high to me.
- 57:36Speaker 2: Though money is backing the over here.
- 57:38Speaker 7: Totals ten basically, so the oddsmakers are telling you they're
- 57:42Speaker 7: expecting runs in this game fifty six percent of the
- 57:45Speaker 7: tickets and eighty two percent of the cash on the
- 57:47Speaker 7: over I think the best way to play this game
- 57:50Speaker 7: is to take the better team, which is the Dodgers.
- 57:52Speaker 7: They're a good offensive team on the road. I would
- 57:55Speaker 7: play them over their team total. I think that's what
- 57:58Speaker 7: I would do, even though you probably need them to
- 57:59Speaker 7: score like seven runs to get that done, which is
- 58:03Speaker 7: definitely a little bit of an ask. They might be
- 58:06Speaker 7: able to do it, but I think she and is
- 58:08Speaker 7: kind of a mystery here, like he might do poorly
- 58:10Speaker 7: or he might not.
- 58:11Speaker 2: I don't know.
- 58:12Speaker 7: I'd still probably agree with the full game over as well.
- 58:15Speaker 7: In that game, I don't really have much on the
- 58:19Speaker 7: side there. I mean, I think the Dodgers should win
- 58:21Speaker 7: the game, though, so I mean, I guess a Dodger's
- 58:25Speaker 7: run line, I guess is kind of an option here,
- 58:27Speaker 7: but I don't know. Man, at least they hit better
- 58:30Speaker 7: on the road, and you'll get all nine at bats
- 58:32Speaker 7: from them if you do it that all nine innings
- 58:34Speaker 7: worth if you.
- 58:35Speaker 2: Do it that way.
- 58:35Speaker 7: All right, the next game up looks like the most
- 58:38Speaker 7: obvious under that you could possibly have.
- 58:40Speaker 2: Philadelphia at Milwaukee. This is a.
- 58:44Speaker 7: Prime pitching matchup here. This is one of the best
- 58:46Speaker 7: pitching matchups of the season. Who would have thought that
- 58:50Speaker 7: with Kyle Harrison one of them Red Sox should not
- 58:54Speaker 7: have traded him. Again, I was right about the Devs trade,
- 58:58Speaker 7: Like getting Tibbs and Harrow, I'm gonna keep pushing it.
- 59:01Speaker 7: Those were good pickups for the Red Sox, and then
- 59:03Speaker 7: they traded both of them away and they essentially got
- 59:06Speaker 7: not well, they got Durbin for Harrison, but he hasn't
- 59:09Speaker 7: been very good. I guess he's fielding okay, whatever. But
- 59:14Speaker 7: they traded Tibbs away for fucking Dustin May, who they
- 59:17Speaker 7: don't even have now, and May is not very good,
- 59:19Speaker 7: although he is pitching okay right now, but come on, man,
- 59:23Speaker 7: Tibbs is like lighting it up and he's in the
- 59:25Speaker 7: Dodgers organization. So yeah, because that's what the Dodgers need,
- 59:28Speaker 7: another outfielder that they can just bring up.
- 59:32Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 59:32Speaker 7: Anyway, Milwaukee they have a good bullpen, but they used
- 59:35Speaker 7: four guys out of the bullpen yesterday, but they were
- 59:38Speaker 7: rested a couple of days prior to that, so they
- 59:42Speaker 7: might not be in the worst situation where they did
- 59:44Speaker 7: use their closer, Miguil possible. I guess that he's available
- 59:47Speaker 7: again today.
- 59:48Speaker 2: I don't know.
- 59:49Speaker 7: Philadelphia used a lot of guys out of their bullpen,
- 59:51Speaker 7: though they used five relief pitchers yesterday, which makes it
- 59:56Speaker 7: seem like it was an extra inning game, but it wasn't.
- 59:58Speaker 2: These seems to split the verse two games of the series.
- 1:00:01Speaker 7: It was a high scoring game yesterday, though, so a
- 1:00:04Speaker 7: lot of craziness in that game.
- 1:00:06Speaker 2: Yesterday.
- 1:00:06Speaker 7: The bullpen's had to come in. The Brewers have the
- 1:00:09Speaker 7: better bullpen here. They are ranked below the Phillies though
- 1:00:13Speaker 7: number fourteen. Phillies number thirteen, but Brewers will only point
- 1:00:17Speaker 7: oh one worse and whip, and their ERA is considerably better,
- 1:00:20Speaker 7: so they're the better bullpen. Hitting wise, the Brewers have
- 1:00:24Speaker 7: started to turn things around. They're number eight in hitting now,
- 1:00:27Speaker 7: tied with Houston. Philly still hasn't been doing it.
- 1:00:30Speaker 2: They're number twenty eight, So.
- 1:00:33Speaker 7: Do with that if what you want to. I think
- 1:00:35Speaker 7: there were better offense than that. Though Christopher Sanchez is
- 1:00:38Speaker 7: pitching for the Phillies. I told you this is a
- 1:00:40Speaker 7: prime pitching matchup here. Sanchez, dude, I mean, I think
- 1:00:45Speaker 7: he's ahead of Skeens. I don't know what the odds are,
- 1:00:47Speaker 7: but in the Cy Young race, I think Mizierowski is
- 1:00:50Speaker 7: clearly at the top right now, and then Sanchez is
- 1:00:52Speaker 7: probably right behind him, and Skeens is somewhere behind. Otani
- 1:00:56Speaker 7: might have leapt ahead of Skins man.
- 1:00:59Speaker 2: I don't know.
- 1:00:59Speaker 7: They're just too many elite pitchers in the NL. Sanchez
- 1:01:03Speaker 7: one point five four ERA, one point six whip.
- 1:01:06Speaker 2: He's been a little bit worse on the road worse with.
- 1:01:09Speaker 7: A two point seven Roadie ra is still obviously not bad.
- 1:01:13Speaker 7: He gave up some runs in his June starts, oh
- 1:01:16Speaker 7: my god. After he didn't give up any in May.
- 1:01:18Speaker 7: He's allowed three in fourteen innings so far in June. Yeah,
- 1:01:23Speaker 7: stick a fork in him, man, he's done. No, he
- 1:01:27Speaker 7: still has really good command numbers of this month, really
- 1:01:29Speaker 7: high strike out rate, low walk rate, low hit rate.
- 1:01:33Speaker 7: Everything looks good over the course of the season. All
- 1:01:35Speaker 7: those numbers have reflected that as well. Really low walk
- 1:01:40Speaker 7: rate actually, which I think has been one of his
- 1:01:41Speaker 7: issues in the past, has been the walks. He's gotten
- 1:01:44Speaker 7: that way under control, and his hit rate is still low.
- 1:01:46Speaker 7: His strikeout rate is very high. He's been really really
- 1:01:50Speaker 7: good numbers.
- 1:01:51Speaker 2: Against the Brewers, though.
- 1:01:52Speaker 7: This is where we started to have problems because I
- 1:01:56Speaker 7: was looking at this game like my immediate reaction was yet,
- 1:01:59Speaker 7: like I'm thinking on here Sanchez and Harrison. Sanchez has
- 1:02:02Speaker 7: thirty four at bats against Milwaukee, seven to oh strake up.
- 1:02:07Speaker 7: Walk ratio is pretty good, but a three point fifty
- 1:02:09Speaker 7: three average allowed nine to twelve ops.
- 1:02:13Speaker 2: That's crazy, dude. I don't know what it is. Maybe
- 1:02:16Speaker 2: this is a bad matchup.
- 1:02:17Speaker 7: For Sanchez, although remember I don't believe he's facing Milwaukee
- 1:02:20Speaker 7: this year, and he is obviously better this year than
- 1:02:24Speaker 7: he ever has been before. But this worries me that
- 1:02:27Speaker 7: in a decent sized sample, Milwaukee's bats have definitely done
- 1:02:31Speaker 7: a lot of damage against him. So that is something
- 1:02:34Speaker 7: to be concerned with that he has not matched up
- 1:02:37Speaker 7: well against Milwaukee. Kyle Harrison is pitching for Milwaukee. He's
- 1:02:41Speaker 7: having a very good season as well. Those numbers went
- 1:02:43Speaker 7: way up with one bad start, but I'm gonna give
- 1:02:46Speaker 7: him a pass for that, which I'll show you in
- 1:02:47Speaker 7: a minute. Two point seven to two ERA, one point
- 1:02:51Speaker 7: one to six whip. He's been really good at home
- 1:02:53Speaker 7: one point five home ERA. What happened in his last
- 1:02:56Speaker 7: down he is he pitched that first game in that
- 1:02:59Speaker 7: as vague game, and he got knocked around. He gave
- 1:03:02Speaker 7: up three bombs in the game. I think that was
- 1:03:04Speaker 7: an outlier because he hadn't had anything like that all season.
- 1:03:07Speaker 7: Unless he continues to pitch poorly, I don't think that's
- 1:03:10Speaker 7: a trend. I mean, having to go and pitch in
- 1:03:12Speaker 7: that stadium is not an easy undertaking. Even though I
- 1:03:16Speaker 7: know we'll talk about the A's game in a little while,
- 1:03:19Speaker 7: but every game since then has gone under the total,
- 1:03:23Speaker 7: every game in Vegas. So yeah, I don't know what
- 1:03:26Speaker 7: we're doing they're putting the totals that high in that stadium,
- 1:03:29Speaker 7: But whatever. Harrison had a bad outing, but I think
- 1:03:31Speaker 7: he bounces back. I mean, his numbers are really good
- 1:03:33Speaker 7: this season, really high strike out rate, pretty low walk rate,
- 1:03:37Speaker 7: hit rates still low as well. Numbers against the Phillies, though,
- 1:03:41Speaker 7: this is where we start getting issues. They have twenty
- 1:03:44Speaker 7: eight at bats against him, three to ninety three average allowed,
- 1:03:47Speaker 7: eleven forty eight ohps. These are not good numbers obviously,
- 1:03:51Speaker 7: seven to two strike out walk ratio, So how do
- 1:03:54Speaker 7: we figure this game out?
- 1:03:55Speaker 2: Right?
- 1:03:57Speaker 7: So Harrison, obviously he's only twenty four, and obviously I
- 1:04:01Speaker 7: think you can kind of overlook these numbers here because
- 1:04:05Speaker 7: I don't think he's faced Philly this year. So these
- 1:04:07Speaker 7: numbers were accumulated when Harrison was not as good, and
- 1:04:10Speaker 7: he's obviously like he's taken like a huge leap this
- 1:04:14Speaker 7: year and he's pitching way better this year than he
- 1:04:17Speaker 7: has in the past. So I think that these numbers
- 1:04:20Speaker 7: don't matter that much for him. I think they matter
- 1:04:22Speaker 7: a little bit more for Sanchez because he's been around longer.
- 1:04:25Speaker 7: In the fact that Milwaukee has a bigger sample size
- 1:04:28Speaker 7: against him and they've actually hit him, well, that worries
- 1:04:31Speaker 7: me more about Sanchez here. Actually, So I kind of
- 1:04:35Speaker 7: like Milwaukee in this game.
- 1:04:38Speaker 2: Let me see here, you know.
- 1:04:41Speaker 7: I think people might overlook Harrison a little bit. Sanchez
- 1:04:44Speaker 7: is getting kind of all the notoriety here. Philly's getting
- 1:04:47Speaker 7: the money though, sixty one percent of tickets, eighty percent
- 1:04:49Speaker 7: of the cash on Philly. But I think Milwaukee is
- 1:04:52Speaker 7: a I was gonna say, I thought Milwaukee.
- 1:04:54Speaker 2: Was favored in this game.
- 1:04:55Speaker 7: They're not.
- 1:04:56Speaker 2: Philly's minus won twenties.
- 1:04:57Speaker 7: You're getting Milwaukee is an underdog here, and Milwaukee might
- 1:05:02Speaker 7: have a slight bullpen advantage here. The starting pitching matchup
- 1:05:06Speaker 7: might be kind of a toss up, maybe possibly even
- 1:05:08Speaker 7: slightly an advantage towards Milwaukee here, and Milwaukee's had the
- 1:05:13Speaker 7: better offense. So getting Milwaukee is an underdog here, I
- 1:05:17Speaker 7: don't know, man, I think that's the way that I
- 1:05:18Speaker 7: would lean Milwaukee. Full game money line sixty one percent
- 1:05:22Speaker 7: of tickets, eighty percent of the cash on Philly. So yeah,
- 1:05:25Speaker 7: the money is coming in on Philly for whatever that's
- 1:05:27Speaker 7: where the money is also coming in on the over,
- 1:05:29Speaker 7: which is interesting. Seventy percent of tickets eighty three percent
- 1:05:33Speaker 7: of the cash on the over total is of course
- 1:05:35Speaker 7: law with seven, the odds makers have to do that
- 1:05:38Speaker 7: with this starting pitching matchup. I mean, this almost looks
- 1:05:41Speaker 7: like it could be a six and a half total,
- 1:05:42Speaker 7: you know, and it's close. It's seven juice to the
- 1:05:45Speaker 7: under here at some of these books. Now, I mean,
- 1:05:50Speaker 7: I still kind of have to lean towards an under here,
- 1:05:52Speaker 7: but I don't know, Like I just again though, I mean,
- 1:05:57Speaker 7: it could be an over though, because there could be
- 1:05:59Speaker 7: just because there's so little room for errow when you're
- 1:06:03Speaker 7: looking at a total of seven, and both pictures, as
- 1:06:06Speaker 7: I just showed, you have bad matchup numbers.
- 1:06:08Speaker 2: So again, there's just so.
- 1:06:09Speaker 7: Little leeway there that maybe an over does make a
- 1:06:12Speaker 7: little bit of sense here. But I don't want to
- 1:06:14Speaker 7: fade these starters, I really don't. I just think that
- 1:06:17Speaker 7: maybe the better approach is to just say, yeah, I
- 1:06:19Speaker 7: think there's a little bit of value in Milwaukee here,
- 1:06:21Speaker 7: because I think it's a really close matchup. All right,
- 1:06:25Speaker 7: I'm gonna take a quick break. We're at the hour
- 1:06:27Speaker 7: mark or so five games left. That's usually when I
- 1:06:30Speaker 7: do it. I'll come back.
- 1:06:31Speaker 2: I'll do that.
- 1:06:31Speaker 7: I'll do WNBA, NHL and World Cup really quickly. And
- 1:06:37Speaker 7: I don't think I have a ton to say about
- 1:06:38Speaker 7: any of it, though.
- 1:06:39Speaker 2: I'll be right back, all right.
- 1:08:16Speaker 7: The next game is the game that I was just
- 1:08:19Speaker 7: no wait, next game is Saint Louis Minnesota. Oh no, yes,
- 1:08:23Speaker 7: Saint Louis Minnesota. I'm all over the place here, Saint
- 1:08:25Speaker 7: Louis and Minnesota. Yes, these teams to split the first
- 1:08:29Speaker 7: two games of this series as well, so probably a
- 1:08:33Speaker 7: motivation on both sides here. I was supposed to try
- 1:08:36Speaker 7: to win the series here. Minnesota used two relievers yesterday.
- 1:08:39Speaker 7: They do not have a good bullpen at all. Saint
- 1:08:42Speaker 7: Louis did use more. They used five guys out of
- 1:08:44Speaker 7: the bullpen, but they have the better bullpen, so I
- 1:08:47Speaker 7: think they probably still have a bullpen edge year a
- 1:08:50Speaker 7: little bit. Saint Louis not a great bullpen, but they're
- 1:08:53Speaker 7: number eighteen. They're not horrific like the Twins, who have
- 1:08:57Speaker 7: the worst bullpen in baseball right now.
- 1:09:00Speaker 2: They're number twenty nine.
- 1:09:01Speaker 7: But like I said, they're tied with Cincinnati, so they're
- 1:09:03Speaker 7: actually the worst bullpen, same whip and worst ray by far,
- 1:09:07Speaker 7: the the worst ray in all the all of Major
- 1:09:10Speaker 7: League Baseball in the bullpen. Saint Louis's number twelve offensively
- 1:09:14Speaker 7: so they've been hitting well again recently. Minnesota seventeenth. Kind
- 1:09:19Speaker 7: of mediocre there. Michael McGreevy is pitching for Saint Louis.
- 1:09:24Speaker 7: He's been good this season, even though he does not
- 1:09:26Speaker 7: have strikeout stuff, but he's still pitching effectively two point
- 1:09:30Speaker 7: nine to nine ERA, one point oh eight WHIP. He's
- 1:09:32Speaker 7: not quite as good on the road three point nine
- 1:09:35Speaker 7: road ERA. He pitches better in Saint Louis, where it's
- 1:09:38Speaker 7: a little bit pitcher friendly. He's been pitching pretty well though,
- 1:09:42Speaker 7: I mean he's allowed more than touring runs only a
- 1:09:44Speaker 7: handful of times this season. He's allowed more than three
- 1:09:47Speaker 7: I think only twice.
- 1:09:49Speaker 2: I guess.
- 1:09:51Speaker 7: Very low strikeout rate though he does not strike out anybody.
- 1:09:53Speaker 7: But he has a pretty low hit rate, pretty low
- 1:09:55Speaker 7: walk rate too, so he doesn't put guys on base
- 1:09:58Speaker 7: and he doesn't strike guys out. He induces a pretty
- 1:10:01Speaker 7: good amount of ground balls obviously, maybe not obviously, but
- 1:10:05Speaker 7: he does. Minnesota hasn't seen him before except for Urcia,
- 1:10:09Speaker 7: who's zero for three off him with those strikeouts and
- 1:10:12Speaker 7: no walks, and McGreevy might actually match up okay here.
- 1:10:15Speaker 7: He has the unfamiliarity edge here because a lot of
- 1:10:18Speaker 7: times when guys haven't seen a pitcher, they struggle and
- 1:10:21Speaker 7: they have to figure him out early on, even though
- 1:10:23Speaker 7: he doesn't have stuff that blows anybody away. Taj Bradley
- 1:10:27Speaker 7: was on my shit list. Is pitching for the Twins.
- 1:10:29Speaker 7: He was really good to start the season. He's been
- 1:10:32Speaker 7: pretty bad recently. Definitely do not want to back him
- 1:10:36Speaker 7: anymore right now. Four point zero two ERA, one point
- 1:10:39Speaker 7: three to eight whip. I mean, not horrible numbers there,
- 1:10:42Speaker 7: but that whip is not great. He's been good at
- 1:10:45Speaker 7: home for the most part though. Three point three to
- 1:10:47Speaker 7: eight Homira I think is what that was. Yeah, but
- 1:10:51Speaker 7: recently he's been bad. Three straight bad starts. He's got
- 1:10:54Speaker 7: an eight to eight strikeout walk ratio this month. That
- 1:10:56Speaker 7: is not good. That's not gonna cut it. Including one starter.
- 1:11:00Speaker 7: It gets Detroit who have not been hitting well, so
- 1:11:03Speaker 7: I don't like any of that. He does have a
- 1:11:04Speaker 7: high strikeout rate this year. They're on a pretty low
- 1:11:07Speaker 7: hit rate. His walk rate is the problem. His walks
- 1:11:10Speaker 7: are too too high. Like I said, recently, that's been
- 1:11:13Speaker 7: an issue, so he's got to figure that out. Saint
- 1:11:17Speaker 7: Louis only has four guys who have faced him ten
- 1:11:19Speaker 7: at bats, but they've hit him four hundred average one
- 1:11:23Speaker 7: fifty five ops one to one strike aut walk ratio.
- 1:11:26Speaker 7: So a lot of their hitters haven't faced him before,
- 1:11:28Speaker 7: which is helpful to him. But the guys that have
- 1:11:31Speaker 7: seen him have hit him well, so he doesn't look
- 1:11:33Speaker 7: like he matches up too well here.
- 1:11:36Speaker 2: I think probably I would leave Saint Louis here.
- 1:11:38Speaker 7: I think they probably have a starting pitching advantage and
- 1:11:41Speaker 7: a bullpen advantage, even though they use some of their
- 1:11:43Speaker 7: bullpen yesterday. The money seems to agree with that agrievy.
- 1:11:47Speaker 7: With that, there you go, sixty one percent of ticket
- 1:11:50Speaker 7: seventy three percent of the cash on Saint Louis, Minnesota
- 1:11:53Speaker 7: is favored as a very small home favorite. Yeah, good
- 1:11:59Speaker 7: luck with that. Totals at nine. I mean, the money's
- 1:12:03Speaker 7: coming in a little bit towards the over here.
- 1:12:07Speaker 2: I guess there are probably more arguments for an over
- 1:12:09Speaker 2: than an under here.
- 1:12:10Speaker 7: I mean, you have I think at least one kind
- 1:12:11Speaker 7: of bad starting pitcher here Taj badly. There you go,
- 1:12:15Speaker 7: and Minnesota's bullpen definitely something you want to fade.
- 1:12:20Speaker 2: Saint Louis is a bullpen, not.
- 1:12:21Speaker 7: Great either, some I think if you go I mean,
- 1:12:26Speaker 7: you also could go Saint Louis first five innings here
- 1:12:28Speaker 7: in this game too, if you want to just isolate
- 1:12:30Speaker 7: the starting pitching here and not worry about the bullpens,
- 1:12:33Speaker 7: that makes sense too. I think a full game over
- 1:12:36Speaker 7: does make some sense in that game, not on my
- 1:12:40Speaker 7: card or anything. The next game up is the game
- 1:12:42Speaker 7: that I was referring to, another A's Las Vegas game,
- 1:12:46Speaker 7: Colorado at the A's. The A's are on the verge
- 1:12:48Speaker 7: of a sweep pier because Colorado sucks. But the A's
- 1:12:52Speaker 7: have only won each game by two. Every game in
- 1:12:55Speaker 7: this Vegas stadium has gone under since.
- 1:12:57Speaker 2: Game one, after that twenty nine.
- 1:13:00Speaker 7: Run outbursts with Milwaukee coming in, they're the rest of
- 1:13:03Speaker 7: these games in Vegas have gone twelve, seven, ten, twelve,
- 1:13:07Speaker 7: so they've all gone I know, twelve seems high, but
- 1:13:09Speaker 7: the total has been thirteen, thirteen and a half fourteen
- 1:13:12Speaker 7: in every one of these games, so every one of
- 1:13:14Speaker 7: them has gone under since that first one yesterday. I
- 1:13:17Speaker 7: would not have wanted to bank on an under. It
- 1:13:20Speaker 7: looked like a bad pitching setup. But it still went
- 1:13:22Speaker 7: under yesterday. So and the oddsmakers are not changing this.
- 1:13:26Speaker 7: They're still keeping this total really high. Fourteen thirteen and
- 1:13:30Speaker 7: a half.
- 1:13:31Speaker 2: I don't know, man, it.
- 1:13:32Speaker 7: Seems like, even though it's a small sample size, it
- 1:13:35Speaker 7: seems like what we're learning is that total is too high.
- 1:13:38Speaker 7: Colorado used three guys out of the bullpen yesterday.
- 1:13:42Speaker 2: The A's used four.
- 1:13:44Speaker 7: I guess the A's have the better bullpen, though they're
- 1:13:46Speaker 7: actually nineteenth now. They're not horrible in the bullpenal, though
- 1:13:50Speaker 7: they're definitely not great.
- 1:13:51Speaker 2: Colorado is one of the worst. They're twenty six.
- 1:13:54Speaker 7: They're just shy of the worst Bullpenny Ray though, right
- 1:13:58Speaker 7: there with Minnesota. Offensively, the A's are number four right now.
- 1:14:03Speaker 7: They've been really good offensively, but some of that is
- 1:14:05Speaker 7: because they've been playing in these ridiculous hitter friendly ballparks.
- 1:14:08Speaker 7: But they're still a pretty good offense, even though I
- 1:14:10Speaker 7: believe they're without Brent Rooker right now.
- 1:14:15Speaker 2: Who are we talking about here? Who's their opponent of Colorado?
- 1:14:18Speaker 7: Yeah, Colorado number sixteen in offense, so not horrible. This
- 1:14:24Speaker 7: pitching matchup is interesting though. Tomoyuki Sugano is pitching for
- 1:14:28Speaker 7: the Rockies, and I think everybody kind of thought that
- 1:14:31Speaker 7: he would just be a disaster going to Course Field,
- 1:14:33Speaker 7: but that has not been the case.
- 1:14:35Speaker 2: He has a four.
- 1:14:36Speaker 7: Point EIGHTYRA and one point two to nine whip. I mean,
- 1:14:38Speaker 7: that's not great, but it's certainly not horrible. He's been
- 1:14:42Speaker 7: good on the road for the most part, three point
- 1:14:44Speaker 7: six to two Roadie Ray, but of course we know
- 1:14:46Speaker 7: that's the course field effect. He's not as good in
- 1:14:48Speaker 7: course Field. We know that, but he's been serviceable at
- 1:14:52Speaker 7: least at course Field, which then leads us to what
- 1:14:54Speaker 7: is he gonna do in this game here?
- 1:14:56Speaker 2: Well, this is gonna be more similar.
- 1:14:58Speaker 7: To course Field, obviously, because we're in high elevation here,
- 1:15:00Speaker 7: although not as high as a mile high, but it's
- 1:15:04Speaker 7: a high elevation ballpark. Home runs get hit in this ballpark,
- 1:15:07Speaker 7: so I'd expect him to probably pitch more similarly to
- 1:15:11Speaker 7: what he does at home here, rather than not looking
- 1:15:14Speaker 7: at his home road splits here. So probably somewhere in
- 1:15:17Speaker 7: between those two might be a way to.
- 1:15:20Speaker 2: Look at this.
- 1:15:21Speaker 7: Sogano has actually been all right in his two starts
- 1:15:23Speaker 7: this month against Anaheim and chic and the Cobs, with
- 1:15:26Speaker 7: the Cubs coming into Course Field. He pitched pretty well
- 1:15:29Speaker 7: in both those games. Actually, he just doesn't really strike
- 1:15:31Speaker 7: a lot of guys out, but he hasn't really allowed
- 1:15:33Speaker 7: a ton of runs for the most part.
- 1:15:35Speaker 2: His hit rate is right around one per inning.
- 1:15:37Speaker 7: His walk rate is kind of mediocre, and his strikeout
- 1:15:40Speaker 7: rate is low. Like I said, he does not strike
- 1:15:42Speaker 7: guys out, but he throws junk and he gets guys
- 1:15:45Speaker 7: to hit into soft contact, and that's what it is.
- 1:15:47Speaker 7: He's allowed a few too many home runs, though twelve
- 1:15:50Speaker 7: that's not too bad, especially considering that he pitches in
- 1:15:53Speaker 7: corps Field. You would expect him to allow more home
- 1:15:56Speaker 7: runs than that, but that has not been the case
- 1:16:00Speaker 7: against the A's though, he has not been very good
- 1:16:02Speaker 7: in the past thirty one career at bats against them
- 1:16:05Speaker 7: three twenty three average, allowed seven to fifty one ops.
- 1:16:08Speaker 7: And those would have been in similar climates to this,
- 1:16:11Speaker 7: right like either in Course Field or in the the
- 1:16:14Speaker 7: A's stadium they play in in Sacramento. It would have
- 1:16:16Speaker 7: been a combination of those two, so similar stadiums to this,
- 1:16:21Speaker 7: So that's not a good sign. It looks like he
- 1:16:22Speaker 7: doesn't match up that well here. Jeffrey Springs is pitching
- 1:16:26Speaker 7: for the A's. He's been alright. Four point six eighty
- 1:16:29Speaker 7: r race is definitely not good, but one point twenty
- 1:16:32Speaker 7: nine whip is somewhat okay. He's been worse recently, though,
- 1:16:36Speaker 7: and he is worse at home five point oh one
- 1:16:39Speaker 7: home era. And I know this is not the Sacramento
- 1:16:42Speaker 7: home stadium, but this is still that Vegas stadium, which
- 1:16:45Speaker 7: is still not good. He pitched in that fifteen to
- 1:16:50Speaker 7: fourteen explosion, by the way, so he's the only pitcher
- 1:16:56Speaker 7: to be pitching in this specific stadium for a second time.
- 1:17:00Speaker 7: I might actually give him an advantage, I guess because
- 1:17:02Speaker 7: he's he's more used to it now. And I mean,
- 1:17:05Speaker 7: I guess he wasn't horrible in that outing.
- 1:17:08Speaker 2: He wasn't good.
- 1:17:09Speaker 7: He gave up five runs of five innings, eight hits,
- 1:17:11Speaker 7: two home runs, two strikeouts, three walks, But I guess
- 1:17:14Speaker 7: it could have been a bit worse. But still, he
- 1:17:16Speaker 7: hasn't pitched well this month at all. He got kind
- 1:17:19Speaker 7: of wrecked by the Cubs in the game before that
- 1:17:22Speaker 7: on the road. He's got a pretty low strikeout rate here,
- 1:17:25Speaker 7: but his hit rate is okay, his walk rate is
- 1:17:28Speaker 7: basically okay ish, but he is a fly ball pitcher.
- 1:17:31Speaker 7: Both of these pitchers are fly ball pitchers, which is
- 1:17:34Speaker 7: not good really for this stadium. He's given up sixteen
- 1:17:37Speaker 7: home runs so far this season, so that's not great.
- 1:17:40Speaker 7: So again, I think this still kind of looks like
- 1:17:43Speaker 7: it could be more of an over game, But I
- 1:17:45Speaker 7: don't know that i'd want to bank on it with
- 1:17:47Speaker 7: a total of that's fourteen or whatever. Here where are
- 1:17:51Speaker 7: we looking? Interleague?
- 1:17:53Speaker 5: Yeah?
- 1:17:53Speaker 2: Here it is.
- 1:17:53Speaker 7: The money is back backing the over pretty strongly. Fifty
- 1:17:58Speaker 7: six percent of tickets on the undernah, ninety four percent
- 1:18:00Speaker 7: of the cash on the over, So the money is
- 1:18:03Speaker 7: saying over.
- 1:18:03Speaker 2: But with a total of fourteen.
- 1:18:05Speaker 7: And again since that first game, which I know Springs
- 1:18:08Speaker 7: did start in that game, since that first game in Vegas,
- 1:18:12Speaker 7: none of the other games have gone over this total
- 1:18:14Speaker 7: in the stadium, so not even in this series against
- 1:18:18Speaker 7: Colorado's very bad pitching. So I wouldn't want to have
- 1:18:22Speaker 7: my money on that. Look, I think the total is
- 1:18:23Speaker 7: still just a bit high. Money's also fading the a's
- 1:18:27Speaker 7: here eighty three percent of tickets, only fifty eight percent
- 1:18:30Speaker 7: of the cash on the A's, I don't know about that.
- 1:18:33Speaker 7: I mean, so Gano, I guess has been kind of
- 1:18:34Speaker 7: the more consistent pitcher in a way, which sounds crazy,
- 1:18:38Speaker 7: but I don't know. Maybe there is some value to
- 1:18:41Speaker 7: be had there. The A's are obviously their favored they're
- 1:18:43Speaker 7: minus one eighty five or so.
- 1:18:45Speaker 2: On the money line.
- 1:18:47Speaker 7: I don't know, man, it's it's tough to figure out
- 1:18:49Speaker 7: the side in this game. It really is springs that
- 1:18:51Speaker 7: he does at least have that advantage where he already
- 1:18:53Speaker 7: pitched in the stadium once so he knows what it's like.
- 1:18:56Speaker 7: So I don't know. I'm skipping the game, Mac could do.
- 1:19:00Speaker 7: What's up, man, maculdo ace?
- 1:19:02Speaker 2: What's going on?
- 1:19:03Speaker 6: Man?
- 1:19:03Speaker 2: Thanks for hanging out. Are you you've been around before? Right?
- 1:19:07Speaker 2: Do I recognize you? I forget? Are you? Wait? Are
- 1:19:11Speaker 2: you black Santa? Is that you? Is that who you are?
- 1:19:13Speaker 2: You're somebody else? I forget.
- 1:19:14Speaker 7: I'm sorry, I forget who everybody is. And some people
- 1:19:17Speaker 7: change their names and stuff.
- 1:19:18Speaker 2: I don't know. I forget, all right.
- 1:19:20Speaker 7: Uh, Cubs in San Francisco are on ABC, so they
- 1:19:23Speaker 7: get a TV game here. By the way, Milwaukee and Philadelphia,
- 1:19:28Speaker 7: one of the best Games of the day probably is
- 1:19:30Speaker 7: ESPN Unlimited, so you have to have that to watch
- 1:19:33Speaker 7: that game or find a stream. Of course, San Francisco
- 1:19:37Speaker 7: is trying to avoid a sweep.
- 1:19:38Speaker 2: Heer.
- 1:19:39Speaker 7: I told you their offense would fall off again, and
- 1:19:41Speaker 7: they've scored two runs in the first two games total
- 1:19:44Speaker 7: of this series, so yeah, their offense is falling off again.
- 1:19:48Speaker 7: They're having a bad series. They're on the verge of
- 1:19:49Speaker 7: getting swept by the Cubs. But maybe that will motivate
- 1:19:52Speaker 7: them a little bit. I just, you know, I talk
- 1:19:55Speaker 7: about that, the motivation tends to be at a high
- 1:19:57Speaker 7: when a team's trying to avoid a sweep, especially.
- 1:19:59Speaker 2: When you're at home.
- 1:20:00Speaker 7: You're facing a good team like the Cubs, so you're
- 1:20:02Speaker 7: not gonna overlook them. You want to avoid getting swept.
- 1:20:06Speaker 7: You've scored very, very few runs in the series. Should
- 1:20:09Speaker 7: be a motivational spot for San Francisco. And it looks
- 1:20:11Speaker 7: like the pitching matchup does kind of favor them here.
- 1:20:15Speaker 7: I mean, they got one of their best starters on
- 1:20:17Speaker 7: them out up against the Cubs bullpen game. It looks
- 1:20:20Speaker 7: like here, so I don't know, it looks like the
- 1:20:22Speaker 7: Cubs are kind of satisfied with having won the series
- 1:20:25Speaker 7: already kind of. Cubs have been the better bullpen, though
- 1:20:28Speaker 7: they use three guys out of the bullpen yesterday San
- 1:20:31Speaker 7: Francisco used a lot. They used five, And San Francisco's
- 1:20:35Speaker 7: bullpen has been bad, like way worse than.
- 1:20:38Speaker 2: I thought they would because they're pretty good last year.
- 1:20:40Speaker 7: They were one of the best bullpens last year, and
- 1:20:42Speaker 7: they have some of those same guys with their twenty
- 1:20:44Speaker 7: fifth and bullpen here not good. The Cubs are eighth.
- 1:20:48Speaker 7: Cubs have the better bullpen. Cubs have been the better
- 1:20:52Speaker 7: offensive team. They're number eleven. Giants are number thirteen, But
- 1:20:56Speaker 7: I think that's way overstating what they actually are, as
- 1:20:58Speaker 7: I keep saying they had those a couple of outlier
- 1:21:01Speaker 7: extreme offensive explosions and the rest of the season they've
- 1:21:05Speaker 7: been a pretty bad offense, and we see them being
- 1:21:07Speaker 7: a bad offense again right now.
- 1:21:09Speaker 2: So I don't think their offense is good. Cubs have Ryan.
- 1:21:13Speaker 7: Rolis and listed as their starter here unless they've changed that,
- 1:21:16Speaker 7: which no, they have not.
- 1:21:17Speaker 2: So they're going with an opener here.
- 1:21:19Speaker 7: Uh He's got okay numbers, but he's probably only gonna
- 1:21:22Speaker 7: be in there for about an inning. Uh, So they're
- 1:21:24Speaker 7: going with an opener here, and then the question is like, well,
- 1:21:27Speaker 7: what are the Cubs doing? Like who's coming in behind him?
- 1:21:30Speaker 7: And I looked at what they're set up has ben
- 1:21:33Speaker 7: to me, it looks like it should be Colin Ray would.
- 1:21:37Speaker 2: Be the next guy up in the road. He's not
- 1:21:38Speaker 2: even in the rotation right now, but he looks like
- 1:21:40Speaker 2: he's the next guy up to pitch here for them.
- 1:21:44Speaker 7: Uh So, I don't know if it's gonna be him
- 1:21:45Speaker 7: or not, but Ray has not been very good. Uh
- 1:21:48Speaker 7: five point one to ninety one point four to three
- 1:21:50Speaker 7: whip his numbers against San Francisco. I don't think of
- 1:21:53Speaker 7: that good either. He's also really bad on the road.
- 1:21:55Speaker 7: Seven point one to two Roady Ray.
- 1:21:58Speaker 2: This is if he pitches.
- 1:22:00Speaker 7: But if he does, San Francisco has thirty two at
- 1:22:02Speaker 7: bats against him, a five hundred average, fifteen to fifty
- 1:22:05Speaker 7: nine ops.
- 1:22:06Speaker 2: So if Ray is going to pitch in this game,
- 1:22:09Speaker 2: I think that.
- 1:22:09Speaker 7: Helps San Francisco. And San Francisco is going with Logan
- 1:22:12Speaker 7: web here. And I told you he would turn it around.
- 1:22:15Speaker 2: Dude. He's been a consistent pitcher throughout his career. He's
- 1:22:18Speaker 2: not old yet.
- 1:22:19Speaker 7: You know his numbers are all, they're already right back
- 1:22:22Speaker 7: in line with what he's done throughout his entire career.
- 1:22:25Speaker 7: So I told you that the start to the season,
- 1:22:28Speaker 7: I told you would turn it around. He's done that.
- 1:22:30Speaker 7: He's been really really good in June so far. He's
- 1:22:33Speaker 7: got his overall numbers at a three point eight to
- 1:22:36Speaker 7: eighty RA, one point one to nine WHIP. He's still
- 1:22:39Speaker 7: not good at home though, four point nine to four
- 1:22:41Speaker 7: home he RA, but throughout his career he's been better
- 1:22:43Speaker 7: at home, so I expect that to kind of change too.
- 1:22:46Speaker 7: I would not be scared of him pitching at home,
- 1:22:48Speaker 7: let's put it that way. And his last two starts
- 1:22:52Speaker 7: have been really good.
- 1:22:53Speaker 2: We had a win with.
- 1:22:54Speaker 7: San Francisco first five, luckily they had a run and
- 1:22:57Speaker 7: they were winning one nothing against Milwaukee at that point,
- 1:23:00Speaker 7: and they wound up winning the game one nothing. Webb
- 1:23:02Speaker 7: was excellent in that outing against Milwaukee, seven innings, won,
- 1:23:06Speaker 7: hit aloud, no one on runs. And then he followed
- 1:23:09Speaker 7: that up with another really good performance at home against Washington,
- 1:23:12Speaker 7: And like I said, I wouldn't be scared of him
- 1:23:14Speaker 7: pitching at home. He pitched well in that home start
- 1:23:16Speaker 7: against a Washington lineup that does hit well on the
- 1:23:19Speaker 7: road this year, so good sign. It looks like Webb
- 1:23:22Speaker 7: is really back in good form again right now. He
- 1:23:25Speaker 7: doesn't need to be this good again to get this
- 1:23:27Speaker 7: job done in this game, I don't think.
- 1:23:29Speaker 2: I think he might be able to do it.
- 1:23:31Speaker 7: Although his numbers are a little bit sketchy against the Cubs,
- 1:23:33Speaker 7: one hundred and two at bats against them, so he's
- 1:23:36Speaker 7: got a lot of experience against them, but they have
- 1:23:38Speaker 7: a lot of experience against him. Nineteen to four strikeout
- 1:23:41Speaker 7: walk ratio, two forty five average allowed as low.
- 1:23:43Speaker 2: Those numbers are good.
- 1:23:45Speaker 7: The only number that's not very good is a seven
- 1:23:47Speaker 7: to seventy four OHPS because he's allowed seven home runs
- 1:23:50Speaker 7: to them, which is not great. But I still would
- 1:23:54Speaker 7: I would take Web, especially in the form and he's
- 1:23:56Speaker 7: in right now. I would take that over this Chicago bullpen,
- 1:24:00Speaker 7: whatever situation you're especially if Colin Ray is pitching here.
- 1:24:03Speaker 2: I like San Francisco in this game. You know, maybe
- 1:24:07Speaker 2: first five though.
- 1:24:08Speaker 7: Makes more sense because San Francisco's bullpen is very bad,
- 1:24:12Speaker 7: But the Cubs are going with a bullpen game and
- 1:24:14Speaker 7: it's a motivational spot for San Francisco, so you could
- 1:24:17Speaker 7: probably still go full game with this. San Francisco is favored.
- 1:24:21Speaker 7: They're favored for a reason here, and a lot of
- 1:24:24Speaker 7: that is because of the pitching matchup. But yeah, I mean,
- 1:24:26Speaker 7: I think a full game money line in San Francisco
- 1:24:28Speaker 7: makes sense. I wouldn't disagree with the first five money
- 1:24:31Speaker 7: line or something on San Francisco as well, but yeah,
- 1:24:34Speaker 7: I think full game money line makes sense there. Tampa
- 1:24:38Speaker 7: Bay is on the Vergier getting swept by Anaheim, which
- 1:24:41Speaker 7: seems crazy, but I did tell you that Tampa Bay
- 1:24:44Speaker 7: was not as good as their record would indicated. I
- 1:24:46Speaker 7: think they're decent, but they're not that good. They did
- 1:24:49Speaker 7: get shut out yesterday, ate nothing, and now they're on
- 1:24:52Speaker 7: the Virgio getting swept, so you gotta think they'll probably
- 1:24:54Speaker 7: have motivation here. But they're going with a bullpen game
- 1:24:57Speaker 7: here too, so that doesn't look great. Anaheim is also
- 1:25:02Speaker 7: not a great team Tampa Bay, as you know, even
- 1:25:04Speaker 7: though I know they're not as good as the record looks,
- 1:25:07Speaker 7: but they're still a.
- 1:25:07Speaker 2: Better team than Anaheim.
- 1:25:09Speaker 7: Anaheim used three relief pitchers yesterday, Tampa Bay used four.
- 1:25:14Speaker 2: Neither bullpen has been good.
- 1:25:15Speaker 7: Tampa Bay is twentieth the bullpen and their Ray is
- 1:25:18Speaker 7: getting close to five, not good. Anaheim's bullpen is right
- 1:25:22Speaker 7: around there. They're number twenty seven. So we got two
- 1:25:25Speaker 7: bullpens that I think you definitely want to avoid here
- 1:25:28Speaker 7: or fade them. Tampa Bay's offense is falling off. They're
- 1:25:31Speaker 7: down to number fifteen, not great. Anaheim is eighteenth.
- 1:25:35Speaker 1: So we have.
- 1:25:36Speaker 7: Two offenses that have been up and down and kind
- 1:25:38Speaker 7: of mediocre. Casey Legumina Legumina pitching for the Rays here.
- 1:25:46Speaker 7: He's gonna be an opener though he's a relief pitcher.
- 1:25:49Speaker 7: He's got alright numbers, but he's only gonna be in
- 1:25:51Speaker 7: there for probably an inning, maybe two. So it looks
- 1:25:54Speaker 7: like Tampa's going with a bullpen situation here. I have you
- 1:25:57Speaker 7: looked five games ago. It was a game where they
- 1:26:01Speaker 7: did win against the Red Sox, And this is a
- 1:26:03Speaker 7: game where Ian Seymour was the opener in that game,
- 1:26:06Speaker 7: and Legome and however you pronounced his name came in
- 1:26:09Speaker 7: behind him, and then former Red Sox pitcher Cam Boozer.
- 1:26:12Speaker 7: I love his story, you know, getting getting over the
- 1:26:15Speaker 7: other drug addiction and whatever. Yeah, and the Red Sox
- 1:26:19Speaker 7: gave him his first major league shot. I'm pretty sure
- 1:26:23Speaker 7: I like that. I think that's the same Cam Boozer.
- 1:26:25Speaker 7: I like that guy not related to the to the
- 1:26:29Speaker 7: Duke players, if that wasn't obvious anyway, I didn't realize
- 1:26:33Speaker 7: Tampa had him. I thought he was still in the
- 1:26:35Speaker 7: White Sox or something, all right, But yes, so Ian
- 1:26:39Speaker 7: Seymour might get involved in this game too, so I
- 1:26:42Speaker 7: guess we can kind of look at him and see
- 1:26:44Speaker 7: what's going on with him. He's actually in Tampa Bay's
- 1:26:47Speaker 7: depth chart as a starter, so I think he is
- 1:26:49Speaker 7: going to pitch at some point in this game too,
- 1:26:51Speaker 7: because he hasn't pitched since that game on the eighth,
- 1:26:54Speaker 7: and he did fairly well. And he's got good numbers
- 1:26:56Speaker 7: against Anaheim, although it's only in four at bats, five
- 1:26:59Speaker 7: of their heroes face and they're zero for four with
- 1:27:01Speaker 7: two strikeouts and two walks.
- 1:27:03Speaker 2: So I think Seymour is gonna.
- 1:27:04Speaker 7: Get involved in this game, so it might not be
- 1:27:07Speaker 7: as bad as it looks like as far as it
- 1:27:09Speaker 7: being a bullpen game. I still don't really trust it though.
- 1:27:13Speaker 7: And then Grayson Rodriguez is pitching for Anaheim. He's starting
- 1:27:16Speaker 7: to pitch better, although I know his overall numbers are awful.
- 1:27:19Speaker 7: Eight point one era one point eight whip. He's been
- 1:27:24Speaker 7: really bad at home nine point eight two home he
- 1:27:26Speaker 7: ra so he's not exactly a guy you want to back.
- 1:27:28Speaker 7: But two of his last three starts have actually been good,
- 1:27:31Speaker 7: including last time out against Houston.
- 1:27:33Speaker 2: At home, so that was a decent sign.
- 1:27:36Speaker 7: He pitched well in that outing, and if you look
- 1:27:38Speaker 7: at what he did, he's trying to return from injury
- 1:27:40Speaker 7: and missing more than a season. He actually looked like
- 1:27:43Speaker 7: he was okay when he was on Baltimore a couple
- 1:27:45Speaker 7: of years ago. So I think he is certainly better
- 1:27:48Speaker 7: than his numbers make it look.
- 1:27:49Speaker 2: So far. He's got a decent strikeout rate here.
- 1:27:51Speaker 7: His hit rate is too high, though, and so is
- 1:27:54Speaker 7: his walk right, so he's got to figure those things out.
- 1:27:57Speaker 7: But I think he's kind of moving in the right direction.
- 1:28:00Speaker 7: I think he is going to be better than what
- 1:28:02Speaker 7: these numbers look, which I mean that's not going out
- 1:28:05Speaker 7: on a limb really. Tampa Bay only has four hitters
- 1:28:08Speaker 7: who have ever faced him twenty at bats against him,
- 1:28:11Speaker 7: two fifty average, seven thirty six ops five to one
- 1:28:14Speaker 7: strike at walk ratio, so generally he's had a little
- 1:28:16Speaker 7: bit of the upper hand against Tampa Bay. The guys
- 1:28:19Speaker 7: that have seen him, so I don't really mind Rodriguez
- 1:28:23Speaker 7: how he matches up here. But Tampa their bullpen game
- 1:28:26Speaker 7: looks like it might actually potentially be effective here, and
- 1:28:29Speaker 7: they're trying to avoid a sweep. The money's coming in
- 1:28:32Speaker 7: on the over here that would be over nine, for
- 1:28:34Speaker 7: whatever that's worth.
- 1:28:35Speaker 2: I don't really disagree with that.
- 1:28:37Speaker 7: I could see all the pitching in this game kind
- 1:28:39Speaker 7: of struggling a little bit, plusy of awful bullpens here
- 1:28:42Speaker 7: for the most part, so I could see the over
- 1:28:45Speaker 7: argument here. Tampa Bay has seventy percent of tickets ninety
- 1:28:49Speaker 7: three percent of the cash on them. I still don't
- 1:28:50Speaker 7: want to deal with a bullpen game though for Tampa,
- 1:28:53Speaker 7: so I don't know. I don't really trust the pitching here,
- 1:28:56Speaker 7: which does kind of say, yeah, you should look at
- 1:28:57Speaker 7: the over then, So that's probably the better way to
- 1:29:00Speaker 7: play that game, is the over. But we'll see Tampa's
- 1:29:03Speaker 7: around a minus one twenty favorite because again you can't
- 1:29:05Speaker 7: see it on the site right now for some reason.
- 1:29:08Speaker 7: And then the night game NBC in Peacock is my
- 1:29:10Speaker 7: Boston Red Sox trying to sweep the Texas Rangers. The
- 1:29:14Speaker 7: Red Sox are actually on the version of a home sweep.
- 1:29:17Speaker 7: When would that ever happen? The Red Sox have been
- 1:29:19Speaker 7: so bad at home. I don't know if they're gonna
- 1:29:21Speaker 7: get the sweep or not. Man, the Red Sox do
- 1:29:24Speaker 7: play Toronto next, I believe. I don't know if that's
- 1:29:26Speaker 7: a look ahead or not, but they've already won the series.
- 1:29:29Speaker 7: I don't know, Man, They're going up against a good
- 1:29:31Speaker 7: pitcher and Nathan Yavaldi, but as I'll show you in
- 1:29:33Speaker 7: a minute, the Red Sox do have a good history
- 1:29:35Speaker 7: against him. The Red Sox used a lot of their
- 1:29:38Speaker 7: bullpen yesterday. They use five guys out of the bullpen,
- 1:29:41Speaker 7: but they're no overusing Chapman multiple games in a row,
- 1:29:44Speaker 7: and he hasn't pitched for days or hadn't prior to that,
- 1:29:48Speaker 7: So I don't know. I mean, the Red Sox still
- 1:29:50Speaker 7: do have a good bullpen though. Texas used three guys
- 1:29:53Speaker 7: out of their bullpen. But the Red Sox have the
- 1:29:56Speaker 7: number two bullpen and whip they're one of the best
- 1:29:58Speaker 7: bullpen in our rays. Texas is not too far off
- 1:30:01Speaker 7: at number five and also a good bullpen. E Ra
- 1:30:05Speaker 7: Red Sox slightly better bullpen, but they're slightly less rested.
- 1:30:08Speaker 7: So the bullpens are about even, but I still consider
- 1:30:10Speaker 7: them to both be good and I think you could
- 1:30:13Speaker 7: still back them here. Neither offense is very good. Texas
- 1:30:18Speaker 7: is twenty third Red Sox. Actually, these teams are tied
- 1:30:21Speaker 7: right now, tied at twenty third in ops. Nathan Yavaldi
- 1:30:26Speaker 7: is pitching for Texas. Like I said, he's been pretty solid,
- 1:30:30Speaker 7: even though the ray doesn't look that good four point
- 1:30:32Speaker 7: two six ERA, but he's been good generally with Texas.
- 1:30:35Speaker 7: One point one to eight whip is also good. You'd
- 1:30:38Speaker 7: think he wouldn't be as good on the road because
- 1:30:40Speaker 7: Texas is a very pitcher friendly home stadium, but he's
- 1:30:43Speaker 7: been pretty good on the I mean he's not good,
- 1:30:45Speaker 7: but he's been a little bit better on the road
- 1:30:48Speaker 7: than at home. Four point one four road ray, so
- 1:30:50Speaker 7: he hasn't struggled on the road really, but he hasn't
- 1:30:53Speaker 7: really been that good this month. He's allowed four and
- 1:30:56Speaker 7: runs in two road starts, four in runs a piece
- 1:30:59Speaker 7: in two roads stars, so he's got a six point
- 1:31:01Speaker 7: one seventy RA this month. That's not great, and he's
- 1:31:04Speaker 7: allowed way over one hit per inning. Granted it was
- 1:31:07Speaker 7: all kind of because of one start against Saint Louis,
- 1:31:10Speaker 7: where he still had a good strikeout walk ratio, but
- 1:31:12Speaker 7: then he followed that up by walking three Kansas City
- 1:31:15Speaker 7: Royals in five and two thirds.
- 1:31:16Speaker 2: That's not great.
- 1:31:17Speaker 7: And he allowed five runs to Houston in the last
- 1:31:20Speaker 7: start of May, so he's not really in good form
- 1:31:22Speaker 7: right now. Although he has a good hit rate, his
- 1:31:24Speaker 7: walk rate is fine, he's allowed too many home runs,
- 1:31:28Speaker 7: which is kind of weird because he has an even
- 1:31:30Speaker 7: ground ball fly ball ratio, so it's kind of weird
- 1:31:33Speaker 7: that he's allowed that many home runs, especially pitching in Texas,
- 1:31:36Speaker 7: that makes no sense. And he has a decent strikeout rate.
- 1:31:40Speaker 7: Numbers against the Red Sox, though, are not very good.
- 1:31:43Speaker 7: As I alluded to, they have fifty seven at bats
- 1:31:45Speaker 7: against him. You might think, oh, well, he's going up
- 1:31:47Speaker 7: against his former team here. Yeah, I know, but he's
- 1:31:49Speaker 7: been on Texas for years now, so this is not
- 1:31:52Speaker 7: the first time he's facing the Red Sox since being
- 1:31:55Speaker 7: off of the Red Sox.
- 1:31:56Speaker 2: You know, like that first start.
- 1:31:57Speaker 7: A lot of times the guy gets pumped up to
- 1:31:59Speaker 7: prove himself against the team that got rid of him.
- 1:32:01Speaker 7: But it's years in the past now, so I don't
- 1:32:04Speaker 7: think that matters. Fifty seven at bats, the Red Sox
- 1:32:07Speaker 7: have a two to eighty one average against him eight
- 1:32:09Speaker 7: thirty one ohps, eleven to two strike out walk ratio,
- 1:32:13Speaker 7: so overall the Red Sox have had the upper hand
- 1:32:15Speaker 7: against Evalde when they faced him, so they might be
- 1:32:18Speaker 7: able to hit him here.
- 1:32:20Speaker 2: Connolly Early is pitching for the Red Sox.
- 1:32:22Speaker 7: He's been pretty good three point three ERA, one point
- 1:32:25Speaker 7: two to three WHIP. He's still really young figuring things out.
- 1:32:28Speaker 7: Hasn't really been as good at home three point eight
- 1:32:31Speaker 7: six ERA. That's still not bad though Fenway is a
- 1:32:34Speaker 7: hitter friendly ballpark. He wasn't good in his last outing,
- 1:32:37Speaker 7: which was actually on the road against Tampa Bay.
- 1:32:39Speaker 2: He walked four guys.
- 1:32:40Speaker 7: Still held him to tour in runs though, but only
- 1:32:43Speaker 7: in four and two thirds innings, so it still wasn't great.
- 1:32:46Speaker 7: He allowed four runs in the outing before that against Baltimore,
- 1:32:49Speaker 7: so he hasn't really done that well this month. So
- 1:32:52Speaker 7: he's a little bit out of form right now, which
- 1:32:54Speaker 7: isn't great. He's got a decent hit rayl pretty good
- 1:32:58Speaker 7: hit rate on the season, fairly low walk rate, and
- 1:33:01Speaker 7: his strike out rate is okay on the season, so
- 1:33:03Speaker 7: his overall numbers.
- 1:33:04Speaker 2: Are still pretty good.
- 1:33:06Speaker 7: He's allowed maybe a few too many home runs though,
- 1:33:08Speaker 7: and that's been happening recently, which isn't great against Texas
- 1:33:13Speaker 7: though they really haven't seen him before. Only Elias Diaz
- 1:33:16Speaker 7: has ever faced him before, and he is one for
- 1:33:18Speaker 7: three with a home run against him though and a
- 1:33:20Speaker 7: strike up. But I think Early, being unfamiliar to Texas's offense,
- 1:33:24Speaker 7: that might give him a little bit of an advantage here.
- 1:33:27Speaker 7: I don't really trust Evaldi in his form right now. Early,
- 1:33:30Speaker 7: I know, has not been in great form either. I
- 1:33:34Speaker 7: think i'd slightly lean Red Sox here. The money seems
- 1:33:36Speaker 7: to kind of back that sixty eight percent of the
- 1:33:39Speaker 7: tickets seventy two percent of the cash on the Red Sox.
- 1:33:41Speaker 7: I don't really buy that the Red Sox are public
- 1:33:43Speaker 7: here though, I'm assuming they are favorite though.
- 1:33:46Speaker 2: Yeah, they're a very small home favorite here.
- 1:33:49Speaker 7: So to me, I would think that the public would
- 1:33:53Speaker 7: be fading the Red Sox here because they know who
- 1:33:55Speaker 7: Evaldi is, they know the Red Sox haven't been good.
- 1:34:00Speaker 7: I don't know, the record's not good whatever. This total
- 1:34:03Speaker 7: is really high given what this pitching matchup is, though.
- 1:34:06Speaker 7: The totals at nine, and this looks like a pitching
- 1:34:08Speaker 7: matchup where you'd get like a like an eight maybe
- 1:34:11Speaker 7: on the total nine is kind of crazy, so the
- 1:34:14Speaker 7: odds makers are kind of telling you something with a
- 1:34:17Speaker 7: total of this high. And like I said, both pitchers
- 1:34:19Speaker 7: have been a little bit out of form recently, bullpens
- 1:34:21Speaker 7: are a little bit used.
- 1:34:23Speaker 2: It wouldn't surprise me if this game is a little
- 1:34:26Speaker 2: bit higher scoring.
- 1:34:27Speaker 7: I'm really still pissed about not getting the under yesterday.
- 1:34:30Speaker 7: Both games in the series Safar have gone over, and
- 1:34:33Speaker 7: they both look like they probably should have gone under.
- 1:34:35Speaker 7: This game looks the least under conducive of the three,
- 1:34:39Speaker 7: even though on the surface, just looking at the starters,
- 1:34:42Speaker 7: I was kind of thinking this looks like an under,
- 1:34:44Speaker 7: but when you dig into it, not really. Tickets seventy
- 1:34:48Speaker 7: percent of the cash on the over I guess act accordingly,
- 1:34:51Speaker 7: but obviously that is not a play for me in
- 1:34:53Speaker 7: that game. I just I'm gonna root for the Red
- 1:34:56Speaker 7: Sox and that's about it. But they are pretty much dead.
- 1:34:59Speaker 2: So what all right? Wnba, dirty sock? What's up? Thanks
- 1:35:04Speaker 2: for hanging out, WNBA. We have two games. This is
- 1:35:07Speaker 2: still Commissioner's Cup.
- 1:35:10Speaker 7: Play The first game is a complete mismatch Washington at
- 1:35:13Speaker 7: New York. One thing to consider here, well, New York
- 1:35:16Speaker 7: has been playing a lot better recently. They've won six
- 1:35:19Speaker 7: games in a row. But they're coming off a big
- 1:35:21Speaker 7: win against Atlanta and they're returning home from the road.
- 1:35:24Speaker 7: Atlanta has been playing well, so that was a nice
- 1:35:26Speaker 7: win for New York and now they're returning from Atlanta
- 1:35:29Speaker 7: going back up north.
- 1:35:30Speaker 2: They've been on the road.
- 1:35:32Speaker 7: Since June eighth, although their first road game was in Connecticut,
- 1:35:35Speaker 7: which is not that far away. Still, maybe you could
- 1:35:37Speaker 7: argue it's a road trip return because they've been away
- 1:35:39Speaker 7: for almost a week. Sometimes that will distract you and
- 1:35:42Speaker 7: you have to get back to home life. But they
- 1:35:44Speaker 7: only have Chicago next, Reitch, I don't really think it's
- 1:35:46Speaker 7: that much of a look ahead. Chicago has not been
- 1:35:49Speaker 7: playing well. It is a TV game.
- 1:35:51Speaker 2: Though, so maybe I don't know.
- 1:35:53Speaker 7: Today's game is on NBA TV though, so whatever, but
- 1:35:57Speaker 7: it could be a let down a little bit off
- 1:35:58Speaker 7: of Atlanta.
- 1:36:00Speaker 2: However.
- 1:36:00Speaker 7: The other thing is they did play Washington on the
- 1:36:03Speaker 7: road earlier this season, second game of the season, and
- 1:36:06Speaker 7: Liberty almost got caught in that game. They almost lost.
- 1:36:09Speaker 7: They had to go to overtime to beat Washington. So
- 1:36:12Speaker 7: because Washington gave them a scare in that game, they
- 1:36:14Speaker 7: might take Washington a little bit more seriously here and
- 1:36:17Speaker 7: maybe stay focused. But I still would not lay this
- 1:36:20Speaker 7: price with the Liberty their minus twelve and a half.
- 1:36:23Speaker 7: The money is back in Washington here, sixty seven percent
- 1:36:26Speaker 7: of tickets on the Liberty, eighty eight percent of the
- 1:36:29Speaker 7: cash on Washington.
- 1:36:30Speaker 2: That's against the.
- 1:36:31Speaker 7: Spread obviously, so well maybe not obviously, but the money
- 1:36:35Speaker 7: a lot will be huge on Washington.
- 1:36:37Speaker 2: But yeah, I would, I would agree with it.
- 1:36:38Speaker 7: I think I would lean that way to taking Washington
- 1:36:40Speaker 7: plus the points, but I don't love it.
- 1:36:42Speaker 2: Again, I'm skipping WNBA.
- 1:36:44Speaker 7: I know at some point we're gonna have more WNBA,
- 1:36:47Speaker 7: but I'm trying to pick my spots here.
- 1:36:49Speaker 2: Man.
- 1:36:49Speaker 7: Atlanta at Toronto is the other game. Atlanta is coming
- 1:36:53Speaker 7: off that tough game against the Liberty, although they did
- 1:36:55Speaker 7: lose by double digits, So the question is are they
- 1:36:58Speaker 7: gonna be hung over from that or is it gonna
- 1:37:00Speaker 7: be a bounce back spot.
- 1:37:02Speaker 2: I don't know.
- 1:37:03Speaker 7: One issue here is they have to go through customs
- 1:37:05Speaker 7: and Atlanta is they're not accustomed to that because Toronto's
- 1:37:10Speaker 7: an expansion team. Atlanta has never played there before, so
- 1:37:14Speaker 7: going to this venue and through customs is a new
- 1:37:16Speaker 7: thing for them, So that might be a little bit
- 1:37:17Speaker 7: of a problem. And Toronto's coming off a pretty ugly
- 1:37:21Speaker 7: game where they lost to Washington the other day. They
- 1:37:23Speaker 7: were actually an underdog in that game.
- 1:37:25Speaker 2: But I don't know.
- 1:37:26Speaker 7: To me, it looks like the spot might be a
- 1:37:27Speaker 7: little bit worse for Atlanta here, and I believe they
- 1:37:29Speaker 7: have a bigger game next. I think it's against Indiana,
- 1:37:33Speaker 7: yet it is they play back to back games against
- 1:37:35Speaker 7: Indiana coming up, one on Amazon Prime, one on ABC,
- 1:37:39Speaker 7: so they might be looking ahead to that a little
- 1:37:41Speaker 7: bit here. Again, I know it's Cup play, so there's
- 1:37:44Speaker 7: a little bit of extra motivation potentially on both sides,
- 1:37:47Speaker 7: But I don't know if that's enough here, So I
- 1:37:50Speaker 7: think I would lean to Toronto in this one slightly.
- 1:37:54Speaker 7: The money seems like it agrees with that as well,
- 1:37:56Speaker 7: pretty strongly. Atlanta's sixty seven percent of the tickets on them,
- 1:38:00Speaker 7: they were laying six and a half on the road here.
- 1:38:03Speaker 7: Basically have to look at ESPN to figure that out,
- 1:38:06Speaker 7: because this website is fucked again. Eighty eight percent of
- 1:38:09Speaker 7: the cash on Toronto though, so do with that infot
- 1:38:11Speaker 7: what you want, but I would lean slightly to both
- 1:38:14Speaker 7: underdogs there. NHL, we have Carolina trying to win the
- 1:38:18Speaker 7: Stanley Cup here. Going back to Vegas though, Vegas one
- 1:38:22Speaker 7: of the wins they've had in this series was at home,
- 1:38:24Speaker 7: and they did play better in the other home game
- 1:38:26Speaker 7: two than they did in the last road game. I
- 1:38:29Speaker 7: would say, but really, Vegas has not played that poorly
- 1:38:32Speaker 7: in these games, man Like. This last game was kind
- 1:38:36Speaker 7: of fluky. The game at Carolina. Statistically, this game played
- 1:38:40Speaker 7: pretty close. Shots were very close, hits were very close.
- 1:38:45Speaker 7: Carolina did win the face off battle, but everything was
- 1:38:48Speaker 7: really close. And Toronto did what they usually do not do.
- 1:38:50Speaker 7: They scored two hour play goals, and if you watch
- 1:38:53Speaker 7: the game, the other two goals they scored were on
- 1:38:56Speaker 7: bad Vegas turnovers, so Vegas had some sloppy play that
- 1:39:01Speaker 7: led to those other goals. So it was I think
- 1:39:03Speaker 7: it was a little bit fluky, man, I do, so
- 1:39:07Speaker 7: I think Vegas might be able to clean that up
- 1:39:08Speaker 7: a little bit coming into this game. Vegas did also
- 1:39:11Speaker 7: score one power play goal in that game. Carolina, though,
- 1:39:14Speaker 7: as I keep saying, they have not really been that
- 1:39:16Speaker 7: good on the power play throughout this season, although they've
- 1:39:19Speaker 7: been scoring on the power play in the last couple
- 1:39:21Speaker 7: of games in this series.
- 1:39:22Speaker 2: But I don't know.
- 1:39:24Speaker 7: I think the biggest outlier here, if there is any,
- 1:39:26Speaker 7: is really just the way that Carolinas scored in the
- 1:39:29Speaker 7: game was a little bit fluke here. Of course, Vegas
- 1:39:32Speaker 7: is better at home than they are on the road,
- 1:39:33Speaker 7: and Vegas does have the pedigree, but they did also lose.
- 1:39:38Speaker 7: I forget, Vegas lost one of their better players in
- 1:39:40Speaker 7: that game. They're listed is having no injuries though, so
- 1:39:44Speaker 7: I don't know. Maybe he is gonna play. Like I
- 1:39:46Speaker 7: said that about McNabb, their defenseman a few games agoing
- 1:39:49Speaker 7: he didn't even miss a game. I'm trying to remember
- 1:39:53Speaker 7: who it was. Somebody can refresh my memory, because I
- 1:39:55Speaker 7: forget who it was. Vegas lost one of their guys
- 1:39:58Speaker 7: to injury, though I think it was William Carlson. I'm
- 1:40:01Speaker 7: pretty sure it is who it was, So I don't
- 1:40:03Speaker 7: know if he's playing or not. Here. No, he's out,
- 1:40:06Speaker 7: so he's definitely out. So he's not playing. So that's
- 1:40:09Speaker 7: you know, that is a little bit of a problem
- 1:40:12Speaker 7: for Vegas, although again Vegas does have a lot of
- 1:40:14Speaker 7: offensive players, so I think they can overcome that anyway. Yeah,
- 1:40:19Speaker 7: I mean, I don't have a good read on the game.
- 1:40:20Speaker 7: I'm not gonna be a play for me anything like that.
- 1:40:23Speaker 7: I lean slightly towards Vegas. But the money's all coming
- 1:40:26Speaker 7: in on Carolina, so there you go, Garretts. Carolina is
- 1:40:32Speaker 7: basically the game is like a pick'm price here, fifty
- 1:40:35Speaker 7: two tickets on Vegas. I don't know that the public
- 1:40:38Speaker 7: could really be back in Vegas, so that's not a
- 1:40:39Speaker 7: high percentage, though money is back in Carolina seventy eight
- 1:40:43Speaker 7: percent of the cash on Carolina.
- 1:40:45Speaker 2: I don't know, We'll see. I mean, I kind of
- 1:40:47Speaker 2: just had this feel that.
- 1:40:48Speaker 7: This would be a seven game series, but maybe that's
- 1:40:50Speaker 7: just I don't know, some weird intuition on my part.
- 1:40:54Speaker 7: I have no idea total is lower than it has
- 1:40:56Speaker 7: been in any other game in the series. By the way,
- 1:40:58Speaker 7: it's you can find it at and I do think
- 1:41:01Speaker 7: an under might be worth considering. When you have these
- 1:41:03Speaker 7: elimination games like this, and they're very important games late
- 1:41:06Speaker 7: in the series, you usually get like really intense deepens,
- 1:41:09Speaker 7: and the previous game did go under after every game
- 1:41:12Speaker 7: in the series had gone over prior to that, but
- 1:41:15Speaker 7: some of them were misleading, and like I said, some
- 1:41:17Speaker 7: of the goals in that last game were misleading as well,
- 1:41:21Speaker 7: power play goals on both sides, fluke goals off of turnovers,
- 1:41:25Speaker 7: you know, So I think that does indicate that this
- 1:41:27Speaker 7: should be a bit of a lower scoring game here.
- 1:41:29Speaker 7: In my opinion, ninety three percent of tickets are on
- 1:41:31Speaker 7: the over, eighty seven percent of the cash on the over.
- 1:41:35Speaker 7: The series has been so overconducive, and I think it's misleading.
- 1:41:38Speaker 7: Like a series with Carolina, you gotta think is more
- 1:41:41Speaker 7: under conducive. Of Vegas is gonna be without Carlson A though,
- 1:41:44Speaker 7: I don't think that matters that much. But total six,
- 1:41:48Speaker 7: Like I said, I think you could maybe go with
- 1:41:50Speaker 7: an under six and hope to avoid empty net goals
- 1:41:54Speaker 7: and whatever. I wouldn't really want to do it though.
- 1:41:56Speaker 7: And then we have four World Cup games here. I
- 1:41:59Speaker 7: don't have a good to gauge on these, but there's
- 1:42:02Speaker 7: one game that's probably gonna be an easy win for
- 1:42:04Speaker 7: Germany against Curasao. Who correct me if I'm wrong, but
- 1:42:08Speaker 7: I thought Curisaw was not even a country. I thought
- 1:42:10Speaker 7: they were Dutch territory and and there are counterparts.
- 1:42:15Speaker 2: The Netherlands are also.
- 1:42:16Speaker 7: Playing today, and they're both playing in Texas, but in
- 1:42:19Speaker 7: different locations. This first game is in Houston, but Germany's
- 1:42:23Speaker 7: a minus thirty four hundred favor or thirty five hundred
- 1:42:26Speaker 7: minus thirty five hundred favorite on the three way line?
- 1:42:30Speaker 7: Is that Eavy favorite? I don't know why is dude?
- 1:42:32Speaker 7: How is Curisow even in this thing? Like?
- 1:42:35Speaker 2: Its completely ridiculous.
- 1:42:37Speaker 7: I have no idea Germany obviously should win this game.
- 1:42:40Speaker 7: I mean, I don't think there's really a great way
- 1:42:43Speaker 7: to play in him. And I guess you could, you know,
- 1:42:48Speaker 7: you could maybe lean towards I don't know, Like, dude,
- 1:42:52Speaker 7: how did I miss some Australian Turkey?
- 1:42:54Speaker 2: What am I doing here? When was this game?
- 1:42:57Speaker 7: Did I forget to handicap that? Or did I talk
- 1:42:59Speaker 7: about it yesterday? I apologize? How did I miss this?
- 1:43:03Speaker 7: Maybe I did talk about it and I completely forget.
- 1:43:05Speaker 2: When was this game?
- 1:43:07Speaker 7: I just want to see, like the yeah game cast,
- 1:43:10Speaker 7: I guess is where it would be? Show me man, Yeah,
- 1:43:14Speaker 7: I don't. I just don't know how that happened. It was? Uh?
- 1:43:17Speaker 2: Oh is it midnight?
- 1:43:18Speaker 7: That's why so ESPN didn't show it on yesterday's board.
- 1:43:22Speaker 7: I apologize fuck that it was a midnight game because
- 1:43:25Speaker 7: it was in Vancouver. Come on, man, I wouldn't have
- 1:43:28Speaker 7: had much to say. Although I'm actually shocked that Australia won.
- 1:43:32Speaker 7: Turkey is definitely the better team. I'm shocked that Australia
- 1:43:35Speaker 7: won that game, but I forgot to talk about that,
- 1:43:37Speaker 7: so my apologies.
- 1:43:38Speaker 2: This is ESPN's fault, dude.
- 1:43:40Speaker 7: So I gotta scroll to the next day and just
- 1:43:42Speaker 7: make sure there's no midnight game, which tonight there is not,
- 1:43:45Speaker 7: so there you go.
- 1:43:48Speaker 2: Anyway, Germany should win.
- 1:43:49Speaker 7: The over one hundred in this game is four and
- 1:43:51Speaker 7: a half, which is ridiculous when every other game is
- 1:43:54Speaker 7: like one and a half, two and a half whatever.
- 1:43:57Speaker 2: I mean.
- 1:43:58Speaker 7: I guess you could lay a spread with Ermany or
- 1:44:00Speaker 7: something if you want to play this game. You'll need
- 1:44:02Speaker 7: them to win by multiple goals though, and like all
- 1:44:05Speaker 7: Germany needs to do is win, so I wouldn't do that,
- 1:44:07Speaker 7: you know what I mean? Like this is the World Cup,
- 1:44:11Speaker 7: it's the group stage, Like the wins are pretty much
- 1:44:14Speaker 7: the same old I think that maybe there are tiebreakers
- 1:44:16Speaker 7: from margin of victory or something. So maybe that does
- 1:44:18Speaker 7: matter a little bit. But I'll have to look into
- 1:44:20Speaker 7: that actually, because that is something we would need to know.
- 1:44:23Speaker 7: I'm not giving out a play there though, and all
- 1:44:25Speaker 7: the rest of these games are more competitive.
- 1:44:27Speaker 2: Arlington, Texas has Netherlands and Japan.
- 1:44:29Speaker 7: The Netherlands only plus one zh five on the three
- 1:44:32Speaker 7: way lines, so while they are the better team, I
- 1:44:35Speaker 7: think Japan might be.
- 1:44:36Speaker 2: Getting a little bit overlooked.
- 1:44:37Speaker 7: Like I said with South Korea, I think these Asian
- 1:44:39Speaker 7: teams might get overlooked a little bit because the general
- 1:44:42Speaker 7: consensus is, oh yeah, these European teams are like powerhouses.
- 1:44:45Speaker 7: The Netherlands have had some pretty good history in the
- 1:44:49Speaker 7: in the World Cup. They wear orange, you know, that's
- 1:44:52Speaker 7: their national color. It's the royal color, even though their
- 1:44:56Speaker 7: flag doesn't have orange in it. Whatever, unless that what
- 1:45:01Speaker 7: I think is red is like a dark orange. I
- 1:45:03Speaker 7: don't know, whatever, But I think maybe if you look
- 1:45:06Speaker 7: towards Japan, win or draw, that might be a way
- 1:45:09Speaker 7: to look at this game. You'll be probably paying about
- 1:45:11Speaker 7: minus one twenty something for it, probably, so kind of
- 1:45:14Speaker 7: a decent price there, and you get the win or
- 1:45:16Speaker 7: draw in your pocket. With Japan win or draw, that
- 1:45:21Speaker 7: might be a way to look at that game. Ivory
- 1:45:23Speaker 7: Coast in Ecuador looks like the closest matchup. Ecuador plus
- 1:45:26Speaker 7: one sixty on the three way line. Total ridiculously low.
- 1:45:30Speaker 7: At one and a half, Ivory Coast is probably that
- 1:45:33Speaker 7: means about plus one to eighty maybe on the three
- 1:45:36Speaker 7: way line. So these teams are considered to be really
- 1:45:38Speaker 7: evenly matched. They're both pretty good soccer countries for the
- 1:45:43Speaker 7: most part. I think the feeling is the South American
- 1:45:45Speaker 7: country is the better team Ecuador, but they are, but
- 1:45:50Speaker 7: very slightly. This game is in Pennsylvania. By the way,
- 1:45:53Speaker 7: those first two games, if I didn't say, one of
- 1:45:55Speaker 7: them is at the Houston Texans Stadium and the Arlington
- 1:45:58Speaker 7: one is at the Dallas Cowboys stadiums.
- 1:46:00Speaker 2: They usually they use. They use American football stadiums for football.
- 1:46:04Speaker 2: There you go.
- 1:46:06Speaker 7: And then this one's at Lincoln Financial so it's where
- 1:46:09Speaker 7: the Eagles play. These games are all on some combination
- 1:46:13Speaker 7: of either Fox, Peacock, Fox Sports One whatever. You'll find
- 1:46:17Speaker 7: it somewhere if you want to watch it, if you
- 1:46:19Speaker 7: have any of those. Anyway, Uh, this game, I mean
- 1:46:22Speaker 7: to me, playing the draw in this game might actually
- 1:46:25Speaker 7: be you know, something that you could do here. The
- 1:46:30Speaker 7: draw is I don't know what the what the odds
- 1:46:32Speaker 7: on the draw would be. Uh, it's gonna be plus money,
- 1:46:35Speaker 7: probably like plus two hundred or something. But with a
- 1:46:37Speaker 7: total dis low and with these teams so evenly matched
- 1:46:40Speaker 7: and this game, yeah, I mean there's a decent possibility
- 1:46:44Speaker 7: of a draw there. So maybe that is a consideration
- 1:46:47Speaker 7: in that one. And then my ancestors of Sweden are
- 1:46:50Speaker 7: playing against Tunisia in Mexico. Because they're in Mexico's group,
- 1:46:54Speaker 7: Sweden is considered to be the better team, their favorite,
- 1:46:57Speaker 7: well sort of favorite. They're plus one hundred on the
- 1:47:01Speaker 7: three way line, which means Tunisia as an underdog here.
- 1:47:04Speaker 7: I don't know what to do with this game, to
- 1:47:06Speaker 7: be honest, I think neither of these teams is really
- 1:47:08Speaker 7: considered to be a.
- 1:47:10Speaker 2: Soccer powerhouse, and they're not really.
- 1:47:13Speaker 7: I'm gonna root for Sweden because they're my guys, being
- 1:47:17Speaker 7: a Swede and having my other ancestors Italy somehow not
- 1:47:20Speaker 7: even in this thing, even though Italy is the team
- 1:47:24Speaker 7: with the better World Cup history, But whatever, I don't
- 1:47:27Speaker 7: have much to say about this.
- 1:47:28Speaker 2: This is like a close matchup as well.
- 1:47:31Speaker 7: The total is higher than the one and a half
- 1:47:34Speaker 7: in the Ivory Coast Ecuador game. So I don't know
- 1:47:38Speaker 7: do with that invo what you want. But I don't
- 1:47:39Speaker 7: really have much to say about that game. I don't
- 1:47:41Speaker 7: really have an opinion. I don't know much about soccer. Anyway,
- 1:47:44Speaker 7: There you go.
- 1:47:45Speaker 2: That's it.
- 1:47:46Speaker 7: That's the show today. The two players today are Yankees
- 1:47:49Speaker 7: Blue Jays over the eight and a half. So we're
- 1:47:53Speaker 7: going all baseball again. We got to turn this bullshit
- 1:47:56Speaker 7: or a bullshit around and under in Detroit Cleveland again.
- 1:48:01Speaker 7: I mean, I'm back and forth on whether I like
- 1:48:03Speaker 7: the first five inning version of that better or not.
- 1:48:06Speaker 7: It would be an underfod about minus one thirty or
- 1:48:08Speaker 7: so if you did it that way.
- 1:48:10Speaker 2: But those are the plays that I like the best.
- 1:48:12Speaker 2: That's gonna do it.
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- 1:48:51Speaker 7: but don't.
- 1:48:52Speaker 2: You go quiet.
- 1:48:53Speaker 3: Don't you play it from the flow. Your name's feel
- 1:48:56Speaker 3: me something to somebody for show. Put the ass down, baby,
- 1:49:02Speaker 3: look at me.
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