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- 0:16Speaker 1: You gotta slip in your palm and a hole in
- 0:20Speaker 1: your chips. The black coffee on the felt. Man, you
- 0:23Speaker 1: look like a mess. Three teen poulette turned the dust
- 0:28Speaker 1: in your head.
- 0:29Speaker 2: Now you stare at the chips.
- 0:31Speaker 1: Like they made you this man. But don't you go quiet?
- 0:35Speaker 1: Don't you fade from the floor. Your name steal mean
- 0:39Speaker 1: something on somebody for show?
- 0:41Speaker 3: Put the glass down, baby, look at me? Nine, hold on,
- 0:52Speaker 3: hold on, nothing nice now, hold on, hold on and me.
- 1:10Speaker 1: But it don't get the crown.
- 1:14Speaker 3: Hold on, hold on.
- 1:17Speaker 2: And stay with me.
- 1:19Speaker 4: Now, what's up?
- 1:28Speaker 2: Urbbody? It's towed back with you with Toad still sports.
- 1:31Speaker 2: It is Saturday? Is that what it is? May twenty third,
- 1:37Speaker 2: Own two on the show yesterday. Yeah, I mean I
- 1:40Speaker 2: told you I could not sustain this run. I don't
- 1:43Speaker 2: even really think either play was a bad call necessarily,
- 1:46Speaker 2: even though they both lost. I'm pissed.
- 1:50Speaker 1: Uh.
- 1:50Speaker 2: The over that I recommended in Saint Louis Cincinnati did
- 1:55Speaker 2: not happen. The game got rained out. As you guys
- 1:58Speaker 2: pointed out, it was raining there. So there is a
- 2:00Speaker 2: doubleheader today. That same pitching matchup is not going to
- 2:03Speaker 2: happen today. But I will have a play in that
- 2:05Speaker 2: double header. Anyway, the Red Sox I am fucking pissed
- 2:09Speaker 2: about everything about that game. The over was done almost
- 2:13Speaker 2: right away. The Red Sox scored four runs in the
- 2:15Speaker 2: first inning I'm pretty sure. Then Peyton totally had one
- 2:19Speaker 2: bad inning, so the over was completely gone by like
- 2:22Speaker 2: the second or third inning or whatever, red Sox paded
- 2:25Speaker 2: the lead. Okay, cool, the Red Sox are at least
- 2:27Speaker 2: gonna win this game. Red Sox have the way better bullpen. No,
- 2:31Speaker 2: they bring in it Slayton and he gives up two
- 2:34Speaker 2: two run on runs in one fucking inning. And then
- 2:36Speaker 2: the Red Sox lose the fucking game because they also
- 2:39Speaker 2: can't hit. Fuck you, I'm so fucking done with this
- 2:42Speaker 2: Red Sox team. They're so fucked. And then today is
- 2:46Speaker 2: Brian Beao, so the Red Sox are gonna lose another
- 2:49Speaker 2: fucking series to the Minnesota fucking Twins. Yeah, fuck you,
- 2:54Speaker 2: I'm so fucking sick of the shit. And then the
- 2:57Speaker 2: other game looked like it was gonna be a winner.
- 2:59Speaker 2: It looked like we were gonna split one and one.
- 3:01Speaker 2: We had a zero total going into the fourth inning
- 3:04Speaker 2: in White Sox San Francisco, and then what happens. Old
- 3:08Speaker 2: McDonald bought the farm, and I think the White Sox
- 3:12Speaker 2: put up nine fucking runs in the fourth inning against them,
- 3:15Speaker 2: So one fucking inning, the game goes from scoreless.
- 3:18Speaker 4: To being over the total in one inning.
- 3:20Speaker 2: Are you fucking serious? I'm fucking done with this shit, dude.
- 3:24Speaker 2: I should just quit. I should just never do this again.
- 3:28Speaker 2: I don't know what else to say about this. I'm done.
- 3:31Speaker 2: I'm gonna talk about all of these games today. I
- 3:34Speaker 2: what else do I have to say?
- 3:35Speaker 4: I don't know.
- 3:36Speaker 2: I'm gonna give up five plays today because that's what
- 3:39Speaker 2: you do. Maybe I'm on tilt because everything's going so bad.
- 3:43Speaker 2: Maybe I'm not being selective enough. I got three baseball plays,
- 3:47Speaker 2: I got a w NBA play, and I'm gonna give
- 3:49Speaker 2: out a play in the NBA game. So that's what
- 3:51Speaker 2: I'm gonna do here. Yeah, what else do I have
- 3:55Speaker 2: to say? Charles? What's up? Thanks for hanging out, mister Penzy,
- 3:59Speaker 2: what's up? I'm definitely a robot. Don't even remind me
- 4:04Speaker 2: about any of this. All right, we'll talk about the
- 4:08Speaker 2: double header. So you're gonna get my first play, which
- 4:10Speaker 2: is actually my latest play on the baseball board. But
- 4:14Speaker 2: you'll get that one first because I'm just gonna talk
- 4:16Speaker 2: about the double header first.
- 4:18Speaker 4: Saint Louis and Cincinnati. These two teams.
- 4:21Speaker 2: Now had yesterday off because of the rain out, although
- 4:26Speaker 2: I think Cincinnati actually had the day prior to that
- 4:29Speaker 2: off as well, so Cincinnati's actually had two days off.
- 4:33Speaker 2: So I you know, I liked the over in the
- 4:37Speaker 2: game yesterday. Don't really like it as much in this
- 4:40Speaker 2: first matchup here. But we do still have two bad bullpens.
- 4:43Speaker 2: Although the bullpens are rested now. Cincinnati Reds are twenty
- 4:47Speaker 2: eighth I arranged by Whip, Saint Louis twenty third. These
- 4:51Speaker 2: are definitely bullpens you could fade. Both teams have hit
- 4:55Speaker 2: fairly well. Saint Louis twelve. Cincinnati has been hitting better
- 4:58Speaker 2: recently again. Fifteen. Andre Pyante is now going to get
- 5:03Speaker 2: the start in the afternoon game here. He was going
- 5:07Speaker 2: to start the afternoon game today if they played last night.
- 5:10Speaker 2: I'm pretty sure he's been okay for Saint Louis four
- 5:14Speaker 2: point four ERA one point three to five. Whip not
- 5:17Speaker 2: very good though, but he's pretty good on the road.
- 5:20Speaker 2: For whatever reason, he's worse in a pitcher friendly stadium
- 5:23Speaker 2: in Saint Louis. He's better on the road three road ERA,
- 5:28Speaker 2: and he's actually been decent recently. He's coming off a
- 5:31Speaker 2: really good start against Kansas City where he held in
- 5:34Speaker 2: a one er and run at seven strikeouts, no walks
- 5:36Speaker 2: his six to two thirds. Maybe that was a little
- 5:39Speaker 2: bit of an outlier though, because he did have multiple
- 5:41Speaker 2: walks in the prior to games, but those were games
- 5:44Speaker 2: at the A's stadium and another one against Milwaukee, so
- 5:47Speaker 2: those are not that easy. Payonte doesn't look like he's
- 5:50Speaker 2: that bad right now. Over the course of the season,
- 5:54Speaker 2: his strikeout rate is fairly low, but he hasn't allowed
- 5:56Speaker 2: that many hits and his walk rate is somewhat high.
- 6:01Speaker 2: He's an okay pitcher, but he does have decent numbers
- 6:04Speaker 2: against Cincinnatis, so I'm going to not recommend an over
- 6:08Speaker 2: in this game. He's got one hundred and four at
- 6:10Speaker 2: bats against them to twelve batting average allowed five ninety
- 6:14Speaker 2: seven ops, but he has walked a ton of them
- 6:17Speaker 2: twenty five strikeouts, thirteen walks. He will be going up
- 6:20Speaker 2: against Chris Paddock, who was going to pitch yesterday. Paddock
- 6:25Speaker 2: will be making his second start as a member of
- 6:27Speaker 2: the Cincinnati Reds. His season has been very bad, mostly
- 6:31Speaker 2: with the Marlins seven point oh seventy RA one point
- 6:35Speaker 2: six y three whip. Marlin's got rid of him, and Cincinnati,
- 6:39Speaker 2: I guess, is down bad for pitching enough so that
- 6:43Speaker 2: they're like, hey, whatever, we need an arm. Paddock has
- 6:47Speaker 2: been awful at home this year, Like I said yesterday,
- 6:50Speaker 2: fifteen point eighty eight homye ray, and that was in Miami,
- 6:54Speaker 2: which is way more pitcher friendly of a stadium than
- 6:56Speaker 2: Cincinnati is. That's not a good sign. But he he
- 7:00Speaker 2: did pitch okay in his one start with Cincinnati. It
- 7:03Speaker 2: was at Cleveland, though, and Cleveland plays a lot of
- 7:05Speaker 2: low scoring games. I said all this yesterday, but I'm
- 7:09Speaker 2: saying it again. I don't think the Paddock is actually
- 7:12Speaker 2: going to pitch well here though. I just don't see
- 7:15Speaker 2: a whole lot to like about his numbers here. Although
- 7:18Speaker 2: I mean, his strikeout rate is a little bit low,
- 7:20Speaker 2: but it's kind of normal. His walk rate's not really
- 7:22Speaker 2: that bad. His hit rate is way too high. He's
- 7:25Speaker 2: way too hittable, and that's his problem. Put him pitches
- 7:28Speaker 2: over the plate. Man His numbers against Saint Louis, as
- 7:31Speaker 2: I pointed, out yesterday are not good. Three thirty three
- 7:34Speaker 2: batting average, eight forty eight ohps in twenty one at bats.
- 7:38Speaker 2: It's not a big sample. Seven strikeouts one walk is
- 7:41Speaker 2: not that bad. But like I said, his command numbers
- 7:45Speaker 2: are usually pretty decent. It's just that he gets hammered
- 7:49Speaker 2: like a drunk. I'm gonna lean to Saint Louis in
- 7:52Speaker 2: game one here. I know Cincinnati has one extra day
- 7:56Speaker 2: of rest, but both teams had the day yesterday of rest.
- 7:59Speaker 4: The money is agreeing with me on that.
- 8:01Speaker 2: Sixty eight percent of tickets, eighty three percent of the
- 8:03Speaker 2: cash on Saint Louis. They're actually like a small favorite,
- 8:07Speaker 2: which is telling you the oddsmakers are telling you Cincinnati
- 8:11Speaker 2: is not really that good. Although I don't think I
- 8:13Speaker 2: think both of these teams are not very good. I
- 8:15Speaker 2: think Saint Louis is definitely not as good as their
- 8:18Speaker 2: record looks. But in this matchup, yeah, I would much
- 8:21Speaker 2: rather have Payante than Paddock there, so that is that
- 8:26Speaker 2: would be my lean in that game. I would lean
- 8:29Speaker 2: at Saint Louis money line in that afternoon game there,
- 8:32Speaker 2: dirty Sock, what's up? Thanks for hanging out? Yeah, Casin
- 8:38Speaker 2: you know I got to rewatch that before it's gone
- 8:40Speaker 2: from a Netflix. Although I think I have the movie
- 8:43Speaker 2: somewhere too, somewhere on my.
- 8:47Speaker 4: On my.
- 8:49Speaker 2: Machine that I have right over here that has many
- 8:54Speaker 2: I don't know what could I say without I don't
- 8:57Speaker 2: know saying something that I shouldn't say here, but I
- 9:00Speaker 2: have many shows in movies. Let's just say, all right.
- 9:08Speaker 2: I used to do music too, but because you know,
- 9:10Speaker 2: Spotify pretty much has everything, so whatever, all right, Game
- 9:13Speaker 2: two in this doubleheader, I'm going to give.
- 9:16Speaker 4: Out a play on this and you probably.
- 9:21Speaker 2: Know what it is, because, yeah, guess what over the
- 9:24Speaker 2: total nine and a half like it was yesterday. I know,
- 9:27Speaker 2: I don't think you can find a nine on this
- 9:29Speaker 2: out there, but it's reduced juice on the nine and
- 9:31Speaker 2: a half. I know that half run is big though,
- 9:34Speaker 2: because nine is a key number because it breaks a
- 9:36Speaker 2: four or four tie. But I like Game two to
- 9:38Speaker 2: go over here.
- 9:40Speaker 4: I know it's a.
- 9:40Speaker 2: Little bit difficult because you don't know what the bullpen
- 9:43Speaker 2: usage is gonna look like in game one, but presumably
- 9:46Speaker 2: both bullpens are gonna see usage in game one, and
- 9:49Speaker 2: then you're gonna have bullpens where they've been used already
- 9:53Speaker 2: today coming into game two. So I used to do
- 9:56Speaker 2: this more often than I do now. I used to
- 9:58Speaker 2: go over in game two of a doubleheader because of that,
- 10:02Speaker 2: because of the bullpen usage. Even though it's a little unpredictable,
- 10:05Speaker 2: you don't know exactly what's gonna happen. But this is
- 10:07Speaker 2: a spot where I think you do want to do it.
- 10:10Speaker 2: Because you have two bad bullpens, they're gonna see some
- 10:13Speaker 2: usage in the first game. Both teams can hit fairly well,
- 10:16Speaker 2: it's a hitter friendly stadium, and the starting pitching matchup
- 10:21Speaker 2: to me, looks atrocious in this game. Kyle lay Hey,
- 10:24Speaker 2: who was going to pitch yesterday, so he was part
- 10:27Speaker 2: of that over I recommended yesterday.
- 10:29Speaker 4: He's pitching today in this night game. Now.
- 10:32Speaker 2: He's got a three point nine to four ERA, which
- 10:34Speaker 2: looks pretty good, but a one point five to five
- 10:37Speaker 2: whip tells you otherwise.
- 10:38Speaker 4: He is not good.
- 10:39Speaker 2: He's putting way too many guys on base. He's not
- 10:42Speaker 2: as good on the road. Four point twenty six roadyra
- 10:46Speaker 2: He looks like he has pitched well this month. He's
- 10:49Speaker 2: only allowed two runs in sixteen to third innings. But
- 10:52Speaker 2: I would say look deeper because he has nine walks
- 10:57Speaker 2: over that span and twelve strikeouts, so he's not actually
- 11:00Speaker 2: pitching that well. He's getting a little bit lucky here.
- 11:03Speaker 2: So I don't trust him. I don't trust those numbers,
- 11:08Speaker 2: or at least the surface numbers. I don't trust. Like
- 11:11Speaker 2: you see the number of walks. You can't keep walking
- 11:13Speaker 2: that many guys and getting away with it. He's given
- 11:16Speaker 2: up way over one hit per inning. This year's walk
- 11:18Speaker 2: rate is way too high as well, strikeout rate not
- 11:21Speaker 2: very high. He's not a good pitcher, dude, And against
- 11:24Speaker 2: Cincinnati he's not very good. In twenty four at bats,
- 11:27Speaker 2: five to two, strikeout, walk ratios, whatever, two ninety two
- 11:31Speaker 2: batting average allowed, eight thirty three ops. None of that
- 11:34Speaker 2: is good. And he's going to be going up against
- 11:36Speaker 2: Chase Petty, the NASCAR driver. No. Chase Petty is a
- 11:42Speaker 2: twenty three year old right handed pitcher. He's had a
- 11:45Speaker 2: four point seven to six ERA this season. One point
- 11:48Speaker 2: six whip.
- 11:48Speaker 4: Is not bad.
- 11:49Speaker 2: But he's only made one start and yet he drew
- 11:53Speaker 2: a difficult assignment against the Cubs, and he actually pitched. Okay.
- 11:56Speaker 2: They lost the game, but he held them to three
- 11:58Speaker 2: earned runs in five to two thirds. He kept his
- 12:01Speaker 2: team in the game, but he only had one strikeout,
- 12:03Speaker 2: two walks, and I don't really think you can trust
- 12:06Speaker 2: this guy.
- 12:07Speaker 4: Man.
- 12:07Speaker 2: He made two starts three appearances last year. I know
- 12:11Speaker 2: it's a really small sample and he's still really young,
- 12:13Speaker 2: but he had a nineteen point five e RRA last
- 12:17Speaker 2: year in a three point six seven whip.
- 12:20Speaker 4: That's not good. And I looked at his minor league numbers.
- 12:23Speaker 2: He's made eight starts in Triple A this year and
- 12:26Speaker 2: his numbers are awful. Like I might have to refresh
- 12:30Speaker 2: my memory on it, but I'm pretty sure in Triple
- 12:32Speaker 2: A this year, I'm pretty sure his ERA is like six.
- 12:36Speaker 2: So there's really not a lot to like about this
- 12:39Speaker 2: at all in my opinion. Like, he has a pretty
- 12:43Speaker 2: large sample sized to look at in Triple A and
- 12:45Speaker 2: he's not been effective at all. And now you expect
- 12:48Speaker 2: him to go up to the majors and pitch well,
- 12:51Speaker 2: And he did pitch okay against the Cubs. I'll give
- 12:53Speaker 2: you that, but I'm gonna also counter that because he's
- 12:58Speaker 2: faced Saint Louis before they've seen him and it did
- 13:01Speaker 2: not go well for him. They have eleven at bats
- 13:04Speaker 2: against him, a four to fifty five batting average fourteen
- 13:07Speaker 2: oh nine oh ps against him, three strikeouts, one walk,
- 13:10Speaker 2: and you can go back and see that start. He
- 13:13Speaker 2: actually pitched twice against Saint Louis. So he's made four
- 13:16Speaker 2: appearances is in his major league career. And you know
- 13:19Speaker 2: I always talk about these young pitchers have an advantage
- 13:22Speaker 2: when they're not familiar to the opposing hitters. Yeah, okay,
- 13:25Speaker 2: Well Saint Louis faced him twice in those four appearances,
- 13:29Speaker 2: and the one start that he made against them, he
- 13:32Speaker 2: gave up nine runs in two hundred thirty innings. And
- 13:34Speaker 2: it was in this stadium, by the way, in Cincinnati
- 13:37Speaker 2: against Saint Louis. That is not a good sign at all.
- 13:41Speaker 2: He got absolutely torn up in that game. Yeah. He
- 13:44Speaker 2: did pitch better in a relief appearance against them later
- 13:47Speaker 2: in the season, only two thirds.
- 13:49Speaker 4: Of an inning. Yeah, I'm not gonna trust him at all.
- 13:52Speaker 2: We're gonna we're gonna go over the total in Game two,
- 13:55Speaker 2: even though I know there are some question marks there.
- 13:59Speaker 2: I think it's gonna be a high scoring game. The
- 14:01Speaker 2: totals nine and a half. Like I said, don't see
- 14:03Speaker 2: the market read on this yet, but I think it's
- 14:06Speaker 2: gonna go over. Game two. Uh, since Saint Louis and
- 14:10Speaker 2: Cincinnati over nine and a half. And now now that
- 14:13Speaker 2: I said that game one is gonna go over and
- 14:16Speaker 2: game two won't, but yes, that is Game two in
- 14:19Speaker 2: the night game.
- 14:22Speaker 4: That one is one.
- 14:22Speaker 2: That I would I would specify starting pitchers must start,
- 14:26Speaker 2: probably because a lot of that handicap is based on
- 14:29Speaker 2: knowing that you're gonna get Leahy against Petty. Although if
- 14:33Speaker 2: Cincinnati is gonna like put an opener in front of
- 14:35Speaker 2: Petty or something and Petty still pitches, I still probably
- 14:39Speaker 2: I think I would actually still do that though, so
- 14:43Speaker 2: you know, maybe it makes sense to go action in
- 14:45Speaker 2: that game on the Cincinnati side. I don't know, but
- 14:48Speaker 2: I like the over in that one. All right, these
- 14:53Speaker 2: are not physical movies. Game two correct? All right? Yeah,
- 15:03Speaker 2: I mean you'll see the books tell you who the
- 15:05Speaker 2: starting pitchers are. So all right, Tampa Bay and the
- 15:09Speaker 2: Yankees in this hotly contested Al East series. This is crazy.
- 15:15Speaker 4: What's going on?
- 15:15Speaker 2: Dude? Tampa Bay has a five and a half game lead. Oh,
- 15:19Speaker 2: we don't have to handicap it. The game's postponed. Sweet
- 15:22Speaker 2: less worked for me. Never mind, there's no game today
- 15:26Speaker 2: between Tampa Bay and uh.
- 15:28Speaker 4: The Yankees.
- 15:29Speaker 2: It must be off the board then, right, No, it's
- 15:34Speaker 2: it's still on the board. Why does it say it's
- 15:36Speaker 2: postponed here? Then is it actually postponed?
- 15:42Speaker 4: Hold on?
- 15:44Speaker 2: Nothing is working for me here. Tampa beat the Yankees yesterday,
- 15:47Speaker 2: by the way, and Tampa has a five and a
- 15:48Speaker 2: half game lead against the Yankees. Now, oh, you can't
- 15:51Speaker 2: even click on it? Isn't that great?
- 15:56Speaker 4: Yeah, I'll dude, I honestly I can't even tell what's
- 15:59Speaker 4: going on here.
- 15:59Speaker 2: It looks like this game is postponed. Let me see. Yeah, okay, yeah,
- 16:09Speaker 2: it's not even on the schedule. You hear it is postponed. Okay,
- 16:12Speaker 2: so that game is postponed. Really strange because it looks
- 16:17Speaker 2: like the well, they're gonna play a double header tomorrow,
- 16:20Speaker 2: I assume, because I was gonna say tomorrow. They've listed
- 16:23Speaker 2: totally different starters in tomorrow's game, but those might change.
- 16:26Speaker 2: But all right, that game's off the board. But it
- 16:29Speaker 2: was gonna be Rasmussen against Weathers. Uh, just real quick
- 16:32Speaker 2: on that, because you know the game's not gonna be played.
- 16:35Speaker 2: But basically I was leaning under in that game, maybe
- 16:39Speaker 2: first five innings, because I don't really love the Tampa
- 16:43Speaker 2: bullpen right now. But Rasmussen actually has really really good
- 16:48Speaker 2: numbers against the Yankees, and Weathers has been decent as well,
- 16:51Speaker 2: So that game read as an under game to me.
- 16:53Speaker 2: But it's off the board, so we can see that
- 16:56Speaker 2: it is because there are no numbers now here, so
- 16:59Speaker 2: or unless yeah, yeah, the books have all taken it down,
- 17:02Speaker 2: so it's postponed. Favorite TV show of all time, it's
- 17:08Speaker 2: always been The Simpsons, man, even though The Simpsons. I'm
- 17:12Speaker 2: of the opinion that The Simpsons was still good until
- 17:14Speaker 2: about like season fifteen or sixteen, but certainly in its heyday,
- 17:19Speaker 2: I think it was the best show ever made. It's
- 17:21Speaker 2: definitely fallen way way off since then. Every show that's
- 17:25Speaker 2: been around for that long has just completely gone in
- 17:28Speaker 2: the tank because of how culture is. But I think
- 17:31Speaker 2: I'm still gonna say The Simpsons. I mean, it's just
- 17:33Speaker 2: always been that's what it is. But I mean, I
- 17:37Speaker 2: like Sidefeld a lot. As you know, if you watch
- 17:39Speaker 2: my show as long as you under you have to
- 17:42Speaker 2: just understand that everybody in Seinfeld is a bad person,
- 17:46Speaker 2: and then it is a hilarious show. Don't be like
- 17:49Speaker 2: any of those people. Even though I am basically George.
- 17:54Speaker 2: Then yeah, I mean Breaking Bad is I would say
- 17:58Speaker 2: the best show that I've ever seen is Breaking Bad,
- 18:01Speaker 2: but it doesn't have that like rewatchability because it's so
- 18:04Speaker 2: intense but great show that never got bad, it never
- 18:08Speaker 2: broke bad. Sunny and Philadelpha is also good. I've seen
- 18:12Speaker 2: every episode of that. Most of the recent episodes of
- 18:14Speaker 2: that are still pretty good if you watch like the
- 18:17Speaker 2: most recent season. The only bad episode in the recent
- 18:21Speaker 2: season I thought was the ab and Elementary cross over one,
- 18:25Speaker 2: because who the hell what Sonny fan watches that show?
- 18:28Speaker 2: Nobody's ever heard of that show out of the Sonny
- 18:31Speaker 2: fan base. That episode made no sense. But like if
- 18:35Speaker 2: you watch the the Ambulance episode, uh, that episode was
- 18:39Speaker 2: really really good. There were there were a few really
- 18:42Speaker 2: good episodes this season. The best modern comedy I have
- 18:50Speaker 2: to think about that, I don't know. Sunny and Philadelva
- 18:53Speaker 2: is definitely good though. All Right, Houston and the Cobbs,
- 18:58Speaker 2: we gotta get through this, man, this is a I
- 19:00Speaker 2: don't want the show to take that long. Plus, I'm
- 19:01Speaker 2: going to my parents Memorial Day weekend. Baby, I think
- 19:05Speaker 2: I'm gonna be there on Monday as well. Don't confine me.
- 19:09Speaker 2: The Cubs have lost six games in a row. This
- 19:11Speaker 2: is getting ridiculous, dude. The Cubs lost to Houston yesterday.
- 19:15Speaker 2: Spencer eric Getting is probably the best starting pitcher on Houston.
- 19:20Speaker 4: The Cubs have to break this losing streak, man.
- 19:22Speaker 2: I mean, you can kind of give them a pass
- 19:25Speaker 2: for losing games to Milwaukee because Milwaukee's good. Houston is
- 19:29Speaker 2: not really At some point, the Cubs they have to
- 19:32Speaker 2: break out of this, dude, But they are.
- 19:34Speaker 4: In a slump and the slump.
- 19:36Speaker 2: Is continuing, and Colin Ray pitching today might not be
- 19:40Speaker 2: the guy that's gonna be able to do it.
- 19:41Speaker 4: But they have a bullpen advantage.
- 19:43Speaker 2: Although they use four relief pitchers yesterday, Houston's bullpen is
- 19:46Speaker 2: still very bad. They also use four relief pitchers yesterday.
- 19:50Speaker 2: Houston is still ranked dead last in bullpen. The Cubs
- 19:55Speaker 2: are eighth, so the Cubs have a way better bullpen.
- 19:58Speaker 2: Cubs are fifth in offense. Still, this is based on ops.
- 20:01Speaker 2: Houston is eighth. Kaiwai Tang is getting the start for Houston.
- 20:07Speaker 2: His numbers look good, but most of these numbers are
- 20:09Speaker 2: as a relief pitcher two point six one ERA one
- 20:13Speaker 2: point one Whip uh, he's been a little bit worse
- 20:16Speaker 2: on the road. Three point six ROADYRA. He made one
- 20:20Speaker 2: actual full start last time out, and he was good.
- 20:23Speaker 2: He shut out Texas for five innings, only allowed two hits,
- 20:26Speaker 2: but he walked for guys. That's not great. But he
- 20:28Speaker 2: struck out seven, which is good. So there were good
- 20:32Speaker 2: things and bad things about that outing. But also Texas
- 20:36Speaker 2: is not that good of a lineup. The Cubs lineup
- 20:38Speaker 2: is better. Although the Cubs have not been hitting well recently,
- 20:42Speaker 2: and the Cubs haven't seen Tang except Conforto is oh
- 20:46Speaker 2: for one with a strikeout off of him, So Tang
- 20:49Speaker 2: does have some unfamiliarity here against them, and Colin Ray
- 20:52Speaker 2: is pitching for the Cubs. As I mentioned, I'm not
- 20:56Speaker 2: really a fan man. I can't back him in this.
- 21:00Speaker 2: As you will see, four point nine to eighty RA
- 21:04Speaker 2: one point four to three whip is definitely not good.
- 21:06Speaker 2: He's been way better at home, though, so that's one
- 21:09Speaker 2: good thing about having him on the mount here two
- 21:11Speaker 2: point sixty six home era, so he's been way better
- 21:14Speaker 2: at home. He's been really bad in his last two
- 21:17Speaker 2: starts against Atlanta and the White Sox, but those were
- 21:19Speaker 2: both road starts and this month he does have a
- 21:22Speaker 2: sixteen to five strikeout walk ratio, which is good, but
- 21:26Speaker 2: he's allowed a ton of hits. He's allowed way over
- 21:28Speaker 2: one hit per inning this month, so he's still not
- 21:31Speaker 2: really in good form here. He's allowed more than one
- 21:34Speaker 2: hit per inning on the season, strike got rayed a
- 21:37Speaker 2: little low. His walk rate isn't really.
- 21:39Speaker 4: That bad, so I don't know.
- 21:41Speaker 2: He's probably a little bit better than his numbers might suggest,
- 21:43Speaker 2: but maybe not by much.
- 21:45Speaker 4: And against Houston he is bad.
- 21:47Speaker 2: And twenty eight at bats three twenty one average, allowed
- 21:50Speaker 2: nine to twenty three ops. That's not good. I just
- 21:53Speaker 2: can't back him here, man, I can't do it. And
- 21:56Speaker 2: I believe the money is indicating on Houston. It is
- 22:00Speaker 2: fifty five percent of tickets on the Cubs. The public
- 22:02Speaker 2: still thinks the Cubs are going to bounce back here.
- 22:04Speaker 2: They still have the better record, sixty seven percent of
- 22:07Speaker 2: the cash on Houston. The Cubs are a decent sized
- 22:11Speaker 2: favorite here minus one fifty or so, so the oddsmakers
- 22:14Speaker 2: are still telling you they should win this game. If
- 22:18Speaker 2: I was gonna go Houston, I would limit it to
- 22:20Speaker 2: the first five. There's no way I want Houston's bullpen
- 22:23Speaker 2: involved in that, you know what I mean, And Tang
- 22:25Speaker 2: might be out of the game prior to that too,
- 22:27Speaker 2: you never really know. Uh so I'm not touching that game.
- 22:31Speaker 2: But yeah, I mean, it's it's not really a spot
- 22:35Speaker 2: where I would actually want to back the Cubs, although
- 22:37Speaker 2: they really really need to bounce back win. I think
- 22:40Speaker 2: they're at least going to be motivated and generally they
- 22:42Speaker 2: are the better team here. Yeah, oh Abbott elementary, Yeah,
- 22:50Speaker 2: I would.
- 22:50Speaker 4: I would not recommend watching it.
- 22:53Speaker 2: I know I've never watched it either, but I have seen,
- 22:56Speaker 2: you know, the ads for it and the clips and whatever,
- 22:58Speaker 2: and it is definitely not funny. Sonny probably made them
- 23:04Speaker 2: look a lot funnier than they actually are. I'll shake
- 23:06Speaker 2: it off, Gerald, what's up, man, We're gonna shake it off.
- 23:10Speaker 2: We're gonna have a bunch of plays today and hopefully
- 23:12Speaker 2: the aim is to go three and two and just
- 23:14Speaker 2: bounce back and get a winning day out of it,
- 23:16Speaker 2: you know what I mean, And hopefully we go better
- 23:19Speaker 2: than that, but we'll see. I mean, I'm giving out
- 23:22Speaker 2: what I think are my best plays. So Pittsburgh got
- 23:25Speaker 2: Toronto Toronto in the return home spot and a letdown
- 23:29Speaker 2: spot potentially off of beating the Yankees twice. I thought
- 23:32Speaker 2: it was a bad spot for Toronto. They won anyway,
- 23:35Speaker 2: six to two, Bubba Chandler not really getting the job done.
- 23:39Speaker 2: The pitching matchup did look fairly good for Toronto with Gousman,
- 23:42Speaker 2: although I don't think he had good numbers against Pittsburgh,
- 23:45Speaker 2: but he's still outpitched Chandler.
- 23:47Speaker 4: It looks like in that game.
- 23:48Speaker 2: I haven't looked at the box score yet, which maybe
- 23:51Speaker 2: I should because I'm handicapping this next game here, but
- 23:54Speaker 2: that's just not how I do it. Pittsburgh used three
- 23:57Speaker 2: relief pitchers yesterday, Toronto used two. Pittsburgh's bullpen has not
- 24:01Speaker 2: been very good. They're twenty first. Now Toronto is a
- 24:04Speaker 2: little bit better than that at thirteenth, so Toronto actually
- 24:07Speaker 2: does have a better bullpen here and a little bit
- 24:09Speaker 2: more rested. Pittsburgh has been the better offense. They're tenth,
- 24:13Speaker 2: although they're not as good on the road. They hit
- 24:15Speaker 2: better at home, and Toronto is way in the tank
- 24:19Speaker 2: right now twenty seventh offensively, and they have to face
- 24:22Speaker 2: Paul Schemes, so that's probably not gonna help Toronto's offense
- 24:26Speaker 2: get going. Paul Skien's two point six to two ERA,
- 24:29Speaker 2: which went way up with his last start. Point seven
- 24:33Speaker 2: to one whip is excellent, though he might have the
- 24:35Speaker 2: lowest whip out of any starter. With you know, as
- 24:40Speaker 2: many innings pitched as he has, He's been basically the
- 24:43Speaker 2: same home and away. He gave up five runs last
- 24:47Speaker 2: time out against Philadelphia, but he got unlucky in that outing. Dude,
- 24:51Speaker 2: he only gave up six hits in one walk, so
- 24:54Speaker 2: almost everybody that reached base scored against them. That's pretty unlucky.
- 24:58Speaker 2: Seven strikeouts in that out as well. He's got a
- 25:01Speaker 2: twenty four to one strike out walk ratio this month,
- 25:04Speaker 2: and he hadn't allowed any runs in the prior to starts.
- 25:07Speaker 2: We get it.
- 25:07Speaker 4: He's skins.
- 25:08Speaker 2: You know, he didn't walk anybody for five straight starts
- 25:11Speaker 2: prior to that. Yeah, I mean he's only walked eight
- 25:14Speaker 2: on the entire season. He's allowed an extremely low amount
- 25:17Speaker 2: of hits. Strike gut rate is also pretty high. Yeah,
- 25:21Speaker 2: we get it.
- 25:21Speaker 4: Skeens is good.
- 25:23Speaker 2: He's got eighteen at bats against Toronto's hitters, eight strikeouts,
- 25:27Speaker 2: no walks, one sixty seven batting average three eighty nine OPS. Yes,
- 25:31Speaker 2: I expect Paul Skeens will pitch well here. I think
- 25:35Speaker 2: that was a blip in his last outing and it
- 25:36Speaker 2: was misleading as well. He's obviously way better than Patrick KORbin,
- 25:41Speaker 2: who was pitching for Toronto here. Four point two to
- 25:44Speaker 2: three ERA for him not too bad, but his one
- 25:47Speaker 2: point four to nine whip is not good. He's putting
- 25:50Speaker 2: too many guys on base, indicates his ERA should be
- 25:52Speaker 2: higher than that. Maybe I'm biased because I've been a
- 25:56Speaker 2: Corbin naysayer for many years now. He's been at home
- 26:00Speaker 2: though as well. Six point two to three HOMEYRA. That's
- 26:03Speaker 2: not good. His last two starts he didn't make it
- 26:07Speaker 2: five innings in either of them. It was against Tampa
- 26:10Speaker 2: and the Yankees. So the assignment wasn't that easy. But
- 26:13Speaker 2: he's not pitching well right now, dude. He's got a
- 26:15Speaker 2: nine to seven strikeout walk raceio this month, plus twenty
- 26:18Speaker 2: six hits all out in nineteen innings, and that's kind
- 26:21Speaker 2: of a microcosm of his entire season. His strikeout rate
- 26:25Speaker 2: is low, He's walked too many guys well over one
- 26:28Speaker 2: hit a lout per inning as well. There's not a
- 26:30Speaker 2: lot to like about Corbin except he actually has good
- 26:32Speaker 2: numbers against Pittsburgh in a big sample seventy seven at
- 26:36Speaker 2: bats against him, twenty three, strikeout, six walks, two aweight,
- 26:40Speaker 2: batting average allowed five to sixty four ops. So Corbin
- 26:45Speaker 2: might actually pitch well in this outing. I would not
- 26:49Speaker 2: want to bank on it there. There's no way that
- 26:51Speaker 2: I would want to back Toronto here. The money is
- 26:54Speaker 2: actually backing Pittsburgh a little bit. It looks like hard
- 26:57Speaker 2: to tell because it's only a one percentage point difference,
- 27:01Speaker 2: and the public looks like they're on that side. Seventy
- 27:03Speaker 2: seven percent of ticket seventy eight percent of the cash
- 27:05Speaker 2: on Pittsburgh.
- 27:07Speaker 4: They're around a minus one.
- 27:08Speaker 2: Fifty or so favorite here, depending on what book you're
- 27:11Speaker 2: looking at. I'm not gonna back Pittsburgh. I mean, you're
- 27:15Speaker 2: always paying too much of a price for Paul's schemes,
- 27:18Speaker 2: especially given that the team around him is not really
- 27:20Speaker 2: that good, especially the bullpen. I don't know, man, I mean,
- 27:26Speaker 2: an under first five kind of makes some sense here
- 27:29Speaker 2: if you actually think Corbman is gonna make good on
- 27:32Speaker 2: the fact that his matchup numbers are good against Pittsburgh.
- 27:35Speaker 4: Obviously, I don't have a problem with Skiens in this game.
- 27:38Speaker 2: I think I still probably would lean to Pittsburgh winning
- 27:41Speaker 2: this game, but you know, I don't think I would
- 27:44Speaker 2: want to lay that price. Under makes some sense, like
- 27:47Speaker 2: I said in the first five only, but I wouldn't
- 27:50Speaker 2: want to do that either.
- 27:52Speaker 4: Uh, you're looking at like three and a.
- 27:53Speaker 2: Half because it's a Skiens game, the full game total
- 27:56Speaker 2: seven and a half, so Corbin is actually getting some respect.
- 28:01Speaker 2: One other way you could look at this is to
- 28:03Speaker 2: go Toronto under their team total, go with Skeens to
- 28:07Speaker 2: bounce back dominate, and uh, Toronto's offense is bad, but
- 28:11Speaker 2: Pittsburgh's bullpen is also bad, so that would worry me
- 28:14Speaker 2: as well. You could get really granular with it, Toronto
- 28:18Speaker 2: first five under their team total if you have a
- 28:20Speaker 2: book that has that, you know, But obviously I'm not
- 28:23Speaker 2: playing the game. Seven and a half for a full
- 28:26Speaker 2: game total in a Corbyn game seems ridiculous to me though,
- 28:29Speaker 2: Like I think that's too much respect to give Corbin,
- 28:32Speaker 2: even though Skiens is probably the best pitcher in baseball
- 28:35Speaker 2: eighty nine percent of tickets, ninety percent of the cash
- 28:38Speaker 2: on the under. For what that's worth, skiings with Livy
- 28:44Speaker 2: don she is, Yeah, she is up there as one
- 28:49Speaker 2: of the hottest Cleveland and Philadelphia.
- 28:52Speaker 4: I'm gonna give out a play on this game.
- 28:54Speaker 2: How about that. I thought Philadelphia was gonna win yesterday,
- 29:03Speaker 2: and they are a really big favorite, and I think
- 29:06Speaker 2: they're going to win today. But I had to decide
- 29:08Speaker 2: how am I gonna attack this game and find the
- 29:11Speaker 2: biggest advantage and a number that's not too bad here
- 29:14Speaker 2: because I don't want to lay minus two hundred on
- 29:16Speaker 2: the full game. I don't really want to lay a
- 29:18Speaker 2: run line here. The starting pitching looks looks like it's
- 29:21Speaker 2: the biggest advantage to Philadelphia here, so we're gonna go
- 29:25Speaker 2: first five lay the half run at minus one thirty,
- 29:29Speaker 2: which I saw that number at multiple books out there,
- 29:32Speaker 2: so I think you can get it. I know it's
- 29:33Speaker 2: slightly juicy, but you gotta find ways to approach these
- 29:36Speaker 2: baseball games.
- 29:37Speaker 4: Man.
- 29:38Speaker 2: I like the starting pitching matchup. I think it is
- 29:40Speaker 2: a mismatch. So yes, you will need Philadelphia to have
- 29:43Speaker 2: a lead at the end of five innings here, but
- 29:45Speaker 2: I definitely think they're capable of that in this game.
- 29:48Speaker 2: Philadelphia lost yesterday one to nothing. I was very surprised
- 29:52Speaker 2: by that They've lost three games in a row. They
- 29:54Speaker 2: had a rest advantage yesterday, and Cleveland I don't think
- 29:57Speaker 2: is as good as the record looks.
- 29:58Speaker 4: Cleveland coming off.
- 30:00Speaker 2: A sweep of Detroit, who looks like they're just completely
- 30:02Speaker 2: in the tank right now. I don't know what happened there, man,
- 30:07Speaker 2: but Philadelphia lost one nothing. They couldn't score at all yesterday.
- 30:11Speaker 2: I think they're gonna get back to it and score
- 30:13Speaker 2: some runs here, man. Cleveland does have a better bullpen, though,
- 30:16Speaker 2: so I'm taking the bullpen out of the equation. Cleveland
- 30:19Speaker 2: very rested bullpen as well. They only used one guy
- 30:22Speaker 2: out of the bullpen yesterday. Philadelphia also only used one
- 30:27Speaker 2: and I believe Cleveland didn't even use their closer yesterday,
- 30:30Speaker 2: even though it was a one nothing game. I don't
- 30:32Speaker 2: know what the deal was with that, but both bullpen's arrested.
- 30:35Speaker 2: Philadelphia is very arrested because they didn't play yesterday. They
- 30:38Speaker 2: didn't play Thursday either, so they did use Doran though,
- 30:43Speaker 2: who I believe they use as a closer. But we're
- 30:46Speaker 2: taking the bullpen out of the equation anyway, although if
- 30:49Speaker 2: you wanted to leave them in, I mean, I'm not
- 30:51Speaker 2: gonna necessarily disagree with Philadelphia. Full game Like, you know,
- 30:56Speaker 2: I'm not gonna disagree with laying the run line full game.
- 30:58Speaker 2: I just think this is a little bit of a
- 31:00Speaker 2: better approach. But Cleveland is the better bullpen. They're tenth
- 31:03Speaker 2: in bullpen here, Philadelphia not that much worse, though it's sixteenth. Offensively,
- 31:09Speaker 2: Philadelphia has fallen off. They're at twenty fifth, or they
- 31:13Speaker 2: did rise up a little bit and then they fell
- 31:15Speaker 2: back down. I should say Cleveland is at seventeenth, but
- 31:18Speaker 2: I still don't really buy that Cleveland is actually the
- 31:20Speaker 2: better offense. And the odds makers are telling you something
- 31:23Speaker 2: like why would Philadelphia be laying minus two hundred here
- 31:28Speaker 2: when they're a below five hundred team and Cleveland is
- 31:31Speaker 2: nine games above five hundred, You know what I mean, Like,
- 31:33Speaker 2: it looks ridiculous to have Philly laying a price like this,
- 31:36Speaker 2: But the odds makers are telling you they're the better
- 31:39Speaker 2: team and they have the better of the starting pitching
- 31:41Speaker 2: matchup here. And obviously I agree with that, and I'm
- 31:43Speaker 2: getting that price way down by playing it in the
- 31:46Speaker 2: first five this way, but you need them to be ahead.
- 31:51Speaker 2: Slay Chacone is pitching for Cleveland. He has not been
- 31:53Speaker 2: good five point one six Era one point four to
- 31:56Speaker 2: nine whip on the road, he's also much worse five
- 32:02Speaker 2: point seventy nine Rodier Race. We're playing into the bad
- 32:05Speaker 2: of his home the bad end of his home road
- 32:08Speaker 2: splits there as well. He pitched well lest I'm out
- 32:10Speaker 2: against Detroit, but it's Detroit. And yeah, he did shut
- 32:14Speaker 2: out Anaheim for four innings the time before that, so yeah,
- 32:17Speaker 2: he actually hasn't been that bad this month. Of those
- 32:19Speaker 2: other two starts weren't really that good. Seventeen to six
- 32:23Speaker 2: strike out walk ratio this month is fine, but he's
- 32:25Speaker 2: allowed more than one hit per inning. Overall over the season,
- 32:29Speaker 2: He's allowed way over one hit per inning. He's kind
- 32:32Speaker 2: of allowed too many home runs as well, nine of them.
- 32:34Speaker 2: His walk rate is also too high. His strikeout walk
- 32:37Speaker 2: ratio is not impressive. His strike out rate is pretty low,
- 32:40Speaker 2: so I don't trust Chaconi. And he also hasn't been
- 32:43Speaker 2: good against Philadelphia. We only have twenty five at bats here,
- 32:46Speaker 2: but they have a three sixty average against him eleven
- 32:49Speaker 2: eighty five ops four to one strike got walk ratio.
- 32:53Speaker 2: I think they could definitely score some runs off of him.
- 32:56Speaker 2: And he's going up against Zach Wheeler. Zach is back, baby.
- 33:01Speaker 2: He's got a one point nine to niney RA and
- 33:04Speaker 2: point eight to eight whips so far. I know he's
- 33:06Speaker 2: only made three starts or whatever, four start no Exusuly
- 33:09Speaker 2: five now five starts my mistake. But he's been good, dude.
- 33:13Speaker 2: He's only made one start at home, and yes, I
- 33:15Speaker 2: know it was his It was actually his worst start
- 33:18Speaker 2: at home, So his home road splits don't look good.
- 33:20Speaker 2: Four point twenty six home e RA. But it was
- 33:23Speaker 2: one start where he held the A's to three runs
- 33:25Speaker 2: and six and a third innings. He got a little
- 33:28Speaker 2: bit unlucky. He gave up five hits, one walk, four strikeouts.
- 33:31Speaker 2: That was not a bad outing. So I think his
- 33:35Speaker 2: home road splits are a little bit misleading. Here, he's
- 33:37Speaker 2: allowed three or fewer earned runs in every single start.
- 33:40Speaker 2: Philadelphia's won all five of his starts so far. Granted,
- 33:44Speaker 2: you know he's only faced well he actually he's faced Atlanta,
- 33:47Speaker 2: Pittsburgh and the A's. Those are all pretty good offenses,
- 33:51Speaker 2: so that's fine. He's facing a much worse offense than
- 33:54Speaker 2: that here with Cleveland. Cleveland's not that good. He's got
- 33:58Speaker 2: almost one strike upper inning, he's got a low walk
- 34:00Speaker 2: rate and a low hit rate as well, and against Cleveland,
- 34:04Speaker 2: Wheeler does have good numbers and forty six at bats
- 34:06Speaker 2: two seventeen average, six twenty ohps allowed, twelve to five
- 34:11Speaker 2: strike out walk ratio. Those are pretty solid stats right there.
- 34:15Speaker 2: So we will go Philadelphia at first five innings in
- 34:18Speaker 2: this one, minus the half run. You have to pay
- 34:20Speaker 2: a little bit for it, but I think they're gonna
- 34:22Speaker 2: get the job done here. The money's not agreeing with me,
- 34:26Speaker 2: although this is full game here, fifty two percent of tickets,
- 34:29Speaker 2: fifty seven percent of the cash on Cleveland. But that's
- 34:31Speaker 2: taking Cleveland at like a massive full game underdog price,
- 34:34Speaker 2: you know what I mean. And the total is really
- 34:37Speaker 2: low at seven. I don't know why a Chaconi game
- 34:40Speaker 2: is getting that much respect in the total there, because
- 34:43Speaker 2: I don't think he's very good. So we're playing at
- 34:47Speaker 2: you know, this is the way that I'm recommending playing
- 34:48Speaker 2: it first five minus half run Philadelphia. I think they
- 34:52Speaker 2: bounce back. There's a reason why they're favored. So I
- 34:56Speaker 2: don't really even agree with the market read on that game.
- 34:59Speaker 4: Detroit at Baltimore.
- 35:02Speaker 2: Baltimore won the game yesterday despite it being a return
- 35:05Speaker 2: home spot. I mean Detroit is just playing horrible baseball
- 35:09Speaker 2: right now. They can't beat anybody right now, man, So
- 35:13Speaker 2: I don't know. I mean, Detroit looks like a team
- 35:15Speaker 2: you really want to avoid right now. They used four
- 35:18Speaker 2: relief pitchers yesterday, Baltimore used five. Neither bullpen is really
- 35:24Speaker 2: that good. Detroit's his twentieth them Baltimore is where are
- 35:31Speaker 2: they Baltimore's eighteenth. But Baltimore has a way worse bullpen
- 35:35Speaker 2: era though, like almost a run higher. So I think
- 35:38Speaker 2: Detroit's bullpen is actually better than Baltimore's. But I don't
- 35:42Speaker 2: really think that that's good enough. Detroit's offense is completely
- 35:45Speaker 2: fallen off. They're at twenty third, Baltimore thirteenth from Bearvaldez
- 35:50Speaker 2: is pitching for the Tigers here, and he's not having
- 35:53Speaker 2: a great season. Four point five eighty RRA, one point
- 35:57Speaker 2: four whip is definitely not good. He's been a little
- 36:00Speaker 2: better on the road.
- 36:01Speaker 4: Four point two to four.
- 36:02Speaker 2: Roady Ray his last start against Cleveland is not particularly good.
- 36:06Speaker 2: He walked four guys in five innings in that one.
- 36:10Speaker 4: That's not good. Although he held them to four earned runs.
- 36:12Speaker 2: He got no run support in that game because his
- 36:15Speaker 2: team hasn't been hitting at all. They've lost three straight
- 36:19Speaker 2: outings of his One of them was good, but it
- 36:22Speaker 2: was against the Mets that was his return from suspension.
- 36:26Speaker 2: But this month he's got a thirteen to seven strikeout
- 36:28Speaker 2: walk ratio and seven point nine to eighty RA. That
- 36:31Speaker 2: is not gonna cut it. That's too many walks obviously,
- 36:34Speaker 2: way too many runs a lot. His strikeout rate is
- 36:36Speaker 2: way down over the course of the season. He has
- 36:39Speaker 2: well below one strike up per inning. Usually he strikes
- 36:42Speaker 2: out more guys than that. And also his walk rate
- 36:44Speaker 2: is too high and he's got more than one hit
- 36:46Speaker 2: a lout per inning.
- 36:47Speaker 3: Two.
- 36:48Speaker 2: Valdez is not pitching well, dude, and he also does
- 36:52Speaker 2: not do well against Baltimore three seventy five batting average,
- 36:55Speaker 2: eight to ninety five oh ps in a huge sample
- 36:58Speaker 2: one hundred and twelve at bats, twenty two to nine
- 37:00Speaker 2: strike out walk ratio also not good. So there are
- 37:03Speaker 2: a lot of negatives lining up against Valdez here. Then
- 37:07Speaker 2: the question is do you trust Brandon Young for Baltimore.
- 37:11Speaker 2: I don't really. He's got a four point two to
- 37:14Speaker 2: five ERA, one point four to eight whip is definitely
- 37:16Speaker 2: not good. He's been worse at home five point four
- 37:20Speaker 2: homey RA, so he's in the worst of his home
- 37:22Speaker 2: road splits. Baltimore has won all but one of his
- 37:25Speaker 2: starts so far, though he's getting a lot of run support.
- 37:29Speaker 2: He pitched okay against the Yankees a couple of times
- 37:32Speaker 2: a couple of starts ago. His overall numbers are really
- 37:35Speaker 2: not good though. His walk rate is really really high.
- 37:39Speaker 2: Strike out rate is fairly low, but he's walked a
- 37:41Speaker 2: lot of guys, like almost won every two winnings, and
- 37:44Speaker 2: he's a lot more than one hit per inning as well.
- 37:47Speaker 2: So even though Baltimore is racking up a lot of
- 37:48Speaker 2: wins behind him, I don't really trust him. Detroit only
- 37:52Speaker 2: has nine at bats against him. The only four of
- 37:55Speaker 2: their hitters have ever faced him, Riley Green as the
- 37:57Speaker 2: only extra base hit, which is a double. They have
- 38:00Speaker 2: three strikeouts two walks against him to twenty two batting
- 38:03Speaker 2: average six ninety seven ops against him, so very small sample.
- 38:08Speaker 2: He actually has done well against Detroit. You know the
- 38:14Speaker 2: the read here, it does kind of point me towards Baltimore.
- 38:19Speaker 2: The money is coming in pretty heavy on Baltimore. We
- 38:21Speaker 2: got fifty two percent of tickets on Detroit I don't
- 38:23Speaker 2: know what public better is playing Detroit right now in
- 38:27Speaker 2: this slide they've been on but eighty five percent of
- 38:30Speaker 2: the cash on Baltimore. Baltimore is a small favorite here.
- 38:33Speaker 2: It's almost around to pick them price here. I kind
- 38:37Speaker 2: of think Over might be the better approach here, though
- 38:40Speaker 2: that's Oltal being seven and a half seems ridiculous to me.
- 38:43Speaker 2: I don't trust either starting pitcher or either bullpen here.
- 38:47Speaker 2: I agree with Baltimore generally, though I would lean slightly
- 38:50Speaker 2: towards Baltimore here, although first five Baltimore might make more
- 38:55Speaker 2: sense because I think Detroit actually does have the better
- 38:59Speaker 2: bullpen here. But Over makes some sense to me. But
- 39:02Speaker 2: when the oddsmakers are putting a total out there that low,
- 39:06Speaker 2: usually you have to expect a low scoring game though,
- 39:08Speaker 2: so I don't really want to do that either. But
- 39:11Speaker 2: the pitching matchup doesn't look good to me. Speaking of
- 39:14Speaker 2: pitching matchups that don't look good, White Sox San Francisco,
- 39:18Speaker 2: you're telling me yesterday's game went over, and then look
- 39:21Speaker 2: at the starting pitching match of course, this horrible starting
- 39:24Speaker 2: pitching matchup that we have today for this game, you
- 39:26Speaker 2: know that that means this game is gonna go under
- 39:29Speaker 2: this time. No, I'm not so sure about that. I
- 39:33Speaker 2: would not play the under in this game. Uh. San
- 39:35Speaker 2: Francisco has lost four games in a row that one
- 39:39Speaker 2: bad inning. The White Sox literally scored in one inning yesterday,
- 39:43Speaker 2: I'm pretty sure, and they put up nine runs and
- 39:45Speaker 2: won the game, scoring in one fucking inning. Yep, there
- 39:48Speaker 2: it is.
- 39:50Speaker 4: The dude, they only had five hits, do you really like, look.
- 39:53Speaker 2: At this game, dude, twelve hits over the course of
- 39:56Speaker 2: the game and thirteen runs scored. That game was such bullshit. Dude,
- 40:00Speaker 2: when you have twelve hits in the game, you probably
- 40:02Speaker 2: expect the game to be around six seven runs Like
- 40:05Speaker 2: that was such a misleading over.
- 40:08Speaker 4: We got fucked in that game. Nine runs on five hits.
- 40:12Speaker 2: Is unbelievable bullshit, which maybe indicates that maybe you look
- 40:16Speaker 2: towards San Francisco in this game. San Francisco is in
- 40:19Speaker 2: a decent spot here because they return home from the
- 40:22Speaker 2: road and lost. And you know, I talk about that
- 40:24Speaker 2: when a team returns home from the road and they
- 40:27Speaker 2: lose a game, a lot of times they bounce back
- 40:30Speaker 2: in the next game. Because that return home spot is
- 40:31Speaker 2: a negative. You can get distracted you know what I mean.
- 40:34Speaker 2: You have to get back to home life. So I
- 40:36Speaker 2: think that it could be a little bit of a
- 40:38Speaker 2: bounce back spot for them here, and they have an
- 40:41Speaker 2: actual starting pitcher at least here going up against kind
- 40:44Speaker 2: of a Chicago bullpen game here, so we'll see how
- 40:47Speaker 2: that goes. The White Socks bullpen is not good. They
- 40:50Speaker 2: used three relief pitchers yesterday. San Francisco also used three.
- 40:54Speaker 2: White Socks are definitely the inferior bullpen, though they're at
- 40:58Speaker 2: twenty second. Their bullpening Rara step not very good. Giants
- 41:01Speaker 2: have an era in the bullpen of more than a
- 41:04Speaker 2: run better, although the rink fifteenth in whip, but the
- 41:07Speaker 2: Giants definitely have the better bullpen. As far as hitting, Yeah,
- 41:12Speaker 2: the Giants suck. They're twenty eighth than hitting very bad.
- 41:15Speaker 2: The White Sox are eight. So yes, the White Sox
- 41:17Speaker 2: have the better offense the White Socks have. Brian Hudson
- 41:21Speaker 2: is listed as a starter, but he's gonna be an
- 41:23Speaker 2: opener here. I think he's gonna go one inning. I
- 41:26Speaker 2: don't think we really have to look into his numbers much.
- 41:28Speaker 2: He's gone one inning exactly in every one of his
- 41:31Speaker 2: outings for basically the entire season. He's gonna be an opener.
- 41:37Speaker 2: And I went back and I looked like, what did
- 41:39Speaker 2: the White Sox do for pitching five games ago? Well,
- 41:42Speaker 2: they used Eric Feedti. So my assumption would be, Hudson
- 41:46Speaker 2: is gonna pitch the first inning here and then you're
- 41:48Speaker 2: gonna get Eric Fetti for probably three or four innings here.
- 41:52Speaker 2: So that's what we want to look at here. Eric
- 41:54Speaker 2: Fetty is going to be the guy that gets the
- 41:56Speaker 2: majority of the pitching duties, I think for the White
- 41:59Speaker 2: Sox here. He's got a four point three e RRA
- 42:02Speaker 2: one point three whip. He's been better at at home,
- 42:06Speaker 2: so he's not as good on the road. Where he's
- 42:08Speaker 2: on the road here five point one to two road
- 42:11Speaker 2: r RAY, so he's not as good on the road.
- 42:12Speaker 2: Although San Francisco is a pitcher friendly ballpark, he hasn't
- 42:16Speaker 2: pitched well this month at all. Though. He's got a
- 42:18Speaker 2: seven point one to one RA this month, six to
- 42:21Speaker 2: seven strike out walk ration, way over one hit per inning,
- 42:25Speaker 2: and six home runs allowed this month. That is not good, dude.
- 42:30Speaker 2: So Fetti is falling apart after he was actually pitching
- 42:33Speaker 2: better earlier this year. But he is yeah, he's not good.
- 42:38Speaker 2: His strikeout rate is really low. His walk rate's not
- 42:41Speaker 2: too bad. His hit rates, I mean, his walk rate,
- 42:44Speaker 2: I guess is actually a little bit high. His hit
- 42:45Speaker 2: rate's not that bad, below one one per inning. But actually, yeah,
- 42:50Speaker 2: his walk rate is really kind of the problem, but
- 42:52Speaker 2: it's not that bad. Strike out rate is low. His
- 42:56Speaker 2: home runs are ridiculous, eleven home runs allowed, so I
- 42:59Speaker 2: guess overall is numbers kind of make him look not
- 43:01Speaker 2: quite as bad as maybe his overall his surface numbers look,
- 43:05Speaker 2: I don't trust him. Though San Francisco has sixteen at
- 43:08Speaker 2: bats against him, they have one strikeout and seven walks
- 43:12Speaker 2: against him. Is that a good ratio one strikeout in
- 43:16Speaker 2: seven walks? Probably not. He's also got a two to
- 43:20Speaker 2: fifty batting average allowed to them, but only a seven
- 43:22Speaker 2: to twenty eight OHPS because they have no extra base
- 43:25Speaker 2: hits off him, So all the walks are doing that
- 43:27Speaker 2: amount of damage.
- 43:28Speaker 4: But I don't trust Vetti man.
- 43:30Speaker 2: But then can you trust adren Hauser here on the
- 43:33Speaker 2: other side, I don't think so. He's not doing well
- 43:36Speaker 2: for the Giants here five point two five ERA, one
- 43:40Speaker 2: point four to eight whip. He's been really bad at home,
- 43:42Speaker 2: which makes no sense to me, but seven point three
- 43:45Speaker 2: to one homer ra in a pitcher friendly ballpark. Whatever.
- 43:50Speaker 4: Man, He's been a little bit better this month than that.
- 43:52Speaker 2: He's not allowed more than two earned runs in any
- 43:55Speaker 2: of his starts this month, including road starts against the
- 43:58Speaker 2: Dodgers and the AA in that horrible ballpark, So that's
- 44:02Speaker 2: actually good that he was able to handle those assignments
- 44:05Speaker 2: tough assignments, and actually the Giants won both games. But
- 44:08Speaker 2: if you look a little bit deeper, he didn't really
- 44:11Speaker 2: actually pitch that well. He's got a ten to nine
- 44:14Speaker 2: strikeout walk ratio, but he only allowed ten hits over
- 44:17Speaker 2: those seventeen to two thirds innings, so he was actually
- 44:19Speaker 2: unhittable pretty much. But he walked way too many guys
- 44:23Speaker 2: and his strikeout rate was low, so he's not fooling anybody,
- 44:26Speaker 2: So I think those outings were still pretty misleading. His
- 44:29Speaker 2: numbers on the season are really disgusting, like his and
- 44:33Speaker 2: not in a good way. His strike out rate is
- 44:36Speaker 2: really low, his walk rate is high. His strike out
- 44:39Speaker 2: walk ratio was almost one to one. That is not
- 44:42Speaker 2: I mean it's not quite that, but it's still bad.
- 44:44Speaker 2: That's not good. And he's a lot more than one
- 44:46Speaker 2: hit per inning. I don't truss Houser. White Sox have
- 44:50Speaker 2: not done well against him, other one for ten off him.
- 44:53Speaker 2: Five of their hitters have face and I think he
- 44:54Speaker 2: was on the White Sox for a little while recently
- 44:56Speaker 2: and actually pitched decently for them. But they have, yeah,
- 45:00Speaker 2: five guys who have faced him before. They have no
- 45:02Speaker 2: extra base hits off him, and they have five strikeouts
- 45:05Speaker 2: against him in no walks, so one hundred average two
- 45:08Speaker 2: hundred ops. I'm gonna slightly lean to the giants here.
- 45:14Speaker 2: I mean, I think the situation is better for them.
- 45:17Speaker 2: They got the better bullpen. I probably prefer Howser over
- 45:22Speaker 2: whatever the hell the White Sox are doing with their
- 45:24Speaker 2: pseudo bullpen fetti game, whatever the hell they're doing there.
- 45:28Speaker 2: The money is agreeing with me on that fifty four
- 45:30Speaker 2: percent of tickets on the White Sox. Public wants the
- 45:33Speaker 2: White Sox because they're hot right now, but they're gonna look, Oh, Hudson,
- 45:37Speaker 2: this guy is a decent looking ra No, he's an
- 45:39Speaker 2: opener Howser. I know his numbers aren't good, but this
- 45:43Speaker 2: looks like an okay matchup for him, at least still
- 45:46Speaker 2: don't really trust him. I'm not gonna give this out
- 45:48Speaker 2: as a player or anything, but seventy nine percent of
- 45:50Speaker 2: the cash on San Francisco here, they are slight favorite,
- 45:54Speaker 2: and they're favored for a reason here, So that would
- 45:58Speaker 2: be the way I would look. I mean, I could
- 46:00Speaker 2: see maybe an argument for the over here because I
- 46:02Speaker 2: just don't trust enough of the pitching here. I think
- 46:06Speaker 2: the most trustworthy pitching you're gonna get in that game
- 46:09Speaker 2: is probably the San Francisco bullpen. But Howser at least
- 46:12Speaker 2: does have good matchup numbers there and some unfamiliarity. But
- 46:16Speaker 2: the unfamiliarity can only get you so far when you're
- 46:18Speaker 2: a veteran, you've been in the league for so long.
- 46:20Speaker 2: Speeing of veterans, I know, I put that in my
- 46:23Speaker 2: title here. I'm a fallen veteran of the handicapping industry.
- 46:28Speaker 2: Now man, After yesterday I got taken out memorialized me.
- 46:32Speaker 2: But hap be more Memorial Day weekend to everybody. Hopefully everybody's,
- 46:37Speaker 2: you know, gonna do something, you know, have have some dogs,
- 46:42Speaker 2: some burgers, go out.
- 46:44Speaker 4: To the grill, you know what I mean.
- 46:46Speaker 2: Hopefully the weather will be decent enough for that here
- 46:48Speaker 2: I don't know if it will be, but hopefully people
- 46:54Speaker 2: betting on Detroit. I mean the public is definitely not
- 46:59Speaker 2: betting Detroit. I don't buy that percentage at all. Yes
- 47:06Speaker 2: the over in that game was a fluke. The I
- 47:10Speaker 2: didn't think San Francisco is necessarily gonna win that game
- 47:14Speaker 2: without Murakami. I mean, he's only one guy. He's not
- 47:18Speaker 2: the only guy. That's damn that's doing damage.
- 47:22Speaker 4: Montgomery.
- 47:23Speaker 2: I don't think the White Sox offense is gonna sustain
- 47:26Speaker 2: this level. All right, dude, we have to get through
- 47:29Speaker 2: these games. This is getting ridiculous. We got Minnesota at Boston.
- 47:35Speaker 2: I don't even want to fucking talk about it. Yesterday,
- 47:37Speaker 2: what the fuck you know you? Peyton totally did okay
- 47:41Speaker 2: in the game. He had one bad inning. They were
- 47:44Speaker 2: still set up to win that game, and then the Red
- 47:45Speaker 2: Sox bullpen totally imploded. It was fucking Slayton who was
- 47:50Speaker 2: the problem. It was all him. Red Sox use four
- 47:54Speaker 2: relief pitchers yesterday. But of course, because they blew the
- 47:57Speaker 2: game in like the seventh inning, Chapman and get a
- 48:00Speaker 2: chance to pitch.
- 48:02Speaker 4: Moron is gonna be an opener in this game today.
- 48:05Speaker 2: So they're gonna use him. Red Sox still have the
- 48:08Speaker 2: better bullpen, though Minnesota used four relief pitchers yesterday. I'll
- 48:12Speaker 2: give the Red Sox a bullpen edge. Still the ranked
- 48:14Speaker 2: third in bullpen, even after yesterday they were horrible. Minnesota
- 48:19Speaker 2: is horrible. They are twenty seventh in bullpen. Minnesota has
- 48:23Speaker 2: the better offense. They are eleventh right now. Offensively, the
- 48:27Speaker 2: Red Sox can't seem to beat them either. Minnesota's three
- 48:30Speaker 2: and one against them, the Red Sox are twenty sixth
- 48:33Speaker 2: in hitting, and the Red Sox are gonna have to
- 48:36Speaker 2: go against Taj Bradley, who's coming off the injury list here.
- 48:40Speaker 2: He's having a good season with Minnesota. Man, he's been
- 48:42Speaker 2: much better with them than he was with Tampa Bay.
- 48:45Speaker 2: He always showed the glimpses of being a pretty good pitcher,
- 48:48Speaker 2: and he's been good this year. Two point eight to
- 48:50Speaker 2: seventy RA, one point one to nine whip. He's still
- 48:53Speaker 2: pretty young. But we'll see what he's gonna look like
- 48:55Speaker 2: coming off the injured list here. He's been a little
- 48:58Speaker 2: bit worse on the road. Three point two to five
- 49:00Speaker 2: Rody Ray. He pitched well before he went down. He
- 49:04Speaker 2: only had one start where he allowed more than two
- 49:06Speaker 2: hourn runs, but his last start was pretty good against Washington.
- 49:11Speaker 2: Now he's gonna have to go up against the Red
- 49:13Speaker 2: Sox though, and the Red Sox are familiar with him
- 49:16Speaker 2: because he was on Tampa Bay, so the Red Sox
- 49:18Speaker 2: have faced him fifty three at batsworth. The Red Sox
- 49:21Speaker 2: have only done okay against him. They have a two
- 49:23Speaker 2: forty five average against him, which is not great, but
- 49:26Speaker 2: they've hit him for a little bit of power. They
- 49:28Speaker 2: have a seven to fifty six ops off him, fifteen
- 49:31Speaker 2: strike got six walks, So the Red Sox have done
- 49:34Speaker 2: some damage to him, and they aren't familiar with him.
- 49:37Speaker 2: So I don't know if this is the best matchup
- 49:40Speaker 2: for Bradley here, going up against a lineup that is
- 49:42Speaker 2: familiar with him. But he's been pitching a lot better
- 49:46Speaker 2: this season than the last time the Red Sox faced him,
- 49:49Speaker 2: you know what I mean. I don't think the Red
- 49:51Speaker 2: Sox faced him this year. Maybe they did. Let me say,
- 49:54Speaker 2: uh no, they did not, So Bradley looks like a
- 49:57Speaker 2: different pitcher this year man, so he might pitch better here.
- 50:00Speaker 2: But again, he's coming back from injury, which a lot
- 50:03Speaker 2: of professional betters don't like to play on a guy
- 50:05Speaker 2: coming back from injury. I actually kind of do when
- 50:08Speaker 2: it's a veteran pitcher because I think they might be
- 50:10Speaker 2: a little bit undervalued when they're coming back from injury.
- 50:13Speaker 2: But I'm just not gonna play this game anyway. I
- 50:15Speaker 2: think there are just too many question marks here. Red
- 50:18Speaker 2: Sox have Giovanni Moran, like I said opening this game,
- 50:22Speaker 2: he's been good, but he's only gonna pitch one inning here,
- 50:25Speaker 2: two point eight one ERA, one point one three whip.
- 50:27Speaker 2: But what they're gonna do is they're gonna bring in
- 50:29Speaker 2: Brian Beao. And you know what I've said about BeO recently.
- 50:33Speaker 2: Beo's not even on the depth chart, by the way.
- 50:36Speaker 2: So once Garrett cro Garrett Crochet comes back, if the
- 50:40Speaker 2: rest of these guys say health, they Bao is out
- 50:43Speaker 2: of the rotation. This is actually a pretty good starting rotation.
- 50:45Speaker 4: Man.
- 50:46Speaker 2: The Red Sox offense needs to fucking get going. Brian Beyo,
- 50:52Speaker 2: he's been awful. Seven point one six e R one
- 50:55Speaker 2: point eight whip. I'm assuming he is pitching behind Mora here.
- 51:00Speaker 2: I think they're gonna let Bao go our starters workload.
- 51:03Speaker 2: But here's the thing about Bao that I keep pointing
- 51:05Speaker 2: out they use an opener in front of him in
- 51:07Speaker 2: two games and guess which games those were. Yeah, those
- 51:11Speaker 2: were these two games against Detroit and Philadelphia where he
- 51:13Speaker 2: had really good outings in both of them. So it's
- 51:16Speaker 2: like they put an opener in front of him, he
- 51:18Speaker 2: pitches way better. And then they were like, oh, he's fixed,
- 51:21Speaker 2: let's have him start against Atlanta.
- 51:24Speaker 4: And what happened.
- 51:24Speaker 2: Yeah, he got completely blown up against Atlanta. So now
- 51:28Speaker 2: they're putting an opener back in front of him again,
- 51:30Speaker 2: and in that role he's been way better. So does
- 51:33Speaker 2: that mean he's gonna pitch better again? I have no idea, dude.
- 51:36Speaker 2: I don't trust Bao enough to Actually I would not
- 51:39Speaker 2: put my money on this guy no way. Like his
- 51:42Speaker 2: numbers over the course of the season are bad. His
- 51:43Speaker 2: strikeout rate is really low, he's allowed way over one
- 51:47Speaker 2: hipper inning, very bad, and his walk rate is also high.
- 51:50Speaker 2: So I don't trust him, no, But he's been better
- 51:53Speaker 2: in this role as an opener, and he does have
- 51:56Speaker 2: good numbers against Minnesota in thirty five at bats one
- 51:59Speaker 2: see batting average five point thirty two OPS seven to
- 52:03Speaker 2: five strike out walk ratio is not good.
- 52:06Speaker 4: Can the Red Sox get it done?
- 52:07Speaker 2: I mean, the one thing about the situation though, is
- 52:10Speaker 2: the Red Sox were in a return home spot last night,
- 52:13Speaker 2: so that was not a good situation, even though they
- 52:15Speaker 2: should have won the game once they had the lead.
- 52:18Speaker 2: But that means the Red Sox are kind of in
- 52:20Speaker 2: a bounce back spot here, right because you return home,
- 52:23Speaker 2: you have a bad game, you lose that game a
- 52:25Speaker 2: lot of times, you turn it around and play better
- 52:28Speaker 2: in the next game. The public is backing Minnesota here.
- 52:31Speaker 2: Man public does not want the Red Sox. The Red
- 52:34Speaker 2: Sox are actually a small favorite here, so the oddsmakers
- 52:36Speaker 2: are telling you the Red Sox are supposed to win
- 52:39Speaker 2: this game. Seventy one percent of tickets on Minnesota, seventy
- 52:43Speaker 2: percent of the cash on them, so the money is
- 52:46Speaker 2: indicating towards the Red Sox here. If Bao continues to
- 52:51Speaker 2: pitch well in this opener role, I could see the
- 52:55Speaker 2: argument for it because the Red Sox have the better bullpens. Still,
- 52:59Speaker 2: they're in a better situation here, and they're familiar with Bradley,
- 53:03Speaker 2: so you could make the argument that the Red Socks
- 53:05Speaker 2: actually have the starting pitching edge or whatever you want.
- 53:09Speaker 2: To call it here as well. So I don't really
- 53:12Speaker 2: disagree with the Red Sox side here, but I don't
- 53:14Speaker 2: want to do it. And then there are also probably
- 53:17Speaker 2: some arguments towards a first five under here. The total
- 53:20Speaker 2: is higher than it was yesterday. It's at eight, so
- 53:23Speaker 2: the first five is probably around four, so you get
- 53:26Speaker 2: a better number on that if you think Bradley will
- 53:28Speaker 2: do well the Red Sox, if you think they'll be
- 53:31Speaker 2: able to actually get a decent appearance from Bao, there
- 53:36Speaker 2: might be an argument for a first five under there,
- 53:38Speaker 2: but it's it's not gonna be anything I'm gonna do.
- 53:41Speaker 2: I'm staying the hell away. The next game will be
- 53:44Speaker 2: my last baseball play. So we have a lot of
- 53:50Speaker 2: Actually we have two afternoon games. The first play that
- 53:53Speaker 2: I gave out is actually a night game, as I said,
- 53:55Speaker 2: which is that Saint Louis Cincinnati Game two. This game,
- 53:59Speaker 2: this is you know, you know, it wouldn't be a
- 54:02Speaker 2: day you know, it wouldn't be a day during the
- 54:04Speaker 2: baseball season with me if I didn't have an under, right,
- 54:07Speaker 2: we're gonna go Mets Miami under eight in this one.
- 54:10Speaker 2: It looks like it was seven and a half at
- 54:12Speaker 2: a lot of places, but I found an eight at
- 54:14Speaker 2: a decent price there. Maybe it's not even worth paying
- 54:17Speaker 2: the extra for it because seven and a half is
- 54:19Speaker 2: really the seven is the keyer number, so the difference
- 54:22Speaker 2: between seven and a half and eight is kind of minimal.
- 54:24Speaker 2: But I found it at a decent price on like whatever.
- 54:28Speaker 2: I like this. Though both teams are pretty good pitching wise,
- 54:32Speaker 2: This is like a really good pitching matchup. The total
- 54:35Speaker 2: to me seems like it's skewed a little bit higher
- 54:37Speaker 2: than maybe it should be here. I think these pitchers
- 54:40Speaker 2: might not be getting enough respect here. And you're looking
- 54:42Speaker 2: at two offenses that aren't really that good Mets, especially,
- 54:46Speaker 2: two bullpens that are pretty good, and a pitcher friendly ballpark.
- 54:50Speaker 2: So a lot of things make this game look like
- 54:52Speaker 2: an under here. Miami did use three relief pitchers yesterday,
- 54:55Speaker 2: but they do have a pretty good bullpen. The Mets
- 54:58Speaker 2: also used three, but they use in long relief. It
- 55:02Speaker 2: was a Tobias Meyers opener thing, so there better relievers
- 55:07Speaker 2: are available. At least Mets have been a pretty good bullpen.
- 55:10Speaker 2: They're at ninth and Miami's at sixth, so we got
- 55:13Speaker 2: good bullpens. We have offenses that have not been that
- 55:17Speaker 2: good Miami nineteenth, Mets dead last as usual, thirtieth, So
- 55:23Speaker 2: that all looks good, and then we have what I
- 55:25Speaker 2: think is a good starting pitching matchup. Freddy Perrault is
- 55:28Speaker 2: going for the Mets. He's having a pretty typical season
- 55:31Speaker 2: for what you would normally get out of him, a
- 55:33Speaker 2: three point three to one ERA, one point two five whip.
- 55:36Speaker 2: He always has kind of a high walk rate, but
- 55:38Speaker 2: the rest of his numbers are usually pretty good. He's
- 55:41Speaker 2: been good on the road this season two point twenty
- 55:43Speaker 2: five Roady Ray, so he's in the better of his
- 55:46Speaker 2: home road splits this season. He's allowed no more than
- 55:49Speaker 2: three or in runs in any outing since his first
- 55:51Speaker 2: outing of the year, so he's pitching quite effectively. His
- 55:55Speaker 2: team has won his last three games, which is really
- 55:58Speaker 2: saying something when it's the Mets, but they actually backed
- 56:02Speaker 2: him up with a ton of run support in those games.
- 56:04Speaker 2: But we don't need that here. The one concern is
- 56:07Speaker 2: his walk rate is crazy high, but that was because
- 56:09Speaker 2: he walked six guys in his last outing against the Yankees,
- 56:12Speaker 2: and I know that's not good, but he held them
- 56:15Speaker 2: to two hits in five innings and that was one start.
- 56:18Speaker 2: You could argue that was a little bit of a blip.
- 56:20Speaker 2: I know he tends to walk too many guys, but
- 56:23Speaker 2: usually he's not walking six in a start. You look
- 56:26Speaker 2: at his overall numbers, he's basically got one strikeout per inning,
- 56:29Speaker 2: which is good. He's allowed well below one hit per inning,
- 56:32Speaker 2: and his walk rate is Yeah, his walk rate is
- 56:35Speaker 2: too high, obviously, I'm admitting that. But the rest of
- 56:38Speaker 2: his numbers are pretty good, and we've seen what he's
- 56:40Speaker 2: done throughout his career. He's pretty good, and I think
- 56:43Speaker 2: he can handle a Miami lineup coming off a really,
- 56:46Speaker 2: really difficult task against the Yankees, this will be a
- 56:49Speaker 2: step down in class for him, and he's been pretty
- 56:52Speaker 2: good against Miami in thirty five career at bats two
- 56:55Speaker 2: hundred batting average, allowed six to ninety two ops. Not
- 56:58Speaker 2: bad strikeouts in eight walks, but five of the walks
- 57:02Speaker 2: are Morell, so it looks like he kind of just
- 57:05Speaker 2: pitches around Morell.
- 57:06Speaker 4: So it's not all his wildness year. So I'm fine
- 57:10Speaker 4: with that.
- 57:10Speaker 2: And then I actually think we might have the better
- 57:12Speaker 2: pitcher on the other side, Max mey Or even though
- 57:15Speaker 2: Peralta is a solid pitcher, Meyer is having a really
- 57:18Speaker 2: good season for Miami. Two point eight five ERA, one
- 57:22Speaker 2: point one two whip. You know, he's been a guy
- 57:24Speaker 2: that I've liked to play on. I gave out a
- 57:26Speaker 2: play on Miami with Meyer on the mound, I think
- 57:29Speaker 2: two starts ago, and then he I think he beat
- 57:31Speaker 2: the Braves last time out too. He's been better at home,
- 57:35Speaker 2: so we have the better of both pitchers home road
- 57:38Speaker 2: splits here. He's got a two point one six home
- 57:40Speaker 2: e RA. That's good. He shut out the Braves last
- 57:43Speaker 2: time out and they didn't overwork and he threw in
- 57:46Speaker 2: the nineties. So that's basically what he's been doing through
- 57:49Speaker 2: every start, so I think that's fine.
- 57:51Speaker 4: Miami's won his last four outings.
- 57:53Speaker 2: It's actually a really good sign that he was able
- 57:55Speaker 2: to pitch really well against a hot hitting lineup like
- 57:58Speaker 2: the like the Braves. That's a good sign. And that
- 58:02Speaker 2: was at home as well. His overall numbers on the
- 58:05Speaker 2: season are good.
- 58:06Speaker 4: Man.
- 58:06Speaker 2: He's got a really low hit rate, his walk rate
- 58:09Speaker 2: is not too high. His strikeout rate is also high,
- 58:11Speaker 2: so everything looks pretty good for him here. His recent
- 58:14Speaker 2: numbers are pretty much in line with that as well.
- 58:17Speaker 2: He's still continuing to pitch well. He's allowed more than
- 58:22Speaker 2: two earned runs only three times this season, more than
- 58:26Speaker 2: three only once, and he's never allowed more than four
- 58:28Speaker 2: earned runs this entire season. And he's got good numbers
- 58:32Speaker 2: against the Mets, but they also haven't seen that much
- 58:34Speaker 2: of him. They have five hitters who have faced him,
- 58:37Speaker 2: one extra base hit, a double from Ventos. They only
- 58:41Speaker 2: have thirteen at bats against him, a one to fifty
- 58:43Speaker 2: four average, four forty five ops, three strikeouts, one walk.
- 58:47Speaker 2: So I think Meyer sets up well here as well.
- 58:50Speaker 2: I like the under here. That's where we're going. Yeah,
- 58:54Speaker 2: I mean pretty much everything lines up for me on
- 58:57Speaker 2: this one to be an under. I like it. We
- 58:59Speaker 2: have eighty nine percent tickets, ninety percent of the cash
- 59:01Speaker 2: on the under here. The totals mostly seven and a
- 59:04Speaker 2: half juiced to the over. But I think you can
- 59:08Speaker 2: find an eight at some books. There is one at
- 59:10Speaker 2: the book that starts with the F and sells bad
- 59:13Speaker 2: quality merchandise, so you can find that there. I think
- 59:16Speaker 2: multiple books might have it. I think I've found this
- 59:18Speaker 2: at one of the other books. I forget which one, though,
- 59:21Speaker 2: but I would also still go under seven and a half.
- 59:25Speaker 2: But again, seven and a half at plus money is like,
- 59:28Speaker 2: I don't know, it just seems like you should try
- 59:30Speaker 2: to find an eight somewhere. But whatever, I mean, I
- 59:33Speaker 2: agree with either way. Eighty eight percent of tickets, ninety
- 59:36Speaker 2: percent of the cash on the under, and the money's
- 59:38Speaker 2: coming in towards Miami. For what it's worth, fifty five
- 59:40Speaker 2: percent of tickets, seventy one percent of the cash on Miami.
- 59:44Speaker 2: They're a very small favorite here. I don't disagree with Miami.
- 59:48Speaker 2: I think Meyer might actually be the better of the
- 59:50Speaker 2: two starters here at this point, and Miami. You know,
- 59:54Speaker 2: I mean, I don't think Miami is generally the better team,
- 59:57Speaker 2: but they've been the better team this year at least.
- 1:00:00Speaker 2: But I'm not focusing on the side here, man, I
- 1:00:02Speaker 2: don't have a good read on the side. I like
- 1:00:03Speaker 2: the game to go under. Tobias. Yeah, that's right, Tobias.
- 1:00:10Speaker 2: Arrested Development, dude, Modern Comedy's Arrested Development is one of
- 1:00:14Speaker 2: the best. Like the writing and Arrested Development is so good.
- 1:00:19Speaker 4: Hobo Chili's Revenge, what's up? Man?
- 1:00:22Speaker 2: Thanks for hanging out. All right, let's get through the
- 1:00:25Speaker 2: rest of this stuff. I'm gonna take a break shortly.
- 1:00:29Speaker 2: We'll talk about Seattle Kansas City here. I thought Zach
- 1:00:31Speaker 2: was gonna show up for this Kansas City analysis here.
- 1:00:35Speaker 2: This game is on Fox Sports one. By the way,
- 1:00:38Speaker 2: I don't know why is this game televised.
- 1:00:41Speaker 4: I don't know.
- 1:00:42Speaker 2: Kansas City lost tune and nothing yesterday. They've lost four
- 1:00:45Speaker 2: in a row. They were staying at home throughout all
- 1:00:48Speaker 2: of that. Maybe they do bounce back here, but they're
- 1:00:50Speaker 2: not playing well right now. And Seattle, I believe, is
- 1:00:53Speaker 2: the better team, which is why they're favorite on the
- 1:00:56Speaker 2: road here. So the odds angers are telling you Seattle
- 1:00:59Speaker 2: is the better team here. And yes, Seattle has some
- 1:01:01Speaker 2: pretty distinct advantages here, like the bullpen. Kansas City's bullpen
- 1:01:07Speaker 2: has not been good. They're twenty sixth Seattle is seventeenth,
- 1:01:10Speaker 2: but they have one of the best bullpen er rays,
- 1:01:12Speaker 2: so Seattle's bullpen is definitely better. As far as the
- 1:01:15Speaker 2: usage is concerned, Kansas City used three arms out of
- 1:01:19Speaker 2: the bullpen yesterday. Seattle also used three, but Seattle did
- 1:01:23Speaker 2: use some of their better relief pitchers to finish the
- 1:01:25Speaker 2: game off. So Seattle doesn't have their high leverage arms
- 1:01:29Speaker 2: necessarily available here. But I still think they have the
- 1:01:31Speaker 2: better bullpen offensively, Kansas City's dropped all the way to
- 1:01:36Speaker 2: twenty third and Seattle's twenty second. I think Seattle may
- 1:01:40Speaker 2: indeed be the better hitting team here, and I think
- 1:01:42Speaker 2: I prefer Seattle's starting pitcher here as well, George Kirby.
- 1:01:46Speaker 2: He's kind of been their best starter this year. Man.
- 1:01:49Speaker 2: He's been good three point four to five r ray,
- 1:01:52Speaker 2: one point one to eight WHIP. He's been good on
- 1:01:54Speaker 2: the road two point nine to two roadyr ray. You know,
- 1:01:58Speaker 2: Seattle usually their starting pitchers are better at home. This year,
- 1:02:01Speaker 2: a few of them have been better on the road,
- 1:02:03Speaker 2: including Logan Gilbert, who I think pitched well last night.
- 1:02:06Speaker 2: George Kirby is another one of them. Kirby gave up
- 1:02:09Speaker 2: six runs last time and against San Diego, but I
- 1:02:11Speaker 2: think that was a misleading line there because he only
- 1:02:15Speaker 2: allowed six hits and two walks and had six strikeouts.
- 1:02:19Speaker 2: Basically everybody that reached base scored against him, so I
- 1:02:22Speaker 2: think that was a little bit of an outlier result
- 1:02:24Speaker 2: for him. His overall numbers are good, He's a lot
- 1:02:26Speaker 2: few of them one hit per inning, his walk rate's
- 1:02:29Speaker 2: pretty low, and he's got his strikeout rates not really
- 1:02:31Speaker 2: that high. He also induces a lot of ground balls.
- 1:02:34Speaker 2: He's pitched well though, Like I trust Kirby in the
- 1:02:38Speaker 2: majority of situations, and he does do well against Kansas City,
- 1:02:42Speaker 2: really well.
- 1:02:42Speaker 4: Actually, he's got sixty two at bats against him.
- 1:02:45Speaker 2: He's held him to a two ten average, five point
- 1:02:47Speaker 2: thirty two oh ps, twelve strikeouts and no walks. Those
- 1:02:51Speaker 2: are quite good numbers for that size sample there. So
- 1:02:54Speaker 2: I think Kirby has a good matchup here. He looks
- 1:02:57Speaker 2: like he should do well here. He'll be opposed by
- 1:02:59Speaker 2: Steve even Coleck, who I don't like as much. He
- 1:03:03Speaker 2: has much smaller sample size to look at here though.
- 1:03:07Speaker 2: He's got a four point twenty four ERA, but a
- 1:03:09Speaker 2: one whip is pretty good. He's had one bad outing
- 1:03:12Speaker 2: against the White Sox, but his other two starts have
- 1:03:15Speaker 2: both been pretty good. Twelve to four strike out walk ratio,
- 1:03:18Speaker 2: thirteen hits allowed in seventeen innings, so not a high
- 1:03:21Speaker 2: strikeout ray, but the rest of his numbers are pretty good.
- 1:03:24Speaker 4: Not a lot of walks, not a lot of hits.
- 1:03:27Speaker 2: But he's faced you know, he's basically I don't know, well,
- 1:03:30Speaker 2: he's facing the White Sox and Saint Louis on the
- 1:03:32Speaker 2: road I guess you could argue both of those lineups
- 1:03:34Speaker 2: are actually fairly good against Seattle. He does have decent
- 1:03:37Speaker 2: numbers in twenty six at bats five one strike out
- 1:03:40Speaker 2: walk ratio two thirty one average seven to twenty one ops,
- 1:03:44Speaker 2: so colec might actually pitch well here as well. There
- 1:03:48Speaker 2: are some arguments for a first five under here. The
- 1:03:51Speaker 2: money is not really agreeing ninety one percent of tickets
- 1:03:54Speaker 2: eighty seven percent of the cash on the under, but
- 1:03:57Speaker 2: that's full game at eight and a half. I would
- 1:03:59Speaker 2: not go full game is I don't like Kansas City's bullpen,
- 1:04:02Speaker 2: and Seattle did use some of their best relievers yesterday
- 1:04:05Speaker 2: as well. First five under makes some sense to me
- 1:04:08Speaker 2: here though, with this starting pitching matchup. It doesn't look
- 1:04:10Speaker 2: like a bad starting pitching matchup here, but I think
- 1:04:13Speaker 2: I trust Seattle a little bit more here in Kirby Plus,
- 1:04:17Speaker 2: I think I still trust their bullpen a little bit
- 1:04:18Speaker 2: more so. I also lean Seattle, although Kansas City might
- 1:04:21Speaker 2: be in a bounced back spot. A lot of times
- 1:04:23Speaker 2: when a team gets shut out at home, they will
- 1:04:26Speaker 2: bounce back in the next game. We have fifty eight
- 1:04:28Speaker 2: percent of the tickets on Kansas City fifty seven percent
- 1:04:31Speaker 2: of the cash on Seattle, but you're laying a bit
- 1:04:33Speaker 2: of a price for it at about minus one thirty five.
- 1:04:37Speaker 4: Maybe it's justified.
- 1:04:39Speaker 2: I mean, the oddsmakers are telling you Seattle is the
- 1:04:41Speaker 2: better team here, and I do agree with that, So
- 1:04:44Speaker 2: I don't really disagree with the Seattle side there. I
- 1:04:47Speaker 2: think maybe first five under is a little bit more
- 1:04:51Speaker 2: preferable though. All right, and then we have four games
- 1:04:54Speaker 2: left to talk about. I don't have any plays, and
- 1:04:55Speaker 2: the rest of them. I already talked about the game two,
- 1:04:58Speaker 2: which we have a play on, which by the way,
- 1:05:00Speaker 2: is on Fox Saint Louis and Cincinnati.
- 1:05:02Speaker 4: I gave out the over as a play in that game.
- 1:05:05Speaker 2: We'll talk about the other Fox game, the one that
- 1:05:07Speaker 2: everybody's actually gonna watch, Dodgers Brewers, and then the rest
- 1:05:11Speaker 2: of these games in a second when I get back.
- 1:05:13Speaker 2: And then I got other plays. I have two basketball
- 1:05:16Speaker 2: players to give out, so I'll be back. Yeah, all right,
- 1:06:43Speaker 2: I'm back. H Uh you Sick and Verhoven, No, I don't.
- 1:06:54Speaker 2: I don't know anything about fights, man. I can look
- 1:06:59Speaker 2: at the odds for and try to figure something out.
- 1:07:02Speaker 2: I mean, you Sick is an insurmountable favorite. So yeah,
- 1:07:07Speaker 2: I mean he's going to win. He's minus twenty five hundred,
- 1:07:10Speaker 2: So it's as simple as that. I don't know if
- 1:07:11Speaker 2: there's any you know, I mean, there might be some
- 1:07:14Speaker 2: way to approach that fight, like if I don't know
- 1:07:16Speaker 2: what their styles are. I don't know anything about these fighters.
- 1:07:20Speaker 2: I don't know if the favorite there is like a
- 1:07:23Speaker 2: knockout guy, like maybe getting a cheaper price on him
- 1:07:25Speaker 2: to win in a knockout or something like that is better.
- 1:07:29Speaker 2: But no, I mean it looks almost unplayable to me
- 1:07:31Speaker 2: when you have a favorite that's that heavy, they're just
- 1:07:34Speaker 2: gonna they're gonna win. It's as simple as that. Okay,
- 1:07:44Speaker 2: you know more than the than the odds makers do. Obviously,
- 1:07:50Speaker 2: all right, we have a Dodgers Milwaukee on Fox. Obviously,
- 1:07:53Speaker 2: this is the game on Fox that everybody's gonna watch.
- 1:07:56Speaker 2: Nobody's gonna watch Cards, Reds. This is a big game
- 1:08:00Speaker 2: and Milwaukee is a solid team. Dodgers I still think
- 1:08:03Speaker 2: of the top team in baseball. Milwaukee did win yesterday.
- 1:08:07Speaker 2: You know, I don't really think Robleski is that good
- 1:08:11Speaker 2: for the Dodgers. I think he did struggle a little
- 1:08:13Speaker 2: bit in that game could be a bounce back for
- 1:08:15Speaker 2: the Dodgers here because they are a they're a good team.
- 1:08:18Speaker 2: Milwaukee was in kind of an ify spot yesterday returning
- 1:08:21Speaker 2: home from sweeping the Cubs, but they still got the
- 1:08:24Speaker 2: job done. So maybe there's like a delayed let down
- 1:08:27Speaker 2: here for Milwaukee. But the problem is, if you want
- 1:08:29Speaker 2: the Dodgers here, you have to back Roki Sasaki. But
- 1:08:32Speaker 2: maybe you can, which I'm gonna talk about in a minute.
- 1:08:37Speaker 2: The Dodgers they have a pretty rested bullpen here. They
- 1:08:39Speaker 2: didn't play on Thursday. They only used two guys out
- 1:08:42Speaker 2: of the bullpen yesterday Milwaukee's three after not playing on Thursday,
- 1:08:47Speaker 2: So Dodgers have a little bit of a rest edge there.
- 1:08:49Speaker 2: Their bullpen has been really good, shockingly, Uh, Dodgers. I
- 1:08:53Speaker 2: think I have the best bullpen. Yeah, ran no second
- 1:08:55Speaker 2: to the Rangers. Dodgers are number two in bullpen Whip
- 1:08:59Speaker 2: as well. They're a really good bullpen right now. Milwaukee's
- 1:09:04Speaker 2: is also good, the ranked twelve, so we do have
- 1:09:06Speaker 2: two good bullpens here. Dodgers are number two in offense
- 1:09:09Speaker 2: right now, right behind the Braves, very close between the two,
- 1:09:13Speaker 2: and Milwaukee has been moving up. They are sixteenth now Offensively, Sasaki,
- 1:09:19Speaker 2: like I said, is pitching for the Dodgers yere. His
- 1:09:21Speaker 2: overall numbers are bad five point zero nine y r RA,
- 1:09:24Speaker 2: one point four or five WHIP. He hasn't really been
- 1:09:28Speaker 2: able to take off as a starter. His home and
- 1:09:31Speaker 2: road splits are pretty insignificant. By the way, it doesn't
- 1:09:34Speaker 2: really matter, but he is actually starting to pitch well
- 1:09:37Speaker 2: as a starter. All three of his starts this month
- 1:09:39Speaker 2: have actually been good. Two of them are against bad
- 1:09:43Speaker 2: teams San Francisco and Anaheim, and I actually think Saint
- 1:09:46Speaker 2: Louis is not that good either, but their offense is
- 1:09:49Speaker 2: pretty good. But he's It is a good sign that
- 1:09:52Speaker 2: he is starting to pitch better as a starter. He's
- 1:09:54Speaker 2: got a seventeen to three strikeout walk ratio in three
- 1:09:57Speaker 2: point five ERA this month, and his allowed fewer than
- 1:10:00Speaker 2: one hitp per inning. That is good, like he's actually
- 1:10:02Speaker 2: starting to potentially get it.
- 1:10:05Speaker 4: Going as a starter.
- 1:10:06Speaker 2: Here.
- 1:10:06Speaker 4: His overall numbers are not great.
- 1:10:09Speaker 2: His strike cut rates fine, almost one per inning, but
- 1:10:11Speaker 2: some of this is coming out of the bulpen as well.
- 1:10:13Speaker 2: I think his walk rate is too high and he's
- 1:10:16Speaker 2: allowed over one hit per inning, which is also not great,
- 1:10:19Speaker 2: but again he is starting to pitch a bit better here.
- 1:10:23Speaker 2: His numbers against Milwaukee are not good, but it's only
- 1:10:25Speaker 2: in six at bats. They have six hitters who have
- 1:10:28Speaker 2: faced him. They have one walk, no strikeouts against him,
- 1:10:31Speaker 2: three point thirty three average nine to twenty nine ops.
- 1:10:35Speaker 4: It's such a small sample.
- 1:10:36Speaker 2: I mean, I don't want to say he should throw
- 1:10:38Speaker 2: it out though, but I don't know. Sasaki might actually
- 1:10:41Speaker 2: pitch okay here there is the chance of that. And
- 1:10:44Speaker 2: then Milwaukee has Robert Gasser listed as the starter here.
- 1:10:48Speaker 2: He's been okay. I think he's only made like one
- 1:10:50Speaker 2: he's he only made one start so far. I don't
- 1:10:52Speaker 2: know he's got a four point five yarra one point
- 1:10:55Speaker 2: two to five whip.
- 1:10:56Speaker 4: Yeah, he only made one start so far. They didn't
- 1:10:59Speaker 4: want to.
- 1:10:59Speaker 2: Overwork and they let him go four innings against Minnesota.
- 1:11:02Speaker 2: He was okay. He gave up three hits, two earned runs,
- 1:11:05Speaker 2: two walks, three strikeouts. I think Gasser is an okay pitcher,
- 1:11:10Speaker 2: like we've seen. He has numbers that he accumulated over
- 1:11:13Speaker 2: the past two seasons, and he was decent during that span.
- 1:11:17Speaker 2: He's not a strikeout guy though, Like I said, I
- 1:11:19Speaker 2: already made the joke in his previous start when I
- 1:11:22Speaker 2: handicapped it. He's not a Gasser. He doesn't throw gas,
- 1:11:26Speaker 2: but his numbers overall have been pretty decent, Like he
- 1:11:28Speaker 2: doesn't walk guys typically against the Dodgers, though they actually
- 1:11:34Speaker 2: have faced him before. They have six hitters who have
- 1:11:37Speaker 2: faced him, five at bats, two strikeouts, one walk, six
- 1:11:41Speaker 2: hundred batting average, and two thousand and fourteen oh ps
- 1:11:45Speaker 2: against him. I mean, those numbers are unsustainably high, but
- 1:11:49Speaker 2: Gasser has not done well against the Dodgers, So looking
- 1:11:54Speaker 2: at all that, I think there are some arguments for
- 1:11:59Speaker 2: the Dodgers here.
- 1:12:00Speaker 4: Man. The money is coming in on the Dodgers, their
- 1:12:02Speaker 4: minus one.
- 1:12:03Speaker 2: Twenty or so, But I still don't know if you
- 1:12:05Speaker 2: can justify Sasaki being favored like that on the road
- 1:12:08Speaker 2: against a good team.
- 1:12:10Speaker 4: But the money is coming in that way.
- 1:12:12Speaker 2: Sixty three percent of ticket, sixty six percent of the
- 1:12:14Speaker 2: cash on the Dodgers. I mean, this game could be
- 1:12:19Speaker 2: potentially an over. I know both bullpends are good, but
- 1:12:23Speaker 2: there is the chance that both starting pitchers do struggle here,
- 1:12:27Speaker 2: and you got two offenses that definitely can hit and
- 1:12:30Speaker 2: the totals at nine. So it's pretty high for a reason.
- 1:12:34Speaker 2: Both pitchers don't really have good matchup numbers here, so
- 1:12:37Speaker 2: over is a potential way to look at that game.
- 1:12:40Speaker 2: I lean, yeah, I mean over might be the better
- 1:12:43Speaker 2: approach there, but I do lean to the Dodgers slightly
- 1:12:46Speaker 2: in that game.
- 1:12:46Speaker 4: But not a strong opinion from me.
- 1:12:48Speaker 2: As at San Diego, this one has some interesting components
- 1:12:54Speaker 2: to it. San Diego won yesterday seven to three. San Diego.
- 1:12:58Speaker 2: San Diego continues to overperform in my opinion because their
- 1:13:02Speaker 2: offense has not been good. Their bullpen is good, but
- 1:13:05Speaker 2: they use a lot of their better relievers yesterday that
- 1:13:08Speaker 2: they did not use their closer. But their bullpen is
- 1:13:11Speaker 2: definitely better than the A's bullpen. A's only us two
- 1:13:14Speaker 2: relief pitchers yesterday, though, so the rest kind of negates
- 1:13:18Speaker 2: that a little bit. But San Diego's rank seventh, The
- 1:13:20Speaker 2: A's are twenty fourth in bullpen here. The A's are
- 1:13:24Speaker 2: the better offense by far their number six San Diego
- 1:13:27Speaker 2: twenty ninth. We're in a pitcher friendly park here. JT.
- 1:13:32Speaker 2: Ginn is pitching for the A's and if you remember
- 1:13:35Speaker 2: what I said after Ginn's last start, this could be
- 1:13:37Speaker 2: a bad situation for him. Here. He's obviously having a
- 1:13:41Speaker 2: good season two point nine to eighty RA one point
- 1:13:43Speaker 2: seven whip. I'm not so sure that I really want
- 1:13:45Speaker 2: to fade him here. He's also been really good on
- 1:13:48Speaker 2: the road, which makes sense. He struggles in that horrible
- 1:13:51Speaker 2: as stadium, but then when he goes on the road
- 1:13:53Speaker 2: he pitches a lot better. One point six to seven
- 1:13:56Speaker 2: Roady Ray and San Diego is a pitcher friendly ballpark
- 1:13:59Speaker 2: as well.
- 1:14:00Speaker 4: But the problem is, he just almost had a no hitter.
- 1:14:03Speaker 2: He was great against Anaheim last time out. They left
- 1:14:06Speaker 2: him in to try for the no hitter, and he
- 1:14:09Speaker 2: gave up a hit and then a home run and
- 1:14:10Speaker 2: the game was over and they lost. So he went
- 1:14:13Speaker 2: from having a no hitter to losing the game two
- 1:14:15Speaker 2: to one in two batters. That's not good. And that
- 1:14:18Speaker 2: was also the first time he threw over one hundred
- 1:14:20Speaker 2: pitches this season, so that I also don't love that
- 1:14:23Speaker 2: when a guy that usually doesn't throw that many pitches,
- 1:14:26Speaker 2: although he did throw in the nineties the previous two starts,
- 1:14:28Speaker 2: so they did ramp him up to that. But I
- 1:14:31Speaker 2: think he could be in a hangover spot here. Man,
- 1:14:33Speaker 2: when you get that close to a no hitter, like
- 1:14:35Speaker 2: that usually you like, I mean, obviously you can't possibly
- 1:14:39Speaker 2: pitch as well.
- 1:14:39Speaker 4: As that again, but I think you do.
- 1:14:41Speaker 2: Wind have been a bit of a letdown spot after that,
- 1:14:44Speaker 2: and he could be in a bit of a hangover
- 1:14:46Speaker 2: or whatever after throwing that many pitches, So I don't
- 1:14:48Speaker 2: like that. I think he's in a bad situation here.
- 1:14:51Speaker 2: San Diego only has two hitters have ever faced him before,
- 1:14:54Speaker 2: but they are three for four offen with a home
- 1:14:57Speaker 2: run from Sheets, no strikeouts, and no walks here, not
- 1:15:01Speaker 2: Sheets the gas station. So yeah, Gin might be fatable here,
- 1:15:06Speaker 2: but he is unfamiliar to San Diego's offense as well,
- 1:15:09Speaker 2: and they are not a very good offense either. But
- 1:15:12Speaker 2: I think he sets up kind of negatively here. Lucas
- 1:15:15Speaker 2: Giolito will be pitching for San Diego. He's making his
- 1:15:19Speaker 2: second start with the Padres here after they picked him up.
- 1:15:22Speaker 2: He was a free agent and no team wanted him.
- 1:15:25Speaker 2: Red Sox fans were complaining they got rid of him,
- 1:15:27Speaker 2: but I'm like, dude, Gilito would not even be in
- 1:15:29Speaker 2: the Red Sox starting rotation right now. All of the
- 1:15:31Speaker 2: Red Sox starters are better than him, and I think
- 1:15:34Speaker 2: his numbers last year were misleadingly good. This year. He's
- 1:15:38Speaker 2: got a five point four ERA point eight whip is good.
- 1:15:41Speaker 2: I mean you have to dig into what happened in
- 1:15:43Speaker 2: that start. Well, he got a good draw because he
- 1:15:46Speaker 2: was pitching in a pitcher friendly ballpark, but he is
- 1:15:48Speaker 2: today too. That was against Seattle. He one hit them
- 1:15:52Speaker 2: through five innings, so that is good obviously, but he
- 1:15:55Speaker 2: also walked three guys and he allowed three runs, which
- 1:15:58Speaker 2: is maybe a little unlucky that all the guys that
- 1:16:01Speaker 2: reach base scored, But three walks is not good. Even
- 1:16:04Speaker 2: though he was pretty unhittable, he was a little bit
- 1:16:06Speaker 2: wild three strike cuts as well.
- 1:16:09Speaker 4: Now, it was his first start of the season. It
- 1:16:11Speaker 4: was his first start.
- 1:16:12Speaker 2: Since last year in the Major so maybe he does
- 1:16:14Speaker 2: settle down a little bit and pitch better here. He
- 1:16:18Speaker 2: does have good numbers against the A's thirty four at bats,
- 1:16:20Speaker 2: two h six batting average, allowed five to ninety ops,
- 1:16:23Speaker 2: sixteen to six strikeout walk ratio. I think I do
- 1:16:28Speaker 2: lean to San Diego here. It's not going on my card.
- 1:16:33Speaker 2: The money's coming in in the A's, but I don't
- 1:16:34Speaker 2: think I agree with that, although I think San Diego
- 1:16:36Speaker 2: is overrated though, like again, I don't think they're as
- 1:16:39Speaker 2: good as their record looks, but I think they have
- 1:16:41Speaker 2: the better bullpens still, and I think the pitching matchup
- 1:16:45Speaker 2: sets up a little bit better for Giliedo here. Seventy
- 1:16:48Speaker 2: two percent of tickets eighty six percent of the cash
- 1:16:50Speaker 2: on the A's here, so the money is coming in
- 1:16:53Speaker 2: on the a's. San Diego's around minus one ten. Again,
- 1:16:56Speaker 2: it's not on my card. You could make an argument
- 1:16:59Speaker 2: maybe if like at first five under here or something,
- 1:17:02Speaker 2: if you think gin will actually continue to pitch well.
- 1:17:04Speaker 2: Like his matchup numbers are such a small sample you
- 1:17:07Speaker 2: might be able to kind of ignore them. But I
- 1:17:10Speaker 2: think he is in a personal letdown spot here though,
- 1:17:13Speaker 2: and I would probably prefer Gilido now that he got
- 1:17:16Speaker 2: one start under his belt, even though I don't think
- 1:17:18Speaker 2: he's really that good.
- 1:17:20Speaker 4: Texas at Anaheim.
- 1:17:24Speaker 2: Anaheim won nine to six yesterday, Texas giving him a
- 1:17:27Speaker 2: lot of runs Man and actually scoring a lot of
- 1:17:30Speaker 2: runs as well. Texas has higher scoring games on the
- 1:17:33Speaker 2: road Man. Their home games are extremely low scoring, their
- 1:17:36Speaker 2: road games tend to be a bit higher scoring. Texas
- 1:17:40Speaker 2: used three relief pitchers yesterday. They are they significantly better
- 1:17:43Speaker 2: bullpen though, Anaheim used four. Texas is the best bullpend
- 1:17:48Speaker 2: ERA and the ranked fifth in WHIP. They are one
- 1:17:51Speaker 2: of the top bullpens. Anaheim is one of the absolute worst.
- 1:17:54Speaker 2: They're twenty nine, so this is one of the biggest
- 1:17:56Speaker 2: bullpend disparities you can get here. Hitting wise, Anaheim has
- 1:18:00Speaker 2: fallen off as well. They're down to twentieth and Texas
- 1:18:03Speaker 2: is actually seventeenth. I don't like Texas hitting though, but
- 1:18:07Speaker 2: right now the ranks slightly better than Anaheims.
- 1:18:10Speaker 4: Nathany Evaldi's pitching for Texas.
- 1:18:11Speaker 2: You're gonna look at this starting pitching matchup, mean, it
- 1:18:13Speaker 2: looks like a complete mismatch, but I'm not entirely sure.
- 1:18:17Speaker 2: I would say that Nathany Evaldi is the name that
- 1:18:20Speaker 2: everybody knows, and he is pitching well again this year
- 1:18:23Speaker 2: after he was off to a shaky start this season.
- 1:18:25Speaker 2: He was really good last year, but he is starting
- 1:18:27Speaker 2: to pitch really well again. Three point six two ERA,
- 1:18:30Speaker 2: one point one five WHIP. He's been a little bit
- 1:18:34Speaker 2: better on the road, believe it or not, three point
- 1:18:36Speaker 2: five to three road ERA, even though home is more
- 1:18:39Speaker 2: pitcher frontly for Texas. He's been really good in three
- 1:18:43Speaker 2: straight starts He's gone at least seven innings in all
- 1:18:45Speaker 2: three and allowed one ear run total against the Yankees
- 1:18:49Speaker 2: twice and Houston, but he historically dominates the Yankees. But
- 1:18:53Speaker 2: I think his numbers matchup wise are actually bad against Houston,
- 1:18:56Speaker 2: and he still pitched really well in that one too.
- 1:18:58Speaker 2: He's been really really good over that span twenty three strikeouts,
- 1:19:02Speaker 2: three walks, and he's allowed twelve hits in twenty two
- 1:19:06Speaker 2: innings as well.
- 1:19:07Speaker 4: He's pitching great right now.
- 1:19:09Speaker 2: Over the course of the season, his numbers are good
- 1:19:11Speaker 2: as well, over one strike up per inning, below one
- 1:19:13Speaker 2: hit per inning, low walk rate.
- 1:19:15Speaker 4: He's allowed ten home runs.
- 1:19:16Speaker 2: Which is a little concerning, but he's only allowed one
- 1:19:20Speaker 2: over those last three outings against Anaheim. He's got good
- 1:19:23Speaker 2: numbers here as well, in seventy eight at bats two
- 1:19:26Speaker 2: five batting average, five to sixty one ops, twenty two
- 1:19:29Speaker 2: to seven strike up walk ratio, but four of the
- 1:19:31Speaker 2: walks are Trout, so obviously he was kind of pitching
- 1:19:34Speaker 2: around Trout. Trout doesn't hit him particularly well though, and
- 1:19:38Speaker 2: strikes out a lot against him, so Ivaldi does set
- 1:19:41Speaker 2: up to pitch pretty well here, and he is in
- 1:19:43Speaker 2: good form right now. Walbert Urania, the young guy pitching
- 1:19:47Speaker 2: for the Angels here.
- 1:19:49Speaker 4: He's actually been decent.
- 1:19:51Speaker 2: He's starting to pitch a little bit better, and he's
- 1:19:53Speaker 2: been good at home as well. He's got a two
- 1:19:55Speaker 2: point seventy RA one point three to five whip is
- 1:19:58Speaker 2: not that good, but he's he got a one point
- 1:20:00Speaker 2: five to seven home ray, and like I said, he's
- 1:20:03Speaker 2: pitched well recently, like this month, he's made four starts.
- 1:20:07Speaker 2: He has a one point six four ERA. His walk
- 1:20:10Speaker 2: number is a little bit high, but it's been getting
- 1:20:12Speaker 2: lower with his last couple of starts.
- 1:20:14Speaker 4: Seventeen to nine.
- 1:20:15Speaker 2: Strikeout walk ratio this month, but only eleven hits a
- 1:20:18Speaker 2: lot in twenty two innings. That's pretty good. Three of
- 1:20:22Speaker 2: those four starts coming at home, and he did face
- 1:20:24Speaker 2: a couple of good lineups in there, the White Sox
- 1:20:26Speaker 2: and the A's. He's pitching pretty well right now, dude,
- 1:20:30Speaker 2: except you do have to worry about the walks a
- 1:20:32Speaker 2: little bit. Over the course of the season, it's pretty
- 1:20:34Speaker 2: much the same. His strikeout rate is decent, his walk
- 1:20:37Speaker 2: rate is clearly too high, but he's allowed pretty few
- 1:20:40Speaker 2: hits as well. I think he's not that bad, dude.
- 1:20:42Speaker 2: He's getting you know, acclimated to the majors and whatever.
- 1:20:45Speaker 2: And he's got another a little bit of an advantage
- 1:20:47Speaker 2: here because Texas has never faced him before. So when
- 1:20:50Speaker 2: these young talented pitchers go up against these opposing lineups
- 1:20:54Speaker 2: a lot of times, they will have a little bit
- 1:20:57Speaker 2: of an advantage there. So that's not bad. So I
- 1:21:00Speaker 2: think this game looks like an under type of game here.
- 1:21:03Speaker 2: We don't really see the market read on that Texas
- 1:21:06Speaker 2: is about a minus one forty favorite. Here, I think
- 1:21:08Speaker 2: you're paying a little bit of a price for REVOLDI
- 1:21:11Speaker 2: Here the money is fading Texas, which tells you that
- 1:21:14Speaker 2: the professional money seems like they trust ran Ya a
- 1:21:18Speaker 2: little bit here eighty three percent of tickets fifty nine
- 1:21:21Speaker 2: percent of the cash on Texas. I think I would
- 1:21:24Speaker 2: lean under. I think that would be the way I
- 1:21:26Speaker 2: would look at this game, because I think both starting
- 1:21:27Speaker 2: pitchers might actually do okay here. But I would limit
- 1:21:29Speaker 2: it to.
- 1:21:29Speaker 4: The first five innings though.
- 1:21:31Speaker 2: You don't want Anaheim's bullpen in any sort of under,
- 1:21:34Speaker 2: so I think first five under is probably the best
- 1:21:38Speaker 2: approach in that game. It's not on my card or anything,
- 1:21:40Speaker 2: but I think that's the way I would lean in
- 1:21:41Speaker 2: that game. Probably you can find a four, maybe even
- 1:21:44Speaker 2: a four and a half on that. And then Colorado
- 1:21:48Speaker 2: at Arizona, which you would think this would be a
- 1:21:51Speaker 2: high scoring series, but the first two games have been
- 1:21:55Speaker 2: extremely low scoring. I mean, we have two teams that
- 1:21:57Speaker 2: are not particularly good at pitching and both teams playing
- 1:22:01Speaker 2: hitter friendly environments.
- 1:22:02Speaker 4: So I don't know what's going on here.
- 1:22:04Speaker 2: But we had a two to one Arizona win the
- 1:22:06Speaker 2: other day and then yesterday a three two Colorado win.
- 1:22:10Speaker 2: I think both teams will be focused here. It's a
- 1:22:12Speaker 2: divisional series. They split the first two games. Arizona used
- 1:22:15Speaker 2: four guys out of the bullpen yesterday Colorado used two,
- 1:22:21Speaker 2: so Colorado's is a little bit arrested. But Arizona is
- 1:22:24Speaker 2: the better bullpen. They're ranked fourth, although, as I always
- 1:22:27Speaker 2: say every single day, their ray is a lot worse
- 1:22:30Speaker 2: than that, so I don't think they're actually the fourth
- 1:22:32Speaker 2: best bullpen. I think they're kind of a mediocre bullpen.
- 1:22:37Speaker 2: Colorado is probably slightly worse though they're at nineteenth and
- 1:22:40Speaker 2: they still have a worse ray than Arizona does as well.
- 1:22:44Speaker 2: Arizona started to hit better again. They're at thirteenth in
- 1:22:47Speaker 2: offense Colorado twenty first So Colorado, they've been a team
- 1:22:52Speaker 2: that usually can at least hit at home, although they're
- 1:22:54Speaker 2: not at home here, but they aren't another hitter friendly ballpark,
- 1:22:56Speaker 2: but their offense has struggled recently. Michael Lorenzen is getting
- 1:23:01Speaker 2: the start here for the Rockies. He's having not a
- 1:23:04Speaker 2: good season, a rocky season. H seven point zero three ERA,
- 1:23:09Speaker 2: one point nine to one whip that is really bad.
- 1:23:11Speaker 2: But he's at least been serviceable on the road, which
- 1:23:15Speaker 2: makes sense. He pitches really bad at home in Coursefield.
- 1:23:18Speaker 2: He's been okay on the road with a four point
- 1:23:20Speaker 2: two toy six road ray, although this is another hitter
- 1:23:23Speaker 2: friendly ballpark, and he just faced Arizona in Coursefield though,
- 1:23:27Speaker 2: but they did litle. They did light him up. They
- 1:23:29Speaker 2: got six earned runs in four and two thirds innings
- 1:23:31Speaker 2: off him, nine hits, and he also walked three.
- 1:23:34Speaker 4: That's not good. His walk numbers bad.
- 1:23:37Speaker 2: He's got eight walks and twenty five hits allowed with
- 1:23:40Speaker 2: twelve strikeouts in fourteen to two thirds innings this month,
- 1:23:43Speaker 2: including a really bad start at home against the Mets.
- 1:23:46Speaker 2: That's not good. But his one road start was against Pittsburgh,
- 1:23:49Speaker 2: who do hit well at home, and he pitched well
- 1:23:52Speaker 2: in that outing, so you can kind of see the
- 1:23:55Speaker 2: home road dichotomy there.
- 1:23:57Speaker 4: He is definitely better on the road.
- 1:23:59Speaker 2: His overall number, the really bad number here is I
- 1:24:01Speaker 2: think he's allowed more hits per inning than any pitcher
- 1:24:04Speaker 2: in baseball this year. He's almost allowing two hits per inning,
- 1:24:08Speaker 2: which is insane.
- 1:24:10Speaker 4: You cannot do that.
- 1:24:11Speaker 2: And on top of that, he's got kind of a
- 1:24:13Speaker 2: high walk rate to in a low strikeout rate.
- 1:24:15Speaker 4: So yeah, there's not a whole lot to like here.
- 1:24:17Speaker 2: But he does pitch better on the road, as numbers
- 1:24:20Speaker 2: against Arizona are actually good in sixty seven at bats,
- 1:24:23Speaker 2: and this is including that last start where he got
- 1:24:26Speaker 2: lit up by them. His numbers are still good against
- 1:24:28Speaker 2: them in sixty seven at bats fifteen to five, strike
- 1:24:31Speaker 2: out walk ratio, two PHO nine average allowed, six point
- 1:24:34Speaker 2: fifty two ops. So maybe he does bounce back and
- 1:24:37Speaker 2: pitch better here. I mean, he's in the better of
- 1:24:40Speaker 2: his home road splits, but Arizona did just see him,
- 1:24:43Speaker 2: which might give them a little advantage.
- 1:24:45Speaker 4: But he's been around for so long.
- 1:24:47Speaker 2: I don't know if the unfamiliarity versus familiarity really matters.
- 1:24:51Speaker 2: For a guy that's been around that long. Zach Gallon
- 1:24:53Speaker 2: is pitching for Arizona. He's not having a great season either,
- 1:24:57Speaker 2: four point seven to eighty r one point four to
- 1:24:59Speaker 2: three WHIP, but he's been way better at home two
- 1:25:02Speaker 2: point seven homey ray, which again doesn't totally make sense
- 1:25:06Speaker 2: to me, but that's the way that it is, despite
- 1:25:09Speaker 2: it being a hitter friendly ballpark. He pitched well last
- 1:25:12Speaker 2: time out here against San Francisco, but they're a really
- 1:25:15Speaker 2: weak offense. Colorado hasn't been a very good offense either,
- 1:25:18Speaker 2: though they're not good on the road either. A Gallon
- 1:25:21Speaker 2: overall this month hasn't been very good though seven point
- 1:25:24Speaker 2: eighty RRA, more than one hit a lot per inning
- 1:25:26Speaker 2: in a seventeen to eight strike out walk ratio over
- 1:25:30Speaker 2: the course of the season pretty similar to that. He's
- 1:25:32Speaker 2: allowed more than one hit per inning, which is not good.
- 1:25:36Speaker 2: Walk rate a little bit high as well, and his
- 1:25:37Speaker 2: strike gout rate is way down, like he's a guy
- 1:25:40Speaker 2: that you kind of expect to strike more guys out
- 1:25:43Speaker 2: than he is this year, so that's kind of a problem.
- 1:25:47Speaker 2: His numbers against Colorado are also actually not good. In
- 1:25:50Speaker 2: forty two at bats, three thirty three batting average oneenty
- 1:25:53Speaker 2: twelve ohps, seven to six strike out walk ratio. So
- 1:25:57Speaker 2: his matchup numbers look bad, and Arizona's laying a big
- 1:26:01Speaker 2: price here at Where are they at here? National League
- 1:26:06Speaker 2: Kamambarari they are, They're at minus one to eighty something here.
- 1:26:10Speaker 2: Money is fading Arizona here, and I kind of agree.
- 1:26:14Speaker 2: Eighty six percent of tickets seventy nine percent of the
- 1:26:16Speaker 2: cash on Arizona. I know Gallon's been good at home,
- 1:26:20Speaker 2: but it seems like they're laying too heavy of a
- 1:26:22Speaker 2: price here for me. Lorenzen does have the better matchup
- 1:26:25Speaker 2: numbers here, and I mean, his numbers just look so
- 1:26:29Speaker 2: atrocious that I think he's probably being a little bit
- 1:26:31Speaker 2: undervalued because he is at least decent ish on the road.
- 1:26:36Speaker 2: The total is high, the money is all coming in
- 1:26:39Speaker 2: towards the over him, and I wouldn't necessarily disagree with
- 1:26:41Speaker 2: an over. I don't really think either pitcher is that trustworthy.
- 1:26:44Speaker 2: The bullpens are both pretty bad, so an over makes
- 1:26:48Speaker 2: sense to me as well, especially because this looks like
- 1:26:51Speaker 2: it should be an over heavy series, although it hasn't been,
- 1:26:54Speaker 2: though the offense has been kind of struggling. So I
- 1:26:58Speaker 2: don't want to put that on my card or anything.
- 1:26:59Speaker 2: But the total is nine, so the oddsmakers are expecting
- 1:27:02Speaker 2: it to be a higher scoring game. Money coming in
- 1:27:05Speaker 2: towards Colorado. You know. I think if you go Colorado,
- 1:27:10Speaker 2: maybe you still limit it to first five though, because
- 1:27:12Speaker 2: I still don't like their bullpen. All right, that's baseball.
- 1:27:17Speaker 2: Gave out three plays in baseball. Finally done with baseball
- 1:27:20Speaker 2: after an hour and a half. All right, WNBA, which
- 1:27:24Speaker 2: I think a lot of times there's no WNB on Saturday,
- 1:27:26Speaker 2: because I think they play on Sunday always, but not
- 1:27:29Speaker 2: always on Saturday. But we have three games here. There
- 1:27:32Speaker 2: is one afternoon game. I'm gonna give out a play
- 1:27:34Speaker 2: in the late game for WNBA. First game up as
- 1:27:38Speaker 2: Minnesota Chicago on CBS and Paramount Plus Chicago. They just
- 1:27:44Speaker 2: lost at home to Dallas, which was in a return
- 1:27:47Speaker 2: home spot, so that was their home opener. But I
- 1:27:50Speaker 2: did tell you that a return home spot, you know,
- 1:27:53Speaker 2: I mean, I always tell you it's a bad spot
- 1:27:55Speaker 2: when you return home from the road. You got to
- 1:27:57Speaker 2: get back to home life, whatever, So it might have
- 1:27:59Speaker 2: been a distract spot they lost, but now they're settled
- 1:28:02Speaker 2: back in at home after that lost to Dallas. They
- 1:28:05Speaker 2: might show up. I mean, Minnesota has been one of
- 1:28:07Speaker 2: the best teams in the league last few years, even
- 1:28:09Speaker 2: though I know Minnesota is still without their best player
- 1:28:12Speaker 2: call here, and Chicago did beat them on the road
- 1:28:15Speaker 2: to finish the road trip, so that would be my concern.
- 1:28:18Speaker 2: Like this looks like a positive, like a bounce back
- 1:28:20Speaker 2: spot for Chicago here, but Minnesota is not going to
- 1:28:24Speaker 2: take them lightly because Minnesota already lost at home to them,
- 1:28:27Speaker 2: So I think Minnesota is going to show up as well.
- 1:28:30Speaker 2: Minnesota is going on the road just for this one game,
- 1:28:33Speaker 2: but it's not that long of a trip here, and
- 1:28:35Speaker 2: they're coming off an easy win over Toronto, which is
- 1:28:38Speaker 2: kind of just whatever, which was Thursday. That was my
- 1:28:41Speaker 2: strongest recommendation on Thursday for Wnbao.
- 1:28:44Speaker 4: That was not on my card.
- 1:28:46Speaker 2: It was an easy win and cover from Minnesota. So
- 1:28:49Speaker 2: this is a tough game for me to figure out. Man,
- 1:28:52Speaker 2: I think both teams have reasons to show up here.
- 1:28:55Speaker 2: The money's coming out on Minnesota. They're minus two and
- 1:28:58Speaker 2: a half here. I guess I kind of agree. Sixty
- 1:29:01Speaker 2: six percent of tickets eighty two percent of the cash
- 1:29:03Speaker 2: on them. They're the better team, as the osmakers are
- 1:29:07Speaker 2: telling you, even though they're a little bit shorthanded here.
- 1:29:09Speaker 2: But Chicago, I think also is. I think Van der
- 1:29:12Speaker 2: Slut is still not back for them, and she doesn't
- 1:29:14Speaker 2: score a lot, but she's like a good role player
- 1:29:17Speaker 2: for them, and I believe she's a starter for them.
- 1:29:20Speaker 2: What do I know about the WNBA though, But yeah,
- 1:29:23Speaker 2: I think I would leave Minnesota there. They're the better team.
- 1:29:26Speaker 2: They do have revenge on mine there probably, And I
- 1:29:30Speaker 2: guess the good thing to do is to go look
- 1:29:31Speaker 2: at the box score, like was there an outlier or anything?
- 1:29:35Speaker 2: Like why did Chicago win this game?
- 1:29:36Speaker 4: You know what I mean?
- 1:29:37Speaker 2: But I don't know if they're really well. The big
- 1:29:40Speaker 2: outlier yet was the free throw percentage. The Sky went
- 1:29:45Speaker 2: to the line more than twice as much as Minnesota did.
- 1:29:48Speaker 2: They're plus twelve from a free throw line, and that's
- 1:29:50Speaker 2: what did it. Because both teams shot very similarly. Minnesota
- 1:29:53Speaker 2: actually had more field goal attempts in the game. But
- 1:29:56Speaker 2: if you think the free throw disparity is gonna even
- 1:29:58Speaker 2: out a little bit here, that would be a reason
- 1:30:00Speaker 2: to look towards Minnesota this time out, because that's basically
- 1:30:03Speaker 2: the reason they lost this game. Also, Chicago shot eighty
- 1:30:07Speaker 2: percent from the free throw line compared to Minnesota at
- 1:30:10Speaker 2: sixty seven percent, so there might be a little bit
- 1:30:12Speaker 2: of a.
- 1:30:13Speaker 4: Regression as far as that is concerned. As well.
- 1:30:16Speaker 2: Chicago did win the rebound battles slightly though, but yeah,
- 1:30:19Speaker 2: that kind of confirms a little bit. I'm gonna lean
- 1:30:22Speaker 2: Minnesota on that one. Portland at Toronto, we have the
- 1:30:25Speaker 2: battle of the two expansion teams here as they finally
- 1:30:29Speaker 2: meet up Toronto. He's returning over from a road trip,
- 1:30:33Speaker 2: so that is a negative. They've been on the road
- 1:30:35Speaker 2: since May fifteenth, so you know, I talk about this
- 1:30:37Speaker 2: when a team returns on from the road a lot
- 1:30:40Speaker 2: of times. It's a negative spot. You gotta get back
- 1:30:42Speaker 2: to home life whatever. It can be a distraction, but
- 1:30:45Speaker 2: maybe they will be focused because it might get a
- 1:30:47Speaker 2: little bit hyped, like, hey, the two new teams get
- 1:30:49Speaker 2: to play each other, and I don't necessarily know if
- 1:30:51Speaker 2: I want Portland going to another unfamiliar environment on the road.
- 1:30:56Speaker 2: Portland just played really bad in their first road game
- 1:30:58Speaker 2: against Indiana. All of their games prior to that were
- 1:31:01Speaker 2: at home, and while they played pretty respectably, especially getting
- 1:31:05Speaker 2: a win over New York in those games that might
- 1:31:09Speaker 2: have been because they have a little bit of an
- 1:31:10Speaker 2: extra home advantage. Like these expansion teams, they have a
- 1:31:12Speaker 2: new arena, right, so a lot of times the teams
- 1:31:14Speaker 2: that come in there aren't familiar with it, so it's
- 1:31:17Speaker 2: a little bit of an extra home advantage. But then
- 1:31:19Speaker 2: on the other side, that expansion team also probably does
- 1:31:22Speaker 2: a little bit worse on the road, So I think
- 1:31:25Speaker 2: that means Toronto has a little bit of an extra
- 1:31:27Speaker 2: home advantage here, so I'm staying away from it. I
- 1:31:32Speaker 2: would lean against Toronto still, though I think I would
- 1:31:35Speaker 2: take the points with Portland here. The money is agreeing
- 1:31:37Speaker 2: with a fifty six percent of tickets eighty nine percent
- 1:31:40Speaker 2: of the cash on Portland. The oddsmakers are telling you
- 1:31:43Speaker 2: Toronto is the better team though by lining them as
- 1:31:46Speaker 2: a four and a half five point favorite here. But yeah,
- 1:31:49Speaker 2: I would lean towards taking the points. I still don't
- 1:31:52Speaker 2: think I would lay a price like that with a
- 1:31:55Speaker 2: new team like that, you know, in return home spot
- 1:31:58Speaker 2: like that.
- 1:31:59Speaker 4: But I don't love how it sets up for Portland.
- 1:32:01Speaker 2: Either, like I said, with the potential that they don't
- 1:32:04Speaker 2: do well in an unfamiliar environment, But like I said,
- 1:32:08Speaker 2: I have a play in this last game here, and
- 1:32:15Speaker 2: we are going to I've had a good read on
- 1:32:19Speaker 2: these teams. By the way, two of my four w
- 1:32:22Speaker 2: NBA players have involved the Vegas Aces and we're four
- 1:32:26Speaker 2: and zero on the season so far, and I know
- 1:32:28Speaker 2: that can't last. But we did also have a play
- 1:32:30Speaker 2: where we won with Vegas against La. Well, what does
- 1:32:34Speaker 2: that mean we're doing here? We're gonna take LA plus
- 1:32:37Speaker 2: eight and a half here against Vegas for a whole
- 1:32:40Speaker 2: number of reasons. This game is also CBS Paramount plus.
- 1:32:43Speaker 2: Nobody's gonna watch it anyway. I'm not gonna watch it.
- 1:32:46Speaker 2: You don't need to watch it. So Vegas, we played
- 1:32:51Speaker 2: them in their game against La, which, if you remember,
- 1:32:54Speaker 2: we faded Vegas in their home opener in the opener
- 1:32:57Speaker 2: of the season because it was their rings ceremony. It
- 1:33:00Speaker 2: was a major revenge spot because their rings ceremony was
- 1:33:03Speaker 2: literally against the team they beat in the finals, Phoenix.
- 1:33:07Speaker 2: So I thought it was a bad spot for Vegas there.
- 1:33:10Speaker 2: Phoenix came out and annihilated them. But then I thought
- 1:33:13Speaker 2: that we were gonna get a little bit of value
- 1:33:15Speaker 2: on Vegas after that because they had such a bad game.
- 1:33:18Speaker 2: I was like, they're gonna play way better after that.
- 1:33:20Speaker 2: They're a much better team than that. They're one of
- 1:33:22Speaker 2: the best teams in the league. Still, they're gonna go
- 1:33:24Speaker 2: out on the road and handle business, and that's what
- 1:33:26Speaker 2: they did. We got an easy win with Vegas coming
- 1:33:29Speaker 2: off of that.
- 1:33:30Speaker 4: And it was also an advantage to Vegas.
- 1:33:33Speaker 2: Remember, because LA had not played yet, so the fact
- 1:33:36Speaker 2: that Vegas had a game under their belt, even though
- 1:33:38Speaker 2: they were on a back to back, they were still
- 1:33:41Speaker 2: rested because they'd only played one game. But I think
- 1:33:43Speaker 2: it was a disadvantage that LA had not played a
- 1:33:46Speaker 2: game at all yet, so they hadn't acclimated to the
- 1:33:49Speaker 2: season yet, you know what I mean. So we got
- 1:33:52Speaker 2: a good performance out of Vegas. They had a bad
- 1:33:54Speaker 2: second quarter, but they dominated the other three quarters there.
- 1:33:57Speaker 2: But if you remember, the line in this game was
- 1:34:00Speaker 2: one and a half when the game went off, I
- 1:34:01Speaker 2: think we actually laid two on the show, maybe two
- 1:34:04Speaker 2: and a half. The line actually went down. I don't
- 1:34:06Speaker 2: exactly know why that was the case. So the money
- 1:34:09Speaker 2: was disagreeing with me on that game, but I showed
- 1:34:13Speaker 2: the money who was right in that game. But if
- 1:34:18Speaker 2: Vegas was minus one and a half in that game
- 1:34:21Speaker 2: when the game went off, I know they opened four
- 1:34:23Speaker 2: and a half. How could they possibly be laying eight
- 1:34:25Speaker 2: and a half at home here? This is the WNBA, Dude,
- 1:34:28Speaker 2: home advantage is not three four points. It's not even
- 1:34:32Speaker 2: that much in the NBA.
- 1:34:33Speaker 4: I mean, this is ridiculous to me.
- 1:34:35Speaker 2: I think this line is too high, given that this
- 1:34:37Speaker 2: line crashed to one and a half. If four and
- 1:34:40Speaker 2: a half was actually the line in that first game,
- 1:34:42Speaker 2: this line might make a little bit more sense here.
- 1:34:44Speaker 2: But I think this line is clearly too high based
- 1:34:47Speaker 2: on what we saw in this first game, with Vegas
- 1:34:49Speaker 2: being basically a two point favorite on the road. Now
- 1:34:51Speaker 2: they're eight and a half at home unless there are
- 1:34:54Speaker 2: some personnel differences.
- 1:34:56Speaker 4: But if you look at what happened in this game.
- 1:34:58Speaker 2: Vegas shot sixty two percent from the field in that game, Dude,
- 1:35:03Speaker 2: that is not gonna happen again, and LA shot thirty
- 1:35:05Speaker 2: seven percent. LA had nine more field goal attempts than
- 1:35:09Speaker 2: Vegas did in the game, yet Vegas made fourteen more.
- 1:35:14Speaker 2: That that kind of disparity is going to regress. You know,
- 1:35:18Speaker 2: uh LA actually had more possessions in the games. They
- 1:35:21Speaker 2: actually were somewhat the better team in the game. Even
- 1:35:25Speaker 2: though I'm happy that I was right about the game,
- 1:35:27Speaker 2: the final score was very, very misleading. I think the
- 1:35:30Speaker 2: fact that that was such a blowout, nobody's gonna want
- 1:35:33Speaker 2: to take La here, but LA is gonna take Vegas
- 1:35:35Speaker 2: seriously now as well. It's a little bit of a
- 1:35:37Speaker 2: revenge spot too, you know what I mean, When that
- 1:35:39Speaker 2: team came into your house and embarrassed you, you get
- 1:35:42Speaker 2: to go out and play against them on the road.
- 1:35:44Speaker 2: You're gonna show up and try to do the same
- 1:35:46Speaker 2: thing to them, And so I like LA for that reason.
- 1:35:49Speaker 2: But again, this game was a lot closer than the
- 1:35:51Speaker 2: final score looked. It was just there was this massive
- 1:35:54Speaker 2: field goal percentage disparity that was a complete outlier. So
- 1:35:58Speaker 2: I think that's going to flip. LA did lose the
- 1:36:01Speaker 2: turnover battle, and a lot of times the road team
- 1:36:04Speaker 2: will lose the turnover battle. Maybe that's a little bit
- 1:36:06Speaker 2: of a concern. But LA also outrebounded Vegas here somehow
- 1:36:11Speaker 2: by one, so that's not a bad sign for this either.
- 1:36:15Speaker 2: But this gets even better because Vegas is returning over
- 1:36:18Speaker 2: from a road trip, So dude, I kind of love
- 1:36:21Speaker 2: this play. Vegas returning over from the road. They've only
- 1:36:24Speaker 2: had one game at home, and by the way, they
- 1:36:26Speaker 2: lost that game by thirty three points. You remember, as
- 1:36:29Speaker 2: I said, we faded them in that game, so Vegas
- 1:36:33Speaker 2: that if I said La, I apologize im at Vegas.
- 1:36:36Speaker 2: Vegas is only home game so far. It was a
- 1:36:39Speaker 2: thirty three point loss. And while they're not going to
- 1:36:41Speaker 2: lose by thirty three again, I think there's a really
- 1:36:44Speaker 2: good chance for LA to cover this game. I think
- 1:36:46Speaker 2: they might have a decent shot to win this game.
- 1:36:50Speaker 2: Vegas returning over from the road. They've been away for
- 1:36:52Speaker 2: almost two weeks. They went to LA to start that
- 1:36:56Speaker 2: road trip and that was that blowout loss over La.
- 1:36:59Speaker 2: So similar spot to what we have with Connecticut the
- 1:37:01Speaker 2: other night, where Seattle had started their road trip by
- 1:37:06Speaker 2: beating Connecticut and then upon returning home they had to
- 1:37:08Speaker 2: face Connecticut again. Connecticut was able to beat them. Same
- 1:37:12Speaker 2: thing here. Vegas started that road trip by beating La.
- 1:37:16Speaker 2: They might overlook La here and they're gonna be in
- 1:37:18Speaker 2: that return home spot where they might take LA a
- 1:37:21Speaker 2: little bit lightly here. Vegas has actually had a pretty
- 1:37:23Speaker 2: easy schedule so far. Two of their four wins are
- 1:37:26Speaker 2: against Connecticut, who are probably the worst team in the league.
- 1:37:30Speaker 2: So that's I think Vegas is still one of the
- 1:37:32Speaker 2: best teams in the league. I'm not gonna deny that,
- 1:37:34Speaker 2: but they've had a pretty soft schedule so far. This game, yeah,
- 1:37:40Speaker 2: I think, yeah, this game is not gonna be easiest
- 1:37:43Speaker 2: games against Connecticut though, of course Vegas last time out
- 1:37:46Speaker 2: they played Atlanta. Atlanta is a pretty good team and
- 1:37:48Speaker 2: Vegas beat them on the road. But maybe Atlanta's gonna
- 1:37:52Speaker 2: be in for you know, having a little bit of
- 1:37:54Speaker 2: a worse season because they decided to add Angel Reese.
- 1:37:57Speaker 2: Who knows. But yeah, I like the spot, but I
- 1:38:00Speaker 2: like it a lot. And Vegas, if you watched them
- 1:38:04Speaker 2: like the last couple of years, they've actually been really
- 1:38:06Speaker 2: bad in their early season home games. I don't know why,
- 1:38:09Speaker 2: but they have some real stinkers at home early in
- 1:38:12Speaker 2: the season. So we're gonna go with it LA plus
- 1:38:16Speaker 2: eight and a half here and looking at the market,
- 1:38:20Speaker 2: the money agrees Vegas is very public. Eighty percent of tickets,
- 1:38:23Speaker 2: seventy three percent of the cash on them. The line
- 1:38:25Speaker 2: is mostly eight. But there's not really that much of
- 1:38:28Speaker 2: a difference there. I think some of the money has
- 1:38:30Speaker 2: come in agreeing with me. Already, but eight is fine
- 1:38:32Speaker 2: as well, eight, eight and a half. Either way, the
- 1:38:36Speaker 2: key number million basketball is seven, So I'm fine with that,
- 1:38:40Speaker 2: So let's do that. What the WNBA is paying what
- 1:38:47Speaker 2: how much are they paying them? I'm assuming they're still
- 1:38:49Speaker 2: way underpaid. I don't know, or not under They're definitely
- 1:38:53Speaker 2: not underpaid. They shouldn't make anything. Nobody watches WNBA. I'm
- 1:38:57Speaker 2: assuming they're way They're paid way lower than the NBA players,
- 1:39:01Speaker 2: is what I meant to say. I don't know, it's
- 1:39:04Speaker 2: some fucking it's some DEI bullshit, like the the market,
- 1:39:09Speaker 2: Like in an actual market, free market environment, There's no
- 1:39:12Speaker 2: way they would get paid that much because nobody watches
- 1:39:15Speaker 2: this shit. The w n B A was was that
- 1:39:18Speaker 2: it's most popular when dildos are being thrown onto the court.
- 1:39:22Speaker 2: So I don't know. Chicago didn't want Reese anymore. She's
- 1:39:27Speaker 2: a good she's a good rebounder, but she's terrible offensively.
- 1:39:33Speaker 2: Three hundred k year. Fuck that I should, dude, they
- 1:39:37Speaker 2: should not make more than me. I provide more value
- 1:39:39Speaker 2: to society than they do. All right, NHL, I got
- 1:39:42Speaker 2: to bring up the NBA as well, because I do
- 1:39:44Speaker 2: actually have a play in the NBA NHL. I thought
- 1:39:46Speaker 2: I might give out a play on this, but I'm
- 1:39:48Speaker 2: gonna pass on this Montreal Carolina game TNT, True, TV,
- 1:39:52Speaker 2: HBO Max. I gave out a winner in Game one.
- 1:39:55Speaker 2: I thought Carolina having eleven days off was just absurd.
- 1:39:59Speaker 2: I thought they were gonna have their momentum completely stopped.
- 1:40:02Speaker 2: And yes, they lost six to two. There is room
- 1:40:06Speaker 2: for a bounce back here. For sure, they're the better team,
- 1:40:08Speaker 2: they're at home, but I do have some question marks here.
- 1:40:13Speaker 2: Look we look at the game, it does actually look
- 1:40:15Speaker 2: decent for a bounce back for Carolina because they did
- 1:40:17Speaker 2: have more shots in the game, but part of that
- 1:40:19Speaker 2: was because they were losing the game. But they were
- 1:40:21Speaker 2: also way more physical forty four to eighteen in hits.
- 1:40:25Speaker 2: So that does make me like Carolina, the fact that
- 1:40:29Speaker 2: they out physical Montreal, though they were only fifty to
- 1:40:31Speaker 2: fifty in the faceoffs. But the reason they outshot Montreal
- 1:40:34Speaker 2: is because they were down four to nothing after the
- 1:40:36Speaker 2: first period or in the first period, so that threw
- 1:40:40Speaker 2: a wrench into what Carolina was trying to do. Now,
- 1:40:43Speaker 2: Carolina has been a lot better than that during the
- 1:40:46Speaker 2: rest of the postseason. Frederick Anderson, their goalie, the old
- 1:40:50Speaker 2: timer at this point. Man, he had some issues this season,
- 1:40:53Speaker 2: but he was spot on throughout the entire playoffs until
- 1:40:57Speaker 2: that game. Like you see all these low scoring games
- 1:41:00Speaker 2: Carolina has been involved in. So I think Anderson is
- 1:41:03Speaker 2: going to bounce back here and have a better game
- 1:41:07Speaker 2: based on what he's done throughout the playoffs. Here. Montreal
- 1:41:10Speaker 2: is still the less experienced, way younger team, and they
- 1:41:12Speaker 2: still have a rookie goalie here. But obviously games like
- 1:41:15Speaker 2: that are gonna give him confidence, man, you know what
- 1:41:18Speaker 2: I mean. So that worries me a little bit. And
- 1:41:21Speaker 2: the fact that I got the stat wrong. Actually, Montreal
- 1:41:24Speaker 2: was six and two on the road in playoff games
- 1:41:27Speaker 2: going into that game. Now there's seven and two on
- 1:41:30Speaker 2: the road in playoff games this year, so I don't
- 1:41:33Speaker 2: really want to fade that. I lean Carolina in this game.
- 1:41:38Speaker 2: I think Carolina is going to win. But I got
- 1:41:40Speaker 2: some issues with it, man, one of them. Again, Montreal
- 1:41:43Speaker 2: has been great on the road in the postseason seven
- 1:41:46Speaker 2: and two Carolina, as I mentioned, which I forgot to
- 1:41:49Speaker 2: mention on that show when I gave out that play,
- 1:41:51Speaker 2: they have been horrible in the Eastern Conference Finals in
- 1:41:54Speaker 2: home games. I believe they've lost seven straight game ones
- 1:41:59Speaker 2: now in the Conference finals, although that doesn't apply in
- 1:42:03Speaker 2: this game, but I believe they've now also, I think
- 1:42:06Speaker 2: lost ten home games in a row in this round
- 1:42:09Speaker 2: of the playoffs. So I don't want to deal with that.
- 1:42:11Speaker 4: Man.
- 1:42:11Speaker 2: You can check me if I'm wrong about that. But
- 1:42:14Speaker 2: some of those trends worry me a little bit here.
- 1:42:16Speaker 2: And Carolina has played a lot of low scoring games,
- 1:42:19Speaker 2: and you're asking them to cover as a big favorite here, man, Like,
- 1:42:23Speaker 2: if you play this game, if you're gonna play.
- 1:42:25Speaker 4: Carolina, and I do lean that way.
- 1:42:27Speaker 2: They got eighty four percent of tickets, eighty nine percent
- 1:42:29Speaker 2: of the cash on them, you have to lay minus
- 1:42:31Speaker 2: two hundred. Basically, you have to lay a puck line
- 1:42:34Speaker 2: with them. Really, if you want to play them here.
- 1:42:37Speaker 2: I don't want to ask them to win by two goals, man,
- 1:42:39Speaker 2: because they've only been able to do that twice this
- 1:42:42Speaker 2: entire postseason. They only have two wins by more than
- 1:42:46Speaker 2: one goal in the entire postseason. One of them was
- 1:42:48Speaker 2: by two, and one of them was by three. I'm
- 1:42:50Speaker 2: pretty sure, So I don't like that. Possibly the better
- 1:42:54Speaker 2: way to play this might actually be the under seventy
- 1:42:58Speaker 2: one percent of tickets, seventy percent of the cash on
- 1:43:00Speaker 2: over but you know me, the empty net goals can
- 1:43:02Speaker 2: just end you with those. But Carolina has played a
- 1:43:05Speaker 2: lot of low scoring games, dude, So if they're gonna
- 1:43:09Speaker 2: start controlling this game and Anderson bounces back, I could
- 1:43:13Speaker 2: see this being like a three to two type of game.
- 1:43:16Speaker 4: So under the six does make some sense.
- 1:43:18Speaker 2: But you're not getting a whole lot of leeway there,
- 1:43:21Speaker 2: and there's always that risk that you, you know, you
- 1:43:24Speaker 2: wind up with that empty net goal.
- 1:43:25Speaker 4: So I do lean Carolina slightly. I lean.
- 1:43:29Speaker 2: Under, and I think if you want to play Carolina,
- 1:43:32Speaker 2: I mean, I hate parlays, but it makes some sense
- 1:43:35Speaker 2: to put them in a money line parlay. So they're
- 1:43:37Speaker 2: around minus two hundreds, so you take them, put them
- 1:43:39Speaker 2: in a parlay with another money line favorite around that
- 1:43:42Speaker 2: same price, and get it done that way. You could
- 1:43:46Speaker 2: do that, But I don't like parlays because you need
- 1:43:48Speaker 2: two independent results to come through, and the books still
- 1:43:51Speaker 2: don't give you good enough odds on it, all right,
- 1:43:54Speaker 2: So I'm passing on that, but I will give out
- 1:43:56Speaker 2: a play on the.
- 1:43:58Speaker 4: NBA game here.
- 1:44:00Speaker 2: I think you know what I'm gonna do if you
- 1:44:02Speaker 2: know how you know how I play these things, Man,
- 1:44:07Speaker 2: this is the best bet here. We were going to
- 1:44:12Speaker 2: go with the Cleveland Calves money line in this game
- 1:44:15Speaker 2: at minus one thirty. It's I think it's actually a
- 1:44:19Speaker 2: little bit of a cheap money line price here, based
- 1:44:21Speaker 2: on the fact that they're minus two and a half.
- 1:44:23Speaker 2: I mean, if you want to lay the two and
- 1:44:24Speaker 2: a half, I don't disagree with it, but I think
- 1:44:27Speaker 2: that line is a little bit skewed because the oddsmakers
- 1:44:30Speaker 2: know that when teams are down two coming back home,
- 1:44:34Speaker 2: they do really really well typically in the playoffs, especially
- 1:44:37Speaker 2: if they're coming off a blowout loss, which is the
- 1:44:40Speaker 2: case here. And you know I gave you guys the
- 1:44:42Speaker 2: Knicks in game two. I thought it was a horrible
- 1:44:44Speaker 2: spot for Cleveland. So I think what happened in this
- 1:44:47Speaker 2: series was Cleveland played better in Game one because the
- 1:44:50Speaker 2: Knicks were rusty, so the Knicks didn't play that well
- 1:44:53Speaker 2: coming off the extended rest. Cleveland then completely imploded and
- 1:44:57Speaker 2: blew an insurmountable lead. And after that I thought they
- 1:45:00Speaker 2: were gonna be in a hangover spot in the next game.
- 1:45:02Speaker 2: I thought there's no way they can get back up
- 1:45:04Speaker 2: off the mat for the next game after that, and
- 1:45:06Speaker 2: I was correct the Knicks one easily once they started
- 1:45:09Speaker 2: pulling away there. They won easily in the second half.
- 1:45:13Speaker 2: But now after that, I think it goes back the
- 1:45:16Speaker 2: other way and we got to look to Cleveland here.
- 1:45:18Speaker 2: But again the problem is the odds makers know this,
- 1:45:21Speaker 2: and the odds makers know that the teams down two
- 1:45:23Speaker 2: at home also do really, really well in the first half,
- 1:45:27Speaker 2: and if you want to play Cleveland first half I
- 1:45:29Speaker 2: think you'd have to do that money line as well,
- 1:45:31Speaker 2: because they're like minus two, so they're like almost the
- 1:45:34Speaker 2: same price for the first half as they are in
- 1:45:37Speaker 2: the full game, because odds makers are onto it. But
- 1:45:40Speaker 2: I think the oddsmakers have also shoved the line towards
- 1:45:42Speaker 2: Cleveland a little bit more because there's a home advantage
- 1:45:45Speaker 2: here Cleveland. Besides those couple of Detroit games towards the end,
- 1:45:50Speaker 2: Cleveland has been way better at home in the postseason,
- 1:45:53Speaker 2: and in fact, they are let me see here, let's
- 1:45:55Speaker 2: get through this year. Against Toronto they went four and
- 1:45:59Speaker 2: oho straight up in home, three and one against the spread,
- 1:46:02Speaker 2: and against Detroit they were let me see, two and
- 1:46:05Speaker 2: one at home, both straight up and against the spread,
- 1:46:10Speaker 2: So they are what was that? Then? They're six and
- 1:46:13Speaker 2: two against the spread at home? I think it's seven
- 1:46:17Speaker 2: and one straight up at home, I believe is Did
- 1:46:20Speaker 2: I get that wrong? Let me make sure I got
- 1:46:23Speaker 2: that right. No, six and one, there's six and one
- 1:46:26Speaker 2: straight up, five and two against the spread at home.
- 1:46:29Speaker 2: That's what they are because they played seven home games.
- 1:46:31Speaker 2: I'm pretty sure. So Cleveland, Yeah, I think this is
- 1:46:35Speaker 2: I don't think they're gonna win the series. You know,
- 1:46:37Speaker 2: the odds are completely against them. Obviously, They're down two
- 1:46:41Speaker 2: teams that have played two seven game series to start
- 1:46:43Speaker 2: out the playoffs, facing a team that did not are
- 1:46:46Speaker 2: one in four historically in that series. So Cleveland is
- 1:46:50Speaker 2: not gonna win the series. But I think this is
- 1:46:52Speaker 2: the spot where maybe they actually do show up and
- 1:46:55Speaker 2: they play their best game. Because if you go down
- 1:46:58Speaker 2: oh three, the series is over. Historically, no team has
- 1:47:01Speaker 2: ever come back from that. The team's down h two
- 1:47:03Speaker 2: play well. But also we do have some regression factors here.
- 1:47:07Speaker 2: The Knicks shot fifty two percent from the field in
- 1:47:09Speaker 2: that game, man Cleveland thirty nine percent, So there is
- 1:47:13Speaker 2: definitely a bit of a regression here. The Knicks were
- 1:47:16Speaker 2: plus four from three point range as well four more threes.
- 1:47:19Speaker 2: They're plus twelve from three point range in the game,
- 1:47:22Speaker 2: so I think there is a little bit of a
- 1:47:23Speaker 2: room for regression, especially for Cleveland to just shoot better
- 1:47:26Speaker 2: in this game. I know the Knicks are good defensively,
- 1:47:29Speaker 2: but Toronto actually is pretty good as well, and Cleveland
- 1:47:32Speaker 2: just was way better offensive throughout the entire playoffs.
- 1:47:35Speaker 4: They've been way better offensively at home and.
- 1:47:37Speaker 2: Actually Detroit, who they face, is also a good defense,
- 1:47:40Speaker 2: so Cleveland is used to facing good defenses and they've
- 1:47:43Speaker 2: shot way better, you know, at home. Now, the one
- 1:47:47Speaker 2: thing that is kind of a problem here is Cleveland
- 1:47:49Speaker 2: did have fourteen more free throw makes than the Knicks
- 1:47:52Speaker 2: did in that game. And I know that's not a
- 1:47:54Speaker 2: great sign, but the one thing that I do like
- 1:47:57Speaker 2: about that is that means Cleveland was dominating on the
- 1:47:59Speaker 2: interior to some extent, and they had more rebounds in
- 1:48:02Speaker 2: the game as well, only by two, But that's more
- 1:48:05Speaker 2: of a sustainable thing, not the free throws really, but
- 1:48:08Speaker 2: the rebounding. But yes, I expect the free throws to
- 1:48:11Speaker 2: even out a little bit, but the Knicks just shot
- 1:48:14Speaker 2: way better than Cleveland did. I think the Knicks are
- 1:48:16Speaker 2: not gonna shoot this well again. You know, the fact
- 1:48:19Speaker 2: that they had thirteen more field goal mix and four
- 1:48:22Speaker 2: more three point mikes, I think there will be some
- 1:48:25Speaker 2: regression there, even though yes, I know Cleveland kind of
- 1:48:27Speaker 2: even that out a little bit with having fourteen more
- 1:48:30Speaker 2: free throws. But also we look at the home road splits.
- 1:48:34Speaker 2: The Knicks were way worse on the road during the
- 1:48:37Speaker 2: regular season. They were thirty and ten at home, and
- 1:48:40Speaker 2: they were twenty two to nineteen on the road. And Cleveland,
- 1:48:43Speaker 2: as I already pointed out, they've been way better at
- 1:48:44Speaker 2: home during the playoffs. So the Knicks are not as
- 1:48:47Speaker 2: good of a road team. The Knicks did lose, what
- 1:48:51Speaker 2: did they lose? They lost one game on the road
- 1:48:53Speaker 2: I think in the playoffs so far against the Hawks.
- 1:48:55Speaker 2: But Cleveland is better than the Hawks. Cleveland is also
- 1:48:58Speaker 2: better than the seventy six ers. So and Cleveland, by
- 1:49:02Speaker 2: the way, yes, they did play one home game against
- 1:49:04Speaker 2: the Knicks during the regular season and they won that
- 1:49:07Speaker 2: game by fifteen points. And that was with James Hard
- 1:49:10Speaker 2: and that was the only time they played against the
- 1:49:12Speaker 2: Knicks after they got James Hard. And I know Harden's
- 1:49:14Speaker 2: the defensive liability whatever. But that one game they played
- 1:49:18Speaker 2: after getting him at Cleveland, Cleveland beat the Knicks by
- 1:49:21Speaker 2: fifteen points. So that's a decent sign here as well.
- 1:49:26Speaker 2: I think you can get Cleveland's best effort here. I'm
- 1:49:29Speaker 2: recommending money line at minus one thirty, but you can
- 1:49:31Speaker 2: lay the points, I guess, even though I think the
- 1:49:34Speaker 2: line is a little bit too high I think it
- 1:49:35Speaker 2: really should be about one and a half here. But
- 1:49:37Speaker 2: I think Cleveland does get the job done and win.
- 1:49:40Speaker 2: Uh sixty two percent of tickets and sixty one percent
- 1:49:42Speaker 2: of the cash on the Knicks. So obviously you know
- 1:49:45Speaker 2: the public they're recency biased. They see the Knicks having
- 1:49:48Speaker 2: won both games dominated on the scoreboarding. Game two, public
- 1:49:52Speaker 2: is all over the Knicks, and you know, I warn
- 1:49:54Speaker 2: you about these public underdogs. You usually want to fade them.
- 1:49:57Speaker 2: So that is what we're gonna do here. The money's
- 1:50:00Speaker 2: also coming in on the under I probably would not
- 1:50:03Speaker 2: do that. I think Cleveland is correlated to an over here.
- 1:50:07Speaker 2: Uh Cleveland, they kind of needed to be an over
- 1:50:09Speaker 2: game because they're more of an offensive team than a
- 1:50:11Speaker 2: defensive team. They tend to score more and have higher
- 1:50:14Speaker 2: scoring games at home, So I probably would slightly lean
- 1:50:17Speaker 2: towards an over here. Totals at two fifteen, I don't
- 1:50:20Speaker 2: know where was the total in the first couple of games.
- 1:50:22Speaker 2: It was probably lower than that I would imagine because
- 1:50:27Speaker 2: the Knicks play more of a defensive style. I was
- 1:50:29Speaker 2: two fifteen and a half. So what's this total?
- 1:50:31Speaker 4: No, it's basically about the same.
- 1:50:34Speaker 2: Yeah, I think an over might be worth the look there,
- 1:50:36Speaker 2: and especially because the last game I was wrong about
- 1:50:38Speaker 2: it being an over In the last game, the last
- 1:50:40Speaker 2: game went way under and wound up two to oh two.
- 1:50:44Speaker 2: I think was the final there so or was that? No?
- 1:50:47Speaker 2: Was that to twelve and then have been too I
- 1:50:49Speaker 2: don't I can't do math anymore. I think it was
- 1:50:51Speaker 2: actually to twelve, I think, but it went under. Uh
- 1:50:55Speaker 2: So I think it might be an over here.
- 1:50:57Speaker 4: Man.
- 1:50:57Speaker 2: Cleveland more of an over team at home, and these
- 1:51:00Speaker 2: teams are playing a third game in five days. Remember,
- 1:51:03Speaker 2: although Cleveland, I know Cleveland's very unrested, they're playing like
- 1:51:06Speaker 2: a fifth game in the last eight days or whatever
- 1:51:12Speaker 2: that is something like that. So that's not great obviously.
- 1:51:14Speaker 2: But both these teams, I think the rest, you know,
- 1:51:18Speaker 2: kind of catches up to you a little bit at
- 1:51:19Speaker 2: some point. Oh, I don't know.
- 1:51:23Speaker 4: What the what the term is that I'm looking for.
- 1:51:24Speaker 2: I think Cleveland will tire out before the end of
- 1:51:27Speaker 2: the series, like they'll completely fall off. But I don't
- 1:51:30Speaker 2: think it's gonna happen here. I think this is the
- 1:51:32Speaker 2: game where you get Cleveland's best effort. I think Cleveland
- 1:51:34Speaker 2: wins this game and then the Knicks probably win the
- 1:51:37Speaker 2: next two and win this series and five. That would
- 1:51:39Speaker 2: be what I think is gonna happen here. But we're
- 1:51:42Speaker 2: gonna go with Cleveland money line there and that's it.
- 1:51:45Speaker 1: Man.
- 1:51:46Speaker 2: Those are the plays today. We got Philadelphia Phillies first
- 1:51:50Speaker 2: five inning minus a half on the run line. You
- 1:51:53Speaker 2: have to pay a little bit of juice for that.
- 1:51:54Speaker 2: But I like the starting pitching matchup. We have under
- 1:51:57Speaker 2: eight in Mets Miami, we're seven and a half. Half
- 1:52:00Speaker 2: is the most abundant number out there. But I saw
- 1:52:02Speaker 2: a good number on the eight game two over nine
- 1:52:06Speaker 2: and a half in Cardinals Cincinnati Game two, that is
- 1:52:09Speaker 2: Lay versus Petty. That's the game that you want, the
- 1:52:13Speaker 2: one that I'm recommending, Although now that I said that,
- 1:52:16Speaker 2: obviously it'll be like the other doubleheader where I was
- 1:52:18Speaker 2: completely wrong about the first game of that Astros Rockies
- 1:52:22Speaker 2: doublehead or whatever it was lost in and then the
- 1:52:24Speaker 2: Astros won in the second game or whatever. Don't want
- 1:52:27Speaker 2: that to happen again. But game two over is my recommendation. There.
- 1:52:30Speaker 2: We got WNBA LA plus the points sprinkle on the
- 1:52:34Speaker 2: money line on these underdogs, like I always say that one,
- 1:52:37Speaker 2: like I'd put ten percent of it on the money line.
- 1:52:40Speaker 2: And then we are playing a Cleveland Calves money line.
- 1:52:43Speaker 2: That's my recommendation at minus one thirty there, or I
- 1:52:47Speaker 2: might wait because the Knicks are public, the line might
- 1:52:50Speaker 2: move a little bit in the direction of the Knicks.
- 1:52:52Speaker 2: You might get like a two on Cleveland if you
- 1:52:54Speaker 2: really want to lay the spread there. If they win,
- 1:52:57Speaker 2: they probably do win by more than two points. So
- 1:53:01Speaker 2: but you know, I feel like the money line is
- 1:53:04Speaker 2: a little bit of a better price there. It's almost
- 1:53:05Speaker 2: like a college basketball type of type of play there,
- 1:53:10Speaker 2: But it works better in college basketball. You want to
- 1:53:13Speaker 2: play those short moneyline favorites in college basketball. NBA you
- 1:53:16Speaker 2: could apply the same thing. I just don't think it's
- 1:53:19Speaker 2: as advantageous as it is in college Thank you, sir,
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