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- 0:16Speaker 1: You gotta slip in your palm.
- 0:19Speaker 2: Man, a hole in your chase, black coffee on the
- 0:22Speaker 2: felt Man, you look like a mist three Team Parlette
- 0:27Speaker 2: turned the dust in your head.
- 0:29Speaker 1: Now you stare at the chips like they made you
- 0:32Speaker 1: this man.
- 0:33Speaker 2: But don't you go quiet. Don't you fade from the floor.
- 0:38Speaker 2: Your name steal means something in somebody for show.
- 0:41Speaker 1: Put the glass down, baby, look at me, now, hold.
- 0:50Speaker 3: On, hold on nothing nice, now, hold on, hold on me.
- 1:06Speaker 4: That but it don't get the crown.
- 1:14Speaker 5: Hold on, hold on.
- 1:18Speaker 1: Stay with me.
- 1:19Speaker 6: Now, what's up?
- 1:28Speaker 4: Everbody?
- 1:28Speaker 6: It's towed back with you toad still sports. It is Thursday,
- 1:34Speaker 6: June fourth. I keep wanted to say May two and
- 1:38Speaker 6: one on the show yesterday. I mean, it was a
- 1:40Speaker 6: winning day, so I'm happy about that, with maybe a
- 1:43Speaker 6: couple of caveats. The easier win was the one that
- 1:46Speaker 6: I had on the fly during the show, the Red
- 1:48Speaker 6: Sox easy win. Whoever was in the chat that said
- 1:52Speaker 6: totally was gonna get destroyed. I did not agree with that,
- 1:55Speaker 6: and he did not. The Red Sox put up some
- 1:58Speaker 6: offense again, so it was an eight to one win.
- 2:01Speaker 6: That was an easy win. Whether you did money line,
- 2:04Speaker 6: run line, whatever. That all won San Francisco. They outplayed
- 2:09Speaker 6: Milwaukee in the game.
- 2:11Speaker 4: They were winning. They got the one run they scored
- 2:13Speaker 4: was in the fifth.
- 2:14Speaker 6: Inning and they somehow held on to that and one
- 2:17Speaker 6: one to nothing. They out hit Milwaukee in the game
- 2:19Speaker 6: like eight to three or something though, so San Francisco
- 2:22Speaker 6: was the better team in the game. Logan Web, A
- 2:25Speaker 6: huge part of that handicap was his numbers against Milwaukee.
- 2:29Speaker 4: I thought that he was undervalued.
- 2:31Speaker 6: He put in a really good performance yesterday, so I
- 2:34Speaker 6: liked that. That was good.
- 2:35Speaker 4: Hopefully you guys got the win on that.
- 2:38Speaker 6: I didn't really make it totally clear, but when I
- 2:40Speaker 6: gave that show, when I gave that play out on
- 2:41Speaker 6: the show, it was completely dependent on Web being the starter.
- 2:45Speaker 6: But Milwaukee had not even listed a starter yet. So hopefully,
- 2:49Speaker 6: if and when you made the bet, Because I basically said,
- 2:52Speaker 6: I don't even care who what Milwaukee's doing with their
- 2:54Speaker 6: pitching here. As long as they don't put in some
- 2:56Speaker 6: like good starter, I don't care, like we're gonna fade
- 2:59Speaker 6: them here.
- 3:00Speaker 4: I thought it was going to be Crow, but it wasn't.
- 3:02Speaker 6: They actually used Gasser for the majority of the pitching,
- 3:06Speaker 6: and they actually saved their bullpen because they just went
- 3:08Speaker 6: Gas or Patrick, and they actually pitched pretty well. But
- 3:11Speaker 6: San Francisco got that one run off a gas Er,
- 3:14Speaker 6: so I'm still happy about that. But again, if you
- 3:18Speaker 6: made that play the way I would have done it,
- 3:20Speaker 6: because I don't think I was clear. I said it
- 3:22Speaker 6: on my Instagram video, though, I would have selected Web
- 3:26Speaker 6: must start because he's a huge part of the handicap.
- 3:28Speaker 6: But in that case, you had no idea who Milwaukee
- 3:31Speaker 6: even had as a starting pitcher, so it was action
- 3:34Speaker 6: on the Milwaukee side.
- 3:35Speaker 4: Basically, if that makes sense.
- 3:36Speaker 6: Baseball, it's kind of crazy to bet, dude, because you
- 3:39Speaker 6: can specify both starters must start. You can actually specify
- 3:43Speaker 6: one of the two starters must start, or you can.
- 3:46Speaker 4: Specify action.
- 3:49Speaker 6: In the whole game and not even care about the
- 3:51Speaker 6: starting pitchers. So those are all the different ways of
- 3:54Speaker 6: doing And if you do any option that involves a
- 3:57Speaker 6: certain pitcher must start, if that picture winds up not starting,
- 4:02Speaker 6: then your bet doesn't count. You just get your money back.
- 4:05Speaker 6: It's avoided bet. Hopefully that'll all makes sense, Dirty sock,
- 4:09Speaker 6: what's up? Milwaukee didn't really change They never had announced
- 4:15Speaker 6: their picture, so what did you do I think if
- 4:18Speaker 6: you made that bet, it's still counted. Milwaukee never announced Crow.
- 4:22Speaker 6: I don't think like throughout the day they were still undecided.
- 4:25Speaker 6: When I gave the playout, they were undecided. So I
- 4:28Speaker 6: think as long as you made the play at that point,
- 4:30Speaker 6: I think it won. Right like it happened, I think
- 4:33Speaker 6: I'm counting it as a win on the show.
- 4:36Speaker 4: But yeah, I don't think they ever switched pictures.
- 4:38Speaker 6: I think they just waded into the later part of
- 4:41Speaker 6: the day to even announce who was starting. So no,
- 4:44Speaker 6: that was a win, and then Phoenix should have been
- 4:49Speaker 6: a win. Phoenix had a double digit lead in the
- 4:52Speaker 6: second quarter. They looked like they were starting to run
- 4:54Speaker 6: away with the game. Then I don't know what happened.
- 4:57Speaker 6: If Phoenix won the rebound battle by double digits, they
- 5:01Speaker 6: were clearly the better team in the game. They lost
- 5:04Speaker 6: that entire lead, and then they still pushed the lead
- 5:06Speaker 6: back to seven. They're winning the game by seven with
- 5:09Speaker 6: like two minutes to go, and then they like basically
- 5:12Speaker 6: didn't score again, and I think they might have allowed
- 5:15Speaker 6: the game to become tied or something. It became like
- 5:17Speaker 6: a two point game. Maybe again late in the game. Dude,
- 5:21Speaker 6: I don't know what that was. They went on like
- 5:23Speaker 6: a two minute drought, and I think it was like
- 5:25Speaker 6: two and a half left. They were up seven, so
- 5:27Speaker 6: it's like, all right, they're gonna get fouled a little bit,
- 5:29Speaker 6: they're gonna put the game away here. No, they just
- 5:33Speaker 6: didn't score again until they absolutely needed to right at
- 5:36Speaker 6: the end because they almost lost. And then the other
- 5:38Speaker 6: thing about that game is they hit three three pointers
- 5:41Speaker 6: in the entire game. So my last two WNBA plays,
- 5:45Speaker 6: those two teams have combined for four to three pointers
- 5:49Speaker 6: across two entire games. Like, you have to be kidding me.
- 5:52Speaker 4: Even the worst WNBA team.
- 5:54Speaker 6: Doesn't shoot that poorly, and I know we had the
- 5:57Speaker 6: worst in one of them, Connecticut, But Phoenix, this is
- 6:00Speaker 6: not one of the worst teams, and they did get
- 6:02Speaker 6: the win yesterday.
- 6:04Speaker 4: You know, a money line player would have won on them.
- 6:06Speaker 4: But I think I was correct. I think that was
- 6:08Speaker 4: a correct.
- 6:08Speaker 6: Play, like the money hard like the money came in
- 6:12Speaker 6: on Phoenix hard like that line went off seven and
- 6:15Speaker 6: a half and I gave it out when it was
- 6:17Speaker 6: five and a half.
- 6:18Speaker 4: Six, it was six throughout the day, and if you got.
- 6:21Speaker 6: Six or whatever, you obviously beat the closing number and
- 6:24Speaker 6: you got on the good side of the the key
- 6:27Speaker 6: number of seven.
- 6:28Speaker 4: So I don't know.
- 6:28Speaker 6: I don't think any of those plays were bad yesterday,
- 6:31Speaker 6: but it was a two and one day on the show,
- 6:34Speaker 6: the Giants counted.
- 6:36Speaker 4: I'm almost positive they did not switch their picture. But
- 6:40Speaker 4: I should have specified.
- 6:41Speaker 6: I did again, I did on the Instagram video that
- 6:44Speaker 6: I put out, like in the late afternoon, I said specified,
- 6:47Speaker 6: web must start, and I don't care about.
- 6:49Speaker 4: Who starts for Milwaukee first five. Wait what, I don't know.
- 7:01Speaker 6: What are you asking? Does it come down to whoever's
- 7:03Speaker 6: on the board. No, it's like the default behavior. It
- 7:08Speaker 6: doesn't matter if it's first five or full game. The
- 7:10Speaker 6: default behavior is is that the listed starters must start.
- 7:17Speaker 6: But you can change your bet, you can specify action
- 7:19Speaker 6: and whatever. You could do that on the first five
- 7:23Speaker 6: or the full game. All right, let's go to today's board.
- 7:28Speaker 4: Here.
- 7:29Speaker 6: We have nine baseball games today Thursday. Hopefully this will
- 7:32Speaker 6: be a little bit of a quicker show. And then
- 7:33Speaker 6: there is a couple There are a couple of WNBA games.
- 7:36Speaker 6: I have one baseball play today. We have some afternoon
- 7:41Speaker 6: games because these teams are finishing their series. San Diego
- 7:44Speaker 6: is trying to avoid getting swept again by Philadelphia, So
- 7:49Speaker 6: you gotta think San Diego is going to show up
- 7:51Speaker 6: with some motivation because Philadelphia already went out there swept them,
- 7:55Speaker 6: and now Philadelphia is about to do it at home too.
- 7:58Speaker 6: Each game has only been a one run win for Philadelphia.
- 8:01Speaker 6: I'm low scoring games because these offenses have not been
- 8:04Speaker 6: able to do anything. Now the question is, is Philadelphia
- 8:08Speaker 6: gonna be looking ahead to the White Sox That's who
- 8:10Speaker 6: they start playing tomorrow. I don't really think so. I
- 8:14Speaker 6: also am not gonna come in here and fade Zach Wheeler. Dude,
- 8:17Speaker 6: I'm just not gonna do it. This pitching matchup is
- 8:20Speaker 6: certainly not in favor of San Diego here, I will
- 8:23Speaker 6: tell you that. So I'm not gonna play this game.
- 8:26Speaker 6: Philadelphia used two relieve pitchers yesterday. San Diego also used two.
- 8:31Speaker 6: San Diego does have the better bullpen their rank sixth here.
- 8:35Speaker 6: They have one of the best bullpen in rays. Philadelphia's
- 8:38Speaker 6: is okay at thirteenth. Hitting wise, like I said, both
- 8:42Speaker 6: teams have been really bad. Philadelphia twenty eight. San Diego
- 8:45Speaker 6: is now tied in last place with the Mets at
- 8:49Speaker 6: twenty ninth really really ridiculous because these teams have more
- 8:53Speaker 6: talent on their offense than this.
- 8:55Speaker 4: So I still don't know what's going on here.
- 8:58Speaker 6: Some of it might be San Diego's pitcher friendly ballpark,
- 9:01Speaker 6: but these teams aren't hitting in Philadelphia either. Lucas Giolito
- 9:05Speaker 6: is pitching for San Diego. I don't think he's very
- 9:09Speaker 6: good man four point nine to seven ERA, one point
- 9:11Speaker 6: seven to four WHIP. His numbers looked pretty good with
- 9:14Speaker 6: the Red Sox last year, but there is a valid
- 9:17Speaker 6: reason why they did not resign him and why nobody
- 9:21Speaker 6: picked him up until a month into this season. The
- 9:24Speaker 6: underlying metrics, the analytics guys do not like Giliedo. They
- 9:28Speaker 6: will tell you that he's not really that good of
- 9:31Speaker 6: a pitcher, and once we start looking at his numbers, yeah,
- 9:33Speaker 6: you'll see that he's been really bad on the road
- 9:36Speaker 6: so far. Eight point two to two ROADYRA and that's
- 9:39Speaker 6: in two starts. His one good start was at home,
- 9:42Speaker 6: and I would say good kind of with a caveat,
- 9:45Speaker 6: because he had a ton of walks.
- 9:46Speaker 4: He's walked three guys or more in every.
- 9:49Speaker 6: Outing so far, twelve walks in twelve to two thirty innings?
- 9:53Speaker 4: Is that good? Is walking one guy in inning? Good? No? No,
- 9:57Speaker 4: it isn't Anny only.
- 9:59Speaker 6: A six strike outs and he has ten hits allowed
- 10:02Speaker 6: to go along with that. Somehow, San Diego's won all
- 10:04Speaker 6: three of his starts. His worst start was his last
- 10:08Speaker 6: time out at Washington. He got pretty much obliterated in
- 10:12Speaker 6: that one. Gielito's not very good. I don't want to
- 10:14Speaker 6: trust him here to try to avoid the sweep. His
- 10:18Speaker 6: numbers it gets Philadelphia are strange. It's a big sample size,
- 10:22Speaker 6: seventy two at bats, twenty four strikeouts.
- 10:25Speaker 4: That's pretty good. Nine walks not so much.
- 10:28Speaker 6: Two to eight batting average, Okay, cool, he's holding him
- 10:30Speaker 6: to a really low average.
- 10:32Speaker 4: Yeah, but they also have seven.
- 10:33Speaker 6: Home runs off him and he's allowed an eight eighty OPS.
- 10:37Speaker 6: These are numbers you don't usually see numbers like this,
- 10:40Speaker 6: where in a big sample size, an opposing lineup has
- 10:44Speaker 6: a really low batting average but a pretty high OPS
- 10:48Speaker 6: against that pitcher.
- 10:49Speaker 4: Very strange. It's like he doesn't allow that many hits,
- 10:52Speaker 4: but when.
- 10:52Speaker 6: He does, all those balls are like flying out of
- 10:55Speaker 6: the ballpark, and you could argue, well, maybe that's a
- 10:57Speaker 6: little bit fluky, but yeah, fu key for Luki Lucas Gilito. Yeah,
- 11:02Speaker 6: I'm not gonna trust him at all here. He also
- 11:04Speaker 6: has to oppose Zach Wheeler here. Which one of these
- 11:07Speaker 6: pitchers is better?
- 11:08Speaker 4: I don't know.
- 11:09Speaker 6: Wheeler two point two seven e RA point eighty five
- 11:13Speaker 6: Whip Wheeler is off and running after coming back from injury.
- 11:18Speaker 6: He came back a little bit late this season. He's
- 11:21Speaker 6: been good both home and away, very similar numbers. Had
- 11:24Speaker 6: his worst start last time out against the Dodgers on
- 11:28Speaker 6: the road. He gave up four runs against him in
- 11:30Speaker 6: six innings. It was still a good pitching line though,
- 11:33Speaker 6: five hits, allowed, four strike gots, one walk. He just
- 11:35Speaker 6: happened to allow four solo home runs in the game.
- 11:38Speaker 6: I'm gonna give him a pass for that. It was
- 11:40Speaker 6: against any elite Dodger lineup on the road. Other than that,
- 11:44Speaker 6: he allowed three or four run runs. In every other start,
- 11:46Speaker 6: He's allowed zero or one in the majority of them.
- 11:50Speaker 6: We know Wheeler's good. We don't really have to go
- 11:52Speaker 6: into it too much. He's got a decent strike out rate,
- 11:55Speaker 6: a low walk rate, and a really low hit rate
- 11:58Speaker 6: on the season, and he has good numbers against the
- 12:00Speaker 6: Padres as well.
- 12:02Speaker 4: The Fathers He's basically their daddy.
- 12:05Speaker 6: Seventy five at bats, one seventy three average, five forty
- 12:08Speaker 6: nine oh ps, twenty one to four strike out walk ratio.
- 12:13Speaker 4: Again, I can't come in, even though the.
- 12:15Speaker 6: Situation looks like it should favor San Diego, Like, how
- 12:18Speaker 6: can you go own six over a span of like
- 12:21Speaker 6: nine games against Philadelphia. Well, I think it's about to
- 12:25Speaker 6: happen because I think I would play Philadelphia if I
- 12:28Speaker 6: was gonna play this game at all. San Diego does
- 12:31Speaker 6: have the better bullpens, so you know, Philadelphia first five
- 12:35Speaker 6: makes some sense here as well.
- 12:36Speaker 4: But you're gonna be looking at a really big run line.
- 12:39Speaker 6: If you do that, probably ask him to be winning
- 12:42Speaker 6: by possibly.
- 12:43Speaker 4: Even two runs at the end of five full game.
- 12:47Speaker 6: The price is like in the minus two hundreds here,
- 12:49Speaker 6: and the money is coming in on San Diego. I
- 12:52Speaker 6: don't agree sixty percent of tickets eighty four percent of
- 12:55Speaker 6: the cash on San Diego. I know the motivation is there,
- 12:59Speaker 6: but baseball is pretty heavily matchup dependent. I think the
- 13:03Speaker 6: matchup is a mismatch in favor of Philadelphia. I mean,
- 13:07Speaker 6: this is not the pitching matchup you want to see
- 13:09Speaker 6: when you're trying to avoid a sweep.
- 13:11Speaker 4: That's all I'll say.
- 13:12Speaker 6: If it's somehow close later into the game, then yes,
- 13:15Speaker 6: San Diego's got a shot with their bullpen. But that
- 13:18Speaker 6: is what I have to say about that Philadelphia's favor.
- 13:21Speaker 6: Like I said, in the minus two hundreds range, the
- 13:24Speaker 6: totals eight and a half.
- 13:25Speaker 4: I don't really have a good read on the total.
- 13:27Speaker 6: It looks like some money sort of indicating towards the
- 13:29Speaker 6: over in that game. Again, yeah, I don't have a
- 13:33Speaker 6: good read on that because it seems like a bad
- 13:37Speaker 6: starting pitcher on one side and a good one on
- 13:39Speaker 6: the other. That's what I see. Baltimore at Boston. The
- 13:42Speaker 6: Red Sox got the win yesterday to bounce back. We
- 13:44Speaker 6: had that on the show, eight to one. I'm glad
- 13:47Speaker 6: I added that because that was an easy win. Peyton
- 13:50Speaker 6: totally good, Chris Bassett not good. It was kind of
- 13:54Speaker 6: as simple as that. This game does not look as
- 13:58Speaker 6: good for the Red Sox, though they.
- 14:00Speaker 4: Do still have a bullpen advantage.
- 14:01Speaker 6: They only use one guy out of the bullpen yesterday, Watson,
- 14:05Speaker 6: so their bullpen's fairly rested and still the better bullpen.
- 14:08Speaker 6: Baltimore used three guys out of their bullpen. The Red
- 14:11Speaker 6: Sox are up to third in bullpen arranged by whip here.
- 14:15Speaker 6: They also have one of the best bullpen ERA.
- 14:17Speaker 4: Is pretty good.
- 14:18Speaker 6: The Orioles twenty second in bullpen not good. Red Sox
- 14:23Speaker 6: do not have the hitting advantage though Baltimore eleventh. Red
- 14:27Speaker 6: Sox have hit better, though recently they've moved up to
- 14:29Speaker 6: eighteenth hittings.
- 14:30Speaker 4: So there you go.
- 14:31Speaker 6: I told you the Red Sox have a better lineup
- 14:34Speaker 6: than what they looked like early in the season. At
- 14:37Speaker 6: the very least, they're starting to hit at home.
- 14:39Speaker 4: Finally, will they do it here? They might.
- 14:42Speaker 6: This is a high total, dude, So the odds makers
- 14:45Speaker 6: are expecting a lot of runs in this game. And
- 14:48Speaker 6: again Fenway Park, it's hit her friendly, but there's no
- 14:51Speaker 6: wind scenario like there isn't Wrigly because Wrigley's right on
- 14:54Speaker 6: the lake. Fenway Park is not close to the water.
- 14:59Speaker 6: So yeah, there's no real like, I mean, win could
- 15:02Speaker 6: be blowing out, but it's not that much of a
- 15:04Speaker 6: factor in Fenway. Trevor Rodgers was pitching for the Orioles.
- 15:07Speaker 6: He's had a really bad season so far. Six point
- 15:10Speaker 6: eight four ERA, one point five to six WHIP. He
- 15:15Speaker 6: hasn't been pitching well. He did okay last time out
- 15:17Speaker 6: against Toronto. That was one of his better starts, really,
- 15:20Speaker 6: but it's still it was against a weak lineup. Red
- 15:24Speaker 6: Sox lineup has actually done a little bit better than Toronto's.
- 15:26Speaker 6: I still think Rogers he's pretty untrustworthy man. He's been
- 15:29Speaker 6: really bad on the road to eight point five to
- 15:32Speaker 6: nine roadra He pitched against the Red Sox once in Baltimore,
- 15:37Speaker 6: and that was the infamous seventeen to one Red Sox
- 15:40Speaker 6: game where the Red Sox basically couldn't hit it all
- 15:44Speaker 6: coming into that game and then all of a sudden
- 15:46Speaker 6: seventeen to one. So that was the game Rogers started.
- 15:49Speaker 6: So was that good that the Orioles lost.
- 15:52Speaker 4: Seventeen to one?
- 15:53Speaker 6: I don't know, but Rogers didn't make it out of
- 15:55Speaker 6: the second inning in that game. The Red Sox were
- 15:58Speaker 6: able to get to him, so I think they can
- 16:00Speaker 6: and again here, even though if you look at his
- 16:01Speaker 6: numbers they're not as bad as you would think against
- 16:05Speaker 6: them in thirty seven at bats to seventy batting average,
- 16:08Speaker 6: six to seventy six OPS, nine to three strike out
- 16:11Speaker 6: walk ratio, but I would still lean more towards the
- 16:13Speaker 6: Red Sox hitting against Rogers here. I don't know what
- 16:17Speaker 6: it is because he was actually really good with Baltimore
- 16:20Speaker 6: last year, although it surprised me because he wasn't good
- 16:22Speaker 6: in his career before that, and he has not been
- 16:25Speaker 6: good this year. The Red Sox are going with Brian BeO,
- 16:29Speaker 6: and it's very unfortunate that it looks like he is
- 16:31Speaker 6: starting here. I would keep an eye on this because
- 16:34Speaker 6: you know, the Red Sox have been using an opener
- 16:36Speaker 6: in front of him, and it's like you can't win
- 16:38Speaker 6: either way. So BeO is an enigma. Well, he's not
- 16:42Speaker 6: really an enigma. You can figure him out. So I
- 16:44Speaker 6: mean we could lead his game log here. Well, first
- 16:46Speaker 6: of all, he's got a five point six three ERA
- 16:49Speaker 6: one point six y four whip.
- 16:50Speaker 4: Yeah, all that is bad. We get that he's actually.
- 16:53Speaker 6: Been pretty good at home though, three point eight six
- 16:55Speaker 6: home ERA, so he's better at home. But you look
- 16:58Speaker 6: at his gamelog rec Oh, he gave up no runs
- 17:01Speaker 6: in each of his last two outings. He got blasted
- 17:04Speaker 6: by Atlanta the game before that, and he gave up
- 17:06Speaker 6: one run a piece in the two outings before that.
- 17:09Speaker 6: So yeah, it looks like he's pitching well. He had
- 17:11Speaker 6: a good month to may correct, he did. But what
- 17:15Speaker 6: was the difference between the four good starts or the
- 17:17Speaker 6: four good appearances and the one bad one, the one
- 17:21Speaker 6: bad one against Atlanta. Well, one difference is Atlanta is
- 17:24Speaker 6: a way better offense than Cleveland Minnesota filling in Detroit.
- 17:27Speaker 4: Yes, so he struggled against a good offense.
- 17:29Speaker 6: Baltimore is probably better offensively than all four of those
- 17:33Speaker 6: other teams as well though, So that's one thing, yes.
- 17:36Speaker 6: But the other difference was BeO started that game. It's
- 17:41Speaker 6: like it gets in his head, dude. So the games
- 17:43Speaker 6: where he pitched well, he came in behind an opener,
- 17:46Speaker 6: and all four of them, so it's like BeO is
- 17:49Speaker 6: a completely different pitcher when they put an opener in
- 17:51Speaker 6: front of him.
- 17:52Speaker 4: But they did this last time.
- 17:53Speaker 6: He made two good appearances with an open in front
- 17:57Speaker 6: of him, so it was like, oh, he's fixed.
- 17:59Speaker 4: They let him start. He got destroyed.
- 18:01Speaker 6: Then they said, okay, let's put an opener in front
- 18:03Speaker 6: of him again, and he pitched well again in those
- 18:05Speaker 6: two outings. Now what are they They're like, oh, he's
- 18:07Speaker 6: fixed again, let's have him start. I don't like it, man,
- 18:10Speaker 6: Bo He's only good when you put an opener in
- 18:13Speaker 6: front of him. So I would keep an eye on
- 18:14Speaker 6: this to see if the Red Sox are going to
- 18:16Speaker 6: do that, and they might not because the other thing
- 18:19Speaker 6: about this is, Yeah, even though Bao pitched well in
- 18:22Speaker 6: all those games where he was the follower, and he
- 18:24Speaker 6: pitched at least five innings in all of those games,
- 18:27Speaker 6: the thing about that is the opener gave up multiple
- 18:30Speaker 6: runs in every single one of those games, I'm pretty sure.
- 18:33Speaker 4: So they put an opener in front of him.
- 18:35Speaker 6: It was Moron in the first three, and then Somaniego
- 18:38Speaker 6: and the other one, and all of them gave up runs,
- 18:41Speaker 6: including last time out. Somaniego gave up four runs in
- 18:44Speaker 6: the first inning, and then BeO didn't give up any
- 18:47Speaker 6: pitched the rest of the game, and the Red Sox
- 18:49Speaker 6: were in too much of a hole to overcome and
- 18:52Speaker 6: almost still came back.
- 18:54Speaker 4: So what are we doing here, man.
- 18:55Speaker 6: I dude BeO, if he's starting this game, I would
- 18:59Speaker 6: I would be inclined to fade him here because he
- 19:01Speaker 6: has not been good when he's been starting. His only
- 19:05Speaker 6: good appearances have been with an opener in front of him.
- 19:07Speaker 6: But again, I would say you have to keep an
- 19:09Speaker 6: eye on this game. This would not be a game
- 19:11Speaker 6: where I would go action. I would say, if BeO
- 19:14Speaker 6: is going to have an opener in front of him,
- 19:18Speaker 6: possibly you would want to lean to the Red Sox here,
- 19:21Speaker 6: but it looks like that's not the case. The Red
- 19:23Speaker 6: Sox around minus one twelve or so here fifty eight
- 19:26Speaker 6: percent of the tickets fifty seven percent of the cash
- 19:28Speaker 6: on the Red Sox. So if BeO is starting, I
- 19:31Speaker 6: would probably have a tendency to lean against them a
- 19:33Speaker 6: little bit. And yes, Bao against Baltimore, by the way,
- 19:36Speaker 6: he does not have good numbers. Ninety nine at bats
- 19:39Speaker 6: twenty two strikeouts is pretty good, nine walks not great,
- 19:43Speaker 6: two ninety three batting average eight to seventy seven ops.
- 19:46Speaker 4: Bao.
- 19:47Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean, I think it's more likely that Bo
- 19:50Speaker 6: does not do well in this game than that he
- 19:51Speaker 6: does do well. And if he's starting again, I would
- 19:55Speaker 6: make sure that he's starting, because it's a for whatever reason,
- 19:58Speaker 6: he's way different when he's a follower. If I was
- 20:01Speaker 6: gonna play this game, I think I would go over
- 20:03Speaker 6: the total if Bao is definitely starting, because I think
- 20:06Speaker 6: both offenses can get to both of these starting pitchers,
- 20:09Speaker 6: and then you have at least one pretty bad bullpen here.
- 20:12Speaker 6: The totals this high for a reason. Ten and a
- 20:15Speaker 6: half the oddsmakers do not respect either of these starters.
- 20:20Speaker 6: Ninety one percent of the tickets and ninety percent of
- 20:23Speaker 6: the cash on the over, though, so the public seems
- 20:25Speaker 6: to want the over. And I know Red Sox have
- 20:27Speaker 6: had a lot of low scoring home games. They haven't
- 20:30Speaker 6: scored well at home, but they are recently, so yeah,
- 20:33Speaker 6: I think over is the better way to look at that.
- 20:35Speaker 6: If BeO is definitely starting, and you will know pretty
- 20:38Speaker 6: shortly because this is an afternoon game, so you know,
- 20:42Speaker 6: I don't think they're gonna switch that at this point,
- 20:44Speaker 6: but you never really know. They could announce late that
- 20:47Speaker 6: they that it is going to be an opener, because
- 20:48Speaker 6: of course everybody's there, and they would just pull somebody
- 20:51Speaker 6: out of the bullpen to make the opener appearance.
- 20:54Speaker 4: So whatever, what place? Wait, what place are you at?
- 21:01Speaker 1: That?
- 21:01Speaker 4: That's not good? That sucks. It was a no bet,
- 21:04Speaker 4: but wait.
- 21:04Speaker 6: A minute, does that mean they don't even allow they
- 21:06Speaker 6: don't allow you to bet on it at all? Because
- 21:09Speaker 6: when I gave it out it was undecided, right, So
- 21:13Speaker 6: like shouldn't your bets still like take that into account
- 21:17Speaker 6: and just be that like, I don't know, I don't
- 21:19Speaker 6: get that. Braves and Canes, Garrett, what's up? Are the
- 21:25Speaker 6: Caines gonna reabound them? I will talk about that game.
- 21:28Speaker 6: I don't have a play on that game, so I
- 21:30Speaker 6: don't feel that strongly about it. Braves are already like
- 21:34Speaker 6: hot right now. Man Cleveland at New York, this is
- 21:38Speaker 6: gonna be my one play. Unfortunately, I'm going to go
- 21:47Speaker 6: with the hated Yankees here to avoid getting swept by Cleveland,
- 21:51Speaker 6: because that is the situation they're in. The Yankees are
- 21:54Speaker 6: the better team, they're at home, they're one of the
- 21:56Speaker 6: best scoring teams at home, and they're about to get
- 21:59Speaker 6: potentially swept by the Cleveland Indians. I don't think that's
- 22:03Speaker 6: gonna happen. And this is a picture that the Yankees
- 22:05Speaker 6: can certainly beat up. And I would say, if you
- 22:08Speaker 6: want to go Yankees over their team total in this game,
- 22:10Speaker 6: I think that's also an approach you could use. But
- 22:13Speaker 6: I'm actually gonna go with them having a pitching advantage here.
- 22:16Speaker 6: So Yankees minus one and a half on the run
- 22:19Speaker 6: line at plus one thirty and the rest of the
- 22:21Speaker 6: bet minus one seventy here. So if we look at
- 22:25Speaker 6: the splits here on that, you get about a minus
- 22:27Speaker 6: one seventeen minus one run line on this, and you
- 22:31Speaker 6: would put whips my mistake, you'd put a lot of
- 22:34Speaker 6: the bet on the money line, in this case, seventy
- 22:36Speaker 6: four of it. Basically, if you're trying to win one hundred,
- 22:39Speaker 6: seventy four would wind up going on the money line,
- 22:41Speaker 6: and then whatever.
- 22:42Speaker 4: That returns about forty four that goes on.
- 22:45Speaker 6: The run line part of it, if that makes sense.
- 22:50Speaker 4: So it's a split bet.
- 22:51Speaker 6: So if the Yankees win by one, it will be
- 22:53Speaker 6: a push. That is what we're going with. I'm gonna
- 22:56Speaker 6: go with the Yankees to avoid the sweep here. I
- 22:58Speaker 6: don't think there's a huge advantage bullpen wise, one way
- 23:01Speaker 6: or the other. Yankees used three guys out of the
- 23:03Speaker 6: bullpen yesterday. Cleveland I think did have to use some
- 23:06Speaker 6: of their better relievers to finish the game off, and
- 23:08Speaker 6: they use four guys out of the bullpen. I think
- 23:11Speaker 6: Dadis is their closer right now, so they did use
- 23:13Speaker 6: him two days in a row. So I think, if anything,
- 23:16Speaker 6: Cleveland is probably at a somewhat at somewhat of a
- 23:19Speaker 6: bullpen disadvantage here.
- 23:20Speaker 4: They are ranked a little bit higher than the.
- 23:22Speaker 6: Yankees eleventh in bullpen Yankees fifteenth. Yankees have a better
- 23:26Speaker 6: bullpen era though, and I think they're set up is
- 23:29Speaker 6: slightly better here. Yankees have the way better offense. They're
- 23:32Speaker 6: number two, and they are really good at home. Cleveland
- 23:35Speaker 6: tied in twentieth.
- 23:38Speaker 4: So not great.
- 23:39Speaker 6: And Cleveland is going with Slate chacone on the mound.
- 23:41Speaker 6: I think we could definitely fade him. He hasn't been
- 23:44Speaker 6: very good five point two five ERA one point four
- 23:47Speaker 6: to nine whip. He's been worse on the road as well,
- 23:50Speaker 6: five point seven to four road ERA. So we're gonna
- 23:52Speaker 6: fade his home. We're gonna go with his home road
- 23:56Speaker 6: splits here in fading him, he's easier to fade on
- 23:59Speaker 6: the road. I know Cleveland's won four of his five
- 24:02Speaker 6: games across the month of May, but he didn't even
- 24:05Speaker 6: pitch well in this month really. I mean, he gave
- 24:07Speaker 6: up thirty nine hits in thirty one and a third innings.
- 24:10Speaker 6: That's not good. Four point three to one rail over
- 24:13Speaker 6: the month, very mediocre, twenty five strike got seven walks.
- 24:16Speaker 6: Those numbers were fine, but he was having a lot
- 24:19Speaker 6: of shorter appearances. He was getting roughed up a bit,
- 24:22Speaker 6: so I don't think he's that good. His overall numbers
- 24:25Speaker 6: on the season, it's basically the same, too many hits.
- 24:29Speaker 6: Walk rate is actually higher than it was in May,
- 24:31Speaker 6: so his walk rate's kind of an issue too, and
- 24:33Speaker 6: his strike got rate is low. None of these numbers
- 24:36Speaker 6: are very good, and his numbers against the Yankees are
- 24:38Speaker 6: also not good. In twenty two at bats. I know
- 24:41Speaker 6: it's not a huge sample here, but the Yankees win.
- 24:44Speaker 6: They have faced him, they have gotten to him. Although
- 24:46Speaker 6: Aaron Judge, I think, is not in the lineup today,
- 24:48Speaker 6: so you have to take that into account. He is
- 24:50Speaker 6: two for two with a double and a home run
- 24:53Speaker 6: off but I'm still gonna go with this anyway.
- 24:55Speaker 4: Judge is injured.
- 24:57Speaker 6: I believe he didn't play yesterday, but I don't think
- 24:59Speaker 6: he's going on the injured list.
- 25:01Speaker 4: I don't even know what's going on with him.
- 25:03Speaker 6: It was kind of a spur of the moment thing
- 25:05Speaker 6: where I think he didn't play yesterday. He got injured
- 25:07Speaker 6: during the prior game, I believe. But anyway, the Yankees,
- 25:11Speaker 6: including his at bats, they have a three eighteen average
- 25:14Speaker 6: eleven forty eight ohps against Chaconi. Even if you take
- 25:18Speaker 6: Judge out, they still have good offensive numbers against him.
- 25:21Speaker 6: So that's what we're going with here, and we're gonna
- 25:23Speaker 6: back Carlos Redon here. His era is already pretty good
- 25:27Speaker 6: again three point three two. His whip is not that
- 25:30Speaker 6: good one point three to two. He is walking too
- 25:33Speaker 6: many guys right now, but he's trying to come back
- 25:35Speaker 6: from injury.
- 25:36Speaker 4: Man, he looks like he's improving with each start.
- 25:39Speaker 6: If you look at what he's done with the Yankees,
- 25:41Speaker 6: he was really bad in twenty twenty three, but then
- 25:43Speaker 6: the last two years he was pretty good with his
- 25:46Speaker 6: two full seasons.
- 25:47Speaker 4: With the Yankees.
- 25:48Speaker 6: So I'm expecting him to kind of be back in
- 25:51Speaker 6: somewhat in form like that. Basically, I'm expecting him to
- 25:54Speaker 6: be pretty much back to what he.
- 25:56Speaker 4: Was in those seasons.
- 25:59Speaker 6: And again, if you look at what he's done, he's
- 26:01Speaker 6: gotten better with each start, Like he gave up one
- 26:03Speaker 6: and run each in his last two starts. His last
- 26:06Speaker 6: one was his best start where he went six innings.
- 26:08Speaker 6: He's already up to like a full starters pitch count here,
- 26:11Speaker 6: and that was at the A's stadium, only give up
- 26:14Speaker 6: one ear and run. That was a solid start in
- 26:16Speaker 6: a pitcher in a excuse me, a hitter friendly ballpark
- 26:19Speaker 6: against a good offense. He held him to four hits,
- 26:21Speaker 6: two walks, three strikeouts. You'd like to see the strike
- 26:25Speaker 6: out rate have been higher, but he does have a
- 26:27Speaker 6: high strike out rate on the season a low hit rate.
- 26:29Speaker 6: The only problem is he was walking a lot of
- 26:31Speaker 6: guys when he first started pitching this season. But the
- 26:35Speaker 6: walk numbers gone down basically with every start as well,
- 26:38Speaker 6: so that's less concerning to me than it was. He's
- 26:42Speaker 6: also got good numbers against Cleveland for the most part.
- 26:44Speaker 6: In one hundred and six at bats, two thirty six
- 26:47Speaker 6: average allowed seven hundred ops. It's not excellent, but it's
- 26:51Speaker 6: still below that seven point fifty Mendoza liner. I would
- 26:54Speaker 6: say Rodon has the matchup edge against Cleveland's hitters.
- 26:58Speaker 4: Here twenty four st got twelve walks.
- 27:01Speaker 6: It's way too many walks, but when you look into it,
- 27:04Speaker 6: eight of the walks or Jose Ramirez. Ramirez has like
- 27:07Speaker 6: half of the atvats that this team has against him.
- 27:10Speaker 6: So and Ramirez hasn't done that well against him, really,
- 27:14Speaker 6: but he has walked him a bunch, so Radon he
- 27:17Speaker 6: can pitch around him. He's only gonna have to face
- 27:19Speaker 6: Ramirez so many times. So we're gonna take the Yankees here.
- 27:22Speaker 6: They're the better team, they're at home. I highly doubt
- 27:25Speaker 6: they get swept, although obviously it's more likely now that
- 27:28Speaker 6: they've lost the first two games.
- 27:29Speaker 4: And the money seems to be not agreeing with me?
- 27:32Speaker 4: Isn't that great?
- 27:33Speaker 6: Yankees are in the minus one sixty something range now,
- 27:36Speaker 6: so you might be able to get a little bit
- 27:37Speaker 6: of a better price on this. Fifty four percent of
- 27:40Speaker 6: tickets on the Yankees, seventy seven percent of the cash
- 27:43Speaker 6: on Cleveland. I don't get it. There's no way I
- 27:45Speaker 6: would back Chaconi. But again, another way of playing this
- 27:49Speaker 6: the money he is kind of indicating on the over
- 27:51Speaker 6: totals at eight and a half. I said, another way
- 27:54Speaker 6: that you could play this is to just take the
- 27:55Speaker 6: Yankees over their team total, because I do expect them
- 27:58Speaker 6: to score runs against Chacone plus Cleveland's unrested bullpen here,
- 28:04Speaker 6: and the Yankees are good offensive team at home. I
- 28:07Speaker 6: think they're the number one offensive team at home, So
- 28:11Speaker 6: that is what I would be looking at there.
- 28:17Speaker 4: Nope, they they they didn't have that. That makes no sense.
- 28:20Speaker 4: Do what what book is it? I want to know.
- 28:23Speaker 6: That's why you gotta have more books available to you, man,
- 28:25Speaker 6: But I have not seen that. Actually I don't do
- 28:29Speaker 6: I usually just do the default the starting, the list
- 28:32Speaker 6: of starters must start, so I don't do the action
- 28:35Speaker 6: stuff that often. But that was one game where it was,
- 28:38Speaker 6: like some of the books I had available, definitely allowed
- 28:40Speaker 6: that bet with the undecided pitcher. And when it's undecided,
- 28:45Speaker 6: the default behavior is that it's okay, the listed starter
- 28:49Speaker 6: has to start.
- 28:50Speaker 4: But the but it can be anybody for the other team.
- 28:52Speaker 6: I'm pretty sure that's how the default behavior is at
- 28:55Speaker 6: like some of the big books there all right, speak
- 29:00Speaker 6: of which San Francisco at Milwaukee these teams have or no,
- 29:04Speaker 6: they haven't. Split Milwaukee's two and one in the series
- 29:07Speaker 6: of far so this is the final game of the series.
- 29:10Speaker 6: Milwaukee finally lost the game yesterday. As I mentioned, San
- 29:13Speaker 6: Francisco had the lead at the end of five and
- 29:16Speaker 6: won in the full game capacity as well. San Francisco
- 29:20Speaker 6: on these two guys out of the bullpen, which was
- 29:22Speaker 6: good for them because they were they were getting shaky
- 29:26Speaker 6: in the bullpen man, and they have had some rest
- 29:29Speaker 6: issues in the bullpen, so that will help that at least.
- 29:32Speaker 6: Although it was a saves situation, Milwaukee only used Chad Patrick. Though,
- 29:37Speaker 6: like I said, so Milwaukee has the better bullpen and
- 29:40Speaker 6: they rested their bullpen better yesterday because they only used
- 29:43Speaker 6: a long relief man. So Milwaukee does have a bullpen
- 29:46Speaker 6: advantage here. Their ranked tenth in bullpen. Giants are all
- 29:49Speaker 6: the way down to.
- 29:50Speaker 4: Twenty fourth here. I don't think they're quite as bad
- 29:53Speaker 4: as that.
- 29:53Speaker 6: Their ERA is better than all these teams around them,
- 29:56Speaker 6: but they've definitely been struggling a bit. Surprisingly, the Giants
- 30:00Speaker 6: offense had moved up. They're at seventeenth year, but that
- 30:03Speaker 6: was somewhat because of that fluky Colorado game that they had,
- 30:07Speaker 6: so I'm expecting them to come back down a bit.
- 30:09Speaker 6: Milwaukee is at twentieth, tiede with Cleveland, who I already mentioned,
- 30:13Speaker 6: and with Arizona who is playing today as well. Do
- 30:16Speaker 6: with that information what you want. This starting pitching.
- 30:18Speaker 4: Matchup is a not exactly elite.
- 30:21Speaker 6: Adrian Hauser is pitching for the Giants five point five
- 30:25Speaker 6: nine ERA one point five to six whip. Those are
- 30:28Speaker 6: bad numbers. He's better on the road, though four point
- 30:31Speaker 6: seventy nine road ray again makes no sense with San
- 30:34Speaker 6: Francisco being a pitcher friendly ballpark. I don't know why
- 30:37Speaker 6: he's worse at home, but that's been the case so
- 30:40Speaker 6: far coming off a bad outing, but it was a
- 30:43Speaker 6: course field, so maybe you don't put that much stock
- 30:45Speaker 6: into that. But the fact that he has a nineteen
- 30:47Speaker 6: to eleven strikeout walk ratio through the month, that's in
- 30:50Speaker 6: the month of May.
- 30:51Speaker 4: That's what he posted. That's not good, even.
- 30:54Speaker 6: Though he had a three point eight one ERA, and
- 30:57Speaker 6: that's too many walks in twenty six innings, he only
- 30:59Speaker 6: allowed twenty hits. He's not a huge strikeout guy, but
- 31:02Speaker 6: his walk rate is just too high. His hit rate
- 31:05Speaker 6: over the course of the season is also too high,
- 31:07Speaker 6: and his strikeout rate is definitely low, so he's not
- 31:09Speaker 6: really fooling anybody. I don't think Howser is very good.
- 31:13Speaker 6: Milwaukee hasn't really seen much of him though they have
- 31:16Speaker 6: four hitters who have faced him before six at bats,
- 31:19Speaker 6: no strikeouts, one walk, three thirty three average, thirteen to
- 31:23Speaker 6: thirty three ops, and Sanchez has a home run off him.
- 31:26Speaker 6: I don't even know what to do with these numbers.
- 31:28Speaker 6: I mean, I know he's not that familiar to Milwaukee,
- 31:31Speaker 6: but he's been around for a long time. I don't
- 31:33Speaker 6: think Milwaukee's gonna have that much of an issue.
- 31:36Speaker 4: Getting something off of him here. That would be my
- 31:40Speaker 4: That would be my guess here. And as far as
- 31:44Speaker 4: Hawser though, he.
- 31:46Speaker 6: Might get a little bit more up for this game
- 31:48Speaker 6: because Milwaukee was where he spent most of his career,
- 31:50Speaker 6: but I'm assuming he's pitched against them since then because
- 31:54Speaker 6: he's he hasn't been on that team since twenty twenty three,
- 31:57Speaker 6: So a lot of times that first game that you
- 31:58Speaker 6: pitch against your former team, you get really up for it.
- 32:02Speaker 4: But I think he's already done that.
- 32:03Speaker 6: But still, maybe he gets a little bit extra motivation
- 32:06Speaker 6: here facing the team that he spent most of his
- 32:09Speaker 6: career with.
- 32:10Speaker 4: Coleman Crowe, who I thought was.
- 32:11Speaker 6: Gonna get the pitching duties yesterday, is going today for
- 32:15Speaker 6: the Brewers. Three point one, four point nine to eight whip.
- 32:19Speaker 6: Those are good numbers. I think he's only pitched on
- 32:21Speaker 6: the road so far, but he hasn't gone deep Brilli
- 32:24Speaker 6: into these outings his overall numbers, you know, I mean,
- 32:27Speaker 6: he doesn't strike out a lot of guys. He hasn't
- 32:29Speaker 6: put a lot of guys on base either, though low
- 32:32Speaker 6: walk rate, low hit rate, hasn't allowed that many runs
- 32:34Speaker 6: in any of his outings.
- 32:35Speaker 4: But I still don't know if I want to trust him.
- 32:38Speaker 6: I mean, if you look at his like scouting reports
- 32:39Speaker 6: and whatever, he's basically like his scouting reports projected him
- 32:44Speaker 6: to be what Milwaukee has him doing, which is a
- 32:47Speaker 6: spot starter slash long relief type of guy.
- 32:51Speaker 4: So that's what he is.
- 32:52Speaker 6: I don't think he's great, but he's been decent for
- 32:56Speaker 6: them so far. He's facing a Giants lineup that I
- 32:58Speaker 6: don't think is very good, and they haven't seen him before,
- 33:02Speaker 6: so Crow might have a little bit of an advantage here.
- 33:06Speaker 6: I'll probably lean to Milwaukee in this one. I think
- 33:08Speaker 6: they do have some advantages here. The money is not
- 33:10Speaker 6: agreeing with me on that one either. Sixty seven percent
- 33:13Speaker 6: of tickets on Milwaukee, seventy two percent of the cash
- 33:15Speaker 6: on San Francisco.
- 33:17Speaker 4: I don't know, man. A lot of that has to
- 33:18Speaker 4: do with the price, though, so I could see the argument.
- 33:21Speaker 4: I guess.
- 33:21Speaker 6: I mean, Milwaukee at minus one to eighty something or whatever,
- 33:25Speaker 6: does Crow deserve to be that big of a favorite.
- 33:29Speaker 6: Maybe not so, maybe that's the argument that the price
- 33:31Speaker 6: tag is just too high on Milwaukee. But I think
- 33:34Speaker 6: they should win this game. I think they have too
- 33:37Speaker 6: many advantages here. The money, it looks like it's pretty
- 33:40Speaker 6: strongly indicating towards an over here. I might not disagree.
- 33:44Speaker 6: Fifty to fifty on the tickets, ninety percent of the
- 33:46Speaker 6: cash on the over the totals nine.
- 33:49Speaker 4: Houser.
- 33:49Speaker 6: Like I said, I mean, I think he's gonna have
- 33:54Speaker 6: some issues here. He's been even though he's been a
- 33:56Speaker 6: little bit better on the road, he hasn't pitched well.
- 33:59Speaker 6: But I don't know if I quite want to do that.
- 34:01Speaker 6: Of course that freaked me out. Of course ad block
- 34:04Speaker 6: comes back. That was in my Chrome browser though that
- 34:07Speaker 6: was not on my shared screen, but that really freaked
- 34:09Speaker 6: me out because it came in behind it came up
- 34:12Speaker 6: over stream yard, So that's great anyway.
- 34:17Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't think I have too much.
- 34:18Speaker 6: I agree with an over here generally, but this is
- 34:20Speaker 6: a hard game to figure out.
- 34:21Speaker 4: Man.
- 34:22Speaker 6: I mean, Crow could pitch well here, Houser could potentially
- 34:25Speaker 6: pitch well here too, So I don't really want to
- 34:26Speaker 6: do that either. Total is nine, so it is kind
- 34:29Speaker 6: of high for a reason. But yeah, I want nothing
- 34:32Speaker 6: to do with that game. It's pretty unpredictable. Yankees team total.
- 34:39Speaker 4: Is four and a half minus one eighteen.
- 34:43Speaker 6: Yeah, all right, yeah, I mean that seems pretty reasonable
- 34:47Speaker 6: to me. Really, I asked him to get five runs
- 34:49Speaker 6: in that game. That seems okay to me. I mean
- 34:52Speaker 6: that that is a way that you could play it,
- 34:55Speaker 6: all right, uh, and then they could potentially still lose
- 34:59Speaker 6: the game and still get that right.
- 35:01Speaker 4: They scored four runs in each of the first two games.
- 35:05Speaker 6: Scoring five is obviously not that big of an ask
- 35:07Speaker 6: with an offense like that, and their face in those
- 35:10Speaker 6: other two games they had to face better pitchers too.
- 35:13Speaker 1: Well.
- 35:13Speaker 6: Ken Tillo is not great, but they faced Gavin Williams yesterday.
- 35:17Speaker 6: Chaconi is a lot worse than Gavin Williams. All Right,
- 35:21Speaker 6: Toronto at Atlanta for Garrett here, Atlanta's trying to get
- 35:24Speaker 6: a sweet pier, so they might overlook Toronto a little
- 35:27Speaker 6: bit after beating them in both games here. But who
- 35:30Speaker 6: does Atlanta play next? Well, they play Pittsburgh. Maybe they
- 35:33Speaker 6: do look ahead to that. Pittsburgh has been having a
- 35:35Speaker 6: good season, so maybe Atlanta does.
- 35:37Speaker 4: Look ahead to that.
- 35:38Speaker 6: It's a National League game, pretty big weekend series, you know,
- 35:43Speaker 6: so maybe they do look ahead to that. I think
- 35:45Speaker 6: they might have to face Skins during that series as well,
- 35:50Speaker 6: so it's interesting not tomorrow they don't though, because Skeen's
- 35:54Speaker 6: pitched the other day. Toronto has not listed a starter
- 35:57Speaker 6: yet for this game. I went back and I looked,
- 35:59Speaker 6: and five games ago, Toronto went with a total bullpen game.
- 36:03Speaker 6: Toronto's got too many issues right now. Man don't cease
- 36:06Speaker 6: when on the d L. So I don't know if
- 36:08Speaker 6: this is his spot or one of the other spots.
- 36:10Speaker 6: But they got rid of Eric Lower, you know. Uh,
- 36:13Speaker 6: Toronto's got some issues here, and if they're going with
- 36:15Speaker 6: a bullpen game here, which they did five games ago,
- 36:18Speaker 6: that might be an issue.
- 36:19Speaker 4: Though.
- 36:20Speaker 6: They've had a couple of okay bullpen games this year,
- 36:23Speaker 6: but I don't know if this is gonna be one
- 36:24Speaker 6: of them. Against a good offense. Atlanta used three relief
- 36:27Speaker 6: pitchers yesterday. They have the better bullpen. Toronto also used three.
- 36:32Speaker 6: I actually think Toronto did actually list Fluardi as the
- 36:35Speaker 6: opener here. He's not actually a starter. He's coming out
- 36:39Speaker 6: of the bullpen. Uh, so he's gonna be an opener here.
- 36:41Speaker 6: He's probably gonna go one, uh maybe one plus innings here,
- 36:46Speaker 6: So it looks like it's gonna be a full bullpen
- 36:48Speaker 6: game for Toronto, which I wouldn't trust that. I don't
- 36:51Speaker 6: love their bullpen. Atlanta's number one in bullpen in both
- 36:55Speaker 6: Whip Andy Ra. Toronto is twelve, not awful, but you're
- 37:01Speaker 6: gonna be getting their bullpen mediocre bullpen for an entire
- 37:04Speaker 6: game against the third ranked Braves offense. Toronto's offense is
- 37:09Speaker 6: not good. They're twenty six, so they've really had issues
- 37:13Speaker 6: and they're having to go up against Chris Sale, which
- 37:15Speaker 6: makes matters even worse. Sale is having another good season.
- 37:19Speaker 6: Two point oh one e RA point nine to four Whip.
- 37:22Speaker 6: He's been elite at home, A.
- 37:24Speaker 4: Point six home e RA ridiculous. He's been good all season.
- 37:30Speaker 6: He's a lot more than tour and runs only once
- 37:32Speaker 6: in a weird outlier start at Anaheim. He's got a
- 37:36Speaker 6: high strikeout rate, pretty low walk rate, low hit rate.
- 37:39Speaker 4: All of his numbers are good. We get it.
- 37:41Speaker 6: I had a good month of May as well, had
- 37:43Speaker 6: some tough offenses that he faced in there too. Dodgers
- 37:47Speaker 6: Cubs did well against those teams.
- 37:50Speaker 4: We get it.
- 37:50Speaker 6: He's an elite pitcher, possibly in the Sy Young conversation,
- 37:55Speaker 6: but I don't think he's gonna get it because there's
- 37:56Speaker 6: too much competition in the NL, you know, Sanchez, and
- 38:01Speaker 6: I don't know how Sanchez. Sanchez wound up doing really
- 38:03Speaker 6: well again yesterday, didn't he because they won the game again.
- 38:07Speaker 6: But yeah, Sanchez, scheins Mizierowski. You gotta deal with all
- 38:10Speaker 6: those guys. Sale does have good numbers against Toronto. They
- 38:14Speaker 6: only have five guys who have faced him, though Springer
- 38:17Speaker 6: has the majority of the at bats, thirty out of
- 38:19Speaker 6: the forty eight at bats are him, and eleven of
- 38:21Speaker 6: them are vlad Guerrero.
- 38:23Speaker 4: But overall they.
- 38:24Speaker 6: Have a two twenty nine team average against them, six
- 38:26Speaker 6: to seventy seven ohps, seventeen strikeouts, and five walks.
- 38:33Speaker 4: So yeah, I think Sale likely.
- 38:36Speaker 6: Pitches well again here against a struggling offense that doesn't
- 38:39Speaker 6: do well against them and hasn't not even like all
- 38:43Speaker 6: their heroters haven't even faced Sale before. So yeah, I
- 38:46Speaker 6: don't want to fade Atlanta here. I mean, they have
- 38:49Speaker 6: too many matchup advantages in this game. They're around minus
- 38:52Speaker 6: two hundred, the totals low seven and a half. Atlanta
- 38:56Speaker 6: does have some issues scoring at home. They're better off
- 39:00Speaker 6: defensive team on the road for whatever reason. Still, I mean,
- 39:04Speaker 6: I think Atlanta wins the game. Minus two hundred is
- 39:06Speaker 6: a pretty big ass Like, you know, you're not gonna
- 39:08Speaker 6: get any value playing the team with the best record
- 39:11Speaker 6: in baseball with their Hall of Fame pitcher on the mound.
- 39:14Speaker 4: So I don't think I would do that either.
- 39:16Speaker 6: But you know, if you want to do some money
- 39:18Speaker 6: line parlaying with Atlanta in one, I guess you could
- 39:22Speaker 6: do that. But again, situationally, I don't really want them
- 39:25Speaker 6: because they're they're looking for a sweet beer and I
- 39:28Speaker 6: usually avoid those teams at the very least, So I
- 39:30Speaker 6: don't know. I'm avoiding that game though, But Atlanta has
- 39:33Speaker 6: too many matchup edges. I expect them to win the game,
- 39:36Speaker 6: but we'll see. Kind of like what I said with Philly,
- 39:39Speaker 6: Kansas City at Minnesota, this is a new series that's starting.
- 39:43Speaker 6: Minnesota is staying at home, I believe. Yeah, they just
- 39:45Speaker 6: faced the White Sox. They lost eight nothing yesterday. They
- 39:49Speaker 6: won the series, but they got shut out yesterday. A
- 39:52Speaker 6: lot of times when a team gets shut out at home,
- 39:54Speaker 6: they will bounce back and do better. In the next game,
- 39:56Speaker 6: they have Kansas City coming in from Cincinnati. Not terrible
- 40:01Speaker 6: travel spot here. Kansas City was able to break their
- 40:04Speaker 6: losing streak and they actually won these series against Cincinnati.
- 40:07Speaker 6: I know Cincinnati early in the season hadn't lost a
- 40:10Speaker 6: series pretty deep into the season. I'm pretty sure they
- 40:12Speaker 6: have since then, though, and of course they did lose
- 40:15Speaker 6: that one against Kansas City. But Kansas City seems to
- 40:17Speaker 6: be at least playing a little bit less Kansas Shitty recently.
- 40:23Speaker 6: They still have a very bad bullpen though they only
- 40:25Speaker 6: us two guys out of the bullpen yesterday. But Kansas
- 40:27Speaker 6: City's bullpen is bad. Minnesota's is also bad, though, and
- 40:31Speaker 6: they used four guys out of the bullpen, So this
- 40:34Speaker 6: may be a series where we might be looking for
- 40:36Speaker 6: some overs here because these bullpens are that bad. Minnesota's
- 40:41Speaker 6: twenty seventh Kansas City is dead last thirtieth, but Houston's
- 40:46Speaker 6: still got the worst bullpen Eerra, so I always have
- 40:49Speaker 6: to just make fun of Houston's bullpen.
- 40:51Speaker 4: Man.
- 40:52Speaker 6: Kansas City's offense hasn't been good either. Their twenty seventh
- 40:55Speaker 6: Minnesota has been a bit better than that. Minnesota is
- 40:59Speaker 6: where are they at Actually they've fallen way down. They're
- 41:02Speaker 6: twenty third, so these offenses actually have been struggling. Seth
- 41:06Speaker 6: Lugo is pitching for Kansas City. I still think he's
- 41:09Speaker 6: a decent pitcher. You know, the advanced analytics guys really
- 41:12Speaker 6: don't like him three point five to five ERA. His
- 41:15Speaker 6: whip is a little bit high, one point three to five,
- 41:17Speaker 6: So I don't love that.
- 41:18Speaker 4: He's been good on.
- 41:19Speaker 6: The road this year two point seven road YRA and
- 41:23Speaker 6: that's where he is today. He had a nice outing
- 41:25Speaker 6: last time out. He's actually had a few pretty good
- 41:27Speaker 6: outings in a row after he had a couple of
- 41:29Speaker 6: rough ones. He pitched pretty well against Boston Seattle, both
- 41:33Speaker 6: those at home and then on the road against Texas.
- 41:35Speaker 6: I know Boston and Texas not elite lineups. In Texas
- 41:39Speaker 6: very pitcher friendly ballpark, but he's still strung together a
- 41:42Speaker 6: few good starts, so he's in better form right now.
- 41:46Speaker 6: Over the month of May, though, he did have too
- 41:47Speaker 6: many walks twelve walks, twenty nine strikeouts in thirty three
- 41:51Speaker 6: to thirty innings and too many hits allowed forty.
- 41:56Speaker 4: So yeah, I don't know he's I still.
- 41:58Speaker 6: Don't love the overall main numbers there, but his last
- 42:01Speaker 6: three starts were definitely better than that, and his walk
- 42:04Speaker 6: rate went down as well, and his hit rate went
- 42:06Speaker 6: down a bit as well. Over the course of the season,
- 42:08Speaker 6: he's allowed a little bit more than one hit per inning,
- 42:10Speaker 6: which isn't great. His walk rate isn't really that high though.
- 42:13Speaker 6: His strikeout rate is about what you expect. He's not
- 42:16Speaker 6: a huge strikeout guy, and he's fairly old now. Lugo
- 42:19Speaker 6: against Minnesota, they've seen a lot of them because he's
- 42:22Speaker 6: been in their division. As I click on the wrong
- 42:25Speaker 6: team here, he's not great against Minnesota and sixty eight
- 42:31Speaker 6: at bats two ninety four average allowed, seven H six
- 42:34Speaker 6: OPS isn't that bad though, so they have a lot
- 42:36Speaker 6: of singles against him thirteen strikeouts, three walks, but they
- 42:41Speaker 6: do hit him for contact. I don't know if I
- 42:43Speaker 6: really trust Lugo here. He is in better form right now,
- 42:46Speaker 6: though in his OPS against here is still pretty low,
- 42:49Speaker 6: so he might put in a decent outing here in Minnesota.
- 42:52Speaker 6: Looks like they're going with a bulpe end game because
- 42:54Speaker 6: they have Andrew Moore as listed as a starter. He's young,
- 42:58Speaker 6: He's twenty four, so I don't know if the going
- 43:00Speaker 6: to try to convert him into a starter, but his
- 43:02Speaker 6: numbers are not good four point ZHO seven e RA
- 43:05Speaker 6: one point five to Whip. I would not trust that.
- 43:10Speaker 6: He hasn't pitched that much. But he's made almost entirely
- 43:12Speaker 6: relief appearances year. He's allowed more than one hit per ending.
- 43:16Speaker 6: His walk rates not great, his strikeout rate is decent,
- 43:18Speaker 6: but the fact that he's putting that many guys on
- 43:21Speaker 6: base in relief appearances, that's not good. So yeah, I
- 43:27Speaker 6: don't love that here and Morris, I don't know how
- 43:29Speaker 6: much we need to dig into his numbers against KC,
- 43:32Speaker 6: but they actually haven't seen him before.
- 43:34Speaker 4: But I still don't trust this.
- 43:35Speaker 6: I think we're looking at a bullpen game from Minnesota here,
- 43:38Speaker 6: and I looked, and this would be Bailey Ober's turn
- 43:40Speaker 6: in the rotation. He's on the DL now, So I
- 43:44Speaker 6: think that's what we got going on with Minnesota. They're
- 43:47Speaker 6: basically forced into a bullpen game here that's not really
- 43:50Speaker 6: planned because Ober is now hurt. So that's not good.
- 43:54Speaker 6: So I think I would lean over in this game.
- 43:56Speaker 6: I don't quite want to do it. I mean, the
- 43:58Speaker 6: offenses are struggle.
- 44:00Speaker 1: Lugo.
- 44:00Speaker 4: I think could put together an okay outing here.
- 44:03Speaker 6: The money's indicating on Minnesota, I would tell you I
- 44:05Speaker 6: wouldn't do that. Sixty nine percent of tickets, ninety two
- 44:08Speaker 6: percent of the cash on Minnesota. There's no way I
- 44:11Speaker 6: can back a bullpen game with one of the worst
- 44:13Speaker 6: bullpens in baseball. I'm sorry, but I just can't do that.
- 44:17Speaker 6: Even though Minnesota looks like they should be in a
- 44:19Speaker 6: bounced back spot after yesterday's shutout loss that they had
- 44:24Speaker 6: Kansas City's actually favored at around minus one thirteen or
- 44:28Speaker 6: so here, So the odds makers are kind of telling
- 44:30Speaker 6: you that they would trust Lugo fairly significantly over a
- 44:35Speaker 6: Minnesota bullpen game.
- 44:36Speaker 4: Over is getting some money.
- 44:38Speaker 6: Eighty seven percent of tickets, ninety two percent of the
- 44:40Speaker 6: cash totals at nine juice to the over. If you're
- 44:43Speaker 6: gonna go over here, I would try to do that
- 44:46Speaker 6: and not let it get to nine and a half
- 44:48Speaker 6: because nine is a key number four to four tie needs.
- 44:52Speaker 4: To be broken.
- 44:53Speaker 6: So it's a lot better to go over nine than
- 44:55Speaker 6: nine and a half because you need another run if
- 44:58Speaker 6: you go nine and a half. So on that key
- 45:01Speaker 6: number there, over nine, Like if I was gonna play
- 45:04Speaker 6: that game. I think I would probably do that though
- 45:06Speaker 6: over nine is probably my preferred way to play that game,
- 45:10Speaker 6: but I don't want to do it.
- 45:11Speaker 4: The a is at the Cubs.
- 45:13Speaker 6: Cubs are on the verge of getting swept by an
- 45:16Speaker 6: American League team at home. Really now, the Cubs have
- 45:20Speaker 6: lost each game by one run, and they lost an
- 45:22Speaker 6: extra innings yesterday, so you know, they could have won
- 45:26Speaker 6: both games. We did have a winner on A's first
- 45:29Speaker 6: five in the first game of the series. That was
- 45:30Speaker 6: a rough situation with the Cubs returning home from a
- 45:33Speaker 6: road trip, so that's part of the reason why I
- 45:36Speaker 6: did that. But I thought the Cubs would bounce back.
- 45:38Speaker 6: They didn't yesterday. You gotta think they bounced back here
- 45:42Speaker 6: with Iamanaga on the mound right Emanaga is one of
- 45:44Speaker 6: their best starters, you got to think that they come
- 45:47Speaker 6: motivated and avoid the sweep. And that was kind of
- 45:48Speaker 6: where I started this handicap. I liked the Cubs, and
- 45:51Speaker 6: you look like you're getting kind of a cheap number
- 45:53Speaker 6: on the Cubs here because they're not playing good baseball
- 45:56Speaker 6: right now. I think they're still better than the A's
- 45:59Speaker 6: and they're at home. I of what a sweep looks
- 46:01Speaker 6: like you might want the Cubs here. The A's, by
- 46:04Speaker 6: the way, have a Houston next, so I don't know
- 46:06Speaker 6: if they're gonna look ahead to that, but it is
- 46:08Speaker 6: a divisional series that they have against Houston next. As
- 46:12Speaker 6: far as the bullpens, I think Chicago has the better
- 46:14Speaker 6: bullpen here the Cobs. The A's used a lot of
- 46:18Speaker 6: their relief pitchers because it was an extra inning game.
- 46:20Speaker 6: They use six guys out of the bullpen yesterday. That
- 46:23Speaker 6: is not what you want to see when you already
- 46:25Speaker 6: have a pretty questionable bullpen. Cubs also use a lot.
- 46:28Speaker 6: They use six guys or seven guys actually, but their
- 46:31Speaker 6: bullpen is a little bit better, so I think they
- 46:33Speaker 6: do have a bullpen advantage here, even though both bullpens
- 46:36Speaker 6: are unrested after yesterday, Clubs are number eight in bullpen
- 46:40Speaker 6: A's are nineteenth. Offense has have bolt been pretty good.
- 46:44Speaker 6: Cubs are eighth. Excuse me, as are ninth. J T
- 46:49Speaker 6: Ginn is going for the A's done. He's actually been
- 46:51Speaker 6: pretty good. Two point eight seventy RA one point one
- 46:54Speaker 6: for whip. He's better outside of that horrible A stadium,
- 46:57Speaker 6: which makes sense because again it's a or friendly Ballpark,
- 47:01Speaker 6: so his road ERA two point oh eight is a
- 47:03Speaker 6: lot better.
- 47:04Speaker 4: He's been good on the road.
- 47:06Speaker 6: He's coming off allowing no earned runs and six innings
- 47:09Speaker 6: against the Yankees, but he.
- 47:11Speaker 4: Has walked too many guys.
- 47:12Speaker 6: He had a solid month of May though, two point
- 47:14Speaker 6: sixty RA and only twenty four hits allout in thirty
- 47:17Speaker 6: four and two thirds innings. That was good, but he
- 47:19Speaker 6: also walks seventeen guys. That's not good. His walk RDE
- 47:24Speaker 6: actually was. It was interesting because eleven of those walks
- 47:28Speaker 6: came in two outings on the road against San Diego
- 47:31Speaker 6: and at home against Cleveland, so if you take those out,
- 47:33Speaker 6: his walk rate went way down. So it's like his
- 47:36Speaker 6: walks are all just kind of in spurts, and his
- 47:39Speaker 6: walk rade hasn't been as bad over the course of
- 47:42Speaker 6: the season, so it's like it's all or nothing with him.
- 47:45Speaker 6: It's like he comes in, he either walks a ton
- 47:47Speaker 6: of guys or he doesn't walk anybody so I don't know,
- 47:51Speaker 6: or walks like one guy. I don't know.
- 47:52Speaker 4: It's kind of ridiculous.
- 47:53Speaker 6: He didn't have thirty three strikeouts over those thirty four
- 47:56Speaker 6: and two thirds innings as well. Gin is a little
- 47:58Speaker 6: bit hard to figure out. He's a lot really few
- 48:01Speaker 6: hits this season. His walk rate is not good, like
- 48:05Speaker 6: I said, but that's a lot of it is because
- 48:07Speaker 6: he's had like four starts or three starts where he's
- 48:09Speaker 6: had really high walk numbers, and his strike out rate
- 48:12Speaker 6: is not that high. But he's not really a strikeout pitcher.
- 48:15Speaker 6: The A's have won the majority of his outings this year,
- 48:18Speaker 6: which is pretty good. Uh So, overall, I think Gan
- 48:21Speaker 6: actually is good, but these walk numbers do worry me
- 48:23Speaker 6: for sure. His numbers against the Cobs. They only have
- 48:26Speaker 6: four at bats against him. Only Bregman and Kelly have
- 48:29Speaker 6: ever faced him. Bregman has the only hit, a single
- 48:33Speaker 6: and as a walk off him, and Kelly has a strikeout,
- 48:36Speaker 6: but that's it. So Gan is pretty unfamiliar to the Cubs,
- 48:40Speaker 6: so that might be a little bit of an extra
- 48:42Speaker 6: advantage to him because they haven't faced him. I know
- 48:44Speaker 6: he's going up against the show to Imanaga, who is
- 48:47Speaker 6: good and is better than his era makes him look
- 48:50Speaker 6: four point three seven era. I know that's not good.
- 48:53Speaker 6: He's had a couple of questionable starts here recently though,
- 48:56Speaker 6: one point oh seven whip. That's not BADMA is good.
- 49:00Speaker 6: We've seen what he can do at the major league level.
- 49:02Speaker 6: He's been here for a few years now. At some
- 49:04Speaker 6: point he's going to be I think back to what
- 49:06Speaker 6: he once was. But he's been a little bit worse
- 49:09Speaker 6: at home four point five to seven home hera and
- 49:11Speaker 6: he had one start where he got tagged by Milwaukee,
- 49:14Speaker 6: but I told you going into that game, his matchup
- 49:17Speaker 6: numbers were horrible, like he specifically does really bad against Milwaukee.
- 49:21Speaker 4: I don't know why.
- 49:22Speaker 6: And then after that he did give up a bunch
- 49:23Speaker 6: of runs to Houston, but he had good command numbers
- 49:26Speaker 6: in that game, so I think he got a little
- 49:28Speaker 6: bit unlucky. But he followed that up with another pretty
- 49:31Speaker 6: rough outing against Saint Louis, so I don't know. He's
- 49:34Speaker 6: not really in good form right now. He's allowing a
- 49:36Speaker 6: lot of home runs right now, which is definitely concerning,
- 49:39Speaker 6: even though he had a thirty one to nine strike
- 49:41Speaker 6: out walk ratio during the month of May, which is good,
- 49:44Speaker 6: so his command numbers were right there, but the number
- 49:48Speaker 6: of home runs, so I do think he's still getting
- 49:49Speaker 6: unlucky though in the month of May, and the Cubs
- 49:52Speaker 6: lost four starts in a row of his but he
- 49:54Speaker 6: faced capable offenses in all four of them. You know,
- 49:58Speaker 6: I think at some point he is gonna bount He's
- 50:00Speaker 6: obviously nowhere near as bad as he's been pitching recently,
- 50:03Speaker 6: but you have to kind of figure out when is
- 50:05Speaker 6: he gonna come back into form and is it gonna
- 50:07Speaker 6: start in this game? Because the A's are a decent
- 50:10Speaker 6: offense too. I'm not so sure. His overall numbers are good,
- 50:13Speaker 6: by the way, way fewer than one hit per inning,
- 50:16Speaker 6: almost one strike up er inning.
- 50:18Speaker 4: His walk rates pretty low.
- 50:19Speaker 6: His home run rate is high, but again that's because
- 50:22Speaker 6: of those most recent starts where you give up a ton.
- 50:25Speaker 4: It might not come here, though.
- 50:27Speaker 6: His bounce back might not come here because the As
- 50:29Speaker 6: have nineteen at bats against him and they hit three
- 50:31Speaker 6: sixteen off him with a nine.
- 50:33Speaker 4: To forty seven OPS.
- 50:34Speaker 6: So I was thinking I might wind up playing the
- 50:37Speaker 6: Cubs here, but that's not gonna happen. His matchup numbers
- 50:40Speaker 6: just aren't good enough, im Naga.
- 50:42Speaker 4: Recent form worries me.
- 50:44Speaker 6: Six strikeouts, no walks over those at bats, by the way,
- 50:47Speaker 6: for whatever that's worth.
- 50:50Speaker 4: Yeah, I can't really deal with it, man. I mean,
- 50:53Speaker 4: in this game, the.
- 50:55Speaker 6: Money's coming in on the Cubs fifty take a sixty
- 50:58Speaker 6: four percent of the cash on them. They're around minus
- 51:00Speaker 6: one thirty four or so here. Yeah, they should be motivated.
- 51:05Speaker 6: They're trying to avoid the sweep here. The total's pretty
- 51:09Speaker 6: high ten ten and a half, which indicates wind is
- 51:11Speaker 6: blowing out here. That might not be good for im
- 51:14Speaker 6: Naga right because he's allowing too many home runs.
- 51:16Speaker 4: You do not want is if you're him.
- 51:18Speaker 6: Right now, you do not want to have a wind blowing.
- 51:21Speaker 4: Out game in Wrigling.
- 51:22Speaker 6: And that looks like that's what this is, because there's
- 51:23Speaker 6: no there's no way this total would be that high
- 51:26Speaker 6: otherwise with this pitching matchup, So you know, wind is
- 51:29Speaker 6: blowing out here. You know, I don't know, it might
- 51:35Speaker 6: sound kind of insane, but I might go with A's
- 51:38Speaker 6: over their team total here because I don't know if
- 51:41Speaker 6: I would want to take them to win the game,
- 51:43Speaker 6: but it looks like it's gonna be a high scoring game.
- 51:45Speaker 6: Imanaga is not a good form right now. He's got
- 51:47Speaker 6: bad matchup numbers against the A's. The A's could put
- 51:50Speaker 6: up enough of team total here to do that and
- 51:53Speaker 6: still not even win the game. The the underdog here,
- 51:58Speaker 6: so you're asking him to probably get to five there.
- 52:01Speaker 6: It's it's doable, I think in that game.
- 52:03Speaker 4: So I don't know.
- 52:03Speaker 6: That might be what I would do in that game.
- 52:05Speaker 6: I don't know, man, It's a tough game to actually handicap.
- 52:09Speaker 6: So I'm skipping the game obviously. Twomas, what's up?
- 52:14Speaker 4: Man, I don't know.
- 52:15Speaker 6: I still don't know how to pronounce I should because
- 52:17Speaker 6: I'm part Scandinavian, so show grin, I could pronounce that
- 52:22Speaker 6: a little bit better than you go, what's up?
- 52:25Speaker 4: Let's get some money.
- 52:28Speaker 6: I only have one play today, Like I said, it
- 52:30Speaker 6: is the Yankees split bet run line money line.
- 52:33Speaker 4: Pittsburgh at Houston continues.
- 52:35Speaker 6: This is a Fox Sports one game, so this is
- 52:37Speaker 6: the only like national TV game here. For whatever reason,
- 52:42Speaker 6: it's been a high scoring series though, I mean, it
- 52:44Speaker 6: looks like it could be an over series. And you
- 52:45Speaker 6: have two bullpends that aren't very good like this, and
- 52:48Speaker 6: two offenses that are more than capable.
- 52:50Speaker 4: And yeah, it's been a it's definitely been an over series.
- 52:53Speaker 6: Each team has won one game. Both games have been
- 52:56Speaker 6: really high scoring. Houston, they used most of their bullpen yesterday.
- 53:02Speaker 6: These well, five guys out of the bullpen that's not good.
- 53:05Speaker 6: Pittsburgh used four. Was that an extra inning game? No,
- 53:10Speaker 6: it wasn't, but it was eleven to nine. Houston with
- 53:12Speaker 6: the win yesterday on Pittsburgh I think won the first
- 53:15Speaker 6: game of this year is ten to six. Some real
- 53:17Speaker 6: high scoring affairs here. The bullpens are bad. Houston is
- 53:21Speaker 6: ranked twenty six, but they have the worst bullpen era.
- 53:24Speaker 6: Pittsburgh not very good either at eighteenth. I would not
- 53:28Speaker 6: trust either bullpen, especially with the lack of rest here.
- 53:31Speaker 6: The offenses have been good. Pittsburgh is number four, Houston
- 53:35Speaker 6: number seven. So again, that is looking like this could
- 53:39Speaker 6: be an over game, but the starting pitching, to me,
- 53:41Speaker 6: doesn't really look like it's an over starting pitching matchup.
- 53:45Speaker 6: Jared Jones is making his second start after having an
- 53:48Speaker 6: entire season missed with an injury.
- 53:51Speaker 4: He's going for Pittsburgh here.
- 53:53Speaker 6: I know his numbers look bad, ten point three eighty
- 53:55Speaker 6: or a two point oh eight whip. I would not
- 53:57Speaker 6: put much weight into that though, because he's trying to
- 53:59Speaker 6: go back from injury.
- 54:01Speaker 4: I gave up the.
- 54:03Speaker 6: Under in the first five and in his first game
- 54:06Speaker 6: back and it didn't work out. He wasn't great in
- 54:08Speaker 6: the game against Minnesota, But I think he is going
- 54:11Speaker 6: to get better as he works his way back, you
- 54:13Speaker 6: know what I mean. He was good in twenty twenty four,
- 54:15Speaker 6: his first season in the majors as a rookie. That
- 54:19Speaker 6: his numbers are pretty solid for a rookie campaign. So
- 54:22Speaker 6: I think Jones is good and I think at some
- 54:23Speaker 6: point he is gonna bounce back. Had a rough outing
- 54:26Speaker 6: against Minnesota, but he did have six strikeouts and two walks,
- 54:29Speaker 6: so command numbers were not that bad there. But he
- 54:32Speaker 6: got hit around for seven hits in fourn at the
- 54:34Speaker 6: third innings five and runs. And I know he's facing
- 54:37Speaker 6: a Houston lineup that is pretty difficult to go up against,
- 54:41Speaker 6: but they haven't seen Jones before. So I think Jones
- 54:44Speaker 6: is going to improve off of that start. He's got
- 54:46Speaker 6: that one start under his belt. Might have been a
- 54:48Speaker 6: little bit shaky, you know, his first start back in
- 54:50Speaker 6: the majors. Is still a young guy. He's twenty four,
- 54:53Speaker 6: you know, might have been shaky for that reason. After
- 54:56Speaker 6: not pitching in the majors for a year. I think
- 54:58Speaker 6: we're gonna see him start pitch better. He's got that
- 55:01Speaker 6: game under his belt. Houston's unfamiliar with him, so he
- 55:04Speaker 6: might be able to pitch well here, although Minnesota was
- 55:07Speaker 6: as well. Only Paradus has ever faced him before, and
- 55:10Speaker 6: he's zero for four with a strikeout in two walks
- 55:13Speaker 6: against him, but generally, yeah, he's completely unfamiliar to Houston.
- 55:18Speaker 6: Kaiwai Tang is getting to start for Houston. He's actually
- 55:21Speaker 6: been good, although keep in mind a lot of these
- 55:23Speaker 6: numbers came in relief appearances. Two point five seventy RA,
- 55:27Speaker 6: one point one whip. He's been pretty solid. He's got
- 55:31Speaker 6: the same era home and away, which is crazy. He's
- 55:34Speaker 6: actually been pretty good since they converted him to a
- 55:36Speaker 6: starter or two. He's gone five or more innings in
- 55:40Speaker 6: each of his starts here, unless actually, how many starts
- 55:43Speaker 6: does he have One of those might have been a
- 55:44Speaker 6: shorter start. No, he's got five starts, but in his
- 55:47Speaker 6: last three starts he's gone a little bit deeper and
- 55:49Speaker 6: he's been reasonably good here, except.
- 55:52Speaker 4: His walk numbers have been bad. That's kind of the problem.
- 55:56Speaker 6: So he's gone sixteen innings across three starts, so he's
- 55:59Speaker 6: only left three earned runs, which is good. He's only
- 56:02Speaker 6: allowed seven hits across that span, which is also really good.
- 56:05Speaker 6: But he's at eleven walks, which is a huge problem,
- 56:09Speaker 6: and he's got a twenty strikeout, so that's good. The
- 56:11Speaker 6: amount of strikeouts is good, but the amount of walks
- 56:15Speaker 6: is definitely concerning. Numbers against Pittsburgh he basically doesn't have
- 56:19Speaker 6: and he only O'Hearn has ever faced him before, two
- 56:22Speaker 6: for three with a strikeout, So yeah, it's this is
- 56:27Speaker 6: a difficult game to handicap man, but I kind of
- 56:30Speaker 6: lean towards both starting pitchers actually doing okay here. The
- 56:34Speaker 6: money looks like it's kind of indicating towards the over
- 56:36Speaker 6: and I think if you're gonna go over here, you
- 56:38Speaker 6: gotta go full game with it to take advantage of
- 56:40Speaker 6: these awful bullpens. Fifty five percent of the tickets, it's
- 56:44Speaker 6: fifty percent of the cash on the over here totals
- 56:48Speaker 6: in eight and a half for the full game.
- 56:50Speaker 4: That's not a high total.
- 56:51Speaker 6: Giving up bad these bullpens are, though, and how capable
- 56:54Speaker 6: these offenses are, which is kind of indicating to me.
- 56:57Speaker 6: The oddsmakers do think the starting pitching might be decent here,
- 57:00Speaker 6: so I think you could go under first five in
- 57:02Speaker 6: this game. That might be the way I would lean
- 57:04Speaker 6: if I was gonna do anything with this game would
- 57:06Speaker 6: be first five under. I don't really want to do
- 57:08Speaker 6: it obviously. I mean, there there are some question marks here.
- 57:12Speaker 6: The money is also back in Houston. For what that's worth,
- 57:15Speaker 6: seventy five percent of tickets eighty percent of the cash
- 57:17Speaker 6: on them because I know I'm fading the market with
- 57:19Speaker 6: my Yankee play. They're at around minus one ten here,
- 57:23Speaker 6: So do with that info what you want. It's basically
- 57:25Speaker 6: a pick the winner in that game. Then we have
- 57:28Speaker 6: Dodgers Arizona finishing their series. Arizona is trying to avoid
- 57:31Speaker 6: getting Oh no, they're not getting swept. They won the
- 57:33Speaker 6: first game of the series, my mistake. Then the Dodgers
- 57:36Speaker 6: took the last two, including beating Arizona seven.
- 57:39Speaker 4: To nothing yesterday.
- 57:40Speaker 6: You know, I talk about it when a team gets
- 57:42Speaker 6: shut out at home, a lot of times they bounce
- 57:44Speaker 6: back with a better effort in the next game. Arizona
- 57:47Speaker 6: may be able to do that here. They're not a
- 57:50Speaker 6: horrible team, but they did use four guys out of
- 57:52Speaker 6: the bullpen yesterday. Dodgers only used two. Dodgers have the
- 57:56Speaker 6: better bullpen. They're ranked number two, Arizona is four. Though
- 58:00Speaker 6: Arizona's era is still not that great out of the
- 58:03Speaker 6: bullpenber their bullpen's been at least decent, I would say,
- 58:06Speaker 6: but Dodgers have the better one and more rest. Dodgers
- 58:09Speaker 6: are number one in offense, Arizona is number twenty, so
- 58:13Speaker 6: they've fallen back. They're tied with Cleveland and Minnesota. As
- 58:16Speaker 6: I mentioned earlier, Dodgers are going with Justin Robleski, who
- 58:20Speaker 6: continues to pitch pretty well, even though he's not a
- 58:23Speaker 6: guy that goes in and blows people away. I don't
- 58:25Speaker 6: really know exactly how he's doing this, but he is
- 58:27Speaker 6: pitching effectively two point eight seven e RA one point
- 58:31Speaker 6: zero one whip. He's been slightly better on the road
- 58:34Speaker 6: four points or Sason four. That wouldn't be that good
- 58:37Speaker 6: two point seventy nine road ERA. But he's pitching in
- 58:40Speaker 6: Arizona here. Arizona is a more hitter friendly ballpark, so
- 58:44Speaker 6: we'll see what he can do here. Robleski, I mean,
- 58:47Speaker 6: he's coming off a decent month of May where he
- 58:49Speaker 6: had fewer than one hit all out for inning twenty
- 58:51Speaker 6: nine and thirty two to two thirds.
- 58:52Speaker 4: Innings, twenty five strike gots, five walks.
- 58:55Speaker 6: All those numbers were good, so it indicates his four
- 58:57Speaker 6: point one to three ERA that month actually should have
- 59:00Speaker 6: been better than that, so he hasn't really followen off,
- 59:03Speaker 6: and he's coming up a good outing against Philly. One
- 59:06Speaker 6: hit them through seven innings, though the one hit was
- 59:08Speaker 6: a home run, but nine strikeouts, no walks. That was
- 59:11Speaker 6: an awesome outing against Philadelphia and he only and he
- 59:13Speaker 6: did it only throwing eighty eight pitches, So I don't
- 59:16Speaker 6: think he's really gonna be in a tired spot, letdown spot.
- 59:19Speaker 4: Whatever.
- 59:20Speaker 6: He's doing pretty well. Even though his strikeout rate is low,
- 59:22Speaker 6: his hit rate is also low. His walk rate is
- 59:24Speaker 6: also pretty low, So.
- 59:26Speaker 4: I don't know.
- 59:26Speaker 6: I don't know how he's doing it without being a
- 59:28Speaker 6: strikeout pitcher, but that's what he's doing. Arizona has twelve
- 59:31Speaker 6: at bats against him across four hitters, and they have
- 59:34Speaker 6: hit him well five hundred average, eleven to fifty five ohps,
- 59:37Speaker 6: one strikeout, two walks.
- 59:39Speaker 4: So Rableski has not done.
- 59:40Speaker 6: Well against Arizona's few hitters who have seen him, but
- 59:43Speaker 6: I would not put that much weight into that small
- 59:45Speaker 6: of a sample size. Arizona's going with Ryan Nelson, who
- 59:51Speaker 6: has not been that bad this season. Of those ERA
- 59:53Speaker 6: is getting higher four point eight two eras whip is
- 59:56Speaker 6: still not bad though one point one nine. He's been
- 59:59Speaker 6: worse at home home though five point nine to seven
- 1:00:02Speaker 6: home y I ray, so he pitches worst in this
- 1:00:04Speaker 6: hitter friendly stadium. He just got tagged for four home
- 1:00:07Speaker 6: runs on the road at Seattle last time out. That's
- 1:00:10Speaker 6: not a great sign that he's allowing a bunch of
- 1:00:12Speaker 6: home runs and a pitcher friendly ballpark over the month.
- 1:00:16Speaker 6: He had a two point nine to five RRA in May,
- 1:00:18Speaker 6: which was good. Thirty one strikeouts or excuse me, thirty
- 1:00:20Speaker 6: one strikeouts that would be pretty good. Twenty eight strikeouts
- 1:00:23Speaker 6: still pretty good. Actually, no, I mean that's not that
- 1:00:27Speaker 6: high because it was thirty nine and two thirds in
- 1:00:29Speaker 6: he his pitch, but whatever. Thirty one hits allowed not
- 1:00:31Speaker 6: too bad. Eight walks also not too bad, So his
- 1:00:34Speaker 6: numbers over the month actually weren't that bad. So he
- 1:00:37Speaker 6: pitched pretty well for the most part in May. His
- 1:00:40Speaker 6: overall numbers are not horrible. Few are the one hit
- 1:00:43Speaker 6: per inning. His walk rate is not too bad, his
- 1:00:46Speaker 6: strikeout rates a bit low. His problem is he's an
- 1:00:49Speaker 6: extreme fly ball pitcher and he's allowed fifteen home runs.
- 1:00:52Speaker 6: That might not be great in this stadium here, and
- 1:00:55Speaker 6: I think that's been part of the reason why he
- 1:00:56Speaker 6: hasn't been good at home.
- 1:00:58Speaker 4: Well, he's actually allowed kind.
- 1:00:59Speaker 6: Of an even number home runs home and away, though,
- 1:01:02Speaker 6: but being a flyball pitcher isn't that great in a
- 1:01:05Speaker 6: stadium like this, which is why I was pretty surprised
- 1:01:08Speaker 6: that Nelson pitched as well as he did last year
- 1:01:11Speaker 6: with Arizona. The other big surprise is that Nelson is
- 1:01:15Speaker 6: actually good against the Dodgers. They have ninety eight to
- 1:01:18Speaker 6: bats against, some twenty three strikeuts, eleven walks. That is
- 1:01:21Speaker 6: way too many walks, but he's held them to a
- 1:01:23Speaker 6: one ninety four batting average in six thirty oh ps.
- 1:01:26Speaker 4: I bet you didn't expect that.
- 1:01:27Speaker 6: So Nelson has actually pitched well against the Dodgers, you know,
- 1:01:34Speaker 6: I mean, it kind of sounds crazy, but I might
- 1:01:36Speaker 6: lean Arizona here. Dodgers are public, They're around minus one
- 1:01:40Speaker 6: thirty something here. The money seems like it's kind of
- 1:01:43Speaker 6: knocking that money line down a little bit from where
- 1:01:45Speaker 6: it opened. Sixty five percent of ticket sixty five percent
- 1:01:48Speaker 6: of the cash on the Dodgers total here is nine.
- 1:01:51Speaker 6: I could see the argument for an under here somewhat
- 1:01:54Speaker 6: that both pitchers might actually pitch okay here, but you
- 1:01:57Speaker 6: might be able to grab Arizona as a decent dog here.
- 1:02:01Speaker 6: Maybe I would only do it in the first five though,
- 1:02:03Speaker 6: because I do think they have a bullpen disadvantage here.
- 1:02:06Speaker 6: But they're gonna come out, probably with motivation to try
- 1:02:09Speaker 6: to avoid the sweep here. You're getting him as a
- 1:02:12Speaker 6: dog here in a pitching matchup that is not really
- 1:02:15Speaker 6: a mismatch, I would say, so, you know, I think
- 1:02:18Speaker 6: it's a little bit more of a to I think
- 1:02:20Speaker 6: the game is a little bit closer to a toss
- 1:02:22Speaker 6: up than maybe the odds makers are lying you. Although yes,
- 1:02:25Speaker 6: of course, like I said, the Dodgers do have the
- 1:02:26Speaker 6: better bullpen, they do have the better offense. You might
- 1:02:30Speaker 6: be able to argue Robleski is the better starter or two.
- 1:02:33Speaker 6: But I think there are some indicators that Arizona as
- 1:02:36Speaker 6: a dog might make some sense there. All right, WNBA,
- 1:02:41Speaker 6: we have two games here. These are part of the
- 1:02:42Speaker 6: Commissioner's Cups. Still Prime Amazon Prime is where these games
- 1:02:46Speaker 6: are at. Nobody's gonna watch it, though, even though these
- 1:02:49Speaker 6: are actually decent matchups by WNBA standards, Atlanta had any
- 1:02:53Speaker 6: Indiana's the first game up and people are gonna look
- 1:02:56Speaker 6: at this, well, Atlanta six and two, Indiana's four and four,
- 1:02:59Speaker 6: So why would you want to take Indiana as a
- 1:03:01Speaker 6: small favorite here? Right, Well, that's exactly why I would
- 1:03:04Speaker 6: probably lean that way, because you're looking at the Oddsburgers
- 1:03:08Speaker 6: are telling you Atlanta is a slightly better team here,
- 1:03:10Speaker 6: but that it's really close, and not to buy into
- 1:03:12Speaker 6: these records too much. Indiana's coming off a game that
- 1:03:15Speaker 6: was embarrassing enough that everybody's talking about what are they doing?
- 1:03:19Speaker 6: They just lost at Portland. It gave up one hundred
- 1:03:22Speaker 6: points to Portland. Indiana's giving up one hundred points three
- 1:03:25Speaker 6: times this season, although one of them was an overtime
- 1:03:28Speaker 6: game and one was the first game of the season,
- 1:03:30Speaker 6: but still that's not good. But dude, I think they
- 1:03:33Speaker 6: got to fire their coach.
- 1:03:35Speaker 4: It seems like.
- 1:03:36Speaker 6: Their coach is intentionally benching Caitlan Clark. I don't know
- 1:03:39Speaker 6: what's going on. She's not giving Caitlan Clark the minutes
- 1:03:42Speaker 6: that she absolutely should be getting. And you know, I
- 1:03:45Speaker 6: think when Clark gets more minutes, the team tends to
- 1:03:48Speaker 6: play significantly better. Clark is good, dude, I don't know
- 1:03:51Speaker 6: what's going on a lot of people are blaming Clark
- 1:03:53Speaker 6: for this. It's not her fault, Like, I think she
- 1:03:55Speaker 6: only got like, I don't know if she didn't get
- 1:03:57Speaker 6: that many minutes in this game against Portland, I'm pretty sure.
- 1:04:00Speaker 6: So there's something going on here where it seems like
- 1:04:03Speaker 6: the coach has a grudge against Clark. Yeah, she only
- 1:04:06Speaker 6: played twenty two minutes. Like, what excuse is there you
- 1:04:10Speaker 6: as a coach. Even though Clark didn't shoot well in
- 1:04:12Speaker 6: the game. I get that she had six assists though,
- 1:04:15Speaker 6: so she was still not a non factor in that game.
- 1:04:19Speaker 6: If you as a coach, what are you doing if
- 1:04:22Speaker 6: you have your best player only going twenty two minutes
- 1:04:25Speaker 6: in the game. It just doesn't make any sense, dude.
- 1:04:27Speaker 6: And Indiana's a pretty deep team. They got Soyvihe Cunningham
- 1:04:30Speaker 6: coming off the bench, they got Boston Mitchell. These are
- 1:04:33Speaker 6: pretty decent players here. So Indiana's better than the record looks. Again,
- 1:04:37Speaker 6: I think the coach needs to be fired. I think
- 1:04:39Speaker 6: she has a grudge against Caitlyn Clark for whatever reason.
- 1:04:43Speaker 6: I won't exactly say what that reason is, but I
- 1:04:46Speaker 6: think you might know what it is.
- 1:04:49Speaker 4: You know it has to do with the I don't
- 1:04:51Speaker 4: even know, I won't even say it, but you know
- 1:04:53Speaker 4: what I mean.
- 1:04:55Speaker 6: Now, Indiana, they're coming up that embarrassing loss too, so
- 1:04:58Speaker 6: I think this should be a decent spot for them.
- 1:05:00Speaker 6: But they are returning home from the road, so that's
- 1:05:02Speaker 6: a little bit of a concern. I don't like teams
- 1:05:04Speaker 6: returning home from road trips. They were on the road
- 1:05:06Speaker 6: for a week, they went out to the Pacific Coast,
- 1:05:08Speaker 6: so I don't really want to play on Indiana for
- 1:05:10Speaker 6: that reason.
- 1:05:11Speaker 4: But it is the Cup.
- 1:05:12Speaker 6: They're coming off of an embarrassing loss, or everybody's talking
- 1:05:14Speaker 6: about how embarrassing they are. The line looks a little misleading,
- 1:05:17Speaker 6: so I think I would kind of lean Indiana here,
- 1:05:19Speaker 6: but I don't want to make it a play. Atlanta's
- 1:05:22Speaker 6: probably gonna be focused too. They're coming out of an
- 1:05:24Speaker 6: easy win over Connecticut in a return home spot. Connecticut
- 1:05:28Speaker 6: is awful, and then Atlanta is now going back out
- 1:05:30Speaker 6: on the road here kind of a short trip for
- 1:05:33Speaker 6: them to Indiana. I think Atlanta might show up focus
- 1:05:37Speaker 6: as well. I'm gonna lean slightly towards Indiana. You could
- 1:05:40Speaker 6: lay the one and a half or take like a
- 1:05:41Speaker 6: money line or something, but I would Yeah, I don't
- 1:05:44Speaker 6: want to play the game. And then Golden State Minnesota
- 1:05:47Speaker 6: is a pretty good game. These teams are both good.
- 1:05:49Speaker 6: I don't believe that Minnesota has a Collier back yet
- 1:05:52Speaker 6: because they think they'd be a heavier favorite than this
- 1:05:54Speaker 6: if they did. Let me see here, I think soon though,
- 1:05:59Speaker 6: they actually pushed her timetable back, so that's not good.
- 1:06:02Speaker 6: But Minnesota is still playing pretty well even without her.
- 1:06:05Speaker 6: This is a good Minnesota team. But Golden State is
- 1:06:08Speaker 6: also good this season. They're definitely a team that's on
- 1:06:10Speaker 6: the rise. We were able to get some good spots
- 1:06:12Speaker 6: with them last season. I don't like that up now
- 1:06:16Speaker 6: five and two in the WNBA after starting up five
- 1:06:19Speaker 6: and ohero man. Golden State is also coming off beating
- 1:06:22Speaker 6: They're coming off beating Portland, excuse me, kind of an
- 1:06:24Speaker 6: easy win there. Going out on the road, you gotta
- 1:06:27Speaker 6: expect they will be focused here against Minnesota.
- 1:06:30Speaker 4: It's a big game.
- 1:06:31Speaker 6: This is a chance for Golden State to prove themselves
- 1:06:33Speaker 6: against one of the teams that's kind of one of
- 1:06:36Speaker 6: the elite teams in the WNBA, right because if you're
- 1:06:38Speaker 6: a Golden State, you're a new team up and coming
- 1:06:41Speaker 6: kind of they were a new team last year or
- 1:06:43Speaker 6: maybe the year before that or whatever. Minnesota won the
- 1:06:46Speaker 6: regular season title last year. You know, they were the
- 1:06:49Speaker 6: number one seed before Collier went down, they got upset
- 1:06:52Speaker 6: in the playoffs, whatever, So you know, Minnesota, they're a
- 1:06:57Speaker 6: team that a lot of teams are gonna have their
- 1:06:59Speaker 6: sites set on in Minnesota, even without Calliere. Seven to
- 1:07:02Speaker 6: two so far this season, they're hot right now. They've
- 1:07:05Speaker 6: won five games in a row. They just annihilated Phoenix,
- 1:07:08Speaker 6: put up one hundred and eleven points. But as I
- 1:07:10Speaker 6: pointed out with my Phoenix play last night, Minnesota definitely
- 1:07:14Speaker 6: could regress. After a game like that where they shot
- 1:07:16Speaker 6: over sixty percent from the field, fifty percent from three,
- 1:07:20Speaker 6: you gotta think there's gonna be some regression from Minnesota
- 1:07:23Speaker 6: coming off of that and the returning home from the road.
- 1:07:25Speaker 6: They went to Chicago and Phoenix. They were on the
- 1:07:27Speaker 6: road for almost a week coming back home.
- 1:07:30Speaker 4: So I would probably lean Golden State here slightly.
- 1:07:34Speaker 6: Not one that's gonna make my card or anything, but
- 1:07:36Speaker 6: I think Golden State might have a little bit more
- 1:07:38Speaker 6: motivation for a game like this in the Cup, where
- 1:07:41Speaker 6: you know, Minnesota's just kind of been here, done that,
- 1:07:44Speaker 6: like Hey, we've already won the regular season title, or yeah,
- 1:07:47Speaker 6: won the regular season title before whatever. You know, Golden
- 1:07:51Speaker 6: State might have a little bit more motivation or plus
- 1:07:54Speaker 6: the spot with Minnesota, you know, coming off of they
- 1:07:56Speaker 6: could be in a huge regression spot coming off a
- 1:07:59Speaker 6: major outl liar shooting performance and returning on from the road.
- 1:08:03Speaker 4: So I would prefer Golden State there.
- 1:08:05Speaker 6: I think that's probably the better of the two plays today,
- 1:08:07Speaker 6: now that I kind of think about it. But well,
- 1:08:10Speaker 6: the better of the options in the WNBA, but I'm
- 1:08:13Speaker 6: not doing I'm not gonna have a WNBA play in
- 1:08:16Speaker 6: those games, not strong enough in my opinion. Then we
- 1:08:19Speaker 6: do have the NHL Vegas and Carolina. Vegas was able
- 1:08:23Speaker 6: to win. They were down two nothing early in the
- 1:08:25Speaker 6: game and wound up winning the game. They played well though,
- 1:08:29Speaker 6: so there are some indicators here where I don't really
- 1:08:31Speaker 6: want to jump on Carolina, even though in a lot
- 1:08:33Speaker 6: of cases with these series you want to jump on
- 1:08:35Speaker 6: the home team after they lost game one, because it's like, well,
- 1:08:38Speaker 6: if they lose Game two, they're really really in a
- 1:08:41Speaker 6: tough spot, right because they're gonna have to go out
- 1:08:43Speaker 6: on the road. Vegas is better at home and Carolina
- 1:08:46Speaker 6: has not played in Vegas.
- 1:08:47Speaker 4: It's October.
- 1:08:48Speaker 6: They haven't been on the Pacific coast for a long
- 1:08:50Speaker 6: they haven't left like the Eastern time zone for quite
- 1:08:52Speaker 6: a while, so that's gonna be tough for Carolina to
- 1:08:55Speaker 6: make that trip. So if they're down two, pretty good
- 1:08:59Speaker 6: chance Carolina is not gonna win the series if they
- 1:09:01Speaker 6: go down oh two here, So yes, Carolina should be
- 1:09:04Speaker 6: here motivated. That's one of the reasons why you do
- 1:09:07Speaker 6: want to play on the home favorite. If they lost
- 1:09:10Speaker 6: Game one, I don't want to do it in this
- 1:09:13Speaker 6: game though, they're a little bit heavy of a favorite.
- 1:09:15Speaker 6: That wouldn't really stop me, But looking at the box
- 1:09:18Speaker 6: score is gonna stop me a little bit.
- 1:09:20Speaker 1: Now.
- 1:09:20Speaker 6: I did see some stat that Vegas was like one
- 1:09:23Speaker 6: of the only teams to overcome a multi goal deficit
- 1:09:27Speaker 6: in a finals game or something like that. But I'm like,
- 1:09:29Speaker 6: but that doesn't seem that weird, right, Like they were
- 1:09:31Speaker 6: down to nothing really early, Like that.
- 1:09:33Speaker 4: Doesn't seem like something that.
- 1:09:35Speaker 6: I mean, I know it doesn't happen that often, but
- 1:09:37Speaker 6: that seems like somebody that would happen often enough overcoming
- 1:09:40Speaker 6: a deficit like that. I don't know, because Vegas pretty quickly,
- 1:09:43Speaker 6: pretty quickly quickly was right back in the game, and
- 1:09:47Speaker 6: in fact, they wound up taking the lead and then
- 1:09:49Speaker 6: never trailed again after that.
- 1:09:51Speaker 4: It was a crazy game, crazy finish.
- 1:09:54Speaker 1: Now.
- 1:09:54Speaker 6: If we look at the game, though, Carolina did outshoot
- 1:09:57Speaker 6: Vegas twenty nine to twenty three, but Vegas won the
- 1:10:01Speaker 6: physicality battle here. They won the face offs slightly, but
- 1:10:05Speaker 6: they also had thirty five to twenty six hit advantage.
- 1:10:09Speaker 6: So that would worry me a little bit with playing
- 1:10:11Speaker 6: Carolina here because you want to see Carolina be a
- 1:10:13Speaker 6: more intense defensive team, and I think Vegas kind of
- 1:10:17Speaker 6: wants to turn these games into more shootouts because I
- 1:10:20Speaker 6: think they have they're a little bit more offensive minded
- 1:10:23Speaker 6: than Carolina is. Carolina plays a lot of kind of
- 1:10:25Speaker 6: slow games or they played defense and whatever, and that
- 1:10:29Speaker 6: didn't really work out for them. And Anderson obviously did
- 1:10:31Speaker 6: not have a good game. He's been really good throughout
- 1:10:33Speaker 6: the playoffs except for that one period against against Montreal,
- 1:10:38Speaker 6: but he wasn't good in this game for Carolina. I mean,
- 1:10:41Speaker 6: Vegas had twenty three shots and they got five goals
- 1:10:44Speaker 6: past Anderson.
- 1:10:45Speaker 4: That's not good.
- 1:10:47Speaker 6: That's not a good sign for Carolina, Carter Hart was
- 1:10:50Speaker 6: better and a lot of times you want that hotter goalie.
- 1:10:53Speaker 6: I think Heart might have been a little bit extra
- 1:10:54Speaker 6: motivated because of course, there's that whole stupidity.
- 1:10:57Speaker 4: I've already talked about.
- 1:10:58Speaker 6: It on the show where all you know, the Carolina
- 1:11:02Speaker 6: fans in the arena are all you know, shouting no
- 1:11:04Speaker 6: means no and calling him a rapist and whatever, which
- 1:11:07Speaker 6: is I don't know if I don't know if we're
- 1:11:09Speaker 6: allowed to say that on YouTube, maybe we're not. But
- 1:11:13Speaker 6: calling him that the R word, not the R word,
- 1:11:16Speaker 6: the other R word. But I think it's just untrue, man,
- 1:11:18Speaker 6: because again, if you know anything about the case, it
- 1:11:21Speaker 6: seemed like it was just a night of drunken stupidity
- 1:11:24Speaker 6: amongst young people. The chick regretted it, she's unnamed, and
- 1:11:29Speaker 6: the judge threw her case out. The judge found her
- 1:11:31Speaker 6: to not be credible. She changed her story. Sounds like
- 1:11:34Speaker 6: a very typical like me too type of story. So
- 1:11:36Speaker 6: all this stuff against Carter Hart, I think it's stupid,
- 1:11:41Speaker 6: you know, so whatever, But he had a better goaltending
- 1:11:43Speaker 6: game in that game. I mean, though he did a
- 1:11:45Speaker 6: lot of four goals, but it was on a larger
- 1:11:48Speaker 6: amount of shots. So neither goalie was great. But Anderson
- 1:11:51Speaker 6: really kind of had a drop off in that game,
- 1:11:53Speaker 6: and maybe that's a concern. Maybe he bounces back though
- 1:11:56Speaker 6: I don't know, but I don't want to play the game,
- 1:11:58Speaker 6: you know I would if I was gonna play the game,
- 1:12:00Speaker 6: I would have liked to have seen Carolina with more
- 1:12:02Speaker 6: dominant stats there, Like Carolina dominated that series against Montreal statistically,
- 1:12:08Speaker 6: even in the close games, it was dominance from Carolina
- 1:12:11Speaker 6: in almost every game.
- 1:12:13Speaker 4: That wasn't the case in this game won against Vegas.
- 1:12:15Speaker 6: Man, maybe Vegas's experience is starting to show here, because
- 1:12:19Speaker 6: that's the other thing Carolina, I think as far as
- 1:12:22Speaker 6: like their players or whatever, they haven't really been exactly
- 1:12:26Speaker 6: like right here before.
- 1:12:28Speaker 4: Vegas has more.
- 1:12:29Speaker 6: I think championship pedigree on their roster. So that's the
- 1:12:32Speaker 6: other thing here. Now I would lean to Carolina slightly. Still,
- 1:12:36Speaker 6: though sixty five percent of tickets seventy eight percent of
- 1:12:38Speaker 6: the cash on Carolina, I'm still gonna lean that way slightly.
- 1:12:42Speaker 4: The money is agreeing with it, you're paying more for it.
- 1:12:44Speaker 5: Though.
- 1:12:44Speaker 6: They were like minus one fifty five in game one
- 1:12:46Speaker 6: and now they're minus won sixty something here, So if
- 1:12:49Speaker 6: you want to do it, you kind of have to
- 1:12:51Speaker 6: split the bet like puck line, money line, whatever, or
- 1:12:54Speaker 6: you could just go money line. It's the playoffs. I
- 1:12:57Speaker 6: know it's a hefty price though, I just I don't
- 1:13:00Speaker 6: want to do it.
- 1:13:00Speaker 4: Man.
- 1:13:01Speaker 6: The price might be a little bit too hefty, even
- 1:13:03Speaker 6: though you're you know you're gonna get a motivated effort
- 1:13:06Speaker 6: out of them, I think, at the very least, because
- 1:13:08Speaker 6: you can't go down two in the first two home games.
- 1:13:11Speaker 4: Man, that's what I'll say.
- 1:13:12Speaker 6: But there are some aspects of that first game that
- 1:13:15Speaker 6: don't look good for Caroline. I will say that, So
- 1:13:18Speaker 6: we'll see what happens. But that is gonna do it.
- 1:13:22Speaker 4: Man. That's the show today, Thursday show for you. We
- 1:13:25Speaker 4: have one play short and sweet.
- 1:13:28Speaker 6: I guess, at least as far as my shows go,
- 1:13:30Speaker 6: we're going against the market apparently now, but we're gonna
- 1:13:32Speaker 6: have the Yankees here to avoid the sweep.
- 1:13:34Speaker 4: Unfortunately, I have to play the Yankees.
- 1:13:36Speaker 6: She's squealed, if he's out there, sorry, I apologize.
- 1:13:40Speaker 4: I'm being a dick, she squealed. I'm being a dick
- 1:13:42Speaker 4: to everybody. I think.
- 1:13:43Speaker 6: I apologize to him and to uh who else is
- 1:13:47Speaker 6: out there? Gerald, Uh, yeah, yeah, you don't have You
- 1:13:53Speaker 6: don't have to tell me what book it is. I
- 1:13:54Speaker 6: mean you could, you could do it in private if
- 1:13:56Speaker 6: you want whatever, just because I'm kind of interested, because
- 1:13:58Speaker 6: the books seem to be doing differently, so I don't know.
- 1:14:01Speaker 6: Baseball is a whole different world, man, the baseball handicapping.
- 1:14:05Speaker 6: But yeah, so you're going with the Yankees here. I
- 1:14:06Speaker 6: think the listed starters here shouldn't be an issue. We're good,
- 1:14:09Speaker 6: you know what, If I don't say otherwise, usually I'm
- 1:14:13Speaker 6: saying that we're gonna go with the with the listed
- 1:14:15Speaker 6: starters here.
- 1:14:16Speaker 4: That is the case here.
- 1:14:17Speaker 6: I assume they're both gonna start, and of course, if
- 1:14:19Speaker 6: one of them winds up not starting, just like with
- 1:14:22Speaker 6: Burns the other day, it's gonna be a no play
- 1:14:24Speaker 6: for us here.
- 1:14:25Speaker 4: But we're going split bet Yankees.
- 1:14:27Speaker 6: Partially on the run line at plus one thirty, partially
- 1:14:29Speaker 6: on the money line at minus one seventy. Most of
- 1:14:32Speaker 6: the bet goes on the money line in this case,
- 1:14:34Speaker 6: and you get the price down a little bit to
- 1:14:36Speaker 6: about minus one seventeen. So I think they'll be able
- 1:14:38Speaker 6: to do it against probably the less the least of
- 1:14:43Speaker 6: Cleveland's pitchers here Slay CHACONI the Yankees should be able
- 1:14:47Speaker 6: to get to him at least, and you know, I'll
- 1:14:49Speaker 6: actually put some stock in redon here as well.
- 1:14:52Speaker 4: So we're going with the Yankees. That's gonna do it.
- 1:14:56Speaker 6: I'll be back at some point, you know, at least
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- 1:16:18Speaker 6: highly unlikely we're not gonna have a winning year this year.
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- 1:16:30Speaker 6: had a losing year, and they were fairly small losing years,
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- 1:16:57Speaker 6: and we're winning this year, and it's likely to be
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- 1:17:00Speaker 4: So let's keep it going. Yeah. Oh, and also we
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- 1:17:07Speaker 6: And the g Spot Giants podcast, New York Giants. That's
- 1:17:12Speaker 6: gonna Nobody cares about the San Francisco Giants and they're
- 1:17:15Speaker 6: humping each other as a celebration.
- 1:17:17Speaker 4: It's Pride month now, man, that's gonna do it. Peace.
- 1:17:23Speaker 4: But don't you go quiet.
- 1:17:24Speaker 2: Don't you fade from the flow your name, Steal me
- 1:17:28Speaker 2: something to somebody for show.
- 1:17:31Speaker 1: Put the glass down, baby, look at me.
- 1:17:35Speaker 5: No hold on, hold on.
- 1:17:43Speaker 4: Lasting, No.
- 1:17:47Speaker 5: Hold on, hold on me for that bite, but it
- 1:18:00Speaker 5: don't get the crown.
- 1:18:03Speaker 2: Hold on, hold on and stay with me now