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- 0:01Speaker 1: Well, 0-2 on the show yesterday. Obviously not what I
- 0:06Speaker 1: wanted whatsoever. The Miami Heat, not even close to getting there.
- 0:10Speaker 1: Won't even talk about it. Wrong play. What do you want?
- 0:14Speaker 1: I mean, I thought it was the right situation, but
- 0:16Speaker 1: obviously they did not get that done whatsoever. Tulsa probably
- 0:22Speaker 1: should have been a win. I know they fell behind
- 0:24Speaker 1: by 14 in the middle of that game, but they
- 0:26Speaker 1: came back. They tied the game. They were in a
- 0:28Speaker 1: good position there. They had the touchdown lead. really late
- 0:31Speaker 1: in the game, gave up the tying score, and then
- 0:34Speaker 1: they wound up giving up a 50-yard field goal on
- 0:38Speaker 1: the last play of regulation. So we're that close to
- 0:42Speaker 1: at least getting into overtime and still having a chance there.
- 0:45Speaker 1: I'm not happy about it, obviously. Tulsa was in my
- 0:49Speaker 1: contest entry, among other things. Got to move on, man.
- 0:52Speaker 1: We've lost four plays in a row. We're not dwelling
- 0:55Speaker 1: on it. We're going to have college football today. Go
- 0:58Speaker 1: check out my college football show that I did last night.
- 1:00Speaker 1: Thanks for everybody who hung out for that. There's still
- 1:03Speaker 1: time to go check it out. I'm going to reiterate
- 1:05Speaker 1: my college football plays for the day at the end
- 1:07Speaker 1: of this show. But this show, we're going to get
- 1:09Speaker 1: into NHL, NBA. I'm going to have one play in
- 1:12Speaker 1: each of those. We'll talk about WNBA finals. Going to
- 1:16Speaker 1: avoid that for obvious reasons. And we'll talk about Major
- 1:19Speaker 1: League Baseball, the World Series continuing as well. Coming up
- 1:23Speaker 1: after the break, let's hope this show doesn't take too long.
- 1:42Speaker 2: You got a slip in your palm and a hole
- 1:46Speaker 2: in your chest Black coffee on the felt, man, you
- 1:49Speaker 2: look like a mess Three-team parlay turned to dust in
- 1:54Speaker 2: your hand Now you stare at the chips like they
- 1:57Speaker 2: made you this man But don't you go quiet, don't
- 2:01Speaker 2: you fade from the floor Your name still means something
- 2:05Speaker 2: to somebody for sure Put the glass down, baby.
- 2:11Speaker 1: Look at me.
- 2:12Speaker 3: Now Hold on, hold on Not tonight, not now Hold on,
- 2:26Speaker 3: hold on Let me pull you out That fell apart
- 2:34Speaker 3: by its heart But it don't get the crown Hold on,
- 2:42Speaker 3: hold on.
- 2:44Speaker 2: Stay with me now.
- 2:53Speaker 1: Alright, what's up everybody? It's Toad back with you. Toadstool
- 2:56Speaker 1: Sports Saturday, October 24th. Let's get into it, man. I'm
- 3:01Speaker 1: going to run down the hockey board here first. Got
- 3:04Speaker 1: a bunch of hockey today. We got probably about 12
- 3:06Speaker 1: hockey games here. First game up, two teams kind of
- 3:09Speaker 1: going in opposite directions here for this 1 p.m. afternoon
- 3:12Speaker 1: game on NHL Network. Anaheim and Philadelphia. Anaheim on a
- 3:17Speaker 1: really bad run of games right now. They're winless on
- 3:20Speaker 1: this road trip that they're on right now. They've lost
- 3:21Speaker 1: five straight games. I think maybe the stock is going
- 3:25Speaker 1: to be a little bit too low now on Anaheim
- 3:27Speaker 1: because they're not that bad of a team, I don't believe,
- 3:29Speaker 1: and they've just been on a really bad run right now.
- 3:32Speaker 1: You've got to think they're going to want to salvage
- 3:33Speaker 1: the last game of this road trip here. although they
- 3:36Speaker 1: are playing a fourth game in six days, I believe
- 3:39Speaker 1: is what this is, all in different arenas. But they're
- 3:41Speaker 1: staying in the New York-Philadelphia area for all of this.
- 3:44Speaker 1: They're at Philadelphia here today. I think they may bounce
- 3:47Speaker 1: back here for this game. I would be leaning towards
- 3:51Speaker 1: Anaheim in this one, although I believe the market doesn't
- 3:52Speaker 1: agree with me on this. Philadelphia, they're coming off a
- 3:55Speaker 1: nice run of games here after they had not won
- 3:58Speaker 1: a game for their first eight games. They've won three
- 4:01Speaker 1: in a row. including beating Colorado and then beating Buffalo
- 4:05Speaker 1: in their last game on the road, so beating a
- 4:08Speaker 1: playoff team from last year, returning home from that, although
- 4:10Speaker 1: I don't consider it to be a road trip return
- 4:12Speaker 1: because they only went on the road for one game
- 4:16Speaker 1: up to Buffalo, so not really that big of a deal,
- 4:18Speaker 1: but a nice win for them there. Yeah, I think, again,
- 4:21Speaker 1: if you're going to fade the recency bias, I think
- 4:25Speaker 1: that's really kind of the approach here. That's what I
- 4:27Speaker 1: would do is I would fade recency in this one
- 4:30Speaker 1: I would lean towards Anaheim, but the money's not agreeing
- 4:32Speaker 1: with me at all. It's 50-50 on the tickets, 74%
- 4:35Speaker 1: of the cash on Philly. Philly's a minus 120-something favorite.
- 4:39Speaker 1: But again, this could be some sort of letdown for
- 4:42Speaker 1: Philly after a couple of big wins in a row. Anaheim,
- 4:45Speaker 1: you got to think they're going to be extra motivated
- 4:48Speaker 1: so they don't get swept on this road trip, you
- 4:50Speaker 1: would think. So I do not agree with the market
- 4:52Speaker 1: in that one. I think I would look towards Anaheim
- 4:54Speaker 1: as the dog in that one. Not a strong opinion. Hindian,
- 4:58Speaker 1: what's up? Thanks for hanging out. The tadpoles. Are those
- 5:03Speaker 1: my fans now? My children swimming around? Yeah. L.A. Kings
- 5:10Speaker 1: at New Jersey. And, of course, the big news here
- 5:12Speaker 1: is Connor Hellebook, American goaltender and elite goaltender, who was
- 5:18Speaker 1: on the Winnipeg Jets, was refusing to play for the
- 5:21Speaker 1: Winnipeg Jets. So the league basically suspended him, if I'm
- 5:25Speaker 1: not mistaken. He was not allowed to play, which... It
- 5:30Speaker 1: was exactly what he wanted, pretty much. So basically he
- 5:34Speaker 1: forced Winnipeg to trade him, which is kind of an
- 5:37Speaker 1: asshole move. But then again, I don't know. Do you
- 5:40Speaker 1: blame him for not wanting to play in Canada? I
- 5:42Speaker 1: don't know. So he has now been traded. It was
- 5:45Speaker 1: a huge trade where New Jersey traded multiple draft picks.
- 5:48Speaker 1: They traded, I think, three or four players in addition
- 5:51Speaker 1: to that, all to get Hellebuck here. So he is
- 5:54Speaker 1: on New Jersey now. I don't believe he's going to
- 5:56Speaker 1: play yet, though. You know, I think he's got it.
- 5:59Speaker 1: they're probably going to give him some time and I
- 6:01Speaker 1: would not want to, uh, be on him in the
- 6:03Speaker 1: first game that he plays. Cause he's been off for
- 6:05Speaker 1: so long and he's going to be on a new team.
- 6:07Speaker 1: So I think we might be able to fade New
- 6:09Speaker 1: Jersey the first time he plays. That's not going to
- 6:12Speaker 1: be today though. I would not, I would not imagine
- 6:15Speaker 1: at least. Uh, so this is going to be kind
- 6:17Speaker 1: of a normal handicap here. New Jersey is coming off
- 6:20Speaker 1: a couple of wins in a row. They beat Colorado
- 6:22Speaker 1: and then they did not suffer a letdown after that.
- 6:24Speaker 1: They beat Anaheim on the heels of that. Um, Could
- 6:29Speaker 1: be maybe a little bit of a delayed letdown for
- 6:31Speaker 1: New Jersey because they did not have the letdown after
- 6:34Speaker 1: beating Colorado. Maybe it happens here because at least Anaheim
- 6:38Speaker 1: was a playoff team last year, though the Kings were too,
- 6:41Speaker 1: but nobody remembers that because they got swept out of
- 6:43Speaker 1: the playoffs by Colorado. New Jersey has Dallas, Colorado, Vegas,
- 6:48Speaker 1: Edmonton all next in their next four games. Those are
- 6:51Speaker 1: all really good opponents, so this to me looks like
- 6:54Speaker 1: a spot where New Jersey might look past the Kings
- 6:56Speaker 1: who have not had a good season so far. although
- 6:59Speaker 1: they're starting to turn things around. They've won their last
- 7:01Speaker 1: two games here on the road. Good win over Washington,
- 7:05Speaker 1: and then a win that's not as good over the Islanders,
- 7:08Speaker 1: but still a nice win anyway. So the Kings are
- 7:12Speaker 1: on a little bit of a winning stretch here. When
- 7:14Speaker 1: we get to it, by the way, there is one
- 7:16Speaker 1: team on a back-to-back today. Actually, yeah, I think there's
- 7:19Speaker 1: only one team on a back-to-back today. It's Tampa Bay,
- 7:21Speaker 1: but I'll get to it when I get to it. Yeah,
- 7:24Speaker 1: Kings won that game in overtime, by the way, against
- 7:27Speaker 1: the Islanders. But I'd prefer to be on the Kings
- 7:29Speaker 1: in this game. And with the Devils, you know, maybe
- 7:32Speaker 1: the Hello Book stuff is still maybe, you know, kind
- 7:33Speaker 1: of swirling around and causing a bit of a distraction
- 7:37Speaker 1: there and whatever. New Jersey's definitely a public side here.
- 7:39Speaker 1: 94% of tickets, only 87% of the cash on them.
- 7:44Speaker 1: So it looks like some of the real money bets
- 7:46Speaker 1: are actually playing the Kings in this one, at least potentially.
- 7:49Speaker 1: The line did drop a little bit down to the
- 7:51Speaker 1: minus 160s. So you'd be able to get the Kings at, like,
- 7:55Speaker 1: make your own plus one puck line, that type of thing.
- 7:58Speaker 1: Or you could just play them on the money line, really,
- 8:00Speaker 1: because the money line would probably be plus 130, something
- 8:03Speaker 1: in that range. So I would lean to the Kings
- 8:06Speaker 1: there and agree with the market in that one. San
- 8:10Speaker 1: Jose at my Boston Bruins. Bruins cannot continue to do this, man.
- 8:14Speaker 1: I'm sorry. I do not think they're this good, but
- 8:17Speaker 1: they keep proving me wrong. But I'm going to lean
- 8:20Speaker 1: against them yet again in this game. We faded them
- 8:23Speaker 1: on the show in their return home from the Pacific Coast.
- 8:26Speaker 1: I thought it was a terrible spot on the return
- 8:28Speaker 1: home after a huge game against Dallas where they fell short. Oh,
- 8:32Speaker 1: and by the way, the Bruins used their second-string goalie
- 8:35Speaker 1: in that game as well, D.P. Atro. And what did
- 8:38Speaker 1: he do? He just pitched a shutout. You know, Bruins
- 8:42Speaker 1: won the game 6-0. I mean, I don't know, man.
- 8:47Speaker 1: I mean, I'm happy because they're my team. But, yeah,
- 8:49Speaker 1: I don't like getting picks wrong either. So Swayman will
- 8:52Speaker 1: be back in net here for the Bruins this time.
- 8:54Speaker 1: But I still don't like them. In the spot, they're
- 8:57Speaker 1: coming off a shutout win. They're playing San Jose, who
- 9:00Speaker 1: they beat to start the road trip. So they just
- 9:02Speaker 1: won in San Jose. And we could dig into this
- 9:05Speaker 1: matchup a little bit and see if there was anything
- 9:07Speaker 1: misleading about this win. And yeah, kind of. I mean,
- 9:10Speaker 1: San Jose had way more shots than the Bruins did.
- 9:12Speaker 1: Although granted, that was because they fell behind. But they
- 9:16Speaker 1: were never really behind by that much until the very end.
- 9:19Speaker 1: Bruins put an empty net goal in at the end.
- 9:20Speaker 1: So really, San Jose did give themselves more scoring opportunities
- 9:25Speaker 1: in this game than the Bruins did. So this was
- 9:27Speaker 1: a misleading final result here. And San Jose actually was
- 9:31Speaker 1: a little bit more physical than the Bruins as well
- 9:33Speaker 1: with more hits. Bruins did win the face-offs slightly. But yeah,
- 9:37Speaker 1: that was a little bit of a misleading result. So
- 9:39Speaker 1: the Bruins won that game in San Jose. So they
- 9:42Speaker 1: may figure it's going to be easy to beat them
- 9:44Speaker 1: at home because why wouldn't it be if you beat
- 9:46Speaker 1: them 6-3 on the road? Should be pretty easy to
- 9:49Speaker 1: beat them at home from the Bruins' perspective. And the
- 9:53Speaker 1: Bruins have a bigger game on deck. They're playing, who
- 9:55Speaker 1: are they playing next? They have some big game on deck.
- 9:58Speaker 1: Oh yeah, it's the returning champs. Carolina so I think
- 10:01Speaker 1: the Bruins might look ahead to that uh so this
- 10:03Speaker 1: is a bad spot it's a uh You're coming off
- 10:07Speaker 1: a massive shutout win. And by the way, Nashville, what
- 10:11Speaker 1: I didn't realize is that Nashville used Noonan as their
- 10:15Speaker 1: goalie in that game. That was his first game of
- 10:17Speaker 1: the season. So if I had known that, I might
- 10:19Speaker 1: have laid off of that game. I did not expect
- 10:21Speaker 1: that to be the case. I don't like playing on goalies.
- 10:23Speaker 1: in their first game of the season, where I think
- 10:25Speaker 1: they're going to be rusty. So that was not good.
- 10:27Speaker 1: But the situational aspect of that game really screamed that
- 10:31Speaker 1: you have to fade the Bruins, so whatever. But now
- 10:33Speaker 1: we're in a spot, again, where there's this road reversal
- 10:36Speaker 1: revenge angle, or whatever you want to call it, where
- 10:38Speaker 1: I think it's more so that San Jose will just
- 10:40Speaker 1: make adjustments to that previous game they played, and the
- 10:43Speaker 1: Bruins will just take them more lightly. Bruins coming off
- 10:47Speaker 1: an easy shutout win. Carolina on deck. I think the
- 10:50Speaker 1: only way to play this game is to play the Sharks.
- 10:52Speaker 1: San Jose is coming off a nice couple of wins
- 10:55Speaker 1: over Montreal and Ottawa. Coming into this game with momentum, though.
- 11:00Speaker 1: They're not going to overlook the Bruins, who just beat
- 11:02Speaker 1: them in their own place and are playing well. So, yeah,
- 11:05Speaker 1: San Jose has got to be the right side here.
- 11:07Speaker 1: This one was close to being a play for me.
- 11:09Speaker 1: This is not my hockey play, but this is close.
- 11:12Speaker 1: I definitely like this one, especially out of the games
- 11:14Speaker 1: I've talked about so far. Yeah, this one is stronger.
- 11:17Speaker 1: The Bruins all of a sudden getting a lot of
- 11:19Speaker 1: respect in the market. They're minus 190 here. 92% of
- 11:23Speaker 1: tickets on them, 88% of the cash. So the Bruins, yeah,
- 11:27Speaker 1: they're a public side at this point with less of
- 11:29Speaker 1: the money on them. They're probably a bigger favorite than
- 11:32Speaker 1: they deserve to be here at this point. I'd take
- 11:36Speaker 1: the San Jose side there. You can make your own
- 11:38Speaker 1: plus-one puck line or whatever out of that thing and, yeah,
- 11:42Speaker 1: have at it. But, yeah, I think San Jose is
- 11:44Speaker 1: definitely the right side there. As we get into the
- 11:46Speaker 1: 7 p.m. games, NHL Network has a 7 p.m.
- 11:49Speaker 3: Game.
- 11:50Speaker 1: Rangers at Ottawa. Rangers starting to slide a little bit,
- 11:54Speaker 1: which was kind of expected because I don't think they're
- 11:55Speaker 1: as good as their hot start. Plus, we know they
- 11:58Speaker 1: don't have Shusterkin anymore. He's out for the season. Rangers
- 12:01Speaker 1: just took an overtime loss to Toronto. Now they're going
- 12:05Speaker 1: over to Ottawa here. I don't know if this is
- 12:08Speaker 1: going to qualify as a bounce-back spot or not for them.
- 12:10Speaker 1: This is a hard game to figure out, actually, but
- 12:12Speaker 1: Ottawa's staying at home and just got embarrassed by the
- 12:15Speaker 1: Sharks at home. But that was coming off of Ottawa
- 12:18Speaker 1: beating Florida, which is a pretty big win for them, so...
- 12:22Speaker 1: I think you kind of explained why they didn't play
- 12:23Speaker 1: well in the next game against the Sharks. I think
- 12:25Speaker 1: this looks like more of a bounce-back spot for Ottawa,
- 12:28Speaker 1: where the Rangers are coming up that original six matchup
- 12:31Speaker 1: that went into overtime. A little bit of a tougher
- 12:34Speaker 1: matchup there. I'd be leaning towards Ottawa in this game
- 12:37Speaker 1: after that pretty gross home loss. Seems like more of
- 12:41Speaker 1: a bounce-back for them. The money, again, does not agree
- 12:43Speaker 1: at all, though. 57% of tickets on Ottawa, 89% of
- 12:46Speaker 1: the cash on the Rangers. Ottawa minus 120-something on the
- 12:51Speaker 1: money line here. I prefer Ottawa in that one, though.
- 12:54Speaker 1: And again, the market read, you know, it's a little
- 12:56Speaker 1: bit tough to figure it out in the morning. Sometimes
- 12:58Speaker 1: these percentages are going to flip big time, especially in
- 13:01Speaker 1: hockey when the volume, because the volume's just not that
- 13:04Speaker 1: big in hockey, especially on a college football Saturday. So
- 13:07Speaker 1: you have to kind of be careful with that. Like,
- 13:09Speaker 1: there's obviously way more volume on the football games.
- 13:13Speaker 3: All right.
- 13:15Speaker 1: Nashville and Pittsburgh. I considered this one. I like Nashville
- 13:18Speaker 1: again in this one. I just couldn't really quite do it.
- 13:21Speaker 1: Nashville's coming off a 6-0 loss to the Bruins, like
- 13:24Speaker 1: I said. And Pittsburgh, on the other hand, is coming
- 13:27Speaker 1: off a shutout win, I believe, over Florida. Yeah, they
- 13:31Speaker 1: won 4-0 against Florida, staying at home. The good thing
- 13:34Speaker 1: for Pittsburgh is they ended a four-game losing streak with that.
- 13:38Speaker 1: And they played some tough opponents in that streak as well.
- 13:41Speaker 1: But when you end a losing streak, sometimes it does
- 13:43Speaker 1: give you positive momentum. However, when you beat the Florida
- 13:46Speaker 1: Panthers in a shutout, that could put you in a
- 13:48Speaker 1: letdown spot. And the Predators, horrible name, coming off of
- 13:52Speaker 1: a shutout loss. I'm pretty much always going to be
- 13:55Speaker 1: on the team that took the shutout loss against the
- 13:57Speaker 1: team that's coming off a shutout win. You know what
- 14:00Speaker 1: I mean? So I would have to lean towards the
- 14:02Speaker 1: Predators in this one. I also don't really think Pittsburgh's
- 14:06Speaker 1: that good, so there is that too. Pittsburgh does have
- 14:09Speaker 1: Utah on deck, although it's not for five days. That
- 14:12Speaker 1: might be a bigger game because Utah just beat them
- 14:15Speaker 1: during that losing streak. They had literally the game before
- 14:17Speaker 1: the Florida game, so they might have their eye on
- 14:20Speaker 1: that Utah game next. And then Montreal, Vegas, Boston all
- 14:23Speaker 1: coming up after that. Nashville's an easy team to overlook
- 14:26Speaker 1: because they're not good. But I don't think Pittsburgh's that
- 14:29Speaker 1: good either, so I'm going to lean Nashville here. Pittsburgh
- 14:32Speaker 1: looks like they're somewhat public, 60% of tickets, 62% of
- 14:36Speaker 1: the cash, not a huge disparity there. Minus 130-something is
- 14:42Speaker 1: the price on Pittsburgh, so it would be a money
- 14:43Speaker 1: line play on Nashville. That would be what I would
- 14:47Speaker 1: recommend in that game. All right, Buffalo and Washington, pretty
- 14:52Speaker 1: good game here, actually. Two pretty good teams in the East,
- 14:55Speaker 1: although I think Washington is the better team, and they're
- 14:58Speaker 1: really not getting that much more than home ice really
- 15:00Speaker 1: in the, uh, the line here. So I think maybe
- 15:03Speaker 1: Washington is still getting undervalued in the market a little bit.
- 15:06Speaker 1: Cause they have kind of a mediocre record here. So
- 15:08Speaker 1: does Buffalo. Buffalo did just lose pretty ugly at home
- 15:12Speaker 1: to Philadelphia though. And it was a return home spot
- 15:14Speaker 1: as well. So you can kind of explain why they
- 15:16Speaker 1: lost that game. They were coming off a huge game
- 15:19Speaker 1: against Montreal. They played Montreal twice during the road trip
- 15:22Speaker 1: and that's their revenge, uh, those are their revenge games
- 15:26Speaker 1: there because Montreal eliminated Buffalo from the playoffs last year.
- 15:30Speaker 1: Buffalo still has not gotten their revenge on them. So
- 15:33Speaker 1: coming off all that, plus the return home spot, you
- 15:35Speaker 1: can kind of explain why they lost to Philly like that.
- 15:39Speaker 1: So it could be a bounce back for them. You
- 15:40Speaker 1: could argue that going back out on the road, starting
- 15:43Speaker 1: a road trip, they should be focused at least against Washington.
- 15:46Speaker 1: But I think Washington is going to be focused here
- 15:48Speaker 1: as well as they just lost at home to the Kings,
- 15:51Speaker 1: staying at home, kind of an ugly loss there. Um,
- 15:55Speaker 1: after beating the Canadians and the Devils in the prior
- 15:57Speaker 1: two games. So when you have both teams in what
- 16:00Speaker 1: I think are focus spots here, I'm going to lean
- 16:02Speaker 1: towards the team that I think is the better team,
- 16:04Speaker 1: and in this case, that is Washington. 80% of the
- 16:07Speaker 1: tickets on them, though. 94% of the cash as well, though.
- 16:11Speaker 1: So it looks like the real money may also be
- 16:13Speaker 1: on that side, but their line did drop a little bit,
- 16:17Speaker 1: the money line. They're in the minus 125 is basically
- 16:21Speaker 1: what the money line is on them. But yeah, I
- 16:23Speaker 1: would lean Washington there. Not that strong of an opinion, though. Again,
- 16:28Speaker 1: my strongest opinion so far, San Jose would be my
- 16:32Speaker 1: strongest that I've talked about so far. And then probably
- 16:34Speaker 1: after that, I would say Nashville. Oh, God. Next game
- 16:38Speaker 1: is Vegas at Columbus. This Vegas team, as I pointed out, man,
- 16:42Speaker 1: good record, but they've done it against a pretty weak schedule.
- 16:47Speaker 1: And they've played pretty poorly in their last two games.
- 16:50Speaker 1: They lost badly to Tampa Bay. They did not bounce
- 16:52Speaker 1: back in the next game. They lost really badly again
- 16:54Speaker 1: to St.
- 16:55Speaker 2: Louis.
- 16:56Speaker 1: Maybe this does kind of turn into a bit of
- 16:58Speaker 1: a bounce-back spot for them here, though. Like, they're not
- 17:00Speaker 1: going to want to go 0-2 on this road trip here.
- 17:03Speaker 1: You would not imagine. So, after two ugly losses, especially
- 17:07Speaker 1: the St. Louis one, maybe you are going to get
- 17:09Speaker 1: a Vegas bounce-back type of thing here. But they're also
- 17:12Speaker 1: going to be a road favorite. They're also going to
- 17:14Speaker 1: be really public. And Columbus... Also had a bad loss
- 17:18Speaker 1: in their last game. They lost ugly, 6-2 to the
- 17:21Speaker 1: Maple Leafs. But Columbus was coming off a huge performance
- 17:24Speaker 1: against the Wild in the game before that. Minnesota, good team.
- 17:29Speaker 1: Columbus may have been hungover after that big performance there.
- 17:33Speaker 1: Tough game. They may have had not a lot left
- 17:35Speaker 1: in the tank for that Toronto game. Almost said Montreal,
- 17:39Speaker 1: excuse me.
- 17:40Speaker 2: Sorry.
- 17:41Speaker 1: After that Maple Leafs game, Toronto game. So to me,
- 17:45Speaker 1: it looks like kind of a bounce back spot for
- 17:46Speaker 1: both teams. Both teams coming off a 6-2 loss. So
- 17:50Speaker 1: that being the case, I might have to link Columbus
- 17:53Speaker 1: still in this one. And who does Vegas have up next?
- 17:56Speaker 1: Hold on. I looked at this earlier in the morning,
- 17:58Speaker 1: but ESPN doesn't make it that easy. You got to
- 18:00Speaker 1: go to the schedule. They have Ottawa on deck, which
- 18:02Speaker 1: I was looking at a little while ago. Maybe that
- 18:04Speaker 1: is a little bit of a bigger game. I think
- 18:07Speaker 1: both teams show up focused here, though, but you're going
- 18:09Speaker 1: to get a This Vegas team is going to be
- 18:12Speaker 1: very public. Yeah, they have 91% of the tickets, 89%
- 18:16Speaker 1: of the cash. Hugely public side with less of the
- 18:18Speaker 1: money coming in on them. About minus 130-something here on
- 18:22Speaker 1: the money line. I'd probably have to lean towards Columbus there.
- 18:27Speaker 1: It would, again, be a money line play. Not going
- 18:29Speaker 1: to do it, though. All right, then we have Carolina, St.
- 18:32Speaker 2: Louis.
- 18:33Speaker 1: And you'd think, well, St. Louis is going to be
- 18:34Speaker 1: in a letdown spot after they had that huge win
- 18:37Speaker 1: over Vegas. Maybe, but Carolina's not in a good spot
- 18:40Speaker 1: either because Carolina just had a huge game against the
- 18:43Speaker 1: Oilers and fell just short in overtime. Coming off a
- 18:47Speaker 1: big game like that, you might absolutely be hung over
- 18:50Speaker 1: after a game like this. If you dig into this,
- 18:52Speaker 1: by the way, though, Carolina was the better team in
- 18:55Speaker 1: this game. They had more shots. They had significantly more hits,
- 18:58Speaker 1: and they won the face-off battle. So statistically, Carolina probably
- 19:02Speaker 1: should have won that game. But either way you look
- 19:04Speaker 1: at it, it's still a big game, and they took
- 19:06Speaker 1: that close loss, and now they have to turn around
- 19:08Speaker 1: and play St.
- 19:09Speaker 4: Louis.
- 19:10Speaker 1: So not a good spot for Carolina. I also think
- 19:12Speaker 1: it might be a little bit of a sandwich as well.
- 19:16Speaker 1: They're playing the Bruins next, at least, which I mentioned
- 19:18Speaker 1: earlier in the show. That is an ESPN game, and
- 19:21Speaker 1: the Bruins, good record so far. So they may be
- 19:24Speaker 1: looking ahead to that. So I can't get on board
- 19:27Speaker 1: with either team here. And like I said, St. Louis
- 19:29Speaker 1: coming off a big win over the Golden Knights. Carolina's
- 19:33Speaker 1: probably going to be overvalued in the market, though, so
- 19:35Speaker 1: there is that. St. Louis isn't going to overlook them.
- 19:38Speaker 1: I just think that the worry with St. Louis is
- 19:40Speaker 1: they're just going to be too tired trying to put
- 19:42Speaker 1: in two huge efforts in a row like this. If
- 19:45Speaker 1: you force me to lean towards a side in this one,
- 19:47Speaker 1: I probably would still lean towards St. Louis here. 86%
- 19:50Speaker 1: of tickets and 88% of the cash on Carolina. They're
- 19:54Speaker 1: like a minus 150-something road favorite, so you'll get St.
- 19:57Speaker 1: Louis as a decent home underdog here. I'd probably prefer
- 20:02Speaker 1: to play this game over, though. As you know, if
- 20:04Speaker 1: you watch me, I haven't given out any of these totals.
- 20:08Speaker 1: I'm going to keep an eye on it and Maybe
- 20:11Speaker 1: I'll start incorporating the totals again, but the money doesn't
- 20:14Speaker 1: seem to totally agree. It looks like a lot of tickets,
- 20:16Speaker 1: but also a lot of money in the under, but
- 20:18Speaker 1: the total did go up a little bit from six
- 20:20Speaker 1: to six and a half. That's about the highest type
- 20:23Speaker 1: of total you're going to see in the NHL, six
- 20:26Speaker 1: and a half. This one is juiced to the under, though.
- 20:29Speaker 1: But even so, I think the over makes the most
- 20:31Speaker 1: sense here. You have teams that might both be fatigued
- 20:34Speaker 1: and or distracted in a way. That tends to affect
- 20:38Speaker 1: the defense more than anything else. So I like the
- 20:41Speaker 1: over in that one. All right, then we have the
- 20:43Speaker 1: game that is my actual play, Toronto and Edmonton. I
- 20:46Speaker 1: think you know where I'm going with this. You want
- 20:48Speaker 1: to know what I'm betting? Yeah, we're going to take
- 20:55Speaker 1: the Toronto Maple Leafs in this one. We're going to
- 20:56Speaker 1: make a plus one. puck line out of this thing
- 20:59Speaker 1: you might have books that just offer that as a
- 21:01Speaker 1: bet but if you have multiple books available you can
- 21:04Speaker 1: get a better price by playing the best price on
- 21:08Speaker 1: each one of these because they're separate bets you can
- 21:10Speaker 1: play them in separate books uh so there's going to
- 21:13Speaker 1: be a plus one and a half puck line component
- 21:15Speaker 1: to this where i have the the breakdown here too
- 21:17Speaker 1: using this johnny ma baseball run line calculator It's essentially
- 21:22Speaker 1: the same idea. When it's an underdog, you just have
- 21:26Speaker 1: to kind of flip the two values here. So the
- 21:29Speaker 1: minus money part of it is the puck line part
- 21:32Speaker 1: of it. For these purposes, if you're doing this out
- 21:35Speaker 1: of 100, you're going to be putting about 61% of
- 21:39Speaker 1: that on the minus part of it on the puck line.
- 21:42Speaker 1: Whatever you can win with that, which is about 40,
- 21:45Speaker 1: that's how much you bet on the money line. So
- 21:47Speaker 1: basically what it comes down to is that you will...
- 21:51Speaker 1: If they lose by exactly one, you'll push the bet.
- 21:53Speaker 1: That's how it works. So minus 155 was the.
- 21:58Speaker 1: The price on the plus one puck line that I
- 22:00Speaker 1: found is the best price, and plus 155 on the
- 22:04Speaker 1: money line. If you wanted to just go money line,
- 22:06Speaker 1: I wouldn't disagree with that. It's a little bit crazier,
- 22:12Speaker 1: but you'd have to put less money at risk to
- 22:15Speaker 1: do it, so you could do that too. But I
- 22:16Speaker 1: like Toronto either way here. I think this is a
- 22:18Speaker 1: bad spot for Edmonton. As I already pointed out, they
- 22:22Speaker 1: probably should have lost that Carolina game statistically. because Carolina
- 22:27Speaker 1: won every one of the statistics in that game. Edmonton, again,
- 22:31Speaker 1: they're still more of a finesse team, man. I've been
- 22:34Speaker 1: telling you, I still don't think their defense is that good,
- 22:36Speaker 1: and they've given up some goals in these last couple
- 22:38Speaker 1: of wins. Their offense has had to carry them. They've
- 22:41Speaker 1: won three pretty big games in a row, though, man.
- 22:43Speaker 1: They had a revenge win against Utah on the road,
- 22:46Speaker 1: and then they won in overtime and shootout against Minnesota
- 22:49Speaker 1: and Carolina. Those are two huge wins. So after that,
- 22:54Speaker 1: I just think it's a letdown spot for them, plain
- 22:56Speaker 1: and simple. I don't know how much they're really going
- 22:58Speaker 1: to focus on Toronto here. I wish it was a sandwich.
- 23:01Speaker 1: I wish they had another big game up next. They don't.
- 23:03Speaker 1: They play Detroit. But still, either way, I'm going to
- 23:06Speaker 1: be on Toronto here. Toronto, a little bit of a
- 23:09Speaker 1: sneaky run of three wins here that I think people
- 23:12Speaker 1: probably just won't really pay that much attention to. They
- 23:14Speaker 1: did just play an overtime game as well, but it
- 23:16Speaker 1: was against the Rangers. So not as big of a
- 23:19Speaker 1: deal there. Oh, sorry, that wasn't an overtime game. I
- 23:22Speaker 1: thought it was. I'm wrong. It was not. They won
- 23:24Speaker 1: that game in regulation. But they're starting a road trip here.
- 23:27Speaker 1: And the concern with that as well, you know, the travel, whatever,
- 23:30Speaker 1: these Eastern teams going further west. But the good news
- 23:34Speaker 1: is it's only a 7 p.m. Eastern game. So that's
- 23:37Speaker 1: kind of a normal playing time. So that's not going
- 23:39Speaker 1: to be a problem, I don't think, for them. Starting
- 23:42Speaker 1: a road trip, usually your focus. And this is the
- 23:44Speaker 1: biggest game on the road trip. I mean, after this,
- 23:46Speaker 1: they have three weak opponents, even though I know Seattle's
- 23:49Speaker 1: record's good, but I still don't think they're good. But yeah,
- 23:52Speaker 1: this will be the biggest game for them on the
- 23:54Speaker 1: road trip. So I like it. I like them starting
- 23:57Speaker 1: the road trip with a little bit of momentum here.
- 23:58Speaker 1: I think it's a horrible spot for Edmonton. And as
- 24:02Speaker 1: far as the money is concerned, yeah, Edmonton's a largely
- 24:04Speaker 1: public side here, as you could guess. 94% of the tickets,
- 24:08Speaker 1: 94% of the cash will fade the public in this one.
- 24:12Speaker 1: um as you should do in most cases at least
- 24:14Speaker 1: edmonton is the minus 180 favorite here um so yeah
- 24:18Speaker 1: we'll take toronto this um very generous underdog price i
- 24:23Speaker 1: would say in what i think it's a pretty good
- 24:25Speaker 1: spot to do it so yes there you go charles
- 24:28Speaker 1: what's up um great what did i say about being
- 24:32Speaker 1: crazy i have no idea um Tampa Bay at Utah.
- 24:36Speaker 1: This is one of the better games on the slate here, really.
- 24:38Speaker 1: These are two good teams here. Tampa Bay is coming
- 24:41Speaker 1: off beating Vegas. Nice win. Or, sorry, they lost to
- 24:44Speaker 1: the Avalanche after that. My mistake. So, yeah, they beat Vegas,
- 24:47Speaker 1: but then they did play Colorado. My mistake. I keep forgetting. Tampa,
- 24:51Speaker 1: as I mentioned earlier, yeah, Tampa is in a back-to-back.
- 24:54Speaker 1: They actually played yesterday, and they lost to Colorado. So,
- 24:57Speaker 1: I don't really want Tampa coming off of that. I mean,
- 25:00Speaker 1: that's a game you at least get up for emotionally.
- 25:02Speaker 1: And now they're coming off two big games. playing another
- 25:05Speaker 1: game in elevation here on the back-to-back. Yeah, I don't
- 25:10Speaker 1: love it for Tampa, really, even though they did lose
- 25:12Speaker 1: kind of badly yesterday. I would not really want to
- 25:14Speaker 1: be on Tampa here. Would I want to be on Utah, though?
- 25:19Speaker 1: Utah might be in more of a bounce-back spot because
- 25:22Speaker 1: they just lost to what I think is not that
- 25:24Speaker 1: good of a Seattle team. It was a weird spot
- 25:27Speaker 1: for Utah because, I don't know, they had a single-game
- 25:30Speaker 1: road trip going all the way to Seattle yesterday, Maybe
- 25:33Speaker 1: just a spot where they really weren't that focused, and
- 25:35Speaker 1: they had these big games on deck against Tampa, Minnesota.
- 25:39Speaker 1: So to me, it looks like it's an easier spot
- 25:42Speaker 1: for Utah here with Tampa being on the back-to-back. So
- 25:46Speaker 1: Tampa will switch goalies here most likely as well. So
- 25:49Speaker 1: hold on. Does that mean, let me see, did Vasilevsky
- 25:53Speaker 1: play yesterday? He probably did, but let me see. He did.
- 25:56Speaker 1: So you're going to get Tampa's lesser goalie here with Hildeby.
- 25:59Speaker 1: although they're actually 2-0 in his game so far, and
- 26:02Speaker 1: one of them was against Minnesota, the other only against Vancouver.
- 26:05Speaker 1: But either way, Vasilevsky is their primary goal, and it
- 26:08Speaker 1: won't be him in this game, I would assume, because
- 26:11Speaker 1: it's a back-to-back. So Tampa Bay will have a goalie
- 26:15Speaker 1: downgrade here with Hildeby in net. So yeah, I'd lean
- 26:18Speaker 1: Utah in this one. 50-50 on the tickets here. Utah
- 26:22Speaker 1: looks like they're getting the money. 87% of the tickets
- 26:24Speaker 1: on them. They're about a minus 140 favorite. I think
- 26:27Speaker 1: they're the right side in that one. All right, Detroit-Calgary. Detroit,
- 26:33Speaker 1: let me see. Detroit just beat Vancouver to get a
- 26:37Speaker 1: win on this road trip here. Not a big deal.
- 26:40Speaker 1: Calgary also kind of a team that you can easily overlook, though.
- 26:44Speaker 1: Detroit has Edmonton on deck, so yeah, there is the
- 26:46Speaker 1: danger that they look past Calgary because Edmonton's a big
- 26:50Speaker 1: game on deck, so that is kind of an issue
- 26:52Speaker 1: maybe for Detroit here. Calgary... It's coming off two big wins, though,
- 26:58Speaker 1: over the Hurricanes and the Wilds. So this looks like
- 27:00Speaker 1: kind of a letdown spot for Calgary here after those
- 27:02Speaker 1: two huge wins. But, you know, Cooley, two good games
- 27:07Speaker 1: in a row, man. For him, their young goaltender seems
- 27:10Speaker 1: to be, I believe he's really young, right? He seems
- 27:12Speaker 1: to be finding himself here, let's say. The spot to
- 27:17Speaker 1: me looks easier for Detroit, though. Calgary, I know they're
- 27:20Speaker 1: an easy team to overlook. Detroit's a hugely public side.
- 27:23Speaker 1: 92% of tickets, 94% of the cash on them. There
- 27:27Speaker 1: is the worry Detroit might look ahead to Edmonton. Calgary
- 27:31Speaker 1: might just have nothing left in the tank, though, after
- 27:33Speaker 1: those two huge wins. So I actually probably prefer the
- 27:36Speaker 1: Detroit side here. They're in the minus 140-something range. The
- 27:40Speaker 1: money did fade them, though, because they were minus 150-something.
- 27:43Speaker 1: The money line did drop on them, so it looks
- 27:44Speaker 1: like the real money did kind of come in and
- 27:46Speaker 1: fade the public Detroit side a little bit here, but
- 27:49Speaker 1: I would not really want any part of Calgary in
- 27:51Speaker 1: the spot that they're in there, so I think I'd
- 27:53Speaker 1: slightly lean Detroit. I don't want to do it, though.
- 27:58Speaker 1: Like I said, there are definitely some negatives for Detroit there, too.
- 28:01Speaker 1: Could be another over if you want to use that approach.
- 28:04Speaker 1: The public is on the over, though, and less of
- 28:06Speaker 1: the money on the over, but it's gone up from 5.5
- 28:08Speaker 1: to 6. Again, if you think Bucs, Both teams might
- 28:12Speaker 1: be distracted and or fatigued. That is where I tend
- 28:15Speaker 1: to lean is the over because I think it affects
- 28:17Speaker 1: the defense. So those are my thoughts on that. And
- 28:20Speaker 1: then the last hockey game is Minnesota-Seattle. Minnesota just lost
- 28:24Speaker 1: to Calgary, which is pretty ugly. So they may have
- 28:26Speaker 1: a bounce back here. Seattle, they're really not as good
- 28:30Speaker 1: as their record would suggest. Man, I'm going to keep
- 28:32Speaker 1: saying that until I'm proven wrong, and I don't consider
- 28:36Speaker 1: myself to be proven wrong yet. Seattle is not as
- 28:38Speaker 1: good as this record indicates. They're coming off a nice
- 28:40Speaker 1: win over Utah, staying at home. Now, they're not going
- 28:43Speaker 1: to overlook Minnesota, but that being said, Minnesota's the better team,
- 28:48Speaker 1: such that they're favored on the road. So you've got
- 28:50Speaker 1: to listen to what the oddsmakers are telling you. Minnesota's
- 28:54Speaker 1: a minus 150-something favorite here, even though they have a
- 28:58Speaker 1: lesser record than Seattle, believe it or not. But the
- 29:00Speaker 1: oddsmakers are telling you Minnesota's the significantly better team, such
- 29:03Speaker 1: that they're a pretty sizable road favorite here. 94% of
- 29:08Speaker 1: the tickets are on Minnesota though, and only 90% of
- 29:10Speaker 1: the cash. So they are getting the public action. But
- 29:13Speaker 1: in this case, I think Minnesota is actually the right
- 29:15Speaker 1: side in this one. I would, um, I would be
- 29:19Speaker 1: going against the market reading that one and actually being
- 29:21Speaker 1: on the public side. So each of these last two games, uh,
- 29:24Speaker 1: I would be leaning towards the, uh, the public road
- 29:27Speaker 1: favorite there, which is, uh, usually not a good thing. So,
- 29:31Speaker 1: but that's the way that I see that situation, man. And, um,
- 29:34Speaker 1: Just where the line is, like where the oddsmakers price
- 29:37Speaker 1: that game is kind of telling you. you not to
- 29:40Speaker 1: believe these records and then Minnesota is the better team
- 29:44Speaker 1: again better team better spot so I like Minnesota and
- 29:47Speaker 1: that one and that will do it for hockey all
- 29:51Speaker 1: right we have NBA coming up so I don't know
- 29:54Speaker 1: we're about halfway through the show is it a hydration
- 29:56Speaker 1: break time maybe Money line only? You're taking the money
- 30:02Speaker 1: line on Toronto?
- 30:04Speaker 2: All right.
- 30:06Speaker 1: Yeah, just put less money on it, I guess. But, yeah,
- 30:09Speaker 1: I mean, if they lose by one, I'm going to push, though,
- 30:11Speaker 1: and you're going to lose. So there is that. But
- 30:14Speaker 1: that's the tradeoff, man. You put less money on it.
- 30:17Speaker 1: So I don't know what the hell situations is. All right,
- 30:22Speaker 1: I'll be right back. We'll go into the break, and
- 30:24Speaker 1: then I'll talk about NBA. You're not going to like
- 30:26Speaker 1: my NBA play. I always say that nobody likes any
- 30:30Speaker 1: of my plays, but I'm trying to come up with
- 30:33Speaker 1: games that are going to actually win the bet, man.
- 30:35Speaker 1: That's the whole deal here. So I have a situational
- 30:38Speaker 1: spot in the NBA that will come up after the
- 30:41Speaker 1: break here.
- 32:26Speaker 4: All right.
- 32:44Speaker 1: NBA is up next. As you can see here, we
- 32:47Speaker 1: have no market percentages in the NBA. So thank you
- 32:50Speaker 1: to odds logic for that. But we're going to, situationally
- 32:54Speaker 1: handicap these things anyway. First game's at 6 p.m. Eastern,
- 32:58Speaker 1: Miami at Charlotte. A lot of these teams played yesterday,
- 33:01Speaker 1: so yesterday full slate of basketball, so a ton of
- 33:04Speaker 1: these teams are on back-to-backs, including both Miami and Charlotte,
- 33:08Speaker 1: if I'm not mistaken. Miami lost pretty badly to the Pistons,
- 33:11Speaker 1: as we know, because that was my loser that I
- 33:14Speaker 1: gave out in the NBA yesterday. So they're off to
- 33:17Speaker 1: an 0-2 start. The Hornets lost yesterday as well, if
- 33:22Speaker 1: I'm not mistaken. they lost to the Hawks even worse.
- 33:25Speaker 1: They lost by 47 points to the Hawks yesterday, and
- 33:29Speaker 1: they're staying at home. So, yeah, I mean, to me, yeah,
- 33:34Speaker 1: I guess Charlotte may be the way to look here.
- 33:36Speaker 1: Miami's a three-and-a-half-point favorite here. So the odds are telling
- 33:40Speaker 1: you Miami is the better team, though, and they're 0-2,
- 33:42Speaker 1: and Charlotte's 1-1 because Charlotte has a win over Brooklyn.
- 33:45Speaker 1: Big deal. But it's tough to figure out, man, because
- 33:50Speaker 1: an 0-2 team laying points on the road is usually–
- 33:53Speaker 1: where you want to go. The odds makers are telling
- 33:55Speaker 1: you Miami's actually the better team here, but Charlotte's coming
- 33:58Speaker 1: off a more embarrassing loss yesterday. Miami almost got back
- 34:01Speaker 1: into that game. I don't know if anybody was watching that,
- 34:04Speaker 1: but they were getting blown out most of the game.
- 34:06Speaker 1: And then I looked and all of a sudden they
- 34:07Speaker 1: were down like nine or something. I think in the
- 34:10Speaker 1: fourth quarter, I was like, holy shit, Miami might actually
- 34:12Speaker 1: come back here. But of course they did not. Um,
- 34:15Speaker 1: Giannis has been really good in the first two games,
- 34:18Speaker 1: but problem is the team is not playing as a team.
- 34:20Speaker 1: Like Giannis is just trying to carry the team and
- 34:23Speaker 1: that's not working. So, um, yeah, I think I would
- 34:27Speaker 1: be more inclined to take the points of Charlotte there,
- 34:30Speaker 1: but I do not like that game whatsoever. Um, escape
- 34:36Speaker 1: the fate. Ronnie Radke. Is he the guy from, uh,
- 34:39Speaker 1: falling in reverse? I forget who's who. Um, What are
- 34:44Speaker 1: you talking about? The Pistons, they're 2-0. What are you
- 34:47Speaker 1: talking about? Miami was our loser on the show yesterday,
- 34:52Speaker 1: losing to the Pistons. Next game up is my play.
- 34:55Speaker 1: Like I said, you're not going to like this one.
- 34:57Speaker 1: You want to know what I'm betting? But if you
- 35:03Speaker 1: want to actually win money, don't be a coward, man.
- 35:06Speaker 1: Take the Brooklyn Nets plus 11 here. This is so
- 35:09Speaker 1: clearly a fade spot for Cleveland. I don't know what
- 35:12Speaker 1: else to tell you, man. Cleveland, just like we did
- 35:16Speaker 1: in the playoffs last year, if you remember, I gave
- 35:19Speaker 1: out a play on the Knicks during that playoff series
- 35:21Speaker 1: last year after Cleveland had that complete implosion in what
- 35:24Speaker 1: I think was game one. Cleveland had a huge lead
- 35:28Speaker 1: against the Knicks in game one of the playoffs last year.
- 35:31Speaker 1: Completely blew the game, and I think mostly it was
- 35:33Speaker 1: because the Knicks got off to a cold start because
- 35:36Speaker 1: they had too much rest going into that series. And
- 35:39Speaker 1: I was correct about fading Cleveland in the next game.
- 35:42Speaker 1: They just got blown out in the next game by
- 35:45Speaker 1: the Knicks. I'm not going to say they're going to
- 35:47Speaker 1: get blown out here, obviously, because they're an 11-point favorite,
- 35:49Speaker 1: but this feels eerily similar to that, where Cleveland had
- 35:53Speaker 1: an even worse implosion in their first game of the
- 35:55Speaker 1: season against the Philadelphia 76ers, who everybody's hailing as the new...
- 36:01Speaker 1: elite team you know I mean yeah they're one of
- 36:03Speaker 1: the best teams I still think they're a bit of
- 36:04Speaker 1: an overrated team and Cleveland was making it look that
- 36:07Speaker 1: way Cleveland was winning by 29 points in the second
- 36:11Speaker 1: half of that game I'm pretty sure And it became
- 36:14Speaker 1: the largest blown lead in modern NBA history. Blowing a
- 36:19Speaker 1: 29-point lead is unheard of, man. So for Cleveland to
- 36:22Speaker 1: go from thinking, we just beat one of the best
- 36:24Speaker 1: teams in the league, Philly, huge win for Cleveland. No,
- 36:28Speaker 1: instead they actually wind up losing that game. Like, how
- 36:31Speaker 1: do you possibly get back up off the mat after that?
- 36:34Speaker 1: I don't think it's possible. You put in all that effort,
- 36:37Speaker 1: such a huge game, and then you somehow lose that
- 36:40Speaker 1: game in the worst way imaginable? and now you have
- 36:42Speaker 1: to play the Nets? How are you going to get
- 36:44Speaker 1: up for this game against the Nets, who are one
- 36:46Speaker 1: of the worst teams in the league? Yeah, no, it's
- 36:48Speaker 1: not going to happen. This Cleveland team is ass. They're
- 36:53Speaker 1: horribly coached. Atkinson needs to be fired. And it's a
- 36:56Speaker 1: sandwich spot, too, in my opinion, because they have Minnesota
- 36:59Speaker 1: on deck. Minnesota, strong team. They're 2-0, and one of
- 37:03Speaker 1: the better teams in the Western Conference. So, yeah. Good
- 37:06Speaker 1: luck to Cleveland in this game. They're not covering an
- 37:09Speaker 1: 11-point spread here, man. I'm sorry. Brooklyn is 0-1. Brooklyn
- 37:14Speaker 1: has one extra day off, too. I believe Cleveland only
- 37:16Speaker 1: has one day off, and Brooklyn has two days off here.
- 37:19Speaker 1: Brooklyn played okay in their first game. They only lost
- 37:22Speaker 1: by seven to the Hornets. I mean, the Hornets are
- 37:25Speaker 1: not that good this year, but that's still at least
- 37:27Speaker 1: not an embarrassing result, really. Going on the road may
- 37:32Speaker 1: be a good thing. You get to just focus on
- 37:34Speaker 1: the game at least. Horrible, horrible spot for Cleveland, though. So, yeah,
- 37:38Speaker 1: we're pretty much fading. Yeah, we have to fade Cleveland after,
- 37:43Speaker 1: you know, it was a historic collapse, like the worst
- 37:46Speaker 1: collapse in the history of the NBA, at least in
- 37:49Speaker 1: the last, like, few decades or whatever. We have to
- 37:53Speaker 1: do it. Take the Brooklyn Nets, plus 11 points. And
- 37:56Speaker 1: put a little bit of it on the money line, too,
- 37:57Speaker 1: because I'm not convinced Cleveland is actually going to win
- 38:01Speaker 1: the game outright. I don't know, but at least Brooklyn
- 38:03Speaker 1: is going to hang around in that game. Let's do it. Yeah.
- 38:09Speaker 1: I'm also on no sleep, so that's not an excuse.
- 38:12Speaker 1: All right. Milwaukee at Philadelphia on NBA TV. Philadelphia, two
- 38:18Speaker 1: big wins to start the season against the Knicks and
- 38:20Speaker 1: the Cavs, two playoff teams, and now... They're going to
- 38:23Speaker 1: play a Bucs team that's really easy to overlook. And
- 38:26Speaker 1: Philadelphia has Detroit on deck. So, yeah, this, I believe,
- 38:29Speaker 1: qualifies as a sandwich spot as well. And, of course,
- 38:32Speaker 1: Philly had to put in that huge effort to beat
- 38:34Speaker 1: Cleveland there. Philly was not playing well for the majority
- 38:37Speaker 1: of that game. Although, when you look at the stats,
- 38:40Speaker 1: the final statistics in that game, it was actually a
- 38:42Speaker 1: close game statistically as far as how the game wound
- 38:46Speaker 1: up going. In total. But yeah, the only way I'd
- 38:50Speaker 1: be able to play this game is to take the
- 38:51Speaker 1: points with Milwaukee. I was not able to quite get
- 38:53Speaker 1: there with that one in my mind, I guess. But
- 38:56Speaker 1: it looks like a pretty obvious sandwich spot here. Milwaukee, though,
- 38:59Speaker 1: they played yesterday and Philly did not. So that's one
- 39:02Speaker 1: concern is Milwaukee's on a back-to-back. But they, again, looked
- 39:05Speaker 1: pretty bad yesterday, losing to the Bulls. But now they
- 39:08Speaker 1: have to go from Milwaukee to Philly here with no
- 39:11Speaker 1: time off. I'm just going to pass on the game,
- 39:14Speaker 1: but if you're going to play the game, I think
- 39:16Speaker 1: you have to take the points with the bucks. Again,
- 39:18Speaker 1: I know it sounds insane. This is what I do, man.
- 39:22Speaker 1: This is what works. I know you have no reason
- 39:26Speaker 1: to trust me, but trust me. Well, you should because
- 39:29Speaker 1: I've been doing it. this for 20 years almost. So, yeah,
- 39:32Speaker 1: I know how this works. I know how these situations work.
- 39:35Speaker 1: I think Milwaukee is the right side here. You get 12, 12.5
- 39:38Speaker 1: points in that one. So that's the way I would
- 39:40Speaker 1: lean in that one. And, by the way, the Brooklyn game,
- 39:44Speaker 1: the total is actually a little bit lower, by the way.
- 39:46Speaker 1: The total collapsed. six points in that Brooklyn Cleveland game.
- 39:49Speaker 1: So it makes it a little bit more enticing to
- 39:51Speaker 1: take the, uh, large underdog with a total. That's one
- 39:54Speaker 1: of the lower ones on the board. So, uh, the
- 39:57Speaker 1: Milwaukee Philadelphia total is a little bit higher, although it's
- 40:00Speaker 1: in kind of just, um, I guess, mid range NBA
- 40:03Speaker 1: total there. Uh, but the Brooklyn Cleveland one is low.
- 40:06Speaker 1: It's one of the lowest on the board. Uh, all right, Washington, Chicago,
- 40:10Speaker 1: we might finally see, uh, the, uh, debut of Debon's, uh, the,
- 40:14Speaker 1: the debut son, uh, I don't know. DeBonsa has not
- 40:18Speaker 1: played yet, Washington's number one draft pick. Washington has not
- 40:21Speaker 1: played too badly so far, though. They won their first game,
- 40:24Speaker 1: which they were supposed to, against the Bucs, and then
- 40:26Speaker 1: they lost to a pretty decent Raptor team yesterday, I believe,
- 40:31Speaker 1: only by 10. Washington is having to travel, though, having
- 40:34Speaker 1: to go to Chicago for this. Both teams played yesterday,
- 40:37Speaker 1: if I'm not mistaken. I'm pretty sure that's right, yeah.
- 40:41Speaker 1: Chicago won in Milwaukee yesterday, yesterday so I'd probably rather
- 40:46Speaker 1: have Washington just because they lost yesterday and Chicago won
- 40:50Speaker 1: although Chicago's travel spot is easier because they're only coming
- 40:54Speaker 1: back from Milwaukee so that's a quick journey there but
- 40:58Speaker 1: I don't know I don't know if teams are really
- 41:00Speaker 1: going to take this Washington team seriously yet although Chicago
- 41:03Speaker 1: is just a bad team this line looks like it's
- 41:06Speaker 1: kind of flipped between each team being a one and
- 41:08Speaker 1: a half point favorite so I don't know the line's
- 41:11Speaker 1: right around to pick them basically here it's kind of
- 41:13Speaker 1: just like Whatever, do your thing, and it's a high
- 41:16Speaker 1: total in the mid-240s, so expect that there's not going
- 41:19Speaker 1: to be a whole lot of defense in this game.
- 41:22Speaker 1: It'll be interesting to see if DeBonsa is going to
- 41:25Speaker 1: play here, and if he does, I might like Washington
- 41:29Speaker 1: actually less if he does play because he hasn't played yet,
- 41:33Speaker 1: so it's going to be kind of a chemistry thing
- 41:35Speaker 1: where the roles have to shift and they've got to
- 41:37Speaker 1: figure it out. So, I don't know. That's a tough
- 41:39Speaker 1: game to figure out, man. But overall, I think Washington
- 41:42Speaker 1: is the better team at this point, though. And obviously,
- 41:45Speaker 1: the Osweggers are telling you that. That's why they're sort
- 41:48Speaker 1: of a favorite there on the road. But yeah, those
- 41:50Speaker 1: are my thoughts there. San Antonio and Dallas. San Antonio
- 41:53Speaker 1: has started off 0-2 for the first time. I saw
- 41:57Speaker 1: it on ESPN earlier. I think since like 08, 09,
- 42:00Speaker 1: believe it or not. Even though San Antonio, I think
- 42:02Speaker 1: it's had some years that weren't that good in there.
- 42:04Speaker 1: But They haven't started 0-2 since then, but obviously they
- 42:07Speaker 1: have not played an easy schedule. I mean, they played
- 42:09Speaker 1: the Thunder and the Rockets. Those are two really strong teams.
- 42:13Speaker 1: They lost to the Rockets yesterday, so San Antonio has
- 42:16Speaker 1: a big step down in class against a Dallas team
- 42:18Speaker 1: that's Dallas, basically. But it's still kind of a tough spot, right?
- 42:25Speaker 1: Because San Antonio had these two huge games, even though
- 42:27Speaker 1: they didn't win either of them. Yesterday's game was close.
- 42:30Speaker 1: Could be a little bit of a hangover after that.
- 42:32Speaker 1: But then again, you could make the argument that, well,
- 42:34Speaker 1: San Antonio was a favorite against Houston. They were supposed
- 42:37Speaker 1: to win that game. That was a neutral site game,
- 42:40Speaker 1: by the way. That was in Austin, Texas, I believe,
- 42:42Speaker 1: for whatever reason. So you could argue that maybe San
- 42:46Speaker 1: Antonio should be in a bounce back after that because
- 42:48Speaker 1: they're supposed to win that game. But I don't know, man.
- 42:51Speaker 1: I mean, Houston, that's kind of a rivalry here. It's
- 42:54Speaker 1: a Texas rivalry. I think at this point, San Antonio
- 42:56Speaker 1: and Houston... They're the two good teams in Texas. San
- 43:00Speaker 1: Antonio is a level above Houston, though. Dallas is obviously
- 43:04Speaker 1: like the little brother of the three right now as
- 43:07Speaker 1: far as what these rosters look like. So Dallas is
- 43:10Speaker 1: absolutely going to get up for this game. But Dallas
- 43:12Speaker 1: is 1-1. San Antonio 0-2. But is the public really
- 43:16Speaker 1: going to draw the conclusion from that? Are they really
- 43:19Speaker 1: going to think Dallas is actually the better team? I
- 43:21Speaker 1: don't really think so. Flag got injured, by the way.
- 43:25Speaker 1: although Dallas actually won the game in Indiana yesterday after
- 43:29Speaker 1: Dallas lost to Houston pretty badly in the first game.
- 43:33Speaker 1: They beat an Indiana team that's probably not really that great,
- 43:35Speaker 1: although Halliburton is finally back for them. And somehow Dallas
- 43:39Speaker 1: is able to win that game on the road. So
- 43:41Speaker 1: Dallas actually pulled off a big upset. So I don't
- 43:44Speaker 1: want to be on Dallas here either, man, even though
- 43:45Speaker 1: this will be a big game for them. They're having
- 43:47Speaker 1: to come back from Indiana. It's a return home spot,
- 43:50Speaker 1: although I'm not really considering these return home spots today
- 43:53Speaker 1: to be like really negative or anything because these teams
- 43:56Speaker 1: just haven't had long road trips yet. So I don't
- 43:58Speaker 1: really worry about that yet. But it could be a
- 44:01Speaker 1: letdown spot for Dallas off a big upset win. Spurs
- 44:04Speaker 1: coming off an upset loss. So that would kind of
- 44:07Speaker 1: actually indicate maybe the Spurs are the team to look
- 44:09Speaker 1: at here. Both teams are on a back-to-back. But then again,
- 44:13Speaker 1: Dallas is not going to overlook the Spurs. Spurs are
- 44:15Speaker 1: coming off two huge games. And this is going to
- 44:17Speaker 1: be an injured player spot, right, for Dallas. If Flagg
- 44:21Speaker 1: is out, you know, when your star player goes down,
- 44:24Speaker 1: it looks like he is definitely not playing here. Kyrie
- 44:27Speaker 1: Irving apparently is back, by the way. I've totally forgot
- 44:30Speaker 1: about him. Yeah, he's played both games so far. He's
- 44:33Speaker 1: done all right. I mean, all right, that's interesting. So
- 44:35Speaker 1: this Dallas team, yeah, maybe a little bit better than
- 44:39Speaker 1: maybe we think. But yeah, maybe Dallas does actually... Have
- 44:44Speaker 1: a little bit more motivation here because when your star
- 44:46Speaker 1: player goes down, again, I'm going to say it, injured
- 44:48Speaker 1: player theory spot, it works the most in NFL with
- 44:51Speaker 1: a quarterback and NBA with a star player. When he
- 44:54Speaker 1: goes down, the team usually gets up for that first
- 44:57Speaker 1: game without him because they know they have to put
- 44:58Speaker 1: in a bigger effort and you get more line value.
- 45:01Speaker 1: So overall, I do think that the only way to
- 45:03Speaker 1: play this game is to take the points with Dallas.
- 45:05Speaker 1: You're going to get a huge point spread here. I mean,
- 45:08Speaker 1: San Antonio's the way better team. There's no doubt about that.
- 45:10Speaker 1: But 12.5 is the number there. I think I would
- 45:13Speaker 1: take the points with Dallas if I was going to
- 45:15Speaker 1: play that game, even though I still think they're Dallas.
- 45:19Speaker 1: All right, Houston and Atlanta. You probably know what my
- 45:23Speaker 1: thoughts are going to be on this. Houston, they're the
- 45:27Speaker 1: king of Texas right now. They beat Dallas and San
- 45:29Speaker 1: Antonio to open the season. Huge upset win yesterday against
- 45:33Speaker 1: San Antonio. which was, again, in Austin. But this has
- 45:37Speaker 1: to be a letdown spot for Houston off of that, man.
- 45:39Speaker 1: I don't see any other way to look at this.
- 45:41Speaker 1: They're going on the road to play Atlanta here. Not
- 45:44Speaker 1: a sandwich spot, though, but to me, it's a pure
- 45:46Speaker 1: letdown spot. Atlanta's 2-0, though, so maybe they won't be
- 45:50Speaker 1: overlooked here. But Atlanta, I mean, they looked so good
- 45:52Speaker 1: yesterday in a 47-point win and returning home from that.
- 45:56Speaker 1: I don't really want Atlanta either here, so... I think
- 46:00Speaker 1: Atlanta is the right side here. I think Houston is
- 46:02Speaker 1: going to be in a letdown spot big time after
- 46:04Speaker 1: that win yesterday. But Atlanta, such a satisfying win yesterday.
- 46:08Speaker 1: You got to imagine whenever you beat anybody by a
- 46:10Speaker 1: score like that. Yeah, I'm just going to pass on
- 46:13Speaker 1: the game, but I like Atlanta here. Atlanta's actually favored 1.5,
- 46:18Speaker 1: although they opened 2, it looks like. 1.5, both teams 2-0.
- 46:23Speaker 1: But you got to think the public is probably going
- 46:24Speaker 1: to be on the Houston side here because it's much
- 46:27Speaker 1: more impressive that they were able to beat San Antonio
- 46:29Speaker 1: than anything that Atlanta's done so far. And yeah, I agree,
- 46:32Speaker 1: Houston's the better team and the better defense. So normally
- 46:36Speaker 1: in a matchup like this, I would be looking towards
- 46:38Speaker 1: the better team and the better defense, but not in
- 46:40Speaker 1: this spot. I just think it's too big of a
- 46:42Speaker 1: letdown spot.
- 46:44Speaker 4: So.
- 46:45Speaker 1: We will be leaning towards... What did I just say? Atlanta. Yes,
- 46:50Speaker 1: the Hawks are definitely going to lean there. I think
- 46:52Speaker 1: that's one of the stronger opinions. So aside from the
- 46:55Speaker 1: Brooklyn play that I gave out, I think Milwaukee plus
- 46:58Speaker 1: the points and Atlanta, Moneyline or minus one and a
- 47:01Speaker 1: half or whatever the hell, those are the two other
- 47:04Speaker 1: strongest opinions that I have here in the NBA. Kyrie,
- 47:09Speaker 1: I mean, yeah. I mean, he refused the VACs and whatever.
- 47:13Speaker 1: And he... He opposes the country that you're not allowed
- 47:18Speaker 1: to oppose, so yeah, those things are based. New Orleans
- 47:22Speaker 1: at Denver, and he used to be on the... All
- 47:25Speaker 1: the Celtics fans hate him, although obviously I do not.
- 47:29Speaker 1: Although I trolled Celtics fans, by the way, when I
- 47:32Speaker 1: went to game one of the Celtics-Mavs final, because Kyrie was...
- 47:37Speaker 1: on the Mavs at that point. And I had a jersey,
- 47:40Speaker 1: a Celtics jersey with Kyrie's number, number 11. And when
- 47:44Speaker 1: everybody sees the 11, they typically think that's a Kyrie jersey.
- 47:47Speaker 1: And I got on the Jumbotron and I showed the
- 47:50Speaker 1: jersey and everybody booed me because it was an 11,
- 47:53Speaker 1: even though it was a Celtics jersey. And I turned
- 47:55Speaker 1: around and showed everybody that it was a Glenn Big
- 47:57Speaker 1: Baby Davis jersey and everybody cheered. I was like, yeah, man.
- 48:02Speaker 1: I wanted to get on the Jumbotron just for that reason.
- 48:05Speaker 1: And I got on there. I was like, yes, I'm
- 48:07Speaker 1: doing it. Got to quickly, yeah, got to troll the
- 48:10Speaker 1: crowd and turn around. Nope, it's Big Baby. There you go. Yes, correct.
- 48:18Speaker 1: Maybe some people thought it was Ricky Davis. I don't know.
- 48:20Speaker 1: What number did he have when he was on the Celtics?
- 48:22Speaker 2: I don't know.
- 48:23Speaker 1: Glenn Big Baby is the other way to go. Free
- 48:26Speaker 1: Glenn Big Baby Davis, though. I think he's in prison
- 48:29Speaker 1: right now for, I don't know, scamming some out of
- 48:33Speaker 1: some amount of money or whatever. I mean, yeah, you
- 48:36Speaker 1: shouldn't do that. But I mean, he's got like four
- 48:38Speaker 1: years in jail or something for that. I mean, give
- 48:40Speaker 1: me a break. Free big baby. That's what I got
- 48:43Speaker 1: to say. All right. New Orleans is at Denver. Obviously,
- 48:47Speaker 1: we know Denver's the better team here. New Orleans is
- 48:50Speaker 1: having to play two games in a row, back-to-back days
- 48:53Speaker 1: in elevation. They had a pretty good performance yesterday, only
- 48:56Speaker 1: lost by one against this probably upstart Utah Jazz team. Denver,
- 49:02Speaker 1: different animal, though. Denver's a very strong team. New Orleans
- 49:05Speaker 1: coming off that, maybe not an easy game, spot for
- 49:10Speaker 1: them to have to play two games like this in
- 49:11Speaker 1: high elevation back-to-back. It's not a good spot for Denver, though.
- 49:15Speaker 1: Denver doesn't have the back-to-back, though, at least. So Denver
- 49:19Speaker 1: does have more rest here. so the Pelicans are on
- 49:21Speaker 1: less rest. So that is a disadvantage to the Pelicans.
- 49:24Speaker 1: But Denver had a huge game in their first game.
- 49:26Speaker 1: They were leading more than half the game against the Thunder.
- 49:29Speaker 1: That was a huge game, man. And Denver wound up
- 49:32Speaker 1: not even covering that number. I'm pretty surprised. Denver looked
- 49:35Speaker 1: like they were in great position to cover that number
- 49:39Speaker 1: the whole time, and they wound up losing in a
- 49:40Speaker 1: low-scoring battle by 12. Thunder, really, really tough team to
- 49:45Speaker 1: beat in their own place, man. Denver fell short in
- 49:49Speaker 1: the game. It was a big game for Denver. I
- 49:52Speaker 1: would say it was closer than the final score would
- 49:54Speaker 1: suggest because I was watching a decent amount of that game,
- 49:57Speaker 1: and it was close for most of the game. So
- 50:00Speaker 1: Denver may not be in a good spot coming off
- 50:02Speaker 1: of that type of game. And who does Denver play next?
- 50:05Speaker 1: Hold on. They play Golden State next. Golden State's not
- 50:11Speaker 1: really good anymore, but they still have that aura behind them.
- 50:16Speaker 1: They still have Curry and Green and whatever there. Butler
- 50:19Speaker 1: may not ever come back, but it's still the Golden
- 50:21Speaker 1: State Warriors. This doesn't look like a good spot to
- 50:24Speaker 1: me for Denver either. Denver's an 11.5 point favorite. And Denver,
- 50:29Speaker 1: you know, they were kind of an overvalued team at
- 50:32Speaker 1: home last year for whatever reason. I guess because people just,
- 50:35Speaker 1: the odds makers, whatever, the market just started overrating the
- 50:37Speaker 1: high elevation thing. This is a tough game to figure out.
- 50:40Speaker 1: I think I might lean towards taking the points with
- 50:42Speaker 1: New Orleans. It sounds really bad. Don't want to do it,
- 50:46Speaker 1: but that might be the way I would lean in
- 50:48Speaker 1: that game. And then the final game is the Golden
- 50:51Speaker 1: State Warriors at Phoenix on NBA TV. Golden State played
- 50:54Speaker 1: yesterday and lost again to the Memphis Grizzlies. Here's Steph
- 50:59Speaker 1: Curry getting manhandled, it looks like here. The Warriors blew
- 51:03Speaker 1: a huge lead, by the way. Grizzlies went on a
- 51:06Speaker 1: 17-0 run late in the game to win that game.
- 51:09Speaker 1: I believe I leaned Warriors in that game, and it
- 51:12Speaker 1: looks like they should have won, but they didn't. Now
- 51:14Speaker 1: they're having to turn around off of that game and
- 51:17Speaker 1: play on the road with no time off. Phoenix got
- 51:20Speaker 1: totally embarrassed in their first game, losing horribly to the Trailblazers,
- 51:24Speaker 1: the Jailblazers. with John Morant now. 41-point loss. Phoenix traveling
- 51:31Speaker 1: home from that with a day off here. I think
- 51:34Speaker 1: you've got to lead Phoenix here, even though Golden State
- 51:37Speaker 1: is going to be trying to get that first win.
- 51:39Speaker 1: But yeah, Golden State on no rest on the back-to-back
- 51:42Speaker 1: after imploding in the game yesterday, even though Memphis isn't
- 51:45Speaker 1: really that good. So Golden State was the favorite there,
- 51:48Speaker 1: so they did technically lose as a favorite, but still...
- 51:52Speaker 1: Back-to-back with travel doesn't look good to me. They get
- 51:56Speaker 1: this Phoenix team off of a disgustingly bad-looking loss. I
- 52:00Speaker 1: would prefer the Suns in this one. I think the
- 52:02Speaker 1: public will shy away from it, too, because Phoenix is
- 52:04Speaker 1: a 9.5-point favorite here. The public's got to be thinking, like, oh,
- 52:09Speaker 1: my God, even though they're 0-2, I'm getting Steph Curry
- 52:11Speaker 1: as a 9.5-point underdog here. Like, that looks pretty tempting, right?
- 52:15Speaker 1: But I still don't think this Phoenix team is that bad.
- 52:19Speaker 1: I don't think they could be. I mean, they got Booker,
- 52:21Speaker 1: Brooks still, you know. This isn't that bad of a
- 52:24Speaker 1: Phoenix team, I don't think. So, yeah, I would lay
- 52:27Speaker 1: it with Phoenix if I was going to play that one.
- 52:29Speaker 1: All right, then we have the horrific WNBA– Golden State
- 52:33Speaker 1: facing elimination here, down 2-1 in Atlanta here. I think
- 52:39Speaker 1: the only way to look at this game is to
- 52:40Speaker 1: still lean to Golden State, though, after two pretty ugly-looking losses.
- 52:44Speaker 1: And the last one was disgustingly bad. And this is
- 52:47Speaker 1: after Golden State swept the season series and won the
- 52:50Speaker 1: first game of this series. They lost both games here
- 52:53Speaker 1: by double digits and lost this last one by 26 points.
- 52:58Speaker 1: And we took a loss on the show. I'm not
- 53:00Speaker 1: going to deny it. Yeah, I thought it was a
- 53:01Speaker 1: zigzag spot for Golden State. They could not get it done.
- 53:04Speaker 1: But if you look at what was happening in this game, yeah,
- 53:07Speaker 1: Atlanta had the upper hand for a lot of it.
- 53:08Speaker 1: But Golden State went on a run, and it looked
- 53:10Speaker 1: like they were about to flip the script in the game.
- 53:13Speaker 1: They were close, and then all of a sudden they
- 53:15Speaker 1: just imploded late in the third quarter, and everything went
- 53:18Speaker 1: completely wrong after that. Golden State shot unbelievably badly in
- 53:21Speaker 1: this game, 35% from the field. Even though, yes, they
- 53:25Speaker 1: did hit 40% of their threes. But even so, you're
- 53:28Speaker 1: not going to win when you shoot 35% from the field, man.
- 53:30Speaker 1: It's just not going to happen. And Atlanta shot almost 50%.
- 53:33Speaker 1: So I still think there is a bunch of regression.
- 53:36Speaker 1: There are a bunch of regression angles here. I don't
- 53:38Speaker 1: think Atlanta is going to shoot this well again. Golden
- 53:41Speaker 1: State should shoot better than they did. And Atlanta, for
- 53:44Speaker 1: the second straight game, went to the free throw line
- 53:47Speaker 1: way more times. They went 12 more times to the
- 53:49Speaker 1: free throw line, and they were plus nine from the
- 53:51Speaker 1: free throw line. So again, I think that thing is
- 53:54Speaker 1: going to turn around a little bit. I think Golden
- 53:56Speaker 1: State is going to clean up these turnovers at some
- 53:58Speaker 1: point after they had 19 and then 17 turnovers in
- 54:01Speaker 1: each of the last two games. I know it's the
- 54:04Speaker 1: same handicap I gave out in this game, and it
- 54:06Speaker 1: didn't work. But again, I think there's going to be
- 54:08Speaker 1: regression here. And this time it includes the shooting percentages too,
- 54:12Speaker 1: where Atlanta shot too well in this game. And they
- 54:15Speaker 1: even shot better from three as well, although it was
- 54:17Speaker 1: only slightly. Golden State shot way too poorly in this game.
- 54:22Speaker 1: Golden State's got the turnovers to clean up here. Yeah,
- 54:25Speaker 1: and the free throw disparity was just crazy in the game.
- 54:29Speaker 1: So I would have to lean Golden State here, and
- 54:31Speaker 1: I know the money's not agreeing with it, but also
- 54:33Speaker 1: you're getting extra value. Like Atlanta was a two and
- 54:35Speaker 1: a half point favorite, or three and a half I
- 54:37Speaker 1: think is what it was up to in Atlanta. Game three,
- 54:40Speaker 1: and now you're looking at five and a half. I mean,
- 54:43Speaker 1: come on, man. This is the biggest underdog price you're
- 54:46Speaker 1: getting on Golden State here, and they're facing elimination. So
- 54:49Speaker 1: you know you're going to get their best effort in
- 54:51Speaker 1: this game. Yeah, the only way to play this, in
- 54:54Speaker 1: my opinion, is to take the points with Golden State.
- 54:56Speaker 1: You got some regression angles supporting it. The line has
- 54:59Speaker 1: over-adjusted based on what we saw last. There's no huge
- 55:02Speaker 1: injury here that's like anything, you know, that's something that's
- 55:06Speaker 1: different from the previous game, I mean. 60% of tickets
- 55:10Speaker 1: and 95% of the cash on Atlanta. I do not
- 55:13Speaker 1: agree with that market read. I would only take the
- 55:16Speaker 1: points of Golden State there. This game's in the afternoon,
- 55:19Speaker 1: by the way, 1 p.m., I will remain off of
- 55:22Speaker 1: the WNBA, though, because things have just gone so badly. But,
- 55:25Speaker 1: of course, now that it's not a play for me,
- 55:27Speaker 1: you know it's going to be right. And the money's
- 55:29Speaker 1: also coming in on the under. This has been an
- 55:32Speaker 1: under type of series for the most part. I thought
- 55:34Speaker 1: Game 2 was going to go over. It didn't. And
- 55:37Speaker 1: then I liked the over in Game 3 as well,
- 55:39Speaker 1: and it finally did go over in Game 3. The
- 55:41Speaker 1: only big scoring came from Atlanta in Game 3 there
- 55:45Speaker 1: because all of a sudden they had the only good
- 55:47Speaker 1: shooting performance in the series so far. So I don't
- 55:50Speaker 1: really want the over after that. This could be more
- 55:53Speaker 1: of an under type of game because it's a big game.
- 55:55Speaker 1: It's an elimination game, you know. You might seem more
- 55:58Speaker 1: focused on defense again in this one. So I would
- 56:00Speaker 1: not disagree with the under. It's kind of zigzagging what
- 56:03Speaker 1: we saw last. In games one and two, both went under.
- 56:06Speaker 1: And game two, I thought was a good setup to
- 56:08Speaker 1: go over, and it didn't happen. But then again, on
- 56:12Speaker 1: somewhat short rest, I like it a little bit less,
- 56:14Speaker 1: although they did have an extra day off. I think
- 56:16Speaker 1: these teams haven't played since Wednesday, so... Um, the extra
- 56:20Speaker 1: rest I think should help the defense and maybe cool
- 56:22Speaker 1: off the offense a little bit. So I would not
- 56:25Speaker 1: disagree under in that game. Healthcare NBA fraud.
- 56:30Speaker 4: Yes.
- 56:31Speaker 1: Glenn Davis. Oh, he's out. All right. Free big baby.
- 56:34Speaker 1: All right. So he is free. All right. Uh, Tampa Bay, Milwaukee,
- 56:38Speaker 1: my lean on the under yesterday was correct. Uh, Milwaukee
- 56:41Speaker 1: wound up, uh, they won three to two after they
- 56:43Speaker 1: scored two runs in the first inning. And then they
- 56:45Speaker 1: wound up holding on to a three to two win, uh,
- 56:48Speaker 1: But this game actually should have gone over the total,
- 56:51Speaker 1: and I saw a lot of professionals actually on the
- 56:53Speaker 1: over in this game. And remember, I had my concerns
- 56:56Speaker 1: with it because Nick Martinez is very familiar to Milwaukee.
- 57:00Speaker 1: Mizurowski wasn't good up to this point in the playoffs,
- 57:02Speaker 1: though he actually had his best performance in the playoffs
- 57:05Speaker 1: so far yesterday. He was much more efficient. He pitched
- 57:08Speaker 1: really well. Martinez was also okay in the game yesterday too, though.
- 57:13Speaker 1: So I don't know. My gauge on the starting pitching
- 57:15Speaker 1: wasn't too bad in the game yesterday as well. But
- 57:18Speaker 1: you can see the teams combined for 15 hits. So
- 57:20Speaker 1: these teams should have combined for more than five runs here.
- 57:23Speaker 1: So there were a lot of guys stranded on base.
- 57:25Speaker 1: And Tampa Bay's pitching also walked four guys in the game,
- 57:29Speaker 1: most of it in the middle of the game from Mott's. But, yeah,
- 57:31Speaker 1: there could have been more scoring in this game than
- 57:33Speaker 1: there was. I actually think it was kind of a
- 57:35Speaker 1: misleading low-scoring game here with Milwaukee winning 3-2. So I
- 57:39Speaker 1: actually like the over in this game here. And we
- 57:42Speaker 1: saw bullpen usage, obviously, in the game yesterday. Milwaukee used
- 57:45Speaker 1: their best relievers, including their closer again, McGill, to finish
- 57:49Speaker 1: the game off. So playing again right away on a back-to-back.
- 57:54Speaker 1: Some of those guys might not be available. So I
- 57:56Speaker 1: think the bullpen usage, you know, obviously is a little
- 58:00Speaker 1: bit of a factor here as well. Tampa Bay didn't
- 58:02Speaker 1: use like their absolute backend guys, but they still use
- 58:05Speaker 1: like four relief pitchers. So believe it or not, I
- 58:07Speaker 1: like the over in this game, even though the starting
- 58:09Speaker 1: pitching looks like it's a really, really good matchup and
- 58:12Speaker 1: looks like the type of game where I'd play the under.
- 58:15Speaker 1: Drew Rasmussen is pitching for Tampa. Tampa decided to have
- 58:18Speaker 1: him pitching game two instead of game one, even though
- 58:21Speaker 1: he's definitely their ace. He had a great season. 2.67 ERA,.
- 58:26Speaker 1: 91 whip. He was really good on the road. 2.47
- 58:28Speaker 1: road ERA. He's been really good in the playoffs. So
- 58:34Speaker 1: why do I want to fade him when he has
- 58:35Speaker 1: a 23-3 strikeout walk ratio in the playoffs so far?
- 58:38Speaker 1: He's gotten at least six innings in all three of
- 58:40Speaker 1: his starts and has a 1.29 ERA so far in
- 58:43Speaker 1: the playoffs. Well... I don't like his numbers against Milwaukee,
- 58:48Speaker 1: so I just think it's a combination of everything that
- 58:51Speaker 1: leads me to believe that there's just so little leeway
- 58:54Speaker 1: on the total that I think this thing's going to
- 58:55Speaker 1: go over. Rasmussen is actually not that good against the Brewers.
- 58:59Speaker 1: These numbers are just really mediocre. He does not dominate them.
- 59:03Speaker 1: They have 48 at bats against him 11 strikeouts 3
- 59:06Speaker 1: walks so that's a good ratio for him but they
- 59:08Speaker 1: have a 250 average and 752 OPS against him while
- 59:11Speaker 1: that's that's not great obviously for offensive numbers but he
- 59:17Speaker 1: doesn't have really the upper hand against them you know
- 59:19Speaker 1: what I mean he just has really mediocre numbers against
- 59:22Speaker 1: them so this isn't his best matchup And on the
- 59:25Speaker 1: other side, Logan Henderson, great pitcher. No doubt about that.
- 59:29Speaker 1: Had a really good season for Milwaukee. 2.47 ERA,. 84 whip.
- 59:33Speaker 1: He was awesome at home. 1.84 home ERA. But he's
- 59:38Speaker 1: really struggling in the playoffs, man. He's a really young guy.
- 59:40Speaker 1: He's inexperienced. I think he may have pitched a little
- 59:43Speaker 1: bit in the playoffs last year, but this year... he's
- 59:46Speaker 1: massively struggled even though they won both games that he
- 59:48Speaker 1: pitched and he does have a three era uh so
- 59:51Speaker 1: far in the playoffs it could be a lot worse
- 59:53Speaker 1: because he's walked five guys in nine innings so far
- 59:56Speaker 1: with only six strikeouts so these are not good numbers
- 59:59Speaker 1: man so henderson has definitely been really shaky so i
- 1:00:02Speaker 1: would worry about him especially on a stage like this
- 1:00:05Speaker 1: and thinking well we won yesterday so that can make
- 1:00:08Speaker 1: you a little bit overconfident possibly here The public all
- 1:00:11Speaker 1: loves Milwaukee here. Henderson doesn't have that much experience against Tampa, though,
- 1:00:16Speaker 1: so he is unfamiliar to them. So that could be
- 1:00:18Speaker 1: a little bit of an edge for him, for sure.
- 1:00:20Speaker 1: When hitters haven't faced a young pitcher like this before,
- 1:00:23Speaker 1: a lot of times they struggle to figure him out.
- 1:00:25Speaker 1: Hicks and Mullins are the only guys who have faced him,
- 1:00:27Speaker 1: I believe because they were in the National League. They're
- 1:00:31Speaker 1: 0-4 combined often with two strikeouts, no walks. So Henderson
- 1:00:35Speaker 1: looks like he has the better of the matchup here,
- 1:00:37Speaker 1: but he's just struggled, man. We don't see the percentages
- 1:00:40Speaker 1: on this either, but I like the over in this one.
- 1:00:42Speaker 1: It's six and a half, so you're getting it below
- 1:00:44Speaker 1: that key number seven. I mean, the oddsmakers pretty much
- 1:00:46Speaker 1: have to do that because they can't really put a
- 1:00:49Speaker 1: total higher than that out on this game because it
- 1:00:52Speaker 1: is an elite pitching matchup. I wouldn't disagree if you
- 1:00:55Speaker 1: said that, but I just think the specific matchup for
- 1:00:59Speaker 1: Rasmussen is not the best, and Henderson... He just looks
- 1:01:02Speaker 1: like he has a lot of nerves right now as
- 1:01:04Speaker 1: a really young dude. So, yeah, I like the over here.
- 1:01:07Speaker 1: And I actually, I probably lean Tampa Bay to bounce
- 1:01:10Speaker 1: back and get this game. I know I said people
- 1:01:13Speaker 1: gave me a lot of shit going into this series.
- 1:01:14Speaker 1: I said there was going to be potentially value on
- 1:01:17Speaker 1: the American League team because Milwaukee looked too good, having
- 1:01:20Speaker 1: the best regular season record, sweeping the Dodgers out of
- 1:01:24Speaker 1: the playoffs, extra good. Rest, which I thought might turn
- 1:01:27Speaker 1: into rust. That's all, I think, a negative for Milwaukee.
- 1:01:31Speaker 1: And Milwaukee, overall, is kind of the less experienced team.
- 1:01:34Speaker 1: They have an inexperienced pitching rotation, although Miz did look
- 1:01:37Speaker 1: good yesterday. Still, inexperienced starting pitching for Milwaukee here. Yeah,
- 1:01:44Speaker 1: I don't know, man. Those are my thoughts about the
- 1:01:47Speaker 1: overall matchup here. But just putting this all in a blender,
- 1:01:50Speaker 1: I mean, Rasmussen is the more experienced of these two pitchers, so...
- 1:01:55Speaker 1: And Tampa, you know, basically, like, they got to try
- 1:01:58Speaker 1: to even the series up, man. So, I don't know.
- 1:02:00Speaker 1: I would lean towards Tampa. This is why they have
- 1:02:02Speaker 1: Rasmussen pitching game two. You know, like, it seemed like
- 1:02:06Speaker 1: Tampa Bay was setting this up. Like, we're going to
- 1:02:07Speaker 1: give ourselves a decent opportunity to win game one. And, yeah,
- 1:02:10Speaker 1: it was close. I mean, it was a one-run game.
- 1:02:13Speaker 1: I know it was 3-1 late, but still. That game
- 1:02:15Speaker 1: was just kind of, it wound up being kind of
- 1:02:17Speaker 1: a toss-up. I think that game was up in the air.
- 1:02:20Speaker 1: So I think my analysis was correct. Basically, I was
- 1:02:24Speaker 1: saying this is not going to be a dominating... Like,
- 1:02:27Speaker 1: Milwaukee is not going to dominate this series, essentially, is
- 1:02:29Speaker 1: what I said. And I don't think that they will.
- 1:02:32Speaker 1: Even if they wind up sweeping or whatever, I don't
- 1:02:34Speaker 1: think they're going to have that many blowout wins in here. But, yeah,
- 1:02:38Speaker 1: I like the experience of Rasmussen here, actually, better than Henderson.
- 1:02:42Speaker 1: Rasmussen has just been way better in the postseason. He's
- 1:02:45Speaker 1: turned it up, so he's in way better recent form.
- 1:02:48Speaker 1: And Tampa Bay has more of their better bullpen arms
- 1:02:50Speaker 1: available in this game. Milwaukee is about a minus-120 favorite.
- 1:02:54Speaker 1: It looks like the money has kind of come in
- 1:02:55Speaker 1: towards Tampa. because Milwaukee opened minus 130, and that's dropped
- 1:02:59Speaker 1: a little bit, I think the public will only be
- 1:03:02Speaker 1: on Milwaukee here, for all the reasons I already stated, plus, additionally,
- 1:03:06Speaker 1: they won the game yesterday, so the public is only
- 1:03:08Speaker 1: going to jump in on Milwaukee here, in this game,
- 1:03:10Speaker 1: you would think, even though maybe, I don't know if
- 1:03:12Speaker 1: they'll shy away a little bit, because they don't want
- 1:03:14Speaker 1: to go up against Rasmussen, but yeah, I would lean
- 1:03:17Speaker 1: Tampa in that game, as far as the side, the
- 1:03:19Speaker 1: underdog price, I probably prefer the over, as far as
- 1:03:22Speaker 1: how to play that game, but Yeah, for the side,
- 1:03:24Speaker 1: I like Tampa in that game as well. I know
- 1:03:26Speaker 1: I liked them first five yesterday, and that didn't happen.
- 1:03:29Speaker 1: It was a 2-1 game, I think, at the end
- 1:03:31Speaker 1: of five. But, yeah, that's what I got, man. And
- 1:03:36Speaker 1: then we'll do our final market read here. So we
- 1:03:38Speaker 1: have all of our plays ready to go here. Go
- 1:03:40Speaker 1: check out the college football show from last night, and
- 1:03:43Speaker 1: you'll see my analysis on the plays. We have Michigan
- 1:03:46Speaker 1: plus 7.5, UCF plus 7.5. I know people are going
- 1:03:50Speaker 1: to hate these plays, but it's about the spot, man.
- 1:03:52Speaker 1: vandy plus 10 and a half iowa state plus 11
- 1:03:57Speaker 1: and then additionally in this show i added the toronto
- 1:03:59Speaker 1: maple leafs in hockey as a split bet plus one
- 1:04:02Speaker 1: puck line and then uh the brooklyn nets plus 11
- 1:04:06Speaker 1: for the nba so six plays in total today that's
- 1:04:11Speaker 1: what we got let's look at the final market read
- 1:04:13Speaker 1: here for the college football plays that i gave out
- 1:04:15Speaker 1: here which I just saw BYU, so we can look
- 1:04:17Speaker 1: at that. Yeah, BYU is still a public side with
- 1:04:19Speaker 1: less of the money on them, so still agreement with
- 1:04:22Speaker 1: me on the UCF side. It looks like if you
- 1:04:23Speaker 1: want UCF, those 7.5s that were out there last night
- 1:04:27Speaker 1: look like they're kind of disappearing, although you might still
- 1:04:29Speaker 1: be able to find the 7.5, at least get the
- 1:04:31Speaker 1: 7 on Central Florida, though. As far as my other reads,
- 1:04:37Speaker 1: it looks like South Carolina still is the right market
- 1:04:40Speaker 1: read in their game. They're an anti-public favorite. LSU is
- 1:04:43Speaker 1: still getting all the money in that game, which is
- 1:04:44Speaker 1: another game that I liked Minnesota still getting the money
- 1:04:48Speaker 1: going against the public there as well, which was one
- 1:04:50Speaker 1: of the other games I felt strongly about. But my
- 1:04:53Speaker 1: other plays were, what were they now? I don't even remember.
- 1:04:59Speaker 1: How do I already forget? Oh, yeah, Michigan against Indiana. Yeah,
- 1:05:02Speaker 1: Indiana's still the somewhat public side. Michigan looks to be
- 1:05:05Speaker 1: getting more of the money there, so that market read
- 1:05:07Speaker 1: still aligns. Iowa State looks like their market read kind
- 1:05:11Speaker 1: of still aligns. Arizona's just slightly public there. That hasn't
- 1:05:14Speaker 1: really changed since last night, although we'll see if anything
- 1:05:16Speaker 1: changes prior to tonight. But I still, you know, based
- 1:05:20Speaker 1: on the spot, I still like all these plays. And
- 1:05:23Speaker 1: really strong market read with Vandy. Kentucky, very public. very
- 1:05:28Speaker 1: overrated team right now in my opinion and vandy seems
- 1:05:30Speaker 1: to be getting pretty much all the money the actual
- 1:05:33Speaker 1: professional money there so all the market reads look good
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- 1:05:53Speaker 1: NFL show for tonight. I might be only giving out
- 1:05:56Speaker 1: two NFL plays. I have some other opinions that are
- 1:05:59Speaker 1: fairly strong, but I think I'm narrowing it down to
- 1:06:01Speaker 1: two plays. We'll see. It's a little bit of a
- 1:06:03Speaker 1: shorter NFL week because of all the buys, uh, but
- 1:06:07Speaker 1: not the gays, uh, the buys. Um, yeah. So be
- 1:06:11Speaker 1: on the lookout for that tonight. Uh, you know, uh,
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- 1:06:30Speaker 1: That's going to do it. I appreciate it. Thanks, everybody. Peace.
- 1:06:38Speaker 2: If the dark starts talking, hand me the phone.
- 1:06:42Speaker 1: Let somebody answer.
- 1:06:44Speaker 3: Let somebody know you do not have to. lose this
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- 1:06:55Speaker 4: Hold on, hold.
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- 1:07:07Speaker 3: Let me pull you out. That bad luck bites hard,
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