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- 0:17Speaker 1: You gotta slip in your palm.
- 0:19Speaker 2: Man, a hole in your chicks, the black coffee on
- 0:22Speaker 2: the felt.
- 0:23Speaker 1: Man, you look like a mess. Three teen Parlette turned
- 0:28Speaker 1: the dust in your head.
- 0:29Speaker 3: Now you stare at the chips.
- 0:31Speaker 2: Like they made you this man.
- 0:34Speaker 3: But don't you go quiet. Don't you fade from the floor.
- 0:38Speaker 2: Your name still means something on somebody for show. Put
- 0:42Speaker 2: the glass down, baby, look at me.
- 0:46Speaker 4: No, hold on, hold on nothing.
- 0:55Speaker 5: Nice not now.
- 0:58Speaker 4: Hold on, Hold on me, but it don't get the crown.
- 1:14Speaker 4: Hold on, hold on and stay.
- 1:19Speaker 3: With me now, and Mike does not get unmuted anymore automatically, Streamyard.
- 1:37Speaker 3: Just fuck you. I don't know what else to say.
- 1:40Speaker 3: Fuck everything, what's up? Everybody? It's towed back with you,
- 1:44Speaker 3: toadstool sports whatever. Yesterday you knew it was gonna go
- 1:48Speaker 3: horribly right away when we absolutely should have had the
- 1:51Speaker 3: undercorrect In Cardinals Phillies. It was a four run game,
- 1:55Speaker 3: four nothing, two outs, bottom of the ninth, four nothing,
- 1:58Speaker 3: Saint Louis. How does that game not go under eight?
- 2:03Speaker 3: Oh yeah, how about Philly scores six runs all with
- 2:07Speaker 3: two outs in the bottom of the ninth inning, and
- 2:10Speaker 3: of course the first four or the first five would
- 2:12Speaker 3: have hit the under So if I limited it to
- 2:14Speaker 3: the first five, which I almost did, that would have
- 2:16Speaker 3: been a winner. It obviously should have been a winner anyway.
- 2:19Speaker 3: And six runs all with two outs in the bottom
- 2:22Speaker 3: of the ninth, and it took five for it to
- 2:25Speaker 3: actually get over four for the push, none of that
- 2:29Speaker 3: should have happened. He's even the worst bullpen in baseball
- 2:32Speaker 3: is not gonna do that usually, like the A's or whatever.
- 2:35Speaker 3: You have to be fucking kidding me. It's such bullshit.
- 2:39Speaker 3: And then yeah, cub Seattle just whatever. Man Bryce Miller
- 2:44Speaker 3: could not even get a pitch over the plate. I
- 2:46Speaker 3: don't know what to tell you. He walked like seven
- 2:48Speaker 3: guys walked everybody. That was a complete disaster the Chicago sky.
- 2:56Speaker 3: I mean, what do you want, Like they couldn't shoot
- 2:59Speaker 3: in Indiana shot really well. Indiana shot fifty three percent
- 3:03Speaker 3: from three point range. They probably had at least I
- 3:07Speaker 3: don't know, fifteen more threes that Chicago did. Probably something
- 3:10Speaker 3: like that. Like you're never gonna win a game when
- 3:13Speaker 3: that happens. It's just I don't know if Chicago deserve
- 3:16Speaker 3: to win. I wouldn't say they did. I think they've
- 3:17Speaker 3: won the rebound battle, though, But when you have that
- 3:21Speaker 3: much of a shooting disparity, there's nothing you could do.
- 3:23Speaker 3: I'm so fucking sick of this. Like it's so good
- 3:26Speaker 3: that football is about to start because I can't do
- 3:28Speaker 3: anything anymore in baseball WNBA. But guess what we're doing today. Yeah,
- 3:33Speaker 3: we're gonna have a ton of plays today. Even though
- 3:35Speaker 3: it's a short baseball board whatever, I'm gonna give out
- 3:38Speaker 3: a bunch of plays because I'm on tilt. I don't
- 3:41Speaker 3: care anymore. After a seven zero run, I think we've
- 3:44Speaker 3: now lost seven in a row. So just give all
- 3:47Speaker 3: give it all back, give it all back to the books. Yeah,
- 3:49Speaker 3: that's what we do here. That's great, let's lose some
- 3:53Speaker 3: more money here. First game up is a play for
- 3:55Speaker 3: me Red Sox Marlins. Why not? Because these games have
- 4:05Speaker 3: been working out so well. We're gonna take this game
- 4:07Speaker 3: under the seven and a half. Why not? Miami? I
- 4:11Speaker 3: believe they're staying at home. They did just sweep Washington.
- 4:16Speaker 3: Miami is still trying to make the playoffs here. The
- 4:18Speaker 3: Red Sox are in pretty good position to get a
- 4:21Speaker 3: wildcard spot at this point, so maybe there's a little
- 4:24Speaker 3: bit more motivation on the Miami side the Red Sox
- 4:27Speaker 3: to have to travel, but it is the start of
- 4:29Speaker 3: a road trip. Red Sox are playing well right now.
- 4:32Speaker 3: They swept the Giants. They're on a five game win streak.
- 4:35Speaker 3: Started a road trip with momentum is usually not a
- 4:37Speaker 3: terrible spot here, but I'm focusing on the pitching being
- 4:41Speaker 3: all around the advantage in this game. Plus it is Miami,
- 4:45Speaker 3: so it is a picture friendly ballpark. Boston use two
- 4:49Speaker 3: relief pitchers yesterday, although it was their two best relievers
- 4:52Speaker 3: currently with the injuries that they have, I'm still not
- 4:55Speaker 3: too concerned about this bullpen those it's the best in
- 4:58Speaker 3: baseball based on the metrics, at least right now. Miami.
- 5:03Speaker 3: They did use four guys out of the bullpen, but
- 5:06Speaker 3: I'm still okay with using the With backing their bullpen here,
- 5:10Speaker 3: some of their better relievers are still available here. Red
- 5:13Speaker 3: Sox number one in bullpen, Miami number six based on whip.
- 5:16Speaker 3: Although I don't think Miami's that good, but I think
- 5:19Speaker 3: they're good enough to back here, especially if the starting
- 5:21Speaker 3: pitching can get us deeper into this game. Red Sox
- 5:24Speaker 3: the number eighth offensively, and they've been a pretty good
- 5:28Speaker 3: road team Miami number nine offensively, but I think the
- 5:31Speaker 3: pitching can out can outperform the hitting In this one.
- 5:36Speaker 3: Ronyer Suarez is pitching for the Red Sox three point
- 5:39Speaker 3: four to one ERA, one point one to eight WHIP.
- 5:41Speaker 3: He's better on the road this year two point seventy five.
- 5:44Speaker 3: Roadyra didn't pitch that well last time out against Arizona.
- 5:49Speaker 3: He's kind of been shaky since he came back from injury.
- 5:52Speaker 3: But the rampingest pitch count up again. They're getting him up,
- 5:55Speaker 3: getting him back up to a full starter's workload. He
- 5:58Speaker 3: is up to that again, so I'm willing to back
- 6:02Speaker 3: him here. Like even though his current form is not
- 6:04Speaker 3: exactly great. Eight to five strike out walk issue this
- 6:08Speaker 3: month is not really good, but he does have a
- 6:10Speaker 3: low hit rate on the season, a low walk rate.
- 6:12Speaker 3: His strike out rate is still read at one per
- 6:14Speaker 3: inning pretty much so strike out walk ratio, strike up
- 6:17Speaker 3: per nine, all those numbers are good. He's working his
- 6:20Speaker 3: way back. I was a little bit concerned because Miami
- 6:23Speaker 3: is gonna be familiar with him because he was in
- 6:26Speaker 3: their division when he was on Philly, but Miami has
- 6:29Speaker 3: not done anything against him. This current Miami lineup has
- 6:32Speaker 3: six hitters to have face him, and they're one for
- 6:34Speaker 3: twenty one off him. Xavier Edwards has the only hit,
- 6:37Speaker 3: which is a single. Seven strikeouts, one walk, forty eight average,
- 6:42Speaker 3: one thirty nine ops. So I'll back Suarez here in
- 6:46Speaker 3: his better home road split against a lineup that has
- 6:50Speaker 3: done nothing against him, and he just needs to be
- 6:53Speaker 3: decent enough here to get this. We're also going to
- 6:56Speaker 3: back Sandy Alkontra on the other side here from Miami
- 6:59Speaker 3: three point four to six ERA, one point win eight WHIP.
- 7:02Speaker 3: He's having a really nice bounce back season here, even
- 7:05Speaker 3: though strikeout stuff is kind of gone. He's been better
- 7:08Speaker 3: at home, so we're getting the better home roads split
- 7:10Speaker 3: on both pitchers here two point six nine ERA. At home,
- 7:14Speaker 3: he's in pretty good form right now, except his strikeout
- 7:17Speaker 3: rate has kind of gone down again over the last
- 7:19Speaker 3: couple of starts. It was up for a while, it's
- 7:22Speaker 3: gone back down a little bit, but he's still not
- 7:23Speaker 3: aligning many runs. I'm okay with that. His hit rate
- 7:27Speaker 3: is fine on the season, his walk rate is okay.
- 7:30Speaker 3: His strikeout rate is low, though, as I was alluding to,
- 7:33Speaker 3: strike out walk ratio is still not that bad because
- 7:36Speaker 3: he doesn't really walk that many guys strike up for nine,
- 7:40Speaker 3: is that it's lowest in his career. It's just it
- 7:43Speaker 3: is what it is. Man, He's a guy that's post
- 7:45Speaker 3: Tommy John surgery or whatever. But he's still pitching effectively.
- 7:49Speaker 3: And the Red Sox have not really done a whole
- 7:51Speaker 3: lot against him. They have twenty nine at bats against him,
- 7:54Speaker 3: a two point seven average, six ZHO, three oh ps
- 7:57Speaker 3: nine to two strikeout walk ratio. So we'll take the
- 8:01Speaker 3: under here. The money seems to agree with this. Sixty
- 8:05Speaker 3: five percent of tickets on the over eighty five percent
- 8:07Speaker 3: of the cash on the under. Seven and a half
- 8:10Speaker 3: is the number basically across the board here. You might
- 8:12Speaker 3: have to pay a little bit of juice for it,
- 8:14Speaker 3: but I'd be willing to do that. As far as
- 8:17Speaker 3: the side the money is back in Miami, the Red
- 8:19Speaker 3: Sox have eighty four percent of the tickets sixty five
- 8:22Speaker 3: percent of the cash on Miami Red Sox around minus
- 8:25Speaker 3: one thirty. I could see the argument for it. I mean,
- 8:29Speaker 3: I think if you play Miami, maybe first five makes
- 8:31Speaker 3: more sense. Miami might be a little bit more motivated
- 8:34Speaker 3: because they're probably the more desperate team. As far as
- 8:37Speaker 3: the playoff positioning is concerned and Suarez, I'm not sure
- 8:43Speaker 3: that I would fully trust his current form versus all Contras.
- 8:47Speaker 3: So I'm trusting it well enough to get the under
- 8:49Speaker 3: here though, so but I think all Contras in the
- 8:51Speaker 3: better current form. But Under is the play there. No,
- 8:56Speaker 3: As I just said, there's no way I would take
- 8:58Speaker 3: the Red Sox absolutely not. No. If I was gonna
- 9:02Speaker 3: play the side in that game, I would play Miami
- 9:04Speaker 3: first five. But Under I think is definitely the better
- 9:07Speaker 3: way to play that game, as it is a play
- 9:10Speaker 3: for me. So the money is completely disagreeing with the
- 9:14Speaker 3: Red Sox in that game. Tampa Bay and Detroit on
- 9:17Speaker 3: Fox Sports won. Detroit is returning home from a road
- 9:20Speaker 3: trip and they might be dead. Like that was a
- 9:23Speaker 3: horrible road trip for them. They got swept by the
- 9:26Speaker 3: Royals to finish the road trip. I mean, it doesn't
- 9:28Speaker 3: get worse than that. They might be done, dude, Like
- 9:33Speaker 3: what else can I say? Like they had to win
- 9:35Speaker 3: that series against the Royals to kind of stay in this.
- 9:38Speaker 3: They're not technically eliminated, but I think that's it for Detroit.
- 9:41Speaker 3: I think it's a dream crusher type of scenario here.
- 9:44Speaker 3: Return home, you know, I don't like the return home spot.
- 9:47Speaker 3: I think teams get distracted. They have to get back
- 9:50Speaker 3: to home life. Maybe they'll get up because they're playing
- 9:53Speaker 3: Tampa and Tampa is the team with the best record
- 9:56Speaker 3: in the American League still, but things are not looking
- 9:59Speaker 3: good for Detroit and they do not have the starting
- 10:01Speaker 3: pitching edge in this game either. So there is not
- 10:03Speaker 3: a lot to like about Detroit in this game, although
- 10:07Speaker 3: the matchup numbers actually suggest that maybe they can kind
- 10:10Speaker 3: of hang around with this starting pitching matchup. But on
- 10:13Speaker 3: the surface, just looking at who the pitchers are, Tampa
- 10:17Speaker 3: has the better pitcher on the mound. Detroit used three
- 10:20Speaker 3: relief pitchers yesterday. Tampa used three as well. Tampa is
- 10:25Speaker 3: coming off a series against Baltimore. Tampa ended a three
- 10:28Speaker 3: game losing streak actually, so they avoided the sweep yesterday
- 10:32Speaker 3: with the win over Baltimore. Of course, because I can't
- 10:34Speaker 3: get anything right. Of course, I was right about the
- 10:36Speaker 3: under in that game yesterday and it didn't make the
- 10:38Speaker 3: cut for me. So isn't that just great? Now? Tampa
- 10:42Speaker 3: Bay is coming into Detroit here with maybe a little
- 10:44Speaker 3: bit of new momentum here. Tampa's ranked fourth and bullpen
- 10:48Speaker 3: with the other Ray suggests that they're not quite that good.
- 10:52Speaker 3: Detroit is fifteenth, but they have a better bullpen Erray,
- 10:55Speaker 3: So I think the bullpens are kind of a toss
- 10:57Speaker 3: up here. Tampa Bay's sixth offensively Detroit thirteenth. Although Tampa
- 11:02Speaker 3: Bay is not very good on the road, they're much
- 11:04Speaker 3: much better at home than on the road. Detroit is
- 11:07Speaker 3: better at home, I believe, even still so Detroit is
- 11:11Speaker 3: a better home team, But still I do not like
- 11:13Speaker 3: the spot for Detroit. Drew rasp has in his pitching
- 11:16Speaker 3: for Tampa and he is their best pitch or three
- 11:18Speaker 3: point zero one ERA point nine to five whip is
- 11:21Speaker 3: really good. He's better on the road as well, two
- 11:23Speaker 3: point seventy nine roadra not great in his last start
- 11:27Speaker 3: against Toronto, which may be a red flag, I guess,
- 11:30Speaker 3: because Toronto is not a good offense. But to me
- 11:32Speaker 3: it looks more fluky than anything else.
- 11:35Speaker 2: Like.
- 11:35Speaker 3: He's still pitching well. His command numbers have been good,
- 11:39Speaker 3: his team has won whatever this is six starts in
- 11:41Speaker 3: a row for him, starting around the All Star break.
- 11:44Speaker 3: He's got a low hit rate, low walk rate, high
- 11:47Speaker 3: strikeout rate. All those numbers are good. Strike out walk
- 11:51Speaker 3: ratio is really up there, one of the highest that
- 11:53Speaker 3: he's posted, the highest that he's posted given the amount
- 11:57Speaker 3: of innings pitch that he's pitched this year. Strike Out
- 11:59Speaker 3: for none is also kind of in that vicinity as well,
- 12:02Speaker 3: one of the highest that he's had with this amount
- 12:05Speaker 3: of innings that he's thrown. His numbers gets detroit. However,
- 12:09Speaker 3: this is where because I was thinking maybe Tampa's a
- 12:12Speaker 3: play here, but his numbers gets Detroit or awful in
- 12:15Speaker 3: twenty three at bats. I know it's not a big
- 12:17Speaker 3: sample size. Six hitters have faced him, but they've been
- 12:20Speaker 3: able to get to him three ninety one average oneenty
- 12:23Speaker 3: twenty five ohps five to one. Strikeout walk ratio ratio
- 12:27Speaker 3: is good, but everything else doesn't look good here. And well,
- 12:30Speaker 3: I don't want to overrate these matchup numbers, and maybe
- 12:33Speaker 3: I do overrate them, but this is kind of keeping
- 12:36Speaker 3: me off the game a little bit. Even though Rasmussen
- 12:39Speaker 3: clearly is a better pitcher over from Rivaldez here and
- 12:42Speaker 3: Tampa is in the better spot here, I just don't
- 12:46Speaker 3: think I could do it given that the matchup numbers
- 12:48Speaker 3: go completely opposite that from Rivaldez has not really had
- 12:51Speaker 3: a great season for Detroit four point three to five VRRA,
- 12:54Speaker 3: but it's one point four whip is very ugly. Although
- 12:58Speaker 3: he is better at home four point three HOMEYRA, better
- 13:01Speaker 3: opponent batting average at home, he's in bad current form
- 13:04Speaker 3: though he's walking a ton of guys nine guys walked
- 13:08Speaker 3: over his last two starts with eight strikeouts. Not good.
- 13:11Speaker 3: His strikeout walk ratio over the course of August is
- 13:14Speaker 3: not really even that much better than that. He's given
- 13:17Speaker 3: up too many hits on the season as well, in
- 13:19Speaker 3: his walk numbers very hefty. His strikeout rate is kind
- 13:23Speaker 3: of down to like. These numbers are not good. He's
- 13:26Speaker 3: at one of his lowest strikeout of walk ratios he's
- 13:29Speaker 3: ever posted. His strikeout per nine is also at the
- 13:32Speaker 3: lowest that it's been. Yeah, not a good season for him.
- 13:36Speaker 3: Numbers against Tampa Bay, however, are actually good. In fifty
- 13:40Speaker 3: four at bats to twenty two average, six to fifty
- 13:43Speaker 3: nine oh ps, thirteen to five strikeout walk ratio. So
- 13:48Speaker 3: while initially I was looking at this and thinking Tampa
- 13:51Speaker 3: Bay has to be the side here like Detroit's returning
- 13:53Speaker 3: home bad spot. They might be dead after that sweep
- 13:56Speaker 3: against the Royals, maybe they'll Maybe it's a bounce back
- 14:00Speaker 3: spot for them, I guess because that was so embarrassing,
- 14:03Speaker 3: and maybe they get up for playing Tampa Rastwissen, though
- 14:06Speaker 3: he's overall the better pitcher over Valdez, there's no question
- 14:09Speaker 3: about that. The issue I have is the matchup numbers
- 14:11Speaker 3: that we just saw. I think i'd still just lean
- 14:14Speaker 3: Tampa here, but I'm gonna stay off the game. Tampa
- 14:17Speaker 3: is getting the money eighty one percent of tickets, eighty
- 14:19Speaker 3: eight percent of the cash on them. They're a public
- 14:21Speaker 3: side too, though it looks like maybe public and professionals
- 14:25Speaker 3: all on that side. They're minus one thirty or so.
- 14:30Speaker 3: I mean, maybe Tampa first five makes sense as well,
- 14:33Speaker 3: because he can't really tell which bullpen is really the
- 14:35Speaker 3: one that has the advantage. The money's also kind of
- 14:37Speaker 3: indicating on the under seven and a half in that game.
- 14:40Speaker 3: I don't have a feel for the total really because
- 14:43Speaker 3: it seems like they're just factors that go both ways there,
- 14:47Speaker 3: all right, Colorado and Washington. But yeah, I think the
- 14:51Speaker 3: spot is the way that I would play that still,
- 14:53Speaker 3: and I would lean towards Tampa Bay and still lean
- 14:55Speaker 3: into Rasmussen being the overall better pitcher, but I don't
- 14:58Speaker 3: like the matchup numbers for it. Washington is returning home
- 15:01Speaker 3: from a road trip, a bad road trip. They were
- 15:04Speaker 3: on the road for a long time. They went to
- 15:05Speaker 3: New York to play the Mets, then Texas, then Miami,
- 15:09Speaker 3: and now they're returning home. And I always talk about
- 15:11Speaker 3: it again, I'm gonna mention it distracted spot possibly in
- 15:15Speaker 3: the return home here. I don't feel that the team's
- 15:19Speaker 3: usually bounce back from a bad road trip. I think
- 15:21Speaker 3: it's more often that they get distracted, especially because they're
- 15:24Speaker 3: playing Colorado here. Like, who's gonna get up for Colorado?
- 15:27Speaker 3: Basically no one. So I don't think it's a good
- 15:30Speaker 3: spot for Washington to try to be focused here. They're
- 15:34Speaker 3: pretty much done on the season. I mean, they sold
- 15:36Speaker 3: at the trade deadline. So you're looking at two teams
- 15:39Speaker 3: that are both kind of done. Here, you're looking at
- 15:41Speaker 3: two bad bullpens. Colorado is starting a road trip. They
- 15:45Speaker 3: were just at home. They just got swept for the
- 15:48Speaker 3: second straight series, so they've lost six games in a row.
- 15:51Speaker 3: Both teams are ice cold right now. Just like me,
- 15:56Speaker 3: this could be a series or maybe you'll look for
- 15:58Speaker 3: some overs. I'm not gonna do it in this though,
- 16:00Speaker 3: because one of the starting pitchers is too good for that,
- 16:03Speaker 3: but possibly because the bullpens are awful and the teams
- 16:07Speaker 3: don't give a shit, probably there might be some overs
- 16:10Speaker 3: coming home in this series. Colorado used five relief pitchers yesterday,
- 16:14Speaker 3: not good for a bullpen that's already not good. Washington
- 16:17Speaker 3: only used two. Both bullpens are bad Colorado twenty seventh
- 16:22Speaker 3: Washington twenty sixth, though their ERA is slightly worse. It's
- 16:26Speaker 3: debatable which bullpen is worse than the other, but they're
- 16:29Speaker 3: both bad. Both offenses are good Washington three, Colorado four.
- 16:34Speaker 3: So that again, it looks like the makings for an
- 16:37Speaker 3: over type of series, with pretty good hitting and not
- 16:40Speaker 3: very good pitching. For the most part, Ryan Feltner was
- 16:43Speaker 3: pitching for Colorado. He's not very good five point nine
- 16:46Speaker 3: to seven ERA, one point five to three whips. He
- 16:49Speaker 3: is better on the road in some ways five point
- 16:52Speaker 3: five to four Roady Ray, but his opponent batting average
- 16:55Speaker 3: on the road is actually worse three oh seven, so
- 16:58Speaker 3: in some ways he's not actually better away from course field.
- 17:01Speaker 3: He was bad in his last start at home against
- 17:04Speaker 3: the Dodgers, and the Dodgers they hit though. We know that.
- 17:07Speaker 3: But Feltner's been walking a ton of guys. He's got
- 17:10Speaker 3: a ten to ten strikeout walk ratio this month with
- 17:13Speaker 3: too many hits allowed on top of that. None of
- 17:15Speaker 3: that is good. He's got a high hit rate, his
- 17:17Speaker 3: walk rate isn't too bad on the season. Strike out
- 17:20Speaker 3: rate is quite low though, so his strikeout walk ratio
- 17:23Speaker 3: is really ugly anyway, strike up for nine is the
- 17:26Speaker 3: lowest that it's been in his career. Those numbers are
- 17:29Speaker 3: not good. His numbers against Washington, they haven't really seen him.
- 17:34Speaker 3: They have two guys so have faced him. Abrams and
- 17:37Speaker 3: Ruiz are zero for six combined off him. No strikeouts,
- 17:41Speaker 3: no walks, not a lot you can really gauge from that.
- 17:44Speaker 3: But I don't think Feltner is gonna pitch particularly well here. However,
- 17:48Speaker 3: Kid Cavali is pitching for Washington. He's actually good. A
- 17:52Speaker 3: three point two two ERA, one point two to two whip.
- 17:55Speaker 3: He's having his breakout season this year. Highs pretty high
- 17:59Speaker 3: strike strike out walk ratio here, high strike up for nine.
- 18:04Speaker 3: He's in really good form recently, a ton of strikeouts
- 18:07Speaker 3: recently double digits. In the last two starts. Washington's won
- 18:10Speaker 3: six of his last seven starts. He's not allowing many
- 18:14Speaker 3: runs across that span at all, more than two only
- 18:16Speaker 3: once going all the way back into early July. Fairly
- 18:20Speaker 3: low hit rate here, pretty low walk rate, high strikeout
- 18:23Speaker 3: rate as well, So all those numbers are good. Cavali
- 18:27Speaker 3: against Colorado, they have twenty three at bats against him,
- 18:31Speaker 3: and he has the upper hand against them one seventy
- 18:33Speaker 3: four average allowed, four to thirty five ohps five, zero
- 18:36Speaker 3: strikeout walk ratio. So while it is a bad spot
- 18:40Speaker 3: for Washington, they have the upper hand in the match
- 18:44Speaker 3: up here, so I can't really fade Washington here. Cavali
- 18:48Speaker 3: is clearly better than Feldner. Washington's about minus one pint
- 18:52Speaker 3: eighty though, eighty eight percent of the tickets, ninety percent
- 18:55Speaker 3: of the cash on them money. I mean, it's basically
- 18:58Speaker 3: just a public side on Washington, and I guess you
- 19:01Speaker 3: could argue that money is kind of indicating on the
- 19:03Speaker 3: over eight here. I mean, I wouldn't want to take
- 19:07Speaker 3: this game under. I think for the majority of pitching
- 19:10Speaker 3: is still bad in this game. It's just Cavali is
- 19:14Speaker 3: a good pitcher, and everybody else who's probably entering this
- 19:17Speaker 3: game is not maybe individual relievers might be, but I
- 19:22Speaker 3: don't know, Man. I still think maybe Washington first five
- 19:25Speaker 3: would be the only way I'd be able to play this.
- 19:26Speaker 3: But there's no way that I could do that in
- 19:29Speaker 3: like a return home spot whatever. But you have to
- 19:31Speaker 3: lay a half run probably with Washington if you play
- 19:33Speaker 3: them in the first five. But maybe that is the
- 19:35Speaker 3: right way to play it. Texas at Chicago White Sox.
- 19:40Speaker 3: White Sox are staying at home. They just beat the
- 19:42Speaker 3: Mets to win that series. Both these teams have something
- 19:45Speaker 3: to play for here, Man, Texas is probably playing with
- 19:48Speaker 3: more urgency because they're tied atop the Al West right
- 19:51Speaker 3: now and in the wildcard race, whereas the White Sox
- 19:55Speaker 3: are top their division right now, so they have more
- 19:58Speaker 3: ways to get into well. Both teams have kind of
- 20:00Speaker 3: a similar amount of ways to make the playoffs, but
- 20:03Speaker 3: Chicago has a bigger amount of padding in their division,
- 20:07Speaker 3: so Texas might have a more motivation here, more urgency.
- 20:12Speaker 3: Texas is starting a road trip, which a lot of
- 20:14Speaker 3: times is a focused spot. They're coming off beating the
- 20:17Speaker 3: Angels in that last series, so some things that have
- 20:20Speaker 3: me looking towards Texas in this game. Texas, I don't
- 20:23Speaker 3: love their bullpen, though these four guys yesterday and some
- 20:26Speaker 3: of their better relievers came into the game yesterday to
- 20:29Speaker 3: close it out. White Sox kind of went with a
- 20:31Speaker 3: bullpen ish game yesterday, but they only used three guys,
- 20:34Speaker 3: probably because they used I would guess Fetti or something
- 20:38Speaker 3: probably came into the I don't know if it was him,
- 20:39Speaker 3: but somebody probably came into the game and ate up
- 20:42Speaker 3: some innings for them. Bullpen wise, White Sox are number fourteen,
- 20:46Speaker 3: Texas is number nineteen. White Sox have had the better
- 20:50Speaker 3: bullpen this year, so they do probably have a bullpen
- 20:52Speaker 3: edge here. White Sox are tenth offensively tied with Houston.
- 20:57Speaker 3: They're definitely the better offense here. Rangers are twenty third. However,
- 21:02Speaker 3: Texas I think might have the motivational edge, and I
- 21:04Speaker 3: think they have a starting pitching advantage here too, even
- 21:07Speaker 3: though that is Kumar Rocker for Texas, who is not
- 21:10Speaker 3: that good four point four to sixty RRA one point
- 21:13Speaker 3: four whip is really not good. However, he is a
- 21:16Speaker 3: little bit better on the road three point nine to
- 21:18Speaker 3: seven Roady Ray, which makes no sense because Texas is
- 21:22Speaker 3: a better pitching ball parker though his opponent batting average
- 21:25Speaker 3: on the road is actually worse, so I guess take
- 21:28Speaker 3: that with a little bit of a grain assault. He's
- 21:31Speaker 3: walking too many guys recently, although his last start was
- 21:33Speaker 3: pretty good against Washington. Maybe he's kind of coming back
- 21:37Speaker 3: into form a little bit here. I don't fully trust
- 21:40Speaker 3: his strikeout walk ratio in the month of August, plus
- 21:43Speaker 3: the fact that his team's lost all four of his
- 21:45Speaker 3: starts and his hit rate has been way too high
- 21:49Speaker 3: on the course of the season. His hit rate is
- 21:51Speaker 3: very mediocre. His walk rate is mediocre as well is
- 21:54Speaker 3: strike out raid is also mediocre. So none of that
- 21:57Speaker 3: is really that good. Strike Out walk ratio is not great.
- 22:00Speaker 3: Strike up for nine is mediocre. Like I said, a
- 22:03Speaker 3: lot of mediocre you hear from him all those whip
- 22:06Speaker 3: is kind of worse than mediocre. However, Rocker is actually
- 22:12Speaker 3: not bad against the White Sox. In fact, he's kind
- 22:14Speaker 3: of dominated them. They have thirty at bats against him,
- 22:17Speaker 3: They only have two hits, no extra base hits, eight strikeouts,
- 22:20Speaker 3: two walks. That's an sixty seven average, one nine two ops.
- 22:25Speaker 3: Rocker seems like he might be drawing a pretty good
- 22:28Speaker 3: matchup here, a team that just hasn't been able to
- 22:31Speaker 3: do anything offensively against him, and the White Sox look
- 22:33Speaker 3: like they're going with another bullpen games sort of because
- 22:37Speaker 3: they have Jose Orkaty Listen as their starter. Here is
- 22:41Speaker 3: a nine ERA at home. By the way, a lot
- 22:44Speaker 3: of this I think coming out of the bullpen, five
- 22:47Speaker 3: point zero six ERA, one point five whip. None of
- 22:49Speaker 3: that is good. The White Sox picked him up from Pittsburgh, though,
- 22:53Speaker 3: so he was pitching poorly in Pittsburgh before he came here.
- 22:57Speaker 3: He's only made road appearances so far for the White Sox,
- 23:00Speaker 3: but the White Sox are kind of using him as
- 23:02Speaker 3: a starter's workload type of guy, and he has eleven
- 23:06Speaker 3: strikeouts and no walks with them, which isn't really too bad.
- 23:09Speaker 3: He pitched really well last time out against the Cubs,
- 23:11Speaker 3: like shockingly well. I don't think that's what he's typically
- 23:16Speaker 3: gonna do, though, you know, like that looks more like
- 23:17Speaker 3: an outlier to me than anything else. Maybe a big
- 23:20Speaker 3: game that he got up for. I would not trust him,
- 23:22Speaker 3: and I'm not even convinced that White Socks are gonna
- 23:24Speaker 3: start him. He didn't actually start in that Cubs game.
- 23:27Speaker 3: He came in after probably an opener, so I would say,
- 23:31Speaker 3: if you're gonna play this game, I would lean to Texas. Year.
- 23:34Speaker 3: I would pick Rocker must start, but I would not
- 23:36Speaker 3: pick a starter for the White Sox year. That's how
- 23:39Speaker 3: I would play this if I was gonna play this game. Orkidi, Yeah,
- 23:44Speaker 3: I mean, his strikeout walker issue is good, but he's
- 23:46Speaker 3: been hittable. He hasn't pitched that much this year, but
- 23:49Speaker 3: I think he was probably hurt for months here because
- 23:53Speaker 3: I don't think he was Maybe he was in the
- 23:55Speaker 3: minors or something. I'm not sure, but I don't really
- 23:57Speaker 3: trust him. He's been around for a while. His numbers
- 24:01Speaker 3: against Texas are not good either. They have twenty six
- 24:05Speaker 3: at bats against them, three to zero, eight average one
- 24:07Speaker 3: thousand ops. So yeah, I think Texas is the way
- 24:10Speaker 3: to look in this game. As far as the situation
- 24:13Speaker 3: is concerned, not much to see there. White Sox are
- 24:17Speaker 3: staying at home, but like I said, I think more
- 24:20Speaker 3: urgency maybe from the Texas side here. I think Rocker
- 24:22Speaker 3: is preferable to whatever the hell the White Sox are doing,
- 24:26Speaker 3: so I would take Texas. Maybe I would take them
- 24:28Speaker 3: first five though, although if it's a bullpen game for
- 24:32Speaker 3: the White Sox, I guess you could argue for the
- 24:34Speaker 3: full game here as well. I just don't. I really
- 24:37Speaker 3: don't like Texas bullpen though. Yeah, so maybe Texas first
- 24:41Speaker 3: five the White Sox are favored around minus one thirty,
- 24:45Speaker 3: so I think if you take Texas first five, you're
- 24:47Speaker 3: probably still gonna get them as a little bit of
- 24:49Speaker 3: an underdog there. So maybe that's the way to play it.
- 24:51Speaker 3: Is Texas money lined in the first five, and probably
- 24:54Speaker 3: you get a little bit of plus money on that.
- 24:56Speaker 3: Seventy four percent of tickets seventy two percent of the
- 24:58Speaker 3: cash on the White Sox. Public is on the White Sox.
- 25:01Speaker 3: I mean they like the team with the better record
- 25:03Speaker 3: and the better offense, so that's where they're at. But
- 25:06Speaker 3: Texas is the is the team that has the actual
- 25:08Speaker 3: starter in the game, and more urgent say, although I
- 25:12Speaker 3: don't know if I fully trust Rocker though, I mean
- 25:14Speaker 3: you saw as recent numbers not great, but his numbers
- 25:17Speaker 3: against the White Sox are very good. The money's also
- 25:20Speaker 3: indicating on the over eight and a half to some
- 25:22Speaker 3: extent here, but I mean I could see the argument
- 25:25Speaker 3: for it. I mean, you have pitchers that are pretty
- 25:28Speaker 3: questionable there, so I wouldn't want to be on and
- 25:32Speaker 3: under in that game. I'll tell you that maybe a
- 25:33Speaker 3: slight lean for me to the over, but I like
- 25:35Speaker 3: Texas as the way to play that game. Cleveland and
- 25:38Speaker 3: Anaheim too bad offenses. That's kind of where we start
- 25:43Speaker 3: with this series. This might be an under type of
- 25:45Speaker 3: series here. Anaheims are turning over from a road trip.
- 25:48Speaker 3: They're having to go from the Central time zone back
- 25:50Speaker 3: to the Pacific time zone. No I talk about that
- 25:53Speaker 3: when teams have to go back out west, adjusting to
- 25:56Speaker 3: that time zone difference can be a little bit of
- 25:58Speaker 3: an issue because then you're gonna be playing later on
- 26:01Speaker 3: your biological clock, so that's not great. Cleveland was just
- 26:04Speaker 3: in the Mountain time zone, so their adjustment is gonna
- 26:07Speaker 3: be a little bit less. They're playing well right now,
- 26:10Speaker 3: and Cleveland has reason to play because they're trying to
- 26:12Speaker 3: still make the playoffs. All Anaheim has is playing spoiler
- 26:15Speaker 3: at this point. And you know, I don't like return
- 26:18Speaker 3: home spots Again. A bad team like Anaheim returning home
- 26:21Speaker 3: from two divisional series on the road, big series where
- 26:25Speaker 3: they had a chance to play spoiler and they did
- 26:26Speaker 3: beat the Astros on that road trip, I think it's
- 26:30Speaker 3: not a good spot. For Anaheim, I don't know if
- 26:32Speaker 3: they're really gonna be that focused to play Cleveland here
- 26:35Speaker 3: after coming up those divisional series. I think it's a
- 26:37Speaker 3: negative spot for Anaheim for all those reasons I just listed.
- 26:40Speaker 3: Could be a distracted spot. Plus you're gonna get the
- 26:42Speaker 3: better pitcher for Cleveland. So I think probably the way
- 26:45Speaker 3: to look at this game is to play Cleveland, but
- 26:47Speaker 3: you have to pay a price for it, because basically,
- 26:50Speaker 3: if the oddsmakers know that everybody knows that Cleveland needs
- 26:53Speaker 3: to win the game. Cleveland us four relief pitchers yesterday.
- 26:56Speaker 3: They do have the better bullpen than Anaheim used three.
- 27:00Speaker 3: Cleveland is ranked seventeenth in bull beenber They do have
- 27:03Speaker 3: a sub four era. Anaheim is twentieth, although they're no
- 27:09Speaker 3: their ERA is worse. Yeah, the ERA is above four.
- 27:11Speaker 3: I'm like, wait a minute, what Cleveland's been awful offensively?
- 27:15Speaker 3: They're twenty ninth tied and last actually with the Mariners.
- 27:20Speaker 3: Angels are really not much better though they're twenty seventh
- 27:23Speaker 3: tied with the Blue Jays, and the Angels do not
- 27:26Speaker 3: hit well at home, so I think the Angels hitting
- 27:29Speaker 3: might be very limited in this game because they have
- 27:32Speaker 3: to go up against Parker Messek, who's had a really
- 27:34Speaker 3: good season two point five four ERA, one point zero
- 27:37Speaker 3: three whip. He's actually better on the road to two
- 27:40Speaker 3: point three to one Roady Ram. He's still pitching well.
- 27:43Speaker 3: He had ten strikeouts last time out against the Giants,
- 27:47Speaker 3: allowed one run in sixty two thirds innings. He doesn't
- 27:50Speaker 3: seem to be done yet, man, even though he's approaching
- 27:52Speaker 3: that one hundred and fifty inning mark there where I
- 27:55Speaker 3: get worried because a lot of these young guys, when
- 27:57Speaker 3: they throw more innings than they usually do or then
- 27:59Speaker 3: they ever have, it gets a little bit concerning. But
- 28:02Speaker 3: I'm not sure there's reason to be concerned with him
- 28:04Speaker 3: right now because he does not seem to be fading.
- 28:06Speaker 3: He's got a thirty to four strikeout walk ratio this month,
- 28:09Speaker 3: which is really excellent. Good hit rate on the season,
- 28:14Speaker 3: pretty good walk rate, good strikeout rate as well. Those
- 28:16Speaker 3: numbers are all good. Good strike out walk number, good
- 28:21Speaker 3: strike up for nine and all those numbers are good.
- 28:23Speaker 3: And against Anaheim he's had the upper hand here. They
- 28:28Speaker 3: have five guys who have faced him fifteen at bats
- 28:31Speaker 3: two hundred average, six to ninety four ohps. Nido has
- 28:35Speaker 3: done some damage and does have a home run off him,
- 28:37Speaker 3: but like nobody else in this lineup has really done
- 28:39Speaker 3: anything five to two strikeout walk ratio there, so I
- 28:42Speaker 3: think Messik does set up to pitch well here. George
- 28:45Speaker 3: Klassan is pitching for Anaheim. I think this is a
- 28:49Speaker 3: real wild card here that Anaheim has going. He has
- 28:52Speaker 3: a three point seven to four ERA. I believe he's
- 28:54Speaker 3: a rookie this year, and he's been kind of all
- 28:57Speaker 3: over the place. His whip is horrible one point, so
- 29:00Speaker 3: that indicates his erration should be way worse than it is. However,
- 29:03Speaker 3: if you look at what he's been doing, he was
- 29:05Speaker 3: really shaky. He's only made five starts in his career,
- 29:08Speaker 3: and Anaheim has actually won four of those five games.
- 29:12Speaker 3: He was shaky the first two times, then the last
- 29:15Speaker 3: three times out he's only had three runs over combined
- 29:18Speaker 3: seventeen innings, and he just had a one hit, seven
- 29:22Speaker 3: inning shutout against Houston last time out. His last two
- 29:26Speaker 3: starts have both been excellent. All those walk rates a
- 29:29Speaker 3: little bit concerning here, but he's starting to pitch well.
- 29:32Speaker 3: Klausen might not be that bad man. He's seeming like
- 29:37Speaker 3: he's improving and he's in good form right now, has
- 29:40Speaker 3: a reasonable hit rate here so far. Strike out rate
- 29:42Speaker 3: is okay too. It's just his walk rate is way
- 29:44Speaker 3: too high, so that's one thing he's got to fix that.
- 29:47Speaker 3: If he fixes his walk issue, I think he'd be
- 29:50Speaker 3: pretty good, but that's keeping his strike out walk number
- 29:54Speaker 3: in a very bad place. His strike up for nine
- 29:56Speaker 3: is pretty good though, so he's able to strike guys out.
- 30:00Speaker 3: His numbers against Cleveland. I don't think they've seen him.
- 30:03Speaker 3: Nathaniel Lowe has faced him and he's one for two
- 30:05Speaker 3: with a double three RBIs, but no strikeouts and no walks.
- 30:09Speaker 3: But that's a small sample. So you're looking at a
- 30:11Speaker 3: Cleveland offense that's really bad, like bottom of the league offense,
- 30:16Speaker 3: and they haven't faced Classing and he's pitching well right now,
- 30:20Speaker 3: so he might have an advantage here given that they
- 30:23Speaker 3: haven't seen him. They might have to figure him out
- 30:25Speaker 3: on the fly. I think the under might be the
- 30:28Speaker 3: best way to play this game. Maybe under in the
- 30:30Speaker 3: first five. I guess the total is low at seven
- 30:33Speaker 3: and a half, and it's low for a reason, man,
- 30:35Speaker 3: I mean, you're looking at two very bad offenses here.
- 30:38Speaker 3: I don't know if I trust the bullpens, but I
- 30:40Speaker 3: think this starting pitching might be able to get this done.
- 30:43Speaker 3: If you do full game, you're getting under the seven
- 30:45Speaker 3: and a half. Of course, if it's a first five,
- 30:48Speaker 3: you're getting a little bit. You know, you're having to
- 30:50Speaker 3: probably look at a three and a half there in
- 30:52Speaker 3: the first five, which you know, I hate that. Maybe
- 30:54Speaker 3: you'll find a four on it. As far as Cleveland,
- 30:58Speaker 3: I don't really think they're playable at this price. Minus
- 31:00Speaker 3: won sixty something ninety percent of tickets, ninety two percent
- 31:04Speaker 3: of the cash on them. They're very public. Although Cleveland
- 31:06Speaker 3: would be the only side that I would look at
- 31:08Speaker 3: here though, I think the situation sets up way better
- 31:11Speaker 3: for them, and mess is a more proven pitcher. Plus
- 31:14Speaker 3: they have the bullpen edge. So I would still need
- 31:17Speaker 3: Cleveland like making like a minus one run line or something,
- 31:20Speaker 3: but asking a Cleveland offense to do that on the road,
- 31:23Speaker 3: I don't know. I mean, they were able to do
- 31:25Speaker 3: it against the Rockies, so but that's a more hit
- 31:27Speaker 3: or friendly environment too. But yeah, I think the under
- 31:31Speaker 3: in the first five might actually be the better way
- 31:33Speaker 3: to play this game. Sixty eight percent of tickets on
- 31:35Speaker 3: the under, eighty two percent of the cash on the
- 31:38Speaker 3: over though, so the money's playing the over in the
- 31:40Speaker 3: full game. I don't trust the bullpens quite enough. It
- 31:45Speaker 3: was really Anaheims worries me. Well, you know what, I
- 31:49Speaker 3: don't know. I mean, Anaheims isn't really that bad. I
- 31:52Speaker 3: don't know. I'm torn. I like the under here, but
- 31:54Speaker 3: I could see going full game or first five on it.
- 31:57Speaker 3: And I think offenses tend to struggle a little bit
- 31:59Speaker 3: more in turn home spots as well, so I think
- 32:02Speaker 3: that actually does help the case of the under a
- 32:04Speaker 3: little bit as well there. So that's what I got
- 32:07Speaker 3: with that game. Cubs in Arizona, Arizona is staying at home.
- 32:12Speaker 3: They just beat the Reds. Arizona has something to play
- 32:15Speaker 3: for because they're fighting for a wildcard spot. Cubs are
- 32:18Speaker 3: technically also fighting for a wildcard spot or potentially their division.
- 32:22Speaker 3: But the Cubs have a better record here, So the
- 32:25Speaker 3: Cubs are sitting pretty well here right now. So I
- 32:27Speaker 3: think Arizona is gonna have a bigger sense of urgency here.
- 32:31Speaker 3: The Cubs just be the Mariners. Don't remind me they
- 32:35Speaker 3: salvage in the last game of that series. The Cubs are
- 32:38Speaker 3: only having to travel in from Seattle, so that's not
- 32:40Speaker 3: too bad. The Cubs are the better of these two
- 32:43Speaker 3: teams here. They do have the better bullpen in my opinion.
- 32:46Speaker 3: Cubs use three relief pitchers yesterday Arizona used a ton.
- 32:50Speaker 3: Arizona used six and it was not an extra inning game,
- 32:54Speaker 3: so the Cubs do have a bullpen edge. They're the
- 32:56Speaker 3: better bullpen and they're rested. Even though Arizona's ranked ninth,
- 33:00Speaker 3: Cubs are ranked eleventh. Arizona's got a worse ERA to
- 33:03Speaker 3: point three runs, so yeah, I would favor the Cubs bullpen.
- 33:07Speaker 3: Cubs offense is also better. They're number one in offense
- 33:10Speaker 3: right now by the way arranged by ops after that
- 33:14Speaker 3: explosion yesterday, they're one of the top offenses. Maybe they're
- 33:18Speaker 3: still not as good as LA, but they're up there.
- 33:21Speaker 3: Arizona has been hitting better since the All Star break.
- 33:23Speaker 3: They're fifteenth right now in the course of the season.
- 33:26Speaker 3: So we do have offenses that are in decent form here,
- 33:28Speaker 3: and I do think we have some kind of questionable
- 33:30Speaker 3: starters here, so possibly an over would be worth consideration
- 33:35Speaker 3: in this game. Kevin Goussman is getting the start for
- 33:37Speaker 3: the Cubs. He has not had a good season four
- 33:40Speaker 3: point five eighty RRA one point three whip. He was
- 33:43Speaker 3: starting to pitch poorly for Toronto, which is kind of
- 33:46Speaker 3: surprising because he's been a pretty good pitcher throughout his career.
- 33:49Speaker 3: But he's been bad on the road this year five
- 33:51Speaker 3: point four to eight roadier ray. That's not good. He's
- 33:56Speaker 3: made four starts with the Cubs and the first two
- 33:58Speaker 3: of them were good and then the last two of
- 33:59Speaker 3: them were not good. So he's not really a good
- 34:02Speaker 3: form right now. Strike out walk ratio does remain pretty good,
- 34:06Speaker 3: so it's just he's been way too hittable over his
- 34:09Speaker 3: last two starts. I don't know what's really three of
- 34:11Speaker 3: the last four. So even though Gaussman is not really
- 34:15Speaker 3: walking guys, Yeah, he's just getting hit too hard, which
- 34:19Speaker 3: is kind of a problem, and it's kind of been
- 34:21Speaker 3: there all season. His hit rate is too high on
- 34:23Speaker 3: the season, His walk rate's not too bad. His strike
- 34:25Speaker 3: up rate is pretty good as well, so his strike
- 34:28Speaker 3: out walk ratio is not going to be bad here,
- 34:31Speaker 3: but yeah, it's fine, but his strike up rate, well,
- 34:36Speaker 3: his strike up rate is also pretty good. The problem
- 34:37Speaker 3: is he's getting hit too hard, So I don't know, man,
- 34:40Speaker 3: maybe at his old age, he's just becoming hittable all
- 34:43Speaker 3: of a sudden. I don't like that. I don't like
- 34:45Speaker 3: his current form. Although he's generally good against Arizona, they
- 34:48Speaker 3: have eighty one at bats against him, so this is
- 34:50Speaker 3: a big sample here. Two ten average, five to sixty
- 34:53Speaker 3: one ohps, thirteen to six strikeout walk ratio though, so
- 34:57Speaker 3: not a great ratio there, but three of the walks
- 34:59Speaker 3: are NAO. He kind of pitches around him, so Gaussman
- 35:03Speaker 3: does match up well here. I don't know if I
- 35:05Speaker 3: trust him, though, because he's been really bad on the
- 35:07Speaker 3: road this year and he's not pitching well right now.
- 35:10Speaker 3: And then on the other side we have Merrill Kelly.
- 35:13Speaker 3: If you want to talk about bad home road splits
- 35:15Speaker 3: in bad current form, those apply to him in this
- 35:18Speaker 3: game too. He's got a five point three to seven ERA,
- 35:20Speaker 3: one point five to two whip is really bad. He's
- 35:24Speaker 3: been really bad at home six point twenty four homy ra,
- 35:27Speaker 3: which I was just alluding to. He's not pitching well either.
- 35:30Speaker 3: This month. He has more walks than strikeouts. He's getting
- 35:33Speaker 3: hit too hard. He's allowed six runs a piece in
- 35:35Speaker 3: his last two starts against Colorado and Boston, although the
- 35:39Speaker 3: Red Sox offense has been good recently, but yeah, this
- 35:42Speaker 3: is not good stuff here. Kelly looks like he's kind
- 35:45Speaker 3: of falling apart. To see two aging pitchers here who
- 35:48Speaker 3: almost kind of look like they're kind of falling off
- 35:51Speaker 3: a cliff here man, especially Kelly. So I don't know.
- 35:54Speaker 3: His hit rate is too high, his walk rates too high,
- 35:56Speaker 3: strikeout rates really low. These are some really bad. His
- 36:00Speaker 3: strikeout walk ratio is horrendously bad. And it's been pretty
- 36:04Speaker 3: good throughout his career, like he's had a good career
- 36:07Speaker 3: and just all of a sudden this year he's been horrible. Yeah,
- 36:11Speaker 3: not good. And his strikeout rate is way down this year,
- 36:14Speaker 3: way lower than it ever has been. I think he's
- 36:16Speaker 3: gonna retire, man. I mean, this is just bad stuff.
- 36:20Speaker 3: And he's going up against a very good Cub offense.
- 36:22Speaker 3: Although he's actually been good against them in his career,
- 36:25Speaker 3: but that's because he's had a good career. But do
- 36:27Speaker 3: you trust Kelly in the current form against them? I
- 36:31Speaker 3: don't think I do. He's got one hundred twelve at
- 36:33Speaker 3: bats against him, two forty one average, allowed, six to
- 36:35Speaker 3: seventy five ops twenty three to eleven strike out walk
- 36:38Speaker 3: ratio is not very good. I think the over is
- 36:42Speaker 3: the way to play this game. I even though both
- 36:45Speaker 3: pitchers have good matchup numbers, I don't want to over
- 36:48Speaker 3: rate those where sometimes they do have a tendency to
- 36:50Speaker 3: do that. But yeah, I just think the over makes
- 36:56Speaker 3: the most sense to me in this game. And the
- 36:57Speaker 3: total is pretty high. It's at nine. It's a hit
- 36:59Speaker 3: or park. Arizona's bullpen's used up. I don't trust either
- 37:04Speaker 3: of these pitchers. They're in They're bad home road splits here,
- 37:07Speaker 3: both of them. They're in bad current form, both of them.
- 37:10Speaker 3: We have fifty seven percent of tickets on the under.
- 37:12Speaker 3: For some reason, eighty four percent of the cash on
- 37:14Speaker 3: the over. Seems like the actual money is playing the over.
- 37:18Speaker 3: I think that's what I would do. The money seems
- 37:21Speaker 3: to be kind of backing the Cubs, although they're also
- 37:23Speaker 3: public eighty seven percent of tickets, ninety percent of the
- 37:26Speaker 3: cash on them. They're up to a bout of minus
- 37:28Speaker 3: one forty favorite here. I would lean towards the Cubs here.
- 37:33Speaker 3: I think Goussmid is still more trustworthy than Kelly. Cubs
- 37:36Speaker 3: generally are the better team, have the better bullpen, better offense,
- 37:39Speaker 3: although Arizona does Like I said, Arizona does have more motivation.
- 37:43Speaker 3: I would say here though, but yeah, I think the
- 37:46Speaker 3: best way to play that game is the over, and
- 37:49Speaker 3: I think it's I would not try to figure out
- 37:51Speaker 3: the side really in that one. Minnesota and the A's
- 37:56Speaker 3: this game, the a is just one of the last
- 37:58Speaker 3: two games against the ass So the A's after they
- 38:02Speaker 3: were not being able to win anything, they just had
- 38:04Speaker 3: two big divisional wins, both by one run. Now they're
- 38:08Speaker 3: returning home. I think this is a bad spot for
- 38:10Speaker 3: the A's. It could be a letdown spot off of
- 38:12Speaker 3: those two wins. Plus it's a return home spot plus
- 38:15Speaker 3: Central time zone back to the Western Pacific time zone.
- 38:19Speaker 3: I mean, having to travel across multiple time zones and
- 38:22Speaker 3: readjust to a later time zone could mess with their
- 38:25Speaker 3: biological clock. The A's are still a bad team. They
- 38:28Speaker 3: basically have no home advantage because they playing Sacramento. So
- 38:33Speaker 3: right away, I'm like thinking, Yeah, the A's look like
- 38:35Speaker 3: they're definitely very fadable in a spot like this, and
- 38:38Speaker 3: I think that's true. So I am going to be
- 38:40Speaker 3: leaning towards Minnesota on this one. Minnesota is not changing
- 38:44Speaker 3: time zones They're already in California. They just got swept
- 38:47Speaker 3: by San Diego, and they're I don't think Minnesota's making it,
- 38:51Speaker 3: as I already said. I said that before Minnesota looked good.
- 38:54Speaker 3: Recently it looked like they're making a run. I was
- 38:56Speaker 3: still saying they're not going to make the playoffs. I
- 38:58Speaker 3: don't think they're good enough. But this is a spot
- 39:01Speaker 3: where Minnesota I think should win this game. They just
- 39:05Speaker 3: got swept by San Diego. They're staying in the Pacific
- 39:07Speaker 3: time zone here, which should help them have another edge
- 39:10Speaker 3: over the A's here. The situational edge definitely goes to Minnesota. Here. Minnesota,
- 39:16Speaker 3: I don't like their bullpen. These four guys out of
- 39:18Speaker 3: the bullpen, but the A's have the worst bullpen in baseball.
- 39:21Speaker 3: They also use four, but I don't want to trust
- 39:24Speaker 3: either bullpen. Here. Minnesota's twenty eighth. The A's are twenty ninth,
- 39:27Speaker 3: though the A's have the worst bullpen era. Still, both
- 39:31Speaker 3: offenses are okay in Minnesota twelfth, the A's sixteenth, tied
- 39:34Speaker 3: with the Phillies, though the A's kind of have dropped
- 39:37Speaker 3: off offensively recently. The question is can you trust Zebi
- 39:42Speaker 3: Matthews if you want to back in Minnesota here, I'm
- 39:44Speaker 3: not so sure he's better. I think he's better than
- 39:48Speaker 3: his ERA looks five point one two ERA one point
- 39:51Speaker 3: three to three whip is not that bad, but he's
- 39:55Speaker 3: really questionable on the road. I mean that's putting it
- 39:57Speaker 3: mildly seven point one to three road. I don't know
- 40:01Speaker 3: if I can come in and back him in a
- 40:03Speaker 3: road start. You know, he is pitching okay recently. He
- 40:06Speaker 3: had a good start last time out against the Braves.
- 40:08Speaker 3: Minnesota's won his last four starts and he's not allowing
- 40:11Speaker 3: that many runs here, although he's only going about five
- 40:14Speaker 3: innings here. So I think if we're gonna play this game,
- 40:16Speaker 3: I would say take Minnesota first five because Matthews will
- 40:20Speaker 3: probably get you through that amount and I would not
- 40:23Speaker 3: want to deal with the bullpens. But yeah, Matthews is
- 40:25Speaker 3: pitching okay recently. His hit rate is still too high
- 40:29Speaker 3: on the season, his walk rate is okay, his strike
- 40:31Speaker 3: out rate is low kind of although again I thought
- 40:34Speaker 3: he was a better strike up pitcher than this. He's
- 40:36Speaker 3: not a huge fly ball pitcher, but he still has
- 40:39Speaker 3: kind of allowed a lot of home runs here. So
- 40:41Speaker 3: like his amount of fly balls is not high really,
- 40:44Speaker 3: which should be a good indicator for pitching in a
- 40:46Speaker 3: stadium like this. It's a very hitter friendly ballpark. But
- 40:49Speaker 3: he allows too many home runs despite that, so I
- 40:52Speaker 3: don't know that has to be a little bit worried
- 40:54Speaker 3: as well. His strikeout walk ratio is worse than it
- 40:57Speaker 3: was last year, although he's overall been a little bit
- 40:59Speaker 3: better than he was last year, but his strike out
- 41:01Speaker 3: rates come way down, so I don't know what the
- 41:04Speaker 3: deal is with that. I mean, he's still a young pitcher.
- 41:07Speaker 3: His numbers against San Diego, oh no, wait, not san Diego,
- 41:11Speaker 3: the A's. I was gonna say he's not good against
- 41:12Speaker 3: San Diego. Against the A's, he's okay. They have fifteen
- 41:16Speaker 3: at bats against. I'm not a huge sample here, seven
- 41:18Speaker 3: hitters of face him, two sixty seven average, six eighty
- 41:21Speaker 3: six ops, two to two strike out walk ratio. Those
- 41:25Speaker 3: numbers lean a little bit towards Matthews here. I think
- 41:29Speaker 3: I still prefer him over Jeffrey Springs, though even those Springs,
- 41:34Speaker 3: I don't think he's as bad as his the RA
- 41:36Speaker 3: makes him look either. Six point oh two era. He
- 41:38Speaker 3: was better than this last year, and whatever one point
- 41:41Speaker 3: four to eight whip is still not good though. He
- 41:44Speaker 3: doesn't pitch well in this stadium six point six y
- 41:46Speaker 3: three homey ra. He's struggled in this stadium last year too.
- 41:50Speaker 3: Springs is a flyball pitcher, balls spring off of bats
- 41:56Speaker 3: that face him, and he's allowed a ton of home
- 41:58Speaker 3: runs twenty nine home runs one hundred and thirteen to
- 42:00Speaker 3: two thirds innings. He's allowed too many hits. His walk
- 42:03Speaker 3: rates not very good, his strikeout rates not very good.
- 42:05Speaker 3: These numbers are bad this year for him men, and
- 42:08Speaker 3: he doesn't pitch well in the stadium. He lows a
- 42:10Speaker 3: lot of home runs in general, a lot of fly balls.
- 42:13Speaker 3: Do you want to talk about not being well suited
- 42:16Speaker 3: for a stadium, Yeah, I would say Springs is not.
- 42:19Speaker 3: Although he pitched well last time out. He I believe
- 42:22Speaker 3: he made a spot starter or maybe he came in
- 42:25Speaker 3: after an opener against the Royals. He pitched fairly well
- 42:29Speaker 3: in that one, although he didn't strike anybody out. But
- 42:31Speaker 3: his walk rates just been way too high recently, like
- 42:36Speaker 3: more strikeouts than walks over the last month. None of
- 42:39Speaker 3: this looks good to may rally. Even though he was
- 42:41Speaker 3: okay last time out, Minnesota is going to be a
- 42:45Speaker 3: better offense that he's having to face here than Kansas
- 42:48Speaker 3: City is. He does do well against Minnesota though generally
- 42:51Speaker 3: forty six at bats, one seventy four average, four, forty
- 42:54Speaker 3: two oh ps, fourteen to three strikeout walk ratio, So
- 42:57Speaker 3: those numbers do look actually pretty good. So if you
- 43:02Speaker 3: go purely based on matchup, Springs would actually have a
- 43:05Speaker 3: little bit of an edge against these hitters. But Springs
- 43:07Speaker 3: is awful in the stadium. I think it's a terrible
- 43:10Speaker 3: spot for the A's. Minnesota has the younger pitcher on
- 43:14Speaker 3: the model that has more upside, and you know, and
- 43:19Speaker 3: Matthews I think is better suited to pitch in the
- 43:21Speaker 3: stadium than Springs is. At least I would say Minnesota
- 43:24Speaker 3: first five. But you're gonna definitely have to pay for it.
- 43:27Speaker 3: Their minus one fifty something for the money line on
- 43:29Speaker 3: the game, seventy nine percent of tickets, eighty eight percent
- 43:32Speaker 3: of the cash on Minnesota, so the money seems to
- 43:34Speaker 3: be leaning towards Minnesota. You're gonna have to lay half
- 43:37Speaker 3: a run with them in the first five. I think
- 43:39Speaker 3: that's the only really way to real way to look
- 43:41Speaker 3: at that. I still worry about Matthews on the road, though.
- 43:45Speaker 3: I suppose the other way that you could look at
- 43:47Speaker 3: this is to just take the over. I mean, I
- 43:48Speaker 3: think pitching is pretty questionable in every phase of this game.
- 43:52Speaker 3: Pretty much money's indicating on the ender though, But ten
- 43:56Speaker 3: and a half you're below that key number of eleven.
- 43:59Speaker 3: It's not that bad of a total. I mean, it's
- 44:01Speaker 3: a total that makes sense in this stadium. So the
- 44:03Speaker 3: over might be worth considering there. But I prefer Minnesota
- 44:07Speaker 3: first five in that one. All right, Philadelphia and Seattle.
- 44:11Speaker 3: I looked at this game and I was like, Yeah,
- 44:13Speaker 3: this game looks totally like an under to me, pun intended,
- 44:18Speaker 3: even though it's Seattle coming off a miserable game yesterday
- 44:22Speaker 3: nineteen to two. So yeah, bryceon Miller, by the way,
- 44:24Speaker 3: his last two outings his team lost twenty two and
- 44:27Speaker 3: nothing in nineteen to two. He didn't pitch well and
- 44:30Speaker 3: either start. It wasn't all his fault, but he was bad.
- 44:33Speaker 3: The bullpens were bad, the hitting was bad. I don't
- 44:36Speaker 3: know what's going on here, man. Seattle did win that
- 44:39Speaker 3: series though, against the Cubs, and they're staying at home
- 44:41Speaker 3: while Philadelphia has to travel all the way to the
- 44:43Speaker 3: Pacific time zone for this. So even though it is
- 44:45Speaker 3: the start of a road trip, Philly's hot right now.
- 44:48Speaker 3: They've won eight or nine games in a row. I
- 44:50Speaker 3: don't even want to be reminded of losing the under
- 44:53Speaker 3: in that fashion yesterday with six ninth inning two out
- 44:57Speaker 3: runs for Philly. Give me a fucking break, dude. Now
- 45:00Speaker 3: they're starting a road trip, which usually is a positive.
- 45:03Speaker 3: You're starting a road trip with momentum. However, traveling across
- 45:07Speaker 3: country like this, like I said, to go to the
- 45:10Speaker 3: Pacific time zone and have to adjust your biological clock,
- 45:15Speaker 3: I don't really like Philly in a spot like this, man,
- 45:17Speaker 3: so I'd be maybe leaning towards Seattle a little bit here.
- 45:21Speaker 3: But obviously my thought in this game was the under,
- 45:25Speaker 3: and I think the hidden can also be negatively affected,
- 45:27Speaker 3: of course, by flipping time zones like that. Philadelphia only
- 45:32Speaker 3: these two relief pitchers yesterday, so their bullpen, while it
- 45:34Speaker 3: isn't good, it's kind of rested here Seattle because I
- 45:38Speaker 3: don't think they had a save situation because they won
- 45:40Speaker 3: in the bottom of the ninth, So Seattle, I used
- 45:43Speaker 3: three relief pitchers. Their bullpen's not pitching well recently, but
- 45:46Speaker 3: they do have some of their better relievers still available
- 45:48Speaker 3: for today. I don't know if I would trust these bullpens, though.
- 45:52Speaker 3: You got Philadelphia eighteenth in bullpen Seattle twenty first, so
- 45:58Speaker 3: maybe a first five undermake more sense here. Philadelphia offensively,
- 46:03Speaker 3: they've been better recently, sixteenth, but they're not that good
- 46:06Speaker 3: on the road. They're tied with the A's offensively right now,
- 46:09Speaker 3: the old Philly team in the current Philly team. There
- 46:13Speaker 3: you go, because the Athletics used to be Philadelphia and
- 46:15Speaker 3: now they're homeless. But Philly, Yeah, their offense might take
- 46:19Speaker 3: a little bit of a drop on the road. In
- 46:21Speaker 3: a pitcher friendly park like Seattle, them in better recently,
- 46:25Speaker 3: and they're better at home, but in a Seattle ballpark
- 46:27Speaker 3: like this, they might not do as well offensively, and
- 46:29Speaker 3: Seattle has been putrid offensively. They're tied in last place
- 46:33Speaker 3: with Cleveland. Like I said, not good. Zach Wheeler is
- 46:37Speaker 3: getting the start for Philly. Really good season for him.
- 46:41Speaker 3: Two point nine two ERA, one point h one whip.
- 46:43Speaker 3: He's good on the road two point sixty seven road era. However,
- 46:47Speaker 3: he's not pitching as well recently like this month is
- 46:50Speaker 3: walk rate's gone up. He's still striking guys out, but
- 46:53Speaker 3: he's allowing some runs here. His walk rate's gone up.
- 46:56Speaker 3: He's not in his best form right now. He still
- 46:59Speaker 3: has a really low hit rate on the season, low
- 47:02Speaker 3: walk rate, high strikeout rate. Those numbers are all still
- 47:04Speaker 3: really good. But maybe at his age, you know, maybe
- 47:07Speaker 3: the season's kind of taking its toll. He hasn't really
- 47:09Speaker 3: thrown them many innings this year though he was hurt
- 47:12Speaker 3: for a while. He's only thrown one hundred and twenty
- 47:13Speaker 3: in a third, so he wouldn't think that he was
- 47:15Speaker 3: wearing down yet, although he's getting up there in age.
- 47:18Speaker 3: But of course he's thrown way more innings than this
- 47:20Speaker 3: in many seasons throughout his career. But his strikeout walk
- 47:24Speaker 3: race just still good. His strike up for nine is
- 47:26Speaker 3: still good. He's still a good pitcher generally, and I'm
- 47:29Speaker 3: still gonna lean towards him pitching well here. He's got
- 47:32Speaker 3: good numbers against Seattle. They have fifty eight at bats
- 47:35Speaker 3: against them. I think only yeah seven guys have faced
- 47:38Speaker 3: some robblists as a lot of at bats against them.
- 47:41Speaker 3: More than half of these at bats, they have nineteen strikeouts,
- 47:45Speaker 3: three walks against them on one seventy two average and
- 47:48Speaker 3: four thirty three ops. Wheelers definitely had the upper hand
- 47:51Speaker 3: against them. Logan Gilbert is pitching for Seattle. I think
- 47:55Speaker 3: he's better than like Bryce, probably than Bryce Miller, better
- 48:00Speaker 3: than like a lot of the pitchers Seattle has in
- 48:02Speaker 3: their rotation. I think Gilbert and Wu are still their
- 48:05Speaker 3: best two starters here. Gilbert three point three five RA
- 48:09Speaker 3: one point oh one. Whit pretty good? Is he Ray
- 48:11Speaker 3: at Holmes not as good? Four point oh one? It's
- 48:14Speaker 3: because of the home runs eighteen of the twenty one
- 48:16Speaker 3: runs he's allowed to come at home this year, But
- 48:18Speaker 3: it makes no sense because this is a picture friendly park,
- 48:21Speaker 3: and he's been better at home for like over a
- 48:23Speaker 3: month now, so his home numbers have gotten better. Like,
- 48:27Speaker 3: his last few home starts have all been pretty good,
- 48:30Speaker 3: so I don't think he's actually that bad at home,
- 48:32Speaker 3: which usually Seattle's pitchers are better at home. Gilbert's in
- 48:36Speaker 3: alright for hero Those walk rate kind of like Wheelers is.
- 48:40Speaker 3: Walk rate has gone up a little bit over his
- 48:42Speaker 3: last few starts, so some of those were against some
- 48:44Speaker 3: pretty good offenses here. Phillies is kind of a mediocre offense.
- 48:49Speaker 3: He's got a low hit rate, pretty low walk rate here,
- 48:52Speaker 3: a high strikeout rate as well. All those numbers are good.
- 48:54Speaker 3: Strike out walk ratio, strike up for nine, those all
- 48:57Speaker 3: look good, even though they're actually a little bit down
- 49:00Speaker 3: from the way he pitched the last couple of years.
- 49:02Speaker 3: Gilbert against the Phillies, they have ninety three at bats
- 49:06Speaker 3: against him, and Gilbert has done pretty well two thirty
- 49:08Speaker 3: seven average, six to sixty one oh ps, twenty eight
- 49:11Speaker 3: to two strike out walk ratio. So I still think
- 49:15Speaker 3: the under is the better way to play this. The
- 49:17Speaker 3: money is indicating on the under. It's just it's one
- 49:20Speaker 3: of those dreaded six and a half totals, and I
- 49:22Speaker 3: really don't like the bullpens, so I don't think you'll
- 49:24Speaker 3: be able to find the key number of seven. The
- 49:27Speaker 3: f book that's the bad Merchandise store does have a
- 49:32Speaker 3: seven at heavy juice to the under. I don't really
- 49:35Speaker 3: want to do the six and a half, although it
- 49:37Speaker 3: feels like whenever I say that, the game still goes under,
- 49:41Speaker 3: which is kind of the way that it is. The
- 49:43Speaker 3: adds makers they're pretty much telling you this is going
- 49:46Speaker 3: to be a pitching duel. Eighty five percent of the
- 49:48Speaker 3: tickets on the over, seventy one percent of the cash
- 49:50Speaker 3: on the unders. The money is heavily indicating towards the under.
- 49:55Speaker 3: I agree with it. I mean you could look at
- 49:57Speaker 3: the first five. I guess, because I really don't like
- 49:58Speaker 3: these bultpens, you're probably gonna be looking at like a
- 50:01Speaker 3: three and a half or maybe even a three in
- 50:04Speaker 3: the first five, which I don't really want to do it,
- 50:07Speaker 3: but I think that is the way I would play
- 50:08Speaker 3: this game, is some sort of under here. Maybe first
- 50:12Speaker 3: five is the best way to play it, especially because
- 50:14Speaker 3: you're not even getting the key number seven in the
- 50:16Speaker 3: full game. Maybe just look to the first five and
- 50:19Speaker 3: take it under three and a half if you can
- 50:21Speaker 3: find it. Eighty one percent of tickets ninety percent of
- 50:24Speaker 3: the cash on Philly, I would slightly lean towards Seattle.
- 50:29Speaker 3: And you know I gave out Seattle as a play
- 50:31Speaker 3: after that twenty two and to nothing loss, and they
- 50:34Speaker 3: won the next game, So Seattle possible bounce back spot
- 50:38Speaker 3: for them. They're also in desperation mode, like they're still
- 50:40Speaker 3: trying to make the playoffs. Philly is sitting a lot
- 50:43Speaker 3: better in their playoff positioning. Plus I already told you
- 50:45Speaker 3: it's a bad biological clock spot for Philly. Here Philly
- 50:49Speaker 3: might look a little bit too good right now, based
- 50:51Speaker 3: on the way that they've been playing. I still like
- 50:53Speaker 3: they're a bit overrated. Wheeler is one of the pitchers
- 50:56Speaker 3: that they usually win behind, though, but again, something seems
- 51:00Speaker 3: off with Wheeler recently though, although Gilbert you know, hasn't
- 51:03Speaker 3: been at his best recently either. Yea, I would still
- 51:05Speaker 3: lean to Seattle slightly here, probably full game, Like I don't,
- 51:09Speaker 3: I think Seattle's bullpen is probably still better than Phillies,
- 51:12Speaker 3: So maybe full game Seattle is a little bit of
- 51:14Speaker 3: an underdog price might be worth a look as well.
- 51:19Speaker 3: Dirty sock, what's up? Thanks for hanging out all right,
- 51:23Speaker 3: I'm gonna be right back. And then the last two
- 51:25Speaker 3: games you probably already know what I'm gonna do. But
- 51:27Speaker 3: I've a play on both of these last two games here,
- 51:31Speaker 3: So a lot of plays for me today. I have
- 51:33Speaker 3: a WNBA play as well, because I just I'm on tilt.
- 51:36Speaker 3: I don't give a shit anymore. Man. We're gonna have
- 51:38Speaker 3: a losing WNBA season now because I'm just continuously getting fucked.
- 51:43Speaker 3: I mean, what do you want? I can't get anything
- 51:45Speaker 3: right at all. So had a winning WNBA season last year,
- 51:49Speaker 3: I'm still up in the WNBA since started to do
- 51:53Speaker 3: it last year. I don't know we could try to
- 51:57Speaker 3: inch back towards being up in the WNB this year.
- 52:00Speaker 3: It's not gonna be easy. I have to make more
- 52:03Speaker 3: plays to make it happen. So I am gonna give
- 52:05Speaker 3: out a play and nobody's gonna like it either, but
- 52:08Speaker 3: I'll be right back. Yep. Inside, I want to kill myself.
- 52:20Speaker 3: We are on OWN seven run over the last two
- 52:23Speaker 3: days after tonight it was just complete bullshit. So that's
- 52:27Speaker 3: that's I'm gonna start off this show horrible Sunday one
- 52:30Speaker 3: and five. I don't even know what to tell you
- 52:32Speaker 3: about that. I just don't want to do this anymore.
- 52:35Speaker 3: I have never seen anything like this. Man with the
- 52:39Speaker 3: slump continuing, two straight losses, not a good day at all.
- 52:43Speaker 3: OWN four that have not had a good season. Man
- 52:47Speaker 3: with wickends slump that I'm on and the slump continues,
- 52:53Speaker 3: I've reached a new peak. Actually, I'm gonna burn my
- 52:57Speaker 3: growing tack.
- 52:58Speaker 1: Man.
- 52:58Speaker 3: I don't know what is going on with the Ruins
- 53:01Speaker 3: arch Epe is that what it is? I don't even
- 53:03Speaker 3: know it's It's March ninth. I think who even knows. Man,
- 53:07Speaker 3: I don't know what day is anymore. I don't even
- 53:09Speaker 3: know what day this anymore. Man, Back with you after
- 53:13Speaker 3: the worst day that I could possibly have, Back with
- 53:16Speaker 3: you as I always am until I die, at least
- 53:20Speaker 3: oh and two yesterday and yesterday it did not go
- 53:23Speaker 3: well for me. Own five, the worst month that I've
- 53:27Speaker 3: ever had in my eighteen years doing this. I don't
- 53:29Speaker 3: know what to even tell you about this anymore. Slump,
- 53:32Speaker 3: the slump discontinuous, The slump continues. Somebody fucking kill me, please.
- 53:39Speaker 3: I don't even know what I should do at this point,
- 53:41Speaker 3: other than potentially end it all all right, this next game,
- 53:55Speaker 3: we're gonna take another under here in Pittsburgh, San Diego.
- 53:59Speaker 3: We get a pitcher friendly park here. Under seven and
- 54:02Speaker 3: a half is out there, a little bit of juice.
- 54:05Speaker 3: And while one of these starting pitchers I really like
- 54:07Speaker 3: and the other one I really don't, but I still
- 54:09Speaker 3: think this is an under in this game here Pittsburgh,
- 54:14Speaker 3: they're pretty much done for the season, but they have
- 54:17Speaker 3: If Schemes is shut down, then the picture they have
- 54:19Speaker 3: pitching tonight is their best pitcher. Pittsburgh is staying in
- 54:23Speaker 3: the Pacific time zone here they're coming in from LA.
- 54:25Speaker 3: They just got swept by LA. I don't know if
- 54:28Speaker 3: they're gonna get up for this game or not, but
- 54:30Speaker 3: I just don't really care. I just want this game
- 54:32Speaker 3: to go on to the total. Here. San Diego is
- 54:34Speaker 3: coming off a good series, or they swept the twins
- 54:37Speaker 3: and they're staying at home. San Diego does have more
- 54:40Speaker 3: to play for at this point because they're trying to
- 54:41Speaker 3: maintain their wildcard positioning here, but I think this is
- 54:44Speaker 3: gonna be a low scoring game, and I am okay
- 54:48Speaker 3: with back in the bullpens. We do have one really
- 54:50Speaker 3: good bullpen with San Diego, and they're pretty rested after
- 54:53Speaker 3: you yes to Sday. Pittsburgh's bullpen is not as good obviously,
- 54:56Speaker 3: but they kind of just use innings eating pictures. Yes,
- 55:00Speaker 3: so their better relievers are at least available here, and
- 55:04Speaker 3: their era is not that bad out of the bullpen,
- 55:06Speaker 3: even though they're twenty third. I'm willing to make this
- 55:08Speaker 3: a full game play. San Diego is number seven in bullpen,
- 55:13Speaker 3: their era is good. I think they're a little bit
- 55:15Speaker 3: better than seventh. Of course, when you have Mason Miller,
- 55:18Speaker 3: I mean you're gonna be a top five bullpen, and
- 55:20Speaker 3: he'll be available in this game today. So if it's
- 55:23Speaker 3: a close San Diego lead late, which maybe it could be,
- 55:27Speaker 3: that might help us out here. But we're gonna back
- 55:29Speaker 3: Braxton Ashcraft here and backed him in the first five
- 55:32Speaker 3: the last couple of times, and he's gone deep into
- 55:34Speaker 3: those games. Man. So I think the last time out,
- 55:37Speaker 3: I had an under that I gave out and I
- 55:40Speaker 3: believe it was a winner, but Ashcraft went like the
- 55:43Speaker 3: full game almost. So Ashcraft is pitching deep into games,
- 55:47Speaker 3: and he's pitching efficiently as well. He's got a three
- 55:50Speaker 3: point six to eighty array one point oh eight whip.
- 55:53Speaker 3: He's been fine on the road, three point seven to
- 55:55Speaker 3: six ROADI ray a little bit higher ere aray on
- 55:57Speaker 3: the road, but lower opponent batting average doesn't really mad.
- 56:00Speaker 3: He doesn't have insane splits or anything. He's pitching really
- 56:04Speaker 3: well recently twenty four to three strike out walk ratio.
- 56:07Speaker 3: This month, He's gone at least eight innings in his
- 56:09Speaker 3: last two starts, allowing one run in each of them.
- 56:11Speaker 3: So that's keeping the bullpen from having to get used
- 56:14Speaker 3: in his starts, and he's not even throwing that many pitches.
- 56:18Speaker 3: He didn't even get to ninety pitches in either of
- 56:20Speaker 3: those outings, So that's pretty crazy. He's not walking really
- 56:23Speaker 3: anybody right now. He's not along a lot of hits either.
- 56:27Speaker 3: I mean, this is all really good stuff. Low hit rate,
- 56:29Speaker 3: pretty low walk rate, high strike out rate. The only
- 56:33Speaker 3: number he has it's kind of bad as the home runs,
- 56:35Speaker 3: but other than that, he's good. He's pitching in a
- 56:38Speaker 3: pitcher friendly park here. One thing you do you do
- 56:41Speaker 3: have to worry about is the innings. He's up to
- 56:43Speaker 3: almost one fifty here. But he doesn't appear to be
- 56:46Speaker 3: slowing down right now. Man. So even though he did
- 56:48Speaker 3: throw a lot of innings his last two outings, he
- 56:50Speaker 3: didn't throw that many pitches like it was not like
- 56:54Speaker 3: it wasn't like he was laboring in those games, really,
- 56:56Speaker 3: you know. So I think he's still okay. He's not
- 56:58Speaker 3: showing signs that he's a fading yet. He's got a
- 57:01Speaker 3: three point six to eighty RA one point oh eight
- 57:03Speaker 3: whip on the season. I think I already said that
- 57:05Speaker 3: strike out walk ratio is quite high. That's good. Strake
- 57:08Speaker 3: up for nine also good. I'm liking what he's thrown down, man,
- 57:12Speaker 3: I'm liking all of this. And against San Diego. I
- 57:16Speaker 3: know their numbers look all right, but it's because they
- 57:18Speaker 3: only have two guys to have faced him two at
- 57:21Speaker 3: bats and they have one hit a double from Furman
- 57:24Speaker 3: for mean whatever. Yeah, they have a five hundred average
- 57:27Speaker 3: fifteen hundred ohps. I don't care. Like basically most of
- 57:30Speaker 3: their lineup hasn't seen him, so Ashcraft is pretty unfamiliar
- 57:34Speaker 3: to them. One strikeout in there from cronam Worth, no walks,
- 57:37Speaker 3: but I think Ashcraft should be able to pitch well
- 57:39Speaker 3: again here. And I'm actually gonna back Robbie Ray on
- 57:42Speaker 3: the other side as well, even though I don't think
- 57:44Speaker 3: he's that good. Three point two era is pretty good,
- 57:46Speaker 3: one point three to one whip is not very good,
- 57:49Speaker 3: indicates his CRA should be higher. However, what we do
- 57:53Speaker 3: know about him is he pitches well at home, although
- 57:55Speaker 3: I know this is mostly with San Francisco, but San
- 57:58Speaker 3: Diego and San Francisco are both pitcher friendly ballpark, so
- 58:01Speaker 3: I think he should be able to pitch well in
- 58:03Speaker 3: this park as well. He has a two point six
- 58:05Speaker 3: to eight Homie Ray this year with a low opponent
- 58:08Speaker 3: of batting average two oh two. Since San Diego got him,
- 58:13Speaker 3: he was kind of bad in his first start. He
- 58:15Speaker 3: walked a ton of guys against Houston. He's been walking
- 58:18Speaker 3: too many guys, there's no doubt about that. But he's
- 58:20Speaker 3: gotten better, and he started at least. He pitched okay
- 58:23Speaker 3: here at home sort of against Milwaukee, and then he
- 58:26Speaker 3: was pretty good against the Mets last time out, although
- 58:28Speaker 3: he still walked too many guys, and yes, that worries me.
- 58:31Speaker 3: He has more walks than strikeouts since joining San Diego.
- 58:34Speaker 3: But and I know Pittsburgh is a good offense, but
- 58:37Speaker 3: this is a Pittsburgh team that I think might come
- 58:39Speaker 3: out come in here a little bit deflated. Ray does
- 58:42Speaker 3: still have a really low hit rate. His problem is
- 58:44Speaker 3: the walks. He walks way too many guys. His strike
- 58:47Speaker 3: out rate is also not very good. So obviously strike
- 58:49Speaker 3: out walk ratio is ugly here, and it is strike
- 58:54Speaker 3: up for nine is also pretty ugly. But I think
- 58:57Speaker 3: this is a decent matchup for him. It's at home
- 59:01Speaker 3: where he tends to a bitch better at least when
- 59:03Speaker 3: he was on San Francisco he did, and Pittsburgh has
- 59:05Speaker 3: not been able to hit him well. They have thirty
- 59:07Speaker 3: nine at bats against him, fourteen strikeouts, three walks two
- 59:11Speaker 3: h five average four ninety three ohps and that's most
- 59:14Speaker 3: of Pittsburgh's lineup having faced him, So Ray actually does
- 59:18Speaker 3: have good numbers against him here. So I say we
- 59:20Speaker 3: do it. Let's play the under here in this one,
- 59:23Speaker 3: and the bullpen could come in and kind of rescue
- 59:25Speaker 3: this thing for San Diego if y is starting to
- 59:27Speaker 3: struggle a little bit, I think the bullpen could come
- 59:30Speaker 3: in and kind of save that side of the game
- 59:31Speaker 3: a little bit. Maybe pun intended. Sixty one percent of
- 59:34Speaker 3: tickets on the over fifty nine percent of the cash
- 59:36Speaker 3: on the under money is agreeing with me on this.
- 59:39Speaker 3: Seven and a half is out there across the board here.
- 59:42Speaker 3: Money's also back in San Diego. I don't really love
- 59:46Speaker 3: that sixty percent of tickets eighty percent of the cash
- 59:49Speaker 3: on them third amount minus one oh four or so. Here.
- 59:52Speaker 3: I think Pittsburgh looks too ugly right now after that's
- 59:56Speaker 3: that loss where they just got swept. It was against
- 1:00:00Speaker 3: the Dodgers, so you know, I mean, what can you do?
- 1:00:02Speaker 3: San Diego looks pretty good right now, winning a lot
- 1:00:05Speaker 3: of games right now. Ashcraft is clearly better than Ray,
- 1:00:08Speaker 3: So I think I would lean Pittsburgh first. Five here
- 1:00:11Speaker 3: and go with the better starting pitchro al, though they'll
- 1:00:13Speaker 3: probably be a favorite in the first five. But obviously,
- 1:00:16Speaker 3: the way that I'm playing this game is the under.
- 1:00:18Speaker 3: I'm not really gonna try to go with a side
- 1:00:20Speaker 3: in this one. Under I think is a pretty strong
- 1:00:23Speaker 3: play there. I do have a side in the last game, though,
- 1:00:26Speaker 3: I told you I'm firing a lot of plays out
- 1:00:28Speaker 3: there here Fox Sports Ones. You get a TV game here, Cincinnati,
- 1:00:33Speaker 3: San Francisco. You know what I'm doing in this game,
- 1:00:35Speaker 3: and you do have to pay for this. We're gonna
- 1:00:37Speaker 3: take Cincinnati in the first five with Chase Burns on
- 1:00:40Speaker 3: the mound. You have to lay the minus half a
- 1:00:43Speaker 3: run though I found it a minus one oh five
- 1:00:46Speaker 3: at the bat Jim book, although a lot of the
- 1:00:48Speaker 3: books are minus one fifteen minus one twenty on this,
- 1:00:51Speaker 3: I would still do it that way. I think this
- 1:00:53Speaker 3: is the way to play this game. I think we
- 1:00:54Speaker 3: have a huge starting pitching mismatch here in favor of
- 1:00:58Speaker 3: the Reds, So that's where I'm gonna go with this.
- 1:01:00Speaker 3: Plus it's even better than that. San Francisco's returning on
- 1:01:03Speaker 3: from a road trip. They went to Cleveland and Boston.
- 1:01:07Speaker 3: They had a bad road trip. But you know, I mean,
- 1:01:09Speaker 3: San Francisco sucks, like they're not going anywhere now they're
- 1:01:12Speaker 3: returning home. Are they really gonna get excited for playing
- 1:01:15Speaker 3: another shitty team in the Reds and San Francisco having
- 1:01:19Speaker 3: to travel back home, which is a negative spot, as
- 1:01:21Speaker 3: I always say, you have to get back to home life.
- 1:01:24Speaker 3: They might not get up for a game against a
- 1:01:25Speaker 3: bad team and they have to travel across time zones here,
- 1:01:29Speaker 3: Whereas the Reds have a much better travel spot here
- 1:01:32Speaker 3: because they're coming in from Arizona, so it's a much
- 1:01:35Speaker 3: easier travel spot for Cincinnati where they're only having to
- 1:01:37Speaker 3: move over one time zone, whereas San Francisco is having
- 1:01:40Speaker 3: to travel across three and go west and play a
- 1:01:44Speaker 3: late night game when they're adjusted to the East Coast
- 1:01:46Speaker 3: time now they have to readjust the Pacific time. Yeah,
- 1:01:49Speaker 3: good luck with that. You know they're gonna be playing
- 1:01:52Speaker 3: their biological clock is basically gonna be like they're playing
- 1:01:55Speaker 3: until midnight here, So it's not good. It's a very
- 1:01:58Speaker 3: negative spot. So this combination a lot negative spot for
- 1:02:02Speaker 3: a bad team going up against a much stronger starting pitcher.
- 1:02:06Speaker 3: On the other side, I'm gonna avoid the bullpens though,
- 1:02:08Speaker 3: because Cincinnati's bullpen is very bad, so I don't want
- 1:02:11Speaker 3: to deal with it. They only use two guys out
- 1:02:13Speaker 3: of the bullpen yesterday, though San Francisco did use four
- 1:02:16Speaker 3: because it was a tug boat game, so they did
- 1:02:19Speaker 3: use a bunch of guys behind him. San Francisco's bullpen's
- 1:02:23Speaker 3: not very good. They're twenty fourth, but Cincinnati's even worse
- 1:02:26Speaker 3: at twenty fifth. In their eerra's point three runs worse,
- 1:02:30Speaker 3: so I can't really back their bullpen. Both offenses suck.
- 1:02:34Speaker 3: San Francisco twenty first, Cincinnati twenty fourth. I think Cincinnati
- 1:02:38Speaker 3: can get something going a little bit in this game,
- 1:02:40Speaker 3: at least enough that Chase Burns can get us there.
- 1:02:43Speaker 3: Burns has obviously been their best pitcher two point five
- 1:02:46Speaker 3: to one, ERA, one point one to one whip his
- 1:02:49Speaker 3: innings pitch, we do maybe have to worry a little bit.
- 1:02:51Speaker 3: He's up to one hundred and thirty six, so I
- 1:02:53Speaker 3: am backing two pitchers today that are throwing more innings
- 1:02:56Speaker 3: than they have before. But he's still pitching well. He's
- 1:02:59Speaker 3: got a pretty good strikeout walk ratio here, good strike
- 1:03:02Speaker 3: up for nine here. He's still pitching pretty well here.
- 1:03:06Speaker 3: Looking at his recent form. Yeah, he's still been in
- 1:03:09Speaker 3: good form recently, so I'm not too worried about that
- 1:03:11Speaker 3: really good strike out walk numbers here over his last
- 1:03:13Speaker 3: couple of starts as well. Cincinnati's winning a lot of
- 1:03:16Speaker 3: his recent games. They've won six of his last eight,
- 1:03:19Speaker 3: and actually they've won ten of his last twelve, I
- 1:03:22Speaker 3: think is what that is. So they're winning when he's
- 1:03:25Speaker 3: out on the mound. He's won a lot of first
- 1:03:27Speaker 3: five plays. We've won a couple of first five plays
- 1:03:30Speaker 3: with him. He's got a low hit rate, his walk
- 1:03:32Speaker 3: rate is okay enough, strike out rate is high, so
- 1:03:34Speaker 3: that's all good. His numbers against San Francisco are fine.
- 1:03:42Speaker 3: I mean they only have four hitters who have faced
- 1:03:43Speaker 3: him seven at bats, two strikeouts, one walk, no extra
- 1:03:46Speaker 3: base hits, two eighty six average six sixty one ohps.
- 1:03:50Speaker 3: So I think that's fine. And Burns is gonna be
- 1:03:52Speaker 3: unfamiliar to like half of their lineup too, so I
- 1:03:55Speaker 3: think Burns has the upper hand yard. I mean, he's
- 1:03:57Speaker 3: going up against Carson wizen Hunt, who has a seven
- 1:03:59Speaker 3: point three ERA one point eight to four whip. I mean,
- 1:04:03Speaker 3: this is not good, even though Wizenon has been better
- 1:04:07Speaker 3: at home three point eighty six. Homy Ray, I just
- 1:04:10Speaker 3: don't care. He's still walking a ton of guys. He's
- 1:04:13Speaker 3: had more walks than strikeouts in the month of August.
- 1:04:16Speaker 3: He got obliterated last time out against Cleveland and they're
- 1:04:19Speaker 3: not a good offense at all. Uh and against Texas
- 1:04:22Speaker 3: two starts before that, one of his last two or
- 1:04:26Speaker 3: really two of his last three home starts haven't even
- 1:04:28Speaker 3: been good either. So I'm not really putting that much
- 1:04:31Speaker 3: weight into his home era because he's still putting a
- 1:04:33Speaker 3: lot of guys on base here. He's got a high
- 1:04:36Speaker 3: hit rate of really high walk rate like terrible, and
- 1:04:39Speaker 3: his strike up rate is not even high either, So
- 1:04:41Speaker 3: his strike up walk ratio is awful. It's like basically
- 1:04:45Speaker 3: around one, which is terrible. Strike up for nine not
- 1:04:48Speaker 3: good either. Yeah, he's not a good pitcher. Cincinnati hasn't
- 1:04:51Speaker 3: really faced him before, so he does have an unfamiliarity edge.
- 1:04:54Speaker 3: But when you're this bad of a picture, do you
- 1:04:56Speaker 3: really have that much of an edge. Only Hayes has
- 1:04:59Speaker 3: ever faced, not Willie Mays, Hayes, Cabrian Hayes, that's the
- 1:05:03Speaker 3: other Ohio team. Hayes is over two often with no strikeouts,
- 1:05:08Speaker 3: no walks, whatever, it's a public play. But we'll take
- 1:05:12Speaker 3: Cincinnati in the first five. They have eighty eight percent
- 1:05:15Speaker 3: of the tickets and cash on them. They're about minus
- 1:05:17Speaker 3: one fifty something on the full game, but we're doing
- 1:05:20Speaker 3: run line first five, and the money line has gone
- 1:05:22Speaker 3: up on them. They were minus one thirty something, so
- 1:05:25Speaker 3: I think some real money has driven the lineup on Cincinnati.
- 1:05:28Speaker 3: So I think there probably is some actual money on
- 1:05:31Speaker 3: them here. And I just gave you the reasons why
- 1:05:33Speaker 3: I think it's a situation will play plus the way
- 1:05:35Speaker 3: better starter, So let's do it. Lay the half run
- 1:05:38Speaker 3: Cincinnati verse five. Money's also back in the over seven
- 1:05:42Speaker 3: and a half here, I kind of get it. I mean,
- 1:05:46Speaker 3: seven and a half seems way too low for a
- 1:05:48Speaker 3: game that wizen Hunt is pitching in, and with these
- 1:05:50Speaker 3: two bullpends, you know, like the only good pitching here
- 1:05:54Speaker 3: is Burns All. The rest of the pitching is terrible
- 1:05:56Speaker 3: in this game. So I guess there are probably more
- 1:05:59Speaker 3: indicators towards an over than an under, but I'm focusing
- 1:06:02Speaker 3: on the side. Of course, Let's do that, and then
- 1:06:05Speaker 3: we're gonna have a WNBA play as well, three plays
- 1:06:08Speaker 3: in a row. Let's go. I should have just gone
- 1:06:14Speaker 3: with it. But this is the best best bet segment.
- 1:06:17Speaker 3: Nobody's gonna like this. We're gonna take Golden State plus
- 1:06:20Speaker 3: six and a half in WNBA against Minnesota on USA Network.
- 1:06:25Speaker 3: Minnesota is the best team in the league. I know that,
- 1:06:28Speaker 3: but I think this is a spot play where we
- 1:06:29Speaker 3: can get some value here. We got a low total
- 1:06:32Speaker 3: in this one too, And you know what, I always say,
- 1:06:34Speaker 3: the total is really low at one's sixty some numbers.
- 1:06:37Speaker 3: Some books have it lower than one sixty. You know what,
- 1:06:40Speaker 3: I always say, the when it's a low total to
- 1:06:43Speaker 3: the points are worth more. So taking a big underdog
- 1:06:45Speaker 3: like this, it looks like you have to take a
- 1:06:47Speaker 3: five and a half. Now, I think it's still worth it.
- 1:06:49Speaker 3: I mean not a huge difference between five and a
- 1:06:52Speaker 3: half and six and a half. Seven is kind of
- 1:06:53Speaker 3: the key number where teams stop potentially following. But unfortunately,
- 1:06:57Speaker 3: sometimes I think the real money is agreeing with me.
- 1:06:59Speaker 3: So I think sometimes these lines just move, you know,
- 1:07:03Speaker 3: like really quickly, and by the time I get to it,
- 1:07:06Speaker 3: even on my show, the line will have moved from
- 1:07:08Speaker 3: where it was like an hour ago. You know what
- 1:07:10Speaker 3: I mean. But yeah, Golden State, I think is the
- 1:07:12Speaker 3: right move to make here. I think we're getting value
- 1:07:14Speaker 3: because the total is so low. Golden State plays good
- 1:07:17Speaker 3: deep mens and you know, I like a good depfensive
- 1:07:19Speaker 3: team getting points. Minnesota is also good on deepfense, and
- 1:07:23Speaker 3: they're a better offensive team probably than Golden State. But
- 1:07:25Speaker 3: Golden State's good, dude. I think Golden State's the third
- 1:07:29Speaker 3: best team in the WNBA behind Minnesota in Las Vegas.
- 1:07:32Speaker 3: The Western Conference is stacked this year. Golden State could
- 1:07:36Speaker 3: definitely hang around in this game, and Minnesota is in
- 1:07:39Speaker 3: a bad spot. They're returning home from a road trip.
- 1:07:42Speaker 3: They've been on since August twelfth, so they've been on
- 1:07:44Speaker 3: the road for almost two weeks and now they're returning home.
- 1:07:47Speaker 3: I don't think that's a good spot, you know. And
- 1:07:49Speaker 3: they've been all over the place. They went to the
- 1:07:51Speaker 3: West coast, and they had to go all the way
- 1:07:52Speaker 3: to the East coast. And by the way, when they
- 1:07:54Speaker 3: were on the West coast, they won at Golden State
- 1:07:56Speaker 3: by eleven. So this is a quick road revenging go
- 1:08:00Speaker 3: here where Golden State lost at home, and now they
- 1:08:02Speaker 3: have a chance to exact revenge. On the road. I
- 1:08:05Speaker 3: like a spot like that too, because the avenging team,
- 1:08:09Speaker 3: it's not like they're angry, but they can make adjustments
- 1:08:12Speaker 3: to what went wrong in the first game, and the
- 1:08:14Speaker 3: team that won has nothing to do adjust, you know
- 1:08:16Speaker 3: what I mean. Plus, Minnesota went over to Washington and
- 1:08:19Speaker 3: they beat Washington without Callier in the lineup. They rested
- 1:08:22Speaker 3: Collier in that game. Now they're coming back home, and
- 1:08:25Speaker 3: you know, I always talk about this, when a team
- 1:08:27Speaker 3: comes back home, a lot of times they get distracted.
- 1:08:29Speaker 3: They have to get back to home life. Whatever. I
- 1:08:31Speaker 3: know it's a TV game, but I could be a
- 1:08:33Speaker 3: distracted spot. They do have to go back out on
- 1:08:35Speaker 3: the road right after this and play Atlanta. And while
- 1:08:38Speaker 3: Golden State's a good team, Atlanta has beaten Minnesota one
- 1:08:42Speaker 3: out of two times this year, So maybe they do
- 1:08:45Speaker 3: have one eye looking ahead to Atlanta, possibly because I
- 1:08:48Speaker 3: believe Golden State has not beating them at all this year. Yeah,
- 1:08:51Speaker 3: Minnesota's three and zero against Golden State this year, but
- 1:08:54Speaker 3: they won at home against them only by three, and
- 1:08:57Speaker 3: then they won here in go Or They won sorry
- 1:09:00Speaker 3: at Golden State by six, and then at Golden State
- 1:09:02Speaker 3: by eleven last time. But if you look at that game,
- 1:09:06Speaker 3: it was kind of misleading. So this is another reason
- 1:09:08Speaker 3: why I liked this like it was just the shooting
- 1:09:11Speaker 3: was a complete like outlier here, Minnesota show fifty percent
- 1:09:15Speaker 3: from the field, while Golden State was thirty two percent
- 1:09:19Speaker 3: and it was thirty seven percent to nineteen percent from
- 1:09:21Speaker 3: three point range. Golden State was just firing up a
- 1:09:24Speaker 3: bunch of three. So there were some mega outliers in
- 1:09:26Speaker 3: this game. And Minnesota also was plus five from the
- 1:09:30Speaker 3: from the free throw line. Golden State actually won the
- 1:09:33Speaker 3: rebound battle, believe it or not. They did win the
- 1:09:35Speaker 3: turnover battle as well, which I don't know if that's
- 1:09:38Speaker 3: gonna happen again here, probably not. But the fact that
- 1:09:41Speaker 3: Golden State won the turnover won the rebound battle, excuse me,
- 1:09:44Speaker 3: tells me that they actually played pretty well in this game.
- 1:09:47Speaker 3: Golden State played better than it looks like on the scoreboard.
- 1:09:50Speaker 3: And these are just outliers shooting percentages, man, Like, I
- 1:09:52Speaker 3: don't think Minnesota's gonna shoot this well in a game
- 1:09:56Speaker 3: where they're having to return home from a long road trip.
- 1:09:58Speaker 3: They might be a bit fatigued, they might be a
- 1:10:00Speaker 3: bit distracted. So I think Minnesota's shooting will take a
- 1:10:03Speaker 3: little bit of a step back here. Golden State probably
- 1:10:05Speaker 3: will will improve on the shooting performance last time. And
- 1:10:08Speaker 3: you couldn't really shoot much worse than this, and they're
- 1:10:11Speaker 3: not really that bad of an offensive team, So I
- 1:10:13Speaker 3: think Golden State could shoot better here as well. Minnesota
- 1:10:16Speaker 3: might not pay attention to them because they were just
- 1:10:18Speaker 3: They won this game easily. They had a huge lead
- 1:10:20Speaker 3: throughout the game. Golden State did get back to within
- 1:10:23Speaker 3: single digits though late in the game. Collier did play
- 1:10:27Speaker 3: in this game. She is back here, But that's another
- 1:10:29Speaker 3: thing here. Collier was out against Washington, and if you
- 1:10:32Speaker 3: remember me handicapping that game, I leaned Washington, but I
- 1:10:36Speaker 3: had some issues with it because the line had dropped
- 1:10:38Speaker 3: like four points because Collier was out of the lineup,
- 1:10:41Speaker 3: and you know, Minnesota, it might have been like a
- 1:10:43Speaker 3: sort of an injured player theory type of game, right,
- 1:10:45Speaker 3: where Minnesota figured, we have to play harder with our
- 1:10:48Speaker 3: best player out of the lineup. Right, a lot of
- 1:10:50Speaker 3: times that happens. Well, then what happens the next game
- 1:10:53Speaker 3: if they play well and they win, Yeah, well the
- 1:10:55Speaker 3: next game Collier is coming back. That's gonna be another
- 1:10:57Speaker 3: lineup shift and maybe Minnesota will be thinking, well, we
- 1:11:01Speaker 3: just won without her, so of course we can win
- 1:11:03Speaker 3: with her. Right. It's like that reverse injured player mindset
- 1:11:07Speaker 3: where when your star players coming back you have to
- 1:11:10Speaker 3: kind of make the lineup adjustments again, and you might
- 1:11:12Speaker 3: be thinking, well, of course it is gonna be easy
- 1:11:14Speaker 3: with her back. So I think they might take this
- 1:11:17Speaker 3: game a little bit too lightly. And meanwhile, Golden State,
- 1:11:20Speaker 3: I liked the spot that they're in because they just
- 1:11:22Speaker 3: had an ugly loss to Chicago, who is on my
- 1:11:25Speaker 3: really bad side right now after yesterday, although it was
- 1:11:28Speaker 3: mostly that Indiana just couldn't miss in the game, but
- 1:11:32Speaker 3: Golden State has they're on a two game losing streak,
- 1:11:34Speaker 3: which started with that lost to Minnesota. But you got
- 1:11:37Speaker 3: to think they were hungover going to Chicago after that.
- 1:11:40Speaker 3: I don't think it was a good spot for Golden State,
- 1:11:42Speaker 3: right because they lost a six game win streak, and
- 1:11:45Speaker 3: a lot of times when that happens, you get hung
- 1:11:46Speaker 3: over in the next game, and I think maybe they were.
- 1:11:49Speaker 3: They were in a Minnesota sandwich too, like I said,
- 1:11:51Speaker 3: a juicy lucy. So not only did they lose to
- 1:11:53Speaker 3: Minnesota and lose a win streak, they had this Minnesota
- 1:11:56Speaker 3: game next too, so I think it was a bad spot.
- 1:11:59Speaker 3: They went into Chicago, they got caught. I think the
- 1:12:01Speaker 3: only reason I didn't play Chicago in that game. I
- 1:12:03Speaker 3: think it was because Chicago was coming off a big
- 1:12:05Speaker 3: upset themselves. I want to say over New York or
- 1:12:08Speaker 3: something like that, but whatever, I think Golden State's in
- 1:12:12Speaker 3: a bounce back spot. Here minute, you can explain why
- 1:12:15Speaker 3: they lost to Chicago. It was a sandwich spot. I
- 1:12:18Speaker 3: think they're gonna flip it back around and play well
- 1:12:20Speaker 3: in this game. I say we do it. We take
- 1:12:23Speaker 3: Golden State plus the points. Here. The money is very
- 1:12:25Speaker 3: strongly agreeing with this. Eighty two percent of tickets on Minnesota,
- 1:12:29Speaker 3: ninety percent of the couch on Golden State. I know
- 1:12:31Speaker 3: my WNBA is bad right now. It's basically been bad
- 1:12:34Speaker 3: since I was hot at the beginning of the season.
- 1:12:37Speaker 3: We've had some real bullshit losses in there, though, Man,
- 1:12:39Speaker 3: and the market is more often right than it's wrong.
- 1:12:43Speaker 3: This is a strong market rate here. It's a total
- 1:12:45Speaker 3: pros versus Joe scenario here. Yeah, Golden State plus the points. Man,
- 1:12:51Speaker 3: at least find the five and a half on this.
- 1:12:52Speaker 3: I don't think you're gonna get six and a half anymore,
- 1:12:54Speaker 3: but hopefully there's not much of a difference there, and
- 1:12:57Speaker 3: put a little bit on the money line as well.
- 1:12:58Speaker 3: But it's a low total, like I said, so I
- 1:13:01Speaker 3: like taking these defensive dogs in low total games, you
- 1:13:04Speaker 3: know what I mean, because they have more of a
- 1:13:06Speaker 3: chance to hang around in the game. The other game
- 1:13:09Speaker 3: I got not a whole lot on Atlanta in LA
- 1:13:11Speaker 3: on Peacock and NBC Sports, LA is playing some real
- 1:13:15Speaker 3: bad basketball. They did win their last game against Connecticut,
- 1:13:19Speaker 3: so there is that Connecticut bad team though. But the
- 1:13:22Speaker 3: good thing for LA is they ended up a six
- 1:13:24Speaker 3: game losing streak, so a lot of times when you
- 1:13:26Speaker 3: end a losing streak, you're gonna play better in the
- 1:13:29Speaker 3: next game. And by the way, the last time they
- 1:13:31Speaker 3: lost before that was an embarrassing loss to this exact
- 1:13:35Speaker 3: Atlanta team also in LA. Although I think that I'm
- 1:13:39Speaker 3: not I don't. Maybe I don't remember, correct. Oh, No,
- 1:13:41Speaker 3: the neutral site game was this one against Phoenix. I
- 1:13:43Speaker 3: was gonna say there was a neutral site game in here,
- 1:13:45Speaker 3: but no, I think this was on LA's home floor.
- 1:13:48Speaker 3: They lost to Atlanta. So now they're returning right back
- 1:13:51Speaker 3: to the scene in the crime and LA is just
- 1:13:52Speaker 3: staying at home here and they just ended a losing
- 1:13:55Speaker 3: streak and the last time they played Atlanta they lost
- 1:13:57Speaker 3: one twenty four to eighty eight here in this same stadium.
- 1:14:00Speaker 3: But look at what happened in this game, dude, Atlanta
- 1:14:03Speaker 3: shot sixty four percent from the field and sixty two
- 1:14:06Speaker 3: percent from three point range. Come on, like that is
- 1:14:10Speaker 3: completely unsustainable. That's not going to happen again. Uh So yeah,
- 1:14:15Speaker 3: I mean, Atlanta's a little bit more of a defensive
- 1:14:17Speaker 3: team too, but those are massive outliers. If any team
- 1:14:20Speaker 3: shoots like that in the WNBA, it's you can't repeat that.
- 1:14:24Speaker 3: Even if LA's defense is really bad, and it is,
- 1:14:28Speaker 3: there's no way that that can be repeated. So this
- 1:14:30Speaker 3: game is just a massive outlier. Atlanta had, you know,
- 1:14:33Speaker 3: six more threes than LA did. Although Atlanta was still
- 1:14:37Speaker 3: the better team, like they won the rebound battle, they
- 1:14:39Speaker 3: kind of dominated the game as well. Uh they had
- 1:14:42Speaker 3: more field goal attempts by eleven. So yeah, I mean,
- 1:14:45Speaker 3: I'm not ready to actually say I want to actually
- 1:14:47Speaker 3: make a play on LA in the game today, but
- 1:14:50Speaker 3: that is the way that I've been lean. If I
- 1:14:51Speaker 3: was going to play this because this is not repeatable, Like,
- 1:14:54Speaker 3: there's gonna be some regression here. Is it gonna be
- 1:14:57Speaker 3: enough regression that LA can actually cover today? I don't know.
- 1:15:01Speaker 3: This number was eight and a half on the spread here.
- 1:15:04Speaker 3: I think it's higher than that in the game today.
- 1:15:05Speaker 3: I think it's like nine to nine and a half.
- 1:15:07Speaker 3: So it might be a little bit of value in LA.
- 1:15:09Speaker 3: But LA is still not a good team. They're not
- 1:15:11Speaker 3: good at home. Atlanta is good on the road. However,
- 1:15:14Speaker 3: after a game like this, again, there's gotta be some
- 1:15:17Speaker 3: regression here, back to a sort of mean. LA had
- 1:15:20Speaker 3: a ton of turnovers too. They had twenty one turnovers.
- 1:15:23Speaker 3: And even a team that's a bad team like LA
- 1:15:26Speaker 3: at home, you're probably not gonna have a repeat performance
- 1:15:29Speaker 3: at that. They're probably not gonna turn it over that
- 1:15:32Speaker 3: many times again. Now Atlanta they're coming off a win
- 1:15:36Speaker 3: over Phoenix, which I believe the Green dol Doos are back,
- 1:15:40Speaker 3: by the way it was, you know, the Green doldo
- 1:15:42Speaker 3: might have come back in the LA game. I forget
- 1:15:45Speaker 3: Green Doldos are back, though man one got thrown out
- 1:15:47Speaker 3: unto the court and Angel Reese was like pointing out
- 1:15:50Speaker 3: somebody of the crowd that was potentially the thrower of it.
- 1:15:53Speaker 3: I was like, let's get the Green Doldo betting back man,
- 1:15:57Speaker 3: the Green Dodos are the only reason to watch this league.
- 1:16:00Speaker 3: That and maybe if men start playing it and the
- 1:16:02Speaker 3: league just totally collapses because of it, that would be hilarious. Anyway, Atlanta,
- 1:16:07Speaker 3: they're finishing a road trip. They're already three and oh
- 1:16:10Speaker 3: on the road trip. They beat Vegas, huge win. They
- 1:16:12Speaker 3: crushed this LA team, Like I said, so they might
- 1:16:15Speaker 3: not care about this LA game here. They just beat
- 1:16:17Speaker 3: Phoenix in the last game, which was not a great
- 1:16:20Speaker 3: win but a fine win. Yeah. I mean, they don't
- 1:16:24Speaker 3: have a big game next against Portland. But I still
- 1:16:26Speaker 3: think the only way I would play this is to
- 1:16:27Speaker 3: look towards LA in a little bit of a revenge spot,
- 1:16:30Speaker 3: bounce back spot. The money is completely disagreeing with Men.
- 1:16:33Speaker 3: I don't understand it at all. Nine and a half
- 1:16:36Speaker 3: ten is sort of where the number is now, and
- 1:16:39Speaker 3: it was eight and a half in that game two
- 1:16:40Speaker 3: games ago with the same teams in the same location.
- 1:16:44Speaker 3: So I think you're getting a little bit of extra
- 1:16:46Speaker 3: value if you look towards LA too. It's a bit
- 1:16:47Speaker 3: of a zig zag LA sixty percent of tickets on them.
- 1:16:51Speaker 3: There's no way, there's no way the public is playing
- 1:16:54Speaker 3: LA here. I'm sorry, it's just not possible. And eighty
- 1:16:57Speaker 3: eight percent of the cash on Atlanta. I don't get it.
- 1:17:01Speaker 3: I don't see any real reason to look towards Atlanta here.
- 1:17:05Speaker 3: Nine and a half, like I said, or ten is
- 1:17:07Speaker 3: the number. The total is high, though money is sort
- 1:17:10Speaker 3: of driving it down a little bit, but it's still
- 1:17:12Speaker 3: in the one eighties. I'm not totally interested in doing
- 1:17:16Speaker 3: it because it's still a mismatch. I mean, Atlanta's still
- 1:17:19Speaker 3: won that game, even though on the score board they
- 1:17:23Speaker 3: won the game by like thirty points or almost forty
- 1:17:25Speaker 3: points or whatever it was, and they probably should have
- 1:17:28Speaker 3: won the game by like fifteen or something like that
- 1:17:31Speaker 3: if you look at the stats, but that's would have
- 1:17:33Speaker 3: covered this number, you know, So that still has me worried.
- 1:17:36Speaker 3: As much of an outlier as it was and as
- 1:17:39Speaker 3: much of a blowout as it was, Atlanta is still
- 1:17:42Speaker 3: definitely the better team by quite a bit. Here. I
- 1:17:46Speaker 3: lean towards LA, but I don't like it that much.
- 1:17:48Speaker 3: I like Golden State a lot better. So that is
- 1:17:50Speaker 3: what I'm doing in the WNBA but I like both underdogs.
- 1:17:53Speaker 3: That's gonna do it. The plays today are under in
- 1:17:56Speaker 3: Red Sox, Marlins under seven and a half, under in Pirates,
- 1:18:00Speaker 3: Padres under seven and a half, Cincinnati Red's first five
- 1:18:05Speaker 3: minus the half run on the run line, and then
- 1:18:08Speaker 3: we're gonna take Golden State plus six and have This
- 1:18:10Speaker 3: is a bigger Monday card than I've had in quite
- 1:18:13Speaker 3: a while. Monday's usually a slow day. But I see
- 1:18:16Speaker 3: a lot of angles here that I like well enough,
- 1:18:18Speaker 3: so maybe I'm on tilt. Let's go three and one today. Man,
- 1:18:22Speaker 3: Let's at least try to do that. That's the goal.
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- 1:18:37Speaker 3: some point this week. I mean, maybe I'll do it
- 1:18:40Speaker 3: today because Monday's just slow, So maybe I'll just do it.
- 1:18:43Speaker 3: I gotta get prepared for it, though. I got to
- 1:18:45Speaker 3: bring up all the you know, the numbers about the
- 1:18:49Speaker 3: returning players, and it's a total it's total chaos. But
- 1:18:53Speaker 3: I'm not gonna give out any plays on that show.
- 1:18:54Speaker 3: It's just a preview to try to get the you know,
- 1:18:58Speaker 3: understand the college landscape we're gonna be dealing with this year.
- 1:19:01Speaker 3: And we'll have to talk about the conference realignments as well,
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- 1:19:19Speaker 3: people don't like listening to my long form bullshit here.
- 1:19:22Speaker 3: But if I'm giving out winners, I mean, I know
- 1:19:24Speaker 3: we're on a really bad run right now. It does
- 1:19:26Speaker 3: happen sometimes. This overall run that I have up here
- 1:19:29Speaker 3: is still profitable, you know what I mean above profitable,
- 1:19:33Speaker 3: it's better than that. So what else do we have here?
- 1:19:37Speaker 3: Loser cast every Tuesday night, so that'll be back tomorrow night.
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- 1:20:12Speaker 3: that's gonna do it. Let's start off the week right,
- 1:20:15Speaker 3: Let's turn this fucking thing around. We were good last
- 1:20:18Speaker 3: week and then we had a horrible weekend, so we
- 1:20:21Speaker 3: gotta turn it around. That's gonna do it.
- 1:20:23Speaker 1: Pete, if the doc starts talking, hand me the phone,
- 1:20:31Speaker 1: that's somebody, and so let somebody know you do not have.
- 1:20:37Speaker 5: To lose this round lone. Hold on, hold on nothing
- 1:20:48Speaker 5: n not now, hold on, hold on.
- 1:20:56Speaker 2: Let me pull you.
- 1:21:00Speaker 4: Oh that bad luck by time, but it don't.
- 1:21:07Speaker 2: Get the crown. Hold on, hold on, stay with me, now,
- 1:21:18Speaker 2: hold on, hold on, You're
- 1:21:23Speaker 5: Still here now