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- 0:16Speaker 1: You gotta slip in your palm.
- 0:19Speaker 2: Man, a hole in your chicks.
- 0:21Speaker 3: Black coffee on the felt.
- 0:23Speaker 4: Man, you look like a mess. Three teen poulette turned
- 0:27Speaker 4: the dust in your head. Now you stare at the
- 0:30Speaker 4: chips like they made you this man. But don't you
- 0:34Speaker 4: go quiet? Don't you fade from the floor. Your name
- 0:38Speaker 4: still mean something on somebody for show?
- 0:41Speaker 2: Put the glass down, baby, look at me?
- 0:46Speaker 5: Now, hold on, hold on nothing night not now, hold.
- 0:58Speaker 1: On, Hold on me that hot but it don't get
- 1:12Speaker 1: the crown. Hold on, hold on.
- 1:18Speaker 3: Stay with me. Now, what's up? Everybody? It's towed back
- 1:29Speaker 3: with you with Toadstool Sports for Saturday, June sixth, We
- 1:34Speaker 3: went two and one on the show yesterday. Should I
- 1:36Speaker 3: say I'm hot? I don't know. We're on a one
- 1:38Speaker 3: to eight fifty four and six run the last sixty
- 1:41Speaker 3: three days now, which is good. Although the last week
- 1:44Speaker 3: has been meat you know, it hasn't been I don't
- 1:47Speaker 3: want to say mediocre. It's been bad. It's been a
- 1:49Speaker 3: losing last week or so, so that's not good. Uh.
- 1:53Speaker 3: Baseball went really well yesterday, a couple of easy wins.
- 1:57Speaker 3: We had the under with Cleveland and Texas. Easy. Yeah,
- 2:03Speaker 3: both starting pitchers did well enough. The bullpens came in
- 2:06Speaker 3: maybe earlier than you'd like if you have a full
- 2:08Speaker 3: game under there. But the bullpen's got the job done
- 2:10Speaker 3: in that game. So that worked out well. Three to two,
- 2:14Speaker 3: final Mets got on the board and then it never
- 2:17Speaker 3: gave up a run. Scott was good enough in that game,
- 2:20Speaker 3: their bullpen was good. Mett's with a shutout win, so
- 2:23Speaker 3: that worked out well. Unfortunately, the next one up, the
- 2:27Speaker 3: one that I didn't put on my card, Washington first five.
- 2:30Speaker 3: That was easier than both of those. So if you
- 2:33Speaker 3: played Washington money line first five, very easy win. I
- 2:37Speaker 3: think they were winning like eight nothing at that point
- 2:39Speaker 3: something like that. They put up a ton of runs.
- 2:41Speaker 3: There were three teams that put up a ton of
- 2:43Speaker 3: runs yesterday and we might be fading one of those
- 2:46Speaker 3: teams today because I'm not buying it. And yeah, and
- 2:51Speaker 3: we're gonna go back to the well with a total.
- 2:54Speaker 3: That's what I have today. I have two baseball plays.
- 2:56Speaker 3: That's it. Oh yeah. And then of course yesterday the
- 2:58Speaker 3: Spurs team total didn't get there. Looked really good. When
- 3:01Speaker 3: the Spurs were winning whatever it was thirty four to
- 3:05Speaker 3: twenty five at the end of the first quarter, They're like,
- 3:07Speaker 3: all right, this is gonna be a high scoring game,
- 3:09Speaker 3: Spurs playing. Well, Nope, that didn't happen. Then by the
- 3:14Speaker 3: fourth quarter, the Spurs had only scored like sixty points
- 3:18Speaker 3: since then, and they're down double digits in the fourth quarter.
- 3:21Speaker 3: Then they make the whole comeback, they actually take the lead,
- 3:25Speaker 3: and then they still lose the game. The Spurs are dead, dude,
- 3:29Speaker 3: I told you. I mean, I thought the Spurs would
- 3:32Speaker 3: win game one just based on the trends, but there
- 3:34Speaker 3: were a lot of things in conflict with each other there.
- 3:38Speaker 3: The trends obviously say that a team that loses at
- 3:40Speaker 3: home in game one is a favorite bounces back in
- 3:43Speaker 3: game two. I wasn't ready to lay those points though,
- 3:48Speaker 3: but yeah, I mean I thought the game would be
- 3:49Speaker 3: much higher scoring than it was. I don't know what
- 3:52Speaker 3: else you could say about it. I mean, they still
- 3:54Speaker 3: kind of made it somewhat close to that total at
- 3:57Speaker 3: the end. If it had gone into it was there
- 3:59Speaker 3: was a chance that was going into overtime, and obviously
- 4:01Speaker 3: you can't intentionally rely on overtime, but if if it
- 4:05Speaker 3: went into overtime, I think we would have gotten it
- 4:06Speaker 3: over and there was a decent chance of that. At
- 4:10Speaker 3: the end, I'm pissed. Fuck the Knicks, Fuck New York.
- 4:14Speaker 3: What else do I have to say? I don't want
- 4:15Speaker 3: to see this fucking happen. The series is over though.
- 4:18Speaker 3: The Spurs are too inexperience, They're too young, which is
- 4:21Speaker 3: why I said I want the Knicks out. So it's
- 4:24Speaker 3: gonna have to be Oklahoma City. Like I thought the
- 4:27Speaker 3: experience would play a huge role in the final and
- 4:30Speaker 3: I think that it is. You get these games. The
- 4:33Speaker 3: Spurs don't know how to deal with it, Like they
- 4:35Speaker 3: don't know how to hang on to a lead. They
- 4:38Speaker 3: don't know how to deal with these close game situations,
- 4:40Speaker 3: even though they beat Oklahoma City. Yeah, I'm I'm fucking pissed. Whatever, Charles,
- 4:47Speaker 3: what's up? Yes? The second quarter? Whatever? All right? Everybody
- 4:55Speaker 3: can go check out my Belmont Stakes video as well.
- 4:58Speaker 3: I did it in the afternoon yesterday. Nobody was watching.
- 5:01Speaker 3: It was a quick video. It's a small ray. Well,
- 5:04Speaker 3: it's a big race, but there aren't that many horses
- 5:07Speaker 3: in it, so I gave out my opinions on that.
- 5:09Speaker 3: You can go watch it. Let's go Chief Wallaby in
- 5:12Speaker 3: that race. And by the way, one thing I did
- 5:15Speaker 3: forget to mention because I have Emerging Market as like
- 5:18Speaker 3: my third favorite horse in that race, especially given the
- 5:20Speaker 3: odds that Emerging Market has. But one other thing I
- 5:24Speaker 3: forgot to mention. I put it in the comments in
- 5:26Speaker 3: that video. Part of the reason why Emerging Market came
- 5:29Speaker 3: in tenth in the Kentucky Derby. Emerging Market lost a
- 5:33Speaker 3: front shoe during the race, Like his shoe came off.
- 5:38Speaker 3: So I think that could that definitely can affect your
- 5:40Speaker 3: trip in a race, you know what I mean, because
- 5:43Speaker 3: that basically, like you know, I don't even I don't
- 5:45Speaker 3: know if like the hoof got damaged or anything when
- 5:48Speaker 3: the shoe came off, but yeah, the shoe came off,
- 5:50Speaker 3: and then you have to imagine that results in some
- 5:54Speaker 3: lopsided and this's with how the horse is running or whatever.
- 5:57Speaker 3: So do with that info what you want, all right,
- 6:01Speaker 3: But I think I don't know much about horse racing.
- 6:03Speaker 3: But I assume they use different shoes for racing than
- 6:06Speaker 3: they do for other events. But I don't even know.
- 6:08Speaker 3: Maybe they do horses have running shoes. I have no idea.
- 6:13Speaker 3: All right, let's go to baseball here. We have some
- 6:16Speaker 3: afternoon baseball. I have one afternoon baseball play here. I'm
- 6:20Speaker 3: being selective this first game up. I considered putting this
- 6:23Speaker 3: on my card, but I see like the market kind
- 6:25Speaker 3: of moving in bolt directions here. I kind of like
- 6:28Speaker 3: the under in this first game. Seattle and Detroit. Yesterday's
- 6:32Speaker 3: game was a higher scoring game, seven to three win
- 6:34Speaker 3: for Detroit. Detroit has won four games in a row.
- 6:38Speaker 3: Never thought you would have seen something like that. They
- 6:40Speaker 3: beat Brian Wu yesterday. And this website for the bullpen
- 6:44Speaker 3: use wage is not working, but I can tell it
- 6:46Speaker 3: for like half of these games. It's not working. But
- 6:48Speaker 3: I could tell you Detroit used more of their bullpen
- 6:51Speaker 3: yesterday than Seattle did, so Seattle does have a bullpen
- 6:55Speaker 3: advantage here. They're the better bullpen anyway. Their ranked fifth,
- 6:58Speaker 3: Detroit twenty first based on whip, so pretty sizable bullpend
- 7:03Speaker 3: dis verity here. Detroit's moved up a little bit offensively again,
- 7:07Speaker 3: they're at nineteenth. Seattle is still better at thirteenth. I
- 7:12Speaker 3: think Seattle has the more trustworthy starter on the mound too.
- 7:15Speaker 3: Bryce Miller is going here. He's only made I think
- 7:17Speaker 3: four starts this year so far as its coming back
- 7:20Speaker 3: from injury, but his career is pretty good. Miller's got
- 7:24Speaker 3: good numbers this year, one point seven to one ERA
- 7:27Speaker 3: point eighty six whip. Hasn't been as good on the road, though,
- 7:30Speaker 3: which makes sense because Seattle has a pitcher friendly ball park.
- 7:33Speaker 3: He's got a three point four to eight road ERA.
- 7:36Speaker 3: Still not bad though. One of his road starts was
- 7:38Speaker 3: at the A Stadium, which is the opposite of pitcher friendly,
- 7:42Speaker 3: and he still did fine. And that start was fine
- 7:45Speaker 3: at Houston, faced the White Sox and Arizona, so he's
- 7:48Speaker 3: faced all pretty capable offenses so far. One hit the
- 7:52Speaker 3: White Sox and Arizona while he was at home. He's
- 7:55Speaker 3: allowed fifteen hits in twenty innings so far twenty one innings,
- 7:58Speaker 3: excuse me, twenty strikeouts, the walks. He's got good numbers here,
- 8:02Speaker 3: and his numbers against Detroit are also good. In fifty
- 8:04Speaker 3: seven at bats, eleven strikeouts, one walk, UH two, twenty
- 8:09Speaker 3: eight batting average five to twenty two ops. So Miller
- 8:13Speaker 3: he's in good form right now, has good matchup numbers here.
- 8:16Speaker 3: I expect Miller to pitch well. Cater Montero is pitching
- 8:20Speaker 3: for the Tigers. He's had an unexpectedly good season. He
- 8:24Speaker 3: is still pretty young. Spent the early part of his
- 8:27Speaker 3: career as kind of a bullpen arm for the Tigers
- 8:30Speaker 3: and making some starts here and there. He's been basically
- 8:34Speaker 3: a full time starter this year three point six nine
- 8:36Speaker 3: e RA one whip. His ERA at home is not
- 8:41Speaker 3: quite as good three point eight nine still good, though.
- 8:44Speaker 3: He had a good outing last time out on the
- 8:45Speaker 3: road against the White Sox, two hit shutout in six innings,
- 8:49Speaker 3: but his team didn't score for him and they still lost.
- 8:52Speaker 3: He was struggling have been in the three starts prior
- 8:54Speaker 3: to that, though, so I think Montero is a little
- 8:57Speaker 3: bit more questionable in this game out of the two
- 9:00Speaker 3: pitchers if you look at his career. I mean that's
- 9:02Speaker 3: kind of the case as well. Even though his numbers
- 9:04Speaker 3: are pretty good here in May, I know he had
- 9:06Speaker 3: a good era. He allowed very few hits, but he
- 9:08Speaker 3: did allow too many walks, although the number went back
- 9:12Speaker 3: down over his last couple of starts. Strike out rate
- 9:14Speaker 3: was also really low, which kind of concerns me, Like,
- 9:17Speaker 3: I know, some of these pictures can kind of go
- 9:19Speaker 3: out there and throw junk and they just don't really
- 9:22Speaker 3: rely on strike outs. He's got a low strikeout rate though,
- 9:25Speaker 3: but his hit rate and is walk rate on the
- 9:27Speaker 3: season are all low, so overall he's still been pretty good.
- 9:31Speaker 3: He's got twenty nine at bats against Seattle, five to
- 9:34Speaker 3: two strikeout walk ratio two forty one average allowed, which
- 9:37Speaker 3: is pretty low, but a seven to seventy three oh
- 9:40Speaker 3: PS getting a little bit on the higher side there.
- 9:43Speaker 3: So when I was thinking about this game, like I said,
- 9:45Speaker 3: I was thinking under in this game, the money looks
- 9:48Speaker 3: like it's kind of agreeing with that. As we can
- 9:50Speaker 3: see some of these numbers finally come in. Eighty eight
- 9:53Speaker 3: percent of the tickets, seventy one percent of the cash
- 9:55Speaker 3: on the over totals at eight and a half, which
- 9:57Speaker 3: is a somewhat high total here, not quite on that
- 10:02Speaker 3: key number of nine. I think it under makes sense.
- 10:05Speaker 3: But I think if you first five under is what
- 10:08Speaker 3: makes the most sense if you go under here, because
- 10:10Speaker 3: I don't like Detroit's bullpen in they're a little bit
- 10:12Speaker 3: used here, So I would go first five under if
- 10:16Speaker 3: I was gonna play this, I have a slightly into
- 10:18Speaker 3: Seattle as well. I think Miller just sets up a
- 10:20Speaker 3: little bit better here. It's a bounce back spot for Seattle.
- 10:23Speaker 3: They're the better team here, as the oddsmakers are telling
- 10:25Speaker 3: you they're minus one thirty something here on the road.
- 10:28Speaker 3: Even though Detroit typically good at home, but this year,
- 10:33Speaker 3: since the schoolbl injury, they're just really kind of struggled.
- 10:36Speaker 3: So I don't know if I'm buying this recent run
- 10:39Speaker 3: that Detroit is on here, but I think first five
- 10:42Speaker 3: under is probably what I would prefer there. I don't know.
- 10:45Speaker 3: I have no idea how the shoe got got removed,
- 10:50Speaker 3: the shoe came, I don't know. You can go watch
- 10:52Speaker 3: the clip of it. I mean, Kentucky Derby is kind
- 10:55Speaker 3: of chaotic. Man. There are a lot of horses bumping
- 10:58Speaker 3: into each other, a lot of traffic. But that affected
- 11:01Speaker 3: the trip for emerging market a little bit, Kyle, what's up?
- 11:04Speaker 3: Even though I didn't really even say much about that. No,
- 11:10Speaker 3: you haven't really missed anything. I'm not happy about any
- 11:13Speaker 3: of that, though, I haven't given out a play yet.
- 11:15Speaker 3: If that so, this is the first game I talked about, actually,
- 11:18Speaker 3: But we gotta get I gotta get through this. Man.
- 11:24Speaker 3: A hide hoof can rip off, a front shoe that's weird.
- 11:28Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, a self flat tire, I don't know, man,
- 11:33Speaker 3: Kansas City at Minnesota. Just on the service, this looks
- 11:37Speaker 3: like a huge pitching mismatch to me, with Minnesota obviously
- 11:41Speaker 3: having the positive end of that. Here. Minnesota won the
- 11:45Speaker 3: game yesterday, Kansas City won the game before that, so
- 11:47Speaker 3: this is the third game of a four game series
- 11:50Speaker 3: here Minnesota. We actually get to see the bullpen usage
- 11:55Speaker 3: on these teams. Minnesota used two relief pitchers in the
- 11:58Speaker 3: game yesterday. Kansas City also to these are bullpens that
- 12:02Speaker 3: I want nothing to do with. Though Minnesota's ranked twenty seventh,
- 12:05Speaker 3: Kansas City is dead last, although Cincinnati, Anaheim, and Houston
- 12:10Speaker 3: all of worse bullpenny rays than that, but these are
- 12:13Speaker 3: still too bad bullpens. Kansas City also hasn't been good offensively.
- 12:18Speaker 3: They're twenty seventh, so this team is not performing well.
- 12:22Speaker 3: And then Minnesota somewhere in the middle of the pack,
- 12:26Speaker 3: I think, offensively, where are they at? Yeah, seventeenth? All right.
- 12:31Speaker 3: Luinder Avila is pitching for Kansas City. He's like a
- 12:35Speaker 3: converted reliever, Like I think they're missing some starters here,
- 12:38Speaker 3: so this is kind of a bullpen ish game here,
- 12:42Speaker 3: and he has not really pitched that effectively this year either,
- 12:44Speaker 3: which is mostly bullpen performances, and then he's made I
- 12:48Speaker 3: think two starts as well, four point four to four ERA,
- 12:52Speaker 3: one point seven to one whip. I know he's young,
- 12:54Speaker 3: but if they're not outright using him as a starter
- 12:57Speaker 3: until like guys get hurt, that means he's not really
- 13:01Speaker 3: like one of these higher touted prospects. I don't believe
- 13:03Speaker 3: he is. He's been good on the road though, one
- 13:05Speaker 3: point eight to eight roady, all right, So do with
- 13:08Speaker 3: that info what you want. He struggled quite a bit
- 13:11Speaker 3: in his first I think, which was his first start
- 13:14Speaker 3: I think against the Yankees, went three innings, he got
- 13:17Speaker 3: three runs, seven hits, two walks, one strikeout that wasn't
- 13:20Speaker 3: very good. Settled down and had got a win. In
- 13:23Speaker 3: his last outing, went five innings at Cincinnati, which is
- 13:26Speaker 3: a hitter friendly park. Held him to one run on
- 13:29Speaker 3: two hits, so that is good, but he did walk
- 13:31Speaker 3: four guys, which still does concern me quite a bit
- 13:35Speaker 3: and five strikeouts there. His walk rate is really really high,
- 13:38Speaker 3: and his hit rate is also high. On the season.
- 13:41Speaker 3: Strike out rate is decent, but yeah, I don't really
- 13:43Speaker 3: trust this guy. Minnesota does only have four batters who
- 13:47Speaker 3: have ever faced him. They're zero for four offen with
- 13:49Speaker 3: three strikeouts. I think all in relief appearances, of course,
- 13:54Speaker 3: but yeah, I would not trust whatever Kansas City is
- 13:56Speaker 3: doing here. I don't even know if a Villa is
- 13:58Speaker 3: going to get to five innings here. And Joe Ryan
- 14:01Speaker 3: is going from Minnesota. He is their ace. Three point
- 14:04Speaker 3: two ERA, point ninety seven whip is very good. He's
- 14:08Speaker 3: better at home as well, two point eight home ERA.
- 14:12Speaker 3: He's still pitching well. I mean, even though you give
- 14:14Speaker 3: up four runs to the White Sox last time out,
- 14:17Speaker 3: he gave up two on runs. He had no walks,
- 14:20Speaker 3: nine strikeouts. White Sox also good offense. Ryan was really
- 14:24Speaker 3: good throughout the entire month of May as well. So
- 14:27Speaker 3: he's pitching well here. He's got a high strikeout rate,
- 14:30Speaker 3: low hit rate, low walk rate, I mean, everything that
- 14:32Speaker 3: you expect from an ACE. And he has good numbers
- 14:35Speaker 3: against the Royals as well, which is expected. They have
- 14:38Speaker 3: a lot of at bats against him, one hundred and
- 14:40Speaker 3: thirty and they have not really succeeded. Twenty seven to
- 14:43Speaker 3: seven strikeout walk ratio two thirty one average, six sixty
- 14:47Speaker 3: two ops. I think the only way to play this
- 14:49Speaker 3: game is to play Minnesota. You maybe want to do
- 14:53Speaker 3: it first five, just because I think you have the
- 14:55Speaker 3: biggest advantage there, because both these bullpens are atrocious, so
- 15:00Speaker 3: there's no there's no telling which bullpen might totally blow
- 15:04Speaker 3: in this game, you know what I mean, Kansas City
- 15:07Speaker 3: likely to go to their bullpen first. Though money is
- 15:10Speaker 3: coming in on Minnesota seventy nine percent of tickets, ninety
- 15:13Speaker 3: two percent of the cash on them, the price looks
- 15:16Speaker 3: a little bit low. I mean maybe just because Minnesota
- 15:18Speaker 3: is that bad of a team. They're around minus one
- 15:21Speaker 3: fifty something here. It would be a split bet, I
- 15:24Speaker 3: would guess, or I would it would be a split bet.
- 15:28Speaker 3: I would say if you go full game on this,
- 15:31Speaker 3: partially on the run line, partially on the money line,
- 15:33Speaker 3: if you look at the first five, there might be
- 15:35Speaker 3: a reasonable price going Minnesota first five on the run line,
- 15:40Speaker 3: like laying a half run in the first five innings.
- 15:43Speaker 3: That would definitely be an option in this game as well.
- 15:47Speaker 3: Don't think you have to. I would say you probably
- 15:48Speaker 3: don't have to specify action with Kansas City there because
- 15:52Speaker 3: I don't think they're going to switch who's pitching there.
- 15:55Speaker 3: You never really know, but I don't think so in
- 15:57Speaker 3: that case, because a vella has made two straight starts,
- 15:59Speaker 3: so I think that they are going with them here.
- 16:02Speaker 3: But yeah, Minnesota seems like the right side to me there,
- 16:05Speaker 3: although it does seem too obvious, but I'm not gonna
- 16:08Speaker 3: make a play on that one, all right, But yeah,
- 16:13Speaker 3: first five, I think it is probably the biggest advantage
- 16:15Speaker 3: you get with Minnesota there. Okay. Oh and by the way,
- 16:20Speaker 3: what I didn't realize. Maybe I'm just too old school dude,
- 16:22Speaker 3: but apparently like a lot of books are transitioning to
- 16:25Speaker 3: having action being the default now, or maybe I have
- 16:28Speaker 3: like different settings or I don't even I don't know
- 16:31Speaker 3: what the deal is, but yeah, I guess some I
- 16:33Speaker 3: guess books are switching over to having action be the default.
- 16:38Speaker 3: So keep that in mind when you're doing baseball, because
- 16:41Speaker 3: usually when you make these bets, you want the list
- 16:43Speaker 3: of starters to start because that's usually a big part
- 16:46Speaker 3: of the handicap. So I tend to think that that
- 16:48Speaker 3: should be that used to be the default. I think
- 16:50Speaker 3: it's really it still should be. If it's not, I
- 16:53Speaker 3: don't know, but that's seemingly that's what books are transitioning to,
- 16:57Speaker 3: So keep that in mind. I don't know, dirty sock,
- 16:59Speaker 3: what's up? Thanks for hanging out. And like I said,
- 17:02Speaker 3: you can also specify one of the starters must start
- 17:05Speaker 3: but not the other for the bet to count. All right,
- 17:08Speaker 3: Cincinnati and Saint Louis only through two games here, man,
- 17:12Speaker 3: gotta start speeding this up. Saint Louis won ten to
- 17:15Speaker 3: three yesterday in the first game of the series, so
- 17:18Speaker 3: that means possibly a bounce back here for Cincinnati. Cincinnati
- 17:22Speaker 3: used a lot of their relief pitchers. They used four
- 17:24Speaker 3: guys out of the bullpen yesterday. Saint Louis only used
- 17:28Speaker 3: my man Hunter Dobbins Yankee hater. So Saint Louis's bullpen
- 17:33Speaker 3: is in better shape here, and the better bullpen Cincinnati's
- 17:36Speaker 3: twenty ninth in bullpen very bad. Saint Louis is not great,
- 17:40Speaker 3: but their twentieth and they do have a bullpen advantage here,
- 17:43Speaker 3: including the rest that they have here in the bullpen. Offensively,
- 17:47Speaker 3: these teams are both right in the middle. Cincinnati fifteen
- 17:51Speaker 3: Saint Louis sixteen. I don't really love the starting pitching
- 17:54Speaker 3: matchup here. Nico Lodolo is pitching for the Reds. He
- 17:58Speaker 3: had a decent season last year. He's not bouncing back
- 18:01Speaker 3: well from injury so far here though, five point two RA,
- 18:05Speaker 3: one point three to seven whip here in what's been
- 18:07Speaker 3: kind of a shortened season for him. So far. He's
- 18:10Speaker 3: been better on the road though, away from the hitter
- 18:12Speaker 3: friendly Cincinnati Ballpark three point zero nine Roady Ray, So
- 18:17Speaker 3: that's better. I mean, it looks like you can possibly
- 18:20Speaker 3: back him on the road. But his road starts against
- 18:23Speaker 3: Philly and the Mets, and we know both those teams
- 18:25Speaker 3: haven't really been hitting. He wasn't even good against Philly.
- 18:28Speaker 3: He walked five guys in that outing. He's really only
- 18:31Speaker 3: had one actually good outing. It was against the lowly
- 18:34Speaker 3: Mets offense. So Lodolo to me, looks very untrustworthy. His
- 18:38Speaker 3: walk number is ridiculous. Thirteen walks in twenty seven to
- 18:41Speaker 3: two thirds innings. That's not good. Twenty five hits is fine,
- 18:44Speaker 3: twenty two strikeouts is fine, but that walk number is bad.
- 18:48Speaker 3: Numbers against Saint Louis are not great, and seventeen at
- 18:51Speaker 3: bats so it's not a big sample. Four strikeouts, no walks,
- 18:55Speaker 3: two ninety four average, but only seven h six ops,
- 18:58Speaker 3: the only one extra base, which is a triple by
- 19:02Speaker 3: Nelson Velasquez. But I don't trust Lodolo here. I think
- 19:07Speaker 3: he might be still fatable here. Matthew Libertore is pitching
- 19:11Speaker 3: for the Cardinals. I don't think he's good either. Four
- 19:14Speaker 3: point three five eras all right, but a one point
- 19:16Speaker 3: five whip is pretty awful. Putting one and a half
- 19:19Speaker 3: guys on base not good per inning. That's not good.
- 19:24Speaker 3: His home road splits are basically not existent. He's not
- 19:28Speaker 3: really pitching that well, even though he's allowing few runs.
- 19:31Speaker 3: Like he had a decent ra in the month of May,
- 19:33Speaker 3: but he allowed more than one hit per inning. His
- 19:35Speaker 3: walk rate was kind of high, strike out rate was good,
- 19:38Speaker 3: and I don't even consider him to be a strike
- 19:40Speaker 3: up pitcher, so this is all kind of strange to me.
- 19:44Speaker 3: But he did okay last time out against the Cobs.
- 19:46Speaker 3: He didn't last that long in the game five and
- 19:49Speaker 3: a third, but he did shut them out for that
- 19:51Speaker 3: span at home. He picked up a win in that outing.
- 19:54Speaker 3: His overall numbers, yeah, Like I said, his strike out
- 19:56Speaker 3: rate is not that high, hit rate is over one
- 19:59Speaker 3: per inning, which is bad. Double digit home runs at
- 20:02Speaker 3: this point of the season not very good, and his
- 20:04Speaker 3: walk rate is too high and he doesn't have good
- 20:07Speaker 3: numbers against Cincinnati really either. Like the power numbers at
- 20:10Speaker 3: least are not good. They have forty at bats against him.
- 20:13Speaker 3: He has held them to a two twenty five average,
- 20:15Speaker 3: fourteen strikeouts, two walks, but they've hit him for power.
- 20:19Speaker 3: They have four home runs off and from four different
- 20:21Speaker 3: hitters seven eighty seven ops. I'm gonna lean over in
- 20:26Speaker 3: this game. The total is high. I think both bullpens
- 20:30Speaker 3: are pretty fatable here too. Both starters look like they
- 20:33Speaker 3: have some issues. To me, the total is pretty high
- 20:37Speaker 3: for a reason, especially given that this game is in
- 20:40Speaker 3: Saint Louis, not Cincinnati, so Saint Louis is a more
- 20:43Speaker 3: pitcher friendly at ballpark than Cincinnati. Is this total being
- 20:47Speaker 3: at nine kind of tells you something here? Yeah, I
- 20:50Speaker 3: think I would go over the nine here. A lot
- 20:53Speaker 3: of books have that nine available. Looks like you might
- 20:55Speaker 3: have to pay a little bit of juice for that.
- 20:57Speaker 3: But if I was gonna play that game, I don't
- 20:59Speaker 3: really want to though, because both starting pitchers do have
- 21:02Speaker 3: some good in their matchup numbers there. Lodolo is better
- 21:06Speaker 3: on the road, you know. I mean, Lodola looks like
- 21:09Speaker 3: he does have the better matchup numbers here. The money's
- 21:12Speaker 3: coming in on Saint Louis on the side, though eighty
- 21:14Speaker 3: one percent of the tickets ninety five percent of the cash.
- 21:17Speaker 3: I don't know if that's accurate. Saint Louis is a
- 21:20Speaker 3: small favorite here of around minus one thirty. I think
- 21:23Speaker 3: both these teams are not good and started the season
- 21:27Speaker 3: better than what they actually are. Well, what are we
- 21:33Speaker 3: talking about? A Stevie Wonder parody of what song? I
- 21:37Speaker 3: don't I don't even know. I'm blind to what you're
- 21:40Speaker 3: talking about. This next game up is going to be
- 21:42Speaker 3: one of my plays. It is my afternoon baseball play here.
- 21:48Speaker 3: I only have two plays that I am skipping the
- 21:51Speaker 3: WNBA Cup as well, and I don't have anything in
- 21:53Speaker 3: the hockey game either. I'm treading very lightly here. I
- 21:56Speaker 3: need to find good enough spots that I want to
- 21:58Speaker 3: actually make these plays. Man, But we are gonna have
- 22:01Speaker 3: a play on the Chicago Cubs on the money line
- 22:03Speaker 3: here as long as you can find it a below
- 22:06Speaker 3: one fifty. I saw it in the minus one forties
- 22:08Speaker 3: at multiple books out there. Minus one forty six I
- 22:12Speaker 3: found at I don't remember which it might have been FD,
- 22:16Speaker 3: I don't remember which book it was. Some of the
- 22:19Speaker 3: books have a decent number available. Of course, if it
- 22:22Speaker 3: is a little bit higher, you know the money line
- 22:24Speaker 3: you could still do or you could do like a
- 22:26Speaker 3: split bet run line money line, or find a minus
- 22:29Speaker 3: one run line on this. But I like the Cubs
- 22:31Speaker 3: in this game. They're facing San Francisco. I do not
- 22:35Speaker 3: think San Francisco is a good team. I think what
- 22:37Speaker 3: we're seeing out of them is a complete mirage. We've
- 22:40Speaker 3: seen San Francisco put up these ridiculous offensive numbers recently,
- 22:43Speaker 3: and this is not a good offensive team San Francisco.
- 22:47Speaker 3: Chicago lost the game yesterday eighteen to three. I mean,
- 22:52Speaker 3: come on, man, Edward Cabrera got torched in the game,
- 22:55Speaker 3: the bullpen wasn't good. Well, today's a new day, man,
- 22:58Speaker 3: You're still Chicago's the better team. They're at home, and
- 23:02Speaker 3: I think they have a significant starting pitching advantage here,
- 23:05Speaker 3: so we're taking Chicago. Chicago did use four relief pitchers yesterday,
- 23:10Speaker 3: but they didn't really use they're better relievers. I don't think.
- 23:13Speaker 3: I'm not too familiar with their personnel, but I think
- 23:15Speaker 3: they I'm assuming because it was a garbage game, right, Like,
- 23:18Speaker 3: why would you use your best pitchers when you're getting
- 23:20Speaker 3: smoked in the game right, Although yes San Francisco used
- 23:25Speaker 3: some lesser relievers as well, they only US two. But
- 23:28Speaker 3: Chicago has the better bullpen, so I'm still going with
- 23:31Speaker 3: this full game Chicago ninth and bullpen Giants. The Giants
- 23:37Speaker 3: are right now. I mean, they're not what I thought
- 23:40Speaker 3: they would be at all. Like Giants last year they
- 23:42Speaker 3: were good bullpen, pretty good pitching, bad hitting. This year,
- 23:47Speaker 3: like the opposite is happening right now. The Giants have
- 23:49Speaker 3: a they have the twenty sixth ranked bullpen, so well
- 23:54Speaker 3: fade that I suppose here, even though Chicago did use
- 23:57Speaker 3: a few guys, but they're better. Guys are availed. Like
- 24:00Speaker 3: I said, hitting wise, is bizarre that the Giants are
- 24:05Speaker 3: now eighth in hitting and the Cubs are ninth. I'm
- 24:08Speaker 3: not buying it at all. Before the Giants put up
- 24:12Speaker 3: nineteen runs in course field, the Giants were like the
- 24:15Speaker 3: twenty fifth ranked offense. And now they put up eighteen
- 24:19Speaker 3: nineteen runs and then eighteen runs in a couple of games,
- 24:21Speaker 3: and now they ranked eighth. I'm not buying it at all.
- 24:25Speaker 3: I think they're gonna fall back down. The Cubs are
- 24:28Speaker 3: the better offense here, but then we also look at
- 24:31Speaker 3: the starting pitching, and I know I like Landon relp.
- 24:33Speaker 3: I do. He's pitching for the Giants here, but his
- 24:36Speaker 3: numbers are getting a little bit worse here four point
- 24:39Speaker 3: two to two ERA, one point three to one Whip.
- 24:42Speaker 3: He's not quite as good on the road, a little
- 24:44Speaker 3: bit worse on the road four point three Roady Ira,
- 24:47Speaker 3: and he got lit up in his last outing against Milwaukee. Man.
- 24:50Speaker 3: This was bad. He gave up eight runs on eight
- 24:52Speaker 3: hits and five walks in four innings, so he put
- 24:56Speaker 3: a ton of guys on base through a ton of pitches.
- 24:59Speaker 3: I don't think he's pitching well right now. His starts
- 25:02Speaker 3: have been somewhat questionable over the last few starts. I
- 25:05Speaker 3: did face good offenses year Arizona twice, Dodgers, whatever, San
- 25:09Speaker 3: Francisco has lost six starts of his in a row.
- 25:12Speaker 3: By the way, he did face Pittsburgh and Tampa as
- 25:15Speaker 3: well in there. But the Cubs are also a good offense. Man,
- 25:18Speaker 3: so he's facing another good offense here. And by the way,
- 25:21Speaker 3: obviously you probably expected this. The Cubs have good numbers
- 25:24Speaker 3: against him. They only have twenty one at bats against him,
- 25:27Speaker 3: but they have definitely hit him well, three to eighty
- 25:29Speaker 3: one average against him, one thousand ops, three strikeouts, no walks.
- 25:33Speaker 3: So I think we could fade route Pier and we're
- 25:36Speaker 3: gonna go with the pitcher that's in better form right now,
- 25:39Speaker 3: Ben Brown, who I had a couple of leans on
- 25:42Speaker 3: Ben Brown. Ree. I think I did give out one
- 25:44Speaker 3: play on a Ben Brown game recently and it was
- 25:46Speaker 3: a winner, and then I did have some leans towards
- 25:48Speaker 3: him as well. He's pitching well, dude. He's been a
- 25:52Speaker 3: guy that the Cubs had in the bullpend for a
- 25:54Speaker 3: bit and I always was looking at his numbers like, yeah,
- 25:57Speaker 3: like his era is like misleadingly bad, you know, Like
- 26:00Speaker 3: I was looking at like his strikeout numbers, his walk numbers.
- 26:03Speaker 3: I'm like, this guy is actually good, I think, and
- 26:06Speaker 3: we're kind of seeing that now now that the Cubs
- 26:08Speaker 3: have all these injuries. They put him in the starting rotation.
- 26:11Speaker 3: He's continuing to pitch well. He's got a one point
- 26:13Speaker 3: nine to two ERA, point nine to three whip. He's
- 26:17Speaker 3: not as good at home, but still a two point
- 26:19Speaker 3: five to seven home ERA. That doesn't concern me that much.
- 26:22Speaker 3: And of course a lot of these games are win
- 26:24Speaker 3: blowing out games. In Chicago here and Wrigley. I don't
- 26:29Speaker 3: really care if it is or if it isn't this
- 26:30Speaker 3: time it's not. By the way, it's a low total
- 26:33Speaker 3: in this Cubs game today, so wind is probably blowing
- 26:36Speaker 3: in here and or it's just that the books respect
- 26:40Speaker 3: both these pitchers enough to have a low total. The
- 26:42Speaker 3: Cubs have won five of Brown's last seven appearance as
- 26:46Speaker 3: although some of those were bullpen appearances. He's pitched well
- 26:49Speaker 3: in his starts, though, Man, he got like virtually no
- 26:52Speaker 3: run support in the two starts that he lost or
- 26:55Speaker 3: that the Cubs lost behind him. In his three full
- 26:59Speaker 3: starts that he's He's gone at least five innings in
- 27:03Speaker 3: his last three outings, so I'm talking about those as
- 27:05Speaker 3: full starts. He's got nineteen strikeouts and only five walks
- 27:09Speaker 3: over that span, fourteen hits allowed in whatever that is,
- 27:13Speaker 3: eighteen innings, he's only allowed four earned runs. That's all
- 27:16Speaker 3: pretty good, and it was against Milwaukee and Pittsburgh. Those
- 27:19Speaker 3: are good offenses. He did well against Atlanta and a
- 27:22Speaker 3: shorter outing before that, and then he pitched well against
- 27:24Speaker 3: Saint Louis last time out as well. Not as good
- 27:28Speaker 3: of an offense, but he's facing some decent offenses. I
- 27:30Speaker 3: still don't think San Francisco is a good offense. They
- 27:33Speaker 3: only have sixteen at bats against Brown, only five of
- 27:36Speaker 3: their hitters have faced him. They have a two point
- 27:38Speaker 3: fifty average and six forty six ops against him. The
- 27:41Speaker 3: only extra base hit is a double from a Dames.
- 27:44Speaker 3: Six strikeouts, two walks, And yes, I know San Francisco
- 27:48Speaker 3: is a hot offense right now, but we're still gonna
- 27:51Speaker 3: fade it. And yes, they put up twelve against Milwaukee
- 27:53Speaker 3: in there to an eight also against Milwaukee. They got
- 27:57Speaker 3: shut down in one of these games against Milwaukee. One
- 27:59Speaker 3: of the games they just unloaded on Milwaukee's bullpen somehow
- 28:03Speaker 3: after Harrison shut them down. That was the loss we
- 28:05Speaker 3: had on the under and then they scored nothing against
- 28:08Speaker 3: I don't even remember who started this game from Milwaukee.
- 28:13Speaker 3: I might have it was a bullpen game. Actually it
- 28:15Speaker 3: was Gasser and Patrick in that game. Yeah, so I
- 28:18Speaker 3: still don't buy San Francisco's offense. I know, sometimes you
- 28:21Speaker 3: don't want to fade an offense that's tearing the cover
- 28:24Speaker 3: up the ball, like you want to wait for them
- 28:25Speaker 3: to fall out a form again. But I'm gonna do it. Anyway,
- 28:29Speaker 3: I think Brown can slow them down. I like Brown here.
- 28:33Speaker 3: What can Brown do for you? Cubs? Money line is
- 28:36Speaker 3: the play there? Garrett? What's up? Thanks for hanging out.
- 28:40Speaker 3: I haven't been following the baseball whatever it is. Oh yeah,
- 28:46Speaker 3: just call to say I love you. Yeah, that's right.
- 28:47Speaker 3: I don't really remember how it starts. You're hot, all right?
- 28:52Speaker 3: Are you? Are you making like a ton of plays?
- 28:54Speaker 3: I'm way selective. Yeah, I mean I think Edward Cabrera
- 29:00Speaker 3: just I don't know if he's just not coming back
- 29:03Speaker 3: from injury. Well, I don't know what that was, Zach.
- 29:06Speaker 3: What's up the Royals? Yeah, they already talked about that game. Yeah,
- 29:10Speaker 3: they are not doing well and I don't think they're
- 29:12Speaker 3: gonna win this game either against Joe Rye and seems
- 29:15Speaker 3: like a huge mismatch Baltimore in Toronto. This is this
- 29:18Speaker 3: is an ugly game here, man. Now Toronto you would
- 29:23Speaker 3: think would be in a positive situation because they return
- 29:25Speaker 3: home from the road and they lost to Baltimore here
- 29:28Speaker 3: and it was a bit of a revenge spot. Well
- 29:31Speaker 3: not really, actually, it wasn't really a revenge spot. So
- 29:33Speaker 3: my mistake I was thinking Baltimore won that series but
- 29:36Speaker 3: it was a two to two series the last time
- 29:38Speaker 3: they played, but Toronto was in a return home spot.
- 29:41Speaker 3: Baltimore was another team that put up a ton of runs.
- 29:44Speaker 3: Yesterday they won thirteen to three against Toronto. And I
- 29:47Speaker 3: always talk about this when a team returns home from
- 29:49Speaker 3: the road, a lot of times they have that bad
- 29:53Speaker 3: game and then they'll do better in the next game
- 29:55Speaker 3: once they're settled at home and they get those distractions
- 29:57Speaker 3: out of the way. So Toronto's in a more positive
- 29:59Speaker 3: sp here could be embarrassed after yesterday bounce back spot.
- 30:03Speaker 3: Problem is they're going with a bullpen game here. So
- 30:06Speaker 3: is that really what you want with Toronto? I don't
- 30:09Speaker 3: really think so. This is a website, by the way,
- 30:11Speaker 3: is still not showing it. Oh they are now there
- 30:13Speaker 3: you go. Toronto used a few guys out of the
- 30:15Speaker 3: bullpen yesterday. They used more than Baltimore by a little bit.
- 30:19Speaker 3: Baltimore used a few as well. Baltimore has the lesser
- 30:22Speaker 3: bullpen though they're ranked nineteenth than bullpen. Toronto has been
- 30:26Speaker 3: okay at thirteenth, but the era is now four in
- 30:29Speaker 3: the bullpen. And like I said, Toronto's using a bullpen
- 30:32Speaker 3: game here, so their bullpen's gonna be in the game
- 30:36Speaker 3: basically for the whole game, so you have to take
- 30:38Speaker 3: that into account here, so that kind of negates the
- 30:41Speaker 3: bullpen edge they might have a little bit. Baltimore is
- 30:44Speaker 3: going with Kyle Bradish here though he's got a good
- 30:47Speaker 3: ERA three point four to four, but his whip is
- 30:50Speaker 3: indicating that there's something wrong here. One point four to
- 30:53Speaker 3: two whip is not good. He's been bad on the
- 30:56Speaker 3: road five point three to two road ERA, so you
- 30:59Speaker 3: might be able to Bradish here. He has had a
- 31:02Speaker 3: few good starts in a row here. Actually, most of
- 31:04Speaker 3: the month of May was pretty good for him here,
- 31:07Speaker 3: but his walk number wasn't really that good. He had
- 31:09Speaker 3: sixteen walks in thirty five and a third innings, only
- 31:12Speaker 3: allowed twenty five hits though, which is good, and had
- 31:14Speaker 3: thirty four strikeouts which is pretty good, and more ground
- 31:18Speaker 3: balls than fly balls, which was part of the reason
- 31:20Speaker 3: why you give up so few runs here. Two point
- 31:22Speaker 3: eight e RRA in May. But like I said, the
- 31:25Speaker 3: whip is telling you something. He's still walking a lot
- 31:28Speaker 3: of guys here. His strikeout rates good on the season,
- 31:31Speaker 3: his hit rate is pretty good as well. His walk
- 31:33Speaker 3: rate is a problem. It's too high. Does he do
- 31:37Speaker 3: well against Toronto though, the answer is he does mediocre
- 31:41Speaker 3: against them. In seventy five at bats, nine strikeouts, seven walks,
- 31:45Speaker 3: that's not very good two fifty three average seven to
- 31:48Speaker 3: seventeen ops. So I guess you can make the argument
- 31:52Speaker 3: he's a little bit on the better side of those numbers,
- 31:54Speaker 3: but he doesn't pitch well on the road. I think
- 31:56Speaker 3: he's not as good as his ra looks. I think
- 31:59Speaker 3: you could possibly fade him here, and then you got
- 32:02Speaker 3: Toronto with Braden Fisher making the opener here. They've use
- 32:05Speaker 3: him as an opener a lot already. He actually did
- 32:09Speaker 3: that two days ago, so you know you're probably getting
- 32:11Speaker 3: an inning out of him here. I would guess he's
- 32:15Speaker 3: been alright two point six two ERA point nine to
- 32:17Speaker 3: three whip, but you're only gonna get an inning out
- 32:19Speaker 3: of him, and then you're gonna get I'm pretty sure
- 32:21Speaker 3: Toronto's bullpen is just gonna pitch the whole game here.
- 32:24Speaker 3: So obviously I don't like that either. So I think
- 32:27Speaker 3: this game reads as an over to me that that
- 32:30Speaker 3: is the way that I would lean here. I don't
- 32:31Speaker 3: quite want to do that, but the totals at eight,
- 32:35Speaker 3: which is right there in no man's land. It's a
- 32:37Speaker 3: pretty reasonable total. Seems a little bit low to me really,
- 32:42Speaker 3: so over kind of makes sense to me. In that game,
- 32:44Speaker 3: I could see the pitching having some issues here. Baltimore
- 32:48Speaker 3: is getting the ticket. It's fifty eight fifty five percent
- 32:51Speaker 3: of the cash on Toronto though. Toronto's like almost a
- 32:55Speaker 3: small ish underdog here. It's like a pick them money
- 32:58Speaker 3: line here. Do you really want to back Toronto though?
- 33:01Speaker 3: With a bullpen game? And I know I said, the
- 33:03Speaker 3: situation does support it, like there's a situational advantage here
- 33:08Speaker 3: for Toronto bounce back a second game back home after
- 33:11Speaker 3: an ugly game one back home, But I still I
- 33:14Speaker 3: would not want to put my money on a bull
- 33:16Speaker 3: Like maybe I'm too old school. I can't put my
- 33:18Speaker 3: money on a bullpen game though, especially a Toronto team
- 33:21Speaker 3: that doesn't really do it as often as some other
- 33:24Speaker 3: teams do, like they're kind of being forced into it
- 33:26Speaker 3: because they have too many starting pitching injuries. One to
- 33:31Speaker 3: six a day, Yeah, I'm doing like usually like between
- 33:35Speaker 3: one and three a day this time of year. Yes,
- 33:39Speaker 3: thank you, yes. Like the video you're betting USC, Yeah,
- 33:45Speaker 3: UFC is not really on my radar, so I've been
- 33:48Speaker 3: saying maybe I should have like a guest on to
- 33:50Speaker 3: talk about UFC, but I don't know. It's a lot
- 33:53Speaker 3: to do, all right. White Sox and Philadelphia. Philadelphia won
- 33:57Speaker 3: the game yesterday eight to six, high scoring game, so
- 34:02Speaker 3: the White Sox that was kind of more their style
- 34:05Speaker 3: of game. The White Sox play high scoring games, Philadelphia
- 34:08Speaker 3: does not, so kind of surprising Philadelphia one, Like, if
- 34:12Speaker 3: you had told me that was gonna be a high
- 34:13Speaker 3: scoring game, I would have probably guessed that the White
- 34:16Speaker 3: Sox would have won. Philadelphia did use their closer deron.
- 34:20Speaker 3: They use three relief pitchers. They have the better bullpen,
- 34:23Speaker 3: though the White Sox did use five guys out of
- 34:25Speaker 3: the bullpen because they were kind of going with like
- 34:27Speaker 3: a pseudo bullpen game with Ca being their starter there.
- 34:32Speaker 3: The White Sox don't have a great bullpen middle of
- 34:35Speaker 3: the pack at sixteenth, but the ERA is not very good.
- 34:38Speaker 3: Philadelphia is a bit better at fourteenth, but the ERA
- 34:41Speaker 3: is almost half a run better, so Philadelphia better bullpen,
- 34:45Speaker 3: although they did use a couple of high leverage arms
- 34:48Speaker 3: yesterday to save the game. White Sox have the better offense.
- 34:51Speaker 3: Their rank sixth, Philadelphia twenty eighth, not doing well offensively.
- 34:56Speaker 3: This is this pitching matchup though, This is this is
- 35:00Speaker 3: not what you want. What you want unless you want
- 35:02Speaker 3: to see a lot of hitting. I think this might
- 35:04Speaker 3: be another high scoring game here. Man. The White Socks
- 35:07Speaker 3: are going with Brandon ice Serch I think as an
- 35:09Speaker 3: opener here. I don't know what the hell they're doing.
- 35:12Speaker 3: He's got a three point five to five yr one
- 35:15Speaker 3: point two six with but he's a relief pitcher and
- 35:17Speaker 3: he pitched literally yesterday, he pitched an inning, so you
- 35:21Speaker 3: know he's an opener. He's only going one inning here
- 35:23Speaker 3: and then I don't know what the White Sox are doing.
- 35:26Speaker 3: I don't know if they're going with a bullpen game here,
- 35:28Speaker 3: or if they're going with uh Sean Burke I think
- 35:32Speaker 3: would be the next guy up in their rotation here.
- 35:35Speaker 3: I don't know if it's gonna be him or not,
- 35:36Speaker 3: if they're putting an opener in front of him or not.
- 35:39Speaker 3: Burke is not injured, so they might be doing that.
- 35:41Speaker 3: I want to see if they did that. He pitched
- 35:43Speaker 3: on the thirty first of May. Let me see here
- 35:48Speaker 3: they did not put an opener in front of him.
- 35:50Speaker 3: Last time Ier did pitch in that game, but I
- 35:52Speaker 3: don't know if that really matters. So yeah, I don't
- 35:55Speaker 3: know what the White Sox are doing, dude. Like I'm
- 35:57Speaker 3: usually pretty good at figuring out like oh, they're putting
- 35:59Speaker 3: an o in front of this guy, or oh, this
- 36:01Speaker 3: is a bullpen game. I honestly don't know. I don't
- 36:05Speaker 3: really want to handicap Burke if it's not going to
- 36:07Speaker 3: be him here, so I'm kind of handicapping this is
- 36:10Speaker 3: a bullpen game, but it is kind of a mystery here.
- 36:12Speaker 3: I hate these openers, dude. I hate modern baseball because
- 36:16Speaker 3: a lot of times you have no idea what the
- 36:17Speaker 3: fuck this team is doing. And then Philadelphia is going
- 36:20Speaker 3: with Andrew Painter. He's young, he's a rookie, he is talented,
- 36:24Speaker 3: but he has not pitched well so far five point
- 36:26Speaker 3: seven to four ERA, one point five to two WHIP.
- 36:30Speaker 3: He's been a little bit better at home five point
- 36:32Speaker 3: oh four ERA, and he's not pitching well though his
- 36:35Speaker 3: last start was bad, but it was on the road
- 36:37Speaker 3: against the Dodgers, so you maybe give him a little
- 36:39Speaker 3: bit of a pass for that, but generally he is
- 36:41Speaker 3: not pitched well. Philadelphia has lost all but two of
- 36:44Speaker 3: his starts on the season. In however many starts this is,
- 36:48Speaker 3: I think it's ten starts. He's our average well over
- 36:52Speaker 3: one hit per inning allowed. His walk rate is okay,
- 36:55Speaker 3: and his strikeout rates a little bit low. So I
- 36:57Speaker 3: don't know. I don't love this. And Painter is unfamiliar
- 37:00Speaker 3: to the White Sox though, so he does have that
- 37:02Speaker 3: advantage where sometimes these pitchers will have the edge against
- 37:05Speaker 3: a team that hasn't faced them before. It's too bad
- 37:09Speaker 3: it's not Noah Schultz here, man, because you'd have two
- 37:12Speaker 3: really tall young pitchers going with Paynter is six seven
- 37:15Speaker 3: and Schultz is like six to ten, so having both
- 37:18Speaker 3: those guys pitching would be crazy. But Schultz is on
- 37:22Speaker 3: the DL so unfortunately, because I like him. But yeah,
- 37:26Speaker 3: I don't think Painter is gonna do well here, even
- 37:28Speaker 3: though you know, I know he's unfamiliar to the White Sox,
- 37:31Speaker 3: but he's struggled all year. He's been unfamiliar to these
- 37:34Speaker 3: offenses he's faced all year. It hasn't helped. This total
- 37:38Speaker 3: is really high for a Philly game. The totals at
- 37:41Speaker 3: ten here for a Philadelphia game, that is significantly high.
- 37:45Speaker 3: That's pretty significant man, the odds makers are kind of
- 37:47Speaker 3: telling you that they think this is gonna be a
- 37:50Speaker 3: slug fest, and I tend to agree. I think if
- 37:53Speaker 3: I was gonna play this game, i'd probably go over.
- 37:56Speaker 3: It's the numbers that high for a reason. That is
- 37:59Speaker 3: crazy high for a Philly game. But Philly's offense is capable,
- 38:03Speaker 3: even though they haven't been hitting well this year. Maybe
- 38:05Speaker 3: they'll get something going against probably a White Sox bullpend game.
- 38:09Speaker 3: The money is backing Painter in Philly here sixty four
- 38:13Speaker 3: percent of tickets on the White Sox. The White Sox
- 38:15Speaker 3: are still kind of a public camlodity here, sixty seven
- 38:19Speaker 3: percent of the cash on Philly. Though. People might just
- 38:23Speaker 3: be looking at the eras of these listed starters and
- 38:26Speaker 3: whatever too, But at least Philly has like the actual
- 38:28Speaker 3: starter going from them, at the very least they're at
- 38:31Speaker 3: minus one thirty or so there if you do like Philly.
- 38:34Speaker 3: But I wouldn't want to try to pick a side
- 38:37Speaker 3: really in that game. I think it over makes the
- 38:38Speaker 3: most sense. In that game. You can help me out.
- 38:43Speaker 3: Maybe I don't know. I it's just a lot of
- 38:45Speaker 3: a lot more time that I have to add. If
- 38:47Speaker 3: I'm gonna do something with UFC, Bonfinn and Mohammed? Is
- 38:54Speaker 3: is that the is that the like the main event?
- 38:57Speaker 3: I have no idea. I don't I don't even really
- 38:59Speaker 3: know who these guys are. I'm gonna look it up
- 39:02Speaker 3: real quick, though, why not Bondfim and Mohammed? Me See,
- 39:08Speaker 3: the odds are close. Mohammed is a small favorite here.
- 39:12Speaker 3: I don't know. I mean sometimes I have a read on,
- 39:14Speaker 3: like who's public and who isn't, But yeah, I have
- 39:16Speaker 3: no real read on that. It's supposed to be a
- 39:18Speaker 3: close fight though according to the odds. All right. Uh.
- 39:23Speaker 3: Pittsburgh and Atlanta interesting series. Atlanta got the win in
- 39:27Speaker 3: the first game yesterday, six to three, after Atlanta lost
- 39:30Speaker 3: with Chris Sale on the mound in the game before that,
- 39:33Speaker 3: which I think was a fluke though I don't think
- 39:35Speaker 3: there's anything wrong with Sale. Pittsburgh actually, and Pittsburgh is
- 39:39Speaker 3: a good offense, dude, believe it or not. Atlanta used
- 39:42Speaker 3: a lot of relief pitchers. Finally, this website fixed itself.
- 39:45Speaker 3: So Atlanta used five relief pitchers yesterday. They're a good bullpen,
- 39:49Speaker 3: but that's not great that they used a lot of
- 39:51Speaker 3: guys yesterday. Pittsburgh only used three. Atlanta does have the
- 39:55Speaker 3: better bullpen, though they're number one in bullpen whip, they're
- 39:58Speaker 3: not number one in er. They are number two behind
- 40:02Speaker 3: the Boston Red Sox. The one good thing about the
- 40:05Speaker 3: Red Sox the bullpen, and actually they're starting pitching pretty good.
- 40:12Speaker 3: Their hitting is just sucked anyway. Pittsburgh does not have
- 40:16Speaker 3: that good of a bullpen. They are eighteenth here, so
- 40:19Speaker 3: Atlanta Mays still have a bullpen edge even though they're
- 40:22Speaker 3: less rested, but that doesn't negate their bullpen edge a
- 40:24Speaker 3: little bit. Atlanta's number three in offense, Pittsburgh five, so
- 40:28Speaker 3: both offense is very capable. My first look at this,
- 40:32Speaker 3: I was thinking, this looks like an under To me,
- 40:34Speaker 3: this looks like a good starting pitching matchup, and a
- 40:37Speaker 3: lot of people have no idea who Braxton Ashcraft is.
- 40:40Speaker 3: So I think you get maybe a little bit more
- 40:42Speaker 3: value on him. People are gonna see his era is
- 40:45Speaker 3: good two point seven to seven. His whip is also
- 40:48Speaker 3: good one point oh three. But I think people don't
- 40:50Speaker 3: realize how good he actually is. He's like really starting
- 40:54Speaker 3: to perform well here, man, it's a twenty six year OWLD.
- 40:59Speaker 3: He's been really good on the road to one point
- 41:01Speaker 3: nine to seven, which might bode even better against Atlanta
- 41:04Speaker 3: because Atlanta has not hit that well at home this
- 41:06Speaker 3: year compared to what they do on the road. Ashcraft
- 41:09Speaker 3: was really good in the month of May, over one
- 41:12Speaker 3: strike up per inning, had a forty two to five
- 41:14Speaker 3: strikeout walk ratio. Pittsburgh won five of his six outings.
- 41:19Speaker 3: He had thirty three hits all out of forty to
- 41:20Speaker 3: two thirds innings and allowed more than two hourn runs
- 41:24Speaker 3: only once and allowed more than one ar and run
- 41:26Speaker 3: only twice during the month. Overall in the season, really high. Yeah,
- 41:31Speaker 3: pretty high strike out rate at least a pretty low
- 41:33Speaker 3: walk rate, low hit rate as well. He's excellent and
- 41:37Speaker 3: he's an excellent forum right now. Man. Ashcraft is really good.
- 41:40Speaker 3: Pittsburgh has a pretty good starting rotation here all of
- 41:43Speaker 3: a sudden. Ashcraft also is pretty much unfamiliar to the Braves.
- 41:48Speaker 3: Only Dominic Smith has ever faced him off, and he's
- 41:50Speaker 3: won for two often with a single no walks, no strikeouts,
- 41:54Speaker 3: So do what you want with that, but I would
- 41:56Speaker 3: say he's another picture was unfamiliar to the opposing line
- 42:00Speaker 3: and that should help him even more because they haven't
- 42:03Speaker 3: faced him before. Atlanta's going with Spencer Strider. He's pitching
- 42:07Speaker 3: decent here three point seven to seventy ra one point
- 42:10Speaker 3: twenty six whip. You'd kind of like to see that
- 42:12Speaker 3: be a little bit better. Strider, I mean, he just
- 42:15Speaker 3: walks too many guys, Like he's really difficult to hit,
- 42:18Speaker 3: but he walks too many guys and he is. You know,
- 42:22Speaker 3: his career has been kind of injury plagued. If you
- 42:25Speaker 3: look at what he's done so far, He's made six
- 42:27Speaker 3: starts so far, Atlanta's won five of them. He's gone
- 42:31Speaker 3: thirty one innings so far, twenty two hits a lot,
- 42:33Speaker 3: that's good. Seventeen walks is not good, multiple walks in
- 42:37Speaker 3: every single start, and forty strikeouts is obviously really good.
- 42:41Speaker 3: But the good thing about that is that tells you
- 42:43Speaker 3: his strikeouts stuff is still there because his strikeout rate
- 42:46Speaker 3: is quite high. But he's wild man. He's walking too
- 42:49Speaker 3: many guys. That has kind of been the case throughout
- 42:51Speaker 3: his career. But he does kind of look like he's
- 42:53Speaker 3: somewhat back to his usual self. Against Pittsburgh, his numbers
- 42:58Speaker 3: are not amazing but not horrible. In thirty three at
- 43:03Speaker 3: bats to seventy three average allowed is a little bit high.
- 43:05Speaker 3: Seven thirty nine ops is just on that correct side
- 43:09Speaker 3: of the seven fifty, but he's kind of average against Pittsburgh.
- 43:14Speaker 3: Ten strikeouts, two walks. So I first looked at this,
- 43:16Speaker 3: I was thinking an over, or excuse me, I was
- 43:18Speaker 3: thinking an under, excuse me under. I do still kind
- 43:22Speaker 3: of like the under in this game. I would probably
- 43:25Speaker 3: leave the bullpens out, though, because Atlanta used so many
- 43:27Speaker 3: of the relief pitchers and I don't trust Pittsburgh's bullpen,
- 43:30Speaker 3: so a first five under makes some sense. The total
- 43:34Speaker 3: is at eight here. It looks like it's falling towards
- 43:36Speaker 3: seven and a half though, So money seems like it
- 43:39Speaker 3: has come in pretty strongly on the under in this game.
- 43:42Speaker 3: Ninety one percent of tickets, ninety four percent of the
- 43:44Speaker 3: cash on the under first five. You might be able
- 43:47Speaker 3: to find a four out there. That's probably what I
- 43:50Speaker 3: would do, is first five under four. The money is
- 43:53Speaker 3: backing Atlanta here. They're a very small favorite around minus
- 43:57Speaker 3: one point fifteen seventy six percent of tickets. Some of
- 44:00Speaker 3: the cash on Atlanta, I actually don't agree. I would
- 44:03Speaker 3: lean towards Pittsburgh at least maybe just with the starting pitching,
- 44:08Speaker 3: although again the Bullpens I think are a little bit
- 44:10Speaker 3: closer just because of the usage. But I think Pittsburgh
- 44:13Speaker 3: first five makes some sense. Like the price just looks
- 44:16Speaker 3: way too easy to take Atlanta, dude, Like everybody knows
- 44:19Speaker 3: how good Atlanta is. The record's really good. People know
- 44:22Speaker 3: who Strider is. They don't know who Ashcraft is. But
- 44:25Speaker 3: I just showed you Ashcraft, dude. His numbers this season
- 44:28Speaker 3: are better than Stride or as Andy has better matchup
- 44:30Speaker 3: numbers here. So I think Pittsburgh, you could definitely make
- 44:33Speaker 3: the argument they have a starting pitching advantage here. Yeah,
- 44:37Speaker 3: I think Pittsburgh first five makes some sense to me.
- 44:39Speaker 3: In that game, I think Ashcraft is still under the radar,
- 44:42Speaker 3: so we will say, not gonna make that game of
- 44:45Speaker 3: play if I was gonna make that, But I was
- 44:47Speaker 3: considering an under for a play in that game. But
- 44:50Speaker 3: you know, I mean just I'm kind of kept off
- 44:53Speaker 3: of it just because Strider and his numbers just worrying
- 44:55Speaker 3: me a little bit. Also, we know these offenses can hit,
- 44:58Speaker 3: so that does worry me a bit too. But first
- 45:00Speaker 3: five under, I still think it is probably the best
- 45:03Speaker 3: way to play that. But yeah, I would slightly leant
- 45:05Speaker 3: to Pittsburgh first five money line as well. Tampa at Miami.
- 45:10Speaker 3: Miami returned home from the road and they had a
- 45:12Speaker 3: bad game. They got shut out yesterday six to nothing.
- 45:15Speaker 3: And you know, I talk about it, when a team
- 45:16Speaker 3: returns home from the road, it could be a bad spot.
- 45:19Speaker 3: They have to get back to home life. A lot
- 45:21Speaker 3: of times, if they have an ugly game, they'll bounce
- 45:23Speaker 3: back in the next game. So Miami is in a
- 45:25Speaker 3: bounce back spot here potentially, And when teams get shut
- 45:29Speaker 3: out at home, a lot of times they will bounce back.
- 45:31Speaker 3: Miami did lose a three game win streak though, so
- 45:33Speaker 3: sometimes losing a win streak will hang you over. But
- 45:36Speaker 3: a three game win streak, which was all in one series,
- 45:39Speaker 3: it's not a long win streak, so I'm not too
- 45:41Speaker 3: concerned about that. As far as how these teams set
- 45:45Speaker 3: up here, Miami has the better of the two bullpens.
- 45:48Speaker 3: The only these two guys out of their boltpen yesterday.
- 45:50Speaker 3: It looks like Tampa Bay also on the use two.
- 45:53Speaker 3: Miami's got a pretty good bullpen though their ranked fifth
- 45:56Speaker 3: year still, though the era is a little bit worse
- 45:58Speaker 3: than that, not as bad Tampa's. Though, Tampa's ray is
- 46:01Speaker 3: like a run higher and they're ranked seventeenth, So Miami
- 46:05Speaker 3: has the better bullpen here, Tampa has the better offense.
- 46:08Speaker 3: They're ranked nine, Miami is twenty three. But this is
- 46:12Speaker 3: a starting pitching mismatch in favor of Tampa. Dude, that's
- 46:15Speaker 3: the problem because you're looking at Miami. It's like, well,
- 46:18Speaker 3: if Miami had a decent starter on the mound here,
- 46:21Speaker 3: plus the fact that they're in a positive situation historically
- 46:24Speaker 3: and they have the better bullpen, it seems like you
- 46:27Speaker 3: might be able to make a play on Miami here.
- 46:28Speaker 3: But I can't do that with the fact they're going
- 46:30Speaker 3: with another bullpend game here and they're having to go
- 46:33Speaker 3: up against Shane McClanahan, who is a good starting pitcher
- 46:37Speaker 3: for the Rays here. Drew Rasmussen also bounced back well
- 46:41Speaker 3: for the Rays yesterday, so Rasmussen and McClanahan are their
- 46:45Speaker 3: two best starters here. Mcclanahan's got a two point four
- 46:48Speaker 3: to five ERA one point oh two whip. He's looking
- 46:51Speaker 3: good after missing like an over an entire season with
- 46:54Speaker 3: an injury. He looks like he's coming back to maybe
- 46:57Speaker 3: what he once was his ERA on the road is
- 46:59Speaker 3: a little bit worse two point nine to six, but
- 47:01Speaker 3: that's still good. Tampa has won most of his starts
- 47:05Speaker 3: this season. Let me see here, they've one whatever. This
- 47:10Speaker 3: is eight of his last ten starts, I think is
- 47:12Speaker 3: what that is. He's a lot more than twouring runs
- 47:16Speaker 3: only twice this season. He allowed more than one or
- 47:19Speaker 3: and run only once in the month of May, although
- 47:21Speaker 3: he faced some weak offenses in there too. But he
- 47:24Speaker 3: had a really good month of May. His numbers on
- 47:26Speaker 3: the season are really good. Low hit rate, pretty low
- 47:30Speaker 3: walk rate. His strikeout rates not really that high. But
- 47:33Speaker 3: you can't win them all. Man. He's a solid pitcher,
- 47:36Speaker 3: though Miami basically has never seen him before. Only Morell
- 47:40Speaker 3: or Moral, I don't know. I he pronounced his name, Immoral, No,
- 47:43Speaker 3: Christopher Morell whatever. He's zero for two against him of
- 47:46Speaker 3: a strikeout. Nobody else on Miami has ever faced him,
- 47:49Speaker 3: So McClanahan has an unfamiliarity edge here as well. So
- 47:53Speaker 3: I would have to lean towards McClanahan pitching well here
- 47:57Speaker 3: against a weak offense that hasn't seen him before. He
- 48:00Speaker 3: in good form right now, good numbers, and it's a
- 48:02Speaker 3: pitcher friendly ballpark Lake Bashah, ridiculous name pitching from Miami.
- 48:07Speaker 3: He's got solid hair though, man, that's one thing you
- 48:10Speaker 3: got to give him. But this is a bullpen game
- 48:12Speaker 3: from Miami. He made an opener appearance not too long ago.
- 48:17Speaker 3: He's got a three point four to five ERA point
- 48:20Speaker 3: nine to six whip. Those are good numbers, most of
- 48:22Speaker 3: it out of the bullpen one point eight to eight
- 48:25Speaker 3: Homie ra So he is good at home. But again,
- 48:28Speaker 3: I think the only start that he made was this
- 48:30Speaker 3: last time out against Washington four days ago, and he
- 48:33Speaker 3: went two and two thirds. He no hit them through
- 48:36Speaker 3: that span, so he did pitch well. But it's gonna
- 48:40Speaker 3: be him and then a Miami bullpen game, and Miami
- 48:43Speaker 3: is good in the bullpen. Bashar. By the way, he
- 48:46Speaker 3: has not done well against Tampa, for what that's worth.
- 48:49Speaker 3: They're five for ten off in lifetime with a couple
- 48:52Speaker 3: of doubles, two walks to two strikeouts. I can't I
- 48:56Speaker 3: just can't trust the Miami bullpen game, dude, because usually
- 48:58Speaker 3: when you have a bullpen game, some of your lesser
- 49:01Speaker 3: relievers come in, like you kind of have to go
- 49:02Speaker 3: with like a long relief type of pitcher coming in
- 49:07Speaker 3: there after you're an opener. So I don't like that
- 49:11Speaker 3: the money is coming in towards Miami, though Tampa Bay
- 49:13Speaker 3: is around minus one forty here as a favorite, eighty
- 49:16Speaker 3: three percent of the ticket's only seventy four percent of
- 49:19Speaker 3: the cash on Tampa Bay, so the money is actually
- 49:21Speaker 3: indicating on Miami here and playing the situation. Plus, I
- 49:26Speaker 3: think the professionals are kind of saying that, well, Tampa's
- 49:29Speaker 3: a little bit overrated here, like they're not as good
- 49:31Speaker 3: as the record looks. Maybe they just shouldn't be favored
- 49:34Speaker 3: like this on the road. But I don't know. Man
- 49:36Speaker 3: McClanahan seems to have a pretty big edge against the
- 49:38Speaker 3: Miami bullpen game. To me, I think I would slightly
- 49:42Speaker 3: lean towards Tampa Bay in that game. First five actually
- 49:46Speaker 3: no full game, I guess, because I don't know. Even
- 49:48Speaker 3: though Miami has a better bullpen, if they're bullpending for
- 49:51Speaker 3: the whole game, that kind of just negates that. So yeah,
- 49:54Speaker 3: I don't want to do anything with that game. Though
- 49:57Speaker 3: he looks like a hippie, his name is a geographic formation,
- 50:03Speaker 3: all right, A's in Houston in this divisional game here.
- 50:07Speaker 3: Houston won yesterday five to one, Houston got a good
- 50:10Speaker 3: pitching performance. What I think that was another correct lean
- 50:13Speaker 3: for me yesterday. Right, that was Peter Lambert going right.
- 50:16Speaker 3: I think I said Houston first five in that game.
- 50:18Speaker 3: I think I was correct in that game too. I
- 50:21Speaker 3: was they were right out of the gate, they were winning.
- 50:24Speaker 3: Lambert looks like he was good in the game. So
- 50:26Speaker 3: he walked too many guys though, But there you go.
- 50:28Speaker 3: I was correct about that game too. Leaving money on
- 50:31Speaker 3: the table, I guess. But I'm trying to be really selective.
- 50:35Speaker 3: This is a game that's gonna be a little bit
- 50:37Speaker 3: difficult to handicap, though not Atlanta hang on. The A's
- 50:41Speaker 3: used one guy out of the bullpen yesterday, So the
- 50:44Speaker 3: A's they don't have a good bullpen, but I think
- 50:46Speaker 3: they're better than Houston, and they're more rested here. Houston
- 50:49Speaker 3: used three guys out of the bullpen yesterday. Houston, there's
- 50:53Speaker 3: still one of the worst bullpens, even though they've improved
- 50:56Speaker 3: a little bit. They're tied for the worst RA with
- 50:59Speaker 3: am Him. Houston is twenty fifth and bullpen whip still
- 51:04Speaker 3: not good. The A's are a little bit better at
- 51:07Speaker 3: twenty second. Still not great, but they do have a
- 51:10Speaker 3: bullpen edge against Houston. Houston's number seven in offense. The
- 51:14Speaker 3: A's are number twelve right now, as have fallen off
- 51:17Speaker 3: a little bit. The A's are going with Cade Morris
- 51:20Speaker 3: making his major league debut here. So I was thinking, Oh,
- 51:24Speaker 3: that must mean he's like a he's good, right, Like
- 51:26Speaker 3: he's a highly touted prospect. I mean he he kind
- 51:31Speaker 3: of is. He's twenty three years old. I think he's
- 51:33Speaker 3: considered to be a pretty good prospect for the A's.
- 51:36Speaker 3: But I went and I looked at his numbers and
- 51:37Speaker 3: I was not impressed. He's pitching a Triple A this season,
- 51:42Speaker 3: for the whole season so far, and his numbers are
- 51:45Speaker 3: not good in Triple A, like is eras in the fours.
- 51:49Speaker 3: His whip is like one and a half. His strikeout
- 51:51Speaker 3: rate is low, his walk rate is high. So I'm like,
- 51:55Speaker 3: what is there to like here? Like, usually when you
- 51:56Speaker 3: see a highly touted prospect and oh, his whip is high, okay, whatever,
- 52:00Speaker 3: Usually that means his walk rate is really high, but
- 52:02Speaker 3: his strike cut rate is high. No, his strike cut
- 52:05Speaker 3: rate is also low. I don't know, I don't get it.
- 52:07Speaker 3: He seems like he might profile is kind of a
- 52:09Speaker 3: ground ball pitcher. He does throw mid to upper nineties fastball.
- 52:14Speaker 3: He does have a deep pitch mix. He throws a
- 52:17Speaker 3: sinker that gets a lot of ground balls. Apparently, he
- 52:20Speaker 3: has a sweeper and a slider, and he throws a
- 52:23Speaker 3: curve and a change. So he does have like a
- 52:25Speaker 3: major league arsenal. As far as like how deep his
- 52:28Speaker 3: pitch mix is, I don't think I could trust him,
- 52:31Speaker 3: though I know he's like a decent prospect in his
- 52:34Speaker 3: major league debut. Obviously, Houston has never faced him before
- 52:38Speaker 3: at the major league level, so that could give him
- 52:40Speaker 3: a little bit of an edge. But I'm gonna sit
- 52:42Speaker 3: on the sidelines for this one man because his numbers
- 52:45Speaker 3: at Triple A are unimpressive, and that's not a great
- 52:47Speaker 3: sign going up against a good offense here. So I
- 52:50Speaker 3: worry about that a lot of times. You know me,
- 52:51Speaker 3: I like to go I like to jump on these
- 52:55Speaker 3: pitchers making their major league debuts if they're good enough.
- 52:59Speaker 3: But yeah, in this case, I would be worried about it.
- 53:02Speaker 3: Houston is going with Tatsuya Emi, who has not had
- 53:06Speaker 3: a good season in his first season in the majors.
- 53:09Speaker 3: Five point five two ERA, one point three six whip
- 53:12Speaker 3: not good numbers. Like I said, he was pitching in
- 53:14Speaker 3: Japan until this year, and I guess he's considered to
- 53:17Speaker 3: be an extremely cocky pitcher who is overly confident. I
- 53:25Speaker 3: guess that's that's what the word on the street is.
- 53:29Speaker 3: He's been awful at home this year eight point five
- 53:31Speaker 3: to three home hee ra, so that's not good. He
- 53:34Speaker 3: did pitch well in his last two outings, though, he
- 53:36Speaker 3: no hit Texas through six innings and then followed it
- 53:39Speaker 3: up with a decent outing against Milwaukee. Milwaukee has a
- 53:43Speaker 3: decent offense, even though they don't hit for power. But overall,
- 53:46Speaker 3: I still don't trust this guy. His strikeout walk ratio
- 53:51Speaker 3: is ridiculously bad, twenty eight to twenty on the season,
- 53:54Speaker 3: way too many walks, almost one walk and inning. His
- 53:58Speaker 3: hit rate is pretty good, though he's not that hittable.
- 54:00Speaker 3: He's allowed well below one hit per inning and his
- 54:02Speaker 3: strike gout rate is fine. So really his problem is
- 54:05Speaker 3: the walks, as it is with a lot of pitchers here.
- 54:08Speaker 3: He's got to somehow get that under control. Emi, by
- 54:12Speaker 3: the way, has this like really he's kind of a
- 54:14Speaker 3: small guy and he has this really weird jerky motion
- 54:17Speaker 3: like Tim linsicam So the other worry about him is
- 54:20Speaker 3: that he's just gonna destroy his own back or whatever,
- 54:23Speaker 3: like Lynsicum did. So. I don't know, man. His numbers
- 54:26Speaker 3: against the A's are pretty good. They have thirteen at
- 54:29Speaker 3: bats against him, It's not a big sample. Six of
- 54:31Speaker 3: their hitters have faced him. They only have one hit
- 54:34Speaker 3: off him, a single from our our favorite guy, Nick Kurtz.
- 54:39Speaker 3: They also have nine strikeouts and three walks against him,
- 54:42Speaker 3: an seventy seven average three twenty seven ops. So Emi
- 54:46Speaker 3: might be able to pitch well, dude. It's possible both
- 54:49Speaker 3: pitchers pitch well here, but it's also possible they both
- 54:52Speaker 3: pitch poorly here. And we got two bad bullpens and
- 54:55Speaker 3: the totals high. The totals at nine and a half here,
- 54:58Speaker 3: So the oddsmakers are telling you that they do not
- 55:02Speaker 3: think this is going to be a particularly low scoring
- 55:03Speaker 3: game here, totals nine or nine and a half here.
- 55:08Speaker 3: I don't think I would want to go with the total.
- 55:10Speaker 3: I don't think I want to do anything with this game.
- 55:12Speaker 3: And this game is just so unpredictable. We don't see
- 55:15Speaker 3: the percentages on the total. On the money line, we
- 55:18Speaker 3: have eighty six percent of tickets, ninety two percent of
- 55:20Speaker 3: the cash on Houston. Houston's around minus one fifteen or
- 55:25Speaker 3: so here on the money line, so they're a small
- 55:27Speaker 3: favorite here. They're public, but they're getting a little bit
- 55:30Speaker 3: of the money as well. I have no idea what
- 55:33Speaker 3: to do with this game, dude. This is a game
- 55:34Speaker 3: that's just a complete pass for me. I think it's
- 55:37Speaker 3: extremely unpredictable. I could see both starting pitchers doing well.
- 55:41Speaker 3: I don't like either bullpen. I could see either or
- 55:43Speaker 3: both starting pitchers struggling too. So I think there's massive
- 55:47Speaker 3: variance in that game in my opinion. Big way, who's
- 55:52Speaker 3: big Amish is? That's a that's somebody's nickname, right, somebody
- 55:57Speaker 3: that has an amish beard. I don't I forget. I
- 55:59Speaker 3: don't remember any thing anymore. My memory used to be good,
- 56:02Speaker 3: but then I stroked out Washington at Arizona. I was
- 56:06Speaker 3: correct about that game. That was the first game that
- 56:08Speaker 3: I left off my card yesterday was Washington first five.
- 56:12Speaker 3: I thought it was a letdown spot for Arizona, but
- 56:14Speaker 3: I didn't like Washington traveling cross country. But Arizona got
- 56:18Speaker 3: caught in the let down after that win over the Dodgers,
- 56:21Speaker 3: Foster pitched. Foster Griffin, excuse me, pitched pretty well in
- 56:24Speaker 3: the game, outpitched whoever the hell Arizona had pitching yesterday.
- 56:28Speaker 3: I don't remember who it was, Oh Merril Kelly unfortunately
- 56:32Speaker 3: for him. Oh yeah, that's right. Yeah, Kurts is big
- 56:35Speaker 3: ah my shit, that's right. How did I forget his
- 56:37Speaker 3: I don't remember anybody's nickname anymore. Yeah, he needed to
- 56:42Speaker 3: have some nicknames so that broadcasters don't screw up when
- 56:46Speaker 3: they say his name. But yes, I was correct about
- 56:48Speaker 3: Washington first five yesterday. They won the game fourteen to
- 56:51Speaker 3: one as well, so another lopsided victory for a road team. Yesterday.
- 56:57Speaker 3: We had Washington, Baltimore, and San Francisco all put up
- 57:01Speaker 3: ridiculous lopsided road wins yesterday, so I'd be kind of
- 57:06Speaker 3: looking somewhat to fade all three of those teams. Although again,
- 57:10Speaker 3: like I said, I don't want Toronto's bullpen game the
- 57:14Speaker 3: other game, I did actually give out a play on
- 57:16Speaker 3: the cobs this game. I'm gonna sit it out. But
- 57:19Speaker 3: there's definitely an argument for Arizona here, and I think
- 57:22Speaker 3: they probably do have the better starting pitcher on the
- 57:24Speaker 3: mound here too, and the better bullpen. Arizona used two
- 57:28Speaker 3: guys out of the bullpen yesterday. Washington, we know their
- 57:31Speaker 3: bullpen's not that good. They used two guys out of
- 57:33Speaker 3: their bullpen as well. It was a blowout game, so
- 57:36Speaker 3: none of the better relievers got into that game yesterday,
- 57:39Speaker 3: so it's kind of a straight bullpen handicap. Washington's a
- 57:42Speaker 3: bad bullpen though, the ranked twenty third. Arizona is ranked eighth,
- 57:46Speaker 3: so Arizona does have the better bullpen. Hitting wise, Washington
- 57:50Speaker 3: has been good basically all season, the ranked fourth, and
- 57:52Speaker 3: they hit better on the road, so that is somebody
- 57:55Speaker 3: to keep in mind. As far as the hitting for Arizona,
- 57:59Speaker 3: they're twenty five right now, which is not great. This
- 58:02Speaker 3: is a hitter friendly ballpark though. In Arizona. Washington is
- 58:05Speaker 3: going with Zach Lttel not having a good season five
- 58:09Speaker 3: point zero one ERA, one point three to seven whip.
- 58:12Speaker 3: He's been a little bit better on the road, but
- 58:14Speaker 3: pretty insignificant. Four point seven to four I think is
- 58:17Speaker 3: what that was. Roady Ray, Yep, he did pitch better
- 58:21Speaker 3: in May, though he allowed two or fewer in runs
- 58:24Speaker 3: in every outing in May, and his team won all
- 58:27Speaker 3: but one of them. Believe it or not, but he
- 58:29Speaker 3: faced a lot of weak offenses in there, Miami, which
- 58:32Speaker 3: was the one game where he didn't do well, Mets Cleveland,
- 58:35Speaker 3: San Diego. So I'm not too impressed by this, And
- 58:39Speaker 3: I mean, he was okay during the month though, twenty
- 58:42Speaker 3: three hits allowed in thirty to two thirds innings, eight walks.
- 58:45Speaker 3: He was not putting a lot of guys on base.
- 58:47Speaker 3: His strikeout ray wasn't high nineteen, but he definitely improved
- 58:50Speaker 3: off of a horrible April. He was a lot better
- 58:54Speaker 3: in May, so you got to give him that. His
- 58:55Speaker 3: overall number is still bad more than one hit per inning,
- 58:58Speaker 3: a ton of home runs allowed fifteen home runs a lot,
- 59:01Speaker 3: but he knocked that number way down only a lot
- 59:04Speaker 3: two in the month of May. But this is a
- 59:06Speaker 3: home run conduce a ballpark, man. He's an extreme fly
- 59:09Speaker 3: ball pitcher, so that does not bode particularly well for
- 59:13Speaker 3: him here. A lot of the starts in May were
- 59:15Speaker 3: at home for him. One of the bad ones was
- 59:18Speaker 3: on the road at Miami, and that's not a pitch.
- 59:20Speaker 3: That's not a hit or friendly ballpark. So he may
- 59:23Speaker 3: not do well here in a home run conduce a
- 59:25Speaker 3: ballpark because he's a fly ball pitcher who allows way
- 59:28Speaker 3: too many homers. He also has a really low strikeout
- 59:31Speaker 3: rate this season, which is bad. His walk rate is
- 59:34Speaker 3: kind of mediocre against Arizona. He does not have good
- 59:37Speaker 3: numbers forty one at bats, three seventeen average allowed, nine
- 59:41Speaker 3: eighty eight OPS seven to four strikeout walk ratio. So
- 59:45Speaker 3: even though he's in good form right now, and I
- 59:48Speaker 3: don't necessarily want to jump in front of a team
- 59:50Speaker 3: who's in good jump in front of a pitcher who
- 59:52Speaker 3: was in good form, I think he's gonna do poorly here.
- 59:56Speaker 3: I mean, I just told you, and you know I'm
- 59:57Speaker 3: not sold on him because those starts are against bad offenses.
- 1:00:01Speaker 3: This does not look like a good pitching environment or
- 1:00:04Speaker 3: matchup for him. So I think Lutel might give it
- 1:00:06Speaker 3: up in this game. At Eduardo Rodriguez is pitching for
- 1:00:09Speaker 3: the Diamondbacks. He's had a good season two point two
- 1:00:12Speaker 3: four ERA, one point one to nine whip, even though,
- 1:00:14Speaker 3: as I always point out, he's thirty three now, he's
- 1:00:17Speaker 3: multiple injuries into his career. His strikeout stuff is just gone,
- 1:00:22Speaker 3: but he is learning to pitch with those limitations, and
- 1:00:25Speaker 3: he is pitching well this year He's been really good
- 1:00:28Speaker 3: at home too, one point three to four homey Ra
- 1:00:31Speaker 3: pitched well against the Dodgers last time out, even though
- 1:00:33Speaker 3: again not a lot of strikeouts, but he's been better
- 1:00:36Speaker 3: than Lattel over the last month. He had a good
- 1:00:39Speaker 3: May as well, with more walks than the Tel but
- 1:00:41Speaker 3: also more strikeouts, few hits as well, So he's pitching well.
- 1:00:46Speaker 3: He's continuing to do so into June. Numbers on the
- 1:00:50Speaker 3: season good hit rate, it's low, walk rate's a little
- 1:00:53Speaker 3: bit high. Strikeout rate is a bit low, but that's
- 1:00:56Speaker 3: just what you're gonna get out of him. At this point.
- 1:00:58Speaker 3: He is pitching pretty effectively though. Numbers against Washington are
- 1:01:02Speaker 3: pretty good. In fifteen at bats, two hundred batting average,
- 1:01:05Speaker 3: a loot five seventeen ops, five to one strikeout walk ratium.
- 1:01:11Speaker 3: You know this is close to being a play for me,
- 1:01:13Speaker 3: because you got Arizona probably in an embarrassed spot after yesterday,
- 1:01:18Speaker 3: after getting crushed yesterday. They're probably the better team. They
- 1:01:22Speaker 3: have the better starting pitcher here, who's in the better form.
- 1:01:26Speaker 3: I think, even though Hotel's in somewhat good form right now,
- 1:01:30Speaker 3: you know it's still not really buying it. You got
- 1:01:33Speaker 3: the better Home Roads split with e Rod here at
- 1:01:35Speaker 3: Home only fifteen at bats over Washington against him, but
- 1:01:38Speaker 3: again he's pitched well against him. They only have one
- 1:01:41Speaker 3: xtra race hit from James Wood, who I just saw
- 1:01:44Speaker 3: recently because I rewatched Casino. James Woods is the the
- 1:01:50Speaker 3: pimp in that casinoo. If you guys remember that he's
- 1:01:53Speaker 3: Sharon Stones pimp. He's that you know, scummy slimy dude
- 1:01:58Speaker 3: in the movie. He he's he's good at playing slimy characters. Man.
- 1:02:05Speaker 3: And uh, he's definitely a I don't know if I
- 1:02:08Speaker 3: could say on this channel without getting it nuked, but
- 1:02:11Speaker 3: you know he's he's like a he's like a Neocon basically,
- 1:02:14Speaker 3: which is not good, uh politically anyway, James Wood, who
- 1:02:19Speaker 3: is not James Woods one for two of the double.
- 1:02:21Speaker 3: I know I'm rambling a little bit here, but yes,
- 1:02:23Speaker 3: I like Arizona in this game. It's a bounce back
- 1:02:27Speaker 3: spot for them. There's a reason why they're favored like this.
- 1:02:30Speaker 3: I think fading Lattel makes sense to me here. He's
- 1:02:33Speaker 3: not good. Uh. The money is all coming in on
- 1:02:35Speaker 3: Washington though. I'm gonna stay away from the game, I guess,
- 1:02:38Speaker 3: But that worries me. Arizona's got sixty two percent of
- 1:02:41Speaker 3: the tickets, sixty eight percent of the cash on Washington.
- 1:02:45Speaker 3: Washington does hit well on the road, though, I'll give
- 1:02:47Speaker 3: them that. The total is pretty high here at nine
- 1:02:49Speaker 3: to nine and a half, which seems a little bit
- 1:02:53Speaker 3: high given that one of these two starring pitchers at
- 1:02:55Speaker 3: least is you know, I think decent, and both pictures
- 1:02:59Speaker 3: are in D form here, but I don't know. Oddsmakers
- 1:03:02Speaker 3: obviously know what they're doing. Arizona's around the minus one
- 1:03:05Speaker 3: sixty favorites. If you do go with Arizona, I would
- 1:03:08Speaker 3: make it a split bet run line, money line and
- 1:03:12Speaker 3: get the price down a little bit so it'll push
- 1:03:14Speaker 3: if they win by one. But I like Arizona in
- 1:03:17Speaker 3: that game. All right, I'm gonna be right back. Then
- 1:03:20Speaker 3: we'll do Red Sox Yankees, and then the rest of
- 1:03:22Speaker 3: these games here. I'll be right back. A neo con artists.
- 1:03:27Speaker 3: They're all con artists. That's good. Actually, maybe I should
- 1:03:30Speaker 3: should I can I tweet that? Am I allowed to?
- 1:03:33Speaker 3: I don't know. I gotta find some way of me
- 1:03:35Speaker 3: of phrasing a tweet involving that joke. All Right, I'll
- 1:03:39Speaker 3: be right back and then finish this off, and then
- 1:03:41Speaker 3: we do have four w NBA games and the hockey game.
- 1:03:46Speaker 3: I'll be right back, all right, Yes, get back on Twitter.
- 1:05:17Speaker 3: You're missing out on what I'm doing on there, the
- 1:05:20Speaker 3: rambling and occasional lore. All right, Yeah, sometimes I throw
- 1:05:23Speaker 3: that in. It has to be. I don't know. If
- 1:05:26Speaker 3: my train of thought goes that way, that's what happens.
- 1:05:30Speaker 3: I haven't done any of the drops recently, but I
- 1:05:32Speaker 3: don't know. I haven't really found a spot to do it.
- 1:05:34Speaker 3: Red Sox Yankees. The Red Sox did get the win yesterday.
- 1:05:37Speaker 3: I slightly leaned that way, so they did get it done,
- 1:05:41Speaker 3: five to three, Red Sox one. I don't know if
- 1:05:46Speaker 3: this is a bounce back spot necessarily. I think both
- 1:05:48Speaker 3: teams are motivated here. I mean it's a rivalry game.
- 1:05:51Speaker 3: You know. The Red Sox did get swept back in Fenway,
- 1:05:53Speaker 3: so I think they're gonna try to do that to
- 1:05:56Speaker 3: the Yankees here on the road. Yankees. I used two
- 1:06:00Speaker 3: relief pitchers yesterday the Red Sox also Red Sox used three.
- 1:06:04Speaker 3: Excuse me, they did use Chapman. But Chapman I had
- 1:06:08Speaker 3: him pitched for like probably a week and a half.
- 1:06:11Speaker 3: I think something like that, so they might even use
- 1:06:14Speaker 3: them again here if they have a safe situation. I
- 1:06:18Speaker 3: don't know. Red Sox bullpen is the better of the two.
- 1:06:22Speaker 3: That's the one advantage they have here is they're number
- 1:06:24Speaker 3: one in bullpen are right now. The era is below
- 1:06:27Speaker 3: three right now. Probably won't last, but they're a solid bullpen.
- 1:06:30Speaker 3: They ranked three right now in Whip. Yankees not bad
- 1:06:34Speaker 3: eleventh in bullpen. They have an okay bullpen. Red Sox
- 1:06:38Speaker 3: a bit better though Yankees have a big offensive edge.
- 1:06:41Speaker 3: They're number two. They're also the number one home offense
- 1:06:45Speaker 3: Red Sox number twenty two. They've been getting a little
- 1:06:48Speaker 3: bit better on that side though. The offense. Red Sox
- 1:06:51Speaker 3: are going with ron your Suarez in this game. He's
- 1:06:54Speaker 3: been alright, another decent offseason move when they got him
- 1:06:59Speaker 3: three point three eighty one point one six Whip. Those
- 1:07:02Speaker 3: are pretty good numbers, a little bit better on the
- 1:07:04Speaker 3: road to two point nine to three roadra but this
- 1:07:07Speaker 3: is gonna be a difficult task going to a hit
- 1:07:10Speaker 3: or friendly environment against one of the best offenses. Suarez.
- 1:07:13Speaker 3: I mean, he's not going deep into these outings though,
- 1:07:16Speaker 3: so that does concern me. He's allowing few runs for
- 1:07:18Speaker 3: the most part, He's not going deep in His last
- 1:07:21Speaker 3: couple of outings against Atlanta and Cleveland were not really
- 1:07:24Speaker 3: that good, although the Red Socks won the game. Against Cleveland.
- 1:07:28Speaker 3: He had ten strikeouts in that game. But he has
- 1:07:31Speaker 3: some issues here. He gave up nine runs across ten
- 1:07:34Speaker 3: innings in those two starts and fourteen hits, so there's
- 1:07:37Speaker 3: something not right here, and he had five walks to Overall,
- 1:07:41Speaker 3: those numbers are all right. He's almost at one strike
- 1:07:43Speaker 3: up er inning, not a huge strike up pitchers, walk
- 1:07:46Speaker 3: rates a little bit high. I would say hit rate
- 1:07:49Speaker 3: is good. Generally, he's pretty good, but I'm not sure
- 1:07:52Speaker 3: about his current form, and his numbers are not good
- 1:07:54Speaker 3: against the Yankees. In ninety five at bats too eighty
- 1:07:57Speaker 3: four batting averaged seven eighty three oh ps, twenty five
- 1:08:00Speaker 3: to five strike out walk ratio though, so that's good,
- 1:08:03Speaker 3: but I don't think I would trust him here. I
- 1:08:06Speaker 3: would lean more towards him not doing well in this
- 1:08:09Speaker 3: outing here based on all that. Will Warren is pitching
- 1:08:12Speaker 3: for the Yankees. He's been pretty good. Three point two
- 1:08:15Speaker 3: to two we ra one point two whips, so his
- 1:08:17Speaker 3: whip is getting a little bit worse here though. He's
- 1:08:20Speaker 3: been worse at home than on the road three point
- 1:08:23Speaker 3: nine to six home ERA, and last year was the opposite.
- 1:08:26Speaker 3: Last year he was much better at home, but this
- 1:08:28Speaker 3: year the opposite is the case. Warren pretty much looks
- 1:08:32Speaker 3: like he did pitch well throughout the month of May.
- 1:08:35Speaker 3: Yankees won his last four starts. He pitched decently in
- 1:08:40Speaker 3: the A's stadium last timemeer. But if you start looking
- 1:08:42Speaker 3: at this, his walk rate has gone up. He was
- 1:08:45Speaker 3: walking one guy every two winnings over his last two starts.
- 1:08:49Speaker 3: That's not exactly good. So, like I said, his whip
- 1:08:51Speaker 3: has gone up a little bit, his walk rate's getting
- 1:08:53Speaker 3: a little bit worse. Numbers on the season are still
- 1:08:55Speaker 3: good though good strikeout rate well over one per inning,
- 1:08:59Speaker 3: hit rate is below one for any walk rate not
- 1:09:01Speaker 3: too bad either, So generally I think he is still good.
- 1:09:04Speaker 3: He's his form currently is not as bad as as
- 1:09:10Speaker 3: Suarez it is, and Warren kind of got screwed by
- 1:09:12Speaker 3: some bad fielding in that last game against the A's.
- 1:09:16Speaker 3: They wound up giving up eight runs, but he only
- 1:09:19Speaker 3: gave up three and they were all unearned. So do
- 1:09:22Speaker 3: with that information what you want. The bullpen got lit
- 1:09:24Speaker 3: up in that game, I guess, but the Yankees still won. Warren,
- 1:09:27Speaker 3: though he does not have good numbers against the Red
- 1:09:29Speaker 3: Sox when they have faced him, they have thirty one
- 1:09:31Speaker 3: at bats against him, three twenty three average, allowed one
- 1:09:36Speaker 3: ninety nine ohps six to four strike at walk ratim.
- 1:09:39Speaker 3: So both starting pitchers have been decent this season, but
- 1:09:45Speaker 3: this does not look like a good matchup for either
- 1:09:47Speaker 3: of them. So I think this is an over. That's
- 1:09:50Speaker 3: the way I would look at this game. Probably a
- 1:09:53Speaker 3: I don't I don't even know, maybe a slight lean
- 1:09:55Speaker 3: to the Yankees. But over makes sense to me in
- 1:09:58Speaker 3: this game. I mean, I don't. The Yankees are getting
- 1:10:01Speaker 3: the money, sixty eight percent of ticket, seventy seven percent
- 1:10:03Speaker 3: of the cash. Kind of a cheap price on the
- 1:10:05Speaker 3: Yankees at about minus one thirty here. But I said
- 1:10:08Speaker 3: that yesterday that it looks too easy to take the
- 1:10:11Speaker 3: Yankees when the price is like that, you know what
- 1:10:13Speaker 3: I mean. So the odds makers are kind of giving
- 1:10:16Speaker 3: the Red Sox some respect here, and like you're gonna
- 1:10:19Speaker 3: look at these records and be like, oh, the Red
- 1:10:20Speaker 3: Sox are in last place in the division and the
- 1:10:23Speaker 3: Yankees are close to being the top of the division there.
- 1:10:26Speaker 3: I mean, they are indeed the best team in the
- 1:10:28Speaker 3: American League, so it looks pretty easy to play the
- 1:10:31Speaker 3: Yankees at a short price like that. So I don't
- 1:10:33Speaker 3: think I would do it, even though I would lean
- 1:10:36Speaker 3: towards them probably winning this game, though, But I think
- 1:10:38Speaker 3: the over makes the most sense in this game. I
- 1:10:41Speaker 3: think you might get some runs here hit a friendly ballpark.
- 1:10:43Speaker 3: You got a total of eight and a half for
- 1:10:45Speaker 3: the most part here it's in no man's land. I
- 1:10:49Speaker 3: think it makes sense even though both bullpens are all right,
- 1:10:51Speaker 3: but if the starters don't do well, you're gonna like
- 1:10:54Speaker 3: I always say, if the starters don't do well, I
- 1:10:56Speaker 3: think it just kind of cascades into the bullpen. So
- 1:10:58Speaker 3: I never go first over. If I'm going over, I
- 1:11:02Speaker 3: just go full game with it because usually you get
- 1:11:05Speaker 3: some lesser bullpen arms in if the offenses are lighting
- 1:11:10Speaker 3: it up all right. Cleveland and Texas Fox Fox has
- 1:11:13Speaker 3: both these games, although every probably everybody's gonna watch Yankees
- 1:11:17Speaker 3: Red Sox though, and not Cleveland and Texas. But this
- 1:11:21Speaker 3: is my other best bet, and why this is deja voom.
- 1:11:29Speaker 3: We're just gonna go right back to it again and
- 1:11:31Speaker 3: go under in this game again. You can find it
- 1:11:33Speaker 3: at eight out there. It looks like yesterday we had
- 1:11:36Speaker 3: seven and a half and it got there with a
- 1:11:38Speaker 3: three to two Texas win. And there were not a
- 1:11:40Speaker 3: lot of hits in that game yesterday. And you know,
- 1:11:43Speaker 3: I start out by pointing out Texas plays a ton
- 1:11:46Speaker 3: of low scoring games at home. They have the lowest
- 1:11:48Speaker 3: scoring home games out of any team in baseball. They're
- 1:11:51Speaker 3: one of the lowest scoring offenses at home in baseball,
- 1:11:54Speaker 3: and they allow some of the fewest runs at home
- 1:11:57Speaker 3: in baseball. So it got there Saday with a three
- 1:12:00Speaker 3: to two win. Both starters did fairly well. The bullpens
- 1:12:03Speaker 3: did well. Now, Texas they did use some of their
- 1:12:06Speaker 3: better bullpen arms yesterday because it was a save situation,
- 1:12:09Speaker 3: but they're still a good bullpend and they're fairly rested,
- 1:12:12Speaker 3: and they didn't play on Thursday, so I still think
- 1:12:14Speaker 3: their bullpen can kind of hold up here. Cleveland only
- 1:12:17Speaker 3: these two guys out of their bullpen, and they rested
- 1:12:19Speaker 3: some of their better relievers coming into this one. So
- 1:12:23Speaker 3: it's kind of similar to yesterday's bullpen's set up, but
- 1:12:25Speaker 3: it's flipped a little bit, but both bullpens are all right,
- 1:12:28Speaker 3: so I think we can keep them in this equation.
- 1:12:31Speaker 3: Texas is seventh, Cleveland is tenth, so I think we're
- 1:12:34Speaker 3: okay with having these bullpens in. We got two offenses
- 1:12:39Speaker 3: that haven't been good Texas twenty fourth, Cleveland twenty six.
- 1:12:42Speaker 3: So again, that looks like it lends itself to a
- 1:12:45Speaker 3: lower scoring game, and I think the starting pitching matchup
- 1:12:49Speaker 3: is conducive to this as well. We get Tanner Biby
- 1:12:52Speaker 3: for Cleveland. I know he hasn't been that good. He's
- 1:12:54Speaker 3: owned seven, but part of that is because Cleveland is
- 1:12:56Speaker 3: not scoring behind him at all, so he's been involved
- 1:12:59Speaker 3: in some low scoring games. His numbers aren't great. Four
- 1:13:02Speaker 3: point five to seven e R one point three whip
- 1:13:05Speaker 3: And I know you're not gonna like this. He's in
- 1:13:06Speaker 3: the bad of his home road split here, five point
- 1:13:10Speaker 3: nine to six road ra I know that's bad. I
- 1:13:13Speaker 3: get it, But this is Texas we're talking about. Man,
- 1:13:16Speaker 3: He's facing a weak offense here in a very pitcher
- 1:13:19Speaker 3: from the environment. So if he's gonna do well on
- 1:13:21Speaker 3: the road, you would imagine it's gonna be in a
- 1:13:23Speaker 3: game like this. I think he can do that. He
- 1:13:26Speaker 3: bounced back with a good start against the Red Sox
- 1:13:28Speaker 3: last time out. It was at home. They did lose
- 1:13:31Speaker 3: the game, but he pitched pretty well in that one.
- 1:13:33Speaker 3: So he had a bad outing against Washington the game
- 1:13:35Speaker 3: before that. But he was actually pitching pretty well throughout
- 1:13:38Speaker 3: all of May except for that start against Washington. I
- 1:13:40Speaker 3: guess the first start against Kansas City wasn't good, and yes,
- 1:13:44Speaker 3: that Kansas City one was on the road, but his
- 1:13:46Speaker 3: most recent road start he was dominant, and his most
- 1:13:49Speaker 3: recent roads start against Detroit, So that's a decent sign
- 1:13:53Speaker 3: he is pitching better right now. Month of May, he
- 1:13:55Speaker 3: had a twenty eight to eight strikeout walk ratio in
- 1:13:57Speaker 3: thirty three and two thirds in he's thirty one hits.
- 1:14:00Speaker 3: Those are not bad numbers, although most of those starts
- 1:14:03Speaker 3: were at home. Yes, over the course of the season
- 1:14:06Speaker 3: fewer than one hit a lot for inning, his walk
- 1:14:08Speaker 3: rate is a little bit high, his strikeout rates a
- 1:14:10Speaker 3: little bit low. What can you do? And then the
- 1:14:12Speaker 3: home runs are kind of a problem, but it might
- 1:14:14Speaker 3: not be as much of a problem in Texas because
- 1:14:16Speaker 3: again it's a it's one of the most pitcher friend
- 1:14:18Speaker 3: the environments, and those home runs he gave up five
- 1:14:22Speaker 3: in one game against Washington, so the fact that he's
- 1:14:25Speaker 3: given up thirteen on the season is a little bit misleading.
- 1:14:27Speaker 3: He also gave up three in his first start against Seattle,
- 1:14:30Speaker 3: so I think it's a little bit misleading the number
- 1:14:35Speaker 3: of home runs that he's allowed, because he has said
- 1:14:36Speaker 3: so many games where he's allowed one or zero. And
- 1:14:39Speaker 3: his numbers, of course, you know they're gonna be good
- 1:14:41Speaker 3: against Texas. Yeah, they are thirty nine at bats two
- 1:14:44Speaker 3: five average allowed, six to seventy two oh ps, ten
- 1:14:47Speaker 3: to three strikeout walk ratio. So he's pitched well against
- 1:14:50Speaker 3: Texas when he has faced them. So I'm gonna roll
- 1:14:53Speaker 3: with that. But then on the other side, we're also
- 1:14:55Speaker 3: gonna roll with Jack Lighter, even though I know he
- 1:14:57Speaker 3: has numbers that are similar to buy he's in that
- 1:15:00Speaker 3: they're a little bit questionable here four point three four
- 1:15:03Speaker 3: ERA here for Texas one point three to three whip.
- 1:15:06Speaker 3: But he's still a pretty young guy. He's still talented.
- 1:15:10Speaker 3: He just tends to walk too many guys as well.
- 1:15:13Speaker 3: But he's good at home, so he's in the good split.
- 1:15:16Speaker 3: In his home road split three point three four home
- 1:15:19Speaker 3: e RA, he pitched well on his last out, and
- 1:15:22Speaker 3: he had ten strikeouts and give up no runs against
- 1:15:25Speaker 3: Kansas City only last at five and two thirds, though
- 1:15:28Speaker 3: he did throw over one hundred pitches, but he's thrown
- 1:15:31Speaker 3: over one hundred pitches multiple times here, and yeah, he
- 1:15:33Speaker 3: was a little bit shaky and the couple starts following those,
- 1:15:36Speaker 3: but he's generally been alright, and he generally like doesn't
- 1:15:40Speaker 3: get completely lit up here and Lighter lit up, and
- 1:15:44Speaker 3: I think he kind of just starts, you know, losing
- 1:15:46Speaker 3: it as he gets like a little bit deeper into
- 1:15:48Speaker 3: the game. So hopefully we can get it done here.
- 1:15:52Speaker 3: You know, we're going full game here, I know, so
- 1:15:54Speaker 3: hopefully the bullpen can help us out here too. Lighter
- 1:15:57Speaker 3: was decent in the month of May though. He had
- 1:15:59Speaker 3: a three point six three point six e RRAM May
- 1:16:03Speaker 3: twenty six hits a lot in thirty five innings, forty
- 1:16:05Speaker 3: one strikeouts. Those are all good numbers. The only problem
- 1:16:08Speaker 3: again was the walks, sixteen of them, so he's got
- 1:16:11Speaker 3: to get that under control. But he's got a good
- 1:16:13Speaker 3: strikeout rate way over one per inning, good hit rate
- 1:16:17Speaker 3: lower than one per inning. Twenty eight walks again is
- 1:16:19Speaker 3: the one concern with them. These pictures are fairly similar
- 1:16:23Speaker 3: to each other in a way, but I think they
- 1:16:25Speaker 3: both match up well in this particular game, and Lighter
- 1:16:27Speaker 3: actually dominates Cleveland in thirty seven at bats. They have
- 1:16:31Speaker 3: one extra base hit, which is a home run from Manzardo,
- 1:16:34Speaker 3: but they have seventeen strikeouts against him, no walks, and
- 1:16:38Speaker 3: eighty one average and two forty three ohps. That's domination.
- 1:16:42Speaker 3: And it's in a pretty decent sized sample too, So
- 1:16:45Speaker 3: Lighter does really well against Cleveland. He has not faced
- 1:16:48Speaker 3: them this year, so they haven't really recently seen him either,
- 1:16:52Speaker 3: and I don't believe Biby. I don't think these teams
- 1:16:54Speaker 3: have faced each other yet this year because I don't
- 1:16:56Speaker 3: think Biby has faced Texas this year either, now, so
- 1:16:59Speaker 3: I like it. The pitchers are not They're at least
- 1:17:02Speaker 3: not recently familiar with the offenses, so we're gonna go
- 1:17:05Speaker 3: under in this game. The total is fairly low. It's
- 1:17:07Speaker 3: around eight or seven and a half. It's that way
- 1:17:09Speaker 3: for a reason. It looks like there are still eights
- 1:17:12Speaker 3: at minus one fifteen out there. I would maybe even
- 1:17:16Speaker 3: go I don't know if I would go upwards of
- 1:17:17Speaker 3: like minus one twenty on the eight, you could go
- 1:17:20Speaker 3: under seven and a half. There's not much of a
- 1:17:21Speaker 3: difference between seven and a half and eight, so I
- 1:17:24Speaker 3: still agree with the under seven and a half there
- 1:17:26Speaker 3: like we did yesterday. But yes, I like the under.
- 1:17:29Speaker 3: I found it at eight at I don't remember which
- 1:17:32Speaker 3: book it was. One of the books had it though,
- 1:17:34Speaker 3: that might have been FD as well, I don't know,
- 1:17:37Speaker 3: but yes under Rangers. Yes, the only team that doesn't
- 1:17:43Speaker 3: have a pride event. Yes, I forgot about that. Instead
- 1:17:46Speaker 3: they have a family night or something like that. Under
- 1:17:53Speaker 3: seven and a half at minus one oh five, Yeah,
- 1:17:56Speaker 3: I think that's I would probably do that too. That's
- 1:17:58Speaker 3: a decent price. And seven is the key number, Like
- 1:18:03Speaker 3: the difference between seven and a half and eight is
- 1:18:05Speaker 3: not as extreme as the difference between seven and a
- 1:18:07Speaker 3: half and seven, if that makes sense. Because teams when
- 1:18:10Speaker 3: they're tied three to three, they need that extra run
- 1:18:13Speaker 3: to for somebody to win the game. So the the
- 1:18:17Speaker 3: odd numbers are all key in baseball totals. Yes, you
- 1:18:21Speaker 3: need more books available, Yes, correct, I mean there's a
- 1:18:28Speaker 3: there's still a little bit of value in having that
- 1:18:29Speaker 3: extra run because obviously it's possible the game lands eight.
- 1:18:32Speaker 3: It's just that more more games in baseball Land on
- 1:18:36Speaker 3: the odds than the evens. But yes, obviously it's possible.
- 1:18:40Speaker 3: A lands eight Milwaukee at Colorado in course field here.
- 1:18:46Speaker 3: High scoring game yesterday, Milwaukee with a nine to seven
- 1:18:49Speaker 3: win yesterday not not unexpected obviously, but this game may
- 1:18:55Speaker 3: not be as high scoring. Milwaukee did his four relief
- 1:18:58Speaker 3: pitchers yesterday, including their and they got some bullpen injuries
- 1:19:02Speaker 3: they're dealing with right now, so that's not great for them.
- 1:19:05Speaker 3: Colorado used five relief pitchers. They're not a good bullpen.
- 1:19:09Speaker 3: Milwaukee is the better bullpen. Milwaukee's ranked twelfth and their
- 1:19:12Speaker 3: ERA is pretty strong, so they're probably better than twelve.
- 1:19:15Speaker 3: Colorado ranked twenty fourth and their ERA is above five now,
- 1:19:19Speaker 3: so they're one of five teams that has a bullpen
- 1:19:22Speaker 3: era that bad. They're not good hitting wise. Colorado is
- 1:19:27Speaker 3: fourteenth against they've hit a little bit better, Milwaukee eighteenth,
- 1:19:31Speaker 3: so they're starting to come around a little bit. This
- 1:19:34Speaker 3: is a huge pitching mismatch, though Milwaukee is lined just
- 1:19:38Speaker 3: the line on this game is ridiculous. Milwaukee has Jacob
- 1:19:41Speaker 3: Mizierowski pitching. Everybody knows, you know, he's in the Cy
- 1:19:45Speaker 3: Young Inside Young contention here right now. By the way,
- 1:19:49Speaker 3: I forgot to mention Otani is in Si Young contention too.
- 1:19:53Speaker 3: The nl CY Young race is stacked, dude with Mizerowski schemes. Yeah,
- 1:19:58Speaker 3: Otani is in there. Christopher Sanchez, you know, I think
- 1:20:04Speaker 3: that Burns, Chase Burns should probably be in there. But yeah,
- 1:20:07Speaker 3: I don't know. Missierowski has been pretty much untouchable. One
- 1:20:10Speaker 3: point six five ERA, zero point seventy nine whip. I
- 1:20:13Speaker 3: don't know how he can continue throwing one hundred three
- 1:20:16Speaker 3: miles an hour, six innings into every game, but whatever.
- 1:20:20Speaker 3: He's been even better on the road one point two
- 1:20:22Speaker 3: to six roadyra. He's so good that I probably wouldn't
- 1:20:25Speaker 3: even really be that concern with him pitching in course field.
- 1:20:28Speaker 3: He's not even that extreme of a fly ball pitcher either,
- 1:20:32Speaker 3: and he strikes out a ton of guys. He has
- 1:20:35Speaker 3: easily the highest strikeout rate in baseball, just completely insane.
- 1:20:39Speaker 3: He's got one hundred eight strikeouts in seventy one innings,
- 1:20:41Speaker 3: and I'm pretty sure that no other pitcher even has
- 1:20:43Speaker 3: one hundred strikeouts. Yet his hit rate is unbelievably low too,
- 1:20:48Speaker 3: and his walk rate is ridiculously low. Miszierowski is probably
- 1:20:51Speaker 3: better than Schemes right now due Missierowski was completely dominant
- 1:20:55Speaker 3: in the month of May, allowing almost nothing. He allowed
- 1:20:59Speaker 3: one run, which I know Sanchez beat him allowing no runs,
- 1:21:03Speaker 3: but still, these are ridiculous numbers here, and against Colorado
- 1:21:09Speaker 3: they basically haven't seen him. They're zero for four with
- 1:21:11Speaker 3: two strikeouts off in between Willie Castro and Jake McCarthy. Obviously,
- 1:21:16Speaker 3: I think he'll pitch well here. I mean I think
- 1:21:19Speaker 3: you can assume he's gonna pitch well in every outing.
- 1:21:22Speaker 3: Then the question becomes, like, how can you attack this
- 1:21:25Speaker 3: this game? Colorado has not announced the starter, so I
- 1:21:29Speaker 3: have no clue what they're doing. You can try to
- 1:21:32Speaker 3: go five games back, and that was that awful San
- 1:21:35Speaker 3: Francisco game where they got absolutely obliterated. They basically went
- 1:21:39Speaker 3: with a bullpen game in that game, so it's probably
- 1:21:41Speaker 3: gonna be a bullpen game for Colorado here. I don't
- 1:21:44Speaker 3: know what they're doing. Obviously, that makes us a gigantic
- 1:21:48Speaker 3: mismatch here, but you're paying for it. Obviously. This is crazy.
- 1:21:53Speaker 3: Milwaukee is like a minus three hundred road favorite in
- 1:21:56Speaker 3: this game, or sorry, not quite that. They're minus two
- 1:21:59Speaker 3: sixty or so here. You can't lay that price, dude.
- 1:22:02Speaker 3: I mean, if you want a money line, parlay it
- 1:22:04Speaker 3: or something whatever. I guess I don't think Milwaukee will lose,
- 1:22:09Speaker 3: but I mean that price is just totally outrageous. The
- 1:22:14Speaker 3: game total is ten and a half, which is right
- 1:22:18Speaker 3: in line with what you would expect in a course
- 1:22:19Speaker 3: field game, but with Misierowski on the mind, you'd expect
- 1:22:22Speaker 3: it to be a little bit lower than that. I
- 1:22:24Speaker 3: don't know, man, I mean, if you want to go,
- 1:22:25Speaker 3: you could go Colorado under their team total maybe and
- 1:22:28Speaker 3: go with Misierowski to just shred them. If that's really
- 1:22:32Speaker 3: what you want to do, you could do that because
- 1:22:33Speaker 3: it is a high total. So then if Colorado gets
- 1:22:36Speaker 3: held to like you're probably gonna even get held to
- 1:22:39Speaker 3: like three runs though. I mean, it is doable, but
- 1:22:43Speaker 3: it's kind of dangerous in course field, and we don't
- 1:22:46Speaker 3: really know what the uh what the Colorado bullpen situation? Well,
- 1:22:51Speaker 3: it's Colorado bullpend game here, so I don't know, or
- 1:22:55Speaker 3: excuse you, you don't know what Milwaukee's bullpen is gonna
- 1:22:57Speaker 3: look like because they're a little bit unrested here. No,
- 1:23:00Speaker 3: I would not go under, uh, There's no way I
- 1:23:03Speaker 3: would back Colorado's pitching in that game. Colorado under their
- 1:23:07Speaker 3: team total might be right, but I don't know. That
- 1:23:10Speaker 3: seems a little bit sketchy as well, because they might
- 1:23:13Speaker 3: it might just be a garbage game and Colorado might
- 1:23:16Speaker 3: put up some runs against Milwaukee's bullpen or something. Yeah,
- 1:23:20Speaker 3: Otani is pitching well, uh, Anaheim at the Dodgers. Dodgers
- 1:23:26Speaker 3: won the game one to nothing yesterday, unfortunately on Pride Night,
- 1:23:31Speaker 3: which is why you gotta like the the the like
- 1:23:34Speaker 3: the Rangers. Excuse me over the Dodgers. Here. Sosaki pitch
- 1:23:38Speaker 3: really well in the game though, he's starting to pitch
- 1:23:40Speaker 3: really well. Dude. This Dodgers team, they have like all
- 1:23:43Speaker 3: these starting pitching injuries and it doesn't even matter. It's
- 1:23:46Speaker 3: like every one of their starters is good anyway. Uh,
- 1:23:49Speaker 3: this Dodgers team, if they don't win the World Series again,
- 1:23:52Speaker 3: i'd i'd be somewhat surprised. So I don't know, we'll see.
- 1:23:56Speaker 3: I mean, baseball is close though, once it gets into
- 1:23:59Speaker 3: the playoffs and what ever. But Dodgers have a ton
- 1:24:01Speaker 3: of advantages here against Anaheim. They're the better team. They're
- 1:24:04Speaker 3: the better team in every phase of this game. Here,
- 1:24:07Speaker 3: the bullpen bullpen advantage is not even close. It's a
- 1:24:11Speaker 3: huge advantage to the Dodgers. They did use three guys
- 1:24:14Speaker 3: out of the bullpen yesterday, but whatever Tree and it
- 1:24:16Speaker 3: only made one pitch. Anaheim U's three guys. Anaheim's bullpen
- 1:24:20Speaker 3: is one of the worst. They're twenty eighth and they're
- 1:24:23Speaker 3: tied for the worst ERA with Houston. Dodgers are the
- 1:24:26Speaker 3: number two bullpen in WHIP, so huge advantage there. Dodgers
- 1:24:30Speaker 3: are the number one offense. Anaheim is number nineteen, so
- 1:24:33Speaker 3: a big advantage there too. Pretty big starting pitching that
- 1:24:37Speaker 3: year as well. Jack Kohanowitz is pitching for the Angels.
- 1:24:41Speaker 3: He's not good. Five point two to three e ra
- 1:24:44Speaker 3: A one point four eight WHIP. I don't like any
- 1:24:48Speaker 3: of that obviously. He's been bad on the road. Six
- 1:24:50Speaker 3: point six six point six two six six would be
- 1:24:54Speaker 3: really bad. Six point six to two ROADIRA not good.
- 1:24:57Speaker 3: He's not a good form right now, really rugg in
- 1:25:00Speaker 3: the month of May. Nothing to like about this at all.
- 1:25:04Speaker 3: His hit rate on the full season is actually low,
- 1:25:06Speaker 3: but it was way high in May, so that's getting
- 1:25:09Speaker 3: worse too. His walk rate is ridiculously high. His strikeout
- 1:25:13Speaker 3: rate is not good. It's low. He is a ground
- 1:25:15Speaker 3: ball pitcher, so you got to give him that. He
- 1:25:17Speaker 3: induces a lot of grounders, but he is not pitching
- 1:25:20Speaker 3: well at all. His numbers against the Dodgers are not
- 1:25:23Speaker 3: as bad as you would think, but they're not great.
- 1:25:25Speaker 3: In thirty eight at bats to thirty seven, average is
- 1:25:27Speaker 3: pretty good. Seven ninety nine ohps, not that good. They've
- 1:25:30Speaker 3: hit him for some power here, eight strikeouts, five walks here,
- 1:25:37Speaker 3: so yeah, not great numbers here. Yoshinobu Yamamoto is pitching
- 1:25:41Speaker 3: for the Dodgers. He's good, we know this. Two point
- 1:25:45Speaker 3: eight six ERA one whip. These are good numbers. He's
- 1:25:48Speaker 3: not quite as good at home though, three point two
- 1:25:50Speaker 3: to two homeye Ira. He's pitching well. He's had three
- 1:25:53Speaker 3: good starts in a row after he had a shaky
- 1:25:55Speaker 3: outing against San Francisco, but even in that outing he
- 1:25:58Speaker 3: got kind of unlucky and just out home runs there.
- 1:26:01Speaker 3: So he's pretty much pitched well the entire season. That
- 1:26:04Speaker 3: was the only start where allowed more than three ear
- 1:26:06Speaker 3: in runs, so he's been good. Strike Out rate is
- 1:26:09Speaker 3: right around one per inning, pretty low walk rate, low
- 1:26:12Speaker 3: hit rate as well. However, he does not have good
- 1:26:15Speaker 3: numbers against Anaheim. It's a small sample though, thirteen at bats,
- 1:26:19Speaker 3: three zero eight batting average though oney fifty three oh bs.
- 1:26:22Speaker 3: That's not a great sign five strikeouts, three walks, So
- 1:26:27Speaker 3: maybe Yamamoto has kind of a negative matchup here the Dodgers.
- 1:26:31Speaker 3: I mean, you cannot lay a price like this with
- 1:26:33Speaker 3: the Dodgers, especially with Yamamoto not having solid matchup numbers here.
- 1:26:37Speaker 3: But you'd have to lay a minus three sixty basically
- 1:26:40Speaker 3: to get the Dodgers here. Ridiculous. You can't do that.
- 1:26:43Speaker 3: You can't do that in any baseball game, even a
- 1:26:47Speaker 3: run line. You'd be looking at laying like two and
- 1:26:49Speaker 3: a half runs here. I'm not gonna be recommending anything
- 1:26:52Speaker 3: like that. If I was gonna play this game, I
- 1:26:54Speaker 3: would just go over the total. I think the total's
- 1:26:57Speaker 3: reasonable at eight and a half, and Yamamoto might give
- 1:27:00Speaker 3: up some runs, like his numbers are not good against Anaheim.
- 1:27:03Speaker 3: But I know it's a small sampun. You gotta think
- 1:27:05Speaker 3: Kohanowitz is probably gonna pitch poorly as well. Generally that
- 1:27:09Speaker 3: is the case, so I think it over makes sense
- 1:27:12Speaker 3: in that game. But I don't really have a strong
- 1:27:14Speaker 3: opinion on it, all right, and then we have the
- 1:27:16Speaker 3: final game. Here is the game that we won on
- 1:27:18Speaker 3: yesterday with the Mets the Braves. I don't know. I'm
- 1:27:22Speaker 3: worried about the Yankees winning the World Series, obviously, because
- 1:27:25Speaker 3: I think they're They're gonna have a really easy path
- 1:27:27Speaker 3: through the awful American League, so they're probably gonna be
- 1:27:31Speaker 3: in the World Series. I don't know. Then, anything could
- 1:27:36Speaker 3: happen in the world. The Dodgers almost lost the World
- 1:27:38Speaker 3: Series last year to Toronto. San Diego has lost a
- 1:27:43Speaker 3: bunch of games in a row. They've lost six straight games. Now,
- 1:27:46Speaker 3: we had a winner on the show with the Mets yesterday.
- 1:27:48Speaker 3: But I told you how bad that situation was for
- 1:27:51Speaker 3: San Diego when I when I looked at that game,
- 1:27:52Speaker 3: I loved that play. San Diego's were turning home from
- 1:27:55Speaker 3: the road, they had no days off, they were traveling
- 1:27:58Speaker 3: cross country. None of that applied to the Mets. The
- 1:28:01Speaker 3: Mets had had a day of rest. They were on
- 1:28:02Speaker 3: the Pacific Coast already, way better spot for the Mets.
- 1:28:06Speaker 3: Christian Scott pitched well enough for us there. Michael King
- 1:28:10Speaker 3: wasn't awful in the game, but he did give up
- 1:28:11Speaker 3: four runs, so we did get it done. He didn't
- 1:28:14Speaker 3: have great matchup numbers there, so we were able to
- 1:28:16Speaker 3: get that win there this game. Just on the surface,
- 1:28:20Speaker 3: this looks like the Mets have a big advantage here
- 1:28:23Speaker 3: in this starting pitching matchup. You got to think so
- 1:28:27Speaker 3: I might like the Mets again here. The Mets used
- 1:28:29Speaker 3: three guys out of the bullpen. Yesterday. San Diego used
- 1:28:33Speaker 3: Mason Miller. I think maybe just to get him some
- 1:28:35Speaker 3: work because he hadn't pitched in a while. But maybe
- 1:28:37Speaker 3: that means he won't be available today though, which might
- 1:28:40Speaker 3: be a mistake if it's gonna be a close game
- 1:28:43Speaker 3: and they're ahead late. San Diego used three guys out
- 1:28:46Speaker 3: of the bullpen. San Diego's bullpen is one of the best.
- 1:28:49Speaker 3: They're number four. But the Mets are a good bullpen too,
- 1:28:51Speaker 3: they're number six. They're right behind san Diego. Like I mentioned,
- 1:28:56Speaker 3: I liked the Mets bullpen set up yesterday too because
- 1:28:59Speaker 3: they were the rest at it bullpen. But I think
- 1:29:01Speaker 3: the bullpen situation is basically a toss up in this
- 1:29:03Speaker 3: game here. And of course, as I mentioned yesterday, these
- 1:29:06Speaker 3: are bad offenses and San Diego has actually dropped behind
- 1:29:10Speaker 3: the Mets in offense, their OPS is horrible. They're actually
- 1:29:14Speaker 3: point zher one basically worse than the Mets now in ops.
- 1:29:18Speaker 3: That's crazy. San Diego's dead last. The Mets are second
- 1:29:22Speaker 3: to last still here, so we got some bad offenses.
- 1:29:25Speaker 3: Nolan McLain is pitching for the Mets. He's got a
- 1:29:28Speaker 3: four point two to one r now, so his eray
- 1:29:30Speaker 3: has gone up. But you know, I think he's a
- 1:29:32Speaker 3: good pitcher. I think he's gonna come back into form
- 1:29:35Speaker 3: at some point. He's too good for that not to
- 1:29:36Speaker 3: be the case. It might happen here because you get
- 1:29:39Speaker 3: a pitcher friendly ballpark here and a really weak offense,
- 1:29:42Speaker 3: so I think he should pitch well here. He still
- 1:29:44Speaker 3: has a good whip one point one to two whip.
- 1:29:47Speaker 3: He's better on the road as well, three point eight
- 1:29:50Speaker 3: six roadier, right, so that lines up pretty well. He
- 1:29:53Speaker 3: had two really bad outings at Washington and then at
- 1:29:55Speaker 3: home against Cincinnati. I don't know what happened there. His
- 1:29:58Speaker 3: strikeout walk ratio is still right there. But then he
- 1:30:00Speaker 3: followed it up with a better performance against Miami, but
- 1:30:04Speaker 3: he had five walks in that outing. So McClain, there's
- 1:30:09Speaker 3: something a little bit off about him right now. But
- 1:30:11Speaker 3: he's been really good on the season. He's still a
- 1:30:14Speaker 3: young guy. I think he's basically a rookie here right. Yeah.
- 1:30:16Speaker 3: He mid eight starts last year. His numbers were really
- 1:30:19Speaker 3: good last year too, so I think he is still
- 1:30:22Speaker 3: going to pitch well. He's gonna come back into form
- 1:30:24Speaker 3: at some point. It might be here. Like I said,
- 1:30:27Speaker 3: he's got a good strikeout rate, really high low hit rate.
- 1:30:30Speaker 3: His walk rate is the only concern that's a little
- 1:30:33Speaker 3: bit high. But he's been good and San Diego's never
- 1:30:36Speaker 3: faced him before, so he has an extra advantage going
- 1:30:39Speaker 3: up against a lineup that's never faced a before, so
- 1:30:41Speaker 3: that helps him. Griffin Canning is pitching for San Diego.
- 1:30:45Speaker 3: I wonder which one of these pitchers is better. Canning
- 1:30:48Speaker 3: has really not been good since coming back from injury
- 1:30:52Speaker 3: or whatever it was. He's been awful for years now. Dude.
- 1:30:55Speaker 3: Seven point one SIXTYRA, one point five to five whip,
- 1:30:59Speaker 3: that's some stuff. He does pitch better at home in
- 1:31:01Speaker 3: a pitcher friendly ballpark. Here at home still a five
- 1:31:04Speaker 3: point five to seven OMIRA. That's not good, especially with
- 1:31:07Speaker 3: how pitcher friendly this ballpark is. San Diego's lost his
- 1:31:11Speaker 3: last five starts. He hasn't been particularly good really in
- 1:31:15Speaker 3: any of them. He's allowed three or more and runs
- 1:31:17Speaker 3: in all of them. He's only had fewer of the
- 1:31:19Speaker 3: multiple walks once against the Dodgers. He's got twenty seven
- 1:31:24Speaker 3: strikeouts in twenty seven to two thirds innings, which is
- 1:31:26Speaker 3: pretty good. Twenty eight hits allowed is not great, but
- 1:31:29Speaker 3: fifteen walks huge problem. He's walking too many guys. Numbers
- 1:31:33Speaker 3: against the Mets are not good, but it's only forty
- 1:31:36Speaker 3: seven at bats and most of it is Marcus Semion,
- 1:31:39Speaker 3: and that was because Canning was on Anaheim for a
- 1:31:41Speaker 3: while and Semion was on Texas, so that's why they
- 1:31:45Speaker 3: matched up so much. But still in those forty seven
- 1:31:47Speaker 3: at bats, the Mets have a three to nineteen average
- 1:31:50Speaker 3: against him in nine eighty five ops. So there are
- 1:31:53Speaker 3: a couple other guys in there that have done some
- 1:31:55Speaker 3: damage against him. Melendez is Soto, but yes, most of
- 1:31:58Speaker 3: the damage is from Semian Seaman twelve strikeouts, two walks
- 1:32:04Speaker 3: for Canning against the Mets. I would lean to the
- 1:32:07Speaker 3: Mets again in this game. Like I said, I think
- 1:32:09Speaker 3: that's the way to look at it. I would back
- 1:32:12Speaker 3: on mcclaim. I think he has a pretty big pitching
- 1:32:14Speaker 3: edge over Canning. Again, I don't necessarily want to do
- 1:32:18Speaker 3: it because it is historically a positive spot that San
- 1:32:21Speaker 3: Diego is in, you know, like I always talk about
- 1:32:23Speaker 3: a return home spot and then you get shut out
- 1:32:25Speaker 3: at home a lot of times, that team has a
- 1:32:27Speaker 3: tendency to bounce back. But the matchup looks lopsided to
- 1:32:31Speaker 3: me in favor of the Mets, so it won't be
- 1:32:33Speaker 3: on my card, but the Mets around minus one twenty.
- 1:32:35Speaker 3: I would just money line it with the Mets. You
- 1:32:38Speaker 3: could go first five if you want to do, because
- 1:32:40Speaker 3: they probably have the bigger advantage there and the bullpens
- 1:32:43Speaker 3: are kind of a toss up. But I don't really
- 1:32:44Speaker 3: see necessarily a reason to take the Mets bullpen out
- 1:32:48Speaker 3: of the equation. Either sixty percent of tickets seventy five
- 1:32:51Speaker 3: percent of the cash on the Mets and probably get
- 1:32:54Speaker 3: a better price on it going full game because the
- 1:32:56Speaker 3: oddsmakers know San Diego's got a good bullpen. The Mets
- 1:33:00Speaker 3: have the bigger edge during the starting pitching here, so
- 1:33:03Speaker 3: first five you probably have to pay a little bit
- 1:33:05Speaker 3: more on it, but it still makes sense either way.
- 1:33:07Speaker 3: Mets money line either full game or first five. I
- 1:33:11Speaker 3: don't I'd probably need full game, I guess, but whatever,
- 1:33:14Speaker 3: just get the price down a little bit. Probably total
- 1:33:18Speaker 3: in the game is seven and a half though, so
- 1:33:20Speaker 3: it is indicating it's gonna be a lower scoring game,
- 1:33:22Speaker 3: which somewhat does help the case of the underdog. But
- 1:33:26Speaker 3: still I'm not really seeing it in that game, all right.
- 1:33:30Speaker 3: WNBA Cup action continues first two games in the afternoon
- 1:33:34Speaker 3: on ABC Seattle. In Minnesota. This is a complete mismatch.
- 1:33:37Speaker 3: Even though Minnesota is still without their best player, Collier,
- 1:33:42Speaker 3: they still have the best record in the league as well.
- 1:33:46Speaker 3: Minnesota's won six games in a row. They've already won
- 1:33:49Speaker 3: two Cup games I think, which started in June, and
- 1:33:52Speaker 3: night still don't know how the Cup stuff is like structured,
- 1:33:57Speaker 3: So like I think the losing Cup teams are probably
- 1:33:59Speaker 3: gonna be a little bit more motivated. Minnesota is coming
- 1:34:02Speaker 3: off a pretty big win over Golden State after they
- 1:34:04Speaker 3: blew out Phoenix. You would think that maybe they would
- 1:34:07Speaker 3: have been they got maybe they would have gotten caught.
- 1:34:09Speaker 3: I leaned Golden State in that game, and I think
- 1:34:12Speaker 3: you might have been able to find a plus three
- 1:34:14Speaker 3: on Golden State there, and they pushed that at least,
- 1:34:16Speaker 3: but Minnesota won that game against a good Golden State team.
- 1:34:20Speaker 3: Minnesota could maybe have a little bit of a let
- 1:34:23Speaker 3: down here. Maybe they won't take Seattle totally. Seriously, I
- 1:34:26Speaker 3: don't expect Minnesota to lose, but I think I would
- 1:34:29Speaker 3: probably lean towards Seattle just getting it town of points here.
- 1:34:32Speaker 3: Seattle's lost four in a row. I know they had
- 1:34:34Speaker 3: a close game. We should have had an easy win
- 1:34:37Speaker 3: with Phoenix and that one, to be honest, Phoenix just
- 1:34:39Speaker 3: couldn't hit anything and it looked like they were running
- 1:34:42Speaker 3: away with the game in the second quarter, and then
- 1:34:44Speaker 3: they just really started playing like shit. I don't know
- 1:34:47Speaker 3: what that was. But Seattle maybe, you know, reaching kind
- 1:34:51Speaker 3: of the bottom of their market, you know, like they
- 1:34:54Speaker 3: might be at the bottom of the market here. Minnesota
- 1:34:56Speaker 3: might be at the top of the market. But this
- 1:34:58Speaker 3: is like the best team in the league, Minnesota, although
- 1:35:02Speaker 3: even without their best player, against one of the worst
- 1:35:05Speaker 3: teams at Seattle. So but the line is huge for
- 1:35:08Speaker 3: that reason, Minnesota is a fourteen point favorite. Now, I'd
- 1:35:12Speaker 3: probably lean towards taking the points, but I don't really
- 1:35:14Speaker 3: have a good opinion on that game. Golden State in
- 1:35:17Speaker 3: Vegas is a much more competitive game. This is interesting.
- 1:35:21Speaker 3: This is a Cup game as well. A Vegas I think,
- 1:35:23Speaker 3: is one to zero in the Cup right now winning
- 1:35:26Speaker 3: at LA. The game that they just played against Golden
- 1:35:29Speaker 3: State was not a Cup game. But we do have
- 1:35:32Speaker 3: some situations coming into play where Vegas is returning home
- 1:35:35Speaker 3: from a road trip, and you know, I always talk
- 1:35:37Speaker 3: about that they've been on the road for over a week,
- 1:35:40Speaker 3: and when that's the case, a lot of times the
- 1:35:42Speaker 3: team will get distracted and get back to home life,
- 1:35:45Speaker 3: you know what I mean. It could be a distraction
- 1:35:47Speaker 3: and it could definitely be so because during that road trip,
- 1:35:50Speaker 3: Vegas went to Golden State and beat them by ten.
- 1:35:53Speaker 3: So this is a quick revenge spot for Golden State
- 1:35:55Speaker 3: where Golden State might make some adjustments, and a return
- 1:35:58Speaker 3: home spot for Vegas. It looks like you might think
- 1:36:02Speaker 3: that I might have a play then on on Golden
- 1:36:05Speaker 3: State here, and I considered it as I started looking
- 1:36:08Speaker 3: at this, because I think this is the closest to
- 1:36:10Speaker 3: me having a play today would be to take Golden
- 1:36:12Speaker 3: State here as a small underdog. I think the price
- 1:36:16Speaker 3: is about accurate because if you look at what the
- 1:36:18Speaker 3: line was when Vegas was at Golden State. Vegas was
- 1:36:21Speaker 3: like a one and a half point favorite here, so
- 1:36:23Speaker 3: they should be about a three or so favorite here
- 1:36:26Speaker 3: at home. I don't think these teams getting a lot
- 1:36:28Speaker 3: of home court. I advantaged. Vegas in fact, has lost
- 1:36:31Speaker 3: both home games on the season, by the way, They've
- 1:36:33Speaker 3: only had two home games and they lost both of them.
- 1:36:36Speaker 3: But remember the first game, and I played against them
- 1:36:39Speaker 3: in both. We had two of our wins in those
- 1:36:41Speaker 3: games Vegas. The first one was that huge revenge game
- 1:36:44Speaker 3: for Phoenix for the finals last year, and it was
- 1:36:46Speaker 3: Vegas's rings ceremony against them. So I was like, yeah,
- 1:36:50Speaker 3: we're gonna fade Vegas huge revenge spot and we got
- 1:36:52Speaker 3: an easy win with Phoenix there. Then the other time
- 1:36:55Speaker 3: I faded Vegas was when they return home from their
- 1:36:57Speaker 3: other road trip and they got caught and they'd beat
- 1:37:00Speaker 3: the Sparks previously, right after that blowout loss that they
- 1:37:05Speaker 3: had in the opener, which was another win for us
- 1:37:08Speaker 3: here on the show with Vegas in that second game.
- 1:37:11Speaker 3: But yeah, so it was a similar spot to this
- 1:37:13Speaker 3: for sure. That that Vegas return home spot was very similar. Now,
- 1:37:18Speaker 3: if you look at these numbers, Vegas shot a lot
- 1:37:22Speaker 3: better than Golden State did from the field forty eight percent.
- 1:37:25Speaker 3: Golden State had five more field goal attempts but only
- 1:37:27Speaker 3: shot thirty four percent, So there were some indicators here
- 1:37:31Speaker 3: the Golden State. You know, this is a little bit
- 1:37:33Speaker 3: of a misleading final here, but Vegas was blowing them
- 1:37:36Speaker 3: out in this game though, Dude. Vegas had a really
- 1:37:39Speaker 3: good third quarter and then Golden State had a good
- 1:37:41Speaker 3: fourth quarter to make the line, make the to make
- 1:37:45Speaker 3: the final score more reasonable. Vegas was winning the game
- 1:37:48Speaker 3: by twenty four at one point, so this game was
- 1:37:51Speaker 3: pretty out of control. But yes, Vegas did out shoot
- 1:37:55Speaker 3: them quite a bit. Golden State should shoot better in
- 1:37:58Speaker 3: this game than thirty four percent, so there is a
- 1:38:00Speaker 3: positive regression angle here. But the thing I don't like
- 1:38:02Speaker 3: is that Vegas shot forty six percent from three point range.
- 1:38:06Speaker 3: They had eight more threes and still lost the game
- 1:38:09Speaker 3: by ten. That really concerns me. So that's an indicator
- 1:38:14Speaker 3: the other way, like Golden State is not gonna shoot
- 1:38:16Speaker 3: forty six percent again from three, so that would worry
- 1:38:19Speaker 3: me a little bit. And the fact that Vegas dominated
- 1:38:21Speaker 3: the rebound battle and had a huge lead throughout a
- 1:38:25Speaker 3: lot of this game. They won the rebound battle by twelve,
- 1:38:28Speaker 3: and they might still show up just because this is
- 1:38:30Speaker 3: a Cup game, so that's gonna keep me off of
- 1:38:32Speaker 3: the game. But I will lean to Golden State here.
- 1:38:36Speaker 3: Even so, Golden State they also had a tough game, though.
- 1:38:39Speaker 3: Golden State just played a really tough game, as I
- 1:38:41Speaker 3: already mentioned against Minnesota last time. I was so they
- 1:38:44Speaker 3: having to play two tough games in a row, both
- 1:38:47Speaker 3: on the road. That's not really that easy to do either,
- 1:38:50Speaker 3: although that was a Cup game as well. So Golden
- 1:38:52Speaker 3: State is you know, Golden State is going to be
- 1:38:57Speaker 3: maybe a little bit extra motivated here, So I would
- 1:38:59Speaker 3: lean towards ten taking the points with Golden State here
- 1:39:03Speaker 3: in this one. They're like a two and a half
- 1:39:07Speaker 3: point underdog. I thought it should be about three, which
- 1:39:09Speaker 3: I was close. You know, whatever, Clark got traded to
- 1:39:14Speaker 3: LA Are you serious? There's no way like she was
- 1:39:17Speaker 3: specifically on Indiana because she like lives there with her boyfriend.
- 1:39:21Speaker 3: Her boyfriend has some like job with I want to say,
- 1:39:26Speaker 3: with the Indiana Pacers maybe or something. Are you serious?
- 1:39:30Speaker 3: You're fucking with me? Right? Uh? I don't think so.
- 1:39:38Speaker 3: I don't see that in the news here at all.
- 1:39:40Speaker 3: I don't know what you're talking about. I think I
- 1:39:43Speaker 3: would have heard about that. I highly doubt that that's accurate.
- 1:39:51Speaker 3: I see nothing about that at all. All the recent
- 1:39:54Speaker 3: news is about her puking during that last game. I
- 1:40:02Speaker 3: don't know what you're talking about. I have no idea.
- 1:40:07Speaker 3: I don't think that's the case. Washington at Atlanta. Atlanta
- 1:40:11Speaker 3: is returning home from playing Indiana. Indiana was coming off
- 1:40:15Speaker 3: an embarrassing effort against what was it Portland maybe, yeah, Indiana.
- 1:40:20Speaker 3: That was that game where everybody was talking about, oh,
- 1:40:22Speaker 3: Caitlan Clark sucks, and I was blaming the coach, Stephanie
- 1:40:26Speaker 3: White or whatever her name is, even though she's not white,
- 1:40:29Speaker 3: which I think might be part of what's going on there.
- 1:40:33Speaker 3: She benched Caitlin Clark, which made no sense, really really stupid.
- 1:40:38Speaker 3: But because of all that chaos and everybody like, oh,
- 1:40:41Speaker 3: Indiana is in turmoil, whatever, it seemed to make sense
- 1:40:44Speaker 3: that Indiana was gonna play better after that embarrassing game,
- 1:40:47Speaker 3: and they did. They beat a pretty good Atlanta team,
- 1:40:50Speaker 3: even though Atlanta has Angel Reese. But now Atlanta's coming
- 1:40:53Speaker 3: off that game. They are returning home. But it was
- 1:40:56Speaker 3: only a single game on the road at Indiana. That
- 1:40:59Speaker 3: was a Cup game. They're one to one in Cup
- 1:41:01Speaker 3: play so far. I don't know what that really means.
- 1:41:04Speaker 3: As far as this game. They're back at home, they're
- 1:41:06Speaker 3: playing Washington. I guess it's possible they overlook Washington here.
- 1:41:11Speaker 3: I don't know. But here's the thing, though, Atlanta has
- 1:41:14Speaker 3: Chicago next, and why is that big? Well, that's because
- 1:41:17Speaker 3: that's the first time they're gonna face Chicago with Angel
- 1:41:21Speaker 3: Reese facing her former team. So I think that is
- 1:41:24Speaker 3: kind of a look ahead spot to Chicago there, because
- 1:41:26Speaker 3: Angel Reese of course was on Chicago to start out
- 1:41:30Speaker 3: her career and now she's on Atlanta and playing against
- 1:41:33Speaker 3: Chicago for the first time. That's the ESPN game. So
- 1:41:36Speaker 3: Atlanta may actually overlook Washington here. This Washington team's not good.
- 1:41:41Speaker 3: I think they're worse than their four and four record indicates,
- 1:41:43Speaker 3: though Washington did just beat Chicago, by the way, I mean,
- 1:41:47Speaker 3: I don't know if they're gonna be inn a letdown
- 1:41:49Speaker 3: off of that or not. I think they're one and
- 1:41:50Speaker 3: zero in Cup playing now after that, but I'm not
- 1:41:52Speaker 3: even sure Washington does have Indiana next. Maybe that's a
- 1:41:56Speaker 3: little bit of a look ahead. I don't know it's
- 1:41:59Speaker 3: a peacock. I mean you might look ahead because it's
- 1:42:01Speaker 3: a Kaitlyn Clark led Indiana team.
- 1:42:04Speaker 1: I don't know.
- 1:42:06Speaker 3: I don't have a great opinion on this one. Atlanta's
- 1:42:09Speaker 3: around a tent and a half point favorite here. I
- 1:42:12Speaker 3: might slightly lean towards Washington because I think the Atlanta
- 1:42:15Speaker 3: look ahead might be a little bit worse with the
- 1:42:16Speaker 3: Angel Reese thing, but I don't know, and they're returning
- 1:42:20Speaker 3: home at least. But yeah, I don't have a great
- 1:42:23Speaker 3: opinion on this. Atlanta could bounce back to from an
- 1:42:25Speaker 3: ugly performance against Indiana, and Washington did just at least
- 1:42:29Speaker 3: get a win against a mediocre team. So I don't know,
- 1:42:33Speaker 3: and I don't think Washington's even as good as the
- 1:42:36Speaker 3: record indicates, so a lot of things to consider in
- 1:42:38Speaker 3: that game. I might slightly lead towards taking the points
- 1:42:41Speaker 3: at ten and a half, but I don't want that
- 1:42:43Speaker 3: game at all. I still think the best play is
- 1:42:45Speaker 3: still Golden State plus the points, but I told you
- 1:42:48Speaker 3: the reasons I don't want that either. Indiana Caitlyn Clark
- 1:42:52Speaker 3: at New York. This is an interesting one. New York
- 1:42:55Speaker 3: has started to play better. They are one of the
- 1:42:57Speaker 3: better teams in the league. They've won three games in
- 1:42:59Speaker 3: a row now, all at home, but they're staying at
- 1:43:02Speaker 3: home for this game too. They've had five straight or no,
- 1:43:05Speaker 3: six straight home games now this is their seventh. Really
- 1:43:08Speaker 3: kind of ridiculous, but they have. They've faced a week
- 1:43:11Speaker 3: schedule though, dude, So I don't know about this Liberty team.
- 1:43:15Speaker 3: They've played Portland twice, no, sorry, Portland three times, Toronto once,
- 1:43:20Speaker 3: Washington once and it went into overtime, Connecticut once, and
- 1:43:23Speaker 3: then they have losses to Golden State Dallas and they
- 1:43:26Speaker 3: beat Phoenix twice. So yeah, they I don't know. Their
- 1:43:29Speaker 3: schedule has been pretty easy to me. So I don't
- 1:43:33Speaker 3: know about this Liberty team.
- 1:43:34Speaker 4: Man.
- 1:43:34Speaker 3: They should be one of the better teams, but their
- 1:43:36Speaker 3: record with that schedule should be better than it is.
- 1:43:40Speaker 3: But they're on a roll right now. They won three
- 1:43:42Speaker 3: games in a row. They've won one Cup game so far.
- 1:43:45Speaker 3: They'll show up for a game against Indiana. You gotta
- 1:43:47Speaker 3: think Indiana coming off a nice win over Atlanta, Like
- 1:43:52Speaker 3: I said, to bounce back, that was a Cup game.
- 1:43:54Speaker 3: I think they might be one and zero Cup playing
- 1:43:56Speaker 3: out too. I'm not even sure. I think all the
- 1:43:58Speaker 3: Cup games have been in June. So far, to me,
- 1:44:01Speaker 3: it looks like both teams are gonna show up here,
- 1:44:03Speaker 3: and then it's kind of a matter of which is
- 1:44:04Speaker 3: the better team here. The oddsmakers are telling you it's
- 1:44:07Speaker 3: New York. They've gone up from two and a half
- 1:44:09Speaker 3: to four and a half here. Maybe I will lean
- 1:44:13Speaker 3: that way. I think the Liberty probably are better than
- 1:44:15Speaker 3: maybe the record indicates. But I do worry because they're
- 1:44:18Speaker 3: not really battle tested. They haven't really faced too many
- 1:44:21Speaker 3: good teams here. Indiana's faced a more difficult schedule than that,
- 1:44:23Speaker 3: at least the face Golden State a couple of times.
- 1:44:26Speaker 3: Here Atlanta, both teams have face Dallas, although Indiana's had
- 1:44:32Speaker 3: somewhat of a weak schedule as well. But I think
- 1:44:34Speaker 3: Indiana they have more talent than what their record shows
- 1:44:37Speaker 3: as well. So I don't know, but nothing for me
- 1:44:40Speaker 3: in the WNBA, and then we have NHL. We have
- 1:44:42Speaker 3: a one to one game one one series here, I
- 1:44:45Speaker 3: mean going back to Vegas here. One thing that is
- 1:44:48Speaker 3: to be considered is Carolina has not left the Eastern
- 1:44:51Speaker 3: time zone for quite a while. They haven't been outside
- 1:44:55Speaker 3: of the Eastern times zone since sometime during the regular season,
- 1:44:58Speaker 3: so It's been a long time since Carolina has been
- 1:45:02Speaker 3: outside of the Eastern time zone, and this is gonna
- 1:45:04Speaker 3: be somewhat late. Although it's still eight Eastern. That's basically
- 1:45:07Speaker 3: when it is Eastern time anyway usually, so not too
- 1:45:10Speaker 3: bad there, but still it might be difficult for them
- 1:45:13Speaker 3: to go out on the road here after not being
- 1:45:16Speaker 3: anywhere outside of the Eastern time zough for a long time.
- 1:45:19Speaker 3: Vegas is better at home typically twenty twelve and nine,
- 1:45:23Speaker 3: so Vegas might have a little bit of an extra
- 1:45:25Speaker 3: home advantage here. We do have to consider that one
- 1:45:28Speaker 3: of Vegas's best defensemen is injured right now McNab because
- 1:45:32Speaker 3: he got hit in the face with a puck during
- 1:45:34Speaker 3: the last game, which I don't know if that means
- 1:45:37Speaker 3: concussion protocol, because usually, like if you get hit in
- 1:45:40Speaker 3: the face a lot of times, you'll come right back
- 1:45:42Speaker 3: like this is hockey, anyway, I got like, you'll just
- 1:45:44Speaker 3: have it like a smashed up face and we'll just
- 1:45:46Speaker 3: get back out there like whatever. Like guys will certainly
- 1:45:49Speaker 3: play in hockey with like a broken skull bone or
- 1:45:52Speaker 3: like a broken jaw bone, where guys will still just
- 1:45:55Speaker 3: go with a facial fracture. Guys will just still go
- 1:45:57Speaker 3: out there and play. So I don't know if it's
- 1:45:59Speaker 3: concussion protocol or what the deal is there. I mean,
- 1:46:02Speaker 3: guys in hockey, you'll play with broken limbs too, so
- 1:46:06Speaker 3: I don't know, but that's something to consider. McNabb might
- 1:46:08Speaker 3: not play here. I don't know how much that will
- 1:46:10Speaker 3: impact the game because a lot of guys get on
- 1:46:13Speaker 3: and off the ice during a hockey game, so I
- 1:46:15Speaker 3: don't know how much of an impact that really has.
- 1:46:17Speaker 3: I don't think it really affects the line or anything. Now.
- 1:46:20Speaker 3: The one thing to be aware of here, so Vegas
- 1:46:23Speaker 3: actually kind of dominated Game one in a way. They
- 1:46:27Speaker 3: had way more shots, way more shot opportunities, so I
- 1:46:30Speaker 3: think they were the better team in Game one. It
- 1:46:32Speaker 3: was a close game. They actually overcame a two to
- 1:46:35Speaker 3: OH deficit and then wound up winning the game. It
- 1:46:38Speaker 3: was a crazy game. Then Game two was also crazy,
- 1:46:42Speaker 3: and if you had the under you're probably very unhappy
- 1:46:46Speaker 3: because this was definitely it was an under man. It
- 1:46:49Speaker 3: was two oh Vegas going into the third period and
- 1:46:52Speaker 3: then they gave up two goals and then if you
- 1:46:54Speaker 3: saw what happened, Vegas looked like they had the go
- 1:46:57Speaker 3: ahead goal late in the third period and it got
- 1:47:00Speaker 3: called off for goaltender interference, which I kind of think
- 1:47:04Speaker 3: wasn't the correct call. Going back and looking at that highlight,
- 1:47:08Speaker 3: Tortorella challenged it, Uh, maybe the right move to do that.
- 1:47:13Speaker 3: Some guys, guys are giving him crap for a challenging that,
- 1:47:16Speaker 3: because if you lose the challenge, then you have a
- 1:47:20Speaker 3: guy go to the penalty box and it gives the
- 1:47:22Speaker 3: other team a power play. But Carolina's power play has
- 1:47:25Speaker 3: been awful, Like that's one of their weaknesses is the
- 1:47:28Speaker 3: power play. But yes, I know they wound up winning
- 1:47:30Speaker 3: with two power play goals in this game, but I
- 1:47:32Speaker 3: would not necessarily expect that to happen consistently because Carolina
- 1:47:36Speaker 3: has had one of the weakest power plays in the playoffs.
- 1:47:39Speaker 3: That's that's been their biggest problem. Like their deepfense and
- 1:47:42Speaker 3: goaltending has been good, whatever, but offensively they're a little
- 1:47:46Speaker 3: bit lacking. And Vegas has the better offense out of
- 1:47:50Speaker 3: these two teams, though they're not better on deepfense. I agree.
- 1:47:55Speaker 3: I think it was the right call. I thought it
- 1:47:56Speaker 3: was I thought the it was the right call by Tortorella.
- 1:47:59Speaker 3: I thought the reffing call was wrong, and then it
- 1:48:02Speaker 3: didn't even get overturned on review. It gave ca I
- 1:48:05Speaker 3: think it was some home cooking man, the refs, you know, uh,
- 1:48:09Speaker 3: the league is gonna make more money if the if
- 1:48:11Speaker 3: the series goes longer, although that NBA series is not
- 1:48:15Speaker 3: gonna go very long, so I'm fucking pissed. But anyway, yeah,
- 1:48:19Speaker 3: I it was kind of ridiculous, man. And then that
- 1:48:23Speaker 3: gave Carolina the go ahead goal with the power play,
- 1:48:26Speaker 3: although Vegas should have killed the power place, but whatever.
- 1:48:29Speaker 3: Then Vegas scored right near the end to tie it
- 1:48:32Speaker 3: send it into overtime. Then Vegas got called for tripping
- 1:48:36Speaker 3: shortly into overtime. I was watching it. Probably the right
- 1:48:40Speaker 3: call on the trip. You don't want to see a
- 1:48:42Speaker 3: game end on a power play, though, Like I don't
- 1:48:44Speaker 3: know if maybe the refs should just let something like
- 1:48:47Speaker 3: that go. I mean, it looks somewhat inadvertent, like whoever
- 1:48:51Speaker 3: got called for the trip there, he was trying to
- 1:48:54Speaker 3: make a move on the pocket, like he was going
- 1:48:55Speaker 3: for the puck with his stick and having to trip
- 1:48:58Speaker 3: the Carolina play. I don't know, man, whatever, and then
- 1:49:02Speaker 3: Carolina won the game, So Carolina had two power play goals,
- 1:49:06Speaker 3: which I wouldn't really expect that to happen again in
- 1:49:08Speaker 3: this game because their power play, like I said, is
- 1:49:11Speaker 3: fairly weak. We're going back to Vegas here. I'm probably
- 1:49:15Speaker 3: gonna lean to Vegas slightly in this game because they
- 1:49:17Speaker 3: think they have a bit of a home advantage here,
- 1:49:19Speaker 3: like I just said. But if you look at this game,
- 1:49:21Speaker 3: Carolina did actually dominate Game two in the physicality department.
- 1:49:25Speaker 3: They had twenty one more hits in the game and
- 1:49:28Speaker 3: won the faceoffs, so they were the way more physical
- 1:49:30Speaker 3: team here and the shots were even. Although Vegas could
- 1:49:34Speaker 3: have won the game, they had a two to nothing
- 1:49:35Speaker 3: lead halfway through the third period, so you know, it
- 1:49:42Speaker 3: was a weird game. I leaned Vegas slightly in this game,
- 1:49:45Speaker 3: but I don't have a great read on this game.
- 1:49:47Speaker 3: I know I have not given out a play on
- 1:49:49Speaker 3: this series. I know I'm trying to tread somewhat lightly,
- 1:49:52Speaker 3: and usually I'm good in NBA playoffs. That hasn't worked out,
- 1:49:55Speaker 3: but we have one in the the NHL playoffs have
- 1:49:58Speaker 3: been a winner for us. I think regards wardless of
- 1:50:00Speaker 3: what we do here on out, unless I'm gonna lose
- 1:50:02Speaker 3: like five plays from here, on out, which is not
- 1:50:05Speaker 3: gonna happen. That's that's Canadian football. What Yeah, Carolina Vegas.
- 1:50:11Speaker 3: Vegas is getting the money fifty eight percent of the tickets,
- 1:50:13Speaker 3: seventy percent of the cash on them minus one ten
- 1:50:17Speaker 3: is the price, So it's basically a pick the winner
- 1:50:19Speaker 3: price here. I'd probably slightly lean Vegas. I think the
- 1:50:22Speaker 3: undermakes sense in this game. And I know unders are
- 1:50:25Speaker 3: dangerous you get empty net goals, et cetera. But Carolina
- 1:50:29Speaker 3: plays a lot of low scoring games. Man, I don't
- 1:50:31Speaker 3: think they're gonna have two power play goals again. If
- 1:50:33Speaker 3: you saw that game, a lot of the goals were fluky,
- 1:50:36Speaker 3: like a couple of power play goals. Both teams that
- 1:50:39Speaker 3: they had multiple goals off of freak turnovers, which you know,
- 1:50:44Speaker 3: so the goalies are actually better in the game than
- 1:50:46Speaker 3: it looked like. So I don't think that shit is
- 1:50:48Speaker 3: gonna happen again. I think both teams might clean it
- 1:50:50Speaker 3: up a little bit. Traveling to another venue, you know,
- 1:50:53Speaker 3: might slow down the offenses a little bit. So an
- 1:50:55Speaker 3: under makes sense to me in this game, and you
- 1:50:58Speaker 3: know Carolina. Carolina is the team that plays more of
- 1:51:01Speaker 3: an understyle though, but it is weird that both of
- 1:51:05Speaker 3: the games so far have gone over the total, but whatever,
- 1:51:09Speaker 3: eighty one percent of tickets, only sixty eight percent of
- 1:51:12Speaker 3: the cash on the on the over, I would lean under,
- 1:51:16Speaker 3: even though I know that's more Carolina style and usually
- 1:51:18Speaker 3: the home team kind of dictates the style with him
- 1:51:20Speaker 3: at more but whatever, No, I'm I'm rooting for Vegas
- 1:51:25Speaker 3: for sure. Vegas rejected Pride, they went with them, they
- 1:51:30Speaker 3: completely rejected it, and it went with cancer awareness, cancer
- 1:51:33Speaker 3: Survive a month or whatever. Vegas also has the Me
- 1:51:38Speaker 3: Toube movement going after them on bullshit for our Carter Heart,
- 1:51:41Speaker 3: so no, fuck the Canes, fuck them. And also it
- 1:51:45Speaker 3: will help my bracket of Vegas wins because way fewer
- 1:51:47Speaker 3: people have them winning it, so I need everybody else's
- 1:51:51Speaker 3: bracket to just get annihilated and lose Carolina. There, no, there,
- 1:51:56Speaker 3: there are all the reasons, sorry, Garrett, there are all
- 1:51:59Speaker 3: the reasons to roofer Vegas in this one. And Tortorella,
- 1:52:02Speaker 3: I don't really love him, but he is from Boston
- 1:52:05Speaker 3: and an Italian. So you're from Carolina, all right, what
- 1:52:12Speaker 3: you don't have the panthers and the hornets? Oh man?
- 1:52:16Speaker 3: All right? Anyway, Yeah, that's gonna do it for the
- 1:52:19Speaker 3: show here the two players that they are both baseball players.
- 1:52:22Speaker 3: We have an afternoon play on the Cubs money line.
- 1:52:25Speaker 3: Hopefully you can find a reasonable price on that, and
- 1:52:28Speaker 3: then we're going right back to Cleveland and Texas under
- 1:52:31Speaker 3: in the night games. There being pretty selective here. That's
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- 1:53:25Speaker 3: Toe for some more stuff that I'm not keeping up
- 1:53:28Speaker 3: with right now, I apologize. I'm going to a bunch
- 1:53:30Speaker 3: of shows recently too, though back to back. They might
- 1:53:33Speaker 3: be Giants shows last night and tonight. So dude, I've
- 1:53:37Speaker 3: been a fan of them for a long time, and
- 1:53:39Speaker 3: i know they garner, you know, that sort of typical
- 1:53:44Speaker 3: like you know, Brooklyn in the crowd if you know
- 1:53:47Speaker 3: what I mean. But you know, dude, I mean they
- 1:53:49Speaker 3: put on a good show still, so it's fun. And
- 1:53:53Speaker 3: they're they're going out there and playing like two and
- 1:53:55Speaker 3: a half hours each night here, doing two sets each night,
- 1:53:59Speaker 3: so and playing a huge variety like they're only gonna
- 1:54:02Speaker 3: be a few songs that are the same between both sets.
- 1:54:04Speaker 3: So that takes a lot to do. So got to
- 1:54:09Speaker 3: hand it to him, man. Uh So that's what I'm doing.
- 1:54:12Speaker 3: Uh Now, people are gonna hunt me down probably find
- 1:54:15Speaker 3: me whatever. What else do I have going on here?
- 1:54:21Speaker 3: Loser cast every Tuesday, and uh I think that's about
- 1:54:25Speaker 3: Oh Giants g Spot podcast? Ben is you know he's
- 1:54:29Speaker 3: a busy dude, so I don't know. We got to
- 1:54:31Speaker 3: get back to it. We'll figure it out. That's gonna
- 1:54:33Speaker 3: do it. I appreciate it. Peace, Yes, correct. They might
- 1:54:40Speaker 3: be giants. Does the Malcolm in the Middle theme. I've
- 1:54:44Speaker 3: seen them like five or six times live. I don't
- 1:54:46Speaker 3: even know if I've ever seen them play that song live.
- 1:54:49Speaker 3: Maybe I have at one point, I don't know. They
- 1:54:51Speaker 3: play so many different songs. You're actually rooting for Vegas,
- 1:54:57Speaker 3: you like Tortorella. I'm kind of coming around.
- 1:55:00Speaker 4: I don't know.
- 1:55:00Speaker 3: I mean Boston Italian guys. I mean, I don't know.
- 1:55:03Speaker 3: We gotta stick together, yes, all right, Yeah, Charles is
- 1:55:09Speaker 3: gonna come up and fight me on the streets. All right,
- 1:55:13Speaker 3: that's gonna do it. Peace, But don't you go quiet.
- 1:55:17Speaker 3: Don't you fade from the floor.
- 1:55:19Speaker 4: Your name still mean something to somebody to show.
- 1:55:23Speaker 2: Put the glass down, baby, look at me. No, hold on,
- 1:55:33Speaker 2: hold on letting nice.
- 1:55:38Speaker 5: Now, hold on.
- 1:55:41Speaker 1: Hold on me for that bites hard, but it don't
- 1:55:53Speaker 1: get the crown.
- 1:55:56Speaker 3: Hold on, hold on, play with me now,