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Chad and Scooch are back! Just in time to talk crushing Duke losses... · The Favorites Sports Betting Podcast

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  Speaker 1: M H. Welcome to The Favorites, the podcast from the
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  Speaker 1: Action Network. I am Chad Millman. It's big day because
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  Speaker 1: we are coming out of a crazy, crazy weekend of
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  Speaker 1: college basketball, We're coming out of a big opening week
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  Speaker 1: for Major League Baseball. We are heading into the NBA Playoffs,
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  Speaker 1: and we're going to do it all with one of
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  Speaker 1: my besties in the world, Mr Bob Scoochee. It's in
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  Speaker 1: aspiring for that morning. What's going on. I haven't heard
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  Speaker 1: that song in a while. Boy, that that sounds nice. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you know why you haven't heard it in a while
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  Speaker 1: because you've been ignoring us and avoiding us. And you're
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  Speaker 1: just waiting bedtime now. Not intentionally, I've just been, uh
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  Speaker 1: be pretty busy. Here's how much you're ignoring us and
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  Speaker 1: avoiding us. Uh, As everybody knows. The Action Network DeCamp
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  Speaker 1: for Las Vegas for the opening around of the n
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  Speaker 1: C Double A Tournament, and we had a big, big
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  Speaker 1: bash at Mabel's at the Palms the Wednesday night before
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  Speaker 1: the tournament began, and it was a crazy fun event
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  Speaker 1: and we were a capacity all night and had a
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  Speaker 1: line out the door. And I had texted Scooch and said, hey,
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  Speaker 1: it'd be great to see you when I come to Vegas. Um,
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  Speaker 1: why don't you come to the event? And uh, I
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  Speaker 1: got no response, none at all. And the next day, Uh,
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  Speaker 1: I think I texted you in said hey, what's going on? No,
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  Speaker 1: this is before I said, hey, what's going on? Do
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  Speaker 1: you want to come tonight? And you go, what's happening?
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  Speaker 1: Where is it? I just go look at the text above. Yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that was my bad. That was just crazy that whole week.
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  Speaker 1: You know, you know I had to get a room
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  Speaker 1: at the at the property because I had to get
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  Speaker 1: up at three o'clock in the morning. I had to
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  Speaker 1: do some some local media from like three a m.
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  Speaker 1: To six, and then that night people were coming in
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  Speaker 1: getting ready for the tournament. It was just it was
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  Speaker 1: just insane. So it was more important to do local
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  Speaker 1: media than doing national media that has a much bigger audience. Well,
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  Speaker 1: this was already pre planned. I already had the commitment. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: what has more plan of this podcast? Scoots? We've been
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  Speaker 1: doing this podcast for like five to seven years, every
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  Speaker 1: single we Yeah, sorry about that, Well, how about how
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  Speaker 1: about you. I traveled all the way to Washington, d C.
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  Speaker 1: I don't even realize that you're at the h the
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  Speaker 1: Executive Summit there. I had to read your name on
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  Speaker 1: a program. I didn't even know you were there. Well,
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  Speaker 1: I didn't know you were going to be there. You're
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  Speaker 1: referring to The American Gaming Association actually had an amazing
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  Speaker 1: event last week in d C or outside dc UM
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  Speaker 1: and they they sort of made it a very exclusive
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  Speaker 1: event where they only invited a couple hundred people for
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  Speaker 1: these two days of panels, and they had some really
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  Speaker 1: high end people there. Um. They had Gary Bettman there,
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  Speaker 1: they had Ted leons Is there. Dan Revell moderated a
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  Speaker 1: panel with a bunch of executives including Jason Robbins from
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  Speaker 1: DraftKings and Joe Asher from Willie who runs William Hill.
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  Speaker 1: They literally almost got into a fight. That was great.
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  Speaker 1: That was That was probably it was the last panel
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  Speaker 1: of the event, but it was. It was certainly the
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  Speaker 1: most exciting. It was almost like I encourage anybody just
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  Speaker 1: to go look Google like Joe ash Er Jason Robbins
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  Speaker 1: a g A summit and you will see two guys
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  Speaker 1: who almost like these panels. Normally, these panels are like
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  Speaker 1: people giving very canned answers. It's not very candid conversation.
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  Speaker 1: The A g A did a really nice job and
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  Speaker 1: they actually had some great conversations in these panels. But
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  Speaker 1: Darren himself in the middle of this panel was like,
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  Speaker 1: this is the best panel of the conference because he
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  Speaker 1: almost had to come between Joe and Jason, who had
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  Speaker 1: such a seething tension that they literally there was almost
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  Speaker 1: a fight. Yeah. I mean there's some history there, you know,
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  Speaker 1: with the Draft Kings and William Hill and when DraftKings
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  Speaker 1: was trying to get into the state of Nevada as
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  Speaker 1: the daily fantasy sites, there was some discussion as to
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  Speaker 1: whether or not they were considered gambling, and I think
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  Speaker 1: that discussion went on on all over the country at
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  Speaker 1: that time. So it was pretty good, pretty good conversation there.
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  Speaker 1: It was good. You know what else was good? What
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  Speaker 1: the college basketball games this weeken They were great, they
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  Speaker 1: were they were exciting. On Saturday night, Perdue had it
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  Speaker 1: was it Saturday night. Yeah, Perdue had a nine seven
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  Speaker 1: percent chance to cover as four and a half point
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  Speaker 1: dogs um and with seventeen seconds left against Virginia, chance
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  Speaker 1: to cover seventeen seconds left. Yeah, that's how that's how
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  Speaker 1: you make money and in game weight, in game waging.
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  Speaker 1: By the way, you get those big underdogs. That's what
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  Speaker 1: you have to love about sports is that you get
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  Speaker 1: just all these unexpected uh results, and now within game wagering,
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  Speaker 1: you can kind of capitalize on that stuff. Tell me
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  Speaker 1: how that was working for you on that game. I
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  Speaker 1: had the over in that game, uh and I had Virginia.
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  Speaker 1: So it didn't work out. It worked out, you know,
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  Speaker 1: that kind of came out even But tell me what
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  Speaker 1: was happening for you in that game? Um, it wasn't
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  Speaker 1: It wasn't a great result. I mean, you know, we
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  Speaker 1: were bouncing around four and a half and five, four
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  Speaker 1: and a half and five a little bit and even
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  Speaker 1: down to four at one point, but so so you
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  Speaker 1: never want that much movement on a big game like that.
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  Speaker 1: But uh, and of course you know the game game
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  Speaker 1: following five wasn't the greatest results, but there was just
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  Speaker 1: so much parlay action on both sides that we kind
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  Speaker 1: of did. Okay, it was the next game that really
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  Speaker 1: kind of made the day for us. But but just
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  Speaker 1: listening to the to the crowd that back and forth
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  Speaker 1: during that game, it was just so so exciting. In
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  Speaker 1: the sports book, God, it was amazing. My favorite part
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  Speaker 1: of it was Carson Edwards sort of winking and smiling
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  Speaker 1: at the kid from Virginia who hit the game winning
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  Speaker 1: shot at the end, like, you know, just acknowledgement and
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  Speaker 1: a recognition of how awesome that was. Yeah, now you know.
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  Speaker 1: I mean sentimentally, I mean, after what happened in Virginia
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  Speaker 1: in the first round of the n C Double A
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  Speaker 1: Tournament last year, I kind of wanted to see them
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  Speaker 1: get over the hump. And you can see them struggling
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  Speaker 1: a little bit with some probably undue pressure in the
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  Speaker 1: first couple of games of their four games that they
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  Speaker 1: struggled in a couple of them that you can see
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  Speaker 1: that kind of pressure, uh, kind of weighing down. I
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  Speaker 1: think the pressure is off them now that that they
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  Speaker 1: feel like they've they've gotten to the final four. Now
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  Speaker 1: they're kind of free rolling, uh, and now they could
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  Speaker 1: kind of live up to the potential that this team
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  Speaker 1: really has. I disagree. I don't think when you're a
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  Speaker 1: number one seed and you've you've lost, uh, and you've
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  Speaker 1: been a number one seed that lost to a sixteen seed,
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  Speaker 1: I agree they've gotten over that hump, but they are
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  Speaker 1: now the only number one seed left in the final four, Like,
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  Speaker 1: there is no free role that comes when you were
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  Speaker 1: the only remaining number one seed. And so this is
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  Speaker 1: a team that like has struggled in the attorney, They
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  Speaker 1: struggled against Gardner Webb, they struggled against Oregon, they needed
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  Speaker 1: a miracle to be perdue. So now they all go
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  Speaker 1: up against an Auburn team that is red red hat
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  Speaker 1: like just amazingly hot. That is true. Yeah, they'll catch
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  Speaker 1: him at the worst time. But but I mean, and
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  Speaker 1: you've got you know, you've got an Auburn team that
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  Speaker 1: just loves to run the floor, and then you've got
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  Speaker 1: a Virginia team that just relies on that that grind defense.
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  Speaker 1: And I think you have the slowest tempo of of
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  Speaker 1: any team that plays. And so it's gonna be, uh,
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  Speaker 1: it's gonna be great to watch those two forces come together.
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  Speaker 1: I think Virginia is going to be able to just
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  Speaker 1: kind of limit the number of possessions. And I really
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  Speaker 1: think that this is Virginia's game. You do what I
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  Speaker 1: think had the run? Wow, do you think that's because
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  Speaker 1: of that guy who's out, like the guy who got hurt?
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  Speaker 1: That that's part of it too, And and uh, I
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  Speaker 1: really think that this is Uh, well, I mean it's
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  Speaker 1: reflected in kind of our linemaking too, So you know,
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  Speaker 1: I just uh, I mean, we're we're at five and
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  Speaker 1: a half on the game, and we're taking a ton
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  Speaker 1: of Auburn mind. So for for our sake, I hope
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  Speaker 1: we're right. Yeah, So tell me about that number. You
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  Speaker 1: opened it five and a half. Uh, Like you said,
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  Speaker 1: you're taking a ton of Auburn money right now, uh,
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  Speaker 1: sent of the money and of the bets are coming
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  Speaker 1: in on Auburn. Give me a feeling of like, why
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  Speaker 1: are you feeling so good about Virginia? What in your
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  Speaker 1: rankings tells you that that in your ratings tells you
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  Speaker 1: that Virginia is the right side here. Well, like, like
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  Speaker 1: I said, I mean, look at the last two seasons.
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  Speaker 1: You know, we're not We're not going to just get
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  Speaker 1: off of our rankings just based on a couple of
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  Speaker 1: games that that Auburn. You know, Auburn is playing their
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  Speaker 1: best as you just said, they're red hot. So we're
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  Speaker 1: not just gonna suddenly lower Virginia's rankings because Auburn is
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  Speaker 1: playing so well. I mean, that's what just the numbers.
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  Speaker 1: We have to just stay true to what those numbers
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  Speaker 1: were going into the tournament. During the tournament, and and now,
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  Speaker 1: and we know it's gonna be a little inflated in
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  Speaker 1: the public's mind because they're seeing these two teams as equals,
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  Speaker 1: you know, both arriving at this same uh point. Uh
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  Speaker 1: when you get to the final four that uh you know,
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  Speaker 1: there really shouldn't be so such prohibitive favorites. But you know,
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  Speaker 1: I think in this case, uh, Virginia is and uh
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  Speaker 1: five and a half. We know the public is gonna
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  Speaker 1: take the dog. They took the dog in both the
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  Speaker 1: games on Sunday. Uh. And like I've been saying for
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  Speaker 1: the last couple of years, I think in any big
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  Speaker 1: game now you're starting to see the betting public favor
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  Speaker 1: the underdogs a little bit more than they do the favorites.
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  Speaker 1: We've been seeing that trend for for quite a while now,
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  Speaker 1: where they're betting the favorites during the regular season, but
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  Speaker 1: the deeper you get into the playoffs and particularly championship games,
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  Speaker 1: they feel like, if the team is good enough to
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  Speaker 1: get to this point, they can certainly win the game.
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  Speaker 1: And if you're gonna give us five and a half points,
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  Speaker 1: we'll just take the points. And and uh, you know,
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  Speaker 1: hope the team either win straight up or covers. This
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  Speaker 1: was a fascinating weekend. Also, actually, before I get onto that,
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  Speaker 1: which is the most public team in the final four
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  Speaker 1: right now, it's probably uh, it's probably still still Virginia. Um,
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  Speaker 1: I mean Texas Tech. Everybody just kind of uh jumping
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  Speaker 1: on the bandwagon with them, and they see that it's
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  Speaker 1: just a great kind of underdog story to catch a
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  Speaker 1: couple of points and get some upsets, and they feel
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  Speaker 1: like that that team is a live dog too. Uh.
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  Speaker 1: You know, Michigan State has been that that steady powerhouse
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  Speaker 1: all year. So I would say if I had to
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  Speaker 1: rank in terms of public of teams right now before,
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  Speaker 1: it would be Virginia, Michigan State, Um, Auburn would be
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  Speaker 1: a tough, tight third, and then men Texas Tech. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I'm surprised at like Auburn isn't getting more public love
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  Speaker 1: than say a Virginia team or a Michigan State team.
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  Speaker 1: I guess Michigan State. But given what they did beating Kentucky,
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  Speaker 1: beating North Carolina, like this Auburn team just came through
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  Speaker 1: like a whip saw. You know. They really just like
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  Speaker 1: inspired people with the way they were playing. If there's
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  Speaker 1: any sort of Cinderella team in here, it's got to
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  Speaker 1: be Auburn in terms of the way they have sort
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  Speaker 1: of a flare and drama character and like there's an
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  Speaker 1: aura around them right now. There's actually really different than
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  Speaker 1: Texas Tech. Texas Tech doesn't have that same aura. Are
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  Speaker 1: they getting the same kind of betting activity? No? No,
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  Speaker 1: they're not. And so in this one, Uh, I mean
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  Speaker 1: the betting is going to be pretty pretty even. Um,
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  Speaker 1: so I think our day is really going to be
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  Speaker 1: decided by that, uh, Auburn Virginia game more so than
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  Speaker 1: than Texas Tech. Um slightly heavier on Michigan State, both
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  Speaker 1: in money and ticket count. Um, that'll probably even out
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  Speaker 1: a little bit. It's like I said, public just kind
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  Speaker 1: of bet both dogs on game day. But uh, but
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  Speaker 1: that one's a lot more closely competitive in terms of
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  Speaker 1: bets than Auburn Virginia. So Auburn, Texas Tech, Virginia, Michigan State.
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  Speaker 1: What does that do for betting interest and betting handle
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  Speaker 1: compared to Kentucky Duke Virginia And uh, I don't know
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  Speaker 1: who else could have made it? Gonzaga, Gonzaga, Well, you
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  Speaker 1: know here here on the West Coast, we we really
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  Speaker 1: do have a big Gonzaga contingency. Uh And we've just
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  Speaker 1: kind of noticed, especially um at our properties because we've
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  Speaker 1: hosted the West Coast Conference tournament for so many years.
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  Speaker 1: When Gonzaga is in it, we get an uptick at
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  Speaker 1: some of our properties, particularly the Orleans and the Gold Coast.
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  Speaker 1: So uh So, I guess we would have preferred Gonzaga,
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  Speaker 1: But I guess if you had to look at the
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  Speaker 1: entire Strip or Nevada, it probably won't make too much
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  Speaker 1: of a difference. We'll get some people that have interest
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  Speaker 1: because there's some new blood in the tournament. Um. I
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  Speaker 1: think just because the blue bloods aren't necessarily in it,
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  Speaker 1: it doesn't always translate into more money. When they're in it.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe viewership would be up, but the viewership doesn't always
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  Speaker 1: translate into more bets. You know. It's so interesting you
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  Speaker 1: say that because we were just having this debate, like, like,
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  Speaker 1: would the tournament be getting more attention from betters if
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  Speaker 1: it's got a Virginia Commonwealth or a George Mason that
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  Speaker 1: sort of gets through the Sweet sixteen and into even
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  Speaker 1: into the Elite eight um because it generates more excitement
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  Speaker 1: and like brings in a bigger audience than the same
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  Speaker 1: people who are following college basketball and betting on college
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  Speaker 1: basketball all year long, and no one pays attention to
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  Speaker 1: it anyways. So like, just because these are the teams
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  Speaker 1: in the Final four, like, no one's gonna care because
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  Speaker 1: they're not paying attention to him. When Duken whoever plays
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  Speaker 1: in Virginia plays in the middle of February. Yeah, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I don't think you can actually generalize it anymore. I
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  Speaker 1: think you know, like when you see New England Patriots
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  Speaker 1: in the Super Bowl and you think, okay, it's great
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  Speaker 1: to have a you know, a David and Goliath, but
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  Speaker 1: it's sometimes people just get tired of the same old
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  Speaker 1: teams there and uh and they'll you know, Duke in
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  Speaker 1: Kentucky and North Carolina, you know, are great for people
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  Speaker 1: following those teams. They know those teams recognizable. Uh, there's
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  Speaker 1: also that kind of element that they're they're tired of
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  Speaker 1: seeing them. And you see a little bit of an
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  Speaker 1: uptick when you get a team like Loyal of Chicago
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  Speaker 1: or a few years ago of Virginia Common Commonwealth or
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  Speaker 1: or uh, you know, a Butler, and that kind of
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  Speaker 1: generates that kind of you you want to see them
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  Speaker 1: overthrow the big guys, you know, see the little guy
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  Speaker 1: be be to Kentucky. So um, I don't. I don't
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  Speaker 1: think it you can just really generalize it like that.
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  Speaker 1: I agree. I think it's actually bad for the tournament
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  Speaker 1: when you don't get the butlers and the loolas and
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  Speaker 1: sort of that overarching story. And I feel like Auburn
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  Speaker 1: in Texas Tech, they're sort of they're not big enough
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  Speaker 1: Cinderella's uh to really generate excitement. They're like schools that
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  Speaker 1: people have kind of heard of, but they don't have
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  Speaker 1: that sort of sister gene quality to them that is
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  Speaker 1: going to bring in more people that are gonna be like,
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  Speaker 1: oh my god, I can't believe it's the story of
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  Speaker 1: the century. This school is part warming, you know, blah
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  Speaker 1: blah blah. Yeah. And from a betting perspective, I think
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  Speaker 1: what generates a little more handle is when there's a
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  Speaker 1: big points bread involved, because it adds you know, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: well they may not win the game, but if they're
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  Speaker 1: getting seven and a half or eight points or nine points, uh,
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  Speaker 1: that oftentimes generates a little bit more handled too. And
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  Speaker 1: it's particularly if the money line is bigger. Uh, and
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  Speaker 1: now you're uh, you know you're gonna get plus two
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  Speaker 1: fifty or plus three dollars on an underdog. Now there's
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  Speaker 1: a whole another betting element where it's not just an
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  Speaker 1: even money bet. Now I can get three to one
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  Speaker 1: on my money. Um. I've often seen when when we
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  Speaker 1: get teams that are just to pick them, that it
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  Speaker 1: kind of inhibits the betting a little bit. There. You know,
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  Speaker 1: you've taken the money line element out of the betting
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  Speaker 1: picture completely. Now you're just picking the winner. It's like
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  Speaker 1: you've eliminated in an entire market in the betting. We're
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  Speaker 1: in a perfect storm element of like bad scenario for
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  Speaker 1: excitement around the final four this weekend. Not to be
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  Speaker 1: a Debbie downer. Why is it the perfect storm? It's like,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, middling teams, it's point spreads that aren't
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  Speaker 1: so big. Um yeah I don't know. Yeah, yeah, but
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  Speaker 1: you know, I think but you have all the powerhouse
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  Speaker 1: uh conferences represent it, which is you know, or at
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  Speaker 1: least most of them, you know, for you've you've got
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  Speaker 1: kind of a nice little mix of region. Um, you know,
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  Speaker 1: the West Coast isn't isn't represented there. But you know
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  Speaker 1: you've got a nice mix of regions. All right, sign,
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  Speaker 1: what's your biggest liability right now? Auburn Virginia by far?
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  Speaker 1: What about Oh, you don't have like for future but
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  Speaker 1: for future bets? Yeah? Um, probably Texas Tech. Um. And
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  Speaker 1: it's not it's not terrible. I mean, we're gonna we're
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  Speaker 1: gonna win money on any on all of them, and
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  Speaker 1: we're not gonna lose money on any of them. But
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  Speaker 1: Texas Tech is the one that we win the least
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  Speaker 1: amount of money on. What did they open the season at?
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  Speaker 1: I want to say thirty five or forty? That's it.
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  Speaker 1: I'd have to check that. I know that's where most
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  Speaker 1: of our liabilities at. So m interesting Texas Text. What
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  Speaker 1: should they have been? Hundred? Yeah, I'm thinking a hundred.
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  Speaker 1: They might have been a hundred. I didn't check, to
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: be honest, I just know that there's no way, there
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: is no way, Scooch, you opened Texas Tech at thirty
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: five or a team at Yeah. No, you're right, I'm
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: that's where That's where all of our liabilities at. That's
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: where most of the big bets came in. So as
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: I'm looking at it. Uh Ah, Now, we're talking. Yeah,
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: but but but most of the big bets came in
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: and it looks like probably late January early February, and
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: that's where most of the lib the kind of kind
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: of kicked in. Did you take any thousand dollar bets
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: on Texas Tech at No? No, we hardly pick any
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: what what did Auburn open at? Um? I don't have
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: that woe in front of me? Oh my god, you
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: know what? You know what? You know what? What? I
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: bet you had it when you were up at three
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: o'clock in the morning being asked by local media. Yeah. Yeah,
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: I was more prepared for them. You know what I think.
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: I think I think you're taking this podcast for granted.
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: I'm treating it the way I've always treated it. Oh see,
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: that's not right with with nothing but the most utmost respect.
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: All right, I want to switch. I want to switch
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: gears for a second. Um, Matt Ford producer, Matt Ford,
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: if you're listening, uh, please give me a ping. Um.
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: I know we had a limited window in which to
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: record today, so I want to be respectful of that.
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: So I just need to know how much time before
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: we're gonna get kicked out? Okay? Um? I don't know
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: if you've heard that beep, but that is the ten
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: minute warning for the podcast. We have ten minutes left
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: in the podcast. All right, your biggest liability right now
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: is going to be Virginia. You're gonna be rooting hard
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: for the Cavaliers and um, we don't care about Texas
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: Tech Michigan State. And who do you think will win
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: the finals? I'm going with I'm going with Virginia. Me too,
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: you too too? Yeah? I had listen, No, don't don't
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: throw my words back in my face. All right, I
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: picked uh, my final four was Virginia Tech, Florida State, Houston,
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: and Virginia. And then I had Virginia beating Virginia Tech
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: in the finals. How did you do with you? Remember
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: all those bets you were I think you did probably split.
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: You were telling me all those picks you had in
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: the sweet sixteen when I saw you last week, and
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: you're running down those bets, how did they do? Okay,
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: that wasn't good. It didn't do it, didn't do it well? Um, okay,
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: that was it was bad. It was bad. It was
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: very bad. But I rallied, like I totally rallied. So
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: that day that that week. Um, when I saw you,
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: I think I lost. Like I don't know everything. Um
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: I had, Seriously I did I think I had? I
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: had Texas Tech plus two. I won that. I ended
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: up betting the Mavericks plus seven against the Heat, so
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: I won that. I had Produed plus one and a half.
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: I won that, but I lost Florida State. I lost
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: the under two fifteen for the Trailblazers and the Bulls
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: that night. The next day, I lost U v A
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: minus eight and a half U n C minus five
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: Virginia Tech on the money line. Um it was ugly,
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: but this you know. On Saturday, I lost Gonzago minus four.
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: I lost. I won the over one thirty seven. Yesterday
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: I won the under one fifty one on Duke Michigan State,
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: and I had Atlanta plus five against the Bucks. That's
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: great that you could just kind of rally right back,
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: and a beautiful thing about sports betting is you could
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: kind of increase your unit size and kind of make
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: up for some of the bet you lost. Money management.
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: Mm hmm, you're right back in the game. The last
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: thirty days I am and twenty. I'm looking at the
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: Action Network app. You can follow me you could do
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: this as well. You could put your picks in. You
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: can track your bets um all time in the Action
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: Network app. This is since uh October of two thousand seventeen.
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: I am one, four and six. I could follow you.
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: I can get on the app and I could follow
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: all your picks. Yeah. Really, he's very nice. I like that.
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: You should. You should download the app just for that
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: scooch and then you can follow it. I will absolutely.
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: I didn't know you have that future. I like it.
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: Jesus Christ, did you even know that I worked for
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: the Action Network that I don't work in the ESPN anymore?
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: Just found out. Yeah, hey listen. Uh in the last
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: seven minutes now that we have um, the a sports
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: book posted season win totals for the NFL this past weekend,
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: it wasn't you no, no, what are you waiting for? What? So?
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: What's your plant? Where? What are you waiting for? We
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: we have that, we have so many locals properties we
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: could afford to wait a day or two. That a
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: lot of a lot of our guys that don't always
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: like to tie up their money for for that long
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: of a period. But we'll we'll get them. We'll get them.
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: Right up. How soon you think you're gonna have them up? Uh?
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: Probably by next week? Do you think the Browns season
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: win total will be more or less than eight? This
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: is this is next level handicapping. I am asking the
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: bookmaker to handicap where they are going to set the
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: line for the brown season win total. So, considering that
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: many people are already taking them to win the division,
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: now I would I would say over a would be
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: a favorite. Now and now about to beat over money,
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: then what does that count it? Like if it's eight
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: over forty, is that a push? Why don't you just
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: said it at nine? Then we want to get people
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: to we know they're gonna bet you over the general public,
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: so we want to get them to lay a little
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: bit more money. Let them lay a dollar forty, let
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: him lay a dollar fifty. Look at you practicing big
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: you know, big time bookmaking techniques. It's like that they're
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: gonna do anything Like we're talking about the Giants last
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: year and see how that worked out. So so this
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: year the trendy team, everyone's gonna think the Browns that
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: you know, now, this is the year they got the
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: missing pieces to the puzzle and now they're gonna win
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: the division, They're gonna go to the playoffs. I agree
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: with you. You know what I like though, you know
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: what I like a lot? What I like the Indianapolis
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: Colts that about sixteen to one to win the Super Bowl.
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: Oh did you bet them? I'm going to I'm gonna
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: jump on the app and see find out. Did that
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: count to all your future wages? Are they listed up? Yeah?
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: I put my futures in there. I put everything in
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: their scooch, even the mistakes. I put in mistakes all
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: the time, and I put them in there. Yeah. Yeah,
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: I don't take it. What am I think you mean?
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: Like if you accidentally hit the wrong button and you
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: bet something you didn't want to bet. Oh, I'll like,
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: I'll put in the wrong price on something, or I'll
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: put in the wrong spread. Uh sometimes like um, you
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: know stuff like that. Okay, I don't care, all right,
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: you know, I just like to put the information in.
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: If my record isn't as perfect as it can be,
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: I'm okay with that. It's like what am I trying
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: to prove? Yeah, but I'll put that I'm gonna bet
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: the Colts and I'll put that in as a future
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: I'm also liking about the Houston Texans. The Houston Texans,
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: what do you have them up right now? Is a
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: super Bowl favorite? As to win the Super Bowl? Jeez,
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: you know, I'm just not in front of my computer.
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: You you hit, you hit me with all these Is
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: it more than one? Scooch? Yes, it is more than that.
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: Feels like a lot. Why would you set that number
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: so high? Um? Because not a whole lot of people
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: bet the Houston Texans. I might bet the Houston Texas.
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: Is that a good one? Is that one? Is that
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: your Colts and Texans? Someone coming out of that well,
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: I think I better both. It's weird to bet both
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: teams to win the Super Bowl coming out of the
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: same division. But but so if you already loved the Colts,
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: I don't know if I'll take the Texans. I'm going
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: Here's what I'm doing. This is how I want to
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: end the podcast. Uh. Two things. I'm going with the Colts,
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: uh in this to win the Super Bowl? At about one,
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: I am gonna go with the Browns under nine And
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: uh it's time for scoochrou let. Let's play a little
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: scoot roo let to take us out of the show. Um.
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: On the final four. Should we play some music Scooch
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: final for me, scoot Roulette for Saturday's games. I'm going
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: with Virginia were Virginia minus five and a half? Yeah, alright,
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: you know what I'm gonna do. Do you know what
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna do? What I'm going with Auburn plus five?
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: I figured that, but I like it head to head.
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: I don't. I don't actually like. I don't like the pick,
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: but I figured, like, I'm feeling animosity towards you right now,
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: so I just want to go ahead to head with you.
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: Can we see that scene Robert de Niro and the
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: Deer Hunter, They're playing Russian Roulette and now we got
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: a game. Now we got a game. I prefer to
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: think of this as, uh, I am Robert de Niro
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: and you are Al Pacino in the movie heating that
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: scene in the diner. That's what it is. Yeah, that
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: was great. All right, Bob Scucci, listen, thanks for coming
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: on your podcast, and you've got a lot of media applications,
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: so I appreciate you you're joining us. I'm wishing you
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: all the best in the Final four this weekend. Go
• 30:36
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