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- 0:01Speaker 1: Yep.
- 0:02Speaker 2: Inside, I want to kill myself. We're on OWN seven
- 0:07Speaker 2: run over the last two days after tonight.
- 0:08Speaker 1: It was just complete bullshit.
- 0:11Speaker 2: So that's that's what I'm gonna start off this show,
- 0:13Speaker 2: horrible Sunday one and five.
- 0:15Speaker 1: I don't even know what to tell you above that.
- 0:18Speaker 1: I just don't want to do this anymore. I have
- 0:20Speaker 1: never seen anything like this.
- 0:22Speaker 2: Man with the slump continuing, two straight losses, not a
- 0:26Speaker 2: good day at all.
- 0:27Speaker 1: Own four that have not had a good season.
- 0:32Speaker 2: Man with wookends the slump that I'm on, and the
- 0:36Speaker 2: slump continues.
- 0:37Speaker 1: I've reached a new pink.
- 0:39Speaker 2: Actually, I'm going to burn my browins hack Man, I
- 0:43Speaker 2: don't know what is going on with the Bruins arch hape.
- 0:46Speaker 1: Is that what it is? I don't even know it's
- 0:48Speaker 1: March ninth, I think who even knows? Man, I don't
- 0:52Speaker 1: know what data is anymore. I don't even know what
- 0:54Speaker 1: data is anymore.
- 0:55Speaker 2: Man, back with you after the worst day that I
- 0:58Speaker 2: could possibly have with you, as I always am until
- 1:02Speaker 2: I die, at least oh and two yesterday and yesterday
- 1:06Speaker 2: did not go well for me. Oh and five the
- 1:10Speaker 2: worst month that I've ever had in my eighteen years
- 1:13Speaker 2: doing this.
- 1:13Speaker 1: I don't know what to even tell you about this anymore.
- 1:16Speaker 2: Slump yesterdays, the slump discontinuous, the slump continues.
- 1:20Speaker 1: Somebody fucking kill me, please.
- 1:23Speaker 2: I don't even know what I should do at this
- 1:25Speaker 2: point other than potentially end it all. What's up, everybody,
- 1:34Speaker 2: It's towed back with you for better off dead?
- 1:37Speaker 1: Friday, August eighth, eight eight.
- 1:40Speaker 2: Do I want to go into the meaning of the
- 1:42Speaker 2: hidden meaning of that on the show? Get my YouTube channel,
- 1:46Speaker 2: nukes probably not go watch my ukulele covers man. Maybe
- 1:50Speaker 2: we will potentially end it all here because yesterday didn't
- 1:53Speaker 2: go well. My dildo analysis was not great, as somehow
- 1:57Speaker 2: a dildo did get thrown. Somebody snuck dildo into the
- 2:01Speaker 2: Chicago Sky Arena there who was the Chicago game, which
- 2:05Speaker 2: I think was one of the locations of one of
- 2:07Speaker 2: the other dildo throws, Dildo throw number two. I believe
- 2:11Speaker 2: it was Purple this time, however, so Purple got.
- 2:14Speaker 1: The money yesterday. I'm not sure who.
- 2:17Speaker 2: The first person who touched it was, although I think
- 2:19Speaker 2: it was probably an employee because I saw the ref
- 2:22Speaker 2: like signaling for somebody to come get it, So that
- 2:25Speaker 2: would be my guess on that one. I don't know
- 2:27Speaker 2: if that was confirmed by other video footage, and then
- 2:30Speaker 2: the it was I was soon picked up rather than kicked.
- 2:34Speaker 2: I don't know if that was still a bet or not,
- 2:36Speaker 2: but most of the bets were pretty much on the
- 2:38Speaker 2: color of it though. It so Purple got the money,
- 2:41Speaker 2: which is not what I expected, although it is the
- 2:43Speaker 2: eggplant emoji, so I guess.
- 2:45Speaker 1: I don't know that that didn't make its way into
- 2:47Speaker 1: my analysis.
- 2:48Speaker 2: I'm new to the breaking down of the dildo props man,
- 2:52Speaker 2: but we did lose the actual play I gave on
- 2:54Speaker 2: on the show. You say Cincinnati Reds, it wasn't even close.
- 2:57Speaker 2: Paul Skeins dominated.
- 2:58Speaker 1: I mean, I.
- 2:59Speaker 2: Expected Skis to be good, but I thought Singer would
- 3:02Speaker 2: show up in that game, it would be close later
- 3:04Speaker 2: into the game, and then I thought the tide kind
- 3:06Speaker 2: of shifted to Cincinnati if I got later in that game. Cincinnati,
- 3:10Speaker 2: the team's still playing for something too, So I don't know.
- 3:12Speaker 2: I was pretty surprised they got their ass handed to
- 3:15Speaker 2: them seven and nothing. I did not think Pittsburgh would
- 3:17Speaker 2: score seven runs.
- 3:18Speaker 1: No way.
- 3:19Speaker 2: We'll move on to today though, and then my NFL
- 3:21Speaker 2: preseason analysis. I don't think any of the favorites wound
- 3:25Speaker 2: up covering the number, and I think two of them
- 3:28Speaker 2: might have lost outright. And then the Seattle Oakland or yeah,
- 3:31Speaker 2: Seattle Vegas game of Oakland Raiders, folks. The Seattle Vegas
- 3:35Speaker 2: game I think was a tie because preseason they're like, eh,
- 3:40Speaker 2: we don't want anybody get hurt or whatever. It's a tie.
- 3:44Speaker 2: But yeah, but I think all three of the teams
- 3:46Speaker 2: that were favored did go over their team total though,
- 3:48Speaker 2: so if you bet the team totals over, I think
- 3:51Speaker 2: all three of them actually hit. So that was what
- 3:53Speaker 2: I did recommend yesterday. So least I had that right
- 3:57Speaker 2: and didn't actually bet it because I don't really bet
- 4:00Speaker 2: NFL preseason. Maybe I should, But we'll talk about the
- 4:02Speaker 2: NFL preseason again today.
- 4:04Speaker 1: We'll go through WNBA.
- 4:06Speaker 2: Unfortunately, I don't see any fifth Doldo props out there.
- 4:10Speaker 2: They might be, I mean, if you look at bet online,
- 4:12Speaker 2: maybe they are out there. Wouldn't really have a whole
- 4:15Speaker 2: lot else to say besides what happened what I already
- 4:18Speaker 2: said yesterday, for the most part, but we will talk
- 4:21Speaker 2: about these games, which which one of these games is
- 4:24Speaker 2: considered first New York at Dallas. I think the Liberty
- 4:28Speaker 2: are in a bad spot here, man. I mean, they
- 4:30Speaker 2: just beat Dallas in New York only by nine, but
- 4:34Speaker 2: facing Dallas again, they might kind of overlook Dallas. I mean,
- 4:37Speaker 2: Dallas not a very good team right now, and the
- 4:39Speaker 2: Liberty have a big rematch against Minnesota coming up. That's
- 4:43Speaker 2: the game that was the rematch of the finals last
- 4:45Speaker 2: year in Minnesota beat them.
- 4:47Speaker 1: It could be a finals.
- 4:48Speaker 2: Preview this year as well, so the Liberty may have
- 4:51Speaker 2: a look ahead spot there. So I think it is
- 4:53Speaker 2: kind of a quick revenge spot for Dallas plus Liberty
- 4:56Speaker 2: in a look ahead spot. Dallas coming off three straight losses,
- 5:00Speaker 2: although the Liberty one reason they may show up those
- 5:03Speaker 2: they fell or I thought they fell out of first place.
- 5:05Speaker 2: So they're only a half game ahead of Atlanta at
- 5:08Speaker 2: this point though, so they might be still trying to
- 5:10Speaker 2: hang on to that number one spot there at the
- 5:12Speaker 2: very least. But I still think the spot is not
- 5:14Speaker 2: that good for the Liberty here Dallas. You have to
- 5:16Speaker 2: pay attention to the injuries, man. Mostly Becker's is listed
- 5:20Speaker 2: as a.
- 5:21Speaker 1: Game time decision.
- 5:22Speaker 2: So I think if you do want to play Dallas
- 5:24Speaker 2: in this game and take the points. You probably want
- 5:25Speaker 2: to make sure she's in there. I don't know that
- 5:28Speaker 2: if that's announced that she is, if the line is
- 5:30Speaker 2: actually gonna.
- 5:31Speaker 1: Move a lot.
- 5:32Speaker 2: At this point, we know Stewart is out for the Liberty,
- 5:35Speaker 2: which is kind of a big loss for them, I guess.
- 5:37Speaker 2: But other than that, yeah, I mean, I don't expect
- 5:39Speaker 2: this line to really change that much based on the
- 5:42Speaker 2: personnel being an out in or out in this game.
- 5:45Speaker 2: It's up from seven to eight and a half, though
- 5:47Speaker 2: I think maybe it'll slightly tick down if Becker's back
- 5:50Speaker 2: in there. The Liberty were an eleven and a half
- 5:52Speaker 2: point favorite at home in the home game recently, so
- 5:54Speaker 2: this line is basically about where I would expect it
- 5:57Speaker 2: to be. But I would lean to taking the points.
- 5:59Speaker 2: With Dallas Washington at Minnesota, Minnesota coming off three pretty
- 6:04Speaker 2: big wins in a row Man they beat the Liberty,
- 6:06Speaker 2: which is a huge win. As I said, Finals Revenge
- 6:09Speaker 2: didn't suffer the let down against Las Vegas and they
- 6:12Speaker 2: absolutely annihilated them. It was kind of an outlier game,
- 6:15Speaker 2: but one of the biggest wins in WNBA history, beating
- 6:18Speaker 2: them by whatever that is fifty three points or whatever,
- 6:21Speaker 2: which is ridiculous. Then they continued playing well, beat Seattle
- 6:26Speaker 2: pretty big win as well. Seattle a decent team in
- 6:29Speaker 2: the West. And now Minnesota returning home off of all
- 6:32Speaker 2: that and facing kind of a bad Washington team looks
- 6:36Speaker 2: like a bad spot for Minnesota to me, Washington, they
- 6:39Speaker 2: are playing a third straight road game, though they're they're
- 6:41Speaker 2: not traveling that far from Chicago to Minnesota, so they
- 6:44Speaker 2: actually have less travel here.
- 6:46Speaker 1: Might want to bounce back a little bit. I mean,
- 6:47Speaker 1: I think they're.
- 6:48Speaker 2: Still maybe trying to potentially make a run to try
- 6:52Speaker 2: to make the playoffs here. I would lean to taking
- 6:54Speaker 2: the points with Washington. They're up to a ten and
- 6:56Speaker 2: a half point underdog in that one, and then Seattle
- 6:59Speaker 2: Vegas is the most competitive or maybe the only competitive
- 7:03Speaker 2: matchup with the night potentially, even though I do say
- 7:05Speaker 2: I did say I liked both underdogs there. Vegas coming
- 7:08Speaker 2: off a home and home sweep against Golden State coming
- 7:12Speaker 2: back home off of that, not really a huge travel
- 7:14Speaker 2: spot from San Francisco Bay Area to Las Vegas.
- 7:18Speaker 1: Big game against Seattle.
- 7:19Speaker 2: I mean, these two teams are tied right now and
- 7:21Speaker 2: they're definitely fighting to make the playoffs right now, So
- 7:24Speaker 2: this is a big game for both teams. I expect
- 7:26Speaker 2: both teams to show up. Seattle on a three game
- 7:29Speaker 2: losing streak, but they lost to Indiana Minnesota in there.
- 7:32Speaker 2: I know it's clarkless Indiana, but Indiana is still playing
- 7:35Speaker 2: pretty well. Right now, Vegas is down from one point
- 7:39Speaker 2: favorite to pick them here, So Asbiger's kind of telling you,
- 7:42Speaker 2: Seattle is actually the better of these two teams, even
- 7:45Speaker 2: though Vegas they have some pretty good players that they
- 7:48Speaker 2: had last year. Man, it's just Vegas been dealing with
- 7:51Speaker 2: some injuries some of their key players in and out.
- 7:53Speaker 2: It looks like we don't have huge injury issues this
- 7:55Speaker 2: time on either side. But yeah, the line seems to
- 8:00Speaker 2: be indicating Seattle's taking the early money there on. Vegas
- 8:03Speaker 2: kind of has more like name recognition is because they've
- 8:06Speaker 2: been one of the better teams for quite a while
- 8:08Speaker 2: and they have the last year's MVP Asia Wilson still
- 8:12Speaker 2: on their team. So I do with that information what
- 8:15Speaker 2: you want to do, Man, move on to MLB.
- 8:17Speaker 1: I actually I'm.
- 8:18Speaker 2: Gonna go with four Major League Baseball plays today. I
- 8:22Speaker 2: have a lot of leans on this card as well,
- 8:25Speaker 2: so hopefully I pick. Hopefully I'm picking the right plays man,
- 8:28Speaker 2: picking the right spots here. And I kind of like
- 8:30Speaker 2: some of the road favorites, including this first game up,
- 8:33Speaker 2: which is not gonna be one of my plays. Cincinnati
- 8:37Speaker 2: at Pittsburgh. I forgot to throw out. Yeah, this is
- 8:39Speaker 2: the Rundown folks. By the way, we're running down all
- 8:42Speaker 2: the all the games here, Cincinnati at Pittsburgh. I actually
- 8:46Speaker 2: do like the road favorite in this one, Cincinnati. One
- 8:49Speaker 2: reason is the same as yesterday, where Cincinnati they're gonna
- 8:53Speaker 2: be the team that has more to play for here. Man,
- 8:55Speaker 2: I mean, Pittsburgh is done, so Cincinnati they're still fighting
- 8:58Speaker 2: for a playoff spots. That's one thing in favor of
- 9:01Speaker 2: Cincinnati here. I do believe Pittsburgh has the better bullpen,
- 9:05Speaker 2: though Cincinnati has the better hitting. Cincinnati used four relief
- 9:08Speaker 2: pitchers yesterday. Pittsburgh used fewer because skeens got pretty deep
- 9:12Speaker 2: into the game. So Pittsburgh definitely has a bullpen edge here,
- 9:15Speaker 2: better bullpend plus rest.
- 9:17Speaker 1: But Cincinnati has the better offense. Man.
- 9:19Speaker 2: Still, I know Cincinnati lost seven to nothing last night.
- 9:24Speaker 2: Bad read on my part there, But Cincinnati, I think
- 9:27Speaker 2: they're gonna want to bounce back from that. I think
- 9:29Speaker 2: they're gonna be heavily motivated in this one, and I
- 9:31Speaker 2: think they have a starting pitching edge with young Fireball
- 9:35Speaker 2: or Chase Burns on the mount here. I know, his
- 9:37Speaker 2: numbers look really bad so far, and he has he
- 9:39Speaker 2: yet to pick up a win. Six point zero four ERA,
- 9:42Speaker 2: one point four to eight whip not good numbers at all.
- 9:46Speaker 2: He's been really bad on the road as well, nine
- 9:48Speaker 2: point two eighty RA but really bad. I mean, when
- 9:52Speaker 2: you dig into these numbers, it's like, well, a lot
- 9:54Speaker 2: of it is just skewed by one horrendous start against
- 9:57Speaker 2: the Red Sox where you give it five runs and
- 9:58Speaker 2: a third of an inning. Other than that, he's been
- 10:02Speaker 2: getting a lot of strikeouts, man. So he did have
- 10:04Speaker 2: one other bad roads start at Washington reall owed five
- 10:06Speaker 2: and runs. But how bad was it really when he
- 10:09Speaker 2: struck out ten guys?
- 10:11Speaker 1: I don't know. He's at least.
- 10:12Speaker 2: Fooling hitters man. He's been two walk heavies so far.
- 10:16Speaker 2: That's been his main issue in twenty eight to third
- 10:18Speaker 2: innings pitch. He has a ridiculous forty seven strikeouts, extremely
- 10:23Speaker 2: high strikeout rate, but twelve walks is a high walk
- 10:26Speaker 2: rate for that amount of innings.
- 10:27Speaker 1: Man.
- 10:27Speaker 2: Even though the strikeout rate is so high, the strikeout
- 10:29Speaker 2: walk ratio is still pretty good.
- 10:31Speaker 1: But he's got to get that wildness down.
- 10:33Speaker 2: But he has the ability to fool major league hitters, obviously,
- 10:36Speaker 2: as he had ten strikeouts three starts in a row,
- 10:39Speaker 2: though I know Cincinnati's lost five starts in a row
- 10:42Speaker 2: of his or six actually now, all but his first start,
- 10:46Speaker 2: and he was on his way to maybe having ten
- 10:47Speaker 2: strikeouts again in his last outing, but it was cut
- 10:50Speaker 2: to one inning because there was a major rain delay.
- 10:53Speaker 2: That was that Bristol Speedway game. I'm pretty sure where
- 10:56Speaker 2: rain actually canceled the game and they had to resume
- 10:59Speaker 2: the game the next day. They didn't put Burns back
- 11:01Speaker 2: out there obviously after that.
- 11:03Speaker 1: So he's just pitching on his normal schedule now.
- 11:05Speaker 2: But that does mean he has extra rest coming into
- 11:08Speaker 2: this because he didn't have to pitch a full game.
- 11:11Speaker 1: Or anywhere near that. He got you know, he was
- 11:13Speaker 1: on schedule.
- 11:14Speaker 2: He remains on schedule because he got ready for a start,
- 11:17Speaker 2: made the start, did well through eighteen pitches, one shutout
- 11:20Speaker 2: inding where he didn't put anybody on base, So I
- 11:23Speaker 2: think he's ready to go. Man, He'll be a bit
- 11:24Speaker 2: more rested here. Pittsburgh has never seen him before as well,
- 11:27Speaker 2: so Burns should have an extra edge here as well,
- 11:29Speaker 2: because Pittsburgh has never seen him before, So I do
- 11:33Speaker 2: like the Burns side of it. Mitch Keller pitching for Pittsburgh.
- 11:36Speaker 2: He's been pretty good this year, one of their better pitchers,
- 11:39Speaker 2: really three point eight ninety or one point two to Whip.
- 11:42Speaker 2: Seemed like they might try to deal him at the
- 11:44Speaker 2: trade deadline and that did not happen. He's been pretty
- 11:48Speaker 2: similar home in away doesn't really matter fairly decent throughout
- 11:53Speaker 2: his run of recent starts, so that. He did give
- 11:55Speaker 2: up five runs last time out, but it was at
- 11:57Speaker 2: cors Field, and it was because he gave up three runs,
- 12:00Speaker 2: so I might give him a pass for that. Even
- 12:02Speaker 2: though I didn't say the same thing about Schemes yesterday.
- 12:06Speaker 2: Both these guys did a little bit worse at course Field,
- 12:09Speaker 2: just because I think the environment just kind of, you know,
- 12:13Speaker 2: threw them off. I mean, three home runs, that's something
- 12:16Speaker 2: that is really only gonna happen at Coursefield, and Keller
- 12:18Speaker 2: was not aligning a lot of home runs prior to that,
- 12:20Speaker 2: so I do think that's a bit of an outlier.
- 12:22Speaker 1: Spot.
- 12:23Speaker 2: Pittsburgh has actually won five of his last six games,
- 12:26Speaker 2: six of his last seven, actually, so he's been.
- 12:28Speaker 1: Bitching pretty well Prior to that start.
- 12:30Speaker 2: He had a lot more than three runs in any
- 12:32Speaker 2: start going all the way back to early June up
- 12:35Speaker 2: against the Cincinnati Reds, mediocre numbers and one hundred and
- 12:39Speaker 2: eighteen at bats to sixty three average allowed seven thirty
- 12:42Speaker 2: six ops. I'm gonna give the edge to Burns, though,
- 12:45Speaker 2: I'm gonna give the edge to the Cincinnati hitting as well,
- 12:48Speaker 2: but I would limit it to first five innings probably
- 12:50Speaker 2: if I did this, just because Pittsburgh does have the
- 12:54Speaker 2: bullpen edge, so I wouldn't really want to try to
- 12:57Speaker 2: have to deal with that as far as playing the
- 12:58Speaker 2: Cincinnati side. But I with Cincinnati, they flip from plus
- 13:02Speaker 2: one oh nine to minus one oh nine here fifty
- 13:04Speaker 2: eight percent of tickets, eighty eight percent of the cash
- 13:06Speaker 2: coming in under the I'm just not quite sure if
- 13:08Speaker 2: I'm totally ready to trust Burns yet, because he's been
- 13:11Speaker 2: a little bit out of control, and Keller has also
- 13:13Speaker 2: been decent against Cincinnati, so.
- 13:15Speaker 1: I worry a little bit about that.
- 13:17Speaker 2: Wouldn't necessarily disagree with looking towards an under either it's
- 13:20Speaker 2: gone down from eight to seven and a half, sixty
- 13:22Speaker 2: eight percent of tickets eighty seven percent of the cash on.
- 13:25Speaker 1: The over, though it's a low total.
- 13:28Speaker 2: Though expecting maybe a wind blowing in here in Pittsburgh,
- 13:31Speaker 2: I think it's a when the wind's blowing in, it's
- 13:33Speaker 2: a pretty pitcher friendly ballpark. Uh, so you could see
- 13:36Speaker 2: both pitchers do fairly well in this game, So I
- 13:38Speaker 2: wouldn't necessarily disagree with that under. And again, Pittsburgh's offense
- 13:42Speaker 2: is really bad too, so that does help as far
- 13:44Speaker 2: as an.
- 13:44Speaker 1: Under is concerned.
- 13:46Speaker 2: But I would worry a little bit about Cincinnati's bullpen
- 13:49Speaker 2: later in the game as far as that under. Houston
- 13:51Speaker 2: at the Yankees, We're gonna have a lot of games
- 13:53Speaker 2: today where teams didn't play yesterday, because very few teams
- 13:56Speaker 2: played yesterday, so you don't have to look at the
- 13:58Speaker 2: bullpen usage for too many of these teams. When teams
- 14:01Speaker 2: are rested, I tend to look towards unders more often
- 14:04Speaker 2: than overs, at the very least, because I think the
- 14:07Speaker 2: day off can kind of cool off the hitting a
- 14:09Speaker 2: little bit. You get your bullpens rested here. Houston at
- 14:13Speaker 2: New York, both teams are off yesterday. The Yankees returning
- 14:16Speaker 2: home from a road trip, though, and you know, I
- 14:17Speaker 2: always say teams returning on from road trips it's not
- 14:21Speaker 2: the greatest spot for them because they have to get
- 14:22Speaker 2: back to home life, they get a little bit distracted.
- 14:24Speaker 2: Although Houston has one of the better records in the AL,
- 14:27Speaker 2: so the Yankees probably will still be focused on Houston here. Altho,
- 14:32Speaker 2: the Yankees have definitely slid down. They haven't been playing
- 14:35Speaker 2: well recently. They lost every game but one on that
- 14:37Speaker 2: entire road trip, but they ended their lost streak in
- 14:40Speaker 2: the last game of the win barely over Texas, so.
- 14:43Speaker 1: That might give them a little bit of momentum coming forward.
- 14:45Speaker 2: So I don't think this is like the worst return
- 14:48Speaker 2: home spot you could possibly be in. Houston again is
- 14:51Speaker 2: a pretty good team that's gonna draw their focus. Houston
- 14:54Speaker 2: also just played Miami and they just actually lost us.
- 14:57Speaker 2: So they are in the middle of a road trip
- 14:59Speaker 2: and they haven't been doing that while on this road
- 15:01Speaker 2: trip either. They're traveling up the East Coast after they
- 15:03Speaker 2: were already in the Northeast. They went down to Florida,
- 15:06Speaker 2: and now they're coming back up to New York. So
- 15:08Speaker 2: the travel spot. Yeah, I mean Houston could be getting
- 15:11Speaker 2: a little bit tired on the road trip, but obviously
- 15:13Speaker 2: they're gonna focus on the Yankees. I mean, I think
- 15:15Speaker 2: this is a big matchup for both teams. These are
- 15:18Speaker 2: two of the better teams in the AL. Houston has
- 15:21Speaker 2: the way better bullpen. The Yankees have the better offense.
- 15:23Speaker 2: Although I don't know if the yank I mean the Yankees,
- 15:26Speaker 2: I don't know if I would say their offensive edge
- 15:27Speaker 2: is that significant. I think Houston's bullpen edge is fairly significant.
- 15:31Speaker 2: Yankees bullpen has really been struggling, and Houston is one
- 15:34Speaker 2: of the top bullpens. Hunter Brown pitching for Houston, I
- 15:38Speaker 2: mean he's been their best pitcher. Maybe well debatably it's
- 15:41Speaker 2: between him and Valdez, but I would give it to
- 15:43Speaker 2: Brown a little bit based on his numbers.
- 15:46Speaker 1: Even though Valdez had that huge run er.
- 15:48Speaker 2: Houston was winning all the starts of his two point
- 15:50Speaker 2: four to seventy RA for BROWNO point nine to eight
- 15:53Speaker 2: whip A sub one whip is always really good, man
- 15:57Speaker 2: slightly worse on the road two point five to six
- 15:59Speaker 2: Roady ra really good over his last two starts, one
- 16:02Speaker 2: earned run allout in each start. Over twelve innings eleven
- 16:06Speaker 2: strikeouts to three walks over that man, not too bad
- 16:08Speaker 2: at all.
- 16:09Speaker 1: He was in a little bit of a like a lull.
- 16:13Speaker 2: He hit a snag in the middle of July, but
- 16:14Speaker 2: I think maybe it was because the All Star Game
- 16:16Speaker 2: was in there.
- 16:17Speaker 1: He was named to the All Star Game.
- 16:18Speaker 2: He didn't actually pitch in the All Star Game, but
- 16:20Speaker 2: I think that might have been a little bit of
- 16:22Speaker 2: a distraction for him. He seems to be rounding back
- 16:24Speaker 2: in a form nicely. Seven innings last time out at
- 16:26Speaker 2: Femway Park and only a line one run, even though
- 16:29Speaker 2: his team lost the game because he got no run support.
- 16:32Speaker 2: I mean, that was still a really good start from
- 16:33Speaker 2: Hunter Brown going up against the Yankees here.
- 16:37Speaker 1: Yankees are a hard.
- 16:38Speaker 2: Hitting team, and he does have only mediocre numbers at
- 16:41Speaker 2: best against the Yankees and thirty six at bats eleven
- 16:44Speaker 2: to seven strike a walker issues not great to seventy
- 16:47Speaker 2: eight average eight sixty eight ops.
- 16:51Speaker 1: Not a good ops man.
- 16:52Speaker 2: So the Yankees have hit Brown pretty well, but that
- 16:54Speaker 2: was also in the past. Brown took a little while
- 16:57Speaker 2: to you know, kind of get his career on track.
- 16:59Speaker 2: So when he faced the Yankees before, they weren't facing
- 17:02Speaker 2: Brown in the forum that he's in right now, so
- 17:04Speaker 2: I don't really put that much weight into his numbers
- 17:07Speaker 2: against the Yankees right now. I do think he might
- 17:09Speaker 2: do better in this start, and we have two young
- 17:12Speaker 2: talented pitchers here, because the Yankees have Cam Schlittler on
- 17:16Speaker 2: the mound, who is a rookie. Four point five eighty RA,
- 17:19Speaker 2: one point six to eight WHIP. I know those are
- 17:21Speaker 2: bad numbers. He's been pretty shaky at home. Five point
- 17:25Speaker 2: five to ninety RA not good at all. He's only
- 17:27Speaker 2: made four starts so far, so he's still kind of
- 17:30Speaker 2: trying to get on track.
- 17:31Speaker 1: Man.
- 17:31Speaker 2: He hasn't a lot more than three runs in any start,
- 17:33Speaker 2: but he hasn't gone deep into any of the starts,
- 17:36Speaker 2: and the Yankees have lost two starts in a row
- 17:38Speaker 2: of his. But he did pretty much have his best
- 17:40Speaker 2: start so far against Miami last time.
- 17:42Speaker 1: I do know that's not a very intimidating.
- 17:44Speaker 2: Lineup, but he struck out six, give up two earned runs,
- 17:47Speaker 2: two home runs, so he limited the damage other than
- 17:50Speaker 2: along the home runs.
- 17:51Speaker 1: He's allowed too many home runs.
- 17:52Speaker 2: Man, five home runs so far this season, nineteen to
- 17:55Speaker 2: a third in he's pitch or two thirds nineteen to
- 17:57Speaker 2: two thirds innings, twenty one to eleven strike a walk raighttio.
- 18:01Speaker 1: It's a good strikeout rate, but too many walks. But
- 18:04Speaker 1: I think.
- 18:04Speaker 2: Schlitler is a decent pitcher who will get on track
- 18:07Speaker 2: at some point. Houston, I mean, they've been dealing with
- 18:09Speaker 2: some injuries in and out of their lineup, so that's
- 18:12Speaker 2: a little bit of an issue for Houston's offense. Uh
- 18:14Speaker 2: Houston has never faced Schlitler before, so they might have
- 18:17Speaker 2: a little bit of an edge in that respect where
- 18:19Speaker 2: Houston is unfamiliar with them. The money's coming in on
- 18:22Speaker 2: the Yankees. The some pretty strong market reads on the Yankees.
- 18:26Speaker 2: Although I don't just blindly follow market reads, but I
- 18:29Speaker 2: think when you see something like this, I think it
- 18:31Speaker 2: is a pretty strong indicator. Yankees flip from a plus
- 18:34Speaker 2: one thirteen to minus one of five seventy six percent
- 18:37Speaker 2: of the cash on them, fifty one percent of tickets
- 18:39Speaker 2: on Houston. So the public crazy enough. The public is
- 18:43Speaker 2: off of the Yankee train right now because of how
- 18:45Speaker 2: badly they've been playing recently, and the public is actually
- 18:48Speaker 2: more so on Houston. But I think that might actually
- 18:50Speaker 2: mean there's a little bit of value on the Yankees.
- 18:52Speaker 2: You won't find the Yankees at a cheap price like
- 18:55Speaker 2: this very often, so I don't disagree with the Yankees
- 18:58Speaker 2: side there, though they are turning over from a row trip,
- 19:00Speaker 2: so I really wouldn't want to touch them. I think
- 19:02Speaker 2: the under might be the better way to look in
- 19:04Speaker 2: this game, because I do like both starters here to
- 19:07Speaker 2: potentially do fairly well. Total drop from eight to seven
- 19:10Speaker 2: and a half, which is a very low total at
- 19:12Speaker 2: the Bronx. I mean it's a hitter friendly park. There
- 19:15Speaker 2: might be like wind blowing in. There might be some
- 19:17Speaker 2: weather conditions where it's not that warm. I know I'm
- 19:19Speaker 2: in Boston. It's not very hot here right now, so
- 19:21Speaker 2: it might be somewhat less hot, which is, you know,
- 19:25Speaker 2: a better when it's cooler, it's better for the unders.
- 19:28Speaker 1: Balls don't go as far.
- 19:30Speaker 2: Fifty eight percent of tickets on the over, eighty eight
- 19:32Speaker 2: percent of cash on the unders.
- 19:33Speaker 1: The money's agreeing with the under.
- 19:35Speaker 2: I would worry a little bit about the Yankees bullpen,
- 19:37Speaker 2: but at least they are rested, so I would lean
- 19:40Speaker 2: to the under slightly in that game.
- 19:41Speaker 1: Andrew, what's up man?
- 19:43Speaker 2: Yes, you don't even have to pretend that that was
- 19:45Speaker 2: the doldo that was thrown yesterday A's at Baltimore, and
- 19:50Speaker 2: this is an ugly one, man.
- 19:52Speaker 1: I mean, both of these teams are out of it.
- 19:55Speaker 1: They're just playing out the stretch.
- 19:56Speaker 2: Baltimore's returning home from going to the Cubs and then Philadelphia,
- 20:01Speaker 2: so not huge travel there. It is still technically a
- 20:03Speaker 2: return home spot, so sometimes teams do fall into that
- 20:06Speaker 2: distracted spot when they come back home, especially a team
- 20:09Speaker 2: that's not very good like Baltimore can be distracted a
- 20:12Speaker 2: little bit more and they may not really totally pay
- 20:15Speaker 2: attention to this A's team that's not particularly good either, obviously,
- 20:19Speaker 2: although the A's have been making waves of some of
- 20:21Speaker 2: their young hitters, obviously Nick Kurtz probably Rookie of the Year,
- 20:24Speaker 2: so at least they have some hitting that's pretty entertaining
- 20:28Speaker 2: and fun to watch. So the A's definitely have the
- 20:31Speaker 2: better offense in this matchup. The A's have the worst
- 20:34Speaker 2: of the two bullpens. Both bullpens stink, so the A's
- 20:37Speaker 2: offensive advantage is probably more significant than their bulp and disadvantage,
- 20:42Speaker 2: but their bullpen.
- 20:42Speaker 1: Is very, very bad.
- 20:44Speaker 2: The A's were just in Washington, so they're not traveling
- 20:47Speaker 2: far at all from Washington to Baltimore, so not much
- 20:49Speaker 2: of a travel spot there for them either.
- 20:52Speaker 1: J T.
- 20:52Speaker 2: Gin is gonna be pitching for the A's here. Four
- 20:55Speaker 2: point two eighty RA, one point twenty six whip mediocre on.
- 20:59Speaker 1: Numbers for him this year.
- 21:00Speaker 2: He's been better on the road though, two point eight
- 21:02Speaker 2: to two ROADIRA this year. He was coming out of
- 21:04Speaker 2: the bullpen for a while now. He's been making some starts.
- 21:07Speaker 2: Recently made two really good starts against Texas and Houston,
- 21:11Speaker 2: which are actually both on the roads. He's in better
- 21:13Speaker 2: on the road when eleven innings over that span, only
- 21:15Speaker 2: a lot one on run in one walk over those
- 21:17Speaker 2: two starts, six strikeouts, so he was pretty effective in
- 21:21Speaker 2: those starts. Had a bad start last time out at
- 21:23Speaker 2: home against Arizona, didn't make it five innings, a lot
- 21:26Speaker 2: four and runs five walks, really bad. But I don't
- 21:29Speaker 2: know if that means Gin is like falling out a
- 21:31Speaker 2: form here or if he's just really bad in that
- 21:33Speaker 2: home stadium, because it's that a stadium man in Sacramento,
- 21:36Speaker 2: it's very very tough on pitchers, So I think there
- 21:39Speaker 2: might be something to him being better on the road here.
- 21:42Speaker 2: So we might get a decent start out of him
- 21:44Speaker 2: here and up against this is what is it Washington?
- 21:47Speaker 1: No, it's Baltimore.
- 21:48Speaker 2: When I saying, excuse me, I get these bad teams
- 21:50Speaker 2: all confused.
- 21:51Speaker 1: Man.
- 21:51Speaker 2: Sorry, they're both near DC, so JT gin against Baltimore.
- 21:57Speaker 1: They don't really have much of a track record against
- 21:59Speaker 1: him at all.
- 21:59Speaker 2: Alok, Jackson's the only hitter who has faced him before
- 22:02Speaker 2: and he's zero for one, so again, is pretty much
- 22:05Speaker 2: completely unfamiliar to Baltimore, so you might have a little
- 22:07Speaker 2: bit of an edge in that respect as well. He
- 22:09Speaker 2: has the unfamiliarity edge, whereas Sugano was unfamiliar to the A's.
- 22:14Speaker 1: The first time they faced him.
- 22:15Speaker 2: He pitched at that horrible as stadium and he really
- 22:18Speaker 2: didn't do well in that start, So that might be
- 22:21Speaker 2: something to keep in mind here. Sugana was not good
- 22:23Speaker 2: even his first time against the A's, although it was
- 22:26Speaker 2: that bad stadium, you know, really hit her friendly stadium
- 22:28Speaker 2: at the A's, But that doesn't mean the A's have
- 22:31Speaker 2: seen him now, so they might be a little bit
- 22:34Speaker 2: familiar with him now, so he might not do as well.
- 22:35Speaker 2: And Sugano has started to struggle later on this season.
- 22:39Speaker 2: His first major League season four point four to two ERA,
- 22:42Speaker 2: one point three to two WHIP, slightly worse at home,
- 22:46Speaker 2: but nothing really significant. He was starting to pitch a
- 22:48Speaker 2: little bit better again, though he has been over his
- 22:50Speaker 2: last few starts. Going back his last four starts, he's
- 22:53Speaker 2: allowed three or fewer earned runs in all of them,
- 22:55Speaker 2: gone at least five innings and three of the four
- 22:58Speaker 2: and last time out, he actually his walk numbers dropped
- 23:01Speaker 2: his last two starts. He's only walked three and struck
- 23:04Speaker 2: out thirteen over his last two starts over eleven innings.
- 23:06Speaker 1: That's not too bad.
- 23:08Speaker 2: Baltimore actually won three of his last four starts, so
- 23:11Speaker 2: Sogano pitching a little bit better. And last time out
- 23:14Speaker 2: was a decent start, actually on the road against the Cubs,
- 23:17Speaker 2: which is a very difficult lineup, So that's a pretty
- 23:20Speaker 2: decent sign that maybe Sogano is starting to pitch a
- 23:22Speaker 2: little bit better. But he wasn't good when he faced
- 23:25Speaker 2: the A's. He was out of that game pretty quickly.
- 23:27Speaker 2: Man the A's only four of their current hitters faced
- 23:30Speaker 2: him ten at bats, but they had one walk, zero strikeouts,
- 23:34Speaker 2: and they had a four hundred average eight fifty five
- 23:36Speaker 2: ohps off him, so Sogano didn't do well. I don't
- 23:39Speaker 2: think Kurtz played in that game or something like that.
- 23:41Speaker 2: I don't know, but Sugana wasn't very good. He went
- 23:44Speaker 2: four and a third in that game at the A's
- 23:46Speaker 2: give up three or in runs. Was out of the
- 23:48Speaker 2: game fairly early in the game. Threw a lot of pitches.
- 23:51Speaker 2: Man definitely struggled in that game against the A's. So yeah,
- 23:57Speaker 2: Kurtz was not in the lineup back then. So the
- 23:58Speaker 2: A's have some different eye hitters in their lineup now
- 24:01Speaker 2: that what they had last time. So some of the
- 24:03Speaker 2: guys are unfamiliar with Segano. But I think Ginn as
- 24:06Speaker 2: the upper hand here. I wouldn't want to deal with
- 24:07Speaker 2: the A's bullpen, though, so I would lean A's first five.
- 24:11Speaker 1: Innings money line.
- 24:12Speaker 2: If you want to play this one and the money
- 24:13Speaker 2: is agreeing with the A's, Baltimore is down for minus
- 24:16Speaker 2: one twenty five to minus one oh five fifty nine
- 24:18Speaker 2: percent to take its eighty eight percent of the cash
- 24:20Speaker 2: coming in in the A's. I don't know if I
- 24:22Speaker 2: totally trust gin but again that is the way that
- 24:24Speaker 2: I would lean there. I'd lean towards him out pitching
- 24:27Speaker 2: Sagano early in the game, and they just don't want
- 24:29Speaker 2: to deal with the A's bullpen, even though I know
- 24:32Speaker 2: they're hitting is better. So moneyline first five A's would
- 24:35Speaker 2: be my recommendation there. Detroit Tigers staying at home. Man,
- 24:40Speaker 2: they've been playing some somewhat poor baseball recently. They've lost
- 24:44Speaker 2: two series in a row. One was against Philadelphia, though,
- 24:46Speaker 2: who is pretty good. The other one was against Minnesota,
- 24:49Speaker 2: who's kind of packing it in for the season, so
- 24:51Speaker 2: Detroit might be a little bit angry about that and
- 24:54Speaker 2: kind of been bounce back mode here. Anaheim probably knows
- 24:57Speaker 2: that they're out of it at this point, so Detroit
- 24:59Speaker 2: does a a little bit more to play for here
- 25:01Speaker 2: because they are playing at least for playoff seeding and whatever.
- 25:04Speaker 2: Pretty much assuming we pretty much know they're going to
- 25:06Speaker 2: be in the playoffs at this point, Detroit will be
- 25:08Speaker 2: Anaheim coming off a couple of losses to of them.
- 25:11Speaker 2: They're starting a road trip, which does mean that should
- 25:13Speaker 2: be a focused spot for Anaheim when you start a
- 25:15Speaker 2: road trip. By the way, all these teams I've been
- 25:18Speaker 2: talking about here rested yesterday, So a is Baltimore, Anaheim, Detroit.
- 25:22Speaker 2: They all rested their bullpens yesterday. In this game, Detroit
- 25:26Speaker 2: obviously as a bullpen edge. I would give them the
- 25:29Speaker 2: offensive edge slightly as well, probably as well.
- 25:31Speaker 1: But Anaheim's bullpen is really bad.
- 25:34Speaker 2: Yeah, Detroit has the better offense as well mediocre offense
- 25:37Speaker 2: from Anaheim, and Detroit obviously.
- 25:39Speaker 1: Has a starting pitching edge as well, schooable.
- 25:41Speaker 2: So Detroit has the Holy Trilogy here, man, But you
- 25:44Speaker 2: have to lay a huge price on Detroit.
- 25:47Speaker 1: You're not getting it cheap, man.
- 25:48Speaker 2: But Detroit does have the edge and all three of
- 25:50Speaker 2: the main components of this game here. Although again it's
- 25:54Speaker 2: maybe a slightly better ish spot for Anaheim just because
- 25:57Speaker 2: they are starting a road trip. But wiyh that too
- 26:00Speaker 2: heavily here. Kyle Hendrix is pitching for the Angels. Not
- 26:04Speaker 2: a great pitcher. Four point five ninety RA, one point
- 26:07Speaker 2: two to four whip. I mean those are okay numbers.
- 26:09Speaker 2: Definitely been worse on the road five point four to
- 26:12Speaker 2: four road e RA giving up more runs on the road.
- 26:15Speaker 2: He's coming up a couple of pretty good starts in
- 26:17Speaker 2: a row, though eleven innings pitch give him tour in
- 26:20Speaker 2: runs over those two starts. Didn't strike out a lot
- 26:22Speaker 2: of guys, five strikeouts, three walks. He's not really a
- 26:25Speaker 2: strikeout pitcher. Last time I was against the White Sox,
- 26:28Speaker 2: so not that impressive. It's a bad lineup start. Before that,
- 26:31Speaker 2: did fairly well against Seattle, which is fairly impressive. So
- 26:35Speaker 2: Hendrix has been decent over his last two starts. I
- 26:38Speaker 2: don't know if he'll do that well in this game though,
- 26:40Speaker 2: against Detroit on the road, difficult assignment. He's been okay
- 26:44Speaker 2: against Detroit, the better than okay actually, in twenty six
- 26:47Speaker 2: at bats, two strikeouts, no walks. He's held Detroit to
- 26:50Speaker 2: a two thirty one average and five to seventy seven
- 26:52Speaker 2: oh ps. So Hendricks actually has done fairly well against Detroit.
- 26:55Speaker 2: But I don't expect him to outpitch the best pitcher
- 26:58Speaker 2: in baseball schoo Ball. I mean, if you want to
- 27:01Speaker 2: debate that, fine, but I that was my answer. When
- 27:03Speaker 2: somebody asked yesterday who the best pitcher is. I think
- 27:06Speaker 2: most people will say school Ball. I mean Skeins is
- 27:08Speaker 2: definitely in the running as well, and yeah, I mean
- 27:13Speaker 2: Garret Crochet not a horrible answer either. I mean those
- 27:16Speaker 2: three guys I think are the top top of the pack.
- 27:19Speaker 2: School Ball, though, really good this year obviously two point
- 27:21Speaker 2: one eighty r, a point eight three.
- 27:23Speaker 1: Whip, really low whip.
- 27:25Speaker 2: He's in really similar home in a way, it doesn't
- 27:27Speaker 2: really matter. He's continuing to pitch really well. Man, no
- 27:30Speaker 2: sense of even really digging into it. I mean, he's
- 27:32Speaker 2: just consistently so good it doesn't even really matter, Like
- 27:36Speaker 2: is he in recent good form?
- 27:37Speaker 1: Yeah?
- 27:39Speaker 2: Up against who are you playing against here? I already
- 27:41Speaker 2: forget not Minnesota, That's who they played last Anaheim.
- 27:45Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 27:45Speaker 2: I don't know why. It always slips my mind. Then
- 27:46Speaker 2: when I start talking about the home pitcher. He's basically
- 27:50Speaker 2: dominated Anaheim in his career forty two at bats, fifteen
- 27:53Speaker 2: to two strike at walker I show one forty three average,
- 27:56Speaker 2: allowed three to ninety six ops. So yeah, school balls
- 28:00Speaker 2: have the upper hand here. But you're laying a price.
- 28:02Speaker 2: Although Detroit's down for minus two eighty to minus two
- 28:05Speaker 2: sixty eight, they actually they're public seventy eight percent of tickets.
- 28:08Speaker 2: I was gonna say, wait a minute, what, Yeah, so
- 28:10Speaker 2: they have gone down on the money line seventy eight
- 28:13Speaker 2: percent of tickets, only fifty one percent of the cash
- 28:15Speaker 2: I think is what that was on Detroit. So the
- 28:18Speaker 2: money seems to be coming in fading Detroit a little
- 28:21Speaker 2: bit here. Money coming into the under might actually be
- 28:24Speaker 2: the better way to look at this game total sitting
- 28:26Speaker 2: at seven and a half, I know, and it's another
- 28:28Speaker 2: very low total, fifty four percent of tickets on the over,
- 28:30Speaker 2: sixty six percent of the cash on the under.
- 28:32Speaker 1: But again with the hitting, you know, being maybe.
- 28:36Speaker 2: Cold after having rest yesterday, and the bullpend's being rested,
- 28:39Speaker 2: unders do make more sense in games like this alone.
- 28:42Speaker 2: I wouldn't trust Anaheim's bullpen enough to go full game
- 28:44Speaker 2: under on this. I don't know if we could fully
- 28:47Speaker 2: trust Hendrix either. I could see it first five inning
- 28:50Speaker 2: under in this game, but again, you'll have to go
- 28:52Speaker 2: like pretty low on that, Like it's probably a three
- 28:54Speaker 2: and a half on that number, and you know, I
- 28:56Speaker 2: personally don't really love doing that. But as far as
- 28:59Speaker 2: a game you could do that, you could go Anaheim
- 29:02Speaker 2: under their team total. Now you're gonna need an Anaheim
- 29:05Speaker 2: to score very few runs in that game, but that
- 29:07Speaker 2: might be a way to still attack that game though,
- 29:10Speaker 2: Just go with school Ball to continue his domination of
- 29:13Speaker 2: Anaheim Miami Atlanta. Of course, because I've been I've been
- 29:16Speaker 2: focusing on those two teams quite a bit I played.
- 29:19Speaker 2: I gave up plays on both of those teams games
- 29:21Speaker 2: two days ago. Should have given it out yesterday, man,
- 29:24Speaker 2: because I was right about Miami first five innings yesterday,
- 29:28Speaker 2: even though they blew the game yesterday.
- 29:29Speaker 1: But we'll get to that. That's gonna be one of
- 29:31Speaker 1: my bets.
- 29:34Speaker 2: Most of my bets are kind of the later games
- 29:35Speaker 2: here though, so we'll see when I get to those.
- 29:38Speaker 2: Cleveland at the White Sox, both of these teams also
- 29:40Speaker 2: were off yesterday. The White Sox are returning from the
- 29:42Speaker 2: Pacific Coast, which makes it a bad spot for the
- 29:45Speaker 2: White Sox. And other than the fact that it is
- 29:47Speaker 2: a bad spot, I actually like the White Sox in
- 29:50Speaker 2: this game.
- 29:50Speaker 1: Other than that.
- 29:51Speaker 2: Man, Yes, Cleveland does have the better bullpen though, so
- 29:54Speaker 2: there is that too. So both bullpens arrested after yesterday.
- 29:57Speaker 2: Cleveland does have the better bullpen. The offenses are both
- 30:00Speaker 2: really bad. Cleveland's is slightly better, but not by a
- 30:04Speaker 2: whole lot at all. Chicago, the White Sox are turning
- 30:08Speaker 2: over from a road trip. Tends to be a tough spot,
- 30:10Speaker 2: Like I said, especially when you're crossing time zones multiple
- 30:12Speaker 2: time zones like this returning.
- 30:13Speaker 1: From the Pacific Oasts.
- 30:15Speaker 2: Yeah, they had yesterday off to maybe try to get
- 30:17Speaker 2: stuff done at home, but it's still a distraction spot
- 30:20Speaker 2: when you're backing home. Maybe the focus on Cleveland because
- 30:22Speaker 2: Cleveland is a division rival and they're up in second
- 30:25Speaker 2: place and they've been one of the better teams in
- 30:27Speaker 2: the division for a while, so maybe some reason for
- 30:30Speaker 2: the White Sox to show up here. And though they
- 30:31Speaker 2: have nothing left to play for here, Cleveland I think
- 30:34Speaker 2: technically is still kind of fighting fighting for a playoff spot,
- 30:38Speaker 2: which is absurd to think about. Last time out, By
- 30:41Speaker 2: the way, that under I forgot to mention I gave
- 30:43Speaker 2: up the under in their game against the Mets first
- 30:46Speaker 2: five inning a couple of days ago, and that was
- 30:48Speaker 2: a winner. The full game under was a winterer zone.
- 30:50Speaker 2: Williams pitched so well in that game that he had
- 30:53Speaker 2: a no hitter into the ninth inning. I forgot to
- 30:55Speaker 2: mention that. So Williams had a really nice start in
- 30:57Speaker 2: that game against a pretty decent lineup. Cleveland is coming
- 31:00Speaker 2: off that sweep of the Mets, so Cleveland might be
- 31:03Speaker 2: in a little bit of a letdown spot. Man coming
- 31:05Speaker 2: off that big series against the Mets. You sweep a
- 31:09Speaker 2: good team like the Mets, you're gonna be feeling pretty
- 31:10Speaker 2: high on yourselves and they might not pay as much
- 31:12Speaker 2: attention to Chicago. But the travel spot is better for
- 31:15Speaker 2: Cleveland just going from New York to Chicago here, which
- 31:18Speaker 2: is one of the main reasons why I'm not gonna
- 31:20Speaker 2: actually give this out as a play. And Chicago might
- 31:23Speaker 2: be in that distraction spot on the return home spot,
- 31:25Speaker 2: but I actually think Chicago has the upper hand in
- 31:28Speaker 2: the starting pitching matchup, even though on the surface you think,
- 31:30Speaker 2: what are you insane? It's Biby for Cleveland, who's been
- 31:33Speaker 2: like their best pitcher of the last couple of seasons,
- 31:35Speaker 2: against Savale for the White Sox hasn't been good at all, Toad,
- 31:39Speaker 2: What are you talking about? Man, Well, I'll show you
- 31:41Speaker 2: in a minute by being he hasn't really been as
- 31:44Speaker 2: good this year. Four point five to one Era, one
- 31:46Speaker 2: point two to six whip not that good. He's been
- 31:49Speaker 2: pretty atrocious on the road Man five point five Roady
- 31:52Speaker 2: Ray and he's allowed sixteen of the twenty one one
- 31:55Speaker 2: runs he's allowed on the road this year, so he's
- 31:57Speaker 2: been really really ugly on the road man and up.
- 32:00Speaker 1: Against the White Sox. Well, actually, I'll get to that
- 32:02Speaker 1: in a minute.
- 32:03Speaker 2: Yes, Cleveland was won his last five starts, but he
- 32:06Speaker 2: hasn't been very good in these recent starts. He's failed
- 32:09Speaker 2: to go five innings. In two of those he's allowed
- 32:12Speaker 2: four or more on runs, and three of those starts.
- 32:15Speaker 2: Last time out, he failed to go five innings against
- 32:17Speaker 2: a pretty weak Minnesota team with nothing left to play for.
- 32:20Speaker 2: You have up four on runs. It's not really a
- 32:22Speaker 2: great sign. Biby not really in the greatest form here.
- 32:25Speaker 2: And as I was about to say, surprisingly, his numbers
- 32:28Speaker 2: against the White Sox are not good, even though they're
- 32:30Speaker 2: not a good lineup thirty four at bats two ninety
- 32:33Speaker 2: four batting average at seven to ninety three ohps. So
- 32:36Speaker 2: Biby hasn't done well against the White Sox man, And
- 32:40Speaker 2: then you flip it over and look at Savallee. His
- 32:42Speaker 2: numbers are actually okay this year at this point three
- 32:45Speaker 2: point nine to ninety one point two six whip. He's
- 32:47Speaker 2: a guy that I believe the White Sox were potentially
- 32:52Speaker 2: trading him after a They acquired him in the middle
- 32:54Speaker 2: of the season from Milwaukee, and then the White Sox
- 32:57Speaker 2: were thinking of I think dealing him at the trade
- 32:59Speaker 2: deadline and didn't get anything done for him. He's been
- 33:02Speaker 2: slightly worse at home, but nothing that bad. But his
- 33:05Speaker 2: last few starts have actually been quite good. He's allowed
- 33:08Speaker 2: no earned runs in his last three starts at this point,
- 33:11Speaker 2: going at least five innings in every single one.
- 33:14Speaker 1: He has a twenty.
- 33:16Speaker 2: To three strikeout walk ratio over that span as well.
- 33:19Speaker 2: And one of those starts was against the Cubs, which
- 33:21Speaker 2: is a really good lineup Pittsburgh and Anaheim. I mean,
- 33:23Speaker 2: those are not as impressive of performances, but because those
- 33:27Speaker 2: offenses aren't as good.
- 33:28Speaker 1: But and I'm still a mediocre offense.
- 33:30Speaker 2: And he held him to one hit in six and
- 33:32Speaker 2: a third innings, eight strikeouts in that game, no runs obviously,
- 33:35Speaker 2: So Savalli is actually in really good form right now.
- 33:39Speaker 2: And up against Cleveland, not a very good offense, and
- 33:42Speaker 2: he's done really well against him. In fifty eight at bats,
- 33:45Speaker 2: he only have eight hits off him, fourteen to three
- 33:47Speaker 2: strike out walk ratio, one thirty eight batting avers allowed
- 33:50Speaker 2: four to twenty two oh ps.
- 33:51Speaker 1: So this is one of those games that I look
- 33:53Speaker 1: at it and I.
- 33:53Speaker 2: Say, yeah, you have kind of a sneaky edge here
- 33:57Speaker 2: on the White Sox in this starting pitching matchup. I
- 33:59Speaker 2: just don't playing teams are turning over from road trips, man.
- 34:02Speaker 2: But I think the best way to play this game
- 34:04Speaker 2: is the White Sox money line.
- 34:06Speaker 1: They're an underdog at home too.
- 34:08Speaker 2: Which when you have a pitching matchup like this and
- 34:10Speaker 2: you think you actually have an edge with the starting
- 34:11Speaker 2: pitching matchup, and you know the offenses aren't really that
- 34:15Speaker 2: different from each other, I think there is definitely value
- 34:18Speaker 2: taking the White Sox on the money line here as
- 34:20Speaker 2: a home underdog. I would do it in the first
- 34:22Speaker 2: five innings, just because again I don't really trust the
- 34:24Speaker 2: White Sox bullpen very much.
- 34:26Speaker 1: Cleveland's is better.
- 34:27Speaker 2: Seventy six percent of tickets in this game are on Cleveland,
- 34:30Speaker 2: but fifty nine percent of the cash commune on the
- 34:32Speaker 2: White Sox.
- 34:33Speaker 1: The money's coming in on the White Sox.
- 34:35Speaker 2: The line dropped already for minus one forty eight to
- 34:37Speaker 2: minus one thirty.
- 34:38Speaker 1: Five on Cleveland.
- 34:39Speaker 2: You probably don't get as big of an underdog price
- 34:41Speaker 2: on the White Sox here, but maybe you do because
- 34:43Speaker 2: Biby does get some respect from the books here and
- 34:47Speaker 2: the public is usually gonna favor him over Savale, but
- 34:51Speaker 2: I would go with Savali in that one man, first
- 34:53Speaker 2: five inning White Sox money line to be the way
- 34:55Speaker 2: I would play that game.
- 34:56Speaker 1: Philadelphia at Texas.
- 34:58Speaker 2: Texas coming up a big series against the Yankees where
- 35:01Speaker 2: they won two out of three.
- 35:02Speaker 1: But this is a big series two against Philly.
- 35:04Speaker 2: Maybe not as big because it's interleague, but Texas staying
- 35:08Speaker 2: at home. You got a team like the Phillies coming in.
- 35:10Speaker 2: You'll probably pay attention to that. The Phillies have the
- 35:12Speaker 2: way better offense over Texas, so Philly has a big
- 35:15Speaker 2: offensive edge. Texas has a pretty big bullpen edge, though
- 35:18Speaker 2: Texas has the better bullpend. This is another spot where
- 35:21Speaker 2: both teams rested. Yesterday, both teams have rested bullpends. Philly
- 35:25Speaker 2: is starting a road trip after facing Baltimore last time
- 35:29Speaker 2: out of winning that series, and they lost the last
- 35:31Speaker 2: game of the series.
- 35:32Speaker 1: Maybe, you know, get away day.
- 35:34Speaker 2: Maybe they're just kind of looking ahead a little bit,
- 35:35Speaker 2: not paying attention to Baltimore. So Philly should be in
- 35:39Speaker 2: a focused spot here as well. On the first game
- 35:41Speaker 2: of a road trip, you want to get the road
- 35:42Speaker 2: trip off on the right foot.
- 35:44Speaker 1: Two pretty decent.
- 35:45Speaker 2: Starting pitchers decent at worst starting pitchers here. I think
- 35:49Speaker 2: the starting pitching edge does have to go to Philadelphia though,
- 35:52Speaker 2: because Christopher Sanchez has been almost elite this year for them. Man,
- 35:56Speaker 2: he didn't even make the All Star Game. He's flying
- 35:58Speaker 2: under the radar point four one point seven whip. I
- 36:02Speaker 2: don't think he's really flying under the radar as far
- 36:03Speaker 2: as the books are concerned, though, but man, he's been good.
- 36:06Speaker 2: He's been really good both home and away, very similar
- 36:08Speaker 2: numbers aside from allowing four and runs in one start
- 36:13Speaker 2: at the White Sox.
- 36:14Speaker 1: Other than that, he's allowed one or fewer.
- 36:16Speaker 2: Earned runs in every start going all the way back
- 36:18Speaker 2: to mid June, and the last time he allowed more
- 36:20Speaker 2: than two hourn runs and a start was in late May.
- 36:23Speaker 2: So he's been absolutely dominant, even though some of.
- 36:27Speaker 1: His starts he's failed to get run support. But Philly
- 36:30Speaker 1: has won four of his last six starts as well.
- 36:34Speaker 1: He's been really, really good. He had a thirty six
- 36:36Speaker 1: to five strike a walk ratio in July.
- 36:39Speaker 2: Starting this month, he went eight innings shut out ball
- 36:42Speaker 2: against Detroit.
- 36:42Speaker 1: That's pretty good.
- 36:43Speaker 2: Detroit lineup only five hits, allowed six to one strike
- 36:47Speaker 2: a walk ratio. So Sanchez is obviously in good form
- 36:51Speaker 2: here man. He's pitching really, really well. He's going up
- 36:54Speaker 2: against who do we say, Texas, right, not a good
- 36:56Speaker 2: line up in Texas. They haven't seen much of him
- 36:59Speaker 2: at all. Only three of their hitters have ever seen him.
- 37:01Speaker 2: They only have four at bats off him, two strikeouts,
- 37:05Speaker 2: one walk, no extra base hits, so he's on a
- 37:08Speaker 2: two to fifty average, six to fifty oh ps. So Sanchez,
- 37:11Speaker 2: I expect him to continue pitching well here. Merrill Kelly
- 37:14Speaker 2: pitching for Texas. He's making his second start as a
- 37:17Speaker 2: member of the Rangers after the d Backs traded him
- 37:20Speaker 2: at the trade deadline.
- 37:21Speaker 1: He's been good this year three.
- 37:23Speaker 2: Point two two ERA one point zero four whip, a
- 37:26Speaker 2: little bit worse at home, but most of that was
- 37:28Speaker 2: at Chase Field, which is a pitcher unfriendly ballpark, and
- 37:31Speaker 2: now he's pitching in a much more pitcher friendly ballpark
- 37:34Speaker 2: in Texas. He's made one start with Texas, which was
- 37:37Speaker 2: actually at Seattle, which is also a pitcher friendly park,
- 37:40Speaker 2: and he had six strikeouts, no walks, and five and
- 37:42Speaker 2: two thirds two earned runs a left four hits. That
- 37:44Speaker 2: was a pretty good start for him to start his
- 37:47Speaker 2: UH remainder of the season with Texas that was pretty good.
- 37:50Speaker 2: But he's having he's gonna have to step up to
- 37:52Speaker 2: face the Phillies team. Man, this is a very good lineup.
- 37:55Speaker 2: Seattle's not a bad lineup either. Philly is better though
- 37:58Speaker 2: his numbers are not bad against phillyl though they've seen
- 38:00Speaker 2: a lot of him because he's been in the National League.
- 38:03Speaker 2: One hundred and thirty two at bats, thirty to fourteen
- 38:06Speaker 2: strike at walk ratios. A bit too many walks for
- 38:09Speaker 2: that ratio, but he does. He sell them to two
- 38:11Speaker 2: thirty five. Batting average is seven to thirty two o ps,
- 38:13Speaker 2: so he sell them to decent numbers. Decently low numbers there.
- 38:17Speaker 2: So I think an under is worth a look in
- 38:20Speaker 2: this game, man, even though you would have to deal
- 38:21Speaker 2: with Philly's bullpen if he went full game under on
- 38:24Speaker 2: this The total has dropped on this game as well,
- 38:26Speaker 2: from eight to seven and a half already all the
- 38:28Speaker 2: way to juice to the under on the seven and
- 38:30Speaker 2: a half.
- 38:30Speaker 1: Pretty strong move.
- 38:31Speaker 2: Strong market indicators on the under, fifty percent of tickets,
- 38:34Speaker 2: seventy eight percent of the cash coming in on the under.
- 38:37Speaker 2: I do agree with it. You could go full game
- 38:39Speaker 2: on it. I mean both bullpens arrested. At least Philly
- 38:42Speaker 2: did at least kind of bolster their bullpen a little
- 38:45Speaker 2: bit at the trade deadline. I still don't trust them.
- 38:47Speaker 2: I mean, you could go under in the first five innings,
- 38:49Speaker 2: but a little bit of a concern doing that because
- 38:52Speaker 2: again the number will be really low on that. The
- 38:55Speaker 2: money seems to be indicating on Texas as well as
- 38:57Speaker 2: a home underdog here. Profession betters like looking at home underdogs. Man,
- 39:02Speaker 2: they see a lot of value in a lot of
- 39:04Speaker 2: these home underdogs, thinking that maybe Kelly can battle Sanchez,
- 39:07Speaker 2: and then once they get into the bullpens, Texas does
- 39:10Speaker 2: have the better bullpend seventy four percent of tickets fifty
- 39:12Speaker 2: four percent of the cash on Philly, So they're a
- 39:14Speaker 2: public road favorite here, especially with Sanchez on the mount.
- 39:18Speaker 2: I think maybe professional better is also thinking you're kind
- 39:21Speaker 2: of paying a bit of a price for Philly with
- 39:23Speaker 2: Sanchez on the mound at this point, because it's not
- 39:25Speaker 2: a secret how good he's been this year at this point,
- 39:27Speaker 2: even though he flies under the radar compared to some
- 39:29Speaker 2: of these other really good pitchers here. But Philly up
- 39:33Speaker 2: for minus won twenty five to minus one twenty eight,
- 39:34Speaker 2: but the money seems to be going against him a
- 39:36Speaker 2: little bit. But I think banking on a pitching duel
- 39:39Speaker 2: of some kind is the better way to go in
- 39:40Speaker 2: that game. I could still see maybe going under with
- 39:45Speaker 2: Texas's team total there. You could go under Phillies team
- 39:48Speaker 2: total there as well, though, and expect maybe Kelly to
- 39:50Speaker 2: pitch well in that game. Philly's team total is going
- 39:53Speaker 2: to be higher than Texas's is, so maybe a little
- 39:56Speaker 2: bit more leeway if you do it that way. Kansas City, Minnesota,
- 39:58Speaker 2: I'm gonna give out a play on that, at least,
- 40:01Speaker 2: I think. I mean, let me look at the market
- 40:02Speaker 2: reads on this. Uh that one, I'm going completely against
- 40:06Speaker 2: the market read on that one. So I am a
- 40:08Speaker 2: little bit concerned about that one. But it is what
- 40:10Speaker 2: it is. I will see what happens. Hopefully I'm not
- 40:12Speaker 2: going against the market reading some of these other games.
- 40:15Speaker 1: Let me see Miami.
- 40:18Speaker 2: In Miami's I'm going against the market read now as well.
- 40:21Speaker 2: But that is the way that it is. Man, Hopefully
- 40:22Speaker 2: it works out. I think I'm going against it in
- 40:24Speaker 2: the Cubs game as well. Uh So, maybe we're gonna
- 40:27Speaker 2: lose today, man, And we'll see. Well, we'll see when
- 40:30Speaker 2: we get to it. Next up, we got Mets Milwaukee.
- 40:35Speaker 2: I mean, this is a pretty good match up here, man,
- 40:37Speaker 2: two of the better teams in the NL. Milwaukee, as
- 40:41Speaker 2: I believe, the best record in baseball, and I mean
- 40:43Speaker 2: they're on fire. They've won six games in a row.
- 40:46Speaker 2: Now they're returning home from a road trip. Though, So
- 40:49Speaker 2: road trip return again, I reiterate, tends to be a
- 40:52Speaker 2: little bit of a distracted spot you have to return
- 40:54Speaker 2: back home. Yeah, both these teams did have a day off. Yes,
- 40:57Speaker 2: they probably won't lose focus when it's the Mets, and
- 40:59Speaker 2: they know the Mets with the team that eliminated them
- 41:02Speaker 2: from the playoffs last year. Eve, though Milwaukee has at
- 41:05Speaker 2: least beaten the Mets this year when they faced them
- 41:07Speaker 2: during the regular season. Milwaukee, Yeah, so it may not
- 41:11Speaker 2: be a totally distracted spot for them on the return
- 41:13Speaker 2: home spot. The Mets are starting a road trip off
- 41:16Speaker 2: an ugly, ugly stretch of games. Man, the Mets have
- 41:19Speaker 2: been playing some bad baseball recently. They've lost twelve of
- 41:22Speaker 2: their last thirteen games. Or no, wait, that's not right.
- 41:25Speaker 1: What am I doing? Not eight of their last nine?
- 41:26Speaker 1: My mistake. They had a win streak prior to that.
- 41:28Speaker 2: What was I thinking. I was thinking of this other
- 41:30Speaker 2: bad stretch that they had. Sorry, they've lost eight of
- 41:32Speaker 2: their last nine games. My mistake, but that's still bad.
- 41:36Speaker 2: They're coming off getting swept by Cleveland, which is really
- 41:38Speaker 2: ugly at home, no less, so I think it's gonna
- 41:41Speaker 2: be good for the Mets to go out on the
- 41:42Speaker 2: road and forget about that. So I do think it
- 41:44Speaker 2: is definitely a focused spot for the Mets here. They're
- 41:47Speaker 2: gonna want this game, going out on the road against
- 41:49Speaker 2: the team that has the best record in baseball coming
- 41:52Speaker 2: off some ugly losses.
- 41:53Speaker 1: So I think the spot sets up a little bit
- 41:55Speaker 1: better for the Mets. But Milwaukee is the better bullpen.
- 41:58Speaker 2: I would give Milwaukee the offensive edge a little bit
- 42:02Speaker 2: as well, and though they aren't quite as good offensively
- 42:04Speaker 2: at home, I think it's slight in both cases. But
- 42:06Speaker 2: I think Milwaukee has a slight bullpen edge and a
- 42:09Speaker 2: slight hitting edge here. And I actually think Milwaukee has
- 42:12Speaker 2: the starting pitching edge here. Code I Senga is pitching
- 42:15Speaker 2: for the Mets. He's having a good season. Two point
- 42:17Speaker 2: three one ERA, one point two to five whip the
- 42:20Speaker 2: whip is a little bit higher than I would like
- 42:22Speaker 2: to see though. Man, I'll get into that in a second.
- 42:24Speaker 2: He's been slightly better on the road, but nothing significant.
- 42:27Speaker 2: But he was injured for a bit. And since he's
- 42:30Speaker 2: come back, yeah, I know. He came back in mid
- 42:33Speaker 2: July and the Mets have won all four of his
- 42:36Speaker 2: starts since then. The Mets have actually won eight straight
- 42:38Speaker 2: starts of his I believe, so the Mets have been
- 42:41Speaker 2: winning most of his starts. He hasn't allowed more than
- 42:43Speaker 2: four and runs in any start all year, but those
- 42:45Speaker 2: four earned run performances both happened after he came back
- 42:48Speaker 2: from injury, so that's a little bit of a concern
- 42:50Speaker 2: because that's half of his starts. He's failed to go
- 42:53Speaker 2: five innings in three out of the four starts, so
- 42:56Speaker 2: he's not going deep into these games, which I think
- 42:58Speaker 2: they're keeping his pitch a little bit limited here. But
- 43:01Speaker 2: his strikeout walk ratio is also abysmal over that stretch,
- 43:04Speaker 2: sixteen to thirteen strike out walk ratio. So that's the
- 43:08Speaker 2: real problem I have with him, And why is wit
- 43:10Speaker 2: this so high? He's walking way too many guys and
- 43:12Speaker 2: that's kind of been the case all season. His strikeout
- 43:15Speaker 2: walk ratio is really unimpressive actually, and he's walked an
- 43:18Speaker 2: unbelievable amount of guys this year forty four and eighty
- 43:21Speaker 2: nine to two thirds. He gets away with it because
- 43:23Speaker 2: it doesn't allow hits. Sixty eight hits. He's like relatively unhittable,
- 43:26Speaker 2: but still the walks are huge concern.
- 43:29Speaker 1: Man.
- 43:29Speaker 2: You can't keep walking guys like this, says. He's come
- 43:32Speaker 2: back from the injury his last three starts. Three out
- 43:35Speaker 2: of the four starts, and each of his last three
- 43:37Speaker 2: he's walked three or more.
- 43:39Speaker 1: In all of them. So that's not a good sign
- 43:41Speaker 1: either man. And I'm against the Brewers.
- 43:44Speaker 2: They haven't seen much of him, only three of their
- 43:46Speaker 2: hitters have seen him before, but in eight at bats
- 43:48Speaker 2: they have a three seventy five average and eight seventy
- 43:49Speaker 2: five oh ps off him, two strikeouts, no walks. But still,
- 43:54Speaker 2: I think Woodruff is the much more trustworthy of these
- 43:56Speaker 2: two pitchers here.
- 43:57Speaker 1: Man. Woodroff, people kind of got about him.
- 44:00Speaker 2: He was really good in the past, and then he
- 44:02Speaker 2: missed over an entire season with an injury, and he's
- 44:06Speaker 2: been like right back in form basically right away. He's
- 44:09Speaker 2: been excellent since he's come back two point two to
- 44:12Speaker 2: two ERA point six four whip. I mean, it's like
- 44:15Speaker 2: he never even was gone. He's been a little bit
- 44:18Speaker 2: worse at home though, three point four to eighty RA,
- 44:20Speaker 2: which is still good. He hasn't allowed with the tour
- 44:23Speaker 2: and runs in any outings so far since he's come back.
- 44:25Speaker 2: He's made five starts now Milwaukee has won every single
- 44:28Speaker 2: one of them. He's gone six innings and four out
- 44:30Speaker 2: of the five twenty nine to three strike out walk
- 44:34Speaker 2: ratio in the previous month, eight to one in his
- 44:36Speaker 2: last start, so overall thirty seven to four strike out
- 44:40Speaker 2: walk rationio, only fourteen hits allowed in twenty eight and
- 44:42Speaker 2: a third innings pitched. He's dominating right now. Man, He's
- 44:45Speaker 2: doing really well. And against the Mets his numbers are mediocre.
- 44:51Speaker 2: They're better than I would say. They're better than saying
- 44:53Speaker 2: goas although it is a bigger sample size, so maybe
- 44:56Speaker 2: something that you could take a little bit more away from.
- 44:58Speaker 2: And forty six at bats nine to four strike up
- 45:01Speaker 2: walk rations is not that great. Two eighty three average
- 45:04Speaker 2: seven to thirty one ops allowed, So the Mets have
- 45:07Speaker 2: hit okay against him, but not great. But I would
- 45:10Speaker 2: still trust Woodroff Moore, Man, I mean he's been pitching
- 45:13Speaker 2: so well, he's in really really excellent form here. Uh
- 45:17Speaker 2: Milwaukee up for minus one twenty eight to minus one
- 45:19Speaker 2: thirty seven here eighty two percent of tickets, eighty eight
- 45:22Speaker 2: percent of the cash coming into Milwaukee. Uh, so the
- 45:25Speaker 2: money is agreeing with that coming into Milwaukee. Wouldn't disagree
- 45:29Speaker 2: with that obviously, I would lean to Milwaukee.
- 45:32Speaker 1: Uh.
- 45:32Speaker 2: I think they have the edge actually, even though it's slight.
- 45:36Speaker 2: I think they have the edge in every single aspect
- 45:38Speaker 2: of the game, but slightly. But I don't love playing
- 45:40Speaker 2: teams returning over from road trips. Sixty six percent of tickets,
- 45:43Speaker 2: sixty percent of the cash on the over, so the
- 45:46Speaker 2: money is actually seemingly coming in on the under as well.
- 45:49Speaker 2: Expecting both starting pitches to do fairly well here. We
- 45:51Speaker 2: have decent bullpends there, so I wouldn't really disagree with
- 45:55Speaker 2: the under either. Skip p in Chicago Saint Louis for now,
- 45:58Speaker 2: my Red Sox at San Diego. San Diego's returning home,
- 46:02Speaker 2: but only from a trip to Arizona, so not really
- 46:05Speaker 2: a huge road trip returning. These two teams are off
- 46:07Speaker 2: yesterday as well. The Red Sox lost their long wind streak. Man,
- 46:11Speaker 2: they had seven wins in a row and then lost
- 46:13Speaker 2: to the Royals. Ugly ugly Man, Dustin may not looking
- 46:17Speaker 2: like a good trade man. These guys that the Red
- 46:19Speaker 2: Sox got from the Dodgers or former Dodger players, I
- 46:23Speaker 2: should say, because they picked up Walker Buehler as a
- 46:25Speaker 2: free agent, I believe, But those acquisitions I don't think
- 46:30Speaker 2: are good for the Red Sox. Man, and they're pitching
- 46:32Speaker 2: in these back to back games because Bueller is pitching today,
- 46:35Speaker 2: So isn't that just great? But the Red Sox, yes,
- 46:38Speaker 2: they're starting a road trips. They should be focused. You
- 46:40Speaker 2: tend to be focused when you start a road trip.
- 46:42Speaker 2: But they're gonna have to adjust to the Pacific time
- 46:44Speaker 2: zone and playing a late night game, which is not
- 46:46Speaker 2: that easy to do. And when you have a long
- 46:48Speaker 2: wind streak snap like that, sometimes it does hang you over.
- 46:52Speaker 2: So I really don't like the Red Sox very much
- 46:55Speaker 2: in this game. San Diego has the bullpen edge. Both
- 46:57Speaker 2: teams have good bullpens, and they're both at San Diego
- 47:00Speaker 2: has the better bullpend Red Sox have the better offense.
- 47:03Speaker 2: But still I think pitching matters more. You got to
- 47:07Speaker 2: give the starting pitching edge to the Padres as well. Here,
- 47:10Speaker 2: I mean Walker Buehller, Red Sox. I mean like I said,
- 47:13Speaker 2: I mean he's not good. He has never come back
- 47:16Speaker 2: from his injury and surgeries that he's had over the
- 47:19Speaker 2: last you know, recent years.
- 47:21Speaker 1: Five point seven to four one point six whip this
- 47:24Speaker 1: year not good numbers.
- 47:25Speaker 2: He's been really bad on the road seven point four
- 47:28Speaker 2: to four r on the road. Struggled again last time
- 47:31Speaker 2: out against Houston. He's failed to go five innings in
- 47:33Speaker 2: his last two starts, even though the Red Sox won
- 47:36Speaker 2: both of them, and they've actually won four of his
- 47:38Speaker 2: last five outings. He pitched okay in some of those outings,
- 47:42Speaker 2: but starting to really struggle again. Those last two outings
- 47:44Speaker 2: were bad. He had eight walks and only four strikeouts
- 47:48Speaker 2: over those last two outings to and a lot six
- 47:50Speaker 2: earned runs and thirteen hits in those nine innings. Pitch
- 47:54Speaker 2: that is bad man, really bad against decent lineups or
- 47:58Speaker 2: good lineups, even in the Dodgers and Houston. But still
- 48:02Speaker 2: he's in bad form right now. I don't trust him.
- 48:05Speaker 2: I'll beig at San Diego. He's actually been fairly good,
- 48:07Speaker 2: although San Diego does have a lot of experience off
- 48:10Speaker 2: of him because he was in their division on the
- 48:12Speaker 2: Dodgers one hundred and thirty five at bats, twenty nine
- 48:15Speaker 2: to seven strike a walk ratio, two point fifty nine
- 48:18Speaker 2: batting average allowed in seven eighteen ohps. So A Bueller
- 48:21Speaker 2: does have okay numbers against San Diego in a huge
- 48:24Speaker 2: sample size, but I still don't trust him. And some
- 48:26Speaker 2: of that was back when he was a better pitcher too,
- 48:28Speaker 2: So you got to keep that in mind. That Walker
- 48:31Speaker 2: Bueller's recent form I think does matter more than some
- 48:34Speaker 2: of his historical numbers because he's just a completely different pitcher.
- 48:37Speaker 1: He's way worse.
- 48:38Speaker 2: Nick Pavetta, former Red Sox pitchers pitching for the Padres
- 48:42Speaker 2: really good season two point seven to three e.
- 48:45Speaker 1: RA point nine four whip. He's been excellent at home
- 48:48Speaker 1: one point nine to ninety RRA at home. He's allowed
- 48:50Speaker 1: no more than touring runs in any start going all
- 48:52Speaker 1: the way back to late June. He's allowed more than
- 48:55Speaker 1: touring runs only once since late June as well.
- 49:00Speaker 2: Actually, so he's pitching really really well here. Padres have
- 49:04Speaker 2: won five of his last seven starts. I think it's
- 49:06Speaker 2: with that are four of his last No, yeah, it's
- 49:08Speaker 2: five of his last seven. Probably should have won more
- 49:10Speaker 2: because he hasn't been bad in any of those starts,
- 49:14Speaker 2: going at least six innings in all.
- 49:15Speaker 1: But one of them.
- 49:16Speaker 2: Too. He's dominating thirty to eight strike a walk ratio
- 49:19Speaker 2: over the in July, I should say, and then thirty
- 49:23Speaker 2: five to eight if you include his most recent start,
- 49:26Speaker 2: which was a one hit performance against Saint Louis and
- 49:29Speaker 2: early in August seven inning performance, really really good stuff
- 49:33Speaker 2: against the Red Sox. Only two hitters have seen him before,
- 49:37Speaker 2: Bregman and Story, but they have twelve at bats and
- 49:39Speaker 2: they have hit him four to seventeen batting average. Bregman
- 49:43Speaker 2: has homered off him once. I they each have a
- 49:45Speaker 2: triple off of him four to seventeen average in one
- 49:47Speaker 2: five hundred oh ps ap A. Veta hasn't been good
- 49:50Speaker 2: against those two Red Sox hitters, but the rest of
- 49:52Speaker 2: the Red Sox hitters.
- 49:53Speaker 1: Have never even seen it before.
- 49:55Speaker 2: I know the money in this game is coming in
- 49:56Speaker 2: on the Red Sox, but I find it hard to
- 49:58Speaker 2: really agree with that because I think San Diego has
- 50:01Speaker 2: the pitching edge across the board here. There's no way
- 50:03Speaker 2: I would have my money on Walker Bueller San Diego
- 50:06Speaker 2: down for minus one sixty five to minus one sixty
- 50:08Speaker 2: though fifty six percent of tickets on them, sixty nine
- 50:11Speaker 2: percent of the cash coming in on the red sox.
- 50:12Speaker 2: Of course, some of.
- 50:13Speaker 1: That is about the price.
- 50:15Speaker 2: And maybe thinking that it's too much of a price
- 50:17Speaker 2: to land San Diego. But I don't want any part
- 50:20Speaker 2: of it, man, But that is what the money is saying.
- 50:22Speaker 2: That money's coming in on the red sox side, and
- 50:26Speaker 2: that seems to be the big market indicator in that game.
- 50:28Speaker 2: Colorado at Arizona, Arizona staying at home, coming off a
- 50:32Speaker 2: couple of losses San Diego.
- 50:34Speaker 1: They had three wins.
- 50:35Speaker 2: In a row, but since the trade deadline they lost
- 50:37Speaker 2: all their other games.
- 50:38Speaker 1: So Arizona seems like.
- 50:39Speaker 2: A team not really totally focused, you know, just playing
- 50:44Speaker 2: out the stretch. I don't think Colorado's really a team
- 50:46Speaker 2: that's gonna draw their focus either, coming off of that
- 50:49Speaker 2: big San Diego series for Arizona there, Colorado is coming
- 50:53Speaker 2: off an unbelievably embarrassing series against Toronto where Toronto scored
- 50:58Speaker 2: forty five runs on sixty three hits against them, and
- 51:02Speaker 2: the Rockies themselves only scored six runs of that entire series.
- 51:06Speaker 1: That's unbelievably embarrassing.
- 51:08Speaker 2: So going out on the road facing a division foe,
- 51:11Speaker 2: I actually think that might focus the Rockies a little
- 51:13Speaker 2: bit here. So situationally, it seems like it might not
- 51:16Speaker 2: be a bad spot to maybe consider grabbing the Rockies
- 51:19Speaker 2: as like a run line underdog, because you know they're
- 51:21Speaker 2: gonna be a huge underdog.
- 51:22Speaker 1: Zach, what's up man? Thanks for hanging out.
- 51:25Speaker 2: I haven't talked about the Kansas City game yet because
- 51:27Speaker 2: I'm actually gonna have a play on that game Colorado
- 51:31Speaker 2: Arizona anyway, yet Gombers pitching for Colorado, I mean he's
- 51:35Speaker 2: at least not their worst starter or six point one
- 51:38Speaker 2: eight r a one point six whip. He's been better
- 51:41Speaker 2: on the road four point nine one around the road.
- 51:43Speaker 2: He hasn't pitched that much yet this year because he
- 51:45Speaker 2: was injured to start this season, so he came back
- 51:48Speaker 2: not that long ago, and he's only won.
- 51:51Speaker 1: The Rockies have only won two of.
- 51:53Speaker 2: His starts, so one of them was his first start
- 51:55Speaker 2: and one of them was his most recent start. Yes,
- 51:57Speaker 2: it was against a bad Pittsburgh lineup. Arizona is certainly
- 52:01Speaker 2: a step up in class offensively, they're still obviously the
- 52:03Speaker 2: way better hitting team over the Rockies here. Arizona is
- 52:06Speaker 2: a bad bullpenal, though so does Colorado, so the bullpens
- 52:09Speaker 2: are kind of a wash, though maybe Arizona is actually
- 52:13Speaker 2: slightly better Gomber. That last start wasn't too bad though
- 52:16Speaker 2: at home, even against Pittsburgh five to one strangle walk
- 52:19Speaker 2: Raceyer because course field it's you know, it's tough for
- 52:21Speaker 2: some pitchers to pitch there. Five to one struggle walk
- 52:24Speaker 2: ra Show in that game wasn't that bad. Three or
- 52:26Speaker 2: in runs allowed not that bad either up against Arizona,
- 52:30Speaker 2: though Arizona's a decent hitting team, man hasn't done well
- 52:34Speaker 2: against them in one hundred and eight at bats fourteen
- 52:36Speaker 2: to three strike a walk race Yo is good, but
- 52:38Speaker 2: he's alloted eight home runs to them. Three of them
- 52:40Speaker 2: are Marte, who's ten for twenty six off him, so
- 52:44Speaker 2: could consider looking for some player props there with him
- 52:46Speaker 2: or Corbyn Carroll six for thirteen off him with a
- 52:48Speaker 2: couple of home runs. Guriel also five for sevent team
- 52:52Speaker 2: in the home run so there's even though Arizona traded
- 52:54Speaker 2: some guys in the trade deadline and their offense did
- 52:57Speaker 2: get weakened a little bit.
- 52:58Speaker 1: They still have good hitters on this team.
- 53:00Speaker 2: Gombert does have a fourteen to three strike a walk
- 53:02Speaker 2: ratio against him, but a two ninety six average allowed
- 53:05Speaker 2: eight ninety nine ohps, so overall he does not do
- 53:08Speaker 2: well against Arizona. Zach Gallon pitching for Arizona, having a
- 53:12Speaker 2: pretty ugly season Man worse than what he's done in
- 53:15Speaker 2: the past by far five point four eightyr one point
- 53:18Speaker 2: three to six with he just can't seem to get
- 53:19Speaker 2: it together. He's been bad at home five point nine
- 53:22Speaker 2: eighty R at home pitch well last time out against
- 53:25Speaker 2: the A's in that tough A's stadium, went six innings,
- 53:29Speaker 2: allowing a two hour in runs three strike cuts. While
- 53:31Speaker 2: wasn't very impressive, but no walks, didn't allow nine hits,
- 53:34Speaker 2: so he got hit a little bit hard in that game.
- 53:36Speaker 1: His strikeout walk ratio has actually been pretty good.
- 53:38Speaker 2: It was thirty three to five in July, but he
- 53:40Speaker 2: allowed a lot of runs five point one ERA. Although
- 53:45Speaker 2: it seems to me like he's getting a little bit
- 53:46Speaker 2: unlucky man because he wasn't allowing that many hits so
- 53:50Speaker 2: and he wasn't obviously, like I said, he wasn't walking
- 53:52Speaker 2: a lot of guys, so what was he doing. I
- 53:54Speaker 2: don't know, man, I think he was getting a little
- 53:55Speaker 2: bit unlucky to some extent here. He's facing this weak
- 53:58Speaker 2: Colorado office, but actually has good numbers against him in
- 54:02Speaker 2: seventy five at bats fourteen to three strike a walk ratio.
- 54:05Speaker 2: Both starting pitchers, I think have that same ratio there.
- 54:09Speaker 2: But he's allowed seven home runs that are pretty small.
- 54:12Speaker 2: I mean, it's a small sample size for having allowed
- 54:14Speaker 2: seven home runs. Let's just put it that way. Seven
- 54:16Speaker 2: home runs and seventy five at bats is a lot
- 54:18Speaker 2: of home runs. So some of these hitters on the
- 54:21Speaker 2: Rockies hit Gallon pretty well. Montiac four for nine and
- 54:25Speaker 2: two of them runs off him. He's allowed of three
- 54:27Speaker 2: to zero seven average one thousand ops against the Rockies.
- 54:32Speaker 1: So I mean that's kind of crazy, man.
- 54:34Speaker 2: Both starting pitchers look like they get kind of beat
- 54:37Speaker 2: up here, man, against these offenses. So slightly into Colorado
- 54:43Speaker 2: if you want to play on this on the situation there,
- 54:45Speaker 2: but maybe first five inning, well I don't know, man,
- 54:48Speaker 2: because they're gonna be an embarrassed team, so they might
- 54:51Speaker 2: come out and just play. Maybe you do it full game,
- 54:53Speaker 2: taking the run line price, Arizona's up for minus two
- 54:56Speaker 2: fifteen to minus two twenty nine, though eighty percent of
- 54:58Speaker 2: tickets ninety two percent of the cash coming in Arizona.
- 55:00Speaker 2: I wouldn't want to lay a price like that with Arizona.
- 55:02Speaker 2: I mean, you're always getting charged to play any Rockies
- 55:05Speaker 2: opponent really at this point, but I think maybe the
- 55:09Speaker 2: better way to go with this game is the over
- 55:11Speaker 2: ninety eight percent of tickets nine to nine percent of
- 55:13Speaker 2: the cash coming on the over. The totals at nine,
- 55:16Speaker 2: I don't mind the over in that one man. Both
- 55:18Speaker 2: bullpens suck, even though I know they're rested. Both starting
- 55:22Speaker 2: pitchers have bad matchup numbers, and they're both pretty untrustworthy, so.
- 55:26Speaker 1: It over makes sense.
- 55:27Speaker 2: Tampa Seattle is gonna be the last play I actually
- 55:29Speaker 2: give out, so I'll do that in a second.
- 55:32Speaker 1: Toronto at the Dodgers.
- 55:34Speaker 2: Dodgers are staying at home off a kind of an
- 55:36Speaker 2: ugly series against Saint Louis. I think the Dodgers probably
- 55:39Speaker 2: have a little bit of a situation allege here. Yeah, obviously,
- 55:43Speaker 2: if you're playing the Dodgers, you're gonna be focused on them.
- 55:45Speaker 2: But Toronto's coming off that ridiculous series that I just
- 55:48Speaker 2: mentioned with forty five runs on sixty three hits.
- 55:51Speaker 1: Absolutely smoke in Colorado.
- 55:53Speaker 2: I mean, when you do that, you gotta be feeling
- 55:55Speaker 2: really high in yourselves, even if it was against a
- 55:57Speaker 2: historically bad Rocky team.
- 55:59Speaker 1: So it might be in a little bit of a
- 56:01Speaker 1: letdown spot.
- 56:02Speaker 2: They're having to travel out from elevation now out to
- 56:04Speaker 2: the Pacific coast, so the travel disadvantage is kind of
- 56:08Speaker 2: there for Toronto as well. Toronto has the better bullpen,
- 56:11Speaker 2: the Dodgers have the better hitting in this game. Starting
- 56:16Speaker 2: pitching matchup looks like we've traveled back in time here man,
- 56:19Speaker 2: to several years ago or more, because this is Max
- 56:23Speaker 2: Schurzer against Clayton Kershaw. This is crazy, man. So we
- 56:26Speaker 2: have two guys that are past their prime here that
- 56:28Speaker 2: were elite in their prime. Schurzer for Toronto is starting
- 56:32Speaker 2: to pitch pretty well recently. He's got a four point
- 56:34Speaker 2: three to nine ERA but a pretty good one point
- 56:37Speaker 2: zero five whips, so he's pitching a little bit better
- 56:39Speaker 2: than his era would suggest. He's only been slightly worse
- 56:42Speaker 2: on the road. His last two starts have been excellent
- 56:44Speaker 2: with sixteen strikeouts and no walks in thirteen innings, only
- 56:48Speaker 2: allowing eight hits, four and runs total.
- 56:51Speaker 1: The home run ball.
- 56:52Speaker 2: Has been a bit of an issue for him so far,
- 56:53Speaker 2: but his command has pretty much been there. He hasn't
- 56:56Speaker 2: allowed that many hits either. He's obviously, like I said,
- 57:00Speaker 2: he's not walking a lot of guys. He's got a
- 57:01Speaker 2: decent strikeout rate, So Schrezer is still pitching pretty effectively.
- 57:05Speaker 2: I think his numbers overall, like his peripherals and whatever,
- 57:08Speaker 2: actually better than Kershaw's, even though this year, even though
- 57:10Speaker 2: he's a little bit older, Kershaw trying to come back
- 57:12Speaker 2: from injury shures, are good numbers against the Dodgers in
- 57:16Speaker 2: his career to a huge one hundred and seventy one
- 57:18Speaker 2: at bat sample size, though fifty four to twenty six
- 57:20Speaker 2: string a walk ratio a little bit ify. The nine
- 57:23Speaker 2: home runs are a little bit ify al though seven
- 57:26Speaker 2: of them are confort To and Freeman, and Freeman doesn't
- 57:29Speaker 2: have a good batting average against him, only eleven for
- 57:32Speaker 2: fifty three. Conforto does hit him well, though twelve to
- 57:35Speaker 2: thirty nine five walks in there as well. Freeman as
- 57:37Speaker 2: eight of the walks, so those two guys do most
- 57:40Speaker 2: of the damage to Shurs. He seld them to a
- 57:42Speaker 2: two twenty two average. Seven fifty eight ops is a
- 57:44Speaker 2: little bit high. And yes, I know most of these
- 57:48Speaker 2: numbers were in the past when Sureser was better than
- 57:50Speaker 2: he is now, so you got to take them with
- 57:52Speaker 2: a little bit of a grain of salt there. But
- 57:54Speaker 2: Schures are in good recent for him. I do actually
- 57:56Speaker 2: think he might pitch okay in this game. Kershaw pitching
- 57:59Speaker 2: for the Dog. His numbers are decent this year three
- 58:02Speaker 2: point two ninety R, one point two to five WHIP.
- 58:04Speaker 2: He's been worse at home though, four point three five
- 58:07Speaker 2: ERA at home coming off a good start where he
- 58:10Speaker 2: shut out Tampa Bay for six innings, only struck out three.
- 58:14Speaker 2: So his strikeout rate really isn't there, man. Schurzers strikeout
- 58:18Speaker 2: rate is there, Kershaw's is not. So you can tell
- 58:21Speaker 2: Kershaw like he's actually in the worst form right now
- 58:24Speaker 2: than than shres are is. Man, I think you can
- 58:28Speaker 2: kind of tell Kershaw's injury has kind of affected him
- 58:30Speaker 2: because he's only struck out forty two and sixty five
- 58:32Speaker 2: and two thirds this season. Eighteen walks wouldn't be that bad,
- 58:36Speaker 2: but the strikeout rate is just way down for Kershaw.
- 58:39Speaker 2: He failed to go five innings in his prior two
- 58:41Speaker 2: starts prior to that Tampa one against pretty good lineups
- 58:44Speaker 2: in Milwaukee and Boston, and he was coming off pitching
- 58:47Speaker 2: in the All Star Game. But still, I mean, he's
- 58:49Speaker 2: definitely in the lesser form right now than shurres are
- 58:52Speaker 2: is Man, So I do think Shreser has the upper
- 58:55Speaker 2: hand in the starting pitching matchup Kershaw against Toronto. You know,
- 58:58Speaker 2: he obviously has good numbers because hes been good throughout
- 59:00Speaker 2: his career forty three at bats, fifteen to four strike
- 59:03Speaker 2: a walk ratio one to eighty six average allowed in
- 59:06Speaker 2: five to eighty one ops. So Kershaw is the more
- 59:09Speaker 2: unfamiliar of the two pitchers to these hitters, uh to
- 59:12Speaker 2: some extent, But he is in the worst form man.
- 59:15Speaker 2: So again, a lot of those stats that were looking
- 59:17Speaker 2: at the historical stats, most of them were before these
- 59:21Speaker 2: two pictures, are in the form that they are right now,
- 59:22Speaker 2: So I think recent form does matter more here. So
- 59:26Speaker 2: I would lean to Toronto earlier in this game, just
- 59:28Speaker 2: because I think Schrezer does have the upper hand in
- 59:31Speaker 2: the starting pitching matchup, and the money is agreeing with that.
- 59:34Speaker 2: Even though I think you know Toronto potentially could be
- 59:36Speaker 2: in a letdown spot of what they just did to Colorado,
- 59:38Speaker 2: but still they'll focus on the Dodgers. Dodgers down for
- 59:42Speaker 2: minus one fifty two to minus one thirty fifty eight
- 59:44Speaker 2: percent of the tickets eighty five percent of the cash
- 59:46Speaker 2: on Toronto's are a pretty strong read in the market
- 59:49Speaker 2: on Toronto on the side there, I would limit actually,
- 59:52Speaker 2: you know what, I would not.
- 59:53Speaker 1: Limit it to first five innings. What am I saying?
- 59:55Speaker 2: I would go full game on that because Toronto has
- 59:57Speaker 2: the better bullpen too, so I think Toronto does have
- 59:59Speaker 2: a pitching throughout this game. So yeah, I would agree
- 1:00:02Speaker 2: with that full game on Toronto as an underdog there,
- 1:00:04Speaker 2: you know, you're always paying a price for the Dodgers,
- 1:00:07Speaker 2: although the Toronto has been a pretty good team too,
- 1:00:09Speaker 2: and they do have a guy that has a lot
- 1:00:11Speaker 2: of name recognition on the mound for them too. Money
- 1:00:14Speaker 2: also coming in a little bit on the under down
- 1:00:16Speaker 2: from nine to nine juice to the under, seventy four
- 1:00:18Speaker 2: percent of tickets seventy on the over, seventy five percent
- 1:00:21Speaker 2: of the cash on the under though, so some somewhat
- 1:00:24Speaker 2: strong indicators in the under as well. If you went under,
- 1:00:27Speaker 2: I would go first five innings, and you're starting to
- 1:00:28Speaker 2: lose the key number nine on the full game. Two
- 1:00:31Speaker 2: first five innings, you can get it under.
- 1:00:32Speaker 1: Four four and a half.
- 1:00:34Speaker 2: Maybe both pitchers will do well in this uh in
- 1:00:36Speaker 2: this game, so that might be the lean in that game.
- 1:00:39Speaker 2: Washington at San Francisco. Both teams are traveling out to
- 1:00:43Speaker 2: the Pacific coast here. San Francisco was in New York
- 1:00:46Speaker 2: and then Pittsburgh, and out of their returning home, San Francisco
- 1:00:49Speaker 2: won both those series. They actually started playing a little
- 1:00:51Speaker 2: bit better again here, but they're returning over from a
- 1:00:54Speaker 2: road trip playing a bad team like Washington.
- 1:00:57Speaker 1: That's not really going to draw your focus.
- 1:00:59Speaker 2: San francis going to a little bit of a bad
- 1:01:01Speaker 2: spot for that reason. But Washington is traveling cross country
- 1:01:04Speaker 2: and they're gonna have to adjust to the time zone difference,
- 1:01:06Speaker 2: so that's a.
- 1:01:07Speaker 1: Little bit of an issue for them too.
- 1:01:08Speaker 2: Even though it is the first game of a road
- 1:01:10Speaker 2: trip and you usually our focus to start a road trip.
- 1:01:13Speaker 2: The travel spots not great for either team, but San
- 1:01:15Speaker 2: Francisco might have that added distraction of the return home spot.
- 1:01:20Speaker 2: Washington playing bad baseball, though recently really bad baseball. They've
- 1:01:24Speaker 2: lost seven of their last eight games or whatever. They
- 1:01:26Speaker 2: got one win in that recent series against the A's. Yeah,
- 1:01:31Speaker 2: I don't know if I have anything else to really
- 1:01:32Speaker 2: say about that. San Francisco obviously has the way better bullpen.
- 1:01:35Speaker 2: This is basically the best bullpen, one of the best
- 1:01:38Speaker 2: bullpens in baseball against one of the worst. Not the
- 1:01:40Speaker 2: best against the worst anymore, but a top three bullpen
- 1:01:43Speaker 2: against a bottom three bullpen. San Francisco is a big
- 1:01:46Speaker 2: bullpen edge here. I actually think San Francisco their offense,
- 1:01:49Speaker 2: even though they stink, they're actually not that much worse
- 1:01:51Speaker 2: than Washington. So Washington I would probably only give a
- 1:01:54Speaker 2: slight offensive edge in this game as well. Starting pitching
- 1:01:58Speaker 2: is tough to gauge, man, because I don't like either
- 1:02:00Speaker 2: of these guys. Jake Irvin pitching for Washington four point
- 1:02:03Speaker 2: eight to ninety RA one point three to three whip
- 1:02:05Speaker 2: not that good, five point zero six ROADYRA not good.
- 1:02:09Speaker 1: He's in bad on the road.
- 1:02:10Speaker 2: His last start wasn't good against Milwaukee five and runs
- 1:02:13Speaker 2: a lot of four innings, two walks, eight hits, two strikeouts.
- 1:02:16Speaker 1: That's not gonna cut it.
- 1:02:17Speaker 2: He had a good start against Minnesota the start before that,
- 1:02:20Speaker 2: but struggling against Cincinnati the start before that. Kind of
- 1:02:23Speaker 2: struggled in most of the recent starts prior to that.
- 1:02:26Speaker 2: So he's walking a lot of guys. He's not really
- 1:02:28Speaker 2: in good form. Man seventeen to thirteen strike a walk
- 1:02:31Speaker 2: ratios is the start of July. I don't really trust
- 1:02:34Speaker 2: Irvin here up against San Francisco, who's not a very
- 1:02:37Speaker 2: good lineup. He's been mediocre against them in fifty at
- 1:02:40Speaker 2: bats fourteen to two strike a walk ratio is good,
- 1:02:44Speaker 2: two sixty batting average and seven to twenty eight ops
- 1:02:47Speaker 2: though so.
- 1:02:49Speaker 1: Mediocre.
- 1:02:50Speaker 2: Numbers again against San Francisco. Not horrible, but not great either.
- 1:02:54Speaker 2: Kaiwai Tang is the listed started for San Francisco who
- 1:02:57Speaker 2: is a converted reliever. He's made one start so far.
- 1:03:01Speaker 2: I believe he's made only one appearance this year so far.
- 1:03:04Speaker 2: He hadn't appeared since last year, where he appeared in
- 1:03:08Speaker 2: all bullpen appearances last year. He's a young pitcher in
- 1:03:12Speaker 2: San Francisco. Does see something in this guy. I think
- 1:03:14Speaker 2: he has like kind of a diverse pitching arsenal, but
- 1:03:17Speaker 2: it has not worked out so far. His only appearance
- 1:03:21Speaker 2: this year start against the Mets was bad. He went
- 1:03:23Speaker 2: three and a third, allowed five or in runs, three
- 1:03:25Speaker 2: walks for strikeouts. I don't expect him to go deep
- 1:03:28Speaker 2: into this game. I expect him to probably be out
- 1:03:30Speaker 2: of this game by around the fourth inning again in
- 1:03:32Speaker 2: this one, because I just don't even know if he's
- 1:03:34Speaker 2: a guy that goes deep into games or not. At
- 1:03:36Speaker 2: this point, I have no idea Washington. Only two of
- 1:03:39Speaker 2: their hitters I've ever seen him before, and they're zero
- 1:03:41Speaker 2: for three Garcia and Young with no other stats at all.
- 1:03:45Speaker 2: But even so, I don't think we could really trust
- 1:03:48Speaker 2: k Tang here either, so I mean to me, even
- 1:03:53Speaker 2: though I know these are fairly weak offenses. To me,
- 1:03:56Speaker 2: I don't like these pitchers at all. So I'm thinking
- 1:03:58Speaker 2: an over could make sense here. I have one really
- 1:04:00Speaker 2: bad bullpen out of the two as well. The San
- 1:04:02Speaker 2: Francisco's bullpend could hurt your over a little bit. What
- 1:04:06Speaker 2: is the money saying on this? Oh, it looks like
- 1:04:08Speaker 2: San Francisco's undecided now, so I don't even know what
- 1:04:10Speaker 2: I would want to do in this game. It looks
- 1:04:12Speaker 2: like it might not be tanged now, so it's probably
- 1:04:14Speaker 2: gonna be a bullpend game for San Francisco, but at
- 1:04:16Speaker 2: least their bullpen is rested because again, all these games
- 1:04:19Speaker 2: that I just talked about, for the most part, these
- 1:04:21Speaker 2: teams didn't play yesterday. Except oh, actually, my mistake. I
- 1:04:25Speaker 2: gotta pay attention to this. Seattle played yesterday. Oh actually, crap,
- 1:04:30Speaker 2: that's gonna affect my my handicap on the Seattle Tampa
- 1:04:34Speaker 2: Bay game, isn't it. So hold on a second. So
- 1:04:37Speaker 2: we're gonna have to figure that out in this game.
- 1:04:39Speaker 2: We actually need to look at the bullpen usage. Washington
- 1:04:42Speaker 2: pitched yesterday. They actually used four relief pitchers yesterday, so
- 1:04:44Speaker 2: their bullpend definitely at a disadvantage here. San Francisco didn't
- 1:04:48Speaker 2: play yesterday, so there was a rest edge on the
- 1:04:51Speaker 2: side of San Francisco here too, so that.
- 1:04:53Speaker 1: Makes it a little bit more extreme.
- 1:04:54Speaker 2: So yeah, I would not want to look to the
- 1:04:56Speaker 2: Washington side, even though again San Francisco is returning from
- 1:05:00Speaker 2: a road trip.
- 1:05:01Speaker 1: San Francisco has the rest edge.
- 1:05:02Speaker 2: Tampa Bay has the rest edge over Seattle, which I'll
- 1:05:04Speaker 2: talk about in the Minica. Seattle also did play yesterday.
- 1:05:08Speaker 2: The White Sox played yesterday and Cleveland did not, So
- 1:05:11Speaker 2: that's another issue.
- 1:05:12Speaker 1: If you want to.
- 1:05:12Speaker 2: Like I said, I leaned to the White Sox first
- 1:05:15Speaker 2: five innings, but they played yesterday and Cleveland did not,
- 1:05:17Speaker 2: so that's another disadvantage for.
- 1:05:19Speaker 1: The White Sox there.
- 1:05:20Speaker 2: And then the other team that played yesterday is the A's,
- 1:05:23Speaker 2: So I'm sorry, man, I can't believe I forgot to
- 1:05:25Speaker 2: point that out. So the AA's actually have a rest
- 1:05:27Speaker 2: disadvantage against Baltimore as well. I mentioned that I kind
- 1:05:30Speaker 2: of leaned to the A's first five innings, but that
- 1:05:32Speaker 2: is another good reason to maybe stay off of that
- 1:05:34Speaker 2: because Baltimore does at least have a rest edge there.
- 1:05:37Speaker 1: All right, let's get into my place here.
- 1:05:39Speaker 2: The first one up is Miami in the first five
- 1:05:42Speaker 2: innings against the Braves. I know the Braves came to
- 1:05:45Speaker 2: play yesterday and they actually overcame an early deficit in
- 1:05:48Speaker 2: that game. And I was right about Miami first five yesterday,
- 1:05:52Speaker 2: and this game kind of looks similar to.
- 1:05:54Speaker 1: Me in this one.
- 1:05:54Speaker 2: Oh sorry, actually I forgot best bats. I apologize anyway. Miami, Yeah,
- 1:06:03Speaker 2: they did get their first five yesterday, which is a
- 1:06:05Speaker 2: lean I gave out on the show yesterday. And then
- 1:06:07Speaker 2: surprisingly in Miami blew it late because I actually like
- 1:06:11Speaker 2: I like Miami's bullpen a little bit better than Atlanta's
- 1:06:13Speaker 2: at this point, probably.
- 1:06:14Speaker 1: Although Atlanta.
- 1:06:17Speaker 2: Used fewer relievers yesterday, so Miami used more of their relievers.
- 1:06:20Speaker 2: So that is part of the reason why I'm going
- 1:06:22Speaker 2: to leave the bullpen's out of the equation. You're actually
- 1:06:24Speaker 2: Atlanta does have the better bullpen at this point, although
- 1:06:27Speaker 2: their bullpen e ray is really high though, So if
- 1:06:29Speaker 2: you look at ERA, it looks like, well, Miami kind
- 1:06:32Speaker 2: of has the better bullpen out of the two, but
- 1:06:34Speaker 2: if you look at Whip, Miami is the worst of
- 1:06:36Speaker 2: the two bullpens, so it's kind of hard to gauge.
- 1:06:38Speaker 2: I think Whip maybe is a better gauge actually, so
- 1:06:40Speaker 2: I kind of take that back. That's why I'm going
- 1:06:42Speaker 2: first five innings here. Miami has the less rested bullpen
- 1:06:46Speaker 2: and the slightly worse bullpen, so I'll take them out
- 1:06:47Speaker 2: of the equation. I actually think at this point Miami
- 1:06:50Speaker 2: has the better offense over Atlanta, But this is really
- 1:06:53Speaker 2: all about the starting pitching match up here. Man, I
- 1:06:55Speaker 2: think this is a starting pitching mismatch here and again Atlanta,
- 1:06:59Speaker 2: they've been playing like a team that knows that they're
- 1:07:01Speaker 2: out of it. Man, I mean, I know they won yesterday,
- 1:07:03Speaker 2: they've won some games in there, but they're playing some
- 1:07:05Speaker 2: pretty poor baseball here, man, so I don't really trust
- 1:07:09Speaker 2: them Miami. I know Miami's record, they're worse than the
- 1:07:13Speaker 2: record looks, and I know Atlanta is not as bad
- 1:07:15Speaker 2: as the record looks. But this late in the season,
- 1:07:17Speaker 2: you gotta look at motivation. Atlanta really doesn't have any left.
- 1:07:21Speaker 2: They look like a very unmotivated team for the most part,
- 1:07:23Speaker 2: even though they did come back and win yesterday. I
- 1:07:26Speaker 2: don't know if Miami is gonna be, you know, kind
- 1:07:28Speaker 2: of like if Miami's mental situation coming into this game
- 1:07:31Speaker 2: after blowing the game yesterday, if they're gonna be like
- 1:07:33Speaker 2: unfocused or anything like that. I don't think that will
- 1:07:35Speaker 2: happen because Miami was actually favored in the game yesterday,
- 1:07:39Speaker 2: so it's not like they almost pulled off some major
- 1:07:42Speaker 2: upset or anything like that. It's just crazy that Miami
- 1:07:45Speaker 2: is the team that's playing the better baseball this year
- 1:07:47Speaker 2: over Atlanta and they have like a double digit lead
- 1:07:50Speaker 2: I think in the record record wise over Atlanta in
- 1:07:53Speaker 2: the division, which is just insane. But in this spot, yeah,
- 1:07:57Speaker 2: I like the starting pitching matchup from Miami here man
- 1:07:59Speaker 2: Edward Cabrer. He's pitching well. Three point two to four R,
- 1:08:02Speaker 2: one point one to nine WHIP. He's not as good
- 1:08:04Speaker 2: as Uri Perez, but he's pitching well. They both strike
- 1:08:07Speaker 2: out a lot of guys. He's been a little bit
- 1:08:08Speaker 2: worse on the road, but three point eight niney ra
- 1:08:11Speaker 2: is still not that bad and it's a smaller sample
- 1:08:14Speaker 2: size on the road.
- 1:08:15Speaker 1: Last few starts, he's actually been quite good.
- 1:08:17Speaker 2: Strikeout rate's been really high month of July twenty seven
- 1:08:20Speaker 2: to four strike at walk ratio, and if you add
- 1:08:23Speaker 2: in his most recent start against the.
- 1:08:24Speaker 1: Yankees, of all teams.
- 1:08:26Speaker 2: His strike out walk ratio over the last six starts
- 1:08:30Speaker 2: is thirty four to five. So he's been striking out
- 1:08:33Speaker 2: a lot of guys, not walking a lot of guys.
- 1:08:36Speaker 2: His command is really good right now. He's allowed one
- 1:08:38Speaker 2: on and run a piece in three straight starts, including
- 1:08:40Speaker 2: that one against the Yankees where he two hit them.
- 1:08:43Speaker 2: So he's pitching well and he's doing it against some
- 1:08:46Speaker 2: decent teams in the mix there too, So Cabrera is
- 1:08:50Speaker 2: definitely pitching well. He did have one bad start against
- 1:08:52Speaker 2: Baltimore in the mix there, but all the other starts
- 1:08:54Speaker 2: he allowed two or fewer runs going all the way
- 1:08:56Speaker 2: back to mid May, and he's allowed more than four
- 1:09:01Speaker 2: in run.
- 1:09:01Speaker 1: He didn't allow more than four. He didn't allow more.
- 1:09:04Speaker 2: Than three runs in any other start going all the
- 1:09:06Speaker 2: way back to April twenty eighth. So he's having a
- 1:09:10Speaker 2: really good season overall. And against Atlanta he's pretty much
- 1:09:13Speaker 2: held them down. In thirty four at best, thirteen to
- 1:09:15Speaker 2: five straight walk race here two thirty five average a
- 1:09:18Speaker 2: lot seven to forty five ops, so just getting a
- 1:09:20Speaker 2: little bit high.
- 1:09:21Speaker 1: But it's still not that high.
- 1:09:22Speaker 2: Murphy does have a home run off him, that's his
- 1:09:24Speaker 2: only hit off him, and Akuna has heard again, I believe,
- 1:09:27Speaker 2: so that weakens Atlanta's offense a bit there. He's not
- 1:09:30Speaker 2: listed in that sheet there, which I believe means he's
- 1:09:33Speaker 2: not active. Bryce Elder is pitching for Atlanta. This guy,
- 1:09:37Speaker 2: he's been awful, dude, six point zero three ERA one
- 1:09:40Speaker 2: point five to six. And I know we said Cabrera
- 1:09:44Speaker 2: is kind of in the worst of his splits, but
- 1:09:46Speaker 2: look at Bryce Elder. He has a six point five
- 1:09:48Speaker 2: to four homeyra, so he's also in the worst of
- 1:09:50Speaker 2: his splits, and he's worse. Overall, he's been miserable pretty
- 1:09:54Speaker 2: much the entire season. Over the past month plus, he's
- 1:09:58Speaker 2: had a twenty one to thirteen strike a walk ratio
- 1:10:02Speaker 2: going back to the beginning of July, which is not good. Yes,
- 1:10:05Speaker 2: he pitched better last time out against Cincinnati, surprisingly holding
- 1:10:09Speaker 2: them to tour in runs in six to two thirds,
- 1:10:11Speaker 2: five strikeouts, two walks. I'm not ready to say that
- 1:10:14Speaker 2: he's bouncing back right and they were coming back into
- 1:10:16Speaker 2: four because he did have a similar decent start at
- 1:10:18Speaker 2: the A's Stadium.
- 1:10:19Speaker 1: So it's like he's.
- 1:10:20Speaker 2: Pitching well in these hitter friendly ballparks for whatever reason.
- 1:10:24Speaker 2: But then he's and those are on the road too,
- 1:10:26Speaker 2: and then he's coming back home and he's blowing. He
- 1:10:29Speaker 2: was bad against Anaheim, against San Francisco. These recent home starts,
- 1:10:32Speaker 2: he's been bad. He had one really bad roads to
- 1:10:34Speaker 2: start against Texas in the mix there too. He's just
- 1:10:37Speaker 2: not pitching well, man. I mean, there's nothing else to
- 1:10:39Speaker 2: really say about it. He's allowing a lot of runs,
- 1:10:41Speaker 2: a lot of base runners. His numbers against Miami are
- 1:10:43Speaker 2: bad too, and twenty three at bats. I know it's
- 1:10:45Speaker 2: not a big sample size three ninety one average nine
- 1:10:48Speaker 2: thirty eight.
- 1:10:49Speaker 1: Ops.
- 1:10:49Speaker 2: So we're gonna fade Elder here. Cabrera is the way
- 1:10:52Speaker 2: better of the two pitchers. I just look at this
- 1:10:55Speaker 2: starting pitching matchup and I'm like, you gotta go with
- 1:10:57Speaker 2: Miami here. The money was coming in on Miami early.
- 1:11:00Speaker 2: They're out for minus one oh two to minus one
- 1:11:01Speaker 2: twenty six now, but eighty four percent of tickets, only
- 1:11:04Speaker 2: seventy seven percent of the cash. It looks like it's
- 1:11:06Speaker 2: another situation where the professional money is coming in on Atlanta.
- 1:11:10Speaker 1: Just again, I think.
- 1:11:11Speaker 2: Saying, well, the records are misleading here in Miami is
- 1:11:14Speaker 2: not as good as.
- 1:11:15Speaker 1: The record looks, and Atlanta's not as bad as the
- 1:11:17Speaker 1: record looks.
- 1:11:17Speaker 2: And yes, I understand all that, and I guess that's
- 1:11:20Speaker 2: why the professionals are coming back and taking Atlanta at
- 1:11:22Speaker 2: the bigger underdog price. But again, I don't agree with it,
- 1:11:25Speaker 2: and I'm limiting it, limiting it to just the first
- 1:11:27Speaker 2: five innings here, and I'm going run line on it
- 1:11:30Speaker 2: because the favorite price was too a little bit too high,
- 1:11:34Speaker 2: like I saw it minus one thirty five on the
- 1:11:36Speaker 2: money line. On the money line, I mean, if you
- 1:11:37Speaker 2: want to do that, that's okay too. If you want
- 1:11:39Speaker 2: to go Miami first five money line minus one thirty five.
- 1:11:42Speaker 2: You can do that, and then if they wind up
- 1:11:44Speaker 2: in a tide game after five, your bet will push.
- 1:11:47Speaker 2: We need Miami to be winning after five. But I'm
- 1:11:50Speaker 2: still gonna go with it minus a half run. You
- 1:11:52Speaker 2: can get at a cheaper price at plus one of five.
- 1:11:54Speaker 2: So that's play number one here. Let's try to get
- 1:11:56Speaker 2: through this because I'm still gonna talk NFL preseason, but
- 1:11:58Speaker 2: I'm gonna make that quick.
- 1:12:00Speaker 1: Next up is gonna be a total. I have two
- 1:12:03Speaker 1: totals and two sides here, Kansas City.
- 1:12:05Speaker 2: Here you go, Zach Royals, twins under the total, and
- 1:12:09Speaker 2: the market is completely disagree with me on this.
- 1:12:11Speaker 1: It's up from seven and a half to eight, like
- 1:12:13Speaker 1: significantly juiced to the over.
- 1:12:15Speaker 2: So I think you can get you might be able
- 1:12:16Speaker 2: to get under nine on this man. At that point, Yeah,
- 1:12:19Speaker 2: I think we're going We're gonna go under here. Man,
- 1:12:21Speaker 2: fifty percent of tickets are on the under, but seventy
- 1:12:23Speaker 2: three percent of the.
- 1:12:24Speaker 1: Cash on the over.
- 1:12:25Speaker 2: I don't understand this, man, because you have two pretty
- 1:12:28Speaker 2: weak offenses. For the most part of Minnesota's is better
- 1:12:31Speaker 2: than Kansas City's. Kansas City is a very bad offense.
- 1:12:33Speaker 2: Minnesota's is mediocre, but remember they did sell off a
- 1:12:36Speaker 2: little bit at the trade deadline. Yes, I know Minnesota's
- 1:12:39Speaker 2: sold some of their bullpen off as well. Their bullpen
- 1:12:42Speaker 2: is bad, Kansas City's bullpen is decent, but still we
- 1:12:46Speaker 2: have rested bullpens. So that's part of this handicap. Not
- 1:12:49Speaker 2: great offenses rested bullpens. Because neither team played yesterday, Minnesota's
- 1:12:53Speaker 2: kind of in a little bit of a letdown spot
- 1:12:55Speaker 2: because they did just beat Detroit a couple of times,
- 1:12:58Speaker 2: and they're returning home from a road trip, which can
- 1:13:00Speaker 2: affect the offensive timing as well. Man, when you come
- 1:13:02Speaker 2: home somewhat of a distracted spot. Even though I know
- 1:13:05Speaker 2: it's Kansas City who's ahead of them in the division,
- 1:13:07Speaker 2: so they might want to try.
- 1:13:08Speaker 1: To spoil Kansas City season.
- 1:13:10Speaker 2: But even so, it is still a return home spot
- 1:13:13Speaker 2: for kind of a deflated Minnesota team, So I think
- 1:13:16Speaker 2: that their hitting might be a little bit distracted and
- 1:13:18Speaker 2: affected by that. Kansas City is in the better spot
- 1:13:21Speaker 2: for that reason. They're traveling in for Boston, but they're
- 1:13:24Speaker 2: kind of on this long road trip, man, so the
- 1:13:26Speaker 2: hitting might be a little bit weakened for that reason too, right,
- 1:13:29Speaker 2: because they can get a little.
- 1:13:30Speaker 1: Bit tired out throughout this road trip, so that's part
- 1:13:32Speaker 1: of the handicap as well.
- 1:13:34Speaker 2: I would agree with the Kansas City side slightly as well.
- 1:13:37Speaker 2: We see seventy seven percent of take a seventy nine
- 1:13:38Speaker 2: percent of the cash taking.
- 1:13:39Speaker 1: Kansas City.
- 1:13:40Speaker 2: They do have the better bullpend. I know Minnesota is
- 1:13:42Speaker 2: a better offense, but kans City has a better bullpan. Minnesota,
- 1:13:45Speaker 2: I think does have the better start of though Minnesota
- 1:13:48Speaker 2: down for minus one thirty to minus one twenty nine here, Zach, Yeah,
- 1:13:52Speaker 2: that's right. So I do agree with Kansas City on
- 1:13:55Speaker 2: the side slightly, but I prefer the under here man,
- 1:13:57Speaker 2: if you can get under nine. I know I'm going
- 1:13:59Speaker 2: against them market read here, but that's all the better man,
- 1:14:02Speaker 2: because I just don't I really just don't see it
- 1:14:05Speaker 2: as far as like, why would you be why would
- 1:14:07Speaker 2: be playing an over in this game?
- 1:14:08Speaker 1: Maybe wind is blowing out. I guess we should look
- 1:14:10Speaker 1: at look at the weather real quick. Here.
- 1:14:12Speaker 2: Again, I'm not actually gonna bet these because I am
- 1:14:16Speaker 2: trying to conserve my money right now and be less
- 1:14:18Speaker 2: risky as I'm pointing out, But I am handicapping these
- 1:14:20Speaker 2: as if I was going to bet them. Let's look
- 1:14:23Speaker 2: at the It's gonna be ninety degrees, so I know
- 1:14:26Speaker 2: that that does mean and the wind is blowing side
- 1:14:28Speaker 2: to side, right to left, so I don't know if
- 1:14:30Speaker 2: that really helps the hitting that much. In Minnesota, I'm
- 1:14:32Speaker 2: not really sure about that it's gonna be hot, which
- 1:14:35Speaker 2: I know that does.
- 1:14:37Speaker 1: When it's hot, it.
- 1:14:38Speaker 2: Is more conducive to an over, but the wind is
- 1:14:40Speaker 2: not blowing out and the starting pitching we have two
- 1:14:43Speaker 2: pretty good pictures on them on here man Seth Lugo. Again,
- 1:14:45Speaker 2: I know the analytics guys don't like him. Three point
- 1:14:48Speaker 2: oh sixty RA one point one five whip. The advanced
- 1:14:50Speaker 2: analytics guys don't like him. Yeah, he's slightly worse on
- 1:14:53Speaker 2: the road, but still three point four to seventy ray
- 1:14:55Speaker 2: is good.
- 1:14:56Speaker 1: Yeah. I know he's been shaky.
- 1:14:58Speaker 2: Over his last couple starts with the Kansas City's one
- 1:15:00Speaker 2: five of his last six starts, six of his last
- 1:15:02Speaker 2: seven actually, so.
- 1:15:03Speaker 1: He's holding them in games.
- 1:15:05Speaker 2: He's only allowed more than three on runs once over
- 1:15:07Speaker 2: that span, going all the way back to the end
- 1:15:09Speaker 2: of May, so he's holding opposing offenses in check Man.
- 1:15:13Speaker 2: He struggled with wildness a little bit over the last
- 1:15:15Speaker 2: couple of starts, walking eight and only striking out eight.
- 1:15:17Speaker 2: So yeah, I'm a little bit worried that his form
- 1:15:20Speaker 2: isn't the best right now. One was against the Braves.
- 1:15:23Speaker 2: One was against Toronto on the road. Toronto, pretty difficult
- 1:15:26Speaker 2: a line up to be facing there, and he didn't
- 1:15:29Speaker 2: make it five innings in that start. But overall, Logo
- 1:15:32Speaker 2: has still been pretty good, man. I mean, his strike
- 1:15:35Speaker 2: out walk ratio on the season is still pretty good.
- 1:15:37Speaker 2: He just normally doesn't walk a lot of guys, normally
- 1:15:39Speaker 2: doesn't allow a lot of hits. So I'm not ready
- 1:15:42Speaker 2: to say that he's like so out of form that
- 1:15:43Speaker 2: we're gonna completely lose him. Here against Minnesota and thirty
- 1:15:47Speaker 2: seven at bats, thirteen to five strike out walk ratio
- 1:15:49Speaker 2: is okay.
- 1:15:50Speaker 1: Two forty three average is good.
- 1:15:51Speaker 2: Seven ninety three oh ps is a little bit high,
- 1:15:53Speaker 2: but it's because two home runs from Vazkez are in there. Man,
- 1:15:57Speaker 2: if you take Vazquez out, I mean, it's pretty easy
- 1:15:59Speaker 2: to pitch around one hitter without him, and there Lugo
- 1:16:02Speaker 2: does have really good numbers against Minnesota, So I think
- 1:16:05Speaker 2: Lugo should do fine here. Joe Ryan, I mean, he's
- 1:16:08Speaker 2: been really good all year two point eight three ERA,
- 1:16:11Speaker 2: point nine to three whip.
- 1:16:13Speaker 1: He's pitching really well.
- 1:16:14Speaker 2: He is slightly worse at home, but still at three
- 1:16:16Speaker 2: point one three ERA is not something well I'm gonna say, oh,
- 1:16:18Speaker 2: he's terrible at home. He struggled a little bit kind
- 1:16:21Speaker 2: of around the All Star Game. He had one bad
- 1:16:23Speaker 2: start a couple of starts after he pitching the All
- 1:16:26Speaker 2: Star Game. He struggled against Washington for whatever reason. But
- 1:16:29Speaker 2: he pretty much bounced right back, and I was a
- 1:16:31Speaker 2: little bit worried because I'm like, well, what's Ryan's mental
- 1:16:34Speaker 2: state gonna be? I still went with the under in
- 1:16:36Speaker 2: his last start against Cleveland. It was a winner, so
- 1:16:38Speaker 2: he did get the win on that one, but he
- 1:16:40Speaker 2: pitched well. Because I was worried, I'm like, well, is
- 1:16:43Speaker 2: he gonna just be unfocused for the rest of the
- 1:16:45Speaker 2: season because they're not going anywhere because he didn't get
- 1:16:47Speaker 2: traded to a contender, or is he gonna, like, you know,
- 1:16:49Speaker 2: because that distraction isn't there anymore.
- 1:16:51Speaker 1: Now he knows he's gonna be.
- 1:16:52Speaker 2: On Minnesota for the rest of the year, he can
- 1:16:54Speaker 2: just focus on pitching for them and you know, pitching
- 1:16:57Speaker 2: for the remainder of the season. And I think it's
- 1:16:59Speaker 2: the ladder because he pitched well in that game against
- 1:17:01Speaker 2: Cleveland's six innings to earn runs, four strikeouts, one walk. Overall,
- 1:17:05Speaker 2: he's been really, really good for the most part. So
- 1:17:07Speaker 2: I mean, aside from that four and run before it's
- 1:17:10Speaker 2: against Washington, you have to go all the way back
- 1:17:12Speaker 2: to April to find any other start where he allowed
- 1:17:14Speaker 2: more than three runs.
- 1:17:16Speaker 1: So Ryan is pitching well.
- 1:17:17Speaker 2: He's going up against Kansas City here again in a
- 1:17:21Speaker 2: weak Kansas City offense, and he's pretty much held them down.
- 1:17:25Speaker 2: They've seen a lot of them one hundred and sixteen
- 1:17:26Speaker 2: at bats, so they are familiar with them. That still
- 1:17:28Speaker 2: hasn't helped them twenty four to five string a walker
- 1:17:31Speaker 2: as your won seventy two batting average five hundred oh
- 1:17:33Speaker 2: ps against Kansas City. So I do give Ryan the
- 1:17:36Speaker 2: edge of the starting pitching matchup. I think full game
- 1:17:39Speaker 2: starts to tilt towards Kansas City a little bit because
- 1:17:41Speaker 2: of the situation and.
- 1:17:43Speaker 1: Their bullpen edge.
- 1:17:44Speaker 2: But again I'm going under in this game, and I
- 1:17:46Speaker 2: think both starting pitchers do have the upper hand here,
- 1:17:49Speaker 2: the bullpends are at least rested. If you wanted to
- 1:17:51Speaker 2: go first five under and just focused on the starting
- 1:17:53Speaker 2: pitching matchup, I think you can do that as well.
- 1:17:55Speaker 2: But that's gonna be an under, and you might be
- 1:17:57Speaker 2: able to get it under nine, man, So I'll update
- 1:17:59Speaker 2: that if I can find it under nine right now,
- 1:18:01Speaker 2: I'll update that next up. It takes a while, and
- 1:18:04Speaker 2: I hate the fact that I have four plays. I'm
- 1:18:06Speaker 2: gonna have to put them all out on Instagram.
- 1:18:09Speaker 1: Fuck. Man, it's like a job and I don't get
- 1:18:11Speaker 1: paid for it.
- 1:18:12Speaker 2: Isn't that awesome? I should just bet against that I
- 1:18:14Speaker 2: at least do get paid for it, or find some
- 1:18:16Speaker 2: way to monetize all of this. Get me up to
- 1:18:18Speaker 2: five hundred subscribers. Man, Cubs, I'm gonna make a play
- 1:18:22Speaker 2: on the Cubs here, man, run line minus one and
- 1:18:24Speaker 2: a half at plus one fifteen.
- 1:18:25Speaker 1: I think the money line's kind of gotten away from us.
- 1:18:28Speaker 2: You gotta layle like minus one fifty minus one sixty
- 1:18:30Speaker 2: on the Cubs, But I just think they have too
- 1:18:32Speaker 2: much of an advantage here man, and the market's disagreeing.
- 1:18:35Speaker 2: Though seventy two percent of tickets, only seventy one percent
- 1:18:37Speaker 2: of the cash. The Cubs are down for minus one
- 1:18:39Speaker 2: fifty to minus one forty eight. I mean, if you
- 1:18:41Speaker 2: do want to play in the money line, you can
- 1:18:42Speaker 2: go ahead and do that. The money's coming into the
- 1:18:45Speaker 2: under in this game as well, fifty four percent of
- 1:18:47Speaker 2: tickets eighty one percent of the cash on the under.
- 1:18:50Speaker 2: But I'm focusing on the side here, man, because I
- 1:18:52Speaker 2: think the Cubs have just an edge across the board here.
- 1:18:55Speaker 2: They have a I believe they have a situational edge,
- 1:18:57Speaker 2: a starting pitching edge, a bulpen edge, the better bullpend here,
- 1:19:01Speaker 2: and they have the better offense too, So it's like it,
- 1:19:05Speaker 2: I mean, it just seems like you gotta do it.
- 1:19:06Speaker 2: You gotta play the Cubs here, even though I know
- 1:19:08Speaker 2: Saint Louis it's a big series for them because obviously
- 1:19:11Speaker 2: they're gonna be focused on the Cubs that are ahead
- 1:19:13Speaker 2: of them. But the Cubs need to show up too
- 1:19:15Speaker 2: because they're in a battle here right now. They need
- 1:19:17Speaker 2: to catch back up to Milwaukee and whatever. So I
- 1:19:19Speaker 2: think this is a big matchup.
- 1:19:20Speaker 1: Man.
- 1:19:21Speaker 2: Saint Louis is returning home for beating the Dodgers, so
- 1:19:24Speaker 2: they're returning over to the Pacific coast, which again shifting
- 1:19:27Speaker 2: time zones, it could be a distracted spot. You have
- 1:19:29Speaker 2: to get back home, So it's the dreaded return home
- 1:19:32Speaker 2: spot for Saint Louis. They're coming off beating the Dodgers,
- 1:19:35Speaker 2: so it could be a little bit of a letdown
- 1:19:36Speaker 2: spot and they have to try to with all those
- 1:19:38Speaker 2: distractions coming in, They have to try to maintain that
- 1:19:41Speaker 2: amount of effort this whole time coming into this game
- 1:19:43Speaker 2: against the Cubs. So that doesn't look good to me either.
- 1:19:46Speaker 2: The Cubs are starting a road trip and just going
- 1:19:48Speaker 2: to Saint Louis from Chicago, so the Cubs have a
- 1:19:51Speaker 2: much easier travel spot, very short travel and they just
- 1:19:54Speaker 2: broke a low street with the winner of the Cincinnati
- 1:19:57Speaker 2: Reds and not a very good series for the Cubs
- 1:19:58Speaker 2: against the Reds. So I think they're in a better
- 1:20:01Speaker 2: spot where they're certainly going to be focused here after
- 1:20:03Speaker 2: playing some pretty bad baseball fairly recently.
- 1:20:06Speaker 1: So I think the Cubs have the edge of the
- 1:20:08Speaker 1: situation here.
- 1:20:10Speaker 2: Again, they have the better bullpend, they have the better hitting,
- 1:20:13Speaker 2: and I like to start a pitching matchup a lot here.
- 1:20:15Speaker 2: Matthew Boyd has been dominant for the Cubs and I
- 1:20:17Speaker 2: know you have to pay a price for the Cubs
- 1:20:19Speaker 2: here because it is Boyd.
- 1:20:20Speaker 1: But two point three four ERA one point zero three
- 1:20:23Speaker 1: whip on the season.
- 1:20:24Speaker 2: Yeah, he's a little bit worse on the road two
- 1:20:26Speaker 2: point nine to sevn RA, but that's still really good.
- 1:20:29Speaker 2: He's been almost completely dominant recently, aside from one bad
- 1:20:33Speaker 2: start at Milwaukee that is a very good hitting team,
- 1:20:36Speaker 2: which I was surprised by that. I got caught with
- 1:20:38Speaker 2: an under in that game, which didn't work out for me,
- 1:20:41Speaker 2: so that was unfortunate. Aside from that start, the other
- 1:20:45Speaker 2: four of his last five starts were all shutouts. He
- 1:20:47Speaker 2: allowed no earned runs in any of them, and he
- 1:20:50Speaker 2: had a what is it, a's seventeen. I'm trying to
- 1:20:53Speaker 2: do the math here real quick. He had a twenty
- 1:20:56Speaker 2: nine to three strikeout walk or twenty nine nine to
- 1:21:00Speaker 2: two strikeout walk ratio over that span.
- 1:21:03Speaker 1: It's just crazy, man. He's been completely dominant.
- 1:21:06Speaker 2: Other than that one bad start against Milwaukee, has an
- 1:21:08Speaker 2: allowed more than two urn runs going all the way
- 1:21:11Speaker 2: back to May.
- 1:21:12Speaker 1: So yeah, he's completely dominating.
- 1:21:14Speaker 2: He faced Saint Louis recently twice and completely dominated them.
- 1:21:18Speaker 1: He shut them out twice in late June in and early.
- 1:21:23Speaker 2: In in early July, he completely dominated them for a
- 1:21:26Speaker 2: combined eleven innings, allowing six hits, no iron runs, twelve
- 1:21:30Speaker 2: strikeouts in one walk. So he absolutely dominated Saint Louis
- 1:21:33Speaker 2: twice second time out. It didn't even matter that Saint
- 1:21:35Speaker 2: Louis had just seen him. They still didn't really do
- 1:21:37Speaker 2: anything against him. So he dominates Saint Louis. And then
- 1:21:40Speaker 2: if you look at his numbers against Saint Louis.
- 1:21:42Speaker 1: Fifty six at bats, nineteen to.
- 1:21:44Speaker 2: Five, strike out walker ratio one forty three average allowed
- 1:21:47Speaker 2: for sixty three ops a lot, he has absolutely wrecked
- 1:21:51Speaker 2: Saint Louis.
- 1:21:51Speaker 1: He's dominated them.
- 1:21:53Speaker 2: And then he's up against McGreevy, who did have numbers
- 1:21:56Speaker 2: that I kind of liked when I was looking at him.
- 1:21:57Speaker 2: He's a young guy with I think some talent. He's
- 1:22:00Speaker 2: really started to pitch poorly. Five point EIGHTRA one point
- 1:22:03Speaker 2: two to three whip isn't that bad, but he's really
- 1:22:05Speaker 2: starting to struggle, and you want to talk about significant splits.
- 1:22:09Speaker 1: He's been way worse at home. I know it's a
- 1:22:10Speaker 1: small sample size, but six point eight sixty RA at home.
- 1:22:13Speaker 1: He's not getting it done at home.
- 1:22:16Speaker 2: He just pitched against San Diego twice and a lot
- 1:22:18Speaker 2: of eleven earned runs in ten and two thirds innings,
- 1:22:21Speaker 2: which is not a good sign, and allowed sixteen hits
- 1:22:23Speaker 2: over that span and only had a six to three
- 1:22:25Speaker 2: strike a walk ratiow. So he's not striking guys out.
- 1:22:28Speaker 2: He's not pitching well, not pitching well recently. He did
- 1:22:32Speaker 2: have one start against the Cubs this season, too, and
- 1:22:34Speaker 2: the Cubs dealt in one of his worst starts of
- 1:22:36Speaker 2: the season of his career. His second worst start was
- 1:22:41Speaker 2: here in the stadium. His two worst starts are both
- 1:22:43Speaker 2: in the stadium against San Diego and against this Cub
- 1:22:45Speaker 2: team four and two thirds innings. The Cubs smacked him
- 1:22:48Speaker 2: for seven hits, five and runs, only one strikeout in
- 1:22:51Speaker 2: one walk. So he got blasted by the Cubs. Cubs
- 1:22:55Speaker 2: hit him well, and of course that does mean the
- 1:22:57Speaker 2: Cubs have good numbers against him. In twenty three at
- 1:22:59Speaker 2: bad it's three forty eight average, eight fifty three ohbs,
- 1:23:02Speaker 2: one to one starting a walk ratio. I know it's
- 1:23:05Speaker 2: basically only one start, it's a small sample size, but
- 1:23:08Speaker 2: I think you gotta you gotta go with the Cubs there.
- 1:23:10Speaker 2: I think it's too much of an advantage for the
- 1:23:12Speaker 2: Cubs there. Man, it looks like they have just a
- 1:23:14Speaker 2: super super edge in that game. So I don't like
- 1:23:18Speaker 2: going on these public road favorites though. Man, I'm almost
- 1:23:21Speaker 2: never gonna do it when the money is like disagreeing
- 1:23:24Speaker 2: with you and going against you. Maybe the money is
- 1:23:27Speaker 2: just disagreeing with it because of the price, man, But
- 1:23:29Speaker 2: I think if you go with the run line, you
- 1:23:30Speaker 2: get a better price on it. But you do need
- 1:23:32Speaker 2: the Cubs to win by margin and dominate the game,
- 1:23:35Speaker 2: which hopefully will happen, and then Tampa Seattle. As I
- 1:23:38Speaker 2: did point out, Seattle did play yesterday, so I forgot
- 1:23:40Speaker 2: about that, but they're not traveling. They did go into
- 1:23:43Speaker 2: extra innings. It's a little bit of an issue because
- 1:23:45Speaker 2: I am gonna go with an under in this game.
- 1:23:48Speaker 2: But now that I'm thinking about it, I think we
- 1:23:49Speaker 2: might want to convert this to a first five inning under.
- 1:23:51Speaker 2: Hold on a minute, I wasn't thinking about this. I
- 1:23:54Speaker 2: handicapped this really quick. Seattle used all but one of
- 1:23:56Speaker 2: their relief pitchers, so I am worried about that. So
- 1:24:00Speaker 2: if you want to fade Seattle in this game, there
- 1:24:02Speaker 2: is something to that where the money is heavily coming
- 1:24:04Speaker 2: in on Tampa Seattle seventy one percent tickets on them,
- 1:24:06Speaker 2: sixty eight percent of the cash coming in on camp bus.
- 1:24:09Speaker 2: So the money is significantly coming in on Tampa Seattle
- 1:24:12Speaker 2: down for minus one thirty five to minus one seventeen.
- 1:24:14Speaker 1: So I do agree with that full game.
- 1:24:16Speaker 2: I think Tampa has a big time bullpen edge because
- 1:24:19Speaker 2: their bullpend isn't that much worse than Seattle's, although I
- 1:24:23Speaker 2: do think Seattle, I mean, Seattle does have the better hitting,
- 1:24:25Speaker 2: probably does have the better bullpend, but the bullpen is
- 1:24:27Speaker 2: completely unrested. So I'm gonna hold on a minute. I
- 1:24:31Speaker 2: might have to not play this game, actually, so hold on.
- 1:24:33Speaker 2: My apologies if that's the case, because I like the
- 1:24:36Speaker 2: under in this game.
- 1:24:37Speaker 1: But if we have to.
- 1:24:38Speaker 2: Go first five innings here, I was thinking both teams
- 1:24:40Speaker 2: were were rested, but Seattle played yesterday. Boy did they
- 1:24:44Speaker 2: not rest their bullpen. Let me see what's the best
- 1:24:46Speaker 2: we can get on the first five. Uh, you can
- 1:24:51Speaker 2: go under four at minus one fifteen, which I see
- 1:24:54Speaker 2: out there at bet MGM. MGM always lags behind. Man,
- 1:25:01Speaker 2: do I want to still give you that play?
- 1:25:03Speaker 1: Hmmm? I don't know.
- 1:25:07Speaker 2: I mean I kinda do because the fact that Seattle
- 1:25:09Speaker 2: UH did play yesterday doesn't mean that their bats could
- 1:25:12Speaker 2: be a little bit tired early on in the game.
- 1:25:17Speaker 2: I'm tempted to do it, but you you have to
- 1:25:19Speaker 2: really like look to try to find that number of
- 1:25:21Speaker 2: under four man. Should I give it out as a play? Yeah,
- 1:25:26Speaker 2: why not?
- 1:25:27Speaker 1: Let's do it. It is out there.
- 1:25:29Speaker 2: So hopefully you guys have like a book that lags
- 1:25:31Speaker 2: like that, because otherwise I would go up to about
- 1:25:33Speaker 2: minus one twenty on that, and otherwise I would probably
- 1:25:35Speaker 2: pass on that one. But so it's you know, it's
- 1:25:39Speaker 2: contingent on you finding a number on that that's good enough.
- 1:25:41Speaker 2: But I'm gonna go under four Tampa Bay Seattle first
- 1:25:44Speaker 2: five innings. That's what I'm gonna do because I like
- 1:25:46Speaker 2: the starting pitching matchup. The money is still coming in
- 1:25:48Speaker 2: on the under. It's a low total. I mean, Seattle
- 1:25:50Speaker 2: pitching front of the parker. We have fifty tickets ninety
- 1:25:52Speaker 2: three percent of the cash on the under. I like
- 1:25:55Speaker 2: the starting pitching matchup here for the under man, we
- 1:25:58Speaker 2: got Rasmussen pitching for Tampa Bay.
- 1:26:01Speaker 1: Here.
- 1:26:01Speaker 2: Again, Tampa does have the rest edge here. They are
- 1:26:03Speaker 2: traveling in but They're only traveling up the Pacific coast
- 1:26:06Speaker 2: from Anaheim, so they're already.
- 1:26:07Speaker 1: Adjusted to the time zone.
- 1:26:09Speaker 2: So that is another indicator that maybe Tampa is a
- 1:26:11Speaker 2: decent way to look on the side in this game
- 1:26:13Speaker 2: full game, though, I would play them full game at
- 1:26:15Speaker 2: Rasmusen has been Tampa's best starter this year two point
- 1:26:18Speaker 2: eight one ERA, one point.
- 1:26:20Speaker 1: Oh two whip.
- 1:26:20Speaker 2: They've been limiting his pitchcount, though he's a little bit
- 1:26:22Speaker 2: worse on the road three point three four ERA. Still
- 1:26:25Speaker 2: not bad though, coming off a shutout for five and
- 1:26:29Speaker 2: a third against the Dodgers, that's a pretty good sign.
- 1:26:31Speaker 2: He had a decent start at the start before that
- 1:26:33Speaker 2: against the Yankees going into the All Star break. He
- 1:26:35Speaker 2: pitched in the All Star Game, they were limiting his
- 1:26:37Speaker 2: pitch count, and then those think they're still limiting his
- 1:26:39Speaker 2: pitchcount a little bit. They're pretty much letting him go
- 1:26:42Speaker 2: five innings in every game at this point, but that's
- 1:26:44Speaker 2: all we need when it's a first five inning play man,
- 1:26:48Speaker 2: so them limiting his pitchcount a little bit won't really
- 1:26:51Speaker 2: matter here. He is pitching well over that span. Tampa
- 1:26:54Speaker 2: has actually won four of his last five starts too,
- 1:26:57Speaker 2: so if you want to look at it that way.
- 1:26:58Speaker 2: Tampa is winning behind him quite a as well, so
- 1:27:00Speaker 2: that's pretty good as well. What else was I gonna
- 1:27:03Speaker 2: say here? He has an alum with a tour in runs,
- 1:27:06Speaker 2: and then he started going all the way back through
- 1:27:07Speaker 2: the beginning of July. And again it's a good sign
- 1:27:10Speaker 2: that his last two starts were both pretty good against
- 1:27:12Speaker 2: hard hitting Yankee and Dodger lineups. And again they're ramping
- 1:27:16Speaker 2: up his pitch kind a little bit. But what I
- 1:27:17Speaker 2: was gonna say is he's really efficient with his pitches too,
- 1:27:19Speaker 2: Like he makes it through five innings usually only throwing
- 1:27:22Speaker 2: around eighty pitches too, so that means he's not worn out,
- 1:27:25Speaker 2: like he's not burned out by throwing too many pitches.
- 1:27:28Speaker 2: His numbers are pretty good against Seattle in thirty seven
- 1:27:30Speaker 2: at bats, sixteen to two strike a walk, RACEIO two
- 1:27:32Speaker 2: seventy average, but they haven't really hit him for power
- 1:27:35Speaker 2: six eighty six ops, so he's been pretty good against them.
- 1:27:38Speaker 2: Luis Castillo for Seattle is pitching well as well. Three
- 1:27:42Speaker 2: point two to two ERA, one point two to one whip.
- 1:27:45Speaker 2: He's been really good at home two point four e
- 1:27:47Speaker 2: R at home, so his home road splits are good.
- 1:27:49Speaker 2: He's coming off an like an ugly start against Texas
- 1:27:52Speaker 2: where he didn't even make it five innings. He threw
- 1:27:54Speaker 2: too many pitches, but he held them in check a
- 1:27:57Speaker 2: little bit only along tour in runs one strike a
- 1:28:00Speaker 2: walk ratio. I'm not ready to say the Castillo's in
- 1:28:03Speaker 2: bad form or anything like that, because over on the
- 1:28:05Speaker 2: month of July his team won a bunch of his starts.
- 1:28:09Speaker 2: His team had gone on a run where they had
- 1:28:10Speaker 2: won six of his seven stars. They've still won six
- 1:28:14Speaker 2: of his last eight starts. He had a thirty two
- 1:28:16Speaker 2: to four strike a walk ratio in July two point
- 1:28:19Speaker 2: zero five yr range July. So he is still pitching
- 1:28:21Speaker 2: well in my opinion, and he has good numbers against
- 1:28:23Speaker 2: Tampa for the most part. Sixty five at bats, twenty
- 1:28:26Speaker 2: three to five strike a walk raceio, two to fifteen
- 1:28:28Speaker 2: batting average allowed, still a pretty low seven to two
- 1:28:31Speaker 2: o ps, even though it's I guess a little bit
- 1:28:33Speaker 2: high because they do have three home runs off him
- 1:28:35Speaker 2: from Diez fourtes and low. But other than that, uh
- 1:28:39Speaker 2: under is gonna be the play in that one. My
- 1:28:40Speaker 2: mistake there it is up there again. Tampa Seattle first
- 1:28:43Speaker 2: five under in the first five innings, and now it's
- 1:28:46Speaker 2: like close it out by going to the NFL.
- 1:28:49Speaker 1: Man.
- 1:28:49Speaker 2: So the NFL again, similar to what I said yesterday,
- 1:28:53Speaker 2: and the preseason, these lines just go crazy, man, Like
- 1:28:55Speaker 2: you really have to get these numbers before they start
- 1:28:58Speaker 2: going out of control here, man, because these lines move
- 1:29:01Speaker 2: insanely in preseason once the word comes out like oh,
- 1:29:05Speaker 2: this team is gonna be playing their starting quarterback now,
- 1:29:07Speaker 2: and I think the line.
- 1:29:08Speaker 1: Over adjusts to it too. Like you saw yesterday, those.
- 1:29:11Speaker 2: Teams didn't even cover the numbers yesterday, but they did
- 1:29:15Speaker 2: still score a lot. So I think that's maybe the
- 1:29:17Speaker 2: way you want to focus on this is by looking
- 1:29:19Speaker 2: at the team totals again in these games, because these
- 1:29:21Speaker 2: teams that are starting their starting quarterbacks should mean that
- 1:29:24Speaker 2: they're gonna have a potential to score more. And then
- 1:29:27Speaker 2: you don't even have to worry about whatever the hell
- 1:29:28Speaker 2: their deepense does or the fact that their quarterback is
- 1:29:31Speaker 2: gonna be out of the game at some point, because
- 1:29:33Speaker 2: you're still getting a low total on these preseason games.
- 1:29:36Speaker 2: I mean they're all in the thirties, so that means
- 1:29:38Speaker 2: that your team total, even with the favorite, is probably
- 1:29:41Speaker 2: still only gonna be like twenty or maybe even less.
- 1:29:43Speaker 1: So I think it is the way to look on
- 1:29:46Speaker 1: some of these games. Man.
- 1:29:47Speaker 2: So preseason, if you've got the better number on the
- 1:29:49Speaker 2: team before the line moved, that's fine. Like if today,
- 1:29:52Speaker 2: if you played like the Panthers or the Patriots at
- 1:29:55Speaker 2: like a lower number, you got value on that play.
- 1:29:58Speaker 1: So I'm not gonna knock you for that.
- 1:29:59Speaker 2: It's a good But now that the line has moved
- 1:30:01Speaker 2: completely out of control, I think you gotta look like
- 1:30:03Speaker 2: to the team total market or something like that. So
- 1:30:06Speaker 2: the Browns are playing the Panthers. The Browns Joe Flacco
- 1:30:11Speaker 2: is probably gonna be their starter to start the season,
- 1:30:14Speaker 2: but he's either resting or he might be a little
- 1:30:16Speaker 2: bit injured or something because he's an old man. The
- 1:30:19Speaker 2: Browns have said they're gonna go with Shdur Sanders in
- 1:30:22Speaker 2: this game.
- 1:30:23Speaker 1: Just to see what they have and and basically it.
- 1:30:25Speaker 2: Seems like he's still the third string quarterback in the
- 1:30:27Speaker 2: depth charter maybe even fourth, but they're gonna let him
- 1:30:30Speaker 2: go in this game just to see what the hell
- 1:30:32Speaker 2: he can do. So he's gonna play in this game,
- 1:30:34Speaker 2: which seems like a bad idea to me. To be honest,
- 1:30:37Speaker 2: I don't think Sanders is ever gonna amount to anything
- 1:30:39Speaker 2: in the NFL.
- 1:30:40Speaker 1: Man, I'm sorry.
- 1:30:41Speaker 2: I'm not impressed by going thirteen to twelve at Colorado,
- 1:30:45Speaker 2: and you know, with all the nepotism of your father
- 1:30:47Speaker 2: being the coach there, I don't like it. I don't
- 1:30:49Speaker 2: think he's gonna translate to the NFL. The Panthers. The
- 1:30:53Speaker 2: main reason why the line did move up isn't because
- 1:30:55Speaker 2: the oddsmakers are like, oh, Shitar Sanders sucks. I think
- 1:30:58Speaker 2: that's slightly a part of it. But the Panthers have
- 1:31:01Speaker 2: said they're gonna play Bryce Young in this game. So
- 1:31:03Speaker 2: the Panthers are gonna play their starting quarterback because I
- 1:31:05Speaker 2: think they want to get him some reps in there,
- 1:31:07Speaker 2: because he didn't play early in the season last year,
- 1:31:10Speaker 2: so I think they want to get him ready. So
- 1:31:11Speaker 2: that's becoming more common in the NFL here, man, with
- 1:31:14Speaker 2: the shortened preseason now, with only three games in the preseason. Now,
- 1:31:18Speaker 2: if it was still four games, you probably wouldn't see
- 1:31:20Speaker 2: the starters playing in the first game.
- 1:31:22Speaker 1: But I think you're gonna have to see the total.
- 1:31:24Speaker 2: Markets start to adjust for this because the starting quarterbacks
- 1:31:26Speaker 2: are starting to play. This total at thirty three is
- 1:31:29Speaker 2: really low, but Panthers have moved up from one and
- 1:31:32Speaker 2: a half to six and a half. Now there's no
- 1:31:33Speaker 2: way you can lay six and a half with them.
- 1:31:35Speaker 2: But if you want to play Panthers team total over,
- 1:31:38Speaker 2: I don't hate that idea obviously, because you're gonna have
- 1:31:40Speaker 2: Bryce Young in there for probably multiple series in the game,
- 1:31:43Speaker 2: so you'll get off to a decent start there. You
- 1:31:45Speaker 2: could look at like the half first half market as
- 1:31:48Speaker 2: well and look to play the Panthers just to cover
- 1:31:50Speaker 2: a first half number, but I prefer the team total man,
- 1:31:53Speaker 2: or even get more granular with it and go first
- 1:31:55Speaker 2: half team total over when their starting quarterback is gonna
- 1:31:59Speaker 2: be in there.
- 1:31:59Speaker 1: That would probably be the way that I would look
- 1:32:00Speaker 1: in that game. Lions Falcons Lions up from one and
- 1:32:03Speaker 1: a half to three and a half. Here.
- 1:32:06Speaker 2: I don't believe that either team is playing their starting
- 1:32:09Speaker 2: quarterback or anything like that, or I don't think you're
- 1:32:10Speaker 2: gonna see Golf or Pennix Junior in this game. But
- 1:32:14Speaker 2: I do like the Lions side in this game because
- 1:32:16Speaker 2: the Lions have a game under their belt already, so
- 1:32:19Speaker 2: they're the only team besides the Chargers that already played
- 1:32:22Speaker 2: in the preseason. They played like that extra game in
- 1:32:25Speaker 2: the Hall of Fame game, which counts as like not
- 1:32:27Speaker 2: being in preseason week one for whatever reason, I don't
- 1:32:30Speaker 2: know why that's the case that used to be part
- 1:32:32Speaker 2: of preseason Week one.
- 1:32:34Speaker 1: I don't get it.
- 1:32:35Speaker 2: But the Lions, I think they have an advantage now
- 1:32:37Speaker 2: because they played, They got a game under the belt,
- 1:32:39Speaker 2: and they actually got embarrassed, and no team wants to
- 1:32:42Speaker 2: get embarrassed. Man.
- 1:32:42Speaker 1: So I think the Lions the.
- 1:32:43Speaker 2: Fact that they're used to, you know, playing a little bit,
- 1:32:45Speaker 2: They've gotten some rhythm in preseason.
- 1:32:48Speaker 1: Now.
- 1:32:48Speaker 2: I think the Lions are gonna actually be the right
- 1:32:51Speaker 2: side in this game. I think they'll come out with
- 1:32:53Speaker 2: some motivation here to try to win this game. Whoever
- 1:32:55Speaker 2: their backup quarterbacks are who played in that last game,
- 1:32:59Speaker 2: I think it's actually is it Easton Stick?
- 1:33:02Speaker 1: Is that what they actually have? I forget.
- 1:33:04Speaker 2: I think it might be Eastern Stick now and somebody
- 1:33:07Speaker 2: else I actually can't remember, but they have guys that have.
- 1:33:10Speaker 1: A little bit of experience at the very least. Let
- 1:33:11Speaker 1: me see. Oh no, it's what am I saying? Who
- 1:33:14Speaker 1: is Eastern Stick. No, it's Hendon Hooker and Kyle Allen.
- 1:33:17Speaker 2: I don't know, but whichever one of them played in
- 1:33:18Speaker 2: the last game, they'll be playing again, so they at
- 1:33:21Speaker 2: least have, you know, they've gotten into some rhythm with
- 1:33:23Speaker 2: the offense.
- 1:33:23Speaker 1: At least. Atlanta has said that they're not playing Pennix.
- 1:33:26Speaker 2: Or Kirk Cousins because they still have Kirk Cousins there too,
- 1:33:29Speaker 2: I believe, so they're playing whoever, I don't know. They
- 1:33:32Speaker 2: have some third string quarterback playing for Atlanta. So all
- 1:33:35Speaker 2: that being said, yeah, I think Detroit is the right
- 1:33:37Speaker 2: side in that game. If you're gonna look at that game, Oh,
- 1:33:40Speaker 2: they have Eastern Stick. Sorry, Easton Stick is gonna be
- 1:33:43Speaker 2: playing for Atlanta. So he does have some experience playing
- 1:33:47Speaker 2: in the NFL, right because he was He made some
- 1:33:49Speaker 2: starts when Herbert was hurt when he was on the Chargers,
- 1:33:51Speaker 2: So Eastern Stick I don't hate him, but yeah, I
- 1:33:56Speaker 2: mean I would still lean to Detroit in this game.
- 1:33:58Speaker 2: He lost a little bit of value from one and
- 1:33:59Speaker 2: a half three and a half year now, if you
- 1:34:01Speaker 2: want to go team total on Detroit, I think that's
- 1:34:03Speaker 2: also still fine in that one of the I'd be
- 1:34:05Speaker 2: looking still more towards the Lions because it doesn't have
- 1:34:07Speaker 2: to do with the starting quarterbacks being in the game.
- 1:34:09Speaker 2: In this one, I would still kind of look towards
- 1:34:11Speaker 2: the Lions being the right side.
- 1:34:13Speaker 1: Maybe a money line player.
- 1:34:14Speaker 2: If you can play like less, if you can play
- 1:34:16Speaker 2: it minus three on the Lions instead of three and
- 1:34:18Speaker 2: a half, you might want to still do that. And
- 1:34:20Speaker 2: then Washington Redskins. I'm not calling them the Commanders, man
- 1:34:24Speaker 2: hate it. They're playing the Patriots, and I believe these
- 1:34:28Speaker 2: are all at the home team stadiums if I'm not mistaken.
- 1:34:30Speaker 2: I checked yesterday, I'm not checking today. But Patriots up
- 1:34:33Speaker 2: from two to six and a half here now, man,
- 1:34:35Speaker 2: so the money is obviously coming on the Patriots. You
- 1:34:37Speaker 2: can't lay a touchdown with the Patriots in a game
- 1:34:39Speaker 2: with totals like this. The total in this one is
- 1:34:41Speaker 2: actually up to thirty six and a half. Thirty seven
- 1:34:43Speaker 2: is kind of the key number in preseason Week one
- 1:34:47Speaker 2: for whatever reason, that seems to be the like deciding factor,
- 1:34:52Speaker 2: where like a majority of the games go under that number.
- 1:34:55Speaker 1: But this is a game where I would go Patriots
- 1:34:59Speaker 1: over their team.
- 1:34:59Speaker 2: To man, you can't again, you can't lay a line
- 1:35:01Speaker 2: like this and the reason why the Patriots have moved
- 1:35:03Speaker 2: up like this. Obviously Drake May is playing in this game.
- 1:35:07Speaker 2: That's why I don't know how long he's gonna play
- 1:35:08Speaker 2: in the game. He'll probably play at least a couple
- 1:35:10Speaker 2: series in this game. For Washington, you're not gonna see
- 1:35:13Speaker 2: their starters. You're not gonna see Jade and Daniels in
- 1:35:15Speaker 2: this game. So that's why the line has gone up
- 1:35:17Speaker 2: like this, because the Patriots want to get Drake May ready,
- 1:35:19Speaker 2: because I believe he didn't start at the beginning of
- 1:35:21Speaker 2: the year last year last year either, so they want
- 1:35:24Speaker 2: to get some games under his belt there. So that's why.
- 1:35:27Speaker 2: So that's the rundown for the NFL there, and I
- 1:35:31Speaker 2: think that's gonna do it. Man, once again, I plays today.
- 1:35:33Speaker 2: I'm going crazy with the baseball plays and not even
- 1:35:36Speaker 2: looking into the market reads at all. First five innings,
- 1:35:39Speaker 2: Miami Marlins on the run line minus half a run
- 1:35:42Speaker 2: we have under full game Royals Minnesota, which I think
- 1:35:45Speaker 2: you might be able to get it under nine. Now
- 1:35:47Speaker 2: Chicago Cubs minus one and a half run line full
- 1:35:49Speaker 2: game and at least through on the road too, so
- 1:35:51Speaker 2: you'll get the full nine innings of bats out of them,
- 1:35:54Speaker 2: So I like that one, and then first five.
- 1:35:56Speaker 1: Innings under four Rays Mariners. That's gonna do it for me. Man,
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- 1:37:17Speaker 1: That's gonna do it, Man, Long Show today, NFL preseason.
- 1:37:20Speaker 2: I don't know if I really want to break down
- 1:37:22Speaker 2: every NFL preseason again. I've never done that before on
- 1:37:25Speaker 2: the show. It takes forever, and at some point I
- 1:37:27Speaker 2: might have another job I have to deal with as well, hopefully,
- 1:37:30Speaker 2: so we'll see, Man, But that's gonna do it for now.
- 1:37:32Speaker 2: Peace out. Let's start the weekend right man. Happy Friday,
- 1:37:35Speaker 2: TGIF