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- 0:16Speaker 1: You gotta slip in your palm man, a hole in
- 0:20Speaker 1: your checks, the black coffee on the felt man, you
- 0:23Speaker 1: look like a mince three teen Parlett turned the dust
- 0:28Speaker 1: in your head.
- 0:29Speaker 2: Now you stare at the chips like they made you
- 0:32Speaker 2: this man. But don't you go quiet. Don't you fade
- 0:36Speaker 2: from the floor.
- 0:37Speaker 1: Your name steal mean something to somebody for show.
- 0:41Speaker 2: Put the glass down, baby, look at me. No, hold on,
- 0:52Speaker 2: hold on, nothing.
- 0:54Speaker 1: Nice not now. Hold on, hold on me.
- 1:10Speaker 2: But it an'll get the crown.
- 1:14Speaker 1: Hold on, hold on.
- 1:18Speaker 2: Stay with him?
- 1:19Speaker 3: Now, what's up? Everybody? It's sewed back with you with
- 1:30Speaker 3: Toadstool Sports. It is Friday, May eighth, one to zero
- 1:36Speaker 3: on the show yesterday. The only play was early, so
- 1:39Speaker 3: hopefully people got that the over in Rangers Yankees that hit.
- 1:44Speaker 3: It was not looking that good early on, and then
- 1:47Speaker 3: it was the Yankees offense that exploded later in the game.
- 1:51Speaker 3: They had one big inning later in the game and
- 1:53Speaker 3: that's what put the game over, which you know they
- 1:55Speaker 3: have done that quite a bit. You don't really expect
- 1:58Speaker 3: that against the Rangers, but however we can get it.
- 2:02Speaker 3: I'll take it man. The Rangers. The Yankees' pitching was
- 2:05Speaker 3: better than I thought it would be. In that game,
- 2:08Speaker 3: the Rangers pitching was worse, but I wasn't trying to
- 2:11Speaker 3: pick a side there. I was just trying to get
- 2:14Speaker 3: the over. That's what we did. Yankees, by the way,
- 2:17Speaker 3: are the highest scoring home team this year, so that
- 2:21Speaker 3: lent itself to an over there as well, even though
- 2:23Speaker 3: I played the under of the day before that. Move
- 2:26Speaker 3: on to today, We're gonna have a pretty big card today.
- 2:29Speaker 3: I got three baseball plays yeah, yes, correct, one hockey
- 2:35Speaker 3: play and one NBA play. I'm gonna talk about w NBA,
- 2:39Speaker 3: but I'm not gonna jump into the w NBA as
- 2:42Speaker 3: far as actually playing a game yet. That's more. It's
- 2:44Speaker 3: gonna be a wait and see approach with the WNBA.
- 2:48Speaker 3: I was pretty selective with it last year, but it
- 2:51Speaker 3: wound up winning. So dirty sock. What's up, Garrett? What's up? Tyson?
- 2:56Speaker 3: What's up? Yeah? I mean the Hurricanes have been completely
- 2:59Speaker 3: unto tested and that's gonna remain the case. Like, if
- 3:02Speaker 3: they don't win the conference, there's something completely wrong because
- 3:06Speaker 3: they're facing zero competition in this conference. Here, their only
- 3:11Speaker 3: possible competition was Tampa Bay, and Tampa Bay couldn't even
- 3:14Speaker 3: get through the first round. So the Eastern Conference is
- 3:18Speaker 3: unbelievably weak. Whoever they're gonna face coming out of the
- 3:21Speaker 3: other matchup here has no experience and they're not a
- 3:24Speaker 3: good team. I mean, Carolina is probably the best team
- 3:30Speaker 3: in the East. That's what I'll tell you. They need Colorado.
- 3:34Speaker 3: They could win the Cup. They need Colorado to get
- 3:37Speaker 3: knocked out. Colorado is the best team in the NHL.
- 3:40Speaker 3: There's an argument to be made that maybe Carolina is
- 3:43Speaker 3: the second best. Yeah, I don't know, But I don't know.
- 3:48Speaker 3: Beating Ottawa and Philadelphia doesn't exactly impress me. Okay, let's
- 3:54Speaker 3: move on to these games here. Baseball, everything is in
- 3:59Speaker 3: the evening today, pretty sure, So whatever. Houston at Cincinnati
- 4:03Speaker 3: is the first game up. Cincinnati played yesterday. They finished
- 4:06Speaker 3: a four game series with the Cobbs got swept. It
- 4:09Speaker 3: was the only game where Cincinnati lost by more than one,
- 4:13Speaker 3: although they had a big pitching disadvantage in that game.
- 4:16Speaker 3: Like I said, but Cincinnati is now at a rest
- 4:19Speaker 3: disadvantage and they're returning over from a road trips. You know,
- 4:22Speaker 3: I talk about that's a bad spot when you're returning
- 4:26Speaker 3: over from a road trip. I know it wasn't geographically
- 4:29Speaker 3: that bad. They only went to Pittsburgh and the Cobs
- 4:32Speaker 3: staying in the division here, that's not horrible. But still
- 4:35Speaker 3: they've been away for more little week, so sometimes you
- 4:37Speaker 3: can get distracted coming back home. Cincinnati, by the way,
- 4:40Speaker 3: it is hilariously in last place in the NL Central
- 4:43Speaker 3: now despite still being above five hundred, even though I
- 4:46Speaker 3: don't think they're very good. By the way, Terry Frankcona
- 4:50Speaker 3: should come back to the Red Sox. Let's make a
- 4:53Speaker 3: change here, man. Houston was off yesterday, so Houston is
- 4:59Speaker 3: rested here. Though Houston has not been playing well, but
- 5:02Speaker 3: they're starting a road trope which is a focus spot
- 5:06Speaker 3: plus rest, so the spot is better for Houston here.
- 5:10Speaker 3: By the way, the stream Yard, there's something very weird
- 5:14Speaker 3: going on here where they they're almost like graying out
- 5:17Speaker 3: all the comments. Now. I don't know what's going on
- 5:19Speaker 3: with stream Yard here, very very odd. Anyway, Houston has
- 5:25Speaker 3: a situational advantage here. Cincinnati did also use three relief
- 5:30Speaker 3: pitchers yesterday, and you know, if there's any bullpen that
- 5:33Speaker 3: maybe Houston could have an advantage over him, maybe Cincinnati
- 5:37Speaker 3: is one of them. Cincinnati is ranked second worst in
- 5:41Speaker 3: Major League Baseball. I would kind of say third worst
- 5:45Speaker 3: because their ERA is way worse than Minnesota's and they're
- 5:47Speaker 3: tied and Whip Houston is dead last. Though, of course
- 5:51Speaker 3: we're looking at two bad bullpens here, but maybe Houston
- 5:54Speaker 3: with the rest, maybe you could say that maybe they're
- 5:58Speaker 3: not worse in this game. Houston does have a better
- 6:01Speaker 3: better offense their fifth Cincinnati's been pretty bad twenty third.
- 6:06Speaker 3: Is that enough to get Houston over the hump here?
- 6:09Speaker 3: I don't I don't know. I don't want to play
- 6:10Speaker 3: this game because I don't like the starting pitching matchup.
- 6:13Speaker 3: Like the situation looks good for Houston here, but I
- 6:19Speaker 3: don't think we could back Mike Burrows here five point
- 6:22Speaker 3: nine to seventy RA one point six y five Whip
- 6:25Speaker 3: Uh playing for Houston a little bit worse on the
- 6:29Speaker 3: road six point two to three Roady Ray. I mean,
- 6:32Speaker 3: he's only given up more than four earned runs twice.
- 6:36Speaker 3: I guess that's something. Houston's lost all of his games
- 6:39Speaker 3: except one of them, which was against the Red Sox.
- 6:42Speaker 3: Of course it was last time out. He actually pitched
- 6:44Speaker 3: okay against the Red Sox, but lost because Houston actually
- 6:48Speaker 3: somehow didn't even hit in that game. Overall, Borrows, I
- 6:53Speaker 3: mean thirty six strikeouts, thirty seven to two thirds innings.
- 6:56Speaker 3: That's not that bad. Thirteen walks not horrible, but he's
- 7:00Speaker 3: been very hit able. Forty nine hits allowed, eight home
- 7:03Speaker 3: runs allowed. That's pretty bad. You know, he needs to
- 7:07Speaker 3: not put his pitches over the plate, it looks like.
- 7:10Speaker 3: But the other issue I have with Burrows here not
- 7:12Speaker 3: just that he's been pitching bad. It's that he used
- 7:15Speaker 3: to be in this division because he was on Pittsburgh,
- 7:18Speaker 3: so Cincinnati is familiar with him. But he did pitch
- 7:21Speaker 3: well against them in a limited sample thirteen at bats.
- 7:24Speaker 3: They only have one extra base hit against him, a
- 7:26Speaker 3: double from Hayes. Five strikeouts, no walks. That is good
- 7:31Speaker 3: for Burrows. One fifty four average allowed, three eighty five ops. Yeah,
- 7:36Speaker 3: it's possible Burrows does actually pitch well here, But I
- 7:39Speaker 3: don't love that he's familiar with the opponent here. You
- 7:42Speaker 3: know that they might be able to hit him here.
- 7:44Speaker 3: He hasn't been pitching well at all this year, so
- 7:46Speaker 3: I don't know this is a hitter friendly ballpark. By
- 7:50Speaker 3: the way, total is high for a reason. Nick Lodolo
- 7:54Speaker 3: is pitching for Cincinnati here he is making his debut
- 7:58Speaker 3: for the season. Was good last year for Cincinnati. He
- 8:01Speaker 3: put up a three point three to three ERA one
- 8:04Speaker 3: point zero eight whipen had a five strikeout walk ratio.
- 8:07Speaker 3: He was surprisingly good last year in the longest season
- 8:12Speaker 3: that he's had in the major so far. That's a
- 8:15Speaker 3: good sign. I don't know how he's gonna do coming
- 8:17Speaker 3: back from injury, but he is a veteran at this point,
- 8:20Speaker 3: so a lot of times veterans come back from injury
- 8:24Speaker 3: better than younger guys that haven't dealt with that situation before.
- 8:27Speaker 3: He's dealt with it before, so he might actually pitch
- 8:30Speaker 3: okay in this game here. And I think Houston is
- 8:34Speaker 3: very unfamiliar with him as well. Yeah, Houston only has
- 8:37Speaker 3: three hitters who I've ever seen him before. They have
- 8:38Speaker 3: one hitoff him, a single from Paradus. They're one for
- 8:43Speaker 3: thirteen off in lifetime with two strikeouts and no walks.
- 8:47Speaker 3: So Lodolo could certainly pitch well here. Sometimes you know
- 8:51Speaker 3: this guy coming back from injury. I didn't look at
- 8:52Speaker 3: what he did in his minor league rehab or whatever,
- 8:55Speaker 3: but sometimes a guy coming back from injury will be
- 8:59Speaker 3: ready to go, like if he's a veteran, you know
- 9:01Speaker 3: he'll pitch well. Sometimes I know a lot of professionals
- 9:04Speaker 3: kind of think the other way, and they'll they'll stay
- 9:07Speaker 3: away from the game or even fade that guy. But
- 9:09Speaker 3: I'm more of the camp that I think this guy's
- 9:13Speaker 3: undervalued because he's been injured, and I think he's gonna
- 9:15Speaker 3: do well and he's ready to go if he's a veteran.
- 9:18Speaker 3: But too many conflicting factors in this game. I'm not
- 9:21Speaker 3: doing anything with it. The money is indicating on Houston,
- 9:25Speaker 3: fifty percent of the cash on Houston, fifty five percent
- 9:28Speaker 3: of the tickets on Cincinnati. I mean, you can kind
- 9:32Speaker 3: of see why that. Because Cincinnati has the better record.
- 9:35Speaker 3: The public is not gonna want to be on an
- 9:36Speaker 3: Astros team even though they can score. Their record is
- 9:40Speaker 3: just awful, so you Houston's not going to attract public
- 9:43Speaker 3: money here. Cincinnati is favored at about minus one forty,
- 9:48Speaker 3: So Lodolo is getting the respect in the market, Houston
- 9:52Speaker 3: getting a lot of disrespect here. I could see the
- 9:55Speaker 3: sentiment that, yeah, maybe Cincinnati, because they're not even very good,
- 9:58Speaker 3: they shouldn't be favored by this month. I could see
- 10:00Speaker 3: that argument in I told you. The situational spot is
- 10:03Speaker 3: also bad for Cincinnati, you know, I probably I don't know, man,
- 10:10Speaker 3: because I think Lodolo generally is better than Borrows. That
- 10:13Speaker 3: would be my opinion there. So I have a real
- 10:15Speaker 3: hard time with this game. Money is also hitting the under,
- 10:19Speaker 3: although the total isn't nine, it opened nine and a half.
- 10:22Speaker 3: I don't know. I mean, if you're gonna play an under,
- 10:24Speaker 3: you do not want to deal with the bullpens here though,
- 10:27Speaker 3: that's for sure, So you'd have to go first five
- 10:30Speaker 3: if you go under here. But the money is hitting
- 10:33Speaker 3: the over. Like I said, if you go over a
- 10:35Speaker 3: full game makes sense because both bullpens are trash. So yeah,
- 10:39Speaker 3: I don't want to do anything with the game at
- 10:41Speaker 3: all though. Colorado at Philadelphia. Philadelphia is staying at home.
- 10:48Speaker 3: They did just lose a four game win streak, but
- 10:50Speaker 3: they got absolutely destroyed yesterday by the A's, so maybe
- 10:54Speaker 3: it's a bounce back spot for Philly here. Maybe they
- 10:56Speaker 3: just overlooked the A's because they'd already won the series.
- 11:00Speaker 3: Colorado not a very good team, but they are starting
- 11:02Speaker 3: a road trip or no, they're in the middle of
- 11:04Speaker 3: a road trip, right, yeah, No, yeah, they're starting a
- 11:07Speaker 3: road trip my mistake. Yeah, they just played the Mets
- 11:09Speaker 3: at home, so Colorado is starting a road trip now.
- 11:12Speaker 3: A lot of times I will want to be on
- 11:14Speaker 3: a team starting a road trip because it is a
- 11:16Speaker 3: focused spot. Colorado probably gets up for a Philly team
- 11:20Speaker 3: that has been playing better recently, Colorado not playing as well.
- 11:24Speaker 3: They did beat the Mets yesterday to end a losing streak,
- 11:26Speaker 3: though they were on a six game losing streak, and
- 11:29Speaker 3: you know I talk about when a team ends a
- 11:30Speaker 3: losing streak that will give them new momentum as well
- 11:34Speaker 3: positive momentum. So the situational spot for Colorado is not
- 11:37Speaker 3: that bad here. Bullpen usage. Colorado used three relief pitchers yesterday.
- 11:43Speaker 3: Neither of these bullpens have been very good this year,
- 11:46Speaker 3: though Philadelphia also used three. Philadelphia is twenty first in
- 11:51Speaker 3: bullpen right now and Colorado is eighteenth. I don't particularly
- 11:55Speaker 3: like either bullpen, so I might be not wanting to
- 12:00Speaker 3: do anything with the bullpens here as far as wanting
- 12:02Speaker 3: them to have to do anything good for me. Chase
- 12:05Speaker 3: Donander looks like he's gonna get the start for Colorado,
- 12:08Speaker 3: but I think what you can do here this game
- 12:11Speaker 3: if you're gonna play this game, I think you're probably
- 12:13Speaker 3: gonna play at action because Colorado's putt an opener in
- 12:17Speaker 3: front of Dollander for most of his outings. So it
- 12:20Speaker 3: looks like Donander is going to get a starter's workload here,
- 12:23Speaker 3: but they might put an opener in front of him.
- 12:25Speaker 3: So if you're gonna handicap it like Donander is gonna
- 12:28Speaker 3: make a start. He's gonna be the starter here as
- 12:32Speaker 3: far as the amount of work he's gonna get, but
- 12:34Speaker 3: you don't know if he's actually gonna be the starter.
- 12:36Speaker 3: It kind of makes sense to go action here, but
- 12:39Speaker 3: I don't really have a good feel for this game
- 12:41Speaker 3: at all, though I do have a slight opinion. Donander
- 12:45Speaker 3: has actually pitched pretty well for the Rockies this year
- 12:47Speaker 3: three point three eighty RRA, one point one five WHIP.
- 12:52Speaker 3: He's been better on the road, which makes sense. I mean,
- 12:55Speaker 3: it's difficult to pitching course field. Uh so Colorado they're
- 12:59Speaker 3: pitching some of it is better on the road, but
- 13:01Speaker 3: they also don't hit as well on the road. Donander
- 13:04Speaker 3: is a two point four to nine at roady RA here.
- 13:07Speaker 3: He's actually pitched really well this year. He was not
- 13:11Speaker 3: good in his last start against Atlanta, but Atlanta has
- 13:13Speaker 3: been one of the best offenses that was in course field.
- 13:16Speaker 3: Maybe you give him a pass for that if you
- 13:20Speaker 3: take that start out in his opening start out. He
- 13:22Speaker 3: hasn't a lot of home run in any of his
- 13:24Speaker 3: other starts or any of his other appearances. I should
- 13:28Speaker 3: say it looks like they are ramping up his pitching here.
- 13:31Speaker 3: They're letting him pitch more. He's allowed one or fewer
- 13:34Speaker 3: earned run in every outing except that last one and
- 13:37Speaker 3: the first one, so generally he is actually pitching well here.
- 13:40Speaker 3: He might actually be able to pitch well not having
- 13:43Speaker 3: to pitch a course field here. Has decent numbers in
- 13:46Speaker 3: his history against Philadelphia in twenty at bats. It's not
- 13:49Speaker 3: a large sample, but Trey Turner with a double is
- 13:53Speaker 3: the only extra base hit they have against him. Eight strikeouts,
- 13:55Speaker 3: one walk, two hundred batting average allowed, four eighty eight ohps.
- 14:00Speaker 3: Dollander has done well against Philadelphia in a small sample.
- 14:04Speaker 3: Jesus Lozardo is pitching for the Phillies. His numbers don't
- 14:08Speaker 3: look good. Five point zero nine ERA, one point two
- 14:11Speaker 3: eight whip is still pretty like that's too high as well.
- 14:16Speaker 3: He's been bad at home. That is one concern with
- 14:19Speaker 3: them here. Seven point four to three home e RA
- 14:22Speaker 3: that's pretty bad. He had one really well, he had
- 14:25Speaker 3: two actually, actually, you know what, I take all that back.
- 14:29Speaker 3: Three out of his four home starts have been awful,
- 14:32Speaker 3: Like his three worst starts of the season all came
- 14:35Speaker 3: at home, and then he had one really good home
- 14:36Speaker 3: start against a very bad San Francisco offense. So I
- 14:41Speaker 3: don't know, man, I mean, that's not a good sign
- 14:43Speaker 3: that he's been really bad at home. So I don't know, man,
- 14:46Speaker 3: I don't really want Luzarro here, But he is in
- 14:49Speaker 3: good form right now. After that San Francisco start, he
- 14:52Speaker 3: followed that up with a win for us on the show.
- 14:54Speaker 3: We took Philly in the next game and they beat Miami,
- 14:57Speaker 3: and he pitched well in that start, had ten strikeouts
- 15:00Speaker 3: and he hasn't walked anybody over his last two outings.
- 15:03Speaker 3: But I worry about how bad he's been at home.
- 15:06Speaker 3: But if you look at his overall numbers, they are
- 15:08Speaker 3: pretty good. Fifty one strikeouts and forty to two thirds
- 15:11Speaker 3: innings with only nine walks. That's a really really good ratio,
- 15:14Speaker 3: really high strikeout rate. He's a lot of few too
- 15:17Speaker 3: many hits forty three, but generally his numbers suggest that
- 15:20Speaker 3: his era shouldn't be this bad. But I don't know
- 15:24Speaker 3: if we could trust him here. But he is facing
- 15:26Speaker 3: a rocky lineup that isn't really that good. They're not
- 15:28Speaker 3: really that good on the road. He's done well against
- 15:31Speaker 3: them in the past, like basically he's dominated them forty
- 15:34Speaker 3: seven at bats, twenty one strikeouts, three walks, one ninety
- 15:38Speaker 3: one average five seventeen ops allowed. By the way, I
- 15:42Speaker 3: forgot to talk about where these teams rank offensively. Colorado
- 15:47Speaker 3: is actually seventh right now, but they're playing on the
- 15:50Speaker 3: road where they're not as good at hitting. Philadelphia's been bad.
- 15:54Speaker 3: They're twenty seventh offensively. I think they turn it around
- 15:58Speaker 3: a little bit at some point, though, But I think
- 16:00Speaker 3: what I would do in this game, I think is
- 16:02Speaker 3: actually go first five under in this game. I don't
- 16:05Speaker 3: want to deal with the bullpens. I mean, the bullpens
- 16:07Speaker 3: are not particularly good at all, but yeah, both starting
- 16:12Speaker 3: pitchers might actually match up Bok here. Although we see
- 16:15Speaker 3: ninety percent of tickets eighty nine percent of the cash
- 16:17Speaker 3: on the under here, the full game total is seven
- 16:20Speaker 3: and a half juice to the under. So the odds
- 16:23Speaker 3: makers are really telling you they think this is going
- 16:26Speaker 3: to be a pitching duel here. I tend to agree.
- 16:30Speaker 3: I don't want to deal with the bullpens. This one
- 16:32Speaker 3: is not on my card, but I actually considered it.
- 16:35Speaker 3: I really do worry about Lozardo with those home numbers though,
- 16:38Speaker 3: but I think under first five innings makes sense in
- 16:41Speaker 3: this game. That would probably be the way I would
- 16:43Speaker 3: look to play it. You're gonna have to probably go
- 16:45Speaker 3: under three and a half, though, you know, I wouldn't
- 16:48Speaker 3: really disagree with looking at the Colorado side here though,
- 16:51Speaker 3: seventy seven percent of ticket sixty three percent of the
- 16:54Speaker 3: cash on Philly. Philly has been playing better, They're getting
- 16:56Speaker 3: the public action now, it looks like less of the
- 16:58Speaker 3: actual money on them. They're laying minus two ten or
- 17:02Speaker 3: somewhere in that range. You could take Colorado on the
- 17:04Speaker 3: run line and just need them to come within one run,
- 17:07Speaker 3: you know what I mean. That doesn't seem like a
- 17:11Speaker 3: horrible idea to me either. Donander he's under the radar, dude.
- 17:14Speaker 3: He is one of their talented young pitchers, and he
- 17:17Speaker 3: looks like he is starting to pitch the way they
- 17:19Speaker 3: kind of expected. Where Colorado usually ruins young pitchers like this.
- 17:24Speaker 3: Pitching a course field is not easy to do. But
- 17:27Speaker 3: he's been pretty good and he doesn't have to pitch
- 17:29Speaker 3: there in this game. So and Lozardo has been really
- 17:32Speaker 3: a bigger question mark this year. So that's how I
- 17:36Speaker 3: look at that game. Sparrow, what's up. Thanks for hanging out.
- 17:40Speaker 3: I'm doing all right, man. We're on a five and
- 17:42Speaker 3: zero run over the last two days on the show.
- 17:44Speaker 3: Here A's at Baltimore. Baltimore is returning home from a
- 17:50Speaker 3: road trip. I believe they were off yesterday or no,
- 17:54Speaker 3: they played. They lost to Miami yesterday. Yeah, so I
- 17:57Speaker 3: got that one right. It was close. Miami won late
- 17:59Speaker 3: in the game yesterday. Baltimore is returning home from a
- 18:03Speaker 3: road trip. And you know, I don't love it again
- 18:05Speaker 3: when teams are turned on from road trips. It could
- 18:08Speaker 3: be a bad spot. They have to get back to
- 18:10Speaker 3: home life. It could be a distraction. They're not playing
- 18:13Speaker 3: a team that they're particularly going to I think mentally,
- 18:16Speaker 3: focus for the A's are in the middle of a
- 18:18Speaker 3: road trip. They're coming in from Philadelphia. Although they did
- 18:21Speaker 3: wreck Philadelphia yesterday. But the A's, I mean, even though
- 18:24Speaker 3: they were top their division right now. I don't know
- 18:26Speaker 3: that they're necessarily going to overlook any opponent right now,
- 18:30Speaker 3: so I think the situational spot is worse for Baltimore.
- 18:34Speaker 3: Baltimore not a great bullpen. They used a bunch of
- 18:37Speaker 3: guys out of it yesterday too. They used four bullpen arms.
- 18:41Speaker 3: Miami also used four, though, and they had to use
- 18:43Speaker 3: some of their better bullpen arms to finish the game off.
- 18:46Speaker 3: Yesterday was not an extra inning game or anything. But generally,
- 18:50Speaker 3: Miami does have the better bullpen, and I'll still give
- 18:52Speaker 3: them the edge here even though they use some of
- 18:54Speaker 3: their better bullpen arms there. Miami is ranked fifth bullpen
- 19:01Speaker 3: based on whip here. Baltimore not nearly as good seventeenth
- 19:06Speaker 3: hitting wise, Miami actually hasn't been that bad either. They're
- 19:10Speaker 3: at eighteenth right now, Baltimore sixteenth. So Baltimore, Yeah, I
- 19:14Speaker 3: think Baltimore does have the better offense. Though Jacob Lopez
- 19:18Speaker 3: is gonna be pitching for the A's. He has not
- 19:20Speaker 3: been good this year, six point sixty RA one point
- 19:23Speaker 3: nine whip. He's been actually only a little bit better
- 19:27Speaker 3: on the road. A lot of times, these A's pitchers,
- 19:30Speaker 3: they do a lot better on the road because their
- 19:32Speaker 3: home stadium is a Triple A stadium where pitchers just
- 19:36Speaker 3: just get jacked up. But he hasn't been that much
- 19:38Speaker 3: better on the road, only slightly better six point four
- 19:41Speaker 3: to six road y ra. He got beat up in
- 19:44Speaker 3: his last start at home against Cleveland. His numbers are
- 19:48Speaker 3: not good, just generally thirty innings pitch, twenty three strikeouts.
- 19:51Speaker 3: He doesn't strike a lot of guys out, but he's
- 19:53Speaker 3: walked twenty two, which is a huge problem. The walks
- 19:57Speaker 3: have been a major issue for him, and he's allowed
- 19:59Speaker 3: thirty five hits on top of that and six home runs.
- 20:02Speaker 3: It's not that bad considering the stadium that he has
- 20:05Speaker 3: to pitch in, but he has not been good this year.
- 20:08Speaker 3: The walks have been a huge, huge issue going up
- 20:12Speaker 3: against Baltimore, Lopez has not been good against them historically either,
- 20:16Speaker 3: only sixteen at bats against them, though he hasn't allowed
- 20:20Speaker 3: an extra base hit to them, five strikeouts, one walk,
- 20:23Speaker 3: but they have a three seventy five batting average against
- 20:25Speaker 3: him seven to eighty seven ops. I don't trust Lopez
- 20:29Speaker 3: in this matchup. I would not want to have to
- 20:31Speaker 3: back him here. Kyle Bradish is pitching for Baltimore, and
- 20:34Speaker 3: I think he probably is the better pitcher, but he's
- 20:37Speaker 3: been bad this year too. Five point h three ERA,
- 20:40Speaker 3: one point eight two whip is real bad. He's been
- 20:44Speaker 3: a little bit better at home though, so at least
- 20:45Speaker 3: there's that four point oh two homeyra. He got lit
- 20:50Speaker 3: up in Yankee Stadium last time out. But you know,
- 20:54Speaker 3: if you look at his numbers this season, that was
- 20:56Speaker 3: the first time he allowed more than four earned runs.
- 20:59Speaker 3: Both of those starts allowed four or more were on
- 21:01Speaker 3: the road. Hasn't really gone too deep into most of
- 21:04Speaker 3: his outings though, but you know, he's been better than Lopez.
- 21:08Speaker 3: At least he's got thirty five strikeouts in thirty four innings.
- 21:11Speaker 3: Still a ton of walks from him to twenty one
- 21:15Speaker 3: that is still way too many walks, and forty one
- 21:17Speaker 3: hits allowed also not very good. Five home runs allowed
- 21:21Speaker 3: is kind of whatever. I don't really trust Bradish here either.
- 21:26Speaker 3: Against the A's. He does have pretty good numbers, though
- 21:28Speaker 3: nineteen at bats it is a small sample, no extra
- 21:31Speaker 3: base hits. In fact, they only have two hits off him,
- 21:34Speaker 3: eight strikeouts, one walk, one oh five average two fifty
- 21:37Speaker 3: five ops. The spot is not good for Baldemoro. I
- 21:42Speaker 3: don't like the spot in the return home spot, but
- 21:44Speaker 3: I do think they have a pitching edge here with Bradish,
- 21:47Speaker 3: and both bullpens are bad. You know, I forgot to
- 21:50Speaker 3: go into the bullpens. You're right? Wait, wait what did
- 21:54Speaker 3: I do? I think I handicapped the wrong bullpen, didn't I? Yeah,
- 21:57Speaker 3: I talked about Miami. My mistake. Yeah, obviously the A's
- 22:01Speaker 3: bullpen is worse than Miami's. My mistake. Yeah. The A's
- 22:04Speaker 3: are twenty sixth in bullpen, Baltimore is seventeenth. So yeah,
- 22:07Speaker 3: I apologize. Baltimore is the better bullpen here, but not
- 22:11Speaker 3: by a whole lot. I don't like either bullpen. You know,
- 22:15Speaker 3: both starting pitchers look kind of untrustworthy. I think possibly
- 22:19Speaker 3: the better approach here is to go over in this game,
- 22:22Speaker 3: although I leaned slightly towards Baltimore even though they're in
- 22:25Speaker 3: a bad spot. Fifty percent of the tickets, it's sixty
- 22:27Speaker 3: seven percent of the cash aer on the A's. The
- 22:29Speaker 3: money is hitting the A's here. Baltimore is about minus
- 22:32Speaker 3: one thirty something here on the price. Yeah, I think
- 22:37Speaker 3: Bradish has the upper hand over Lopez though, and the
- 22:40Speaker 3: Baltimore Bullpen is actually a little bit better as well.
- 22:43Speaker 3: I slightly lean that way, but I think my preferred
- 22:45Speaker 3: approach in this game is to just go over the total,
- 22:48Speaker 3: not trust either start or not trust either bullpen uh
- 22:51Speaker 3: fifty tickets seventy two percent of the cash on the over.
- 22:55Speaker 3: I do worry though. The bradish does have pretty good
- 22:57Speaker 3: numbers against the A's though, so that could come into
- 23:00Speaker 3: play there. But the total is pretty high. It is
- 23:03Speaker 3: probably high for a reason. At nine and a half,
- 23:05Speaker 3: over makes sense to me in that game. Next game
- 23:08Speaker 3: up will be one of my plays Anaheim at Toronto.
- 23:12Speaker 3: We're gonna be very total heavy again here, but my
- 23:14Speaker 3: totals have been pretty good, so I know you might
- 23:17Speaker 3: think it's boring, but shout out to boring bets so
- 23:25Speaker 3: sometimes shows up in the chat here. This is gonna
- 23:28Speaker 3: be a first five under in Anaheim Toronto under four.
- 23:32Speaker 3: I saw it in minus one twenty five out there.
- 23:34Speaker 3: You could do an under three and a half as well,
- 23:36Speaker 3: though I kind of like to try to get that four,
- 23:40Speaker 3: just you know, you get the extra half run. Every
- 23:43Speaker 3: half run matters a bit. There's no real key number
- 23:46Speaker 3: in the first five because the score could be anything
- 23:49Speaker 3: after the end of the first five, it could be tied. Obviously.
- 23:52Speaker 3: Now Toronto is returning over from a road trip. They
- 23:55Speaker 3: were just in Minnesota and then Tampa Bay. So it's
- 23:58Speaker 3: not the greatest spot, the return home spot, and I
- 24:01Speaker 3: think that does affect the hittings. Sometimes hitting can be
- 24:04Speaker 3: falling into that distracted spot, you know what I mean.
- 24:07Speaker 3: Just generally when a team returns home from a road trip,
- 24:11Speaker 3: I don't really want to be on them because of
- 24:13Speaker 3: that distraction. They got to get back to home life whatever.
- 24:16Speaker 3: They might not pay attention to an Anahem team that's
- 24:18Speaker 3: been struggling, although Toronto's lost four in a row. But
- 24:21Speaker 3: generally returning over from a road trip doesn't fix that.
- 24:24Speaker 3: In that first game, you get distracted by having to
- 24:28Speaker 3: get back to home. So that might affect Toronto's hitting. Here,
- 24:32Speaker 3: Anaheim is coming in from playing at home, so they
- 24:36Speaker 3: are having to travel cross country. That might affect the
- 24:39Speaker 3: hitting as well. So I do worry about that for
- 24:41Speaker 3: Anaheim as well. Anaheim did they not play yesterday. Let
- 24:45Speaker 3: me say, I believe both teams were off yesterday. Yeah,
- 24:49Speaker 3: so both teams were off, so that actually might help
- 24:53Speaker 3: cool down the bats as well. So I like that
- 24:55Speaker 3: as well. Anaheim traveling cross country might also you know,
- 24:59Speaker 3: mess with the bats as well because they're gonna have
- 25:01Speaker 3: to adjust to the new time zone whatever. So I
- 25:04Speaker 3: think that's all gonna maybe help us with this under
- 25:08Speaker 3: because it might mean the teams are gonna get off
- 25:10Speaker 3: to a slow start here. Both bullpens are rested, but
- 25:13Speaker 3: I'm not gonna go with the full game here because
- 25:15Speaker 3: I can't deal with it. Even though they're rest at.
- 25:17Speaker 3: Anaheim's bullpen is awful. They're ranked twenty seventh. We can't
- 25:21Speaker 3: deal with that. Toronto's is a bit better at sixteenth
- 25:25Speaker 3: and still not great. So I don't know, I want
- 25:27Speaker 3: to exclude the bullpens here. They're just combined. The two
- 25:32Speaker 3: bullpens are bad enough that I don't want to have
- 25:34Speaker 3: to go full game with this. The offenses here are
- 25:38Speaker 3: not terrific. Anaheim hits a lot of home runs, so
- 25:41Speaker 3: hopefully that doesn't do us in here, but they're ranked
- 25:44Speaker 3: twelfth offensively. Toronto's really struggled at twenty fourth offensively. So
- 25:49Speaker 3: I think we can get this done with the under
- 25:51Speaker 3: here looking at what these offenses are, you know, I mean,
- 25:54Speaker 3: I'll go unders even with some of the better offenses
- 25:57Speaker 3: to depending on what the pitching is. I think the
- 25:59Speaker 3: pitching here could get us this under as well. Reed
- 26:03Speaker 3: Debtmes is pitching for the Angels. He's actually been good.
- 26:07Speaker 3: You might see. He's got a four point two to
- 26:08Speaker 3: eighty RA, which doesn't really look that good, but his
- 26:11Speaker 3: one point one to five whip is pretty good. He's
- 26:13Speaker 3: been better on the road three point seven to eight
- 26:16Speaker 3: road RA, so that's a good sign as well. He's
- 26:19Speaker 3: pitched pretty decent in his last couple outings. I mean,
- 26:23Speaker 3: I know it was against Kansas City and the Mats.
- 26:25Speaker 3: It's not like those teams are shredding offensively. Neither is Toronto.
- 26:30Speaker 3: And yes, he did face Toronto back on the twentieth,
- 26:33Speaker 3: so April twentieth, So yeah, that worries me a little
- 26:36Speaker 3: bit that Toronto did just see him. He did fine
- 26:39Speaker 3: in that outing. It was at home. He went six innings,
- 26:41Speaker 3: give it four earned runs, five strikeouts, two walks, only
- 26:44Speaker 3: five hits. He honestly got a little bit unlucky there.
- 26:48Speaker 3: He gave up a home run, he didn't put that
- 26:50Speaker 3: many guys on base, and generally, if you look at
- 26:52Speaker 3: his numbers, they're pretty good here forty four to nine
- 26:55Speaker 3: strikeout walk ratio, only three on runs allowed, thirty seven hits,
- 26:59Speaker 3: a lot of forty innings. Those are all really good numbers, dude,
- 27:02Speaker 3: It's just that Anaheim, their bullpen has blown some of
- 27:05Speaker 3: the games he's pitched. You know, he's been not great.
- 27:09Speaker 3: One start of his was bad at home against Atlanta,
- 27:12Speaker 3: but other than that, he's been pretty good, and most
- 27:14Speaker 3: of it's met in bad bullpen behind a bad run
- 27:17Speaker 3: support behind him. I actually like how Dettmar's looks here
- 27:23Speaker 3: home Oh yes, full home, Oh debtmvers has sixty nine
- 27:27Speaker 3: at bats against Toronto, fifteen strikeouts, five walks to seventeen
- 27:31Speaker 3: average allowed, six h four ohps. He has pitched well
- 27:35Speaker 3: against Toronto other than the fact that Vlad Guerrero does
- 27:38Speaker 3: hit him pretty well. But what else do you know,
- 27:40Speaker 3: what do you expect? I think Dettmars can pitch well here, don't.
- 27:44Speaker 3: Cease is pitching for Toronto. And while you know, I know,
- 27:48Speaker 3: I'm on record not really being a huge Cease fan
- 27:52Speaker 3: because he does not cease to walk too many people.
- 27:55Speaker 3: He throws too many pitches usually, But I mean, he's
- 27:58Speaker 3: a guy that is a flamethrower. He does strike out
- 28:00Speaker 3: a lot of guys. He's got a three point zero
- 28:03Speaker 3: five VR, so his era you can't complain about that.
- 28:06Speaker 3: I know his whip is bad, one point three to three.
- 28:09Speaker 3: I mean it's not horrible, but it's too high. I
- 28:11Speaker 3: mean it indicates that his ERA should be higher than
- 28:14Speaker 3: it is. Home road splits are not too significant for him.
- 28:17Speaker 3: Although he is a little bit worse at home three
- 28:19Speaker 3: point three to eighty R. That's still not bad at all.
- 28:22Speaker 3: Though he was really good last time out on the
- 28:24Speaker 3: road against Minnesota. He's thrown over one hundred pitches in
- 28:28Speaker 3: four his four straight outings. But I don't think that
- 28:31Speaker 3: really is going to affect him. I mean, he's a veteran,
- 28:34Speaker 3: he's used to it. I don't think it really matters.
- 28:37Speaker 3: He's got a really high strikeout rate, like I said,
- 28:39Speaker 3: fifty six strikeouts and thirty eight and the third innings,
- 28:42Speaker 3: tons and tons of strikeouts. But eighteen walks is the problem.
- 28:46Speaker 3: But he's only allowed thirty three hits. He's been pretty
- 28:48Speaker 3: difficult to hit, and with Anaheim's offense, what you really
- 28:52Speaker 3: want is a guy that's not gonna allow home runs. Well,
- 28:54Speaker 3: Cease has only allowed one home run this season, so
- 28:58Speaker 3: Seise definitely has the ability to not allow home runs here,
- 29:01Speaker 3: and he's actually allowed more ground ball outs than fly
- 29:04Speaker 3: ball outs this year. But usually with a guy with
- 29:06Speaker 3: his profile, you don't usually see that being the case,
- 29:09Speaker 3: because a lot of times guys will just connect with
- 29:11Speaker 3: that fastball when they like, when they're actually able to
- 29:14Speaker 3: connect with it, they'll hit it very hard. But you know,
- 29:18Speaker 3: not really the case with him. He did play against
- 29:20Speaker 3: Anaheim on that same day, April twentieth, so this is
- 29:24Speaker 3: a repeat of that matchup, which, by the way, that
- 29:26Speaker 3: game landed on seven for the full game cease allowed
- 29:30Speaker 3: to hour and runs in that game, had twelve strikeouts
- 29:32Speaker 3: in five innings, only put seven earned base runners on
- 29:37Speaker 3: that game. By the way, it did go under in
- 29:39Speaker 3: the first five. By the way, it was a two
- 29:41Speaker 3: to one game. Oh no, sorry, it was two to two,
- 29:44Speaker 3: my mistake, So it landed right on the four. But
- 29:48Speaker 3: Anaheim is a more hitter friendly park, I believe the
- 29:50Speaker 3: Toronto is, So let's go with it. First five under
- 29:54Speaker 3: in this one will be the play a little bit juicy,
- 29:57Speaker 3: but you know, this is baseball, so it's kind of
- 30:00Speaker 3: the way that it is. Sometimes you could go onto
- 30:02Speaker 3: three and a half if you want to pay less
- 30:05Speaker 3: for it and take a little bit more risk there, Well,
- 30:10Speaker 3: you're taking more risk with you know your risking that
- 30:12Speaker 3: you're not getting a better number. Let's say, mister Pinsey,
- 30:17Speaker 3: what's up? Thanks for hanging out. Oh I see what dude, Streamyard,
- 30:22Speaker 3: I see what they're doing. They're graying out all the
- 30:23Speaker 3: comments that I actually showed already. Ah okay, I don't
- 30:29Speaker 3: know if I could change that setting or not. That's weird,
- 30:31Speaker 3: all right, Yeah, stream Road keeps changing stuff, man, all right,
- 30:36Speaker 3: Tampa Bay. At my Boston Red Sox. The Red Sox
- 30:39Speaker 3: bullpen failed last night. I mean Jake Bennett. I don't
- 30:42Speaker 3: think he was that bad. I ran into I was
- 30:45Speaker 3: at Shane Gillis last night. I ran into a bunch
- 30:48Speaker 3: of Red Sox fans on the trains and whatever. After
- 30:52Speaker 3: I got out there. A lot of the a lot
- 30:53Speaker 3: of people at the Red Sox game yesterday getting on
- 30:56Speaker 3: the trains, and by the way, a lot of them
- 30:57Speaker 3: were wearing the Red Sox green monts, the alt merchandise,
- 31:02Speaker 3: to the hats, the jerseys, everything really really crazy. But
- 31:07Speaker 3: they were a very disappointed bunch. I could tell right
- 31:09Speaker 3: away the Red Sox had lost the game, even though
- 31:11Speaker 3: I didn't know what the score was yet. Red Sox
- 31:13Speaker 3: bullpen was bad yesterday. Generally they're not bad though, and
- 31:19Speaker 3: the Red Sox, you know, they were returning home from
- 31:20Speaker 3: a road trip. They swept Detroit. You know, I talked
- 31:24Speaker 3: about it yesterday. I liked the Red Sox pitching matchup
- 31:27Speaker 3: in the game, but they also were in a bad situation.
- 31:29Speaker 3: So unfortunately they kind of wasted a better pitching matchup yesterday.
- 31:33Speaker 3: But still they had a young pitcher on the mound.
- 31:36Speaker 3: Red Sox used three relief pitchers yesterday. Tampa Bay used four.
- 31:42Speaker 3: Tampa Bay has been the better bullpen recently, but they
- 31:45Speaker 3: were bad to start the season. There's still ranked eleventh
- 31:48Speaker 3: in bullpen. The Red Sox are ranked eighth. I think
- 31:51Speaker 3: I'm still gonna give the Red Sox a slight bullpen etcher.
- 31:53Speaker 3: Timpa Bay's bullpen is definitely doing a lot better recently,
- 31:57Speaker 3: so there's not much of an edge there. Hitting one,
- 32:00Speaker 3: the Red Sox have been bad. They're twenty eighth. They
- 32:03Speaker 3: just can't figure it out. Not good. Tampa Bay better
- 32:06Speaker 3: offensively at fifteenth, so that sucks. Jesse Schulten's is gonna
- 32:12Speaker 3: be pitching for Tampa Bay, though I don't know how
- 32:15Speaker 3: long he's gonna go. His numbers are pretty decent this season,
- 32:17Speaker 3: three point one to eighty RA, one point one five whip,
- 32:21Speaker 3: he has a zero roady IRA, but he's only pitched
- 32:24Speaker 3: five innings on the road. He's mostly been working out
- 32:27Speaker 3: of the bullpen man and making like small ish appearances,
- 32:31Speaker 3: So I think he's gonna be more of an, you know,
- 32:34Speaker 3: not really an opener. But I think he's gonna go
- 32:36Speaker 3: like three four innings here, depending on how well he's
- 32:39Speaker 3: pitching and what the matchups are and whatever. So I
- 32:41Speaker 3: don't think he's gonna give you a full starters workload here,
- 32:44Speaker 3: So Tampa is probably gonna have to go to the
- 32:47Speaker 3: bullpen somewhat early in this game. It's more of a
- 32:50Speaker 3: bullpen ish game setting up for Tampa here. But they
- 32:53Speaker 3: did the same thing yesterday too with Jacks as their starters,
- 32:57Speaker 3: so maybe that's not even gonna hurt them that much.
- 33:00Speaker 3: They're used to doing it. At least Tampa Bay and
- 33:01Speaker 3: Detroit are the two teams that do that the most,
- 33:04Speaker 3: so you know, maybe it's not that bad of a
- 33:07Speaker 3: thing for Tampa Bay here. Scholten's you know, he's got
- 33:11Speaker 3: seventeen strikeouts, six walks, twenty hits a lot in twenty
- 33:14Speaker 3: two and two thirds innings. Not really a whole lot
- 33:16Speaker 3: to read into. There, doesn't strike out a lot of
- 33:18Speaker 3: guys doesn't put a ton of guys on base either.
- 33:21Speaker 3: Numbers against the Red Sox small sample thirteen at bats,
- 33:25Speaker 3: two strikeouts, one walk, three eighty five average allowed eight
- 33:28Speaker 3: point fifteen eight thirteen excuse me, ops allowed. So yeah,
- 33:32Speaker 3: the Red Sox win. They've seen him, have been able
- 33:34Speaker 3: to do okay against him. It's hard to read, man,
- 33:37Speaker 3: It's hard to figure out what is gonna what you're
- 33:39Speaker 3: gonna get from Tampa's pitching. Here Connolly Early is pitching
- 33:43Speaker 3: for the Red Sox. He's been decent. He's still young
- 33:47Speaker 3: man and figuring stuff out. And his issue has definitely
- 33:49Speaker 3: been the walks. He's got to get the walks under control.
- 33:52Speaker 3: Three point seven to ninety iras still not bad. One
- 33:55Speaker 3: point three to two whip though that whip is too high. Again,
- 33:58Speaker 3: the walks are a problem. He's pretty bad at home
- 34:02Speaker 3: six point seventy five homey Raim, I don't know if
- 34:04Speaker 3: he's that trustworthy, although really it was. I mean, you
- 34:07Speaker 3: look at the teams that he had to face at home, though.
- 34:10Speaker 3: The Yankees and Houston are the teams that both did
- 34:12Speaker 3: that damage, and he wasn't even that bad against the Yankees.
- 34:16Speaker 3: He got very little run support in both those outings
- 34:18Speaker 3: as well. But those teams are both good offenses, you know,
- 34:23Speaker 3: so maybe give him a little bit of a pass
- 34:24Speaker 3: for that. He's faced some decent offenses in there, mostly
- 34:29Speaker 3: those two. Tampa Bay has seen a little bit of him.
- 34:32Speaker 3: They only have four hitters who have faced him. They
- 34:34Speaker 3: have six at bats against him, no extra base hits,
- 34:37Speaker 3: no strikeouts, two walks. They're two for six off him
- 34:40Speaker 3: with two singles. So I don't know what you can
- 34:42Speaker 3: really take away from that. Not much tough game to
- 34:46Speaker 3: figure out. Man. It is early, by the way, as
- 34:49Speaker 3: I was alluding to his walk numbers a problem. He's
- 34:51Speaker 3: got thirty one strikeouts, seventeen walks, only thirty hits all
- 34:55Speaker 3: out in thirty five to two thirds innings though, So
- 34:57Speaker 3: he's not that hitt a bum he's got, man, I
- 35:00Speaker 3: mean he's not. He's not really a hard thrower. He's
- 35:05Speaker 3: more about like locating his pitches, and he's got off
- 35:07Speaker 3: speed pitches. The fool hitters, so that's more of his thing. Still,
- 35:13Speaker 3: I think his fastball is probably like a mid nineties fastball,
- 35:16Speaker 3: but yeah, whatever, I think Early definitely has a higher
- 35:20Speaker 3: ceiling here in than Schultens does. Maybe it's a bounce
- 35:24Speaker 3: back for the Red Sox. You know, sometimes when those
- 35:26Speaker 3: teams return home and they have a bad game, they
- 35:28Speaker 3: will bounce back in the next game. There is a
- 35:30Speaker 3: reason why the Red Sox are favored at minus one
- 35:33Speaker 3: thirty whatever here, and you're gonna look at the team's
- 35:35Speaker 3: records that think, what the fuck is that? Because the
- 35:37Speaker 3: Red Sox are well below five hundred and the Rays
- 35:41Speaker 3: are way above five hundred. And in fact, I believe
- 35:44Speaker 3: there are only two teams in the American League above
- 35:47Speaker 3: five hundred at all now, and it's Tampa Bay and
- 35:50Speaker 3: the Yankees. The American League is just a sad, sad league. Man,
- 35:55Speaker 3: it is so bad. But you know, there's a reason
- 36:00Speaker 3: again why the Red Sox are favored despite the record
- 36:03Speaker 3: disparity here. Tampa Bay. I mean, they're not a bad team,
- 36:07Speaker 3: but I think they're overrated, like their record makes them
- 36:09Speaker 3: look better than they actually are now, even though I
- 36:12Speaker 3: don't think they're that bad. Of a team, but their
- 36:14Speaker 3: run differential is like plus twenty or so, and like
- 36:18Speaker 3: the Yankees are like plus eighty, you know what I mean.
- 36:21Speaker 3: That means they've scored that many more runs than they've allowed.
- 36:24Speaker 3: So a positive run differential is good, but Tampa's isn't
- 36:28Speaker 3: that positive. And they're like the Reds in that they've
- 36:30Speaker 3: won a lot of close games. Tampa, I think is
- 36:33Speaker 3: one of the most one run games in the American League.
- 36:36Speaker 3: So that's something to consider in this one alien disclosure day.
- 36:41Speaker 3: That's a distraction, dude. Basically that makes me wonder, like
- 36:46Speaker 3: what else is going on? Like, you know, I think
- 36:50Speaker 3: aliens do exist, but I think that the narrative surrounding it,
- 36:55Speaker 3: there's a lot of fake information out there. There's a
- 36:58Speaker 3: reason why all those scientists disappearing that are in that
- 37:02Speaker 3: type of field in you know, aeronautics and space and whatever,
- 37:07Speaker 3: and even you know, in the UFO field and whatever.
- 37:10Speaker 3: There's something going on there. But I think what they're
- 37:12Speaker 3: gonna disclose is going to be a distraction from what's
- 37:16Speaker 3: really going on anyway. You know, I guess I'll slightly
- 37:20Speaker 3: lean to the Red Sox there, but I just hope
- 37:22Speaker 3: they win I don't love it, but they do have
- 37:24Speaker 3: more of the money sixty one percent of tickets eighty
- 37:26Speaker 3: three percent of the cash on them. I don't have
- 37:28Speaker 3: a good feel for the game. The totals eight and
- 37:30Speaker 3: a half. I mean, do what you want with that game.
- 37:33Speaker 3: By the way, the full game total on the game
- 37:36Speaker 3: I just gave out as a play Anaheim in Toronto,
- 37:38Speaker 3: full game seven and a half there, So the odds
- 37:41Speaker 3: makers are definitely telling you they think it's gonna be
- 37:43Speaker 3: a low scoring game. That one has eighty percent of
- 37:45Speaker 3: the tickets in ninety one percent of the cash on
- 37:47Speaker 3: the under. So that's Anaheim Toronto. I mean, so we
- 37:52Speaker 3: are agreeing with the money in that one. Washington at Miami,
- 37:56Speaker 3: I have at least an opinion on this game. That's
- 37:59Speaker 3: one of the better opinions in my opinion. Miami just
- 38:03Speaker 3: ended a four game losing streak by beating Baltimore yesterday
- 38:06Speaker 3: and they're staying at home, so that's at least good
- 38:09Speaker 3: for Miami. Again, when you end a losing streak sometimes
- 38:12Speaker 3: that gives you new positive momentum, so that's good. Washington
- 38:16Speaker 3: did just win two games against Minnesota, though, and now
- 38:19Speaker 3: they might carry that momentum on the road with them
- 38:22Speaker 3: a lot of times started a road trip, you will
- 38:24Speaker 3: be focused. This is a divisional series, so Washington may
- 38:27Speaker 3: show up as well, so I think the spot is
- 38:29Speaker 3: kind of positive for both teams. Washington does not have
- 38:32Speaker 3: a good bullpen. They used four relief pitchers yesterday. Miami
- 38:37Speaker 3: has the better bullpen. They also used four and use
- 38:40Speaker 3: some of their better relievers, as I already talked about
- 38:42Speaker 3: because I had the wrong team there in that Baltimore matchup. Miami,
- 38:46Speaker 3: like I already said, is fifth in bullpen, so they're good.
- 38:50Speaker 3: Washington is twenty second, so Miami definitely has a bullpen
- 38:53Speaker 3: edge here. Miami offensively eighteenth here. And by the way,
- 39:01Speaker 3: I've totally fucked that up, dude, Baltimore, because Baltimore is
- 39:04Speaker 3: facing the A's here. I apologize, dude. The Aas have
- 39:08Speaker 3: the better offense over Baltimore. The a Is are ranked
- 39:11Speaker 3: where are they at? The A's are sixth right now,
- 39:15Speaker 3: just to get that out there, because I forgot to
- 39:16Speaker 3: mention that Baltimore sixteenth. I'm sorry. I'm skitz today. I'm
- 39:20Speaker 3: all over the place. Miami is eighteenth in offense. Washington
- 39:24Speaker 3: is back up to ninth. But remember, Washington just padded
- 39:27Speaker 3: their offense against a very bad Minnesota pitching staff that
- 39:31Speaker 3: also lost their as, so Washington did not have to
- 39:34Speaker 3: face Joe Ryan in that series there, and Minnesota's bullpen
- 39:39Speaker 3: is also bad. But yeah, Washington, They're pitching is bad.
- 39:43Speaker 3: Their bullpen is bad. Offensively, the been decent. Miami's pitching
- 39:48Speaker 3: has been better. Foster Griffin is pitching for Washington. He's
- 39:52Speaker 3: been one of the biggest surprises, although nobody's gonna be
- 39:56Speaker 3: talking about it because who the fuck is this guy?
- 39:58Speaker 3: He's thirty years old, he has not had much major
- 40:00Speaker 3: league experience like usually this again, it's like a it's
- 40:04Speaker 3: like a movie storyline, Like you know, he's like, what
- 40:09Speaker 3: was it Randy Quaid and the rookie h Randy Quaid.
- 40:13Speaker 3: You know, he starts pitching for the Rays when he's
- 40:15Speaker 3: like almost forty years old. He makes his major league debut.
- 40:19Speaker 3: You know what I'm talking about? That movie? You guys
- 40:20Speaker 3: seen that movie? I don't know, but this reminds me
- 40:23Speaker 3: of that, where it's like this guy hadn't really pitched
- 40:26Speaker 3: in the majors, though he had pitched a little bit.
- 40:28Speaker 3: He's thirty years old, You're like, what the hell are
- 40:30Speaker 3: you really gonna get out of this guy? Well, he's
- 40:33Speaker 3: having a good season. Two point two seventy array, one
- 40:36Speaker 3: point eight whip. He's been pretty good both home and away.
- 40:40Speaker 3: It doesn't really matter. Thirty three strikeouts, fourteen walks. I mean,
- 40:45Speaker 3: it's not the greatest ratio, but it's not terrible. Twenty
- 40:48Speaker 3: nine hits allowed in thirty nine to two thirds innings,
- 40:51Speaker 3: that's pretty good. He hasn't a lot a lot of hits.
- 40:53Speaker 3: He's been solid, dude. He's allowed three or fewer runs
- 40:56Speaker 3: and all but one outing, and he's allowed fewer than
- 40:58Speaker 3: three in all but two outings. Anaheim's won all but
- 41:02Speaker 3: two of his starts, and he pitched pretty well against
- 41:05Speaker 3: some better offenses. He had to face the Dodgers Atlanta.
- 41:09Speaker 3: Pittsburgh was one of his worst starts, and he didn't
- 41:12Speaker 3: even do bad in that outing Milwaukee he was able
- 41:15Speaker 3: to shut down twice, didn't allow any runs, did walk
- 41:19Speaker 3: too many guys last time out four. So yeah, the
- 41:21Speaker 3: walks maybe a little bit of an issue, but Griffin
- 41:24Speaker 3: definitely is capable of doing well here. This is a
- 41:26Speaker 3: pitcher friendly ballpark in Miami as well, and Griffin has
- 41:30Speaker 3: never been seen before by Miami, So Miami might actually
- 41:34Speaker 3: pitch might actually Griffin excuse me, might actually pitch well
- 41:37Speaker 3: here against Miami. He's got the unfamiliarity edge against them
- 41:41Speaker 3: as well. Yeah, I think he might pitch okay. Here.
- 41:45Speaker 3: He is going to be opposed by a guy making
- 41:47Speaker 3: his major league debut, which is Robbie Snellings. We have
- 41:51Speaker 3: a lot of a lot of mystery here. These guys
- 41:55Speaker 3: don't have a lot of major league experience. Snelling is
- 41:58Speaker 3: gonna make his major league debut four of the Marlins.
- 42:01Speaker 3: He is a left hander. His numbers have been really
- 42:03Speaker 3: good in Triple A. I looked him up. He's got
- 42:06Speaker 3: like a one ERA over five starts at Triple A
- 42:09Speaker 3: this year, a whip below one, high strikeout rate from
- 42:13Speaker 3: what I saw on Triple A. The walk number a
- 42:15Speaker 3: little bit high for him. My concern would be that
- 42:20Speaker 3: it's arsenal isn't that deep. So he throws like a
- 42:23Speaker 3: mid nineties fastball, which doesn't seem great, but he fools
- 42:27Speaker 3: hitters by mixing in his off speed stuff. I guess
- 42:30Speaker 3: he has a really, really disgusting curveball that really throws
- 42:34Speaker 3: people off. He's got to change up as well, and
- 42:36Speaker 3: that's primarily what he does, that three pitch mix. I
- 42:39Speaker 3: guess he has like a slider that he's mixing in
- 42:41Speaker 3: as well. That's similar but different to the curveball. I
- 42:45Speaker 3: don't know, but I like what this guy's been doing
- 42:48Speaker 3: in triple A at the very least. And of course
- 42:50Speaker 3: he hasn't been seen before by any major league hitters
- 42:54Speaker 3: unless they saw him in the minors or whatever, you know,
- 42:56Speaker 3: so he has the unfamiliarity edge here as well. I'm
- 43:00Speaker 3: gonna lean under first five in this game. Man. I
- 43:03Speaker 3: even though I like Miami's bullpen, they're a little bit unrested.
- 43:06Speaker 3: They use some of their high leverage arms. So I
- 43:09Speaker 3: just don't want to deal with the bullpens, and you know,
- 43:11Speaker 3: I don't want to deal with Washington's bullpen. I considered
- 43:14Speaker 3: adding this to my card, like this one. This is
- 43:17Speaker 3: the closest play to being on my card that doesn't
- 43:20Speaker 3: make my card. So I'll just I'll tell you that
- 43:23Speaker 3: first five under would be my recommendation here. I don't
- 43:25Speaker 3: see any percentages on this yet. Two lefties that are
- 43:30Speaker 3: very unfamiliar going at it here. Man, there is a
- 43:35Speaker 3: there is a bit of an unknown though. You know,
- 43:36Speaker 3: sometimes with a guy making his major league debut like Snelling,
- 43:40Speaker 3: sometimes they will be a little bit nervous and that
- 43:44Speaker 3: leads to walks, you know what I mean. So that's
- 43:45Speaker 3: the one issue, Uh, Griffin, I'm not too worried about. Like,
- 43:49Speaker 3: he has so many starts under his belt now this
- 43:52Speaker 3: season that you know he's not gonna be intimidated by this.
- 43:56Speaker 3: He's faced some of the top lineups in baseball and
- 43:59Speaker 3: wasn't really intimidating. Did so total for the full game
- 44:03Speaker 3: here is eight, But yeah, I like first five under
- 44:06Speaker 3: in that game. Josh, what's up? Thanks for hanging out. Yes,
- 44:11Speaker 3: I agree with that sentiment. Yes, the government telling you
- 44:15Speaker 3: all this stuff about aliens, you know there's something different
- 44:18Speaker 3: going on than what they're telling you. Hindian, thank you.
- 44:21Speaker 3: What's up? Easy? Easy e? Jeff, I don't know what
- 44:27Speaker 3: that is. You're not you're not a baseball fan. What
- 44:32Speaker 3: about oh the taxes, that's right, yeah, because the market
- 44:36Speaker 3: will tax you. I mean the betters will call it
- 44:39Speaker 3: a tax. But it's like, you know, I mean, whatever
- 44:44Speaker 3: you want to call it. Like the price is higher
- 44:47Speaker 3: on on those games, you know what I mean? When
- 44:49Speaker 3: you're you're paying a premium. Let's call it paying a premium.
- 44:52Speaker 3: A lot of guys use that terminology as well. You're
- 44:54Speaker 3: paying a premium when you're betting the best teams and
- 44:57Speaker 3: the best pitchers. Who's from Reno snelling? He might be Yeah,
- 45:05Speaker 3: I don't know, man, I mean, Reno's got a lot
- 45:07Speaker 3: of gambling going on. They're also, you know, they're in Nevada,
- 45:11Speaker 3: so they're in the Area fifty one area. The Area
- 45:14Speaker 3: fifty one, I'm pretty sure is closer to Vegas than Reno.
- 45:17Speaker 3: All right, what else we got here? Yeah, because they
- 45:22Speaker 3: think the people that work at Area fifty one fly
- 45:24Speaker 3: out from somewhere near Las Vegas. They fly from there
- 45:29Speaker 3: into Area fifty one. Oh, I get what you mean. Yeah,
- 45:34Speaker 3: Jeffrey e Aam, that's right. Am. I not allowed to
- 45:38Speaker 3: say his name. I don't know Minnesota at Cleveland. This
- 45:42Speaker 3: is gonna be another play from me. This is an
- 45:44Speaker 3: Apple TV game. Cleveland is returning over from a road trip,
- 45:48Speaker 3: and you know I talk about that. I don't like
- 45:50Speaker 3: teams returning over from road trips. They went to the
- 45:53Speaker 3: as then they were closer to their area though they
- 45:56Speaker 3: were in Kansas City, and they won that series or No,
- 45:59Speaker 3: they split series and won the last two games of it.
- 46:03Speaker 3: But Cleveland is still returning over from a road trip.
- 46:05Speaker 3: They've been away for a while. They did have to
- 46:06Speaker 3: go to the Pacific Coast during it, so I talk
- 46:08Speaker 3: about how that adds to distractions, but I also think
- 46:11Speaker 3: the distractions hit the offense more than it might hit
- 46:15Speaker 3: a single starting pitcher, because you know, it's easier for
- 46:19Speaker 3: one single guy to overcome those distractions, especially if he
- 46:23Speaker 3: is single then than it is for like an entire
- 46:27Speaker 3: offense of a team to do it, you know what
- 46:29Speaker 3: I mean, Because you're gonna have guys in the mix
- 46:31Speaker 3: that are dealing with the distractions or whatever. So you
- 46:34Speaker 3: kind of know where I'm going with this. I think
- 46:37Speaker 3: Cleveland might be a little bit distracted here on the
- 46:39Speaker 3: return home spot Minnesota. They just lost a couple of
- 46:44Speaker 3: games to Washington, which, yes, that might mean they're gonna
- 46:46Speaker 3: be focused now they're in the middle of a road trip,
- 46:48Speaker 3: So yes, I would agree in Minnesota is in the
- 46:50Speaker 3: better situational spot, but that is not where I'm going
- 46:54Speaker 3: with this game. I'm not gonna give out a play
- 46:56Speaker 3: on the side in this one. Cleveland, by the way,
- 46:58Speaker 3: their bolthman has been okay, they've used they use a
- 47:01Speaker 3: lot of guys out of it the last couple of days.
- 47:02Speaker 3: They use five relief pitchers yesterday. And you know what
- 47:05Speaker 3: I already said about Minnesota their bullpen. Not a fan
- 47:09Speaker 3: of it at all. They used two guys out of
- 47:11Speaker 3: the bullpen yesterday. But I still don't want to deal
- 47:13Speaker 3: with Minnesota's bullpen. You probably know what this is gonna be.
- 47:23Speaker 3: First five unders where we're going on this one too.
- 47:25Speaker 3: I saw I found an under four at a little
- 47:27Speaker 3: bit of a better price than the other one at
- 47:30Speaker 3: minus one eighteen. Minnesota. I mean, they've been playing a
- 47:33Speaker 3: lot of high scoring games, dude, But I mean, think
- 47:36Speaker 3: about it. They're playing in Washington. Washington has allowed more
- 47:40Speaker 3: runs than any other team at home this year, and
- 47:44Speaker 3: Washington has a terrible pitching staff, you know what I mean.
- 47:47Speaker 3: So that obviously that padded Minnesota's numbers. Although I know
- 47:52Speaker 3: Washington was lighting up Minnesota's pitching in the last couple
- 47:55Speaker 3: of games, I get it. But seeing a team coming
- 47:58Speaker 3: up a bunch of high scoring games like that, I
- 48:00Speaker 3: don't think that's gonna be the case coming into this one.
- 48:02Speaker 3: Cleveland plays a lot of lower scoring games but you know,
- 48:07Speaker 3: Cleveland did just have a high scoring game yesterday against
- 48:09Speaker 3: Kansas City as well. But we're now in Cleveland. Cleveland
- 48:13Speaker 3: is not a particularly hitter friendly ballpark. I don't believe.
- 48:16Speaker 3: I never really talk about the hitter or pitcher friendly
- 48:19Speaker 3: nature of their ballpark because I don't really think it's
- 48:21Speaker 3: necessarily either upe. I already looked at the bullpens bullpen
- 48:25Speaker 3: wise Cleveland. They are ranked tenth right now in WHIP,
- 48:28Speaker 3: but they uses a lot of guys out of the
- 48:30Speaker 3: bullpen yesterday. Their ERA is a little bit high above four.
- 48:34Speaker 3: I don't fully trust that bullpen. Minnesota's bullpen is awful though,
- 48:38Speaker 3: twenty eighth, and they're twenty ninth in ERA, so they
- 48:41Speaker 3: are really bad. So we're gonna take the bullpen's out
- 48:45Speaker 3: of the equation here. I don't want to deal with
- 48:47Speaker 3: either one here, especially not Minnesota's hitting wise, Cleveland has
- 48:53Speaker 3: not been good their twentieth in hitting. Minnesota has been
- 48:55Speaker 3: mediocre at fourteenth. I do think these are a couple
- 48:58Speaker 3: of offenses that could be stifled by the right pitching matchup,
- 49:02Speaker 3: and that is what we're gonna go with here. We're
- 49:04Speaker 3: gonna back a Connor prelip as one part of this.
- 49:08Speaker 3: Who is pitching for Minnesota. He's still really young. He's
- 49:10Speaker 3: only made like three starts I think in his career
- 49:13Speaker 3: so far. Yeah, but he's been decent three point eight
- 49:17Speaker 3: six e RRA point nine to three WHIP. He's not
- 49:20Speaker 3: going up against the most intimidating offense here. He's been
- 49:23Speaker 3: not as good on the road four point five ROADRA.
- 49:26Speaker 3: But it's such a small sample. It's like, I don't
- 49:29Speaker 3: know what do you even do with that information. That
- 49:31Speaker 3: was his first start of the season. By the way,
- 49:33Speaker 3: it was against the Mets. I know the Mets stink offensively,
- 49:36Speaker 3: but they they only let him go four innings in
- 49:38Speaker 3: that one, and he didn't walk anybody, had six strikeouts
- 49:41Speaker 3: and give up tour and runs on four hits. That
- 49:44Speaker 3: was not a bad outing whatsoever. And then he allowed
- 49:48Speaker 3: touring runs in his other two starts as well. They
- 49:51Speaker 3: might be limiting his pitch count a little bit. So
- 49:53Speaker 3: that means it also makes sense to go first five
- 49:56Speaker 3: here because he's been very consistent so far, and that
- 49:59Speaker 3: while he's been out there his last two starts, he's
- 50:01Speaker 3: gone five innings in each of them, and he allowed
- 50:03Speaker 3: to hour on runs in each of them, so that's
- 50:07Speaker 3: fine as well. He did have multiple walks, so you
- 50:10Speaker 3: know the walks, I guess they're a bit concerning. He's
- 50:12Speaker 3: got fifteen strikeouts five walks, that's still not a terrible ratio.
- 50:16Speaker 3: And he's only allowed eight hits and fourteen innings, so
- 50:18Speaker 3: he hasn't been very easy to hit. He's got a
- 50:21Speaker 3: decent strikeout rate, so I like all that. He looks
- 50:24Speaker 3: like he might be decent dude. And you'll see that
- 50:27Speaker 3: his last two starts went way over the total, but
- 50:29Speaker 3: obviously that wasn't his fault. One of them, he just
- 50:32Speaker 3: got a ton of run support behind him, and then
- 50:34Speaker 3: the other one the bullpen totally imploded behind him, so
- 50:37Speaker 3: none of that was his doing. So I think that
- 50:39Speaker 3: might give us a little bit of value we get.
- 50:42Speaker 3: I think we get some value in this under for
- 50:43Speaker 3: a bunch of reasons, Like nobody knows who Prelp is,
- 50:47Speaker 3: so I think that gives us some value there. And
- 50:49Speaker 3: looking at you know, the high scoring nature of Minnesota's
- 50:52Speaker 3: recent games and the Prelp games, you know what I mean,
- 50:56Speaker 3: Like that's gonna skew this number. But again you look
- 50:59Speaker 3: at what he he actually is he's not bad, and
- 51:01Speaker 3: Cleveland has never faced it before, so we have the
- 51:03Speaker 3: extra advantage of unfamiliarity here, and pre Lip is not
- 51:07Speaker 3: making his first start, you know what I mean, So
- 51:09Speaker 3: the nerves are not gonna be there anymore. I think
- 51:12Speaker 3: he's gonna be ready to go. He's you know, he's faced.
- 51:15Speaker 3: He's faced some not the greatest offense has but neither
- 51:20Speaker 3: is Cleveland. Right, so he's faced Seattle, Toronto. I mean,
- 51:22Speaker 3: those are probably better offenses than Cleveland's. So yeah, I
- 51:27Speaker 3: don't think he's gonna be intimidated, and he's going up
- 51:29Speaker 3: against a very talented young pitcher. The Cleveland has Parker
- 51:33Speaker 3: Messic having a really good season two point foury ra
- 51:36Speaker 3: point ninety two whip. Messik has been pretty good both
- 51:40Speaker 3: home and away, slightly worse at home, but not really
- 51:43Speaker 3: a big deal.
- 51:44Speaker 2: Now.
- 51:44Speaker 3: He had a bad start in his last outing, but
- 51:46Speaker 3: if you look at what that was, I think that
- 51:48Speaker 3: was a total outlier because he was pitching in the
- 51:51Speaker 3: A's stadium, So like, what do you want to do?
- 51:53Speaker 1: You know what I mean?
- 51:53Speaker 3: He gave up three home runs in that game, and
- 51:56Speaker 3: it's a very home run conduce at ballpark. I think
- 51:59Speaker 3: we give him as for that. He still managed to
- 52:01Speaker 3: only allow four runs in that one, had six strikeouts,
- 52:04Speaker 3: no walks, six hits a lot in five innings. I'm
- 52:07Speaker 3: gonna give him a pass for that. He's been really
- 52:10Speaker 3: good otherwise. He's allowed three or fewer on runs in
- 52:12Speaker 3: every other start, two or fewer in all about one
- 52:16Speaker 3: of those outings against Houston up until his last two outings.
- 52:19Speaker 3: Cleveland won all of his starts prior to that, and
- 52:22Speaker 3: then you know it was that bad one against the
- 52:25Speaker 3: A's and the other one he got no run support
- 52:27Speaker 3: against Tampa Bay. He's got forty four strikeouts and ten walks.
- 52:30Speaker 3: That's a good ratio. Twenty eight hits allowed and forty
- 52:33Speaker 3: one to the third innings prior to that gam where
- 52:36Speaker 3: he allowed three home runs in the as Stadium, he
- 52:38Speaker 3: only allowed one home run otherwise. It was at home
- 52:42Speaker 3: against the Cubs, but you know, the Cubs are a
- 52:44Speaker 3: very powerful offense as well. He's done well against some
- 52:47Speaker 3: good offenses. Man. He shut out the Braves earlier this
- 52:50Speaker 3: year on the road, shut out the Dodgers on the
- 52:52Speaker 3: road in his first start of the season. So he's
- 52:55Speaker 3: not going to be intimidated by any offense. Certainly not
- 52:59Speaker 3: the Minnesota to offense. And Minnesota they have seen him
- 53:03Speaker 3: a little bit seventeen at bats, but they haven't been
- 53:06Speaker 3: successful against him.
- 53:07Speaker 2: Really.
- 53:07Speaker 3: They have one extra base hit, which is a double
- 53:10Speaker 3: from Keyshaw keshawl. I don't know if you pronounce his name.
- 53:14Speaker 3: Six to one s I got walk Razer against the
- 53:16Speaker 3: two thirty five batting average allowed five to seventy two ops.
- 53:20Speaker 3: So the call in this game the play is first
- 53:23Speaker 3: five innings under excluding the bullpens, and the money seems
- 53:27Speaker 3: like it agrees on this one as well. Eighty percent
- 53:29Speaker 3: of the tickets. I know, I don't like to see
- 53:31Speaker 3: those public ticket percentages, but and we're still using wager
- 53:34Speaker 3: talk because pregame, even though they're aware, still has not
- 53:38Speaker 3: fixed their shit, and it's been like two weeks. Unbelievable,
- 53:43Speaker 3: but anyway, ninety four percent of the cash on the under. Really,
- 53:46Speaker 3: but this read tells me is the real money is
- 53:48Speaker 3: on the under. And the full game total is low
- 53:50Speaker 3: at seven and a half, So the odds makers are
- 53:53Speaker 3: signaling to you they think this is going to be
- 53:55Speaker 3: a pitching match up here, but I don't want the bullpens,
- 53:58Speaker 3: so we're we have two first five inning underplays here,
- 54:03Speaker 3: So that's play number two for me. Janet Janet Reno.
- 54:09Speaker 3: I don't know what we're talking about here. You're gonna
- 54:14Speaker 3: bet the UFC. There's a huge UFC card tomorrow. I
- 54:17Speaker 3: saw Dana White on some I don't even know what.
- 54:19Speaker 3: I had some channel. I don't even think it was
- 54:21Speaker 3: one of the sports channels. I had some channel on
- 54:24Speaker 3: when I was flipping through TV earlier yesterday. I think
- 54:27Speaker 3: Dana White was on some I was like, Oh, Dana
- 54:30Speaker 3: White's on you know. I don't it was like the
- 54:32Speaker 3: View or something. No, I don't think it was the View.
- 54:34Speaker 3: Whatever it was, though, I was like, oh, Dana White
- 54:36Speaker 3: is on talking about the UFC card for Saturday. I
- 54:39Speaker 3: don't know. All right, we're in almost an hour, man,
- 54:43Speaker 3: We're not on schedule here. We have seven more games here.
- 54:48Speaker 3: I think it looks like so let's keep going Detroit
- 54:50Speaker 3: at Kansas City. I don't know where Zach is with
- 54:53Speaker 3: shout out to him, Zach, wherever you are. Kansas City
- 54:57Speaker 3: just lost the last two games and that split eeries
- 55:00Speaker 3: against Cleveland. They're staying at home, but they did play yesterday.
- 55:04Speaker 3: So Kansas City played yesterday Detroit. I believe did not.
- 55:08Speaker 3: Detroit's coming off getting swept by Boston and they're starting
- 55:12Speaker 3: a road trip and they have rest, so Detroit has
- 55:14Speaker 3: a better situation here. Man, after getting swept at home,
- 55:17Speaker 3: you got to think they're gonna bounced back spot here.
- 55:20Speaker 3: Detroit did not play yesterday, Kansas City did, so Detroit
- 55:23Speaker 3: has a little bit of an edge here. Kansas City's
- 55:25Speaker 3: bullpen is not pitched well and they got pretty used
- 55:28Speaker 3: up over the last two days. They use four relief
- 55:30Speaker 3: pitchers yesterday, so I don't trust Kansas City's bullpen here.
- 55:34Speaker 3: They're also ranked twenty third, which is not good, and
- 55:38Speaker 3: Detroit's bullpen's had struggles with their twentieth so they are
- 55:41Speaker 3: better than Kansas City's right now. Hitting wise, Detroit's been decent.
- 55:45Speaker 3: They're tenth right now. The Royals are thirteenth though, so
- 55:48Speaker 3: the Royals have started hitting a little bit better as well.
- 55:51Speaker 3: Their stadium is a little bit more hitter friendly now
- 55:54Speaker 3: that they move the walls in. Zack, what's up? And
- 55:57Speaker 3: they started hanging out for what's the White House fight?
- 56:01Speaker 3: There's a fight at the White House. The fight House. Hey, dude,
- 56:06Speaker 3: they should pay me. I came up with that name
- 56:07Speaker 3: there you go fight House, and it's gonna you know,
- 56:12Speaker 3: it's gonna the the logo for it's gonna be Trump's
- 56:15Speaker 3: Fight Fight Fight thing. All right. Keeter Montero is gonna
- 56:19Speaker 3: be pitching for Detroit here. I feel like he's pretty
- 56:22Speaker 3: under the raidar man, like he was the guy that
- 56:24Speaker 3: was making a lot of bullpen appearances for them in
- 56:26Speaker 3: his first couple of seasons and whatever. He looks pretty
- 56:29Speaker 3: decent right now. Three point four to eighty R one
- 56:32Speaker 3: point zero one whip. I mean that's better than decent.
- 56:34Speaker 3: Not good on the road though, five point four Roadie Ray,
- 56:37Speaker 3: so that's a little bit of a concern. He did
- 56:39Speaker 3: face Kansas City earlier at home on April sixteenth, and
- 56:43Speaker 3: he gave up four runs in the game, but he
- 56:46Speaker 3: wasn't bad in that start. He had five strikeouts, no walks,
- 56:49Speaker 3: and give up seven hits and six innings, so he
- 56:51Speaker 3: got kind of unlucky in that outing. He's not a
- 56:54Speaker 3: huge strikeout guy. Twenty five strikeouts and thirty three and
- 56:57Speaker 3: two thirds innings, but seven and walks, twenty seven hits allowed.
- 57:01Speaker 3: None of those numbers are bad. That Kansas City star
- 57:04Speaker 3: was the only one where he allowed more than three
- 57:06Speaker 3: or in runs. He's pitching pretty well, dude, although he's
- 57:09Speaker 3: faced some somewhat weaker offenses year, though he hasn't faced
- 57:13Speaker 3: a gauntlet yet. But you know, it's not like Kansas
- 57:16Speaker 3: City is that powerful of an offense either, So that's
- 57:20Speaker 3: who he's going up against here. Doesn't have good numbers
- 57:23Speaker 3: against them historically though, in fifty one at bats seven
- 57:25Speaker 3: to two strike at walk ratio, that's fine, but two
- 57:28Speaker 3: ninety four batting average allowed seven to fifty two. Oh ps,
- 57:31Speaker 3: it's a little bit iffy. But Montero is pitching better
- 57:35Speaker 3: this season than he has before, and his last outing,
- 57:38Speaker 3: like I showed you against Kansas City, wasn't bad. So
- 57:41Speaker 3: I don't know how much weight we should put into
- 57:43Speaker 3: these numbers and then but Kansas City's definitely familiar with them.
- 57:47Speaker 3: Chris boo, bitch, it's pitching for Kansas City. He's been
- 57:50Speaker 3: good this year three point three to two ERA, one
- 57:53Speaker 3: point one to three WHIP. He's been a little bit
- 57:55Speaker 3: better at home, three ERA at home, coming off a
- 57:59Speaker 3: really good start at Seattle, two pretty good starts in
- 58:02Speaker 3: a row. He pitched decently in the A's Stadium as well,
- 58:05Speaker 3: but did walk four guys in that one, and the
- 58:08Speaker 3: walks have really been the concern. He held them to
- 58:10Speaker 3: want to and run in that one. But the walks
- 58:12Speaker 3: are an issue.
- 58:13Speaker 2: Man.
- 58:13Speaker 3: He's got forty two strikeouts, nineteen walks, and forty to
- 58:16Speaker 3: two thirds innings and only twenty seven hits allowed, so
- 58:19Speaker 3: he's very difficult to hit. But the walks, Yeah, the
- 58:22Speaker 3: wildness is a bit of an issue for him, So
- 58:25Speaker 3: somehow he's got to get that under control a bit.
- 58:28Speaker 3: Numbers against Detroit forty five career at bats, he hasn't
- 58:32Speaker 3: been that good against them. Ten strikeouts, four walks, two
- 58:35Speaker 3: sixty seven average allowed, seven forty nine oh ps. Riley
- 58:39Speaker 3: Green is five for ten off him. So if you want,
- 58:42Speaker 3: you know, player prop whatever, I usually recommend hits plus
- 58:45Speaker 3: runs plus RBIs on over on a guy that has
- 58:48Speaker 3: a good matchup against a particular pitcher, and it's probably
- 58:53Speaker 3: better if they're facing a bad bullpen, you know, which
- 58:56Speaker 3: actually is the case here. Kiss the City's bullpen not
- 58:59Speaker 3: good Buobach. You know, I think he is probably still
- 59:03Speaker 3: the more trustworthy pitcher here, but Kansas City is not
- 59:06Speaker 3: in the better situation. You know, Boobach does have walk issues,
- 59:12Speaker 3: so Montero. I like Montero's overall numbers a little bit
- 59:15Speaker 3: better right now, Buobach has the slightly better matchup numbers. Obviously,
- 59:21Speaker 3: this is not a game I'm gonna give out a
- 59:22Speaker 3: play on Kansas City's minus one forty or so here
- 59:25Speaker 3: seventy eight percent of tickets ninety percent of the casual
- 59:27Speaker 3: on Kansas City. I slightly lean Detroit here, man. I
- 59:33Speaker 3: think with the rest edge, the bullpen edge that they
- 59:36Speaker 3: have here, you know, the pitching might be a little
- 59:40Speaker 3: bit of a duel here potentially, and Detroit could keep
- 59:42Speaker 3: themselves in the game probably. So yeah, I would lean
- 59:46Speaker 3: to Detroit getting the underdog price there. That would be
- 59:49Speaker 3: my opinion there. Sorry, Zach Yankees at Milwaukee, I believe
- 59:55Speaker 3: Milwaukee did not play yesterday, but they were returning over
- 59:57Speaker 3: from a road trip, so that's a problem. They went
- 1:00:00Speaker 3: to Washington and Saint Louis, had a pretty successful road trip.
- 1:00:04Speaker 3: They won more games than they lost on the road trip.
- 1:00:07Speaker 3: But they're returning home. But they are returning home from
- 1:00:09Speaker 3: playing in their division from Saint Louis. That's not a
- 1:00:12Speaker 3: bad travel leg and they have a day off, but
- 1:00:15Speaker 3: still return home spot. I mentioned it every time, just
- 1:00:18Speaker 3: because it is part of the handicap. It's a negative,
- 1:00:22Speaker 3: like will I will not play on a team returning
- 1:00:24Speaker 3: home from a road trip unless there's such a good
- 1:00:26Speaker 3: circumstance to do it, Like I'm rarely gonna do it.
- 1:00:29Speaker 3: I'm either going to play against that team or leave
- 1:00:31Speaker 3: the game alone. And in baseball, the matchup, you know,
- 1:00:35Speaker 3: has to line up for me, So I tend to
- 1:00:37Speaker 3: leave these games alone. But yeah, Milwaukee could be a
- 1:00:40Speaker 3: little bit distracted, but then again, they're probably going to
- 1:00:43Speaker 3: try to get up for a game against the Yankees. Though, Man,
- 1:00:45Speaker 3: it is a big series, a weekend series against the Yankees. Yeah,
- 1:00:50Speaker 3: the Yankees did play yesterday though they beat Texas in
- 1:00:53Speaker 3: the early afternoon game. We got the win on the
- 1:00:55Speaker 3: over in that game. Now the Yankees are starting a
- 1:00:58Speaker 3: road trip, so it is a focused spot for the Yankees.
- 1:01:01Speaker 3: But they played yesterday, so they don't have the rest
- 1:01:03Speaker 3: advantage here. But they should be focused to get the
- 1:01:06Speaker 3: road trip off on the right foot. So the Yankees,
- 1:01:09Speaker 3: you know the situation. There are some negatives for both
- 1:01:12Speaker 3: teams here, so that kind of negates itself. The Yankees
- 1:01:17Speaker 3: used five relief pitchers yesterday. By the way, so that's
- 1:01:20Speaker 3: not great for the Yankees. Their bullpen has actually been
- 1:01:23Speaker 3: decent though they're at ninth right now in bullpen. Not
- 1:01:28Speaker 3: bad bullpen numbers from them. The Brewers have been not
- 1:01:31Speaker 3: as good at nineteenth, but their ERA is not that
- 1:01:34Speaker 3: bad and the Brewers have the way more rested bullpens,
- 1:01:37Speaker 3: so I think the bullpen matchup is pretty close in
- 1:01:39Speaker 3: this game. Yankees are number two offensively right now and
- 1:01:43Speaker 3: the Brewers have really struggled again. They've had a lot
- 1:01:46Speaker 3: of injuries. They did get Chario back within the last
- 1:01:50Speaker 3: few days that should help them. But their twentieth offensively
- 1:01:53Speaker 3: right now, but the Brewers I still think they are
- 1:01:55Speaker 3: better than that offensively this game. Though this does look
- 1:01:59Speaker 3: like a pitching map here, at least on the surface.
- 1:02:02Speaker 3: Max Freed is pitching for the Yankees. He's been really
- 1:02:05Speaker 3: good two point three to nine ERA, point eight nine whip.
- 1:02:09Speaker 3: He's been ridiculous on the road. He has a point
- 1:02:12Speaker 3: seven to six road ERA. He's been way worse at
- 1:02:15Speaker 3: home so far. He has a much bigger road sample
- 1:02:19Speaker 3: so far this year. Overall numbers are good forty three strikeouts,
- 1:02:24Speaker 3: fifteen walks. I mean that that ratio is not that
- 1:02:27Speaker 3: good though, to be honest, but he just doesn't strike
- 1:02:29Speaker 3: that many guys out. Fifty two and two thirds in
- 1:02:31Speaker 3: he's pitching, he's only allowed thirty two hits, so he's
- 1:02:34Speaker 3: very unhittable and that's really his best stat there. And
- 1:02:38Speaker 3: he's only allowed more than three on runs once, although
- 1:02:41Speaker 3: he's struggled a little bit more, you know, really since
- 1:02:43Speaker 3: the start of April. You know, his numbers haven't been
- 1:02:47Speaker 3: quite as good, but still obviously not bad at all
- 1:02:51Speaker 3: against Milwaukee. His numbers, you know, are not the best
- 1:02:56Speaker 3: against Milwaukee. In twenty three at bats, he's only allowed
- 1:02:59Speaker 3: one extra base hit though, which is a double from Churio,
- 1:03:02Speaker 3: who is now back. They have two strikeouts, one walk
- 1:03:05Speaker 3: against him, three h four batting average six eighty one OPS,
- 1:03:09Speaker 3: so the OPS is low. He hasn't allowed a lot
- 1:03:12Speaker 3: of extra base hits at all, like I said, but
- 1:03:14Speaker 3: the batting average that Milwaukee has against him is high,
- 1:03:17Speaker 3: so they are capable of getting to Max Freed. But
- 1:03:21Speaker 3: Freed has been good generally and good on the road.
- 1:03:23Speaker 3: But he's gonna have to do a dual. Jacob Mizerowski here,
- 1:03:27Speaker 3: who is the younger pitcher and throws way harder than
- 1:03:30Speaker 3: the max Freed. Miz has good numbers two point eight
- 1:03:33Speaker 3: four ERA one whip. He's been a little bit worse
- 1:03:37Speaker 3: at home though, three point two to two ERA, but
- 1:03:39Speaker 3: that's still not bad obviously. Uh Mizierowski really high strikeout
- 1:03:44Speaker 3: rate fifty nine strikeouts in thirty eight innings and also
- 1:03:48Speaker 3: very difficult to hit twenty three hits allowed. Walks are
- 1:03:51Speaker 3: kind of high for him, fifteen walks, but his strikeout
- 1:03:54Speaker 3: rate is so enormous that it makes the strikeout walk
- 1:03:57Speaker 3: ratios still look really good. He's kind of like, don't cease,
- 1:04:02Speaker 3: but throws even harder. He tends to be a bit
- 1:04:05Speaker 3: inefficient with his pitches, and that's kind of the issue.
- 1:04:08Speaker 3: Milwaukee actually lost four straight games of his to finish April,
- 1:04:12Speaker 3: and then he beat Washington last time out and shut
- 1:04:15Speaker 3: them out and actually no hit them. They took him
- 1:04:18Speaker 3: out in the middle of a no hitter man against
- 1:04:20Speaker 3: Washington after five and a third innings. I don't know
- 1:04:22Speaker 3: what happened. I don't know if there was a rain
- 1:04:24Speaker 3: delay or what, but I wouldn't imagine they would have
- 1:04:26Speaker 3: taken him out eighty five pitches in in a no hitter.
- 1:04:29Speaker 3: That doesn't make sense. To me, So, I don't know
- 1:04:31Speaker 3: what happened there. Although you don't want to overwork. You know,
- 1:04:34Speaker 3: a young arm that throws one hundred miles an hour
- 1:04:37Speaker 3: constantly like this, you don't want to throw his arm out. Man.
- 1:04:40Speaker 3: So I don't know. It's the new pitching age, man,
- 1:04:45Speaker 3: And I believe the Yankees haven't faced him. Let me say, yeah,
- 1:04:48Speaker 3: so Mizierowski has an unfamiliarity edge against the Yankees. They
- 1:04:51Speaker 3: haven't seen him before, you know, I mean, the money's
- 1:04:56Speaker 3: actually hitting the over in this game. The totals at
- 1:04:58Speaker 3: seven to the over, eighty four percent of tickets on
- 1:05:01Speaker 3: the under. It looks like such an obvious under. That's
- 1:05:04Speaker 3: kind of the issue I have with this. The under
- 1:05:06Speaker 3: almost looks too obvious. And you know, you don't really
- 1:05:09Speaker 3: love the fact that the Yankees bullpen is unrested. Milwaukee's
- 1:05:12Speaker 3: bullpen isn't great. You know, eighty four percent of tickets
- 1:05:18Speaker 3: on the under, fifty percent of the cash on the over, though,
- 1:05:21Speaker 3: So it looks like there is some market pushback against
- 1:05:24Speaker 3: the under. There, Uh, some money looks like it's actually
- 1:05:27Speaker 3: hitting the over. Money is hitting Milwaukee's sixty two percent
- 1:05:30Speaker 3: of tickets on the Yankees eighty three percent of the
- 1:05:32Speaker 3: cash on Milwaukee. You know, you could make the argument
- 1:05:36Speaker 3: for it because miz has more unfamiliarity here Freed. You know,
- 1:05:41Speaker 3: you could make the argument his matchup numbers are not
- 1:05:43Speaker 3: great against Milwaukee. But I don't know, man, it seems
- 1:05:46Speaker 3: a little bit iffy, but you might. I mean, again,
- 1:05:49Speaker 3: this is attacks you're paying a premium for the Yankees
- 1:05:52Speaker 3: with Max Freed on the mound at minus you know,
- 1:05:55Speaker 3: one thirty or so, that is a little bit of
- 1:05:57Speaker 3: a price to lay, like you're getting miss Rowski as
- 1:05:59Speaker 3: a whole home underdog like that. Man. That is you know,
- 1:06:03Speaker 3: that seems like there's decent value there on the Milwaukee side.
- 1:06:07Speaker 3: But I don't like the spot, like I told you,
- 1:06:09Speaker 3: even though Milwaukee does have a rest advantage here, which
- 1:06:12Speaker 3: does help. I don't love the return home spot. You know.
- 1:06:16Speaker 3: I think the better attack and this the better way
- 1:06:18Speaker 3: to attack this game might actually be first five under.
- 1:06:22Speaker 3: It's gonna be a low number though, probably three and
- 1:06:25Speaker 3: a half, maybe even three. But that's the way that
- 1:06:28Speaker 3: I see it, man. I think both starting pitchers do
- 1:06:32Speaker 3: well enough to get that thing under first five, but
- 1:06:35Speaker 3: there's not a lot of leeway there, so that's not
- 1:06:37Speaker 3: gonna be a play for me. I'm gonna take a break.
- 1:06:41Speaker 3: Usually I do it with five games left, I'm gonna
- 1:06:43Speaker 3: do it with six games left to go. Here, the
- 1:06:45Speaker 3: next game up is a play for me. Then we're
- 1:06:47Speaker 3: gonna do playoffs stuff, and I'm gonna talk about w
- 1:06:50Speaker 3: NBA as well, which maybe I'll talk about WNBA next
- 1:06:53Speaker 3: because it's boring. Well it's not boring when you can
- 1:06:56Speaker 3: win money on it. But I don't have a play either.
- 1:06:59Speaker 3: But I'll be right back. And I thought about all
- 1:07:00Speaker 3: of that, all right. Next game up is a play
- 1:08:19Speaker 3: for me, which is what's the game again? I already
- 1:08:22Speaker 3: forget what it is. It is Seattle and the White Sox. Yeah,
- 1:08:27Speaker 3: all right, hang on, all right, this game is a
- 1:08:36Speaker 3: full game under and I know the White Sox bullpen
- 1:08:39Speaker 3: is bad, but both teams didn't play yesterday, so we
- 1:08:42Speaker 3: do have rest with both bullpens here, so the better
- 1:08:46Speaker 3: bullpen arms are available for both teams, and Seattle's bullpen
- 1:08:49Speaker 3: is good enough that I think they might be able
- 1:08:51Speaker 3: to just help us out here encounter that. You know.
- 1:08:54Speaker 3: I like unders when there's rest, man, because I think
- 1:08:56Speaker 3: the offenses could be a little bit cold coming in
- 1:09:00Speaker 3: to the game and the bullpen's arrested. Seattle's only ranked
- 1:09:03Speaker 3: fourteenth in WHIP, but their era is one of the best,
- 1:09:05Speaker 3: so I still think they're one of the top bullpens.
- 1:09:08Speaker 3: And yes, the White Sox are not good at twenty fourth,
- 1:09:11Speaker 3: but they're not one of those bullpens. It's like the
- 1:09:13Speaker 3: most miserable. You know, I don't necessarily want to trust them,
- 1:09:18Speaker 3: but I'm going to factor them into this under here.
- 1:09:21Speaker 3: And I like the starting pitching matchup as well, which
- 1:09:23Speaker 3: you talking about in a minute. White Sox are returning
- 1:09:25Speaker 3: on from a road trip and they went to the
- 1:09:27Speaker 3: Pacific Coast. You know, that's a bad spot when you're
- 1:09:30Speaker 3: returning home from the Pacific Coast. Even though they lost
- 1:09:32Speaker 3: the last couple of games. You know, I don't like
- 1:09:34Speaker 3: that you're traveling multiple time zones. You have to get
- 1:09:37Speaker 3: back to home life. That's bad. But I'm gonna focus
- 1:09:40Speaker 3: on the hitting being distracted here. Seattle maybe could be
- 1:09:45Speaker 3: a little bit lackless here because they did just win
- 1:09:47Speaker 3: a big series against Atlanta. Now they are starting a
- 1:09:50Speaker 3: road trip, and usually you will be focused to start
- 1:09:52Speaker 3: a road trip, but I think it could be a
- 1:09:54Speaker 3: letdown spot for Seattle coming off of beating Atlanta the
- 1:09:58Speaker 3: other day. I mean that was a good win for Seattle.
- 1:10:00Speaker 3: I believe that was not yesterday, right, let me make
- 1:10:03Speaker 3: sure of that. No. Yeah, so both bullpens arrested here.
- 1:10:07Speaker 3: You know, kind of a questionable spot for both teams,
- 1:10:10Speaker 3: although yes, I think Seattle is in a better spot
- 1:10:13Speaker 3: than the White Sox. White Sox were turning over a roader,
- 1:10:15Speaker 3: but still you're looking at two teams that are crossing
- 1:10:18Speaker 3: time zones here. This game is gonna be on ESPN unlimited,
- 1:10:21Speaker 3: by the way, so two of my players are on
- 1:10:24Speaker 3: actual like other systems here or other services and not MLBtv.
- 1:10:29Speaker 3: But I still hate it that baseball is just nowhere
- 1:10:32Speaker 3: except MLBtv anyway whatever. Offensively, by the way, neither offense
- 1:10:38Speaker 3: has been that great this year, so we do have
- 1:10:40Speaker 3: that coming into play here. White Sox, I know they're eighteenth,
- 1:10:43Speaker 3: They've hit better than people expect, but they're not like
- 1:10:46Speaker 3: any elite offense or anything like that. Seattle has struggled
- 1:10:50Speaker 3: their twentieth in offense, and I know this is not
- 1:10:53Speaker 3: in Seattle's pitcher friendly ballpark, but even so, I like
- 1:10:56Speaker 3: the under here and we're gonna roll with the starting
- 1:10:58Speaker 3: pitching here where I think both of these starting pitchers
- 1:11:01Speaker 3: might go under the radar here man, you know, I
- 1:11:04Speaker 3: think in both of the matchups I talked about Prelip
- 1:11:08Speaker 3: versus Messex, I think both of those guys are still
- 1:11:10Speaker 3: under the radar. This matchup, may think is definitely an
- 1:11:13Speaker 3: under the radar pitching match where both pitchers have actually
- 1:11:15Speaker 3: been surprisingly good. Emerson Hancock is pitching for the Mariners.
- 1:11:20Speaker 3: He's got a two point five to nine ERA point
- 1:11:22Speaker 3: ninety six whip and he's been even slightly better on
- 1:11:26Speaker 3: the road two point four to one ERA with Seattle.
- 1:11:29Speaker 3: You got to look at those home roads splitz because
- 1:11:31Speaker 3: their home is so pitcher friendly that a lot of
- 1:11:34Speaker 3: times their pitchers are way better at home. That has
- 1:11:36Speaker 3: not been the case with Handcock, and he's coming off
- 1:11:39Speaker 3: a ridiculous outing where he struck out fourteen and walked
- 1:11:42Speaker 3: nobody against the Royals and held them to one earned run. Now, yes,
- 1:11:47Speaker 3: there was a little bit of a concern here because
- 1:11:49Speaker 3: he threw over one hundred pitches, although he got close
- 1:11:51Speaker 3: to one hundred and one other start, although he wasn't
- 1:11:54Speaker 3: great in the next start after that, which was against
- 1:11:56Speaker 3: the a's but he still held them to three earned runs,
- 1:11:59Speaker 3: although he give up three homers in that one. But
- 1:12:02Speaker 3: and no it was not in the A Stadium. I
- 1:12:05Speaker 3: would give him more of a pass if that was
- 1:12:07Speaker 3: the case. But still, Hancock's been really like he's been good,
- 1:12:10Speaker 3: and the fact that he's struck out fourteen in the
- 1:12:12Speaker 3: last outing that tells me that he's in form. So
- 1:12:15Speaker 3: I'm not as worried about a letdown here. He's got
- 1:12:18Speaker 3: forty six strikeouts and six walks. That is a ridiculous ratio,
- 1:12:23Speaker 3: and thirty four hits a lot in forty one to
- 1:12:25Speaker 3: two thirds innings. Hancock, I mean, he's twenty six. I mean,
- 1:12:29Speaker 3: his career looked like it wasn't really panning out. Well
- 1:12:32Speaker 3: now it looks like it is, man, because he looks
- 1:12:35Speaker 3: like he's reached another level this year where he is
- 1:12:37Speaker 3: pitching really, really well. So I like that. And he's
- 1:12:42Speaker 3: going up against the White Sox who have basically never
- 1:12:44Speaker 3: seen him before Ben and tend He's the only hitter
- 1:12:47Speaker 3: has ever faced him. He's won for two of the
- 1:12:49Speaker 3: walk against him and the hit was a single. No strikeouts.
- 1:12:52Speaker 3: But still, there's nothing you can really read into other
- 1:12:55Speaker 3: than the fact that Hancock is unfamiliar to the White Sox.
- 1:12:58Speaker 3: And as I always say, when you have good pitcher
- 1:13:01Speaker 3: and the opposing lineup has a face them before, the
- 1:13:04Speaker 3: opposing lineup is at a disadvantage. Usually Sean Burke is
- 1:13:08Speaker 3: pitching for the White Sox. And you know, last year
- 1:13:11Speaker 3: it looked like Shane Smith was the better of the
- 1:13:13Speaker 3: two Massachusetts guys for the White Sox. I guess not.
- 1:13:17Speaker 3: I guess that's not the case, because Burke has actually
- 1:13:20Speaker 3: been really good this year two point seven two ERA,
- 1:13:23Speaker 3: one point zero one whip. He's been better at home
- 1:13:27Speaker 3: slightly two point six six ERA at home. He's coming
- 1:13:30Speaker 3: off back to back shutouts against Washington and San Diego,
- 1:13:33Speaker 3: though I know it was San Diego on the road. Yeah,
- 1:13:36Speaker 3: it's a picture friendly ballpark, but still you shut them
- 1:13:39Speaker 3: out for six innings, eight strikeouts, one walk, didn't walk
- 1:13:42Speaker 3: anybody in the prior routing. That's some good stuff. Man.
- 1:13:45Speaker 3: He's only allowed more than tour in runs twice on
- 1:13:48Speaker 3: the season, and one of them was in his opening
- 1:13:50Speaker 3: start on the road against Milwaukee and still had five
- 1:13:53Speaker 3: strikeouts one walk in that one. He's got thirty nine
- 1:13:57Speaker 3: to two thirds innings thirty two strikeouts, not a high
- 1:13:59Speaker 3: strikeout ray, but he's only walked eight, so he has
- 1:14:02Speaker 3: not walked a lot of guys, and he's only allowed
- 1:14:04Speaker 3: thirty two hits. His overall numbers are solid. Man, I
- 1:14:08Speaker 3: think we could back him here against a Seattle lineup
- 1:14:11Speaker 3: that hasn't really done a ton this year. Although Seattle
- 1:14:15Speaker 3: is better on the road. I mean, it's very difficult
- 1:14:17Speaker 3: to hit in Seattle, So yes, you do have to
- 1:14:19Speaker 3: worry about that a little bit. But Seattle's totally unfamiliar
- 1:14:22Speaker 3: to Burke except Naylor must have faced him when Naylor
- 1:14:26Speaker 3: was on Cleveland. Naylor is two for two? Or wasn
- 1:14:29Speaker 3: Nailor wait, was Naylor on Cleveland? No, he was on Arizona.
- 1:14:33Speaker 3: I'm thinking of the other I'm thinking of bone Nailor.
- 1:14:37Speaker 2: No, he was on Cleve.
- 1:14:38Speaker 3: Wait, what the fuck? Yeah he was on Cleveland. I
- 1:14:41Speaker 3: don't know what I'm thinking, man. And then he was
- 1:14:42Speaker 3: on Arizona too, I don't know what the fuck I'm thinking. Anyway,
- 1:14:46Speaker 3: Naylor is two for two, often with a double on
- 1:14:48Speaker 3: home run and a walk. So yeah, Naylor has absolutely
- 1:14:51Speaker 3: destroyed Burke. But I'm not that worried about that because
- 1:14:55Speaker 3: this one guy, and the rest of their lineup hasn't
- 1:14:57Speaker 3: even seen him, so I think we have a lot
- 1:14:59Speaker 3: of unfamiliar here. Both pictures have established themselves pretty well
- 1:15:03Speaker 3: this season already. Yeah, we're going under in this game.
- 1:15:07Speaker 3: Let me see here, what do we have for the number?
- 1:15:11Speaker 3: I'm looking at the market numbers here? Wait, where are
- 1:15:15Speaker 3: the White Sox? What? Oh? Here it is HW? I
- 1:15:19Speaker 3: thought it was CWS. We don't really see. There's no
- 1:15:23Speaker 3: percentages to be seen here yet, So do with that
- 1:15:25Speaker 3: information what you want. Seattle is also minus one thirty
- 1:15:28Speaker 3: whatever you know. I'm gonna slightly lend Seattle here. I
- 1:15:32Speaker 3: think Hancock might be a little bit better than Burke,
- 1:15:36Speaker 3: and the spot is a little bit better for Seattle,
- 1:15:38Speaker 3: and the bullpen is better, so I'll lend Seattle a
- 1:15:41Speaker 3: bit here. There's also a reason why they're favored on
- 1:15:43Speaker 3: the road, but we're going under in that game, under
- 1:15:45Speaker 3: the eight. All right, let's finish off major League baseball here.
- 1:15:50Speaker 3: I don't have any more baseball plays. The Cubs are
- 1:15:52Speaker 3: at Texas here. Both teams did play yesterday. The Cubs
- 1:15:55Speaker 3: are on a ridiculous streak right now. They've won what
- 1:15:58Speaker 3: is this nine games in maybe something like that. They
- 1:16:01Speaker 3: just swept Cincinnati in a four game series, blew them
- 1:16:04Speaker 3: out yesterday. Now they're starting a road trip now, Yes,
- 1:16:08Speaker 3: starting a road trip usually is a focused spot. You
- 1:16:10Speaker 3: carry your momentum with you. If you have positive momentum,
- 1:16:14Speaker 3: usually you want to get the road trip off on
- 1:16:16Speaker 3: the right foot. But are they going to be in
- 1:16:18Speaker 3: a letdown spot because they started that series right like,
- 1:16:22Speaker 3: with Cincinnati right behind them. Then they swept Cincinnati completely
- 1:16:26Speaker 3: out of it, you know, so yeah, so they might
- 1:16:32Speaker 3: be in a little bit of a letdown spot here.
- 1:16:33Speaker 3: But Texas is not in a good spot. Texas is
- 1:16:36Speaker 3: returning home from a road trip. They went to Detroit
- 1:16:38Speaker 3: and the Yankees. That's pretty big. Those were big series,
- 1:16:41Speaker 3: and I know they got beat up yesterday nine to two.
- 1:16:44Speaker 3: But they're returning home from that. So it's not a
- 1:16:46Speaker 3: great spot for Texas. Could be a distracted spot of though.
- 1:16:49Speaker 3: Then again, they're facing one of the best teams in
- 1:16:52Speaker 3: Major League Baseball, the Cubs, so maybe Texas will get
- 1:16:56Speaker 3: up for it for that reason. Bullpen wise, both bullpens
- 1:17:00Speaker 3: are pretty good this year. Texas used five relief pitchers yesterday,
- 1:17:03Speaker 3: though the Cubs use three. Texas Normally I would say
- 1:17:09Speaker 3: they have the better bullpend. The rank sixth right now,
- 1:17:11Speaker 3: the Cubs are seventh, although Texas is era is about
- 1:17:14Speaker 3: a run better, but rest wise kind of balances that
- 1:17:18Speaker 3: out a little bit. I think either way you look
- 1:17:20Speaker 3: at it, though you're looking at two pretty good bullpens
- 1:17:23Speaker 3: here the offenses. The Cubs are the way better offense,
- 1:17:27Speaker 3: though they're fourth in offense. Texas is twenty fifth. We're
- 1:17:30Speaker 3: looking at a pitcher friendly ballpark here in Texas. Ben
- 1:17:35Speaker 3: Brown is listed as the starter for the Cubs here,
- 1:17:37Speaker 3: and I will what I will say is the same
- 1:17:41Speaker 3: thing I said about Dollander. I don't know if Brown
- 1:17:44Speaker 3: is actually going to make the start here or not,
- 1:17:46Speaker 3: because he's been coming out of the bullpen and he
- 1:17:48Speaker 3: has actually pitched well out of the bullpend. But that
- 1:17:50Speaker 3: might mean that the Cubs might put an opener in
- 1:17:52Speaker 3: front of them, you know what I mean. So if
- 1:17:54Speaker 3: you're gonna handicap this and assume that Brown is going
- 1:17:57Speaker 3: to have a starter's workload here, same thing I said
- 1:18:00Speaker 3: with Donald Er, I would make this play action just
- 1:18:04Speaker 3: because I'm not entirely sure that Brown will actually start
- 1:18:08Speaker 3: the game like I think he is going to go
- 1:18:09Speaker 3: multiple innings here, but I don't know if he's gonna
- 1:18:11Speaker 3: be the first one out now. Brown is an interesting
- 1:18:14Speaker 3: case because I've liked some of the numbers that I
- 1:18:17Speaker 3: see out of him, Like he has good stuff. He's
- 1:18:19Speaker 3: able to strike guys out at a high rate, but
- 1:18:21Speaker 3: never never really panned out as a starter. And now
- 1:18:25Speaker 3: he's twenty six. But he's been a lot better out
- 1:18:27Speaker 3: of the bullpen. He's got a two point one ERA
- 1:18:29Speaker 3: one point zero one whip, but again that's out of
- 1:18:32Speaker 3: the bullpen. He's been a little bit worse on the
- 1:18:35Speaker 3: road two point seventy nine road ERA. That's obviously still
- 1:18:38Speaker 3: not bad, but he also hasn't gone more than two
- 1:18:41Speaker 3: winnings in any of his out He's actually sorry. He
- 1:18:43Speaker 3: went three and a third in his first couple outings
- 1:18:45Speaker 3: this season, which didn't really go particularly well, although actually
- 1:18:50Speaker 3: he wasn't even that bad there. He give up tour
- 1:18:52Speaker 3: in runs total eight to two, strike a walk ratio there, whatever.
- 1:18:56Speaker 3: But since then he's had a lot of scoreless outings,
- 1:18:59Speaker 3: a lot of shorter out typically he's going two innings.
- 1:19:03Speaker 3: I honestly don't know it is possible they're using him
- 1:19:05Speaker 3: as an opener here too though, So it's very difficult
- 1:19:07Speaker 3: to figure out what the Cubs are gonna do here, man,
- 1:19:10Speaker 3: But it looks like it is going to be kind
- 1:19:12Speaker 3: of a bullpen esque game for the Cubs here, so
- 1:19:15Speaker 3: you got to keep that in mind. Brown as a
- 1:19:17Speaker 3: twenty four to eight strike at walk ratio, eighteen hits
- 1:19:20Speaker 3: allowed in twenty five to two thirds innings, but you know,
- 1:19:23Speaker 3: in short stints. But again, he might go out there
- 1:19:25Speaker 3: and give you two really good innings today too, because
- 1:19:28Speaker 3: that's basically what he's been doing this season. So Ben
- 1:19:31Speaker 3: what he's Ben Brown doing? There? You go, yeah, he
- 1:19:34Speaker 3: might be able to do that again here. Brown against
- 1:19:37Speaker 3: Texas hasn't been that good, but only ten at batsworth.
- 1:19:41Speaker 3: He's given up a home run to Josh Young Jong,
- 1:19:46Speaker 3: three hundred batting average allowed oneenty seventeen ops allowed, two
- 1:19:49Speaker 3: to two strike a walk ratio, But it's only ten
- 1:19:52Speaker 3: at bats so there's not that much you could take
- 1:19:54Speaker 3: away from that. Six of their hitters have faced him before.
- 1:19:57Speaker 3: But yes, he struggled a bit against Texas in those
- 1:20:01Speaker 3: during those at bats. Yes, Kumar Rockers pitching for the Rangers,
- 1:20:06Speaker 3: his numbers aren't great four point seven to one ERA
- 1:20:09Speaker 3: one point four to seven WHIP. He's been good at
- 1:20:12Speaker 3: home though, two point six to five home ERA, so
- 1:20:15Speaker 3: he pitches well at home. It's a more pitcher friendly ballpark.
- 1:20:18Speaker 3: He just gave up five earned runs and two winnings
- 1:20:20Speaker 3: on the road against Detroit. That was a very bad outing,
- 1:20:23Speaker 3: but his other outings haven't really been that bad. He's
- 1:20:26Speaker 3: giving up three or fewer earned runs and all the
- 1:20:28Speaker 3: rest of his outings. That was the game against the Dodgers.
- 1:20:32Speaker 3: He's had to play like you know, he's pitched in
- 1:20:35Speaker 3: the A's stadium, then had to turn around and face
- 1:20:37Speaker 3: the A's again. He hasn't really faced the easiest lineups
- 1:20:41Speaker 3: here really. Overall, he's got a twenty four to ten
- 1:20:45Speaker 3: strike a walk ratio, which it's too many walks, but
- 1:20:47Speaker 3: it's not that bad. Thirty two hits, a lot of
- 1:20:50Speaker 3: twenty eight and two thirds innings. You know, that's not good,
- 1:20:53Speaker 3: but his overall numbers aren't really that bad. I'm still
- 1:20:58Speaker 3: putting too many guys on base though, but you know
- 1:21:01Speaker 3: he might be able to pitch okay. Texas is basically
- 1:21:05Speaker 3: never seen him. Only McCutcheon has ever seen him. He's
- 1:21:08Speaker 3: one for three with a single and a strikeout, So
- 1:21:11Speaker 3: I think Rocker might actually be able to do okay,
- 1:21:13Speaker 3: But the spot for Texas is not good. The money
- 1:21:16Speaker 3: is coming in on the Cubs seventy tickets, ninety three
- 1:21:19Speaker 3: percent of the cash on the Cubs. You're gonna lay
- 1:21:21Speaker 3: a price with the Cubs, though they're laying minus one
- 1:21:23Speaker 3: thirty five here. Basically, should the Cubs really be laying
- 1:21:28Speaker 3: that price against a team that does pitch pretty well
- 1:21:32Speaker 3: on the road with basically a bullpen game set up here?
- 1:21:36Speaker 3: I'm not sure about that, man. I think the Cubs
- 1:21:38Speaker 3: are riding some recency bias here. I think probably you
- 1:21:41Speaker 3: are paying a bit of a premium attacks on the
- 1:21:44Speaker 3: Cubs there, So yeah, I don't know. I think the
- 1:21:46Speaker 3: Cubs might be priced a little bit too high in
- 1:21:49Speaker 3: that game. You know, I could see the argument for
- 1:21:54Speaker 3: the under here. The totals at eight and a half.
- 1:21:57Speaker 3: I worry that it's gonna be a Cubs bullpen games.
- 1:22:00Speaker 3: Really don't know what the Cubs are gonna do there.
- 1:22:01Speaker 3: But Rockers been decent at home. There is some unfamiliarity
- 1:22:05Speaker 3: there with both pitchers really, but yeah, I don't want
- 1:22:08Speaker 3: to play the game. There's just this whole game is
- 1:22:11Speaker 3: just too much of a question mark to really want
- 1:22:14Speaker 3: to play the game at all. But you know, those
- 1:22:15Speaker 3: are my thoughts on it. Mets at Arizona. Arizona played yesterday.
- 1:22:20Speaker 3: They're staying at home. They just lost to Pittsburgh yesterday.
- 1:22:23Speaker 3: Lost the series, didn't play particularly well in the last
- 1:22:26Speaker 3: two games. They only scored two runs over the last
- 1:22:28Speaker 3: two games. That's not good in what's considered to be
- 1:22:31Speaker 3: a hitter friendly ballpark. But one of those games they
- 1:22:34Speaker 3: faceball schemes, so you got to give them a break
- 1:22:36Speaker 3: for that. The Mets had yesterday off. I believe they're
- 1:22:39Speaker 3: coming or no. They played Colorado yesterday, so they're coming
- 1:22:43Speaker 3: in from Colorado. This is gonna be the third series
- 1:22:46Speaker 3: on the road trip, and they're coming in from high
- 1:22:49Speaker 3: elevation and just lost the three game win streak, So
- 1:22:52Speaker 3: I guess, you know, it's possible there's a bit of
- 1:22:54Speaker 3: a hangover here. Maybe the travel spot's not that good.
- 1:22:58Speaker 3: Probably the situation's better for Arizona, but the pitching matchup
- 1:23:02Speaker 3: heavily favors the Mets in my opinion here, and I
- 1:23:05Speaker 3: think probably objectively. The Mets did use three relief pitchers yesterday,
- 1:23:09Speaker 3: though including Kimberl who I don't know if he's if
- 1:23:12Speaker 3: they're trying to use him as a closer at this one,
- 1:23:14Speaker 3: I don't think they are. I think they're using Williams,
- 1:23:17Speaker 3: Devin Williams as a closer, even though he sucked in
- 1:23:20Speaker 3: that role for the Yankees last year. I don't know, man,
- 1:23:23Speaker 3: I don't know what the Mets are doing Arizona. You know,
- 1:23:26Speaker 3: I don't like their bullpen, though they used three relief
- 1:23:28Speaker 3: pitchers yesterday. Arizona's ranked third in bullpen whip and I
- 1:23:34Speaker 3: still don't know how their ERA is four point five six.
- 1:23:38Speaker 3: I'm still saying they're not a very good bullpen. But
- 1:23:41Speaker 3: maybe I'm gonna have to adjust my thoughts, Like if
- 1:23:43Speaker 3: that era really starts dropping, I might have to change
- 1:23:46Speaker 3: what I think about that. Mets have a better bullpen
- 1:23:49Speaker 3: erra but their twelfth and bullpen whip and their ERA
- 1:23:52Speaker 3: is a little bit above four. So I think the
- 1:23:54Speaker 3: Mets are probably the slightly better bullpen, but they're not great.
- 1:24:00Speaker 3: So you know, I think slight bullpen edge to the
- 1:24:02Speaker 3: Mets here. Hitting wise, Yeah, the Mets sock. The Mets
- 1:24:05Speaker 3: are not dead last, though they jumped ahead of the
- 1:24:08Speaker 3: Giants but the Mets offense has been bad. I know
- 1:24:12Speaker 3: Soto was out for some of that, but they're still
- 1:24:13Speaker 3: not hitting well and they're just coming out of Course Field.
- 1:24:17Speaker 3: They didn't even hit that well in Course Field, but
- 1:24:21Speaker 3: they're playing in another hitter friendly ballpark here, at least
- 1:24:23Speaker 3: in Arizona. Arizona's offense has fallen off recently. They're at
- 1:24:27Speaker 3: seventeenth now. I think their offense is better than that,
- 1:24:30Speaker 3: but they're gonna have to deal with Nolan McLain, who
- 1:24:32Speaker 3: is probably the best player on the Mets. Even though
- 1:24:36Speaker 3: he's a young pitcher and he only plays every five games,
- 1:24:40Speaker 3: he's been really good. A two point nine to seventy
- 1:24:43Speaker 3: or a point nine to four whip, two point seven
- 1:24:45Speaker 3: to six ran the road, so he's been slightly better
- 1:24:48Speaker 3: on the road. He only made it four endings last
- 1:24:51Speaker 3: time out of the road against Anaheim, give up three
- 1:24:53Speaker 3: on runs, but he still had six strikeouts one walk.
- 1:24:57Speaker 3: I don't know what happened in that game. Why he
- 1:24:59Speaker 3: want leaving the game seventy eight pitches in. You think
- 1:25:02Speaker 3: they would have left him in for another inning or so.
- 1:25:04Speaker 3: I don't know. I don't know what that was there,
- 1:25:08Speaker 3: but I'm not too worried about h McLain's numbers are
- 1:25:10Speaker 3: really good. Fifty one strikeouts, eleven walks, only two home
- 1:25:14Speaker 3: runs allowed, just very few, twenty six hits a lot
- 1:25:17Speaker 3: in thirty nine and third innings. These numbers across the
- 1:25:19Speaker 3: board are really really good. Yeah, so not really an
- 1:25:23Speaker 3: issue there McLain. Against Arizona, they have twenty one at
- 1:25:29Speaker 3: bats against him, eight strikeouts, two walks, one forty three
- 1:25:32Speaker 3: average and four to eight ops. Mclan has pitched well
- 1:25:36Speaker 3: against Arizona. He actually did face them this year on
- 1:25:38Speaker 3: April ninth, So I guess you could argue Arizona is
- 1:25:41Speaker 3: more familiar with him now. But mcclan's been so good
- 1:25:44Speaker 3: basically against everybody that I think he should pitch well again.
- 1:25:47Speaker 3: Here he held Arizona to two runs and six and
- 1:25:49Speaker 3: a third innings and that outing eight strikeouts, two walks.
- 1:25:54Speaker 3: You know, I think generally it's just safe to assume
- 1:25:57Speaker 3: mcclan's gonna be good because his bad starts are just outliers.
- 1:26:01Speaker 3: The same cannot be said for Ryan Nelson. You know,
- 1:26:03Speaker 3: I'm not a fan of him, and his numbers are
- 1:26:05Speaker 3: pretty bad this year. He's from Henderson, Nevada. Man so
- 1:26:09Speaker 3: there you go another Nevada pitcher who is closer to
- 1:26:12Speaker 3: Area fifty one by the way, six point six' one era,
- 1:26:16Speaker 3: one point four to four whip not good numbers there.
- 1:26:20Speaker 3: He's been awful at home. Fourteen point four home ye
- 1:26:23Speaker 3: ra really really bad stuff. He's coming up a decent
- 1:26:29Speaker 3: outing against the Cubs on the road where you got
- 1:26:31Speaker 3: no run support. But his last two home games he
- 1:26:34Speaker 3: gave up fourteen runs in five and a third innings.
- 1:26:37Speaker 3: And yes, I know that giving up eight runs in
- 1:26:40Speaker 3: a third of an inning against the Blue Jays, I
- 1:26:42Speaker 3: know that's gonna skew your numbers dramatically, but still that
- 1:26:45Speaker 3: is a bad sign. Toronto's not even that good of
- 1:26:48Speaker 3: an offense. You get just blasted like that. And then
- 1:26:51Speaker 3: in his next start, San Diego was not a very
- 1:26:53Speaker 3: good offense basically torched him as well. That's not good.
- 1:26:58Speaker 3: Twenty eight strikeouts are him at the already one in
- 1:27:00Speaker 3: the third innings. That's not really that bad. Thirty two
- 1:27:03Speaker 3: hits a lot, that's not even that bad either. Thirteen
- 1:27:05Speaker 3: walks kind of where the concern comes in. The walk
- 1:27:08Speaker 3: number is kind of an issue. It's still not that
- 1:27:11Speaker 3: bad though, So I mean his whip does kind of
- 1:27:14Speaker 3: indicate that his era should not be quite as bad
- 1:27:17Speaker 3: as bad as it is, but these numbers are still
- 1:27:19Speaker 3: not good at all. Nelson against the Mets here, he
- 1:27:24Speaker 3: has actually done okay against the Mets, a though the
- 1:27:27Speaker 3: OPS is not good. Fifty nine career at bats, fourteen
- 1:27:30Speaker 3: to nine strike a walk ratio. It's way too many walks,
- 1:27:33Speaker 3: but seven of them are so though, so he looks
- 1:27:36Speaker 3: like he pitches around him. He's giving up a two
- 1:27:38Speaker 3: twenty average to them, which is low, but a seven
- 1:27:40Speaker 3: to sixty four ops pretty high. Soto has two of
- 1:27:44Speaker 3: them runs off him. Alvarez has a home run off him. Obviously.
- 1:27:48Speaker 3: I think McClain is the way better pitcher over Ryan
- 1:27:50Speaker 3: Nelson here, so I think just based on that in
- 1:27:55Speaker 3: probably a little bit of a bullpen edge as well
- 1:27:57Speaker 3: with the Mets, I think I'm gonna lean to the
- 1:27:58Speaker 3: Mets here. The money is coming in on Arizona though
- 1:28:01Speaker 3: fifty six percent of tickets eighty eight percent of the
- 1:28:03Speaker 3: cash on them. The number has dropped on the Mets
- 1:28:07Speaker 3: money line here, but the Mets are road favorite here
- 1:28:09Speaker 3: around minus one thirty. But I still think I would
- 1:28:12Speaker 3: lean that way towards the Mets money line, although it
- 1:28:14Speaker 3: seems like the money seems to think that Nelson might
- 1:28:17Speaker 3: pitch well here because the money's coming in on Arizona
- 1:28:20Speaker 3: and on the under here. I don't know, man, I'm
- 1:28:23Speaker 3: a starting pitching matchup guy. I don't want to overrate
- 1:28:26Speaker 3: the starting pitching, but I think it's a big edge
- 1:28:28Speaker 3: to the Mets in that one. You could go first
- 1:28:31Speaker 3: five Mets as well and focus just on the starting
- 1:28:34Speaker 3: pitching edge they have there. Saint Louis at San Diego's
- 1:28:37Speaker 3: on Apple TV. These teams started the series yesterday and
- 1:28:41Speaker 3: Saint Louis won two to one yesterday, so very low
- 1:28:45Speaker 3: scoring game yesterday. It is a pitcher friendly ballpark. Bullpen wise,
- 1:28:50Speaker 3: Saint Louis's bullpen is still not good, though they're lightly
- 1:28:55Speaker 3: used though recently these three relief pitchers yesterday for not
- 1:28:58Speaker 3: a lot of pitches. That's not too bad. San Diego
- 1:29:02Speaker 3: used three relief pitchers as well. San Diego is the
- 1:29:04Speaker 3: way better bullpen though they're ranked fourth right now, they
- 1:29:08Speaker 3: are one of the best bullpens. Saint Louis on the
- 1:29:11Speaker 3: same cannot be said. They're twenty fifth, so there is
- 1:29:14Speaker 3: a big bullpen edge with San Diego here offensively, Saint
- 1:29:18Speaker 3: Louis has hit way better, though they're eighth in offense.
- 1:29:21Speaker 3: San Diego's twenty sixth, so Saint Louis has hit way better.
- 1:29:25Speaker 3: Michael McGreevy is pitching for Saint Louis, and on the surface,
- 1:29:29Speaker 3: it looks like Saint Louis does have a big starting
- 1:29:31Speaker 3: pitching edge year. Michael McGreevy has pretty good numbers this
- 1:29:35Speaker 3: year two point five two, ERA point nine two whip
- 1:29:38Speaker 3: good stuff, but he's been worse on the road pretty
- 1:29:41Speaker 3: significantly four point four to one. Roady Ira. Saint Louis
- 1:29:45Speaker 3: is a pitcher friendly park, so that kind of makes sense,
- 1:29:47Speaker 3: but so is San Diego, so he might pitch well
- 1:29:50Speaker 3: here for that reason. He's coming off a six inning
- 1:29:54Speaker 3: shutout against the Dodgers, so I guess you could make
- 1:29:56Speaker 3: the argument would be in a little bit of a
- 1:29:57Speaker 3: letdown after that. He did walk three guys in that outing,
- 1:30:01Speaker 3: but his overall numbers are not really much of a
- 1:30:03Speaker 3: concern other than the fact that he doesn't strike anybody
- 1:30:05Speaker 3: out twenty four strike ups in thirty nine or third innings,
- 1:30:08Speaker 3: but he keeps guys off the bases. Man He's only
- 1:30:11Speaker 3: walked eight guys and allowed twenty eight hits. So whatever
- 1:30:14Speaker 3: he does, even though he doesn't strike guys out, I
- 1:30:17Speaker 3: don't know.
- 1:30:18Speaker 2: Man.
- 1:30:18Speaker 3: He doesn't even induce a lot of ground balls, so
- 1:30:20Speaker 3: I don't know how he does it. But he doesn't
- 1:30:22Speaker 3: allow a lot of guys to reach base, and he's
- 1:30:24Speaker 3: only allowed more than tour and runs. Yeah, he's he's
- 1:30:27Speaker 3: hard to get. He doesn't allow He's allowed more than
- 1:30:29Speaker 3: tour and runs only twice this season on the road,
- 1:30:33Speaker 3: both of them against Detroit and Miami, which is kind
- 1:30:35Speaker 3: of weird. Detroit kind of explainable. That's more of a
- 1:30:38Speaker 3: hitter friendly park. Detroit's got a good offense. Miami, I
- 1:30:41Speaker 3: don't know what that was. That's a more pitcher friendly
- 1:30:44Speaker 3: park against a lighter hitting Miami offense. But still overall,
- 1:30:49Speaker 3: I mean, he hasn't allowed more than four and runs
- 1:30:51Speaker 3: in any outing this season, though, and all but two
- 1:30:53Speaker 3: of them he's allowed two or fewer. So yes, we
- 1:30:55Speaker 3: get it. He's pitching well, but his numbers against San
- 1:30:58Speaker 3: Diego are actually bad. Thirty four at bats, it's a
- 1:31:01Speaker 3: decent sample, three to one strike a walk ratio, three
- 1:31:04Speaker 3: point fifty three average allowed in nine eighty nine ops
- 1:31:08Speaker 3: so he has not pitched well, specifically against San Diego,
- 1:31:11Speaker 3: so that at least that keeps me off of wanting
- 1:31:13Speaker 3: to play Saint Louis. Here, Griffin Canning is pitching for
- 1:31:17Speaker 3: the Padres. I'm not a fan of Canning. He has
- 1:31:20Speaker 3: not been good throughout his career. He's only made one
- 1:31:22Speaker 3: start so far this season, although he was fine in
- 1:31:25Speaker 3: that start, one point eightyra after that and one point
- 1:31:28Speaker 3: two whip. It was at home against the White Sox.
- 1:31:32Speaker 3: You know, he had kind of an easy draw in
- 1:31:35Speaker 3: that game, pitching in a pitcher friendly park against a
- 1:31:37Speaker 3: mediocre at best lineup. Had seven strikeouts, three walks. That
- 1:31:42Speaker 3: that was not good. The walks, three hits a lot
- 1:31:44Speaker 3: in five innings. I still don't trust Canning though, I
- 1:31:47Speaker 3: just don't think he's very good. Numbers against Saint Louis
- 1:31:50Speaker 3: are good though in twenty at bats it's not a
- 1:31:52Speaker 3: huge sample, but he's allowed no extra base hits, five strikeouts,
- 1:31:56Speaker 3: two walks, two hundred batting average, allowed four to seventy
- 1:32:00Speaker 3: th realps. You know, I don't know. I don't have
- 1:32:04Speaker 3: a good feel for this game really at all. The
- 1:32:07Speaker 3: starting pitching, the matchup numbers actually make it look like
- 1:32:09Speaker 3: you should actually lean to San Diego here and in
- 1:32:12Speaker 3: a bounce back after yesterday, and they're actually getting the
- 1:32:14Speaker 3: money sixty six percent of tickets, eighty percent of the
- 1:32:17Speaker 3: cash on San Diego, they're at minus one forty five
- 1:32:21Speaker 3: or so. I'm not sure that Griven Cannon should ever
- 1:32:25Speaker 3: be a favorite like that, really, But I still don't
- 1:32:28Speaker 3: think Saint Louis is a very good team though, and
- 1:32:30Speaker 3: San Diego was returning home of a nice series win
- 1:32:33Speaker 3: against San Francisco, so I don't know. Maybe they were
- 1:32:36Speaker 3: in not the greatest spot there. Maybe this is a
- 1:32:38Speaker 3: bounce back spot for them. I guess I will agree
- 1:32:41Speaker 3: with leaning to San Diego just based on what the
- 1:32:43Speaker 3: matchup numbers look like. But I really don't trust Griven Canning,
- 1:32:47Speaker 3: so I don't know, man, I don't love the game
- 1:32:49Speaker 3: at all. The total is pretty low as well, it's
- 1:32:51Speaker 3: seven and a half or eight. Thinking that it's going
- 1:32:55Speaker 3: to be a pitching matchup here, I'm not so sure
- 1:32:57Speaker 3: about that. But if you play San Diego full game
- 1:33:00Speaker 3: makes sense because you want the bullpen advantage to be there.
- 1:33:03Speaker 3: Atlanta at the Dodgers is gonna be the top series
- 1:33:06Speaker 3: of the weekend. Probably. I mean, these are two of
- 1:33:09Speaker 3: the top teams in baseball, man, I mean we're talking
- 1:33:11Speaker 3: about two of the top three offensive teams, with the
- 1:33:14Speaker 3: Dodgers ranked one, Braves ranked three right now, and we're
- 1:33:17Speaker 3: talking about the number one and number two bullpens, Dodgers
- 1:33:21Speaker 3: and then Braves. I'm not sure if I agree that
- 1:33:23Speaker 3: they're actually the top two bullpens, but they've both been
- 1:33:26Speaker 3: really good. This is a good series, man. Atlanta is traveling.
- 1:33:32Speaker 3: They're having to travel in from Seattle, so they are
- 1:33:34Speaker 3: already in the Pacific time zone at least, and they
- 1:33:37Speaker 3: just lost the series to Seattle. I mean, they're obviously
- 1:33:39Speaker 3: gonna get up for a series against the Dodgers. The
- 1:33:43Speaker 3: Dodgers likely will be focused as well, but they are
- 1:33:46Speaker 3: returning over from a road trip. They're coming home from
- 1:33:49Speaker 3: Saint Louis and Houston, so I know, I talk about
- 1:33:51Speaker 3: it all the time. Team returning over from a road
- 1:33:53Speaker 3: trip not good. You tend to be a bit distracted.
- 1:33:57Speaker 3: You got to get back to home life. The Dodgers.
- 1:34:00Speaker 3: He just put up a lot of runs in two
- 1:34:02Speaker 3: of those three games against Houston and had one weird
- 1:34:06Speaker 3: outlier where they didn't score at all. Uh, but the Dodgers, Yeah,
- 1:34:09Speaker 3: I mean, I don't think they're gonna overlook Atlanta here,
- 1:34:11Speaker 3: but they are still returning home. It is still a
- 1:34:13Speaker 3: distraction spot. This game is on ESPN Unlimited, by the way,
- 1:34:18Speaker 3: and you know it's worse for the Dodgers because they
- 1:34:20Speaker 3: have to go up against Chris Sale, which is not
- 1:34:22Speaker 3: an easy task. Sale is still pitching pretty much at
- 1:34:25Speaker 3: an an elite level two point one four ERA point
- 1:34:29Speaker 3: nine whip. He's not been as good on the road though.
- 1:34:32Speaker 3: He's got a four road ERA, so he hasn't been
- 1:34:34Speaker 3: as good on the road. Pitched really well in his
- 1:34:37Speaker 3: last outing in course Field, though, dominated the Rockies for
- 1:34:41Speaker 3: seven innings, three hits, allowed one earn run, eleven strikeouts,
- 1:34:44Speaker 3: three walks. Atlanta's won all but one of his outings,
- 1:34:49Speaker 3: which was a road outing against Anaheim. That was his
- 1:34:51Speaker 3: only bad out outing of the season. I don't know
- 1:34:54Speaker 3: what happened in that outing. He gave up six earned runs,
- 1:34:57Speaker 3: but that's skewing his numbers. That's the only reason why
- 1:35:00Speaker 3: road numbers are bad, because in all of his other
- 1:35:02Speaker 3: starts he's allowed one or fewer earned runs. So, yeah,
- 1:35:06Speaker 3: that was a major outlier. I think against Anaheim, I
- 1:35:09Speaker 3: don't know what that was. I don't expect him to
- 1:35:12Speaker 3: pitch poorly here, although he is going up against one
- 1:35:14Speaker 3: of the best offenses in baseball here, the LA Dodgers.
- 1:35:17Speaker 3: But Sale has done well against them in the past
- 1:35:20Speaker 3: sixty nine career at bats against these hitters twenty one strikeouts,
- 1:35:24Speaker 3: five walks, one fifty nine average allowed, five point thirty
- 1:35:27Speaker 3: five ops. So I do not expect Sale to pitch
- 1:35:30Speaker 3: poorly here. I think he will pitch decent the at
- 1:35:33Speaker 3: least here, he's going up against the young guy em
- 1:35:36Speaker 3: At she and Man, so a big age gap between
- 1:35:39Speaker 3: these two pitchers. Shean doesn't have great numbers on the
- 1:35:42Speaker 3: season five point two three ERA, one point three to
- 1:35:45Speaker 3: two WHIP for the Dodgers. He's been a little bit
- 1:35:47Speaker 3: better at home four point six ERA at home, which
- 1:35:51Speaker 3: is where he will be here. He didn't do well
- 1:35:54Speaker 3: against Saint Louis last time out, and that's I think
- 1:35:56Speaker 3: we lost on that game. That's not a great sign.
- 1:35:59Speaker 3: Uh St is a decent offense this year, though he
- 1:36:03Speaker 3: got knocked around in that game. He got a little
- 1:36:05Speaker 3: bit unlucky and that he gave up two of them runs.
- 1:36:06Speaker 3: But he did give up eight hits and didn't even
- 1:36:08Speaker 3: manage to get five innings into the game. Still had
- 1:36:11Speaker 3: eight strikeouts and no walks though, so the command numbers
- 1:36:14Speaker 3: were good. Overall, He's got good command numbers thirty six strikeouts,
- 1:36:18Speaker 3: nine walks in thirty one innings. He's only allowed thirty
- 1:36:21Speaker 3: two hits, so overall his numbers are not bad. Like
- 1:36:26Speaker 3: his numbers like don't look good on the surface, but
- 1:36:29Speaker 3: he dig into his UH numbers a bit more. They
- 1:36:32Speaker 3: don't look bad to me. So I don't think Shean
- 1:36:35Speaker 3: is that bad. I think he might be able to
- 1:36:37Speaker 3: pitch okay here. He's not as good as Chris Sale, obviously.
- 1:36:41Speaker 3: I don't think we're going out on a limb there.
- 1:36:43Speaker 3: His numbers against Atlanta are pretty good, though in twenty
- 1:36:45Speaker 3: one at bats it's a small sample. Six strikeouts, two walks,
- 1:36:49Speaker 3: one forty three average allowed five zero three to ops.
- 1:36:53Speaker 3: I think we have a pitching duel on our hands here, man,
- 1:36:55Speaker 3: I do you know. I don't have a good feel
- 1:36:59Speaker 3: for the side, although I probably would lean Atlanta slightly here,
- 1:37:02Speaker 3: but you might pay a premium for Chrissale. It looks
- 1:37:06Speaker 3: like the line actually flipped to the Dodgers being a favorite,
- 1:37:09Speaker 3: though the Dodgers are now like minus one twenty. But
- 1:37:12Speaker 3: I don't know, man, do you think the Dodgers should
- 1:37:14Speaker 3: they really be favored with Emmett Shean on the mound
- 1:37:17Speaker 3: against Chris Sale. I'm not so sure about that, man.
- 1:37:22Speaker 3: You know, I think I would lean towards getting Atlanta
- 1:37:25Speaker 3: as the under getting Chris Sales an underdog. You're almost
- 1:37:28Speaker 3: never gonna get that, so I might lean that way.
- 1:37:31Speaker 3: But the Oddswiggers are telling you they basically think she
- 1:37:33Speaker 3: and can match up here. I think an under is
- 1:37:37Speaker 3: worth like maybe considering here ninety three percent of tickets
- 1:37:41Speaker 3: and ninety one percent of the cash on the dot
- 1:37:43Speaker 3: on the under Excuse me, So the money's indicating towards
- 1:37:46Speaker 3: the over though, and the money's indicating towards the Dodgers
- 1:37:49Speaker 3: with seventy percent of tickets fifty six percent of the
- 1:37:51Speaker 3: cash on Atlanta. I think, you know, Sale probably is
- 1:37:55Speaker 3: attracting the public money here though, Like the public's probably
- 1:37:58Speaker 3: thinking the same thing that I just say, Oh my god,
- 1:38:00Speaker 3: we get Sales as an underdog here. But I don't know, man,
- 1:38:03Speaker 3: to me, the situation is better for Atlanta here with
- 1:38:06Speaker 3: the Dodgers traveling and whatever, and you get a decent
- 1:38:10Speaker 3: matchup with Sale on the mound. So you know, Dodgers.
- 1:38:15Speaker 3: I believe they were off yesterday. I think both teams
- 1:38:18Speaker 3: were off yesterday. So that helps with an under as well.
- 1:38:23Speaker 3: You get two pretty good bullpens right now that we're
- 1:38:25Speaker 3: off yesterday, so I think that helps the under man.
- 1:38:28Speaker 3: You get rested bullpens. The offenses might not click right away. Yeah,
- 1:38:33Speaker 3: I think under makes a lot of sense in that game.
- 1:38:35Speaker 3: Actually under the eight. It's not gonna be on my card,
- 1:38:39Speaker 3: but that's what I think. And then the last game
- 1:38:41Speaker 3: is Pittsburgh at San Francisco. San Francisco coming off a
- 1:38:45Speaker 3: series that they lost to the Padres. Here, they're staying
- 1:38:49Speaker 3: at home. Maybe they're in a bounce back mode here
- 1:38:52Speaker 3: after a couple of bad games. I don't know, because
- 1:38:54Speaker 3: they're not a very good team. Pittsburgh is coming in
- 1:38:57Speaker 3: from winning five out of their last six games. They're
- 1:39:00Speaker 3: coming in from Arizona here, not a horrible travel spot
- 1:39:04Speaker 3: for Pittsburgh. Necessarily, the starting pitching matchup, we don't really
- 1:39:08Speaker 3: know exactly what it's gonna be though ESPN has it listed,
- 1:39:11Speaker 3: but the wager Talk screen does not have a pitcher
- 1:39:15Speaker 3: listed for San Francisco, so I don't know. Pittsburgh used
- 1:39:18Speaker 3: four relief pitchers yesterday. They did play yesterday. San Francisco
- 1:39:22Speaker 3: was off, so San Francisco has a little bit of
- 1:39:24Speaker 3: an edge here because they're rested. San Francisco does have
- 1:39:28Speaker 3: a rest edge. San Francisco's bullpen is ranked fifteenth, but
- 1:39:33Speaker 3: I think they're better than that. I think they're a
- 1:39:35Speaker 3: good bullpen. Pittsburgh is ranked thirteenth, but I do not
- 1:39:38Speaker 3: think Pittsburgh has the better bullpen, and they're not rested
- 1:39:42Speaker 3: like San Francisco is, so I think you have to
- 1:39:43Speaker 3: give San Francisco the bullpen edge. Obviously, they do not
- 1:39:47Speaker 3: have the hitting edge, though Pittsburgh is tenth offensively and
- 1:39:50Speaker 3: San Francisco is dead last thirtieth, so yes, Pittsburgh has
- 1:39:54Speaker 3: the better offense. Carmen Melodzinsky is gonna be pitching for
- 1:39:57Speaker 3: the Pirates. He hasn't been that good all four point
- 1:40:00Speaker 3: seven to sixty Ray, one point five whip, that's not good.
- 1:40:04Speaker 3: Five point six Roady Ray as well, that's bad. So
- 1:40:07Speaker 3: he hasn't been good on the road. But he does
- 1:40:09Speaker 3: get a very weak offense that he gets to face
- 1:40:12Speaker 3: here in a pitcher friendly ballpark. Overall, I mean, he
- 1:40:15Speaker 3: does have a high strikeout rate. I will say that
- 1:40:18Speaker 3: forty strikeouts and thirty four innings that's pretty good. Thirteen walks,
- 1:40:23Speaker 3: you know, could be worse. I guess he's only allowed
- 1:40:25Speaker 3: one home run. That's not bad. But he's allowed thirty
- 1:40:27Speaker 3: eight hits. That's not great. But I guess you know. Overall,
- 1:40:31Speaker 3: I mean, his numbers on the surface look really bad,
- 1:40:33Speaker 3: but you kind of dig into the numbers, they're not
- 1:40:35Speaker 3: quite so bad. I think maybe he's gotten a little
- 1:40:39Speaker 3: bit unlucky, but he doesn't go deep into most of
- 1:40:41Speaker 3: his outings. I don't know if he's fully trustworthy here,
- 1:40:44Speaker 3: but this might be a decent matchup for him. His
- 1:40:47Speaker 3: numbers against the Giants are good in a small sixteen
- 1:40:50Speaker 3: at bat sample size, So though most of their hitters
- 1:40:52Speaker 3: have faced him two to two strike a walk ratio
- 1:40:55Speaker 3: one twenty five average allowed in three forty seven ops,
- 1:40:59Speaker 3: no extra base, it's there. Some Lotzinski might pitch well
- 1:41:02Speaker 3: here in this matchup. We have undecided though for San Francisco,
- 1:41:07Speaker 3: so I don't know what's going on because initially it
- 1:41:09Speaker 3: was going to be Robbie Ray I mean, we can
- 1:41:11Speaker 3: handicap Ray here just in case it is him. Two
- 1:41:14Speaker 3: point nine to five yr Ray, one point six whip.
- 1:41:17Speaker 3: Ray has been pretty good this year two point oh
- 1:41:20Speaker 3: one Homyra has been good at home. Last year he
- 1:41:22Speaker 3: pitched really well for most of the season, and I
- 1:41:25Speaker 3: think he was also good at home last year as well.
- 1:41:28Speaker 3: He kind of followed up. He kind of fell off
- 1:41:30Speaker 3: at the end of last year. But we're early in
- 1:41:33Speaker 3: the season. Man, he's pitching well. He's allowed three or
- 1:41:35Speaker 3: fewer earned runs in all of his outings. Forty strikeouts,
- 1:41:39Speaker 3: fourteen walks. It's too many walks. Seven home runs isn't
- 1:41:42Speaker 3: great either. Twenty eight hits allowed, though in thirty nine
- 1:41:45Speaker 3: two thirds innings he has not allowed that many hits,
- 1:41:48Speaker 3: So Ray overall he is decent, or maybe better than decent.
- 1:41:54Speaker 3: As numbers against the Pirates are also fine. In fifty
- 1:41:57Speaker 3: four at bests twenty to zero strike oh walk Richio,
- 1:42:01Speaker 3: that's pretty good. Two fifty nine batting average allowed six
- 1:42:04Speaker 3: eighty five ops. So if Ray does pitch, you know,
- 1:42:09Speaker 3: I think we could be looking at maybe a first
- 1:42:11Speaker 3: five under in that game. I think the matchup looks
- 1:42:14Speaker 3: decent there. The money is coming out of Pittsburgh. For
- 1:42:17Speaker 3: what that's world. I'm not so sure about that. Sixty
- 1:42:19Speaker 3: percent of tickets ninety five percent of the cash on Pittsburgh.
- 1:42:22Speaker 3: San Francisco is a slight favorite right now, and Pittsburgh
- 1:42:27Speaker 3: or the total is at seven and a half. So
- 1:42:29Speaker 3: the odds makers, you know this, the line almost looks
- 1:42:32Speaker 3: like it is expecting Ray to still start here. I
- 1:42:35Speaker 3: don't know if that's gonna be the case or not though. Anyway,
- 1:42:39Speaker 3: finally we're done with the baseball card there, All right,
- 1:42:42Speaker 3: let's finish this off. We'll do WNBA really quick here.
- 1:42:46Speaker 3: I don't have a whole lot to say about the WNBA.
- 1:42:50Speaker 3: The first game up, which is really the big mismatch,
- 1:42:52Speaker 3: is Connecticut at New York. The Liberty are the way
- 1:42:56Speaker 3: better of the two teams, but they might overlook Connecticut
- 1:42:59Speaker 3: because Connecticut was just awful last year. Connecticut was a
- 1:43:03Speaker 3: dormat and they're still expected to be bad. I mean,
- 1:43:06Speaker 3: the Liberty, I don't even know the personnel here or whatever.
- 1:43:09Speaker 3: The Liberty are nine and a half ten and a
- 1:43:13Speaker 3: half point favorite here, somewhere between nine and a half
- 1:43:15Speaker 3: and ten and a half basically ten. So you have
- 1:43:17Speaker 3: to lay double digits with the Liberty. I don't know
- 1:43:21Speaker 3: about that man in the first game of the season.
- 1:43:23Speaker 3: A lot of people are gonna overreact to last year
- 1:43:25Speaker 3: and while clearly New York is the better of these
- 1:43:27Speaker 3: two teams, and I think Connecticut is so bad, they're
- 1:43:30Speaker 3: actually leaving Connecticut. Like, I think they're not gonna be
- 1:43:33Speaker 3: playing in Connecticut anymore. I don't know where they're going,
- 1:43:36Speaker 3: but I think they are moving. In fact, I don't
- 1:43:39Speaker 3: know that it might be out there, like that information
- 1:43:42Speaker 3: might actually be out there. Oh, they just claimed Van
- 1:43:46Speaker 3: Lyth after the sky waved her. Isn't that just great?
- 1:43:50Speaker 3: I don't even know who these people are, to be honest, Yeah,
- 1:43:54Speaker 3: I don't know, dude, But yeah, I'm gonna lean to
- 1:43:57Speaker 3: Connecticut slightly plus the points there I don't one of Like,
- 1:44:00Speaker 3: you know, these are not strong opinions for me right now,
- 1:44:04Speaker 3: but you know, I think just based on last year
- 1:44:06Speaker 3: and people just realize that Connecticut is bad. But you're
- 1:44:11Speaker 3: probably paying a bit of a premium to play the Liberty,
- 1:44:14Speaker 3: who I believe won the championship two years ago, you know,
- 1:44:18Speaker 3: and they've been one of the top teams in the
- 1:44:20Speaker 3: league for the last few years. And really, I mean,
- 1:44:23Speaker 3: they're one of the staples of the league is they're
- 1:44:25Speaker 3: one of the original teams with Rebecca Lobo whatever. So yeah,
- 1:44:29Speaker 3: I mean whatever, I think you're paying a little bit
- 1:44:31Speaker 3: of a premium with the Liberty, I would lean against them.
- 1:44:34Speaker 3: There sixty three percent of tickets and cash on Connecticut whatever. Washington.
- 1:44:39Speaker 3: The Mystics were one of the worst teams in the
- 1:44:42Speaker 3: league last year as well. We won a couple of
- 1:44:44Speaker 3: games with Washington. We picked some good spots to play
- 1:44:47Speaker 3: Washington last year, and they played really well as a
- 1:44:50Speaker 3: big underdog last year. But they're not an underdog in
- 1:44:53Speaker 3: this game. They're playing against an expansion team, the Toronto Tempo.
- 1:45:00Speaker 3: The way the expansion works is pretty much the same
- 1:45:03Speaker 3: as in like whatever other sport. Well, the NHL basically
- 1:45:07Speaker 3: is the comparable sport here where they have an expansion draft.
- 1:45:10Speaker 3: So basically, every team gets to protect a certain number
- 1:45:14Speaker 3: of players. So every team protects their best players and whatever,
- 1:45:17Speaker 3: and then the teams they don't protect go into the draft,
- 1:45:21Speaker 3: so the expansion teams are able to draft those players
- 1:45:24Speaker 3: and that's how they form their team, you know what
- 1:45:27Speaker 3: I mean. But it's interesting because, like the hockey when
- 1:45:30Speaker 3: they did that, you know, with the Vegas Knights and whatever,
- 1:45:32Speaker 3: everybody was like, who are these scrubs? You know they're
- 1:45:35Speaker 3: gonna suck. And then the Knights made the Stanley Cup
- 1:45:37Speaker 3: Finals or whatever, and I think they won a championship
- 1:45:40Speaker 3: within their first couple of years. I'm not gonna say
- 1:45:42Speaker 3: that Toronto's gonna do that. I don't think they will.
- 1:45:45Speaker 3: But Toronto's a very small underdog here, and I think
- 1:45:48Speaker 3: people are basically gonna be like, oh, this team's a
- 1:45:49Speaker 3: bunch of scrubs, but they're playing against a bad team
- 1:45:53Speaker 3: in Washington. The money does look like it did hit
- 1:45:56Speaker 3: Washington and flip them to the favorite here. But I
- 1:45:59Speaker 3: think I would probably lead Toronto there, just because nobody
- 1:46:02Speaker 3: even knows who the fuck they are and they're, you know,
- 1:46:04Speaker 3: a scrub expansion team. Maybe they get motivated. Man, it's
- 1:46:08Speaker 3: gonna be their first game as a team. So I mean,
- 1:46:11Speaker 3: there's like no film on this team. But then again,
- 1:46:13Speaker 3: they have to get chemistry, you know what I mean.
- 1:46:15Speaker 3: An expansion team like this might not have chemistry right
- 1:46:18Speaker 3: right out of the gate, so that is a problem.
- 1:46:21Speaker 3: But then again, teams aren't gonna know what the fuck
- 1:46:23Speaker 3: the team's even gonna look like, so, how do you
- 1:46:25Speaker 3: defend against a team that you don't even know what
- 1:46:27Speaker 3: the fuck they're gonna do, you know what I mean.
- 1:46:30Speaker 3: So there's that, and then Golden State at Seattle. People
- 1:46:33Speaker 3: are gonna probably look at this line. If they know
- 1:46:35Speaker 3: anything about the WNBA, they're gonna think, what is this line?
- 1:46:38Speaker 3: Golden State who they were? I believe they were an
- 1:46:41Speaker 3: expansion team last year or the year before that, and
- 1:46:44Speaker 3: they started gelling and playing really well. They went way
- 1:46:46Speaker 3: under the radar and they're now six and a half
- 1:46:50Speaker 3: point favored against Seattle, which is really interesting because Seattle
- 1:46:55Speaker 3: was one of the better Ish teams last year. But
- 1:46:58Speaker 3: the oddsmakers are clearly telling you Golden State's the way
- 1:47:01Speaker 3: better team, and Golden State has like a I don't
- 1:47:03Speaker 3: know what they're doing. I don't know what the rules
- 1:47:05Speaker 3: are in the WNBA, but I know Golden State spent
- 1:47:07Speaker 3: a lot of money over the offseason, so they're supposed
- 1:47:10Speaker 3: to be one of the better teams in the league
- 1:47:12Speaker 3: this year. And they were a real value team last year,
- 1:47:15Speaker 3: like they were getting constantly undervalued in the market last year.
- 1:47:18Speaker 3: So we did have some plays on them last year too,
- 1:47:21Speaker 3: but obviously the market is completely adjusted, and now they're
- 1:47:24Speaker 3: a six and a half point road favored against Seattle,
- 1:47:28Speaker 3: so the market has caught up. Let's say Seattle lost
- 1:47:33Speaker 3: to Golden State in the preseason. By the way, at
- 1:47:36Speaker 3: Golden State, I don't think that really matters. Who cares preseason.
- 1:47:39Speaker 3: I think you just throw it out. But I think
- 1:47:42Speaker 3: you know the people that are just basing this off
- 1:47:44Speaker 3: of last year. I think these people are gonna think
- 1:47:47Speaker 3: this is a huge value to get Seattle as a
- 1:47:49Speaker 3: big underdog here, Like, why is Golden State this fairly
- 1:47:52Speaker 3: new team? Why are they favored by this much on
- 1:47:54Speaker 3: the road. But I'm telling you right now, their personnel
- 1:47:57Speaker 3: is actually quite good. Like they I think they made
- 1:48:00Speaker 3: some good pickups over the offseason whatever. I don't know.
- 1:48:03Speaker 3: I don't follow WNBA really, but they're minus five and
- 1:48:06Speaker 3: a half have most spots now, they're favored by that
- 1:48:09Speaker 3: much for a reason. Eighty percent of tickets, ninety five
- 1:48:12Speaker 3: percent of the cash on Golden State. I would lean
- 1:48:14Speaker 3: towards laying the points in that one with Golden State,
- 1:48:16Speaker 3: but I don't know what the fuck I'm talking about. Charles,
- 1:48:20Speaker 3: what's up? Thanks for hanging out, Yes, TLC no scrubs
- 1:48:26Speaker 3: uugh man, my neck kills and my back and you
- 1:48:31Speaker 3: know the other two things that get talked about in
- 1:48:33Speaker 3: that song. Next game up hockey. We're gonna have a
- 1:48:36Speaker 3: play in hockey in Montreal and Buffalo. These games are
- 1:48:39Speaker 3: on tn T, HBO, Max, True TV. Let's do it.
- 1:48:47Speaker 3: We are going to have a play on the Montreal
- 1:48:49Speaker 3: Canadians as an underdog. Here man, I think this is
- 1:48:52Speaker 3: a spot to actually do it. With the zig zag
- 1:48:55Speaker 3: Buffalo won the first game. You know, neither team has
- 1:48:58Speaker 3: a huge experience, edge man, so both teams are not
- 1:49:02Speaker 3: used to being here. Montreal is really young, so yes,
- 1:49:05Speaker 3: that is true. Buffalo their goaltender Leone or whatever, has
- 1:49:10Speaker 3: been slightly better than Dobis. But they're both pretty good.
- 1:49:14Speaker 3: And if you look at what happened in the first game,
- 1:49:15Speaker 3: I think it was misleading. And that's why we're gonna
- 1:49:18Speaker 3: do it. We're gonna play Montreal here man. And by
- 1:49:20Speaker 3: the way, Montreal was not a bad road team this season.
- 1:49:23Speaker 3: Buffalo was pretty decent at home, but Montreal was not
- 1:49:27Speaker 3: that much worse on the road. Montreal is certainly capable
- 1:49:30Speaker 3: of winning a game on the road, and if you
- 1:49:33Speaker 3: look at what happened in this first game. You know,
- 1:49:37Speaker 3: Buffalo had two power play goals, so a couple of
- 1:49:39Speaker 3: their goals were with the man advantage, although yes, Montreal
- 1:49:42Speaker 3: had a power play goal as well, but you know,
- 1:49:45Speaker 3: Buffalo did have a big lead. So yes, Montreal was
- 1:49:47Speaker 3: firing a bunch of desperation shots. But if you look
- 1:49:50Speaker 3: at what happened in this game, Montreal was the better team,
- 1:49:54Speaker 3: like all across the board. Statistically, Montreal won sixty three
- 1:49:58Speaker 3: percent of the faceoffs, they were the more physical team
- 1:50:01Speaker 3: with more hits, and they outshot Buffalo twenty eight to sixteen.
- 1:50:05Speaker 3: While yes, some of that is because they were in
- 1:50:07Speaker 3: desperation mode, but still, Buffalo scored four goals on sixteen shots.
- 1:50:12Speaker 3: I mean, come on, man, And no there was not
- 1:50:15Speaker 3: an empty net goal but two power play goals. But still,
- 1:50:20Speaker 3: you know, a decent goaltender like Dobus, he's not gonna
- 1:50:23Speaker 3: allow four goal He's not gonna have a seven to
- 1:50:25Speaker 3: fifty save percentage again, you know what I mean. So yeah,
- 1:50:30Speaker 3: it was an outlier of a game. In my opinion,
- 1:50:32Speaker 3: Montreal was actually the better team in the game, so
- 1:50:34Speaker 3: the final score was very misleading in my opinion. So
- 1:50:38Speaker 3: I think we could definitely take Montreal as an underdog here,
- 1:50:40Speaker 3: and I think you're gonna get a better game from them.
- 1:50:42Speaker 3: I think Montreal is gonna get it done. I think
- 1:50:44Speaker 3: they're gonna even the series here. I think it's a
- 1:50:47Speaker 3: close series. You know. I don't think either team is
- 1:50:50Speaker 3: gonna beat Colorado or Colorado Carolina. Sorry, Buffalo looks like
- 1:50:55Speaker 3: they're getting some of the money, but they look public.
- 1:50:58Speaker 3: Sixty two percent of ticket, seventy percent under the cash
- 1:51:00Speaker 3: on them, they're about minus one thirty something total. Is
- 1:51:03Speaker 3: getting a lot of money towards the under which helps
- 1:51:06Speaker 3: as an underdog. By the way, the totals at five
- 1:51:08Speaker 3: and a half or six, so it's expected to be
- 1:51:11Speaker 3: kind of a lower scoring game, and that's good for
- 1:51:14Speaker 3: the underdog as well. It means the underdog has a
- 1:51:16Speaker 3: better chance of hanging in the game. I like it
- 1:51:20Speaker 3: we're gonna take Montreal again. It's a zigzag spot where
- 1:51:23Speaker 3: I think Montreal was the better team in the first
- 1:51:25Speaker 3: game and it's a bit misleading. The second game is
- 1:51:28Speaker 3: Vegas at Anaheim with a one to one tied series.
- 1:51:32Speaker 3: Anaheim actually was the better team in game one, even
- 1:51:35Speaker 3: though they lost and we got the win on that
- 1:51:37Speaker 3: game with Vegas, Anaheim flipped it around him one three
- 1:51:40Speaker 3: to one in the second game, and they did score
- 1:51:43Speaker 3: an empty net goal, and then there was a stupid
- 1:51:46Speaker 3: penalty at the very end of the game, and Vegas
- 1:51:48Speaker 3: scored a power play goal I think also with the
- 1:51:51Speaker 3: empty net still in play. I think they did that,
- 1:51:53Speaker 3: so I think they had a two man advantage in
- 1:51:55Speaker 3: that power play and they scored with six seconds left,
- 1:51:58Speaker 3: so they avoided the shutout. Whatever the question is, was
- 1:52:02Speaker 3: this misleading the fact that Anaheim won three to one,
- 1:52:07Speaker 3: I would say slightly. Anaheim actually played better in Game one,
- 1:52:12Speaker 3: believe it or not, even though they won Game two,
- 1:52:15Speaker 3: Vegas dominated the face offfs. Dude, Vegas won sixty three
- 1:52:18Speaker 3: percent of the face offs. The hits were the same,
- 1:52:21Speaker 3: and Anaheim did out shoot Vegas a little bit, but
- 1:52:23Speaker 3: the face offf percentage, you know, kind of tells you
- 1:52:27Speaker 3: that team had more possession in the game. I don't
- 1:52:30Speaker 3: hate Vegas here in this spot here, they're the more
- 1:52:33Speaker 3: experienced team, you know. I mean, both coaches have a
- 1:52:38Speaker 3: lot of experience, though, even though Tortorella is new to
- 1:52:41Speaker 3: being in Vegas and Anaheim has what the fuck Quinnville
- 1:52:45Speaker 3: I think is his name. Yeah, he's been around for
- 1:52:47Speaker 3: a long time, but he's new to Anaheim this year,
- 1:52:50Speaker 3: I think so. I don't know. The coaching I think
- 1:52:53Speaker 3: is a bit of a wash here. One thing to
- 1:52:55Speaker 3: worry about. Those Vegas was not that good on the road,
- 1:52:58Speaker 3: and Anaheim was significantly better at home home then on
- 1:53:01Speaker 3: the road. But I don't know how much of a
- 1:53:02Speaker 3: home advantage either team has in this series, because this
- 1:53:05Speaker 3: is a close series geographically, you know, like you could
- 1:53:08Speaker 3: drive between these locations, and these teams might even be
- 1:53:12Speaker 3: doing that. I don't know. So I don't know, man,
- 1:53:15Speaker 3: like you could drive in a few hours probably between
- 1:53:18Speaker 3: these locations. I think so. Yeah, I don't have a
- 1:53:22Speaker 3: good read on this game. I do think Vegas played
- 1:53:24Speaker 3: better in Game two than the final score makes. It look.
- 1:53:27Speaker 3: The money is coming in on Anaheim though, and Anaheim
- 1:53:30Speaker 3: is better at home. But initially it looks like the
- 1:53:32Speaker 3: money well, actually, I don't know, it's hard to tell.
- 1:53:35Speaker 3: I mean, the line has really just been a pick'em
- 1:53:37Speaker 3: price the whole time. Fifty six per tickets, seventy three
- 1:53:40Speaker 3: percent of the cash on Anaheim. It looks like some
- 1:53:43Speaker 3: money's coming in towards the over. The total is higher
- 1:53:46Speaker 3: in this game at six six and a half. I mean,
- 1:53:49Speaker 3: it is a series where I think the deepfense is
- 1:53:51Speaker 3: a little bit worse, although I think Vegas kind of
- 1:53:54Speaker 3: has the better deepfense though. And I don't know, man,
- 1:53:57Speaker 3: I think I kind of prefer heart over dose stall
- 1:54:00Speaker 3: in Net. But I don't know, man, this is a
- 1:54:02Speaker 3: hard game to figure out for me. I think if
- 1:54:05Speaker 3: the series zigzags, then Vegas would be the way to look.
- 1:54:09Speaker 3: But I don't like that. They're not that good on
- 1:54:11Speaker 3: the road, so I worry about that. It's a stay
- 1:54:14Speaker 3: away from me. Vegas does have an experienced edge though,
- 1:54:17Speaker 3: so I think, you know, they should come out on
- 1:54:19Speaker 3: top in the series, but maybe they don't, you know.
- 1:54:24Speaker 3: I don't know, man, We'll see. But I do have
- 1:54:26Speaker 3: Vegas winning that in my bracket. I have them beating
- 1:54:29Speaker 3: Edmonton in my bracket, all right. And then we have NBA.
- 1:54:32Speaker 3: I'm gonna give out an NBA play as well. The
- 1:54:35Speaker 3: first came up both games on Amazon Prime. First came
- 1:54:38Speaker 3: up is Knicks at Philly. The Knicks have a two
- 1:54:41Speaker 3: oh series lead, and you know, I like teams that
- 1:54:45Speaker 3: are down two oh coming back home. I do like
- 1:54:48Speaker 3: that spot. Usually when a team is coming back home
- 1:54:51Speaker 3: and they're down two oh, the zig zag is in
- 1:54:53Speaker 3: effect the zig zigzag, and you usually want to look
- 1:54:56Speaker 3: for that home team to even the series. Because the
- 1:54:58Speaker 3: team that's up too oh feels pretty good, they get
- 1:55:01Speaker 3: a little bit complacent. The team down two to h
- 1:55:04Speaker 3: is really really facing a lot of urgency and they
- 1:55:06Speaker 3: can't give up a game at home, you know what
- 1:55:08Speaker 3: I mean. So those would have me looking towards Philadelphia here.
- 1:55:12Speaker 3: But there are a lot of question marks here. And
- 1:55:14Speaker 3: one thing that I don't like is that. I mean,
- 1:55:16Speaker 3: I like it because we won on Game two, we
- 1:55:18Speaker 3: had a winner with Philadelphia plus the points, even though
- 1:55:21Speaker 3: we got the worst number on it because of course
- 1:55:23Speaker 3: Embiid wound up not playing in the game. But that's
- 1:55:26Speaker 3: what I don't like about this game now, is that
- 1:55:29Speaker 3: if Philadelphia played really well without Embiid, the Knicks might
- 1:55:34Speaker 3: have gotten scared by that game. You know what I mean.
- 1:55:36Speaker 3: Philadelphia almost won that game. They're winning the majority of
- 1:55:39Speaker 3: that game, so I think that might scare the Knicks
- 1:55:41Speaker 3: into a better game here. So that that is one
- 1:55:44Speaker 3: thing that I worry about here. So I'm not gonna
- 1:55:46Speaker 3: give out a play on this game. But if you
- 1:55:48Speaker 3: look at the game, the major outlier here was really
- 1:55:51Speaker 3: the three point shooting. Philadelphia hit six more three pointers
- 1:55:55Speaker 3: than the Knicks. The Knicks were only twenty seven percent
- 1:55:57Speaker 3: from three, and Annaobe is one of their better three
- 1:56:00Speaker 3: point shooters and he might not play tonight, so you
- 1:56:03Speaker 3: do have to worry about that. So you think the
- 1:56:04Speaker 3: Knicks are gonna have positive regression from three point range,
- 1:56:08Speaker 3: which I do. You have to worry about Annonobe, you
- 1:56:12Speaker 3: know what I mean. He might not play here because
- 1:56:15Speaker 3: he got injured close to the end of that game,
- 1:56:16Speaker 3: and if the Knicks are gonna hit threes, they kind
- 1:56:18Speaker 3: of need him to be part of that, so that
- 1:56:21Speaker 3: is worrisome. Philadelphia actually out rebounded the Knicks without Embiid,
- 1:56:26Speaker 3: so that is not a good sign for the Knicks.
- 1:56:28Speaker 3: That they got out rebounded by by an embiidless Sixers team.
- 1:56:33Speaker 3: That's not good. And that the Sixers actually, you know,
- 1:56:36Speaker 3: led more than half the game, like I said, So
- 1:56:39Speaker 3: there are a lot of conflicting factors here, man, But
- 1:56:42Speaker 3: Joelle Embiid is questionable and the line here as Philly
- 1:56:45Speaker 3: is a favorite, So that leads me to believe that
- 1:56:47Speaker 3: Embiid is playing in this game, but he is a
- 1:56:50Speaker 3: game time decision, so there's a lot of things to
- 1:56:52Speaker 3: figure out here. And Anonnobe is also a game time decision,
- 1:56:56Speaker 3: so is Josh Hart, but I think he is going
- 1:56:58Speaker 3: to play. And then Mitchell Robbins and you know, I mean,
- 1:57:02Speaker 3: the Knicks might be better not even playing Robinson. Robinson,
- 1:57:06Speaker 3: he's not good, dude, and the Sixers in game one
- 1:57:10Speaker 3: we're hack of shacking him. They were I don't know
- 1:57:13Speaker 3: what's the term for it with with Mitch Robinson.
- 1:57:15Speaker 1: They were.
- 1:57:18Speaker 3: I don't know, bitch a Mitch. I don't know what
- 1:57:20Speaker 3: they were doing. Whatever they were doing, they were hacking
- 1:57:23Speaker 3: Mitch Robinson to send him to the line intentionally because
- 1:57:26Speaker 3: he is a horrific free throw shooter. He's one of
- 1:57:29Speaker 3: the worst free throw shooters in the league. The Knicks
- 1:57:32Speaker 3: might be better not even playing and we're really limiting
- 1:57:34Speaker 3: his minutes. I don't know, man, But the big pieces
- 1:57:38Speaker 3: here that you need to figure out are are Anenobi
- 1:57:40Speaker 3: and Embiid playing, and I think Anonoby won't affect the
- 1:57:43Speaker 3: line that much. So I think the reason why Philly
- 1:57:45Speaker 3: is favored as much as they are here one and
- 1:57:48Speaker 3: a half means Embiid is playing, because the Knicks were
- 1:57:52Speaker 3: a ten and a half point home favorite with Embiid
- 1:57:54Speaker 3: not playing, and if embiide wasn't playing here, the line
- 1:57:57Speaker 3: would probably be the Knicks being a favorite here. The
- 1:58:00Speaker 3: fact that Philly is a favorite leaves me to believe
- 1:58:02Speaker 3: Embiid is going to play, unless at some point they
- 1:58:06Speaker 3: announced he's not going to. I think he will, But
- 1:58:09Speaker 3: that's the issue I have with Philadelphia because I like
- 1:58:11Speaker 3: the Philadelphia is down two to oh, they're gonna have
- 1:58:14Speaker 3: a sense of urgency here. I like the fact that
- 1:58:16Speaker 3: they beat the Knicks in the rebound battle without Embiid.
- 1:58:19Speaker 3: That's a good sign for Philadelphia. But I think the
- 1:58:22Speaker 3: Knicks might shoot better from three. The Knicks might be
- 1:58:24Speaker 3: scared into focus after almost losing the previous game, And
- 1:58:28Speaker 3: if Philly won without himbi or almost one excuse me,
- 1:58:31Speaker 3: without Embiid, they might be feeling pretty good about Embiid
- 1:58:34Speaker 3: coming back, you know, and the line might move too
- 1:58:37Speaker 3: much towards Philadelphia. You know the reverse injured player theory.
- 1:58:41Speaker 3: A lot of times there's an overreaction a little bit
- 1:58:44Speaker 3: to the line, and you know it's at the point
- 1:58:46Speaker 3: where maybe you could argue the Nicks should be about
- 1:58:48Speaker 3: a one point favorite here instead of Philly being a
- 1:58:50Speaker 3: one point favorite. But it's a pick the winner price,
- 1:58:54Speaker 3: so whether regardless of which team is a one point favorite,
- 1:58:57Speaker 3: it doesn't really matter that much, you know. But the
- 1:58:59Speaker 3: money he seems like it's kind of indicating towards the
- 1:59:01Speaker 3: Knicks sixty five percent of tickets on Philly's sixty three
- 1:59:04Speaker 3: percent of the cash on them. I don't buy that
- 1:59:07Speaker 3: Philly is a public side though, after they look so
- 1:59:10Speaker 3: bad in Game one and then lost Game two as well.
- 1:59:13Speaker 3: I don't think Philadelphia is a public side here. Philly
- 1:59:17Speaker 3: is a one and a half point favorite, you know,
- 1:59:20Speaker 3: all things be considered, I think I'll slightly lean to Philadelphia,
- 1:59:24Speaker 3: but I don't like it, And it looks like some
- 1:59:25Speaker 3: of the money is hitting the over here. I'm not
- 1:59:28Speaker 3: sure I like that either. You know, I think I
- 1:59:31Speaker 3: might lean under because I mean, the last game did
- 1:59:34Speaker 3: not go over this number of two fourteen and a
- 1:59:36Speaker 3: half two fifteen. But with Embiid coming back, I think
- 1:59:40Speaker 3: that's gonna skew the line a little bit higher than
- 1:59:43Speaker 3: it would be otherwise if he is coming back. Although
- 1:59:45Speaker 3: you need ananobe if you're gonna go under, you're probably
- 1:59:48Speaker 3: better with Anonobe being out though, But I think if
- 1:59:51Speaker 3: Embiid is in and Ananobe is out and under might
- 1:59:54Speaker 3: make sense because you're gonna get Embiid's defense in play
- 1:59:56Speaker 3: there as well. So that's what I think. Yeah, it's
- 2:00:01Speaker 3: a four hour drive. I'm not playing the fucking Sixers song.
- 2:00:06Speaker 3: Fuck the Sixers. I fucking hate that team. But I
- 2:00:08Speaker 3: also hate the Knicks, and I hate both fan bases.
- 2:00:12Speaker 3: They're all a bunch of assholes, dude, Like, I hope
- 2:00:15Speaker 3: that this series just basically just I don't know, I
- 2:00:19Speaker 3: hope the series gets disqualified from existence. Fuck both these teams,
- 2:00:24Speaker 3: fuck both fan bases. That's what I have to say
- 2:00:26Speaker 3: about that fucking series. And then the other series is
- 2:00:30Speaker 3: where I'm gonna give out a play. Let's do it.
- 2:00:37Speaker 3: This is the last game that we're gonna talk about,
- 2:00:40Speaker 3: and we do have a play on it. Minnesota plus
- 2:00:43Speaker 3: five or I think it's mostly four and a half
- 2:00:45Speaker 3: out there, which is probably fine as well. We're gonna
- 2:00:47Speaker 3: take the Tea Wolves plus the points here, man, I
- 2:00:51Speaker 3: mean this is a This is a zigzact spot, dude,
- 2:00:54Speaker 3: I mean this has been a zigzag series all the
- 2:00:56Speaker 3: way so far. Anthony Edwards made the surprise come in
- 2:01:00Speaker 3: Minnesota one Game one is a big underdog and then
- 2:01:03Speaker 3: what happened. San Antonio back, you know, at home again.
- 2:01:06Speaker 3: San Antonio after losing is a big favorite. They came
- 2:01:10Speaker 3: back and they won in a massive blowout in game two.
- 2:01:15Speaker 3: You know, the public is not gonna take Minnesota here
- 2:01:17Speaker 3: after this san Antonio blew the doors off of them
- 2:01:20Speaker 3: one thirty three and ninety five won by almost forty points.
- 2:01:24Speaker 3: You know what I think about that, after something like
- 2:01:27Speaker 3: that happens, that was a major outlier, I'm gonna come
- 2:01:30Speaker 3: back and fade that, you know what I mean? That
- 2:01:32Speaker 3: is what the zigzag does. You fade the team that
- 2:01:35Speaker 3: was on the wrong side of the major outlier. We're
- 2:01:38Speaker 3: getting them at home now as an underdog too, which
- 2:01:41Speaker 3: I like. In Minnesota is the more experienced team. Man,
- 2:01:44Speaker 3: san Antonio is not used to being in a spot
- 2:01:46Speaker 3: like this, and now they have to play a road
- 2:01:48Speaker 3: playoff game against a team that's been in the conference
- 2:01:51Speaker 3: finals two years in a row. Yeah, doesn't look good
- 2:01:55Speaker 3: to me. And I think there's gonna be a lot
- 2:01:56Speaker 3: of regression here as well. San Antonio shot fifty percent
- 2:01:59Speaker 3: from the field. In the last game, they had almost
- 2:02:02Speaker 3: the same amount of field goal attempts and they shot
- 2:02:05Speaker 3: forty one percent from the three, so they were plus
- 2:02:07Speaker 3: seven from three point range. I think those numbers are
- 2:02:10Speaker 3: gonna regress, man, And both teams went to the line
- 2:02:14Speaker 3: a similar amount of times, and Minnesota shot an outrageous
- 2:02:17Speaker 3: fifty two percent from the line. They're gonna shoot better
- 2:02:21Speaker 3: than that. There's no way an NBA team is not
- 2:02:23Speaker 3: going to shoot fifty percent from the line in like
- 2:02:26Speaker 3: any game, even if they're not the greatest free throw
- 2:02:28Speaker 3: shooting team. It's just not gonna happen. So I think
- 2:02:31Speaker 3: there are some major regression points here. San Antonio should
- 2:02:34Speaker 3: shoot way worse in this game, especially because Minnesota is
- 2:02:37Speaker 3: a good defense. Both these teams are good defensively. Minnesota
- 2:02:42Speaker 3: should shoot better from the line. And yes, the one
- 2:02:44Speaker 3: concern is san Antonio did dominate the rebound battle. Yes,
- 2:02:49Speaker 3: I get that san Antonio has wemby you know whatever,
- 2:02:53Speaker 3: but we're getting points with Minnesota. This could be a
- 2:02:57Speaker 3: defensive match up here. Man, I think you're gonna see
- 2:02:59Speaker 3: a lower scoring game in this game than you saw
- 2:03:00Speaker 3: in this game as well, mostly because San Antonio just
- 2:03:03Speaker 3: shot way too well. That's gonna be the main regression
- 2:03:06Speaker 3: point is that San Antonio should shoot worse. Although yes,
- 2:03:09Speaker 3: Minnesota might hit more free throws, but I think the
- 2:03:12Speaker 3: regression is going to come more on the offensive end.
- 2:03:14Speaker 3: You have two good defenses here. I like the under
- 2:03:18Speaker 3: in this game as well, but Minnesota would be my plan.
- 2:03:20Speaker 3: I think the under is correlated. Minnesota is not going
- 2:03:23Speaker 3: to be able to win if the game is higher scoring.
- 2:03:25Speaker 3: You know, they cannot let San Antonio outscore them in
- 2:03:28Speaker 3: this game. The money's coming in towards the over, though,
- 2:03:31Speaker 3: eighty three percent of tickets on the under, fifty percent
- 2:03:33Speaker 3: of the cash on the over. I don't agree with that.
- 2:03:35Speaker 3: The total is a little bit higher at two sixteen
- 2:03:37Speaker 3: and a half, but Minnesota needs to slow the game
- 2:03:40Speaker 3: down and they might be able to do that at home.
- 2:03:43Speaker 3: So yeah, I think the under is a consideration, but
- 2:03:46Speaker 3: we're playing the side. I think more of the regression
- 2:03:49Speaker 3: points line up this way. And I don't do totals
- 2:03:51Speaker 3: very much, although we did go we're one to zero,
- 2:03:54Speaker 3: I think in the totals in the NBA playoffs so far,
- 2:03:57Speaker 3: or maybe one on one. I forget fifty four percent
- 2:03:59Speaker 3: of two gets sixty percent of the cash on Minnesota.
- 2:04:02Speaker 3: And yes, I know we're we're still a game below
- 2:04:04Speaker 3: five hundred I think in the NBA playoffs, but we're
- 2:04:07Speaker 3: gonna keep grinding at it. We're gonna do what's worked
- 2:04:09Speaker 3: throughout history. Let's do it. Minnesota plus the points is
- 2:04:14Speaker 3: going to be the play. Yeah, you know, again, I
- 2:04:17Speaker 3: think we get a lot of regression points. And also,
- 2:04:20Speaker 3: don't you know, neglect the home advantage here. You know,
- 2:04:24Speaker 3: San Antonio is really good at home. In Minnesota is
- 2:04:26Speaker 3: not a very good road team, but they're pretty good
- 2:04:28Speaker 3: at home. Twenty six and fifteen at home San Antonio
- 2:04:31Speaker 3: twenty nine and twelve on the road. Obviously that's still good.
- 2:04:33Speaker 3: But Minnesota could definitely hang as a home underdog here
- 2:04:37Speaker 3: with more experience and in a zigzag spot. Yeah, we're
- 2:04:41Speaker 3: doing it. Minnesota plus the points and that's gonna do
- 2:04:45Speaker 3: it for me for today. All the play is one
- 2:04:47Speaker 3: more time. We have three Major League Baseball totals. First
- 2:04:50Speaker 3: five under in Anaheim, Toronto, first five under in Minnesota, Cleveland.
- 2:04:55Speaker 3: Try to get it under four, although you have to
- 2:04:57Speaker 3: pay a little bit more for it in those games.
- 2:05:00Speaker 3: Game under in Seattle and White Sox under the eight,
- 2:05:04Speaker 3: Montreal Canadians on the money line, and Minnesota Tea Wolves
- 2:05:09Speaker 3: plus five five plays today, Let's do it, let's hit.
- 2:05:13Speaker 3: Let's get to sixty wins on this run before we
- 2:05:16Speaker 3: get to forty losses. I think it's highly unlikely that's
- 2:05:20Speaker 3: not going to happen because we only need one more
- 2:05:22Speaker 3: win to make that happen. So let's make it happen tonight.
- 2:05:26Speaker 3: Let's have a win. I'll be happy if we go
- 2:05:28Speaker 3: three and two, and then that's the goal. Three and
- 2:05:30Speaker 3: two is a winning night. That's that's your aim. Win.
- 2:05:33Speaker 3: Just win baby, the Al Davis of betting, Let's go.
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- 2:06:32Speaker 3: Thank you, sir, Thank you everybody for hanging out. Charles,
- 2:06:37Speaker 3: Zach Sparrow, Josh Hindian, Pinzy, who else is in here? Tyson,
- 2:06:43Speaker 3: dirty Sock? Did I say, Garrett, all you guys in
- 2:06:46Speaker 3: the chat, all the regulars, thanks for hanging out. I
- 2:06:48Speaker 3: don't know people who don't like winning. I guess this
- 2:06:51Speaker 3: is a prolonged hot streak. Though we had one really
- 2:06:54Speaker 3: bad day in there at OWN three. But I think
- 2:06:56Speaker 3: during this streak that I had up on the screen,
- 2:06:58Speaker 3: I'll put it back up for one second. I think
- 2:07:00Speaker 3: during this streak we've only had that Own three I
- 2:07:03Speaker 3: think was the only day where we were worse than
- 2:07:06Speaker 3: being one loss below the break even threshold. You know, well,
- 2:07:11Speaker 3: you don't break even in betting. If you go one
- 2:07:12Speaker 3: and one, you lose slightly. But you know what I mean.
- 2:07:15Speaker 3: I think that all the losing days were like one
- 2:07:18Speaker 3: and two, two and three, you know that type of thing.
- 2:07:21Speaker 3: I think that own three day was the only day
- 2:07:23Speaker 3: where we had more than one more lost than win,
- 2:07:27Speaker 3: If that makes sense, I think I'm not entirely sure
- 2:07:30Speaker 3: about that. But it goes back thirty four days now.
- 2:07:33Speaker 3: But we've been hot. We've had a good year so far.
- 2:07:35Speaker 3: A little bit of a low in March. I don't
- 2:07:37Speaker 3: know why that's the case, a lull in March, and
- 2:07:39Speaker 3: then I usually do really well in May. And baseball
- 2:07:42Speaker 3: has really been what's been awesome for us so far.
- 2:07:45Speaker 3: Baseball has been excellent. And last year baseball was tough.
- 2:07:48Speaker 3: Baseball it was rough, guys. Baseball wasn't that good last year.
- 2:07:52Speaker 3: NBA playoffs were really good last year, and NHL playoffs
- 2:07:56Speaker 3: were pretty good as well. But this year it's been
- 2:07:58Speaker 3: baseball that's been doing all this damage. Baseball has been awesome,
- 2:08:02Speaker 3: so hopefully that continues, or hopefully we're turning around with
- 2:08:05Speaker 3: the NBA NHL playoffs have been really selective, but they've
- 2:08:09Speaker 3: been pretty good for us as well. Let's keep it up.
- 2:08:13Speaker 3: That's gonna do it. I appreciate everybody.
- 2:08:16Speaker 2: Peace, But don't you go quiet. Don't you fade from
- 2:08:22Speaker 2: the flow.
- 2:08:23Speaker 1: Your name still means something new, somebody for show. Put
- 2:08:27Speaker 1: the glass down, baby, look at me. No hold on,
- 2:08:37Speaker 1: hold on nothing, no.
- 2:08:43Speaker 2: Hold on, hold on. Let me for that bites hot,
- 2:08:55Speaker 2: but it don't get the crown. Hold on, hold on,
- 2:09:03Speaker 2: stay with me now,