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Feb 20, 2026
A Numbers Game | February 20, 2026 | Hour 1
A Numbers Game | February 20, 2026 | Hour 1
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[upbeat rock music] The numbers told the story, they always do. He's one of those idiots who believe in analytics. This is a numbers game with Gil Alexander on VSiN.
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[upbeat rock music] Friday edition of A Numbers Game here on VSiN eSports betting network. Matt Brown in. One more day for Gil Alexander, don't worry. Back in on Monday. I see him tweeting.
0:22
He- I see him tweeting this morning, so he, uh... I think he's, he's working his way back into civilization. Only, only three more hours of me, so rejoice out there.
0:31
Hey, Matt Brown, you've done- Kelly Bidlin here on the desk with me, as always... you've done an amazing job. Thank you for filling in the past two weeks. Oh, yeah. You make it fun, easy.
0:38
It's like talking to, uh, to one of my best friends about sports every day. Oh, well, look at that. It, it, it's almost as if that is the case. Yeah. Uh, guys, we have a, a great show today, as always.
0:47
We're going to sit here and talk a... How many, how many, how many players Jonathan Davis has in hockey? Um, I'm gonna go- Let's just-... a baker's dozen. Okay [laughs].
0:54
We're gonna say a baker's dozen of different bets for Jonathan Davis- [laughs]... so you're definitely gonna wanna stick around for that. You'll find something you like that you can throw into your account, for sure.
1:02
Chris Felica is going to join us a little bit later as well. We might hit three different sports with him. I lo- I love Felica- Maybe four different sports, who knows...
1:09
on Fri- Fridays because, yes, it is spray the board. He's got thoughts all, all over the place. We'll talk NFL draft. I know he's got an MLB season-long bet, uh, for you that I think that you might find interesting.
1:20
Be like, "Sucker." And then a Premier League bet. Yeah. And he's in on it. Well, he's in on a team that I'm already in on, so I like that. Yeah, that's right. You can have that look on your face.
1:29
Uh, no, I was just trying to think of where that was going, but okay. All right. I almost just said it. I'd be like, "I probably shouldn't ruin it." [laughs] Yeah, you're like, "I don't wanna..."
1:34
Yeah, you're like, "I don't wanna, I don't wanna tease it." And then, uh, Matt Grisson will join us a little bit later for some college baseball as we have started college baseball season in earnest now.
1:43
So everybody out there, and, uh, yeah- It-... LSU rocking and rolling. I can't wait to ask him about it. I was gonna say, Matt might have also unintentionally, uh, put together a perfect numbers game parlay today.
1:54
Yeah, I d- I, I was like- There, there's like- I was like, "Did he do this on purpose?" No, he didn't. There's one more leg we gotta add to it though, which is obviously USA Hockey that we just gotta throw in there.
2:02
Then it is the, A Numbers Game, Matt and Kelly, the Matt finale parlay. Absolutely beautiful. Uh, yesterday the Genesis was postponed due to all of the weather.
2:11
Of course, we were on as the weather began, and then it got really, really bad out there. And we actually felt... Uh, we f- we knew it was coming here. Yeah. We actually got it here as well.
2:21
And, uh, so with that, they're gonna have to finish up this morning, and then get back out there and try to get round two in as well. Remember, this is a cut event. Even though it is an elevated event, it is a cut event.
2:31
50 ties, and then anyone within 10. And maybe for the only time this entire season, we will say we start this morning with Scottie Scheffler in dead last place. It is. Uh, it's incredible.
2:45
I- it's incredi- it was incredible to watch yesterday. It's been incredible to watch the next few weeks. And, like, Matt, this is... The fact that this is just gonna continue now to be a storyline every...
2:54
I don't- that was the biggest thing to me yesterday. It's like this Scottie Scheffler first round thing is going to be something we're talking about [laughs] now for the next- Yeah... six, eight, 10, 12 weeks.
3:04
I do not know what's going on. I mean, we talk about how mental of a game that golf is anyway, but
3:11
the fact that he has now, for the third consecutive tournament, gone out and played basically as bad as he can play- Mm-hmm... in just the first round.
3:20
And we will see if this mirrors the last two tournaments where he comes out the next three days and just absolutely destroys the course.
3:26
The only- Which very well might happen because, by the way, he got the worst of it yesterday. Yes, he did. He did. He did. The, for, for the weather. From, from the weather standpoint. Yeah, he absolutely did.
3:34
I think the... One thing for me, though, do you remember seeing him as frustrated the last couple weeks as he was yesterday? I, uh, that, I don't.
3:43
He, he looked very, very frustrated with a lot of aspects of his game yesterday. That has me a little bit more concerned going forward this week, um, than i- than in the past weeks. I also, I feel a little bit better.
3:54
I have a bet on Scottie Scheffler. Obviously, that's looking like, uh, I will not have an outright winner this week at all.
3:59
Feel a little bit better, though, how many text messages I got yesterday, Matt, 'cause you and I are in the same boat of the, "Man, wrong tournament to go with Scottie Scheffler one and done." Yeah. Great. Yeah.
4:08
Well, we'll see. Who knows? Yeah. As long as he makes the cut, which is crazy to say. As long as he makes the cut, he is still live, for sure.
4:16
The, the other one I got texted a million times yesterday was the, "Who was the missed cut number on, on Scottie?" I'm like, "I don't know." I don't know.
4:21
'Cause I don't think every book posted it, but, like, I guarantee you there is one out there. Oh, yeah. It'd been- God bless you if you're, like, the one human being on the planet that actually bet that. Yeah.
4:30
If you have that, good on, good on you, 'cause that is certainly not something we saw coming here in this one.
4:35
So over in the NBA, Adam Silver informed the league's 30 GMs that they will be making anti-tanking rules next season, Kelly Bidlin. And so some of the stuff that has been discussed- Oh, yeah.
4:47
You wanna go through each one? First-round draft picks can be protected only for top four or top 14 plus selection. Lottery odds freeze at the trade deadline. Come on. I was gonna- That's absurd...
4:57
I was like, can you do this one by one and we'll do the in- immediate reaction? Yes. Uh, okay, first-round draft picks can be protected top four, top 14. Yeah, o- okay. Fine. Sure, fine.
5:06
Lottery odds freeze at the trade deadline. Pff. Yeah, let's just... Yeah. Uh, it's the easiest... People have brought this one up the whole time. Teams will just lose earlier in the season.
5:14
Well, it, it makes the season... No, it makes the season worse. It makes the season worse. It makes the season exponentially worse because then they just start tanking basically out of the gate. Yep.
5:22
And you do not want that. Okay, so let's get rid of that. No longer allowing a team to pick in the top four in consecutive years and/or after a consecutive bottom three finish.
5:32
This is actually something we floated- Yeah... here on the, on the show, which I actually... So if I floated it, I'm gonna say yes. I like this one. I'm o- This is good... I'm okay with this one.
5:40
Again, we're talking about things that we might be okay with. They're not gonna fix the problem, right? Right. But they, this one's, this one's fine.
5:46
And, and, but you know why this one's in here, Matt, is simply because of, like, the Washington Wizards and the Utah Jazz and the, and the Brooklyn Nets of the past few years.
5:53
'Cause it's, it's, you've just been bad, and you continue to be bad, and you're just waiting and waiting and waiting for that perfect prize.
6:00
So if you're gonna have teams act like that, I'm okay with a ru- a rule like this. A couple of lottery things here that, like, odds allocated based on two-year records and then extended to include all play-in teams No.
6:13
I, I mean- The, the played one I may be fine with, but isn't this... Okay, the lottery to it, uh, uh, the, the lo- uh, the two year record one.
6:21
Isn't that kinda contradictory to the one right above it of the can't pick top four y- Like, you're...
6:26
Wait, so you're wanna say we wanna reward the team that's been consistently bad with one bullet point, but not with the other? Yeah. I know. That's what I'm saying. Like, these, the... I don't really love any.
6:35
Flat nods for all lottery, I'm fine with that too. Okay, I'm fine with that. Like, okay- Yeah, me too...
6:39
we're, we're, 'cause we're going to get teams that tank anyway, so super tanking doesn't make it any better than just normal tanking. Right. I'm at least okay with that.
6:46
So the one, yeah, and the, it, but, you know, one that is not shown on here, right?
6:50
The only thing, the only thing that can actually, in my opinion, that I believe can have a true effect on curbing tanking if what you're j- if this is what you're really trying to do, it's shortening the season. Yeah.
7:02
And that's never- And that, that'll never happen... because guess what? That's never gonna happen- Yeah... because the owners lose money that way, right? Yeah. So, like, that, that's one.
7:08
And then the, like, the other one that I'm... The one that's been floated, Matt, that I'm the most open to, we've talked about this.
7:15
I'm the most open to, but it's another one that's never gonna happen because of NBA economics. It's just, it's the, "Okay, here's your salary cap."
7:23
These kids as s- I mean, we- it's a disaster in college basketball right now anyway, so I don't really know why we care. 18 years old, you can go play pro basketball, and it's just a bidding war.
7:31
But you got a cap that you gotta worry about still. I ki- I like that the best, but that's never gonna happen because the small market teams are gonna say, "Eh, now the big market teams even have more of an advantage.
7:41
If we can't lose and get to the bu- top of the draft, and they're there at the draft, they're still gonna attract big name free agents. Now everybody's a free agent. We're screwed." Yeah.
7:50
It's just interesting stuff here. Again, I don't love any of 'em.
7:54
I mean, at the end of the day, I think, I think basically either flattening the odds or just basically going back to an old school NFL style draft would be the way that- You-... I would go about it.
8:03
Thunder- You know, uh, the one thing you shouldn't do if you're an NBA owner is, uh, have an opinion on this tanking situation, and then take to Twitter and compare it to a prop betting scandal. Yeah. Matt Ishbia.
8:13
Did you catch that yesterday? Yeah. I know. I was like, "Nobody even asked you this." Like, it's different if somebody asks you, asks you which is worse, right? You just came out and said it. Like, eh, uh, no.
8:23
Like, a prop betting scandal's pretty bad too, man. Pretty bad. A bunch of NBA news here. Thunder are gonna be without SGA and Jaylen Williams for a while longer. SGA will be reevaluated in a week, Williams in two weeks.
8:36
So Kelly Pidlin, a big shift here- Yeah... from what we were kinda thinking. Everything everyone just assumed SGA would be back very shortly after. It's not saying he'll be back in a week.
8:46
They're saying reevaluated- Right... in a week. So sure, if he's good to go, they'll, they'll, they'll let him go, but, like, he might not be.
8:52
And so this is reevaluation in a week with him, and it's two weeks for Williams. Yeah. Huge, uh, i- and impacts a lot of betting markets, right? Mm.
8:59
I think most notably we talked about this with MVP over the past week and a half.
9:03
What would his status be, and is this a time we're gonna start seeing a shift and we should be making some bets, uh, but- Oh, we'll get to that here in a second. Yeah.
9:10
We, we, we've seen the shift and we've made some bets. So we'll get to that. Uh, Shams says that, uh, that Steph's gonna be re- he will be reevaluated in 10 days.
9:18
So another week and a half at least for him, but that's again, that's just a reevaluation. Mm-hmm. So- Another good call by you I think on the under on the win total. Uh, Celtics were easy last night.
9:26
It's really tough to take this Warriors team seriously with no Steph in the lineup. Yeah. It, it really is. Rockets win. Don't cover the four and a half versus the Hornets. That was a 105-101 game.
9:34
But Kevin Durant says, uh, "Hey man, this old guy can still play." 35 points, eight boards, four assists, and three blocks for him in that one. Yeah. Uh, great game. Watched a lot of that.
9:42
Uh, look, Hornets, uh, were still plucky. They were still plucky. Mm-hmm. Down some guys, made- And cover. And cover. Hey. Yeah. Got the cover actually. Yeah. Which, which was a miracle. Yeah.
9:49
Uh, but yeah, Houston, Houston looking good last night in a win. Cavs win 112 to 84 over the Nets. The Cavs had 102 points after the third quarter, Kelly. Yep. Uh, it's true.
9:58
They, they only scored 10 points [laughs] in the fourth quarter. Uh, it was just unb- The Nets shot 49 threes in the game, just to let you know, like, uh, how YOLO they went in this thing.
10:07
10 Cavs played at least 16 minutes, and only one guy played more than 24. That was James Harden. He only played 28. So a fresh Cavs team here out of the break. Uh, yeah, keep that in mind 'cause I'm- Yeah...
10:18
back on them tonight and f- going against the Hornets for basically that exact reason, right? Hawks won outright over the Sixers, 117-107. Jalen Johnson, 35 points, 10 boards, five assists, three steals.
10:29
He did miss all five of his threes if you wanna poke a hole in the game there- [laughs]... Kelly. But, uh, can still get him in the most improved player market there at 210. Yeah.
10:36
Well, I, it's the, the, it's all about Denny and his, and the back, man. Mm. We're, uh, we'll, we'll, we'll talk a little bit of that too when we talk awards.
10:42
But it, that, that's a fascinating market to me to watch down the stretch. And to pay off the tease here, the Pistons beat the Knicks 126 to 111.
10:48
Cade Cunningham goes 42 points, eight boards, 13 assists, a steal and two blocks. And with that, down to plus 550 at DraftKings for MVP.
11:00
We have been talking about Cade Cunningham for two weeks since I've been in, sitting on this desk for Gil, and kinda making the case for putting in a bet, especially if you were loaded up on SGA. Mm-hmm.
11:10
And now it might be a little bit too late, but we'll... You know, I mean, it's, it's still out there. We don't know if SG- We don't know when SGA is going to be back. Yeah. That is the biggest thing about this. Yep.
11:20
And you don't know if Jokic is gonna qualify, if Wemby's gonna qualify. Mm. I, real quick on that game, statement game by both teams last night. Yeah. Right? The Pistons looked prepared.
11:29
They were down guys, and they made the Knicks look like clowns. And people like me that keep trying to say this is the most talented team out east, they get out-coached, out-schemed, out-efforted.
11:39
Looked like absolute clowns last night. Jalen Brunson did have 33 points, six boards, and eight assists in the loss. But again, that didn't get much done there as they lose by 15.
11:47
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12:25
A numbers game on VSiN, the sports betting network. [upbeat rock music] It is VSiN, the sports betting network, here on a Friday. Matt Brown, Kelly Bidlin, and, uh, we will... Still more NBA stuff to get to.
12:40
We'll get to that here in about 15 minutes. Yeah, took all one day of the NBA being back to fire me up.
12:44
Yeah, there was a lot of action last night, a lot of big performances, a lot of terrible performances as well that we will talk about because, man, it is, uh... Again, this is the sprint part.
12:53
LeBron kind of said it right in his little interview. He's like, "Okay, we've done the marathon part." Mm-hmm. "Here's the sprint part," and we're kind of starting to see the pieces fall in line.
13:01
I'm not saying that we can make definitive statements after one night of the NBA being back, but I kind of started to see things a little clearly I think.
13:08
[laughs] Well, good for you 'cause I would say the, uh, the, the Pistons-Knicks game just made it even murkier for me- Yeah... where I'm like, okay, during the break I kept saying Knicks, kept saying Knicks.
13:16
And you're like, I got so frustrated during that game with them. I'm like, you know what? I don't trust any of these teams- Mm-hmm... in the Eastern Conference right now.
13:23
Like, yes, I think there's a tier above the rest, but I don't trust any of them to go win an NBA championship right now. And what's going on in the Western Conference? I don't trust anybody right now out there either.
13:31
So guess what? Down the stretch, these teams can prove a lot to me. All right, now joining us here on the program, Jonathan Davis.
13:39
You can find him, of course, over, not only over at vsin.com, but also host of The Ice Cap over on Sirius XM, @WestCoastHKY over there on the, uh, Twitter machine. Uh, have any... Did you add new things to the...
13:51
Is it now West Coast Hockey NHL? Uh, uh, what have you, what have you done to your... What have you done to this thing?
13:55
I had to add NHL because I got hacked, and I was trying to keep it simple, a little s- you know, so people would be easier to find me. But yeah, it's West Coast Hockey, hockey, HKY- Oh... NHL. Oh, that sucks, Jonathan.
14:08
Okay. I'm sorry, man. So we're gonna- Yeah... I'm gonna spend- Yeah... I just wanna let you know, JD, I'm gonna spend the next- Yeah...
14:13
two hours and 45 minutes that I'm in here finding you a new Twitter handle, just like I tried to do with a friend of ours here at the network, Nick Whalen.
14:21
He has a h- he has a horrible handle as wh- It's W-H-A and then he, he can't use the L, so he uses a one. Right. And then it's... He, he has to- Yes... explain it every single time that he does it.
14:30
And so I go in and I look, and I go, certainly Nick Whalen's not, like, a normal name. So I'm like, I'm like, could he just be Nick Whalen? I go in and look.
14:37
There was a guy who registered Nick Whalen way back, 15 years ago. He tweeted for a week about how much he hated his job and his boss and then has not tweeted since.
14:46
So literally came in every single day and talked about how much he hated his life and how much he hated his job, and then he's never tweeted again, 15 years later.
14:52
I'm gonna guess there's a few more Jonathan Davises out there though. [laughs] Yes, but I mean, we might can get creative. We might be able to get creative. We can get creative on all of this.
14:59
Uh, JD, before we get going, what did you think about the, uh, women's final? I mean, it was, it was entertaining. Mm-hmm. I'm just not big into women's hockey. Mm-hmm.
15:08
Like, I, I don't, I don't, I don't wanna be rude, you know, but it's just not... It, it was a good game. Let, let, let's leave it at that. A good game, great finish. Uh, but, you know, women's hockey, it's no mystery.
15:19
It's always gonna be Canada and the US, and, and that's it. Mm-hmm. And then we'll figure out who wins. [laughs] I like it, I like it. All right, JD, let's switch over to today. We've got the men's games going on here.
15:29
I, I'll let you start wherever you want to 'cause I know you got a mill- a million bets between, uh, the couple games that we're looking at here today. Uh, you wanna start with, uh, Finland, Canada? Sure.
15:39
I mean, let, let's start there. I mean, the big news for Canada, uh, is Sidney Crosby, their captain, won't play. Uh, so, you know, the... [sighs] Look, there, there's still, there's still a wealth of talent with Canada.
15:51
Uh, and, and I'm trying... You know, I was trying to find the best ways to attack it. So for me, you know, when not wanting to lay the juice, uh, I, I took a couple of different approaches.
16:00
One was Connor McDavid to register a shot on goal in every period and Canada to win the game, and you get that at plus money.
16:09
And then I took Canada on the money line, and I took Slovakia, who's playing the USA, plus three and a half goals, that's an alt line, and I got plus money.
16:18
So those were a couple of ways that I took the, the sides and found a way to get some plus money. And you have a decent amount of goal bets and shot bets and things like that, so let's just start with your favorite one.
16:32
As you were doing your research and you were going through, what was the very first one you put in your account? Mackenzie Celebrini from Canada to score a goal.
16:40
Um, you know, the youngest [laughs] NHL player in the tournament. [laughs] Second in, in, uh, in, in, in, uh, points, uh, for Canada. But you get him at plus money, I, I had to grab it. Uh, that one for me was great.
16:53
And then a couple of late ones that I added. Because, uh, of the injury to Sidney Crosby, you know, just a couple of pizza money bets, but the two new...
17:00
There are two guys that, for Canada, that have moved up in the lineup and they're on the second line, and that's Bo Horvat, um, and Seth Jarvis.
17:09
And you can get Horvat at plus 500 to score a goal, and you can get Jarvis at plus 550. That's just incredible value for two players that are playing way up in the lineup.
17:20
Feel like, what was the name of our NASCAR driver? I feel like it's just the same thing. It's, uh, S- Sy- Or- Orvath. It was, uh, almost like that. Oh, Hor- Yeah. Hor- So it was- Horse, Horsevath. It was close.
17:29
[laughs] Horsevath. Horsevath. It was close to that. Yeah, yeah, Horsevath. Still haven't gotten over that one, uh- [laughs]... uh, yeah, Jonathan, obviously.
17:34
And, and I'm just seeing right now it b- blink on my screen, Canada up to minus 440 on the money line, plus 340. Uh, Finland, five and a half your total for that game. You can lay two and a half at 114 with Canada.
17:47
Okay, f- flipping over, Slovakia, USA. This game starts in about five hours from now. I know the whole country's gonna be locked in. Uh, break down this one for us, Jonathan. What's your favorite bet in the game?
18:00
Favorite bet in the game, I, I actually like both teams to go over their shots on goal total. You can get the USA at 40 and a half, and you can get Slovakia at 22 and a half. Um, and, and I just...
18:13
You know, I'm looking at the numbers. Both those teams have, have crushed it. So tho- tho- those would be two of my favorite plays, along with Slovakia over their team total of one and a half goals.
18:23
They scored three goals in every game. Now I know, look, Connor Hellebuyck from, uh, has only given up four goals in the tournament, but I, I, I just, I like the Slovakia team. I think they surprise the US.
18:35
Not n- not beat the US, but surprise them. So you're getting over one and a half at minus 110. I think that's tremendous value. JD, when we look at these two games, you've got Canada minus 440 on the money line.
18:47
You got US minus 800 on the money line. I'm sure the odds would tell us which one is more likely to get upset, but in your opinion, is, uh, what is the fighting chance for Finland or Slovakia on the money line?
19:00
If somebody wants a lottery ticket here today. Uh, I, I think they're, I think they're both live. I, I would say Finland probably a little more than Slovakia. I mean, the, the Finns just...
19:11
They're, they're that team that just, uh, they won't go away. They're like a little gnat. They're, they are, they're so pesky. Uh, they're gonna make life tough for Canada, for sure.
19:21
Uh, they've got a lot of skill, a lot of skill. Uh, you know, a number of NHL players on this roster, so I could see it.
19:27
And plus, you know, like I said, Sidney Crosby's out, Nathan MacKinnon is dealing with an injury, uh, so I think that Canada may be a little more vulnerable. I would even look at both games to go to overtime.
19:39
I mean, we've [laughs] you know, the last three men's games, and the women's game went to a draw.
19:43
You can get, I think, overtime, game to go to overtime is, like, plus 650 in the Canada game and about plus 550 in the USA game. Again, pizza money bets, but you know, it, it's worth a shot, uh, for both of those.
19:58
Yeah, I think ve- pre- pretty notable to me, Matt, just he- hearing, talking to Jake and J- uh, Jonathan here over the, over these past few days.
20:04
The, the Slovakia, they, they just ge- kind of getting the bets, and I- Mm... you know, we've betting USA out there.
20:09
I'm gonna be watching this, 'cause Slovakia's made things close, uh, here re- recently this week, and tough team that they've proven to be so far. Uh, okay, so who wins it all, Jonathan?
20:19
Uh, USA gonna bring home another gold? Is my gold medal bet, uh, not dead yet? It's not dead. Look, uh, look, y- you see I'm wearing the Canadian jersey. Uh, I have Canada in pocket at plus 110 to win gold.
20:33
Uh, I, I'm, I'm going to stick with it. But I mean, look, flip a coin. I mean, there, there, there's, there's no bad bet if you took either Canada or the US to win gold. They are the two best teams.
20:46
It's just, uh, you know, it, it, it's where, I guess r- really where, where your heart lies at the end of the day.
20:52
Jonathan, once we get back into action over in the NHL, there's only four teams that are shorter than 10 to one to win it all.
20:57
The Avalanche are plus 350, the Lightning four to one, four and a half on the Hurricanes, and eight to one on the Golden Knights. Everybody else, 12 to one or longer. Do you agree with that?
21:06
Do you think it comes from one of those four teams, or do you like one of these teams with a little bit bigger number attached to their name? I, I, I wouldn't... Yeah, I do like those four teams.
21:17
Uh, I think Tampa, to me, like I, I would even bet... You know, I would like Tampa just even to win the, their conference. Mm.
21:23
I think that's another way you could approach the Lightning, 'cause I think they ultimately, to me, they are gonna be, they are the best team in the East, and I think they're gonna get stronger at the trade deadline.
21:32
They've got the best coach in the NHL. Uh, they're gonna get he- they'll get healthier down the stretch.
21:37
So for me, even if you don't like T- I- i- if you don't wanna make a Cup bet, uh, I think conference bet is a really good one with Tampa. He is Jonathan Davis.
21:46
Of course, you can find him right here on the network, over on vsin.com, also Ice Cap on SiriusXM, @WestCoastHKLMNOPQRSTUVNHL over on the Twitter machine, if you wanna follow him over there- [laughs]... as well.
21:58
JD, appreciate the time, man, and good luck. Thanks, guys. Have a great rest of your day. Oh, these people with their... See, see, listen, I, I know the perils of the Twitter handle. Don't look at me like that.
22:09
I'm, my name is Matt Brown. There are- No, I know... 700,000 Matt Browns. Like, I had to get, and I just added- And everybody's doing- But I just added two little things at the end, right?
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Because it's still, it's just easy, but I'll get to MattBrownM2, you know?
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It cracks me up how, how frustrated you get over this, just because, just, like, not, like, like, Waylon with a one i- is just as easy to explain as MattBrownM2. No, it's not.
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Waylon with a one could mean, like, Waylon and then a one at the end, or Waylon... What you... So no, seriously, like, you, you ha- no, you have to explain it.
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It's Waylon, but the L is a one instead and whatever and all... Like, no, it's not. Eh. It's not the same at all.
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Well, just, uh, make sure to hit him up on Twitter, @MattBrownM2, and he will solve any of your social media problems.
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Yeah, I mean, listen, Kelly Bedman, I'm here, I'm just thinking about how many more- How do you, how do I go by?... how many more followers could JD and, and Waylon have if they j- if they had easy-to-find Twitter?
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It, well, you know what? I've got, my, mine's, uh, mine's my full name. I don't know that that's helping me, 'cause you know how often I'm like, "Hey, I'd love to follow you on..."
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I get a, "Hey, I'd love to follow you on Twitter, but I have no idea how to spell your name." I mean, it's better than whatever you had before. VSINKelly? Yeah, something like that. [laughs] Something like that.
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I, I, I love our listeners so much. You never know what's really gonna hit home. Actually, I do. I know when I make a hot food take or drink take, I know we're gonna get a lot of, uh, tweets.
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It's never about sports betting, you know what I mean? Yeah. Get flooded if you have a hot food take, but I don't know if I was expec- expecting Twitter handle controversy to really fire people up. Yeah.
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Well, I mean, listen, here's the thing. The, I, I think that the easier you are to find, the more simple it is, the better.
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And the only reason that I am MattBrownM2 is because I had to add something, obviously, to the end because there's a million Matt Browns, and M2- I had this company, my very first company was called M2 Concepts back in the day Okay, so there you go.
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I needed that explanation last, uh- Yeah... segment But like back, back in the day, whenever I was basically, like, getting... It n- it's neither here nor there.
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See, it's neither here nor there as to where, you know, the, the, the, the poker and, and sports betting money was going. [laughs] It's neither here nor there. But the point is is my first company was M2 Concepts.
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Oh, man. And so that was like, and so I just added M2 at the, at the end of that. I like that [laughs] I like- Yeah... Chris Heath, uh, checking in here. He's like, "You know about the," it was like the 13th Chris Heath.
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I like that he goes the, "Do you recommend M2? It sounds like it's a sequel." [laughs] Yeah. Basically is. Actually, that's basically what Matt just explained. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Yeah, it kind of is.
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And then I got, I got one from, uh, @NGD107_. Speaking of Twitter ha- handles. Mm. How about Stormy's? That one's tough. No, well, I have... We- I've had this conversation with her- Yeah...
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because no one can spell her last name. I'm like- It's tough... I'm like- I, I'm living that same thing... I was like, "You could be Stormy B something, whatever."
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You know, like, you know, Stormy B Betts or something, or Sto- whatever, or some- you know, any s- any something along those lines because- So, so just to recap, like six years ago- 'Cause Vaughn Tony is, like, very tough to spell It's very tough.
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Yeah. But like six years ago, Matt Brown did figure out that somehow @KellyBidling did become available again. Yeah. So I was like, "Oh, great, I'll do that." But do you know how many times I've gotten that, too?
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I hop on and do, like, radio guest spots or something- You nailed it... and they'll be like, "Hey, Kelly, spell your full name again because people are, uh, trying to follow you that can't."
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I'm like, "Yeah, it makes sense." Yeah, well- 'Cause I don't have normal spelling Kelly or Bidling.
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Well, there's no normal spelling Bidling That said, with the, with the, the power of the internet now, if somebody just, if somebody put in any version of Kelly Bidling- You would think so... you would come up.
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So we did have a ton more NBA news to get to. From last night, Kelly Bidling, Wizards beat the Pacers 112-105 in the somebody's gotta win a, a game- Yep... a game of the night. Somebody had to win, so- The, uh-...
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the Wizards decided to win. By the way, I'm, I'm, I'm all for having any conversation about the eight...
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Like, I think it's interesting 'cause I think all these tanking teams are different situations, and how do you bet against them? There's a lot of conversations to be had.
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You know how my handicapping process goes when I see a game like that on the board? Uh, cross off- [laughs]... and on to the next one, Matt Brown. Both teams are trying to lose.
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Yeah, it's like how do you- I don't want to... figure out, yeah, who, how do you, how do you figure out who tries to lose the best? [laughs] Exactly. Is basically what, what it comes down to.
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Raptors beat, uh, win and cover, 110-101 over the Bulls. Brandon Ingram with a game. How about 31 points, eight boards, and six assists for him? Yeah, I w- As this Raptors team rolls on...
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watched a lot, a lot of this game. I've got some Raptors to over win total bets I'll be rooting on here the rest of the season.
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I really don't think this team, even if those hit, don't think it's a true threat, uh, in the East. And you know what? Chicago Bulls I thought were a little impressive last night. Mm-hmm.
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Just plucky keeping that close, really just able to get that cover in the final couple minutes, uh, of the game where the Raptors...
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Um, and Bulls, look, this is [laughs] basically, we talked about it the other day, basically a whole new team. Mm.
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So, you know, if you, if you were looking for a 31st NBA team to watch, the new version of the Chicago Bull, the Chicago Bulls M2- Yeah, they're-... you gotta check out. Yeah...
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Spurs cover the eight and a half in a 121-94 win over the Suns in that one. The Spurs had a 27-point lead entering the fourth quarter. Every person on the team played at [laughs] least 10 minutes in the game.
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Literally every single person on the team played at least 10 minutes in the game. Wemby had 17 points, 11 boards, four assists, and five blocks. He only had to play 25 minutes in this one.
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But, uh, I guess the bigger news outside of the Spurs winning a game in which they were big favorites is that Devin Booker only played nine minutes in the game before he left with a right hip soreness injury.
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He did not return, so something we'll be monitoring. Yeah, absolutely. That was, uh, that's a brutal loss for a team.
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And, and man, if, I, I don't wanna speak through my bets, but yeah, you go, go put that ought bet in a couple weeks ago for him to win Coach of the Year. Booker missing time is not gonna be good.
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And it, look, this has still been the most impressive team to me in the NBA this season of just where I had them- Mm...
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preseason expectations to what they're doing, 32 and 24 on the season, seven seed in the we- in the West.
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Just a shame to see if w- if Booker's gonna miss some time here and, uh, what, what they're gonna have to do getting to the finish line of the season.
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Yeah, and so I mean, all this, uh, all this said, you know, we just talked about the Cunningham performance, what Wemby gets done in just 25 minutes in this one and all of that. I texted Kelly last night.
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The news came through about, uh, SGA and, you know, the reevaluation in a week. And, you know, we've been kinda making the case anyway over the last two weeks, and so it did just push me over the edge.
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I threw in a Cade Cunningham bet, I threw in a Wemby bet, and then fortunately, Cunningham goes out [laughs] and has a massive- Yeah... game the way that he did.
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Wemby's odds didn't move all that much, um, but did move at least a little bit, so have 13 on Cunningham and 33 on Wemby.
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Now, if SGA c- does come back in, at, you know, in that week, if they evaluate him in a week and he comes back and plays like he did, I mean, whatever, they're gonna lose, but maybe he misses another week.
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And I think if he misses one more week, then both are not only live, I think both maybe even move into favorites because there are gonna be voters that hold it against SGA that he missed so much time. Yeah.
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It's, um, this is gonna be an interesting race down the stretch, and I think when you're talking about betting it, it just all depends on what bets you've made so far and if you've made- Mm... any bets so far, right?
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'Cause I think there is the way... If you haven't made any bets, I think you could approach it like you could have approached it like Matt Brown did- I, I've said it though since, since he first got hurt.
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There's a possibility that these numbers do... This number crashes enough with SGA that there does become some value back on him- Oh, absolutely... whenever he, you know, when he comes back to returning. Mm-hmm.
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Especially when you're going so many of these cases, right, is are they gonna play enough games? Jokic, Wemby, Yama maybe most, uh, most importantly there. So that, like, that...
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There is that reality, Phil, if you're out there. And two, and the other thing about last night just, uh- Yeah... about these odds moves.
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So this was not on the, the news because this didn't move until after Cade Cunningham had his big game. Oh, it was the Cade game, yeah.
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So, so, so basically what we're getting at here is we know we're not gonna see SGA for another week, right? All we need is another big Jokic performance. We need a big Cade Cunningham performance.
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When, when, when Victor takes the... When Wemby, Yama takes the court again, go whatever. You might get plus money by the time we see SGA again. Yes. Right, right. Because the...
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It's not off the new- This was not moved off the news. This was moved just off what's people saw with their eyes and ran in and made the bet because these guys had big games.
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So if you want some, a p- a piece of SGA, you just need to root for Jokic a- and Cunningham and, and Luka and Wemby to have big games over the next week.
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But we know we're not gonna see SGA, and you're gonna get b- you're, you're gonna get better odds on him. Yeah. The, uh...
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You know the one guy who, look, all the numbers say he should be in this except for, except for where they're at in the standings, but I just don't believe he really stands a chance this year, is Luka. Hmm.
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Like, unless this Lakers team makes a real big surge up to a three seed- Hmm... or something like that in the Western Conference, I, I just don't...
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I think there's gonna be better cases, assuming these guys get to the finish line with the minimum number of game requirements. Uh, it all depends on what you bet, right? So I have...
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I had a silly small Cade bet at 100 to one from early in the season. It's 100 to one though. Hmm. It doesn't matter if it's small or not. It's still 100 to one.
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I'm loaded up on Jokic from early in the season at about five to one.
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So, uh, with your ads last night, yeah, I'm sitting there, 'cause I bet Wemby, like, two weeks ago for Defensive Player of the Year, two or three weeks ago- Hmm... at minus 105. Just caught it- Yeah...
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thankfully right at the right time it looks like, assuming he gets to the finish line. But man, if I'm already gambling there, I, I'm considering doing the same thing you did at adding him in this 30 to one range.
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Uh, 'cause look, if this Spurs team keeps winning, he clears the bench, right? He's absolutely in this conversation.
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And, and, and, and SGA, the, whatever, maybe they add one more week to his timeline, and next thing you know, we look up and the Spurs have caught- Right... the Thunder or something. 'Cause if I've got, if I've got
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Cade 100 to one, Jokic five to one- Yeah... Wemby 30 to one, and basically- Then you're... Yeah... I think I'm just saying- Yep... give me the field- Yep... versus SGA.
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Yep, yep, yep, which is basically what you have done. Celtics cover all numbers against the Warriors. Uh, 121, 110. Jaylen Brown 23 points, 15 rebounds, 13 assists there in that one. Draymond Green, donut.
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Zero points for Draymond Green there in that one. Porzingis did play. He only played 17 minutes. We were wondering how much he would play in this game, Kelly. Uh, only played 17 minutes.
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He did score 12 points in that 17 minutes. Mm-hmm. But, uh, only played 17 minutes for them. And as we said at the top of the show, the outlook for the Warriors does not look great. No, it does not at all.
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Celtics, uh, I- I think even wa- you know, watching that Pistons-Knicks game last night, and they're watching some of this, man, it's the...
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I really think the Eastern Conference is gonna come down to Jayson Tatum's, Jayson Tatum, and I have... It's impossible to predict what you're gonna get out of him, right? Yeah. Like, it's just impossible.
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I, I think he's gonna be back, but how? At what level? A- and I have no idea. And the Magic absolutely dismantled the Kings, 131 to 94. Yeah. We knew that was gonna happen.
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The Kings hadn't won, like- They love to lose... in about six months. And everybody's getting surgery. Yeah. Ben Caron did have 30 points and six assists though. So we will, we will give our flowers to him.
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Yeah, good to see him have a big game. Yeah, we'll give our flowers to him there in that game. We'll take a look at these guys are out on the golf course, see what's going on out there, and some more baseball talk.
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Numbers game here on VSiN. Matt Kelly. Got a all-American semifinal over there in Dubai, women's tennis. Nesmova and Pegula going at it. Okay. Pegula now up 4-1 in the third set.
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Loses the first one 6-1, rallies back 6-4 in the second, now up 4-1 here in the third. Well, let's go Jessie. She needs that paycheck. She's, she's, yes. [laughs] You know? I'm always concerned for her.
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Obviously- Yeah... obviously no trust fund at all- Nah, no... for her. She needs, she needs to save every dollar she can. Mm-hmm. Every win is important. Yes. No, no trust fund for her, for sure.
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Hopefully, hopefully she can scrape by after, uh, this semifinal win, if she can, if she can hold.
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You know what my favorite part of my same Pegula joke is every time now, Matt, is that I hope that there's one guy out there who's driving around and he's like, "Kelly needs new material with Jessica Pegula."
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Or the people that driving around and don't know her backstory and just going like- Or that. [laughs]... "Oh, man, is she, is she really having a struggle?" No, that, that I hope happens. Yeah.
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Yeah, like, like they're just g- they're going like, "Oh, man, is she having a struggle? Like, I, I am rooting for her. Like, you know, let's, let's get her some money."
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If I, if I've gotten anybody to Google, uh, Jessica Pegula because of that to check out and they go, "Oh, God, I get it now," like, they, yes, I've, I've won. She rich basically is where we're going with that.
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She got money. She rich. Parents rich. Her- Everybody rich. Her family owns, uh, Canada and New York. Uh, that's what I heard. I mean, basically. [laughs] Basically. Pretty much.
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So we, I've said we, uh, we had to finish out the people that did not finish yesterday over there at, uh, at Riviera. And so with that, they're back out there. The conditions obviously much... You know, it's cold. Yeah.
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It's cold here. We, I woke up to 31 degrees. It's freezing, man. I got this on. I got a full jacket I brought in today. 31 degrees- Yeah... I woke up to, which is unacceptable.
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By, by the end of next week though, we're back up into the 70s. It's nutty. I already looked. It's g- it's a crazy week, Fred Courier. Crazy out here. Yeah. We are, we are back up- Stay in Buffalo...
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into the 70s, so I feel okay with that. But we do look and see, uh, the, of the guys that got done, um, you know, we got some 5-unders in the house.
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Marco Pinge is sitting right now 5 under through 12, and these conditions right now These are scoring conditions for these guys. We'll see what it looks like over the weekend.
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It doesn't look like it's going to rain anymore. It looks like it's going to clear up, so we should see firmer and faster conditions. But right now, Kelly, I mean, they might be able to,
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to kind of just fire at these pins, which is something we did not at all foresee because these are some of the hardest greens to hold.
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They are firm and fast, and all, and some of them slant away from you, and all the different things that we hate about greens.
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But when they are absolutely water-logged, just completely soaked, then any- these guys are, again, the, they're the best golfers in the world. They can just fire at these pins left and right, as we saw yesterday.
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Adam Scott, if you did not watch this yesterday, please go to the Twitter machine and see. Adam Scott fired at a par three, and it lands two inches from the hole and just plugs into the green.
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Like full on- It was nutty, yeah... full on half the ball is plugged into the green. Yeah. It was, uh, it was cra- it was crazy. But the, you know the one I'm looking at right now, so- Uh-huh...
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first round leader, 'cause you're right. Like, these are gonna be very, I, I think very scoreable conditions. Mm-hmm. For these guys that are left- Yeah... playing their first round.
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Okay, Marco Penge +125, Harold Varje +360- What's the woo? It... Exactly what I asked myself, Matt. 31 to 1? I mean- He's got, what, five holes left? Four holes left. Four holes left, okay.
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So he would have to at least birdie two of them. One of them is a par five. Um, interesting with the woo. Uh, let's look at how this course, the course stats from yesterday real quick.
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I guess it really, it, it really depends on what you think. Okay. Where, where's Penge gonna finish at is the problem. So I can tell you this, um, 17,
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so 16, while it did play over par, it's one of the least ones that played over par. And then- Al- also, uh, Si Woo Kim is the woo we're talking about. Yes.
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We, if, if anyone's li- listened to Long, he, we call it, he's the woo. We call him, we call him the woo. Can't assume everybody's listening- He, he, yeah, I know... to Long shots though- He's the woo...
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and Min Woo Lee's on the leaderboard- That's true... here, I was just realizing He's, he's, he's the, he's the woo. Yes. Yes, he is the woo. We would just say Min Woo if it was Min Woo. That's Min Woo, yeah.
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The woo is, is Si Woo. Never- I thought I found something here with first round leader, but the problem is with Penge, I think you're either betting Penge or you're not betting this at all.
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C- 'cause w- y- otherwise, w- if Penge is finishing six, seven under, these other guys are running out of holes to catch him, right? Mm-hmm.
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And you're, i- i- even if Si Woo, like if you want to make a Si Woo Kim bet right now, you, you probably need to assume you're getting dead heated at best. Yeah. That's true.
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Unless you play, unless you, uh, play it at a ties pay in full place. Does anybody do that for first round leader? Yeah. Or they dead heat everything at first round leader? No. Okay. No. Um, okay.
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So we are, again, we're... Scottie's out on the course. He did at least pick up one, but that's not any- He's back. Yeah, no. [laughs] I mean, he did at least pick up a stroke. He's no longer dead last.
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That- Oh, two, two. He just got another birdie. Oh, he did? Yeah. Okay, then he picked up two strokes out here. Um, he's no longer dead last.
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That now belongs to Garrick Higgo and Keegan Bradley, who finished their rounds at five over. And Russell Henley has a chance to catch them. Yes. Russell Henley could catch them. Man, a lot of names.
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Yeah, Rose, Scheffler, Henley. I was gonna say having- Jeez... having J.J. Spaun, who has really started rough to the season- Yeah... like having a real tough go at it.
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So it is, uh, the course, certainly the weather played a ton of c- t- ton yesterday. But like we said, Scottie's now out there at, oh my gosh, he's got, he has four holes left. He could finish it even.
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I, I mean, this is, w- w- when you hear moving day, like this might be moving day for this tournament, right? This littl- He, he could finish it even... right, this little window. Yeah.
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Like thi- this could swing w- the leaderboard for the entire tournament huge, right? I think these are- Sure... very scoreable conditions these guys are getting right now.
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You brought it up, I don't know if I feel the, exactly the same that this is gonna get w- much tougher later or it's gonna get tougher when this dries out.
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Uh, but if it does, right, whoever's able to put, put up the lowest score and finish this first round with the lowest score, uh, big time advantage. It's just unbelievable. Schauffele's two under.
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We'll keep you up- Yeah, keep going. Keep going, Xander. I need that big time. Yeah, you got him. Sorry. One of my few outri- yeah, one of my few outrights. I will keep you updated here over the next- Mm-hmm...
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uh, over the next couple hours on that one.
40:53
But wanted to take a quick look at the AL Central, a very, very interesting division, mainly because you have two teams that people are in love with in the Tigers and the Royals.
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Right now, the Tigers are your favorite at plus 120 to win that division, plus 225 on the Royals, plus 330 on the Guardians, and then the Twins and White Sox are way out there at nine to one and 40 to one.
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I do not like the Twins. I do not like the White Sox. I think that both of those teams have zero chance of winning this division, though.
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I think the White Sox maybe have a chance of going over that super, super incredibly low win total of 66 and a half.
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There is at least a little bit of talent, and they have a, they have some guys in the farm system that will eventually get called up, and if they can come up and have any sort of production.
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So I, I don't, I don't hate them as much as like, oh, they're gonna go under 66 and a half wins. Yeah, man. But- I'm excited for White Sox fans. It ju- Good...
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it feels like the first year, year in a few where people like there's actually something to be a little excited about. Yeah, there's something on the, there's so, there's- Yeah...
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there- there's something coming down the line. It's just not here yet. Not here yet. You know?
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So, uh, but with the Tigers, we do know that it is here for them, and this is gonna be pretty big for them because, you know, listen, if you don't come out of the gate, Kelly, doing what you,
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what you're supposed to do, which again is win this division, you're plus 120, then the whole Scoobal trade talks heat up again. Mm-hmm. Right?
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Because you've got this guy that you had to go to arbitration with 'cause you didn't want to give the contract right out of the bat and all this stuff, and yada, yada, yada, and then if you find yourself not in the playoff picture,
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then does it make more sense to move him? Does it, whatever. So I mean, tho- those are all gonna come into play here. Uh, but this lineup, it's got a couple of dudes that gotta prove it.
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But outside of that, it's pretty solid. I don't, I don't hate this team. And again, I made the bet on them as soon as they made the Framber Valdez signing. Uh, I, I made a bet on them to win this division.
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I thought that was enough to push them ahead Of where the royals are, but I do think this is a two-team deal. I know there's some love out there for the Guardians. I can't get there with that team.
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I don't really like the rotation. I don't really like the fact that outside of Jose Ramirez, you don't really have a, a ton of proven bats in that lineup. And so I think it is between the Royals and the Tigers.
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If you wanna make a case for the Royals, I think you can go down and you can say, "Okay, well, you got Bobby Witt Jr.
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who might be the third or fourth best player in all of Major League Baseball, Pasquantino, Salvador Perez been doing it for a very long time.
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Jack Cag Leone, we'll talk about him a little bit later whenever we talk about some under the radar hitters for, for fantasy baseball.
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There, there are, uh, Is- they traded for, uh, they traded for Isiah Collins, a guy that was starting there for Milwaukee for a while, has certainly has some upside. So I think that lineup has a decent amount of upside.
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And if Cole Ragans can come back from injury and be Cole Ragans and Bubic can come back and be Bubic, again, two different guys coming back from, from injury. Noah Cameron can do at least 80% of what he did last year.
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You got three really good guys in that rotation, and then you need Walk and Lugo just to not be, uh, just to not be terrible.
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So I, I, I still like the Tigers, but if you wanted to play the Royals and say that you think that the, uh, that the Tigers dudes that are unproven aren't gonna get it done, Kelly Biblon- Yeah...
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then I would be like, "Okay, that's fine." I mean, the odds, they're at 225, like double the odds for the Royals. I, I'm never gonna talk anybody off of that. Yeah.
44:02
The, uh, division as a whole, Joe sounded like he was a bit down on yesterday. You kind of view it, view it the same way. Any, any real true threats, uh, World Series there or anything like that coming out of here? Yeah.
44:12
Not, not, not really. I, I like this division overall. I think it's a fun division to, to, to monitor- Mm-hmm... for sure, and a fun division to bet on from a division standpoint, but that's kinda where I'm gonna end it.
44:22
What, what do you think ends up happening with School? 'Cause like you just brought up that trade situation and- It really, it really depends on if Detroit is going to full fledge take that next step.
44:34
And if they do, then they get, they have to sign him to a long-term deal, and then you have two frontline starters and you kinda just go from there. If- O- otherwise, doesn't the trade thing make a ton of sense? Yeah.
44:42
And if not- Okay... yeah. And then if not, he'll get traded for the, you know, seven prospect- You know, I mean, I can't even imagine what he would bring. He would probably bring seven guys, six or seven guys. Yeah.
44:53
You know? Yep. Something like that. They'd be all, they'd be all prospects. So you're all, you're betting on the come- Mm...
44:58
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