A Numbers Game | February 20, 2026 | Hour 1

0:00The numbers told the story to Alex now. Swandals idiots who believe in athletics. This is a numbers game with Gill Abixander gone. He's sent. Friday, addition of a numbers game here on B.C. Knee Sports betting network, Matt Brown, and one more day for Gill Abixander. Don't worry, back in on Monday. I see him between. He's been between this morning. So he, uh, I think he's working his way back into civilization. Only three more hours of me. So rejoice. Hey, Matt Brown. You've got Kelly Bidlin here on the desk with me. It's all an amazing job. Thank you for filling in the past two weeks. You make it fun, easy. It's like talking to one of my best friends about sports. Oh, well, look at that. It's almost as if that is the case. Yeah. Guys, we have a great show today. As always, we're going to sit here and talk. Well, how many? How many have been voice Jonathan Davis has? I'm talking. I'm going to go. Baker's doesn't. Okay. We're going to say Baker's doesn't. A different best for Jonathan Davis. So you're definitely going to want to stick around for that. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You'll find something you like that you can throw into your account for sure.

1:00Chris Felica is going to join us a little bit later as well. We might hit three different sports with him. All right. Well, I love Felica. Maybe four days because yes, it is spray the board. He's got thoughts all over the place. We'll talk in a felt draft. I know he's got an MLB season long bet for you. I think that you'll might find interesting. Like soccer. And then a premier league bet. Yeah. And he's in on it. Well, he's in on a team that I'm already. So I like that. Yeah. That's right. You can have that look on your face. No, it's just trying to think of where that was going. But okay. All right. I almost just said it. But I got probably shouldn't rule. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I don't want to tease it. And then Matt Grisson will join us a little bit later for some college baseball as we have started. College baseball season in earnest now. So everybody out there and. Yeah. LSU rocking a roll. And I can't wait to ask him about it. I was going to say Matt might have also unintentionally put together a perfect in numbers game parlay today. Yeah. I was like. No, he didn't. There's one more leg. We got to add to it, though, which is obviously USA hockey that we just got to throw in there.

2:02Then it is the numbers game. Matt and Kelly. The Matt finale. Parlay. Absolutely. Beautiful. Yesterday, the Genesis was postponed due to all of the weather. Of course, we were on as the weather began and then it got really, really bad out there. We actually felt we knew it was coming here. We actually got it here as well. And so with that, they're going to 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, 50 ties and then anyone within 10. And maybe for the only time this entire season, we will say we start this morning with Scotty Sheffler in dead last place. It is. It's incredible. It was incredible to watch yesterday. It's been incredible to watch the next few weeks. And I can bet this is the fact that this is just going to continue now to be a storyline every. I don't that was the biggest thing to me yesterday. It's like this Scotty Sheffler first round thing is going to be something we're talking about now for the next six, eight, 10, 12 weeks.

3:04I do not know what's going on. I mean, we talk about how mental of a game that golf is anyway, but the fact that he has now for the third consecutive tournament gone out and played basically as bad as he can play in just the first round. 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. The only which very well might happen because, by the way, he got the worst of it yesterday. Yes, he did. He did. From the weather. Absolutely did. I think the one thing for me though, do you remember seeing him as frustrated the last couple weeks as he was yesterday? I don't. 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 than in the past weeks. I also feel a little bit better. I have a bet on Scotty Sheffler. Obviously that's looking like I will not have an outright winner this week at all. Feel a little bit better. The how many text messages I got yesterday, Matt, because you and I are in the same boat of the man.

4:04Wrong tournament to go with Scotty Sheffler one and done great. Yeah, 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's still alive. The other one I got texted a million times yesterday was the who was the miss cut? No, brought on Scotty. Like I don't know. I don't think every book posted it, but like I guarantee you there is one out there. Oh, yeah, it had been God bless you. If you're like the one human being on the planet, that actually bet that. Yeah, if you have that good on good on you, because that is certainly not something we saw coming here in this one. So over in the NBA, Adam Silver informed the leaks 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, you go for draft picks can be protected only for top four or top 14 plus selection lottery odds. Freeze at the trade deadline. Come on. Oh, can you do this one by one? We'll do the immediate reaction. Yes, okay. First round draft picks can be protected top four top 14 milk. Okay, fine, fine lottery odds.

5:06Freeze the trade deadline. Yeah, it's easy. People have brought this one up the whole time. Teams will just lose earlier in the season. It makes the season, no, it makes the season worse. It makes the season worse. It makes the season worse because then they just start tanking basically out of the gate. Yep. And you do not want that. Okay, so let's get rid of no longer allowing a team to pick in the top four in consecutive years. And or after a consecutive bottom three finishes, this is actually something we floated here on the on the show, which actually, so if I floated it, I'm going to say yes. I like this one. This is good. I'm okay with this one. Again, we're talking about things that we might be okay with. They're not going to fix the problem, right? But this one's fine. And, but you know why this one's in here, Matt, is simply because of like the Washington Wizards and the Utah Jazz in the Brooklyn Dets of the past few years, because 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. So if you're going to have teams act like that, I'm okay with 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

6:10play in teams, no, I mean, the play in one I may be fine with, but isn't this okay, the lottery to the two year record one? Isn't that kind of contradictory to the one right above it of the can't pick top four? Like you're, so you want to say we want to reward the team that's been consistently bad with one bullet point, but not with the other. I know this one's like these, I don't really love any flat nods for a large. I'm fine with that too. Okay, I'm fine with that. Like, okay, yeah, because we're going to get teams that tank anyway. So super tanking doesn't make it any better than just normal tanking. I'm at least okay with that. So the one in the it, but you know, one that is not shown on here, right? The only thing, the only thing that can actually in my opinion that I believe can have a true effect on curbing and tanking if what you're, if this is what you're really trying to do, it's shortening the season. And that's never, we got never going to happen because the owners lose money that way, right? So like that, that's one. And then like the other one that I'm the one that's been floated, Matt, that I'm the most open to.

7:13We've talked about this. I'm the most open to, but it's another one that's never going to happen because of NBA economics. It's just, it's the, okay, here's your salary cap. These kids, I mean, it's a disaster and call it's 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. But you got a cap that you got to worry about still. I kind of, I like that the best, but that's never going to happen because the small market teams are going to say now the big market teams even have more of an advantage. If we can't lose and get to the top of the draft and they're there at the draft, they're still going to attract big name free agents. Now everybody's a free agent. We're screwed. Yeah. It's just interesting stuff here again. I don't love any of them. 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 I would go about a thunder. You know, 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 the Twitter and compare it to a prop beddick scandal. Yeah. Mattish Beach.

8:13You just can't say yesterday. I know. I was like, nobody even asked you this. Like it's different if somebody asks you, ask you wishes worse, right? You just came out and said it like you did, no, like a prop beddick scandal is pretty bad too, man. Pretty bad. A bunch of NBA news here at Thunder are going to be without SGA and Jalen Williams for a while longer. SGA will be reevaluated in a week. Williams in two weeks. So Kelly Bidlin, a big shift here from what we were kind of thinking. Everything. Everyone just assumed SGA would be back very shortly after it's not saying he'll be back in a week. They're saying reevaluating 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. And so this is reevaluation in a week with him. There's two weeks for Williams. Yeah, huge and impacts a lot of betting markets, right? I think most notably we talked about this with MVP over the past week and a half. What would his status be and is this a time we're going to start seeing a shift and we should be making some bets. Oh, we'll get to that here in a second. Yeah, we've seen the shift and we've made some bets. So we'll get to that. Shams says that that Steph's going to be, he will be reevaluated in 10 days.

9:17So another week and a half at least for him, but that's again, that's just a reevaluation. Another good call by you. I think on the under on the wind total. Celtics were easy last night. It's really tough to take this warrior's team seriously with no staff. Yeah, it really is. Rockets win, don't cover the four and a half versus the Hornets. That was a 105 on a one game. But Kevin Durantch says, Hey, man, this old guy can still play 35 points. Eight boards, four system, three blocks for him and that one. Yeah, great game watched a lot of that. Look, Hornets were still plucky. They were still plugging down some guys and cover and cover. I got the cover, actually, which was a miracle. But yeah, Houston, Houston looking good last night in a win. Cavs win 112 to 84 over the net. The Cavs had 102 points after the third quarter kill. Yeah, they only struck 10 points in the fourth quarter. It was just the net shot 49 threes in the game. Just to let you know, like how yolo they went in this thing. 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 brain. Yeah, keep that in mind because I'm back on them tonight and going against the Hornets

10:21for basically that exact reason, right? Hawks one outright over the sixers. 117, 107, Jalen Johnson, 35 points, 10 boards, five assists, three steals. He did miss all five of his threes if you want to poke hold in the game there, Kelly. But I can still get him in the most improved player market there at two 10. Yeah, well, it's the, it's all about Denian is in the back, man. We'll talk a little bit of that too when we talk awards. But it, that's a fascinating market to me to watch down the stretch. And to pay off the T's here, the pistons beat the next 126 to 111. And Cade Cunningham goes 42 points, eight boards, 13 assists, a steal and two blocks. And with that down to plus five 50 at draft Kings for MVP, we have been talking about Cade Cunningham for two weeks since I've been sitting on this desk for Gil and kind of making the case for putting in a bet, especially if you were loaded up on SGA. 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 SGA, we don't know when SGA is going to be back. That's the biggest thing about this. Yep. And you don't know if Yokech is going to qualify, if Wendy's going to qualify, I real quick

11:24on that game, statement game by both teams last night, right? The pistons look prepared. They were down guys and they made the mix look like clowns and people like me, they keep trying to say this is the most talented team outies. They get out coach outskamed out effort, it looked like absolute clowns last night. Jalen Brunson did have 33.6 boards and eight assists in the loss. But again, that didn't get much done there as they lose by 15. Jonathan Davis on hockey when we come back. You're here because you want an edge. That's what separates listeners from winners, but let's be real mindset alone doesn't get bets home. Pro's win because they've got the tools, the data and the discipline. And now so can you be some programs you access to the same real time insights, the sharps use, no secrets, no fluff, just actionable info that moves markets, tap the link and see why serious betters are turning knowledge into profit with Vs in pro. A number's game on FESET, the sports betting network.

12:32It is the East and the sports betting network here on a Friday, Matt Brown, Kelly Bidlin and we will still more NBA stuff to get to, we'll get to that here in about 15 minutes. Took all one day of the NBA being back to fire me up. Yeah, there was a lot of action last night, a lot of big performance. There's a lot of terrible performances as well that we will talk about because, man, it is again, this is the sprint part. LeBron kind of said it right in his little interviews, like, okay, we've done the marathon part. Here's the sprint part and we're kind of starting to see the pieces fall in line. 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. Well, good for you because I would say the, the, the pistons, Nick's game just made it even mercier for me where I'm like, okay, during the break, I kept saying nicks, kept saying nicks. 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 in the Eastern Conference right now. Like, yes, I think there's a tear above the rest, but I don't trust any of them to go win an NBA championship right now and what's going on the Western Conference. I don't trust anybody right now out there either. So guess what?

13:32Down the stretch, these teams can prove a lot to me. All right. Now joining us here on the program, Jonathan Davis. You can find him, of course, over, not only over at visa.com, but also host the ice cap of Ron Sirius XM at West Coast HK Y over there on the Twitter machine. Have any, did you add new things to the, is now West Coast hockey in HL? What have you done? Do you? What have you done to this thing? I had to add NHL because I got hacked and I was trying to keep it simple little, you know, so people would be easier to find me. But yeah, it's West Coast hockey hockey, HKY and HL. Oh, that sucks. Okay. I'm sorry, man. So we're going to, I'm going to spend, I just want to let you know, JD. I'm going to spend the next two hours in 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. He has a, he has a horrible handle is what it's WHA and then he can't use the L. So he uses a one and then it's, he has to explain it every single time that he does it. And so I go in and I look and I go, certainly Nick Whalen's not like a normal name.

14:34So I'm like, I'm like, can he just be Nick Whalen? I go in and look. 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. 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. I'm going to guess there's a few more Jonathan Davis's. Yes. But I mean, we might get creative. We might be able to get creative on all of this. JD, before we get going, what did you think about the women's final? I mean, it was, it was entertaining. I'm just not big into women's hockey. I don't, I don't want to be rude, you know, but it's just not, it was a good game. But let's, let's leave it at that. Good game. Great finish. But you know, women's hockey. It's no mystery. It's always going to be Canada in the US and that's it and then we'll figure out who wins. 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. I'll let you start wherever you want to because I know you got a million, a million bets between the couple games that we're looking at here today.

15:36You want to start with Finland, Canada? Sure. I mean, let's start there. I mean, the big news for Canada is Cindy Crosby. They're captain won't play. So, you know, look, they're snowed, they're so wealthed out with Canada. And I'm trying, you know, I was trying to find best ways to attack it. So for me, you know, we're not wanting to lay the juice. I took a couple of different approaches. One was Conor McDavid to register a shot on goal in every period. Canada won the game and you get that at plus money. 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. So those were a couple of ways that I took 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. As you were doing your research and you were going through what was the very first one you put in your account?

16:37Matt Cancel, Brady from Canada, Discorrable. You know, the youngest NHL player at the tournament, the second in points for Canada. But you get him to plus money, I had to grab it. That one for me was great. And then a couple of late ones that I added because of the injury to Sydney Crosby, you know, just a couple of pizza money bets. But the two, 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 Horvath and Seth Jarvis. And you can get Horvath 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. Feel like what was the name of our NASCAR driver? Looks like it's the same thing. So Horvath was like, yeah, of course, of course, of course, of course, of course, of course, of course, of course, of course, of course, of course, of course, of course, of course, of course. Yeah, Jonathan, obviously. And I'm just seeing it right now, blink of my screen, Canada up to minus 440 on the

17:38money lines plus 340, Finland, five and a half, your total for that game. You can lay two and a half at 114 with Canada. Okay, flipping over, Savaki USA, this game starts in about five hours from now. I know the whole country is going to be locked in. Break down this one for us, Jonathan. What's your favorite bet in the game? I actually like both teams to go over their shops on goal total. You can get the USA at 40 and a half and you can get Slovakia at 22 and a half. And I just, you know, I looked at the numbers, both those teams have crushed it. So those, those would be two of my favorite plays, along with Slovakia, over their team total of one and a half goals. They scored three goals in every game. Now, I know that Connor Hellerbuck has only given up four goals in the tournament, but I just, I'd like this Slovakia team. I think they surprised the US, not beat the US, but surprised them. So you're getting over one and a half at minus 110.

18:41I think that's tremendous value. JD, when we look at these two games, you've got Canada minus 440 on the main line, 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, what is the fighting chance for Finland or Slovakia on the money line? If somebody wants a lottery ticket here today. I think they're, I think they're both live. I would say Finland probably a little more than Slovakia. I mean, the Finns just, they're, they're that team that just, they won't go away. They're like a little mat. They're, they're, they're so pesky. They're going to make life tough for Canada for sure. They've got a lot of skill, a lot of skill, you know, a number of NHL players on this roster. So I could see it. And plus, you know, like I said, city Crosby's out. Nathan McKinnon is dealing with an injury. So I think that Canada may be a little more vulnerable. I would even look at both games to go to overtime. I mean, we've, you know, the last three men's games and the women's game went to a draw.

19:43You can get, I think over time, game to go to overtime is like plus 650 in the USA game. Again, pizza money bets, but, you know, it's worth a shot for both of those. Yeah, I think pretty notable to me, Matt, just here talking to Jake and Jonathan here over these past few days. The Slovakia just kind of getting the bets tonight, you know, betting USA out there. I'm going to be watching this because Slovakia's made things close here recently this week and tough team that they've proven to be so far. Okay. So, who wins it all, Jonathan? USA going to bring home another gold. Is my gold medal bet not dead yet? It's not dead. Look, look, you see I'm wearing the Canadian jersey. I have Canada in pocket at plus 110 to win gold. 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.

20:43They are the two best teams. It's just, you know, it's where I guess really weren't where your heart lies at the end of the day. Jonathan, once we get back into action over in the NHL, there's only four teams that are shorter than 10 to 1 to win at all. The avalanche or plus 350, the lightning 4 to 1, 4 and a half on the hurricanes and 8 to 1 on the golden nights. Everybody else 12 to 1 or longer. Do you agree with that? 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 wouldn't, yeah, I do like those four teams. I think Tampa to me, like I would even bet, you know, like Tampa just even windy their conference. I think that's another way you could approach the lightning because I think they ultimately to me, they are going to be, they are the best team in the east. And I think they're going to get stronger at the trade deadline. They've got the best coach in the NHL. They're going to get ahead and they'll get healthier down the stretch. So for me, even if you don't like to, if you don't want to make a cup bet, I think conference bet is a really good one with Tampa.

21:43He is Jonathan Davis. Of course, you can find him right here on the network over on Beeson.com. Also ice cap on Syria is sex. I'm at West Coast H K L M N O P Q R S T V N H L over on the Twitter machine. If you want to follow him over there as well. JD, appreciate the time man and good luck. Thanks guys. Have a great rest of your day. Oh, these people with the sea. Listen, I know the perils of the Twitter handle. Don't look at me like that. I'm, my name is Matt Brown. There are seven hundred thousand Matt Browns. Like I had to get. But I just added two little things at the end, right? Because it's still, it's just easy. Well, guys, Matt Brown, him too. Hey, thanks me up. How frustrated you get over this just because it's like, like, like, wayland with a one. It is just as easy to explain as Matt Brown, M2. No, it's not wayland with a one. Could mean like, wayland and then a one at the end. Or wayland what you said. No, seriously, like, no, you have to explain it. It's wayland. But the L is a one instead and whatever. No, it's not the same at all. Well, just make sure to hit him up on Twitter at Matt Brown, M2.

22:43And he will solve any of your social media problems. Yeah, I mean, listen, Kelly Bidman. I'm here. I'm just thinking about how many more followers could JD and in wayland have if they had easy to find Twitter? Well, you know what? I've got my mind's mind's my full name. I don't know that that's helping me. Because you know how often I'm like, hey, I'd love to follow you. I get a head. I'd love to follow you on Twitter. What's your idea? What's your idea? What's your idea? What's your idea? I mean, it's better than whatever you had before. Be some Kelly. Yeah, something like that. Something like that. More NBA when we come back. A numbers game on FESEN, the sports betting network. Numbers game here on FESEN, the sports betting network. I appreciate you being with us here on a Friday. See your channel 158 YouTube TV. Our very own BESEN watch app game. Plus, terrestrial station costage. Great country of ours. I started to start up the hornet's nest here.

23:44I guess on the whole Twitter. I love our listeners so much. You never know what's really going to hit home. Actually, I do. I know when I make a hot food take, we're drink take. I know we're going to get a lot of tweets. It's never about sports betting. You know, if you get flooded, if you have a hot food take. But I don't know if I was expecting Twitter handle controversy to really fire people up. Yeah, well, I mean, listen, here's the thing. I think that the easier you are to find, the more simple it is, the better. And the only reason that I am Matt Brown M2 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. Oh, okay. See, there you go. I needed that explanation last. Back in the day, whenever I was basically like getting... It's neither here nor there. It's neither here nor there. As to where, you know, the poker and sports betting money. It's neither here nor there. But the point is, it's my first company was M2 Concepts. Oh, man. And so that was like... And so I just added M2 at the end of that.

24:44I like Chris Heath. I checked in here. He's like, you know about the... I was like the 13th, Chris Heath. I like that he goes the... Do you recommend M2? It sounds like it's a sequel. Yeah. Basically is. Actually, that's basically what Matt just explained. Yeah. Yeah, that's kind of nice. And then I got one from... At NJD107, underscore, speaking of Twitter handles... How about Stormies? That one's tough. Well, I have... I've had this conversation with her. Yeah. Because no one can spell her last name. It's tough. I'm like... I'm like... I'm living that same thing. I was like, you could be Stormy B-something. Whatever. You know, like Stormy B-Bets or something or... Whatever or something. You know, anything... Something along those lines. Because... So just to recap, Stormy is like very tough to spell. It's very tough. Like six years ago, Matt Brown did figure out that somehow At Kelly Bidlin did become available again. So I was like, oh, great. I'll do that. But do you know how many times I've gotten that too? 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 trying to follow you that can't. I'm like, yeah, it makes sense.

25:44Yeah, well... Is I don't have normal spelling, Kelly, or Bidlin? Well, there's no normal spelling. That said, with the power of the internet now. If somebody just... If somebody put in any version of Kelly Bidlin, then you would come up. Like, yeah. The internet is amazing. Guys, college basketball, roll and baseball season. It's here. Perfect time to come and be a decent pro subscriber. You can get going for as little as $9.99. Or 50% off the manual subscription. Vison.com slash subscribe. Of course, that gets you the majorly baseball betting guide that is out currently. Go in, get refreshed on where all these people are playing these days. A lot of people... Pete Alonzo is not where you think he is. I'm not going to spoil it. You got to get the guide. You got to get read it. Find out where Pete Alonzo plays now. I know where he plays. You didn't play for the Mets. I'll put it that way. You're driving along right now. You're going to make me get in a wreck. Okay, place with the Orioles. But that's the only one I'm going to tell you. Go in and find out where everybody else is playing. Of course, you get the AI-powered props and match-up tools. You get the betting splits. All that stuff over at Vison.com. Vison.com slash subscribe as little as $9.99.

26:44So we did have a ton more NBA news to get to. From last night, Kelly Bidlin. Wizards beat the Pacers. 112-105 and somebody's got to win a game at the night. Somebody had to win. So the Wizards decided to win. By the way, I'm all for having any conversation about the, like, I think it's interesting because 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. You know, my handicapping process goes when I see a game like that on the board. A crossover onto the next one, that, bro. Both teams are trying to lose. How do you figure out who, how do you figure out who tries to lose the best? Basically what, what comes down now? Raptors beat, 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. As this Raptors team rolls on. Watched a lot, a lot of this game. I've got some Raptors over win total beds. I'll be rooting on here the rest of the season. I really don't think this team, even if those hit. Don't think it's a truth threat in the East. And you know what?

27:44Chicago Bulls. I thought were a little impressive last night. Just plucky keeping that close, really just able to get that cover in the final couple of minutes of the game where the Raptors. And Bulls look, this is basically, we talked about it the other day, basically a whole new team. So, you know, if you were looking for a 31st NBA team to watch, the new version of the Chicago Bulls, the Chicago Bulls M2, you got to check out. Yeah. Spurs cover the eight and a half in a 121-94 win over the Suns. And that one, these Spurs had a 27-point lead entering the fourth quarter. Every person on the team played at least 10 minutes in the game. Literally every single person on the team played at least 10 minutes in the game. Wimby had 17 points, 11 boards, four assists and five blocks. He only had to play 25 minutes in this one. But I guess the bigger news outside of the Spurs winning a game in which they were big favorites is that Devon Booker only played nine minutes in the game. Before he left with a right hip soreness injury, he did not return. So something will be monitoring. Yeah, absolutely. That was, uh, that's a brutal loss for a team and in, man,

28:47I don't want to speak through my bets. But yeah, you go put that ought bet in a couple of weeks. Go for him to win with coach of the year. Booker missing time is not going to be good. And like this has still been the most impressive team to me in the NBA this season. Of just where I had them preseason expectations to what they're doing, 32 and 24 on the season seven seed in the West, just a shame to see if Booker is going to miss some time here. What, what they're going to have to do getting to the finish line of the season. Yeah, and so I mean, all this, all this said, you know, we just talked about the Cunningham performance, what Wimby gets done in just 25 minutes in this one and all of that. I texted Kelly last night. The news came through about SGA and, you know, the reevaluation in a week and, you know, we've been kind of making the case anyway over the last two weeks. And so it did just push me over the edge. I threw in Kate Cunningham bet. I threw in a Wimby bet. And then fortunately, Cunningham goes out and has a massive game the way that he did. Wimby's odds didn't move all that much, but did move at least a little bit. So have 13 on Cunningham and 33 on Wimby.

29:51Now if SGA does come back in, 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 going to lose. But maybe he misses another week. 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 going to be voters that hold it against SGA in the mess of our time. Yeah, it's, um, this is going to 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 any bet so far, right? Because 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've said it though since he first got hurt. There's a possibility that these numbers do this number crashes enough with SGA that there does become some value back on him. Absolutely. You know, when he comes back to returning, especially when you're going, so many of these cases, right? Is are they going to play enough games? Yo, Kitchwin, Benyama, maybe most, uh, most importantly there. So that like that, there is that reality too.

30:51If you were out there last night just about these odds, so this was not on the, the news because this didn't move until after Cape Cunningham had his big game. It was the case. So, so, so basically what we're getting at here is we know we're not going to see SGA for another week, right? All we need is another big Yo Kitch performance. We need a big Cunningham performance when, when, when Victor takes the, when, when Niamah takes the quarter game, go whatever, you might get plus money by the time we see SGA. Yes, right. Because it's not off the new, this was not move off the news. This was moved just off what people saw by their eyes and ran in and made the bet because these guys had big games. So if you want some a piece of SGA, you just need to root for Yo Kitch and Cunningham and, and Luca and Wimby to have big games over the next week, but we know we're not going to see SGA. And you're going to get, but you're, you're going to get better odds on him. Yeah. The, uh, 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 here is Luca.

31:52Like I love this Lakers team makes a real big surge up to a three seed or something like that in the Western conference. I, I just don't, I think there's going to 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, I had a silly small arcade bet at 100 to one from early in the season. It's a hundred to one though. It doesn't matter if it's small or not. It's still a hundred to one. I'm loaded up on Yo Kitch from early in the season at about five to one. So with your ads last night, yeah, I'm sitting there. So I bet when be like two weeks ago for defensive player of the year, two or three weeks ago, minus 105 just caught it. Yeah. Thankfully right at the right time, it looks like it's 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. Uh, because look, this bursting keeps winning. He clears the bench. Right. He's absolutely in this conversation. And, and, and, and SGA, whatever, maybe they add one more week to his timeline. And next thing, you know, we look up in this verse of caught. Right. The thunder or something? Because if I've got, if I've got K-100 to one, Yo Kitch five to one,

32:55when be 30 to one, it basically, I think I'm just saying, yeah, give me the feel of versess. Yeah. Yep. Yep. Which is basically what you have done. Celtics cover all numbers against the Warriors, uh, one 21, one, one 10, Jalen Brown, 23 points, 15 rebounds, 13 assists there. And that one. Dremon green. Donut. Zero points for Dremon green there. And that one, poor thing is did play. He only played 17 minutes. We were wondering how much he would play in this game, Kelly. I only played 17 minutes. He did score 12 points in that 17 minutes, but 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. Celtics, uh, I think even watching, you know, watching that Pistons Knicks game last night, and they're watching some of this. Man, it's the, I really think the Eastern Conference is going to come down to Jason Tatum's, Jason Tatum. And I have, it's impossible to predict what you're going to get out of him. Right. I think he's going to be back, but how about what level? I don't have no idea. And the magic absolutely dismantled the Kings 131 to 94.

33:55Yeah. We knew that was going to happen. The Kings had one like, they love to lose. And about six months. Everybody's getting surgery. Ben Carroll did have 30 points in six assists though. So we will, we will give our flowers to him. Yeah, we'll give our flowers to him there in that game. We'll take a look and these guys are out on the golf course. See what's going on out there and some more baseball talk. Alright. Number game here on Vesen Mat Kelly. American semi-final over there in Dubai, women's tennis and this MOVA and Pagula going at it. Pagula, now up 4-1 in the third set, loses the first one, 6-1, rallies back 6-4 in the second,

34:56now up 4-1 here in the third. Well, let's go Jesse. She needs that paycheck. She's always concerned. Obviously, obviously no trust fund at all for her. She needs to save every dollar she can, every win is important. Yes, no trust fund for her for sure. Hopefully, hopefully she can scrape by after the semi-final win, if she can, if she can hold. You know, my favorite part of my same Pagula 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 Pagula. Or the people that driving around and don't know her backstory and just going like, oh man, is she, is she really having trouble? They're like, they're going, oh man, is she having a struggle? Like, I am rooting for her. Like, you know, let's, let's get her some money. If I've gotten to anybody to Google Jesse Pagula because of that, to check out it, they go, oh god, I get it down like a day, yes, I've won. She rich, basically, is where we're going. She got money. She rich, parents rich, everybody rich. Her family owns Canada, New York. That's what I heard. I mean, basically, basically, pretty much. So we, I said, we had to finish out with the people that did not finish

35:59yesterday over there at, at Riviera. And so with that, they're back out there. The conditions, obviously, much enough. It's cold. Yeah. It's cold here. We woke up to 31 degrees freezing. Man, I got this. I only got a full jacket. I brought 31 degrees. I woke up to, which is unacceptable. I'm in the next week that we're back up into the 70s. It's nutty already looked. It's a crazy week. Fred courier crazy out here. We are, we are back up into the 70s. So I feel okay with that. But we do look and see the, of the guys that got done, you know, we got some five hundred in the house. Marco Pinge is sitting right now five hundred through 12. And these conditions right now, these are scoring conditions for these guys. We'll see what it looks like over the weekend. 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 to kind of just fire at these pins, which is something we did not at all for see because these are some of the hardest greens to hold. They are firm and fast and all and some of them slam

37:00away from you and all the different things that we hate about greens. But when they are absolutely waterlogged, just completely soaked, then in these guys are again, they're the best golfers in the world. They can just fire at these pins left and right. As we saw yesterday, 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. Like full on half the ball is plugged into the green. Yeah, it was crazy. But the, you know, when I'm looking at right now. So, uh-huh. First round leader, because you're right. These are going to be very, I think very scoreable conditions for these guys that are left playing their first round. Okay, Marco Pench plus 125 here and Rye plus three six. What's the woo? Exactly what I asked myself, Matt 31 to one. We got what five holes left? Four holes left. Four holes left. Okay. So he would have to at least birdie two of them. One of them is a par five.

38:04Interesting with the woo. Let's look at how this course, the core stats from yesterday real quick. It really depends on what you think. Okay. Where's Pench going to finish at? It's the problem. So I can tell you this, um, 17, so 16 while it did play over par, it's one of the least ones that played over par. And then also, uh, C. Wilkin is the who we're talking about. Yes. If anyone's listen to one, we call, he's the we call. We call him. He's the one. He's the one and Minwoo. He's on that. He's the woo. Yes. We would just say Minwoo. If that's Minwoo, the woo is C. Wilkin. Now, I thought I found something here with first round leader with problems with Pench. I think you're either betting, Pench. You're not betting this at all. Okay. Because otherwise, if Pench is finished in six, seven under these other guys are running out of holes to catch right here. Even if C. Wilkin bet right now, you probably need to assume you're

39:05getting dead. He did it best. Yeah. That's true. Unless you play unless you play it at a tie's painful place. Does anybody do that for first round leader? Yeah. So they're dead. He did everything at first round. Okay. Um, okay. So we are again, we're Scotty's out on the course. He did at least pick up one. But that's not he's back. Yeah, no. I mean, he did at least pick up a stroke. He's no longer dead last. Oh, too, too. He just got another birdie. Oh, he did. Okay. And then he picked up two strokes out here. Um, he's no longer dead last. That now belongs to Garrett Higo and Keegan Bradley, who finished their rounds at five over it. Russell Henley has a chance to catch them. Yes. Russell Henley could catch them. I mean, a lot of names. Yeah. Rose Sheffler. I was going to say having having JJ spawn, who has really started rough to the season, like having a real tough go at it. So it is the course certainly the weather played a ton of time, a ton yesterday. But like we said, Scotty's now out there at, oh my gosh, he's got, he has four holes left. He could finish it even. I mean,

40:11this is, when you hear moving day, like this might be moving day for this tournament, right? This, you know, finish it even, right? This little window, like this could swing the leaderboard for the entire tournament. Huge, right? I think these are very scoreable conditions. These guys are getting right now. You brought it up. I don't know if I feel that exactly the same that this is going to get much tougher later. It's going to get tougher when it dries out. But if it does, right? Whoever's able to put this put up some low score and finish this first round with a low score, a big time advantage. Just unbelievable. Shuffle these two under. We'll keep you up to, yeah, keep going. Keep going, Xander. I need that big time. Yeah, you got one of my few. All right. Yeah, one of my few. All right. I'll keep you updated here of the next of the next couple hours on that one, but wouldn't 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. 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 away out there at 9 to 1 and 40 to 1.

41:13I 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. I think the White Sox maybe have a chance to go in over that super, super incredibly low win total of 66 and a half. There is at least a little bit of talent and they have it. 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. So I don't hate them as much as like, oh, they're going to go under 66 and have wins, but I'm excited for White Sox fans. It feels like the first year in a few where people like there's actually something to be there. There's something coming down the line. It's just not here. You know, so with the Tigers, we do know that it is here for them and this is going to be pretty big for them because, you know, listen, if you don't come out of the gate, Kelly, doing what you, what you're supposed to do, which again is win this division, you're plus 120. Then the whole school bull trade talks heat up again, right? Because you've got this guy that you had to go to arbitration with because you didn't want to give the contract right

42:14out of the bad and all the stuff and yada, yada, and then if you find yourself not in the playoff picture, then does it make more sense to move in? Does it? Whatever. So I mean, those are all going to come into play here. But this lineup, it's got a couple of dudes that got to prove it. 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 Frembre Valdez signing, I made a bet on them to win this division. 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. I don't really like the rotation. I don't really like the fact that outside of your mirrors, you don't really have a ton of proven bats in that lineup. And so I think it is between the royals and the tigers. If you want to make a case for the royals, I think you can go down and you can say, okay, well, you got Bobby Whit Jr., who might be the third or fourth best player in all of Major League baseball, Pasquantino, Salvador Presbyn doing it for a very long time. Jack Caglione, we'll talk about him a little bit later whenever we talk about some under the radar hitters for fantasy baseball.

43:17There are, they traded for Isaac Collins, a guy that was starting there for Milwaukee for a while, has certainly had some upside. So I think that lineup has a decent amount of upside. And if Cole Reagan's can come back from injury and be Cole Reagan's and Boobitch can come back and be Boobitch, again, two different guys coming back from from injury. Noah Cameron can do at least 80% of what he did last year. You got three really good guys in that rotation. And then you need Walker and Lugo just to not be just not be terrible. So I still like the tigers. But if you want to play the royals and say that you think that the, that the tigers dudes that are unproven aren't going to get it done, Kelly Bidlin. And I would be like, okay, that's fine. I mean, the odds there at 225, like double the odds for the royals. I'm never going to talk anybody off of that. Yeah, the division has a whole Joe sound like he was a bit down on yesterday. You kind of view it, view it the same way. Any real truth threats, a world series or anything like that coming out of here. Yeah. Not not not really. I like this division overall. I think it's a fun division note that to monitor for sure and a fun division to bet on from a division standpoint. But that's

44:21kind of where I'm going to end it. What do you think ends up happening with school? Because like you just brought up that trade situation. It really depends on if Detroit is going to full fledged take that next step. And if they do, then they get they have to sign them to a long term deal. And then you have two front line starters and you kind of just go from there. Otherwise, doesn't the trade thing make a ton of sense? Yeah. And if not, yeah. And then if not, he'll get traded for, you know, seven, you know, I mean, I can't even imagine what he would bring. He would probably bring seven guys, six or seven guys, you know, something like that. They'd be all prospect. So you're all you're betting on the come as opposed to a guy that we know is going to be one of the top three pitchers in all of Major League Baseball. When we come back, you are offering in mind, Chris Bellica on all things sports.