A Numbers Game | February 5, 2026 | Hour 1

0:00A number is called the story of Alex. It's one of those idiots who believe in analytics. This is a numbers game with Gill Alexander. Go and be sent. Good Thursday morning, too. It is a numbers game with Beast and these sports betting network. Beeson.com, Game Plus, iHeartRadio, YouTube TV. Series XM Channel 158, Gill Alexander, Kelly Midland. In the hissy. Thursday morning, three days away from Super Bowl 60. Tadmin. Not much, man. Excited for the Super Bowl. Excited for NBA trade deadline today. Excited for NFL awards to be announced. Yeah. It's an exciting for the waste management Phoenix Open, too. It's a big day. It's a big day. We had Rufus on the podcast yesterday. Rufus Peabody had to hit a bounce after 45 minutes because at that point, he had 11.45 AM Pacific. He had exactly 60 minutes before his frontier airlines flight took off. So I had to shoe him out. Oh, man. And then he texts me. Here were 15 minutes to spare. Apparently security was tight.

1:00And then he said, oh, the computers are down. No one has a seat. Oh, God. The greatest better of our generation was taking a frontier flight to the waste management open. I'm like, well, that's like a you probably was joking about about the private jet yesterday. But that makes more sense, actually. Yeah. So we'll talk about that. Kelly's got some Phoenix Open thoughts there. Zach could crack on a Thursday. Crack coming up later unscripted. That doesn't change on Super Bowl week. Zach on the NBA. And Super Bowl 60, of course. We will, we will check in again, because we haven't talked NFL awards for a long, long time. These are, these are still up at Calshire. Yeah. So they're still bettable with the announcement tonight. Some of them are. Some of them. Yes, not all of them. Some of them are up. I got a lot riding on this like offensive player of the year. Like if Puka wins, it's a big night for me with the Calshire bet there. 45 to one on Matthew Stafford. So that's huge for you too. So this is, this is a big night. We'll get to the trade deadline here. I'm going to take a momentarily and Drew Dinsick, who did not join us on his usual Tuesday spot, because the man's in the bay.

2:00And now he's headed to Milan for the winter Olympics. I think he hops on a flight today. Hops on a flight today. There's our guest tracker once again on a flight. But Drew will join his Toxie World 6. He'll chalk NBA with us and the Olympics. The Winter Olympics is we have a lot of questions about it from folks. He's got bets. He's got, he said he's in deep on a couple of these. I made some bets yesterday on again. Yeah. Taylor drew on a couple things. Is it deep on a couple big macro Olympics long bets, if you will? Yeah. And we have questions from folks. Folks already asking this morning about curling. That's what I would. Yeah. I'm going to put his feet to the fire. I want more specifics. Because he, this is, this was undensic like in what he texted me yesterday, where it was kind of the, it was kind of more of the more basic markets. Like you're talking about the metal markets and stuff. This is also, you know, Drew, Drew, we know him as a mild, mannered, friendly reporter for your daily metropolitan newspaper, but he's, he's a seismologist by day. This is, he's, he's a seismologist. Do you know that there isn't enough, forgive me for not citing who alerted me of this

3:02first on Twitter? Remember? That's why he's big into wine. He likes to drink and he loves the ground. Well, there has been a rash of earthquakes in California, a rash meaning none with, with huge Richter scale, you know, he had Monday meters, but there's, there's a bunch of them. And so this gives us an opportunity to ask, is this something we need to worry about? Also, is this something we need to bet on? Um, but, oh, yeah, but, but it's, you know, we have the opportunity. We might as well ask him about that as well. Yeah, absolutely. As far as the NBA trade deadline, three PM Eastern today, 12 new and Pacific. So we are a little less than five hours away from the end of this madness. And by madness, I mean, um, I don't think he's getting traded now. Uh, the biggest, the biggest trade yesterday in terms of a honest reading to me is the Warriors went elsewhere. Yes. And by the way, for those of us forget about my bet on the Warriors getting a honest, but just for Warriors fans, what a deflating moment this was yesterday.

4:04Oh, God. Warriors decide they can't wait any longer. They, or they saw the writing on the wall that they weren't going to, that the bucks weren't going to pull the trigger on this. So they sent Jonathan, Kaminga, uh, and Buddy healed healed, who's not having a good season. Kaminga, who Steve Kerr has never liked. It seems in all these years that golden state, they send them to Atlanta. Christophe's poor Zingas comes back the other way. Poor Zingas is barely played this year. So, yeah, that's not moving the needle for either of those teams really in the short term. And does it knock the Warriors out of an off season chance at Yannis? No, because then you can throw in perzing, is there but learn that kind of thing. But it certainly does here before the trade deadline today. And I think, or I thought, as I think you have Kelly, that the Warriors had the best offer on the table for the bucks. So this kind of leads me to believe now I'm in the camp of nothing's going to happen with Yannis before the, before their deadline today. I think you put, I think it's over. I think you put it perfectly.

5:05I think with it is much like, I think there's Minnesota Miami. I maybe even Chicago, we've brought them up all along. I'll continue to bring them up. I think they will be making last ditch efforts today. I think if you're Minnesota, if you're Minnesota, you want to get this done now, because you don't want other teams to get involved, right? In theory, that was that that was the situation for golden state. This is the Warriors thing, too. Yeah, that was your best chance in theory. That was the same thing for golden state. So yes, I do. I don't think you're, I mean, even ESPN hasn't in their article. I don't think you're reading anything. I think it is very much signal from golden state that, okay, this guy is either not getting moved period or was not getting moved to golden state, at least. So they waved the white flag went to go after porzingus. And yeah, Chris Foster and I were talking about before the show, man, I deflating is the right word, right? Because we're, we're to the warrior stack up in the Western conference right now. At all. Jimmy Butler's hurt. You just moved for porzingus. I mean, whatever Kaminga wasn't playing either. But it was the only chance to make him relevant. Make him relevant.

6:05But yeah, it's, I think it's going to be an early exit for golden state. Unfortunately, if even an exit at all, right? Yeah. I mean, that's at this point. Who knows? So super deflating for, for fans of that club. But then the other, the other big name that went yesterday. Oh, you want to say? Yeah, just, I'll pull up those numbers. Okay. I should have included it right there. But even Kowshi's telling us the same thing. It was minus 480 before the show for Yannis to return to Milwaukee. There it is. Yeah. Yeah. I want to get five hours. Still to go. Who knows? Yes, still plenty of time. We should say that. Still to go. But we see the other big name that was 525. Anthony Davis goes from, you see this coming from the Mavericks to sort of the wizards. Which is an interesting. First of all, now let's just, if we can now do the post script on the Luca trade. Oh, God, it just got worse. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. It's because now no more Anthony Davis as well. So Anthony Davis ends up one of the 75 greatest players in NBA history. But riddled with injuries here at the end of his career. If not for most of his career, but certainly now is just a, just a large contract going around

7:07the league. But the wizard. It's interesting for a wizard standpoint, because, by the way, the Mavericks in that deal, they trade Anthony Davis, Jaden Hardy, DeAngelo Russell and Dante XM to Washington for Chris Middleton, AJ Johnson, Malikai Brannum and Marvin Bagley, the third. Jeez, Marvin Bagley, the third. Remember it was second pick in the draft, wasn't it? Yes, he was. Two first round picks and three second rounders also go to Dallas. So they can justify it with that. And if you're the wizards, it's interesting because the wizards have to stay as one of the first eight picks in the draft. Otherwise, they lose it. But I don't think Anthony Davis is going to suit up for them for the rest of the year. Yeah. So it's kind of a, and who knows when, when Trey comes, when Trey Young starts to play. So the wizard's calculation on this is, we're never relevant. Now, at least we have two names. And in training camp, we can start with Trey Young, Anthony Davis, Alexander Tsar and one of the top eight picks in a loaded draft. Yeah.

8:07All of a sudden, we're kind of something. Absolutely. And an Eastern conference. Sure. I mean, we all we've talked about all years, this Eastern conference and how open it is. And I don't, not seeing a team next year that's going to make a massive leap up from where we're at. Well, Indiana Boston will be back at full strength. That will be a problem. But yeah, they're right. And that makes when we're talking about the Charlotte Hornets potentially making the playoffs this year, like they're right on that outside looking into Washington Wizards. You add Trey Young, you add Anthony Davis, you just set it up perfectly. I think you've got the building blocks there, much like the Utah Jazz. The difference is, you know, the Wizards are definitely on the older side when it comes to AD and Trey Young. Jazz a little bit more to look forward to as far as the future goes. But I think this is interesting. It just kind of says something overall. I think how NBA trades are going to go in this kind of new financial world of. There's going to be so few teams left with large amounts of money to operate with. And these teams of Wizards and jazz that have been tankin' for years now. And it was like, okay, when are you going to finally pull the trailer? They had an opportunity this time around because other teams didn't.

9:08And they went and made a move for players that let's be honest. Would they have really gone there in free agency or if they had a no trade clause? No, they probably wouldn't have. Just to go through it all. Mavericks turn Luca Donchitch into Max Christie at 2029 Lakers first round pick. A 2026 Thunder pick, though, but likely be the 30th overall. 2030 Warriors first round, if it's in the 21 to 30 range and three second round picks. They way to go. But but at least now, now it's all erased. And you can start building around Cooper flags for real. I do feel like I have to be the guy that's it's easy to say that. We can dunk on the Mavericks for the Luca stuff. But all of that changed after Cooper flag, right? The outlook on what this team should be now and in the future. Should have changed after they drafted. Here's the only one I want to ask you about from yesterday in terms of actual bets leading to bets. Because none of those teams, those are all moving middle teams and worst teams around. The Sixers trade Jared McCain to the Thunder for 2026 Rockets first round pick.

10:11And three second round picks according to Shams Taranian. Now this is interesting because Jared McCain was really good before his injury as a rookie. He was an odds on favorite to win rookie of the year. Yes, he was hasn't really done anything this year either early. The Oklahoma City Thunder of course have massive amounts of draft capital. And so here's here's them now with Shay sideline for a bit unloading a bunch of those. I mean, I can the Sixers can say to themselves, hey, cool. We get all these picks, right? Oklahoma City Thunder. It's interesting. McCain's it's sort of an interesting pickup for them here in the interim. And also who knows down the road. Does this make you feel better about the Thunder? When a championship remains neutral for you? It makes me feel better. I think you can only say that in the long run. This is an addition in a player. Look, a lot of the NBA reporters. I heard O'Brien and Winhorse say this yesterday because of the draft capital that the Thunder Half and they've done this multiple times now. They can pay just a little bit extra than every other team can.

11:15And while others might think of it as overpaying from their team standpoint, for the thunder, it's not overpaying. And I think this is a two part story, right? Yeah, we'll get to we'll check out the MVP odds on the other side. But was Shay out getting another body in helps that was part of the reason. But no, this is more about depth. Yep, going into the playoffs. And absolutely, I heard Winhorse say it, I heard a couple other NBA guys say, this is viewed around the league as another fleecing by the Oklahoma City Cup. It's so funny because you'll read some Sixers blogs who think it's the other way fleecing. Yeah. So funny to see. Was your response? Yeah. Yeah. Let's talk about the NBA. A little more on the other side. 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 Bet's home pros win because they've got the tools, the data and the discipline. And now so can you. Visa 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 bettors are turning knowledge into profit with Visa and Pro.

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13:15Burkey does every all credit all on this stuff all the guys baseball guy coming out soon. Can't wait. Hey, tomorrow. I am on. The goalie can goalie kind enough to have me on again on their show over there at Fandall. Looking forward to that, talking wacky Super Bowl props with him. Nice and then the next day. I don't know why I never remember. Blue Gatorade. I'll give you a shout out. My producer, Kelly Bidlin. So one other thing, Saturdays, this is become a tradition unlike any other in the sports gambling space. Captain Jack, you know, our buddy Captain Jack Anders, he has a, he has a, the thing that he does every Saturday before the Super Bowl, I'm gonna get it off my phone because it's not working out here on the, on the old laptop. But he does a live stream on Twitter. Have you seen this ever? Saturday night before the Super Bowl? No. So I think he's done it for like, for like five years, I want to say, Jack will correct me if I'm wrong on that.

14:15But he's done it for, for many years in a row now. And by the way, he's been kind enough to have me on, on most of them, if not all, which is super kind because sometimes my audio wasn't great. But on this years, and this will start at about 705 Eastern on Saturday night and goes to like 1035 Eastern, okay. And it's just people slotted. What after the other Doug Kiserion is on there, Isaac Rose Berman, who Rufus was talking to us about yesterday off air during the podcast, Gina Fiori, my mishbucha, Chrissy Andrews, Frank B will be on there. Dustin Galker from, from the Las Vegas, was he, he does some of the legal stuff here in the gambling space. The great Roxy Roxboro, of course, will be on there as well. David Hill, who covers the gambling industry, CMEP, Andrew Molotor, our buddy Tim Lawson will be on there. Matt Landis will be on there, Justin Phan. So kind of, you know, Captain Jack, it's a who's who of folks on there.

15:15And everybody spends like 10, 15 minutes. And then we bounce. He goes to the next person. That's great. And Jack does it for three hours. Plus the Saturday night before Super Bowl this weekend. So looking forward to that as well. Yeah. That's awesome. Look, I want to get to some of these here because before they stack up, Derek Gwynne says, can you, can you say cover Southern Miss basketball, got to make free throws to win? Also my dad owned a bunch of newspapers in Mississippi. So I grew up in the newspaper business. So it was sad to hear about the Washington Post Sports page yesterday. Yeah, man. Washington Post Sports page, which I just learned about before the show yesterday, RIP, as it, as a main part of the cuts made at the Washington Post yesterday, Joe Arsu. Now the student who gone from the bulls, what's the bulls plan? He says, this just happened before the show. We mentioned yesterday the bulls had a million guards and no bigs, we have no idea what their plan is. I mean, that was, I mentioned on the show yesterday, like it's, man, cow, she's been funder in the NBA trade, trade deadline, like it is, but like, just a lot of the bets

16:19we talk about, right? Like we, we talked, we were out here yesterday, talked about the garden situation in Chicago to, you know, it was minus 400, but Kobe White was easy yesterday. Like just, you know, he could read it as some of these situations. I look, the bulls play it is, I'm going to guess that they're still trying to package together stuff and send it to Bill, Bill Wacky, they're, they're third of the bed of gods right now, at least to get him. That numbers come back down. I've never fully understood it. But look, otherwise, I think if you're Irish, Chicago bulls back, they are, at least re, they are reorganizing this depth chart and reorganizing their money. So I'm just glad to see the front office actually do stuff. I know, I know it's with Vouch, we were talking yesterday, you bought high on Vouch, sold low. It's not great. I think if you're a bulls fan, though, you need to get beyond the, the rose and the Levine, the Vouch of itch era, like did 500 basketballs not get any, was that an era? Yeah, it was an era, era 500 basketball. James Robinson talking about the megapod. I'm based in Ireland, he says, but I never miss, never miss a show.

17:20Thanks for the laughs insight, but more importantly, company throughout the years. Enjoy the Super Bowl. Thank you, James. Todd Willen. I appreciate that. Shoot him a gambling. I'm almost positive. Oh, because we were talking about on the megapod yesterday, how they're, this, you know, this spread is four and a half. Do you know when the last time a Super Bowl has had a spread of greater than four and a half? Shoot him a gambling was saying I was almost positive. The spread and the Nick full Super Bowl. He said, eagles versus Pat Swiss, Pat's minus six. But that, it might have been six at one point, but I'm talking about the closing line. This is according to odds shark, the little, I have no idea. The last Super Bowl that had a spread larger than four and a half. So I was not aware of this. Still Rufus brought it up and I checked and he's right. The Saints Colts Super Bowl is how far you have to go back. That was Super Bowl 44 if I'm read the number Roman numerals. Correct. Yeah. 44. So that's like, you know, 15, 16 Super bowls ago now. That was Indianapolis minus five. The year before that Pittsburgh was a seven point favorite against Arizona.

18:21The year before that New England was a 12 point favorite and lost to the Giants. But since that Colts Saint Super Bowl, we've topped out at four and a half a bunch of times. But that's it. That's fascinating. I did. I was not aware of that. Till Rufus brought it up. Yeah. I mean, if you'd asked me what we've seen, I mean, I would have, I don't remember, I would have told you I don't remember a seven in a long time. I remember that Steelers. Yes. I don't remember the 12 point Patriots are that big of favorite because I know they were favorites, but that was, that was not the undefeated Patriots. Was it or is that the? That was right. Hold on. Let me check. Was that the 20? Oh, no. I think you're right. Yes. It was. Right. Yeah. I don't know why I thought they were like nine or 10 or something. That's correct. That was the undefeated Patriots. That's right. Because of the 2011 Patriots, only two and a half point favorites when they lost. But yes, the about to be undefeated, but never to be undefeated Patriots were 12 point favorites in that first Super Bowl against the Giants. This is from Alfonso Arrambide. He says great Super Bowl 60 Megapal once again, like your two co-host, I too was not really

19:24feeling a side. But then I heard Sam Arnold's granddad was the Marlboro man and I too smoked Marlboro for putting my bets in now. Hey, man, as good a reason as any, uh, this is from Bobby Gettys. If and when Drew comes on, he is, can you ask him about curling? Ken Palm has USA mixed doubles as the best team in the favorite Italy. Italy isn't ranked anywhere. I've seen USA between plus four 50 and 10 to one and Italy from even money to minus 175 and my crazy. Or do you have any insight? Well, we'll talk to Drew about it. And this is from racing DFS. This is for this is an interesting golf question. He says instead of being a fish, betting the without Scotty market outrights, you should be taking advantage of this unique time where him being a internment significantly inflates the odds of opponents, Scotty's great, but he is not winning 100% of the tournaments he enters. That is true. I did the research on that. He is not. He is not going to win 100%. He says, hopefully Gil brings us up on a show at some point. I can't stand the amount of without Scotty stuff. I've been hearing of late. Okay. I bet the tournament didn't bet any without markets, but I mean, look, you're right.

20:24You're right. It's still really hard to pick one golfer to win a golf tournament, especially when their name's not Scotty Schuffer. So I think the odds are pretty accurate of what they should be. And my old marker for 20 also with the moral burrow stuff. He says Sam Darnell leads to run out of the tunnel with the moral bro and his mouth, show some loved grandpa, okay, MVP shopping. So Shay is out to all after the all star break, right? They're going to reevaluate his injury here and you would think no rush coming back. Right. I would ever rush him back season, win total, Schmies and Schmien, no one cares, right? On their side, Shay still minus 230 at draft Kings and Fandall to win MVP minus 210 now at bed MGM. So it's falling with his injury. Yokech creeping up a little bit plus 350. Remember, there's a, you have a game floor to play and Yokech is got to, there's two games that he can work with. That's about it. It's less than that. He can miss one. I think, yeah, I actually learned more about this yesterday.

21:25If he misses two full games, I believe he is out of it. Two full is out. Lucas 10 to one. Cades 20 to one. Jalen Brown's 35 to one. Is there another bet here than in the MVP, in the MVP market besides Shay, besides Yokech, we keep, we keep trying to hammer this home that there isn't a player, but at some point it almost becomes, you know, something that you should really be involved in, because what if these guys just don't have the requisite amount of games ultimately for Yokech, you're saying over Yokech, but even like Shay, again, as you said, who knows? Yeah, who knows. I guess I guess I'm not worried about him missing that many games, but who knows who knows. Let's say they win 59 games in the end, and they're not that spectacular of a team in the regular season. You know, but that's, you know, that's really what we were talking about with Flika last week, right? Yeah. I hear you. I hear you. I just don't know who's stealing it from it. Like, look at Donjus numbers are great. His number has come down. So he did get bad, right?

22:26We, he was, we were looking at him at 11 to 112 to one just yesterday, when before SGA, we found out that he was injured. I just killed Lakers are 30 and 19, they're the six seed right now. Like part MVP is winning games and getting the highest seed. And I don't know if he's going to be viewed that way. Look, I've got, I've got plus five, five to one on Yokech from early in the season. Of course, I'll be rooting for that. I don't think you can bet this right now, plus 350. That is too thin of a margin to miss games. Now, I am saying that, and I just bet when Beniyama defends a player the year the other day. So yeah, I think there's a difference between two and four games. Yeah. It's just that this market is begging for a bet. It's begging. Look, I think you could look in the east. I do think I'll be happy if Kate gets home too, because I got a silly bet from him early in the season. I guess that's right. Bet kill, but I don't love it. Blacks. Zach Cohen, only the other side about this and more. Numbers game on FESEN. These sports betting network. Kelly circuit released their major league baseball regular season win totals yesterday.

23:31Nice. I've given out a couple earlier of the week. Guardians under 80 and a half. Circa opens them at 79 and then the Rangers. I had over 83 and a half. I think they opened the Rangers at 85 now at 84. Okay. So there you go. No bets for you then. What's that? No bets for you then. Not adding on a circle. No. Chaffer 100 par. Chaffer 100 par. Yeah. What did you do? By the way, you that that tweet that we got earlier about the value. Just it's just hard to come up with someone else kind of like in that MVP. Morgan, we just talked about for you. I mean, yeah, I don't, you know, feel free to tweet at me. If you want to discuss more, I'm happy to do that. But the, I mean, look, yeah, his, his odds are short. There's going to be longer numbers out there because of that. But it's, it's the odds are warranted. There's a reason why Chaffler so short. Robbie J 920 on Twitter. An argument can be made that the New England Patriots defeated better teams this season. Seahawks schedule, not exactly murderers row.

24:32Wow. That's a joke. That's a spin. Johnny millionaire, Yoke, it's projected to play 30 more games per roto wire. That 66 total. That doesn't qualify him, doesn't just qualify him, doesn't averaging 29 point one points per game, 12.1 rebounds, 10.5 assists, OK, see fading of late. And now SGA out and then will they rush it back doubtful by signal for Mr. Tripp dub. There's no doubt. Yoke, his numbers are spectacular. If he gets there, oh, it says, if he gets there, he is absolutely in this conversation. If not winning, because these numbers are better than some of the years, he won it. Yeah. Oh, absolutely. I'm just, I mean, it's just, it's a gamble looking, you were going to make that decision. If you want to get involved in MVP or defensive player of the year, you got to make a decision, but it's largely based off that. And I did make a bet yesterday. We talked about it. I made Wemba Nyama and I can only miss a few games there too, but you're talking about two months, right? Like it's, we still got a fair amount of regular season left here. Zach Cohen kind enough to join us as part of the Zach and crack comedy duo on Thursdays here on the show.

25:32You can follow him on Twitter at betting on X. Join us courtesy of the progressive guest line as he always does. Zach, good morning to you, sir. Good morning. How you guys doing? Doing very well. Before we get to the award market, you want to talk about just randomly here because of Shay's injury, because Nicole Yoke, it's just sort of flirting with the, the allowed floor of games to play. Is there another bet for you in this market or are you like Kelly sort of saying, I just don't know who I would bet besides those two? I think that if you're going to do something, it's like a sprinkle on Jalen Brown. I really think the Brown has just been fantastic for Boston this season. Like the same argument you'd make for like a Joe Mizzoula to win, you know, coach of the years, there were very low expectations for the Celtics team this season and Brown has kind of been performing at an all NBA level at the very least. I think he will be a first team all NBA player and I at least means he's going to be part of the conversation. If it ends up being a situation where SGA and Joker are both ineligible for the award.

26:36So I'd be looking at Brown compared to the other guys because I think he's kind of right in that level with all of them with Luca Cade, like I don't see any differences between the three. If anything, I have Cade and Jalen Brown, both the head of Luca. All right. Coach of the year is where you do like a bet. Yeah, I actually had played this at plus 400 last week and talked about it on hardwood handicappers. But I enjoyed not going to win this award. Like I know that the market currently reflects, the reflects the bigger staff is the favorite. But Detroit went into this season with the expectations of potentially making a leap in the Eastern Conference and all they've done this season is make that expected leap. Phoenix is a team that like was the clown show of the all season with everyone saying that they didn't get enough for Durant. They were going to win 30 or fewer games and end up, you know, in a top five draft slot and not end up having their pick. All of a sudden, this team is in the Western Conference playoffs and not just in the play in. They are the six seed in the West and their metrics are like incredible. Like they are a borderline top 10 team when you're talking about adjusted net rating over

27:39at Dungston threes. And they've been one of the best defensive teams in the league despite not having, you know, the greatest looking defensive roster and then offensively their half quarter offense has been good. And they've also had guys in and out of the lineup all year, which is not something that you'd really be able to expect this team to be able to navigate. Like Devon Booker is the only real all star on this team. I know that Brooks has played out of his mind, but that's another testament to like the work that Aad has done, but Brooks has, I mean, Booker has missed a lot of time. They have not had Jayla green for pretty much the entire season and they just continue to win games and pretty much everybody on this team besides Booker is having a career year. And like that has to be a credit to Aad. So I just think in the end, if the sons are still in this position of being top six, he's going to end up winning. Yeah. Zach, I love it. We talked a little bit about this yesterday. I think I'm going to join you there as well. I think it's probably down to those top two names on the board, Bigger staff and I, but yeah, man, I just maybe Bigger staff will win this thing. Maybe he should be favorite. I just don't think there should be that big a difference between work.

28:40He's at minus 120 and Jordan, not you can get close to four to one. So I'm right there with you. There's no team that I was more off on than the Phoenix sons. I mean, Gil, we're talking about Kevin Durant just left your team, just left your team. And you're playing and you're doing this well this year. Phoenix son season wind total. Correct me if I'm wrong was 31 and a half. Is that correct? Sounds right. And they have one 31 games at this point already. But Detroit's season wind total, Detroit season wind total was 45 and a half, right? So much for much greater expectations on the pistons in the Eastern Conference. Do you have a couple sides in the NBA tonight starting with the Mavericks after having made that big trade yesterday? Yeah, so I do have the Mavericks plus seven and a half against the Spurs. This is the second leg of a back-to-back for San Antonio. And I know that they ended up beating up on OKC last night. They played against like the CT for that Thunder team. But they still played, you know, their rotation players 25 plus minutes and Fox played 33,

29:41when be played 28 like it's probably not exhausted, but there will be some tired legs and this Mavericks team was off last night. And they've just been a really reliable bet this season. When facing good competition, they are also just like playing really well around Cooper Flag who has turned into one of the best offensive players in the league like on at the snap of a finger. And while they did just make that deal moving AD out, they didn't really train any of their rotation pieces, at least their current rotation pieces. Like they moved, you know, AD, Jaden Hardy, those guys Dante, XM, D'Angelo, Russell, these were players that had fallen out of favor or had not been playing. They have not lost anybody that's contributing to this current version of the team. And moving forward with that deal, I actually do think they got a little bit better just because Marvin Bagley's had a good year. I think if Middleton is not bought out, he can help them. But yeah, I think the Mavericks keep this game somewhat close tonight. Zach with the Rare, I will not pick the Dregs of the NBA appearance on the show tonight. That's right. Taking the maps also taking the Hornets plus the points tonight. Yeah, Hornets plus four.

30:42I also took some Hornets money line at plus 138. They are coming off two full days of rest. The Rockets played last night and it's their third game and four nights. And I kind of think it shouldn't be lost that Houston was just not able to contain Boston last night and Charlotte plays a very similar offense to the one that Boston plays. Charles Lee, the Hornets head coach was an assistant under Joe Mizzula and won a championship with that Celtics team. It is a very three heavy offense, a very more evolved forward offense where it's three and layups. And I do just kind of think if Houston is any bit tired this evening, which they might be given the rest spot, they might have trouble kind of keeping up with this Charlotte team, which is number one in the NBA and offensive rating over the last 12 games and about to get better, by the way, with the addition of Kobe White. And no surprise the magic or huge favors over the nets tonight. You have a creative way of playing this game. Yeah, Anthony Black over 15 and a half points. And I also took a little bit of him to score 20 plus points at plus 220. I just think that Black, if you look at all season long, he has taken advantage of these spots where either Jalen Suggs or Franz Wagner have been out, it's Wagner that's going

31:46to be out tonight. And he's averaging a little over 18 points per game when Wagner does not play. And I think of the last two games of kind of changed things a little bit for him because he's, you know, averaging 10 and a half points per game over the last two, but those were games against the Spurs and the Thunder. This next team is 29th in the NBA and defensive rating over the last 15 games. And all of their weaknesses kind of play into Black strengths, whether that's scoring and transition, scoring on spotups like this next team is very weak at all of it. The nets are also very weak defending the basket and Black is good at driving to the rim. So I think he's going to have a really strong offensive game tonight. All right, Zach, super bowl 60, three days away. Remind us where you stand on this game and what you've bet so far. I still only have the Patriots plus four and a half. I'm not sure if I'm going to add anything. It's kind of the situation where like I don't really love the game overall. And it's like, I feel like I have to force something because it's the Super Bowl. And I don't really want to do it trying to hold strong right now. But as of right now, I have new England plus four and a half.

32:47I do think of this Patriots defense is going to have some success against Seattle. I think the Patriots run defense is really, really good. And I just don't think Kenneth Walker is going to get it going and I think it's going to come down to whether or not Sam Donald is making throws down the field. And maybe he doesn't, maybe he does, maybe he doesn't. I don't think he's going to have a great game. But if he does have a strong game, I sent it to Dustin Sweetleson. He deserves it because he escaped my jets. Yeah, I think you, I, you know, it does deserve to be mentioned that I think you reflect at least a good portion of the betting public, right? Maybe not the betting public, but at least those who bet seriously or for a living, which is you just don't feel that you don't have that much conviction on the game. You don't want to force anything. We were talking to the Megapod yesterday. I'll have more on tennis that day, probably, right? Todd will have more on college basketball that day, um, but you are on the Patriots plus four and a half and no MVP bet with that at all. No, nothing, nothing, nothing. Yeah. I look for ways to add it. And if I do add it, you'll see it on the pro picks page.

33:48But as of right now, just Patriots and you are absolutely correct. I will have more on tennis that day. I had more on challenger tennis this morning on the challenger tour. Keep it on the main tour. All right. Zach, thank you. As always, man. Appreciate it. Thanks, guys. Zach Cohen, everybody, betting on X, all of his stuff, every sport, Vsyn.com. We'll talk some golf, we'll country club next on a numbers game right here. Vsyn, Vsyn, Vsyn, Vsyn, Vsyn, Vsyn, Vsyn, Vsyn. Don't forget to check out Sharp Blame's unmatched transparency with records updated daily. AI betting analysis, real-time global betting information, and alerts directly from pros sharp plays.com. Scan the QR code for more. In the category of, yeah, I lolly gagged too much and I got a worse number than I thought I was going to get. I got darn old at MVP plus one 25.

34:50I had there was a, there was a road plus one 35. You lolly gagged. You missed 10 cents. I missed 10 cents. But I did. Yeah. Just be honest. You did. It happens to all of us. But you're it. I'm in. I'm in. Darn it. I was 125. All right. Like it. Sure. Sure. McGamlin just sent me a tweet. I'm going to bring up with you. I send it to me and Will Hill, because I was on a, uh, should a bit more with, with Will the other day, and Will's been asking everybody what's like what's your go to food for Super Bowl parties? Okay. He loves that question by the way. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I think he was asking that last. I followed it a little bit because I was like, I don't, you know, how our normal Sunday is for Super Bowl. It's just like we do the show that it's getting home right away. I want to make sure I'm locked into the TV. I'm not even thinking about food. So, uh, I don't even know what I said. I think I said some wings. I think I said wings, which I do love. Uh, should McGamlin goes, can't believe no one has said Buffalo chicken, uh, Buffalo chicken dip for their favorite Super Bowl food healthier than wings, especially if you go with some carrots instead of chips. Gil, odd food that I have a problem with. I love Buffalo chicken. I love chip dips. I don't even Buffalo chicken dips all that good.

35:51It's an overpowering flavor. Okay. Can I share with you a, uh, a ethical, uh, an ethical matter that happened to me yesterday because I got chicken. I am the king of ethics. This is just popped in my head now because I got, I don't know for whatever reason I went to the Aria food court last night. Okay. I don't know why I was just like, I don't want to try something different. I don't want to get something quick. Yeah. Uh, there were very few people in there like these casinos are empty. What's going on this week? I have no idea. There was like literally, I'm talking no more than six people in there besides me, trying to figure out who's bored shocked by this. You were me because I, you should have seen me driving up here on Monday. It was like, is there like a holiday today? I'm on a wearover. And this was, this was not nine PM either. This was like seven thirty. So it was really weird. So you know, you order at the Aria, uh, food court, you order on kiosks. Mm hmm. So I punch in my thing and then I go to tap and I notice. That it's doing something, uh, it was, it was odd because it took a little while longer. So I'm like, wait, that's weird. And so then it finally goes through.

36:52And I'm like, what? What's going on? I thought something was strange. Anyway, you know what I see? Someone had left their credit card inserted, it's kind of dark in there and it's kind of low. Someone had left their credit card inserted. And whoever's credit card that was paid for my dinner. So now I've made a discovery. Somebody's credit card is there. Somebody has paid for my meal. There's only six people in there. If there were 60 people in there, I would have handled this differently. I'd gone to a security person and been like, Hey man, here's a credit card. Somebody had. But there's only six. So I went a blinking on him, right? A blinking actually the story was he went to like thousand people and whatever was to find five dollars to give five dollars. So I went to the very first table in front of me. There's literally six people, right? It couldn't have been, you know, chances are that I was going to hit somebody in a close enough area that you could have just announced to all six of them or no. No. Okay. No. So I just have to see, I just walked to one table with two people. I'm like, are you Brian and then his last name, right?

37:52I miss pronouncing the last name a little bit goes, yeah, I am, I go, I go, I go, I here's your credit card. You left it in the thing and oh, by the way, I owe you money and I gave him money. And he, by the way, it was interesting and I gave him the money and cash. He wasn't that, like he wasn't that move, but he's like, oh, thanks. It was the guy next to him was like, oh, man, that was so nice. Anyway, that was my little ethical thing last night with chicken fish. Oh, man, I think you handled it perfectly. Well, I think because it was, I don't want to give myself too much credit, but it was because there was only six people in there. I was like, I should probably just roll up to these people and ask them. No, it's, I'd be completely honest. I would hope that I would do the same thing. I would have done the same thing. And you write the six people change. And if it was 60, like you're saying, I would just give it to secure. You would have been to the manager and, you know, maybe depending on the night I had, I would have told them if it charged for my food or not. Well, no, that's the thing. I, that was the part that would have been the dilemma. What it would you have done? And that's right. Right. Right. That's probably why I might have kept it quiet. You know, if there was that many people, thanks for bringing up chicken. Otherwise, I wouldn't remember that story. You're a gentleman in a scholar, you actually really thought it out.

38:53The individual, yeah, you did it right, man. Well, it was interesting to see that guy's reaction was not nearly as, like, not that I was going for the reaction, but he was, he was sort of like, yeah, thanks, man. Isn't it like, it's that, right? Like not like you're expecting a big reaction, but like, if this happened to be like you, you, you fake it, right? You fake it. Oh, man. Thank you so much. I really happened to me. I would have been so thankful for the credit card. And I would have said, you don't take the money, you got your, you got your, yeah, keep your money. Absolutely. Because honestly, his credit card could have been in there all night, paying for a million people's meals. Okay. Not only that. He's a tourist and in from out of town. Good luck for the rest of the time you're here without your credit card, right? I hope you got several backups there. You're not getting one. Hey, do we have the video of what we're looking at when we do country clubbing? Do we have that video available? We do. You may want to give the guys a minute. We'll give them a minute. Okay. In the meantime, do we just go country clubbing? Oh, we have it. This is, this is the video. You want to do the full open and then the video? Okay. Here's the full open of country club. Here we go. Make your artist.

39:53All right. For Darnel. By the music. By the music. There we go. All right. This is what we look at. Wow. There you go. This is from our perspective. This is our crew. Look at that. You need glow sticks, baby. Yeah, man. You don't think we get pumped for tennis and golf segments? That's right. Who's got two glow sticks? Darnel's got two. Yeah. Darnel's got two. Darnel wants to get employee of the week. Larry gets very. Larry gets our director. Larry gets very bad. We get Darnel. Employee of the week every week. Crew. Crew member of the week. Crew member of the week. All right. Let's talk. I think I named Larry Crew member of the year, though. I'd like July 30th. January. Jeez. December 31st. So, yeah. Yeah. You got the year. You got the whole year. Kelly Kelly apparently has a complete dictator, authoritarian, authoritarian power. I'm having a lot of fun with like the worst thing you could do. With anybody who you work with is actually do accolades like that.

40:55I love that. Where that's where we're doing. Like you. In front of everybody. In front of everybody too. All right. Waste management. Phoenix open. This is the one where you get to emote. And I'm. I'm understating it. If you're in the crowd. Beer, spray it everywhere. You got bets. What do you got? I do. Just to update things because we have gotten underway. Obviously live markets these days. Thank God. We haven't made a big big enough to deal with that. You know, just the fact that you can you can pick golf. Whatever. Right. I'm going to go over some bets. A lot of these guys haven't started yet. You might get a little better numbers. Some guys have shout out world sports exchange. No one ever did a better in golf. It's great. Right now. Just updating the leaderboard. Rasmus Hoigard. Two under par as well as Christiane Bezadenhout. Mark Zadenhout and Matt Fitzpatrick. All two under par. Let's see. We've got at one under. We got Daniel Berger in there. We got Jake Napp in there. So I like seeing that. And where is Scotty Sheffler? He went the water. Yeah. He went the water on whole two. He is even par.

41:55So Bertie and then Bogey for Sheffler to start here. He is human after all. He is human after all. There was one of the things I was concerned about. You know, kind of last night. You don't really worry about weather here. It's out in the desert. It's one of the courses we kind of refer to as dome golf. Or it's just because of the mountain protection and stuff. You don't really see too much wind. You're not seeing it getting too much raining out there. So wind has picked up overnight last night. So I can't, we've got the, the tournament on here. I can't really see it that closely though. There was some concern that wind gust this morning. Could be kind of big and there might be a little bit of a wave advantage here with guys going out this afternoon and then playing tomorrow morning. So something to keep it on. I did kind of make a bet because of that. I played Sheffler first round leader. I did add my boy Keith Mitchell too who goes out this afternoon. Another guy who plays very well at this course. Long off the tee. Great on approach. Has not been super sharp. this course, long off the tee. Great on approach has not been super sharp this season so far, but a lot of good history here. So first round leaders from a Sheffler and Keith Mitchell, look, Sheffler's right back at even par. You probably get a little bit better number on

42:57him now for first round leader, two holes in if you want to play there. As far as outright for the tournament, Cameron, young, Maverick McNeely and Chris got her up for me. Got her up is out there right now. I do not believe the other two have started. All three of these guys, man, I had been playing pretty heavily. Actually, this car, this whole car is pretty heavy for me. Unguys that have played so far this season. Top 10s, also on Cameron, young and Maverick McNeely, as well as Chris got her up. I didn't have that one listed here. Top 20s, then on got her up, Jake nap, Ricky Fowler, Pearson, Kudy, nap, and Kudy have just been so hot to start this season. Get it. Just keep riding. Top 20s with them. And then top 40 on Daniel burger. If you're just getting set for this tournament now, I'd probably skip probably skip the burger. But since he's out on the golf course and already won under, I think the rest of these are all bettable, though. I know Jake naps out there. I just said he was one under two. I think he's bettable. He'll be I think he's going to be around all weekend. I think you could still get in on that price. But yeah, a lot of guys, especially Gillian, I'm focused on guys that are long off the tee here. Good approach

43:59players. And then shoot Cameron Young, Maverick McNeely, Chris got her up all good putters as well. So hoping that that's what I'm going to battle with. And yes, I did play him in the regular outright markets and did not play the winner without again, just going back to that tweet. I do agree with that. I personally agree with it with what he tweeted. I mean, I'm almost always going to play the outright market instead of the winner without. I think that is for people, though, that are betting this every week. If you want to, if you're especially this weekend, it's super bowl weekend. You want to bet some golf and just hang out, watch some golf, head into football. You want to win or without save yourself a headache, a Scotty chefer being involved on Sunday. Yeah, I have no problems with anybody doing it that way. Nikolai Hoigard also three back as well. Have the two Hoigards ever had a mono, mono down the stretch of a golf tournament? That would be cool. That would be cool. Rasmus to three under now. He's taken the lead solo lead by himself. One stroke lead over Poseidon Hoop. Mark Hubbard met Fitzpatrick early going at the waste management, Phoenix Open, where they're already drinking. Let's talk some Luzeman drink.

45:00Drink. Talk some Skeletrood did sick Olympics. Earthquakes. Super Bowl 60 next on a numbers game.