A Numbers Game | January 21, 2026 | Hour 1

0:00A number is called the story of those idiots who believe in analytics. This is a numbers game with Gill Alexander. Good Wednesday morning to you. There's a numbers game. It's the sports betting that we're facing dot com game. Plus I hard radio YouTube TV and of course, series XM channel what 58 Gill Alexander Kelly bedlin in the his a good morning and by the his I mean, circle resort casino. That's right downtown Las Vegas was having a man. You good? I'm good. It's cold in the studio today. Oh, it is frigid colder than wherever Fred Carter is going to send us a picture. I think it's perfect. I don't know. What is the climate in here? You're a very climate sensitive. I jacked up the heater and it's like here. I don't know why we have the most high power and air conditioning system in the world in the studio. It's nice. Everybody send their thoughtful notes to Kelly. He's struggling this morning with the temperature on today's show. Will Hill will join us here with all of his bets momentarily and F L and beyond. Greg Peterson, the fab five from Greg Peterson is fab five picks in college basketball.

1:02He's got about 47 of them, but we we just reduced it to five. Yes. All the time. We have four. It's five. I see in a jot a little later on to talk American Express golf with us as well. Get his thoughts on both championship games. See you from the DMV Nick Whalen from roto wire on championship weekend and some NBA thoughts from him as well. And they weren't sharp on championship weekend. Tadewish Dev kill host of the Megapod. He'll have some thoughts to share. He is a college basketball theory that some folks might be interested in the theory like it. Okay. He spit ball and something spit ball and something as as the, you know, it hasn't been as big of a boon for him in a recent week or two though he says some thoughts have entered his mind. So we'll talk about that with him later. We'll do more tennis props. By the way, oh, and two on the official registry yesterday in tennis. Sorry. They didn't get up on the website. People told me he was, he had napped in the afternoon and he's my, he's my white club service. So he didn't get up in time. So you probably only went on one.

2:04So good. In that case, not meant I didn't really like that much yesterday. We'll have a back at it today for the second round, but we will do some tennis props. People seem to like the tennis prop yesterday. So we will do some more of those today later on the show. This is from Diana Rucini Kelly as the coaching carousel continues the Eagles conducting their offensive coordinator search. The understanding that Brian Dable wants the bills had coaching job. If he doesn't land that, Dable is expected to wind up in Tennessee as the offensive coordinator for cam ward and the Titans. Mm hmm. I guess for Robert Salah and the Titans is, is what one would say quite a gap between those jobs. But you know, so let me, let me, let me interpret that tweet. So Eagles are like, okay, cool. We get it. If you get the bills had coaching job, we totally understand. But what is that last part? It's like, you're expected to wind up in Tennessee. So what are we doing here? It sounds like Rucini is saying that he's narrowed it down between the Buffalo Bill's head coaching job or the Tennessee Titans offensive coordinator job, which, like I just said,

3:04quite the gap between those two jobs. Yeah. Yeah. This is on the heels this morning, Rossini and Shafter reporting, um, Bill's requested a head coach interview with Brian Dable. So that's why he, we are seeing him there, Brian Dable, the former, oh, see with the Buffalo Bill's, by the way, the beauty of this stuff now is you can bet on all of this, right? We're not just some sports talking heads, talking about coaching, you bet on this stuff at Kalshi prediction market, Brian Dable to be the, let's talk about the Buffalo Bill's first Buffalo Bill's next head coaching odds. Brian Dable is your short shot at plus 22, Kelly. There's also a no price, by the way, you'd like to play it that way. Dable who had success there as a, as a OC, then, uh, not so much as the giant's head coach. And let me just say this, I personally, me, I wouldn't hire the guy. I saw enough of him on that, uh, on that hard knocks preseason one to know he's not my type of guy. A little too arrogant for your accomplishments, my friend, it's, it's, man, it's tough. It's, it, I don't know where they're going to go with this search.

4:05But like if you've got Josh Allen yelling at ownership that I want that guy back is, that's all that matters. It's probably all that matters. And I, I mean, I do, I think that's the only reason we're even talking about him right now. Anyway, it's just because that's what, that's what is happening behind, uh, behind the scenes. Man, if you're the bill, if you're the bills ownership, you got to think more, more about just that, right? Then just that, uh, one would think, one would think, um, the, the, the one that, the name on here, I don't know if you've heard this like the Davis web stuff the past few days. So Davis web is the offensive passing game coordinator and quarterbacks coach for the Denver Broncos. Mm hmm. Not the offensive coordinator, but what I just said, that mouthful, offensive passing game coordinator and quarterbacks coach, Davis web is the fourth shot to be the bills next set head coach at plus 488 in between table and web is Clint Coot, and these, these guys, it's, it's really amazing because the remaining, what is it eight vacancies that we still have? No seven vacancies. Seven. Seven vacancies. Now the table, uh, excuse me, that does Salah is now with the Titans. Oh no, six because we also had, um, the dolphins fill theirs, right?

5:09So in addition to, uh, the first two going. So we have six vacancies still, but you'll see the same names. But Kubiak, he's, is the second short shot here is the second shot at the, uh, the bills head coaching job at plus 284, Kubiak, the Seattle offensive coordinator and then Joe Brady at plus 334, Joe Brady, the current Buffalo OC, which is another fascinating one, right? He was the first question that, you know, I kind of had when we saw Sean McDermott was getting canned. It was like, well, what about Joe Brady? Because, wait, what does that mean for him? He ready to elevate him and kick McDermott out. Joe Brady, who was with LSU during the spectacular 2019 LSU championship run with Joe Burrow. He then immediately got the, uh, those C job with the Carolina Panthers didn't go so well there. Oh, just trying to remember Panthers. Yeah. And then he sort of like had to work his way back up in Buffalo and he's been there in different roles. Most recently, of course, the offensive coordinator role, but he's, he's behind Dave

6:10Bowling Kubiak. I just don't know. I guess that's a little bit where Dave Hall makes sense though. Cause if, like, I don't know where, if a new coach is coming in, I don't know what that says about the future. Joe Brady, right? Right. Right. You're going to be OC for another head coach. Well, especially because Brian Dable's on his side of the ball. That's right. That's where the top of the table could make sense and Joe Brady gets out of town. Terry Pagula. By the way, if you were wondering about why did the Buffalo Bills decide to get away from Sean McDermott, Terry Pagula, um, owner of the Buffalo Bills and Buffalo OC. And most famously father of top five player in the world, Jesse Pagula has to be said. Terry Pagula. My decision was based on the game in Denver. That's it. That's what he said. He said what happened in Denver. He had seen enough. So Terry Pagula moved on. You don't know what is an interesting question. If I may, I know I joke about the, I'm not joking, but I was throw Jesse Pagula in there, right? One of the top five women's tennis players in the world. Jesse Pagula recently had a coaching, her coach change in tennis.

7:11I wonder if there wasn't some inspiration from that where she was able to sort of elevate with a coaching change who had, she had been with a very, very long time and then she sort of cracked through a glass ceiling. I do wonder if someone would ask him that if that inspired him and all, but he says the Denver game. So that tweet, yeah, looks like they got their end of season press conference going on right now. Yeah. Okay. Have any other teams here? Yeah. We do. And I will update these real quick because they will be in the news this morning. This price is crashing plus one twenty seven. Oh, Brian. Sounds sounds like it could be a done deal. By the way, all these prices that Kalshi are created, not by an odds maker, but by actual bets made. So typically inside information will rule the day on most of these, though it sure didn't when it came to who's going to make the CFP playoff, tell you that Baltimore Raven's next head coaching odds, Jesse Mentor is your favorite at minus one ninety five. This feels like it's a, does he feel like it's a done deal there in Baltimore? I mean, I was start. So this is where we've been doing all these Kalshi markets, right?

8:13We started to, started to hear this last night, saw a steam coming in on Mentor. Like, Oh, man, this is going to get announced soon. I'm like, I'm so glad I put a bet in on him. Like a month ago, we first talked about this for you. Jesse Mentor. Nope, forgot to do it. Oh, you did. When we first talked about this market, I was like, Mentor would make a lot of sense. Apparently, not so good for you. Jesse Mentor at minus one ninety five, Jesse Mentor, the chargers defensive coordinator followed by again, some of the usual suspects, Clint Kubiak once again, the Seattle O sea, a distant second at plus five sixty six. Yes. Anthony Weaver, the Miami Dolphins defensive coordinator and Joe Brady, the aforementioned over 13 to one in both cases for the Ravens shop Brian flew by the way, if you went further down the Ravens list, past Mentor, Kubiak, Weaver and Brady, then you get into names like Nathan Sheelhouse, who's the one who's the Rams passing game coordinator, Sean McDermott, you know him 19 to one former head coach Buffalo Bills, Brian Flores, you're

9:15learning where's Brian Flores, Minnesota defensive coordinator, 32 and then Chris Shula, the Rams defensive coordinator, 24, there you go. I mean, this is it's just the usual suspects on all of these. I think this one, this is the one sounds done. Mentor to Ravens has made the most sense to me since, since Hart, we knew Harbaugh was gone. I mean, Mentor was there before this is kind of where he's gotten all this NFL flowers, although you're going from John Harbaugh to a Jim Harbaugh God. So that was the only but right, you know, is that weird? Is that somehow weird? I don't think I don't want to just break out of that. If you're a shotty, I think Jesse Mentor will have the opportunity to make a name for himself. Well, he, I'm sure he would, but in Bashad, he's head is he, does that creep in? I'm sure it has. I mean, I'm sure it has. I don't think it's going to matter though. I don't, I don't think you pass up on a good coach, just because of that. By the way, leading candidate for the Arizona Cardinals job, which is a job I have thought three seconds about the entire time. Yeah, I would not look up odds for all of this. Yes, go.

10:16Is, is Vance Joseph? Vance Joseph is like a big favorite to be the next Arizona Cardinals head coach. He's the Denver defensive coordinator. So I need to say that checks out though, right? Yeah, Vance Joseph, Joseph plus one oh eight to right now. Okay. So not a big fair. But plus one way. He's a short shot. My bad short shot. Still. Yeah. So six of these jobs still available. Ten changing hands this year. And the only other thing we heard we heard yesterday is you're wondering about Mike McDaniel, the former Miami Dolphins head coach who got ousted this year. Mike McDaniel appears to be set to take the offensive coordinator job with the chargers. Yeah. So he's told other teams that he had head coaching interviews with, hey, I'm not, I'm not innocent anymore. Yeah, it's good point. I guess it's still a report, but yeah, chargers expected to hire Mike McDaniel's new offensive coordinator. I like it. Good for him. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. The humility to, you know, to turn down some of these other head coaching jobs or humility or knowing that you're going to get a better one in the future. If you take a job like that, I think that's the plan.

11:18And it makes a lot of sense, right? For people like me that have been big critics, adjusting Herbert in this offense is a big opportunity to turn around a very promising quarterback in offense there. Hey, who's washing and hiring? Oh, it's still Dan Quinn. Oh, great. Anyway, you can bet on all these at a prediction market like Calche check it out for those interested in betting on such things. Will Hill with all of his bets NFL and beyond his numbers gave it. And these sports betting that were coming 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 pros 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 bettors are turning knowledge into profit with Vs in pro numbers game on

12:26Vs in these sports betting network back on the numbers game live at center resort casino downtown Las Vegas majestic downtown Las Vegas. Oh, Kelly, there's Paris, there's Rome, and then there's downtown Las Vegas right in that order. Not necessarily though, go Alexander Kelly, but we get tweets to be to the book, Jett O'Connor. Can we get three men weave on again, little three and oh early week, nice way to start. We get them once a week, so it's how it goes here. Fred courier sent his morning weather picture for you, a lot of snow and a lot of tractors trying to push that snow out of there. Hey, keep up a good word for it. You're killing it out there. 19 degrees. Where is he though? I don't know. Where are you at? Where are you at? Buffalo. He's a buffalo 19 degrees. Poké therapy. Now that Dr. Bob is done for the season. Can we get Tanner on the show weekly for college hoops? Tanner is Dr. Bob's right hand man. I'd love to have Tanner on. I know what Bob would say. Probably like, what do you mean? You know what I mean? He could he could come back with that.

13:26I don't know. Mike Boreali. Oh, Mike. This is a tweet after this is this is I agree completely says guilt to feed on the table during a meeting with the owner or two reasons why I wouldn't hire a double show some respect no matter how informal the meeting was 100% God, the table was the worst on that show. I was like, bro, how many superheroes did you win again? Oh, zero. Who's your bear 85? Oh, I see you. Who's your bear 85? Who's your bear 85? Is a guy who kept texting, kept tweeting about the bears week after week after week after week after week. I noticed he's not acknowledging that now, but he just says another successful football season. Who? Who's yours? There you go. There you go. Mike says, uh, wish I could get money down on Shula to the Steelers. It seems like Mike Shulubui announces the next head coach here in Pittsburgh next week. Um, Mike Shulub, by the way, at Cal State, because we didn't cover the Steelers, even money, even money with, uh, Mike McCarthy and Brian Flora is a distant second. There's Michael. There's a Mike McCarthy siding at a Wish at audio on this Terry Pagula press conference

14:30apparently. This is big deal. He's trending. Bill's owner, Terry Pagula on key on Coleman. Oh, man. Quotes about active players on the team, quote, the coaching staff pushed to draft Keon. That was Brandon being a team player and taking advice from his coaching staff. Wait, say that again. What do you say? Quote, the coaching staff pushed to draft Keon. That was Brandon being being a team player and taking advice of his coaching staff. So he is really that so the the theme of this is Keon sucks, but it's not our fault. Well, no, the reports are that Sean McDermott was that that Terry Pagula was rubbed wrong by the fact that Sean McDermott blamed his roster for a lot of their not getting to where they needed to get to meeting the Super Bowl. And that did not sit well with Terry Pagula. And now it seems like he's going full force. He's fire. Again, Sean McDermott, uh, there's the, there's the quote from Adam Schefter, uh, Terry Pagula saying the Buffalo's coaching staff pushed to draft Keon Coleman and Brandon

15:30Pete supported it. By the way, Keon Coleman must be listening to this being like, I'm right here, guys, it is going on around here. But Gula doesn't think it's fair for that pick to be pinned on bean. Wow. Good times in Buffalo. And Jesse Pagula, once you won the other day in the camera, she wrote, it was a catch. No, it wasn't Jesse. I love you, but it wasn't. Will Hill joins us down courtesy of progressive gas law. You can follow him on Twitter at not V with two. He's not V will Hill. The host of the should a bet more podcast. Well, good morning to you, sir. Kelly Kelly, what's going on? Yeah, all of this dysfunction with the bills and they are as Plinko, uh, coin flip, uh, win a game away from being in the final four this weekend and the punches chance against the Patriots. It's just, it's amazing how the league works, isn't it? It's amazing. Well, listen, I don't want to bring this up, but I feel like we, we should bring this up because, um, sometimes you don't look at it. If you bet as much as we do, stuff usually just splashes office, but everyone's in a while, right? Uh, a nature of a loss in a bad bead style. I'm trying to think of the circumstances or let's just go to the circumstance that I'm

16:33talking about here is, or you had so much that you were going to win had Miami won the NADD that these and, and to come as close that sometimes they stick with you. How are you dealing with this now a couple of days after the fact? Not great to be honest, um, I mean, could, could sugarcoded, but I'd be lying on a little better day than I was yesterday, but there is a little bit of, uh, boy, grief is a strong word because it's still sports betting. You have to keep it in perspective. But when you bet these futures, you almost adopt these teams as your favorite team. You have an emotional attachment to the team, the ticket and you, you know, you win and die with every loss and to be Ohio State New Year's Eve to get in. I mean, think all the things you went through, uh, the great win against Ole Miss A&M was kind of a point-foot game. You win last second. I didn't monetize it. I, there's some regret there. I figured, you know, let's see how the game starts. I never thought that line should have been eight and a half. The fact that it was yards per place, six and a half to four, four sticks with me. You start to go through this stuff where you replay certain plays, you replay the last play and it's, uh, spoiler, he's going to throw the interception on the last play no

17:36matter how many times I watch it, but it's right. It's tough. I wish I handled it differently. Could never get a lead. You know, it was 10-nothing Miami and they just kept in the, they just, you know, kept Miami at arms like the whole way. So I couldn't get in like minus under minus 200. I just, I thought I was in good position, didn't get home. Not much you can do. It's, you know, it's, it's probably going to just take a couple more days. I'm sure by the weekend, I'll, you know, not, I've forgotten about it, but time heals all wounds, but it's a tough one. It really is a tough one. Yeah, just, just to bring up the fact that that even the most veteran betters, every once in a while, something sticks and just about the, I'm not to belabor it, but just that last point you made about the, uh, spoiler alert pass, because I didn't bring this up yesterday. And I should have, which was, because we, we touched upon it in the group chat, which is, by the way, what are you doing throwing that pass? Even if you get a touchdown there, you've left 50 seconds, like on the clock, I think at that point, or, excuse me, like 45, 44 seconds left on the clock at that point. So it's still not like the most optimal time to score the touch. I know if you get one, you're still thrilled about it.

18:36But ideally, you would like to matriculate it a little more at that point too. 100% take your eight, eight, 10, 12 yards. You are moving the ball well. You, you do want to, uh, just like you said, matriculate, move the change. You don't need the home run there. You're working to run out of time. You were kind of a really good position where, if you could have scored five, six seven, I know it's hard to just completely, you know, manipulate, orchestrate when you're going to score. It's hard enough to score a period and just start to add when you're going to score on and it's tough, but you didn't need the home run ball to your point. Yeah. All right. Well, we, we shake it off or you'll shake it off. We look forward to, uh, the conference championship weekend in the National Football League. Let's start with the AFC game where the Patriots, we've talked about it all week. Every show has on the network for sure. Patriots five and a half point favorites. I guessed four on guessing lines. Do you like so many think this is too big of an adjustment? I do. I mean, Nick's is not my homes or Allen or Lamar Jackson. This should not be like a six point adjustment. This is just to be too big of an adjustment. Doesn't mean those extra points are going to get you home.

19:36I mean, do we really come out and win the game? Thirty to three, but I do think it's too many points. Uh, I'm sure Peyton, who's an ego maniac to be able to, I'm sure he loves nothing. More not that he wants his quarterbacks to be totally. I'm sure he would love nothing more than to go to a Super Bowl or even win a Super Bowl with a backup quarterback. I mean, he is probably giddy at this opportunity. I do think it's too many points. I do, I do like Denver, uh, May hasn't played great first road start. Denver supposedly has a good defense. Although they haven't really played good defense in a while. Buffalo kind of shredded him and did whatever they wanted, but running game, pretty good coach and paying good defense. I think they have enough to get around. Stid him here. I like Denver plus the points. Interesting. This is the first AFC title. I shouldn't say it's the first. Every AFC title game since 2010, I should say has had either the chiefs or the Patriots in it. It's really remarkable. I don't know if we'll ever see another run like this. We have two teams in the title game for a decade and a half like this. It's amazing. That's absolutely amazing. Uh, by the way, there was a little part of Peyton's brain. It was like, if I could just get Sam Ellinger in there too, I'd look even that much better. Uh, all right, Rams and Seahawks, which many are, many are calling it.

20:36I'm not sure I disagree. The de facto Super Bowl, right? Like whoever wins this game is going to win it all. Seahawks will remain a two and a half point favorite. It is extra juice on the two and a half, total 47 and a half. I took three early in the week. I don't think it's the past post because you can still get some cheaper three's like minus 120. To me, these teams are even enough for you to just take the points. I know it's not a great spot for the Rams. Third straight road game Seattle is fresh. It's a day easy. They had a buy and they basically had a second buy against the 49ers. I just think these two teams are so close where I can't justify laying the points. Preferred, trust Stafford more in a big spot over Donald. I would say I trust and prefer McVeigh over Mc Donald in a big spot. But that was a very strange game plan. And I thought poor game plan from McVeigh and he admitted so much after the game. And you know, even even running the ball right before the two minute warning. I thought he really got away with one and what was not his best moment. But McVeigh Stafford getting points, you know, one game landed on two, the other game landed on one. If it weren't for blown a 16 point lead, this game is in L.A.

21:37The Rams get the buy. That's how close the Rams were to sweeping this series. So I'm I lean towards taking the points here with the Rams. I like both dogs here on Sunday. All right. Well football winding down. Well, what else you bet in these days? If you started baseball research yet or any of that, nothing yet for baseball. By the way, hopefully, you know, we, I don't know if you tailed along. We talked about this a few times this year. The NFC minus 135 in the soup wall. I didn't understand that number. That's looking to be a good one. Maybe you can hedge your middle that one. Maybe I learned my lesson. I'll hedge and take the AFC plus the points consumable. I do like Texas tonight in college basketball, getting the seven and a half. Kentucky's had a shaky season. They won two games in a row. They were down 16 in the second half and one and down 17 in the second half and the other. But they shot like 44% from three of those two games. Prior to that, they were shooting 32% from three. I just think this is a little too many points with Texas who probably early to start talking bubble teams were right now. They'd be one of the last teams either in or out. This would be a nice little resume boost. I just think the seven and a half is a little heavy here with Texas. Okay. There it is. Got a little college basketball and no MVP in the Super Bowl.

22:39You didn't bet that market at all. Haven't touched it. I would say another bet that I gave out a couple of months ago. A group chat. I post on Twitter, a couple other places warriors to miss the playoffs. I can curry really get them in himself with no botlar. I wonder what their approach to the deadline is. There's still plus money to miss the playoffs. Yeah. Sorry to say that. Yeah. It's, I mean, they're old. They're old. They're old. What are you going to do? It was one of the great dynasties of our life. Touches for sure. Will Hill, everybody had not the will Hill should have bet more as the name of the podcast. Thank you. Well, see you guys coming back on a numbers game at visa. These sports betting never. Numbers game on the visa. These sports betting network. Football meets flavor with visa to no more hot stakes. The official sponsor of tailgating right now when you spend $129. You can score two pounds of fully cooked chicken wings, plus 50% offside wide at Omaha Stakes.com slash V S I N. Don't wait, spend $129 get two pounds of wings and say 50% sight wide on

23:42stakes and more at Omaha Stakes.com slash V S I N. That's Omaha Stakes.com slash V S in minimum purchase required. See site for details. Hey, Bill, eighties newsletter today. Free for all at visa.com. Just got to sign up for it, right? Free newsletter. He links to O's. Pearlman's appearance on a numbers game some years ago. How many years ago was that three years ago? Three years ago. It feels about like seven years ago. O's the mentalists came on a numbers game. This was before he was big time, right? Game with it came all with us. Now God, God forbid he comes on again, right? But he came on the show and did a couple of things that to this day still blow my mind. Like I still, I still cannot quite get over what happened that day on a numbers game. O's the mentalist and maybe I will link it out later today. I'm not sure what the why Bill decided to put it out today on the newsletter. Uh, apparently back in November. Yeah.

24:43O's performed for Rams players and coaches and predicted. They would beat the Broncos 23 to 14 in the Super Bowl. Oh, man, there you go. Rams 23 Broncos 14 per O's, O's the mentalist. Man, I hope he's wrong. Hope he's wrong again. He's still having crack to this brain, O's. That's right. So when O's was on with us, he was able to crack my very apparently crackable brain, but not this kid. That's right. Not me. Kelly's mind was a steel trap for O's. Mm-hmm. Now, and now he's just, uh, now he just won't accept the invitation back onto the show. You know, does he respond? Oh, yeah, he responds. What does he say? I, but in a very, very polite way. Yeah. I'm too big tied now. All right. Throw some Hebrew in there and see what happens. Seriously, let's put out all the stops. They've been very polite about it, but yeah, I don't know if we're getting those back on any time soon. Um, I just wanted to, so thank you to Bill for putting that out on the newsletter again. Veson.com for, uh, this is free sign up there, bullet God free. I just want to read this one tweet because this does need to be mentioned about the NBA last night.

25:43He said, I overheard some bad beat talk made me think about Kelly's under on San Antonio last night. He said, we should have bet more boy, oh boy, boy, uh, you weren't the only one Carl Sack had the under on that. I the under in the side, I got rocket home and the under the under was insane. Yes. How many points were scored in the first half of that game? Like 130, I think, uh, it was something like that. I basically written off as an L already. Yeah. It was to what was 219 or something like that was the total under 223 F. Oh, I got worse than that. And they combined for 44 in the third and 45 in the, that'll do it. That'll do it. Holds 36 points in the second half by the San Antonio Spurs. Yeah. Believe it when we made one shot in the second half. Hey, we don't usually do this on a numbers game. And by usually don't do this, what I'm referring to is rely on old things we've done and just throw up the video. But there is one occasion every year where we do this. Do you remember what it is, Kelly? It's when the baseball Hall of Fame announces who they're inducting into the Hall of Fame.

26:45And Jeff Kent, former Met, but prominently more with the Giants where he was at MVP was inducted yesterday along with, of course, the, the modern day guys Andrew Jones was put into the Hall of Fame yesterday. And who was it besides Andrew Jones, I'm already forgetting bell trainer, Carlos Beltran. Of course, Carlos Beltran was also put in there as well. And then everyone asked me, Hey, what do you think about Jeff Kent being in the Hall of Fame? And that kind of thing. Well, we can just pick a year in the old numbers game archive as to what I take this discussion to once again. So we go into the numbers game randomizer. Boop, boop, boop, boop, boop. Let's go to 2022. I saw that Jeff passing, could we do a little, could we do a couple minutes on sports radio here? Do we? Let's do a little sports radio for a second. Jeff passing, I saw the SPN wrote a, a Barry Bond's piece this morning, which reminds me that is, it's Hall of Fame voting day today. Is that what that is today? Apparently so. So you know, if you've listened to this show for years and years and years, every year

27:45at this time, I have my same rant. If Barry bonds is not in your Hall of Fame, Major League Baseball, you might as well not have a Hall of Fame. And I saw that passing wrote something about this this morning. I've been saying this four years. This is the deal with halls of fame, if I may. We are caretakers of what essentially is a museum for a sport. We pass it on to future generations. It is not our place to be so arrogant to determine for future generations who they even get to see in that Hall of Fame. If you want to put a plaque by Barry bonds or a plaque by Pete Rose or whatever, that explains to future generations what it is that they had as a scandal during their careers, or in the case of Pete Rose post career as well, then you're welcome to do that.

28:47But to eradicate them from the museum entirely is absolutely the height of arrogance. And these these people who vote, the baseball writers or whoever has Hall of Fame votes, votes who keep Barry Lamar bonds out of baseball. This is ridiculous, absolutely ridiculous. And I could go on and I think I will, Jeff, just for those who don't understand what we're talking about. We're talking about a guy who at baseball might have been better than Michael Jordan was at basketball. Let me just put it that way. Craig Bigeo's in the Hall of Fame. He drove an 1175 runs in his 20 year career, 1175, Barry bonds, home runs alone drove an 1174. Jeff, you'll stop me when you get tired with all this stuff. You ready? You tired yet? I could go on 2001 to 2004, fan graphs, war, expo's 30.7, Detroit, 30.9, royals, 31,

29:50brewers, 45.3, New York, Mets, 46.6, Barry Lamar bonds, 46.6, oh, there's more. Most intentional walks in baseball history, bonds, 688, second place, Pooholes, 292. 26.3% of Barry bonds, 12,606 career plate appearances ended with a home run or walk, 26.3% because they were terrified of him. And when he got the one pitch, he parked it. Anyway, there's tons of these 49.1% of his career hits, 2935, by the way, almost 3,000 were extra base hits. Let me just cut to the chase and go to the greatest Barry bonds that there is. How about that? In the year 2004, Barry bonds reached base 376 times. Do you know how many at bats he had, Jeff?

30:51He reached base 376 times. He had the 373 at bats. Poo! No player in the history of Major League Baseball ever reached base more times that he had a B's. By the way, you know who's second and third on that list is, Barry Lamar bonds in 2002 and Barry Lamar bonds in 2003. You know who's seventh and 10th on that list? Barry bonds and Barry bonds, 2001, 2007. Anyway, you get the idea. Stop with this. Stop with being so arrogant to keep this guy out of the hall of fame. Yeah, he was not a great guy, great. So sick of these sports writers. That monk didn't make the NFL hall of fame as the guy who retired with the most catches. Like there's a position called wide receiver. The first task of a wide receiver is to catch the ball. It was the centerpiece of three super bowls. You kept him out of the hall of fame for nine years because he didn't want to talk to

31:53the press. So the Peter Kings of the world who were giant speed reporters and at a hall of fame votes kept him out. We thought Gary Clark was more scary than art monk. Brought if you had all 22 footage, you would have known differently. And Peter King admitted as much to me many years later, anyway, don't be don't be don't let sports writers fool you as to who is great and who isn't. It's all I'm saying with that. Couple of reactions, Kelly, to who is that young kid? He's a genius. No, you and Jeff just look so young and fresh whole world in front of you. Second is how much of I aged in four years, my God. What is happening to me fall apart? I'm decaying before your eyes. Oh my God. Anyway, that's the only that's the only time we ever go back once a year. It's great. Just because why do it new? Yeah. I can pick any year. You're your hall of fame is stupid. It's always the best example. Yeah. It's always going to be the best example. Real quick, because we do this every week of the playoffs and we figure we do one more time. These are the four kickers that are still going in the championship games.

32:53Just a look at their stats. This is just how amazing feel goal kicking in or extra points. Nobody, not mevus, not Myers, not Borgala, not Lutz has missed a feel goal or a feel goal, try or an extra point in the playoffs yet. They're all perfect. And when you look at the regular season stats, mevus has only missed once by the way that was the second game against the sea hawks, which allowed the sea hawks to push it into over time and eventually win on a two point conversion. But look, there is hardly a discernible difference. Maybe you're like, oh, well, Jason Myers percentage is not as great as the others. Yeah. But he's still nine of 12 for 50 plus. It's unbelievable these numbers with guys guys are good, man. Look how amazing these stats are, yeah, you brought like the, yes, the guy that we could give the most criticism to, I guess, is Myers, but it's nine for 12 for 50. Yeah. Incredible. Absolutely incredible. Nine. Literally, there's no advantage. They're all great.

33:54They're all great. That's for sure. We'll come back Greg Peterson on college basketball, Vandy loses again, three in a row. I'll ask him about that. I'll ask him about some other stuff going on in his fab five and college hoops tonight on a numbers game. And these sports betting network. Back on the numbers game, circuit resort, Derek Stevens, Shangri-La on the deserts, Gill and Kelly Bidler alongside sports of on Twitter, the awful gamblers and Hills, Barry Lamar bonds. Rand is without a doubt my favorite ANG tradition. Thank you, sports of all respect the process as a Rams fan. When I see that video back in November, I bet Rams over Broncos at 40 to one talking about the O's program. Wow. Let's go steady. LOL respect.

34:54No pressure. O's no pressure. No pressure. O's 23 to 14, huh? By the way, if he nails this, I'm done. I'm officially done. He's a sorcerer. It's terrifying. Harold Irving once they left the cheater who got cut by the twins in. They have to have bonds and Clemens there. He's talking about, of course, big poppy. Hmm. Once they let the cheater who got cut by the twins in, they have to have bonds and Clemens there. Brian M on the Hall of Fame revisit to 2022 number three is Gil wearing the same shirt. I am not. It is a white shirt, but it's not the same shirt. Spants at Beton, Nickel. I 100% agree that bonds and rose and Clemens needs to be in the Hall of Fame. I think where voter struggle is how to discount PEDs, do you think it should be a consideration for fringe candidates like Andy Pettit or should they disregard steroids entirely? Well, that's exactly my point because Andy Pettit, I guess, was more forthcoming about it. So they're like, okay, we, the arrogant writers will allow you to come in because eventually he will, right? But these other guys who didn't admit it to us, we can't have it.

35:57Joe R. Suez. I'll to vague it again. I think so. This one from Jeremy Padrotti, the real Pedro for VT who says, I'm watching a numbers game, drinking some coffee and my wife walks in, looks at the TV and sees Kelly and thought it was Seth Rogan. At least you got a stunt double job if you need one, LOL, love the show and thanks for all you do. Thank you. And Seth Rogan, ladies and gentlemen, not to my left. I have been getting this a lot. Have you really? I mean, I would say I've gotten it, it has been the regular, hey, you look like this guys, anybody said you looked like this guy over the past like four or five years, but the past couple and I guess it's come with losing weight. There's been a couple of time. Matt Brown, I was sitting in the Palazzo High Limit Room two weeks ago. And some guy interrupted our conversation, I think Matt's even hurting a couple of times right now. Interrupted our conversation was like, hey, excuse me, I just just been bothering me for a while. I'm over here listening to you guys talk and like, like, you're not the guy who, and I'm like, cut him off right now. Like Seth Rogan. No, I'm not Seth Rogan. I'm not Seth Rogan. Matt and I just went back to talking because it's not the first time that has happened.

37:01Canadian tribes and then Seth Rogan. I mean, you know what I think it is? I think it's the hair too. It's the glasses in the beard. I don't know if you used to believe anything else, just like glasses and beard. Good for you. Good for you. That's a step up. That's a step up from who they used to compare you to, right? Let's see where Hoffman I would get every now and step up. Yeah, it is. That one I actually could see a little bit more though I got it like the hair. Pull up see more Hoffman one day Seth Rogan, the next Brad Pitt, the next. That's, that's right. That's right. That's the trajectory. That's right. Larry called it out perfectly. Actually though, the little, maybe the little kid and Jerry McGuire, Larry, your director was like, I just always imagine Kelly looked like the grown up version of that kid. If you saw pictures of me at that age, I could be, I, I was that kid. The kid who said, uh, Hey, do you know the weight of a human head? That kid. I just have glasses. Uh, Greg Peterson. I had the same reaction when you told this story off air because you said you were at the Palazzo, but we both read it out. You were compared to Enrico Palazzo. Greg Peterson joins us now courtesy of the aggressive guest line.

38:02Uh, you follow about Twitter at G unit underscore 81. Greg was having it, not too much one. The great movies of all time. Nick had come with Leslie Nielsen and I've never been really compared to any celebrity. So I'm a little bit jealous of Kelly right now. Yeah. You're one of a kind, Greg. That's all it means. You are incomparable. I believe is that they put it. Uh, what was the Enrico Palazzo? Hey, look, it's Enrico. It's Enrico. Yes. I love it. All right, let me, let me ask you about a couple college basketball things that happened last night. One, Vandy loses their third in a row. And maybe even more interestingly, you see a lay beats Purdue, um, are we in what, what kind of color coded alert? Are we in on Vandy and on Purdue? I'm honestly not too concerned about Purdue having to go from the Midwest on out to the West against a, in my opinion, solid UCLA team, UCLA has been really good at home, really bad on the road since the end of the big 10. You'll hear it, McCronon. You're playing about how many times you need to see Statue of Liberty.

39:04I do think that for Purdue going seven to 27 from three and only lose that game from two by two points. I think that they're going to be fine with Vanderbilt. I think the real concern is, and this went way under the radar. They're missing Frankie Collins right now. Frankie Collins was a heart and soul piece of that defense. He was a guy that just really made the engine go only gave you about like eight or so points per game. But ever since he went out with the torn meniscus, it's really where this downfall of Vanderbilt has gone. And I think that a lot of people are not realizing just how big of a deal he is for that team. So right now deal with the torn meniscus. You want to be checking his status because without him, this Vanderbilt team has up in the same man. It's actually been surprisingly on the offense, Vandy as the defensive side of things has been a little bit hit or miss for Vanderbilt, but really on offense. It just feels like the team hasn't had the same spark in last few games. All right, which brings us to, but just give us sense. By the way, coast to coast hoops, the name of the podcast that Greg does. He's done it for over what to it. How many 2000 days in our 2300? What was the latest number?

40:05We're right around about 2,275 ish. Give or take a few days every day talking to holidays, it doesn't matter what happens in his life. He's traveling. He's still doing it. It's high and changes the color of that light behind him. It's just for us. Yes. I don't want to let it just gloss over. That's in just think about that. Think about doing anything in your life, Kelly, taking a shower. You haven't done it for 2,275 days, but you haven't. I know you haven't. I don't mean it's saying Barry Bonds can't get on base that many days in a row because he has it off season. Right. It's exactly right. Good point. But Greg does a podcast that many days in a row, give us a sense for those who haven't heard it. But how many plays do you have typically a day? Well, today we had about 55 games. So we've got a side in total. You're going to be able to get a nice sampling of about 110 plays, give or take. This kid. Okay. Let's narrow it down to Greg's Fab five.

41:05We already want to start. How about if we start out there in the LA, 10 where it's been so interesting, Richmond versus Rhode Island, I'm going to be taking a shot here on Richmond. We've seen them between a two to two and a half point favorite. It's a Rhode Island team that is just really struggling to take care of the ball outside the top three are in terms of turnovers on a pervazation basis in a nippetuck spot. This seems to us in 70% the free throw line and Richmond, I recognize it's been a little bit hot and cold for them, but they've been shooting right around about 38% from three. However, Rhode Island team has been doing the world's greatest job on the glass with this Richmond team. You essentially got seven different guys that give you between about six to 12 points per contest. Really like this collective. So I laid it here with the spiders at home. Okay. And you projected that to be a lot bigger than the two point spread. How many points did you have it at? I felt like Richmond should be a seven point favorite here. So I got about a five point differential. Wow. Okay. Memphis Tulsa, where you go that way. Well, I tell us to shoot me a nine point favorite right now. There are six point favorite and with Tulsa fifth in the country in terms of point scored

42:07out of pervazation basis and it's been a story as long as Penny Artaway is better than Memphis. Team does not take care of the ball outside the top 300 in terms of turnovers on a pervazation basis. Tulsa, the far better rebound team as well top 60 team in terms of rebound percentage. Memphis allows opponents to grab over 33 and a half percent of their mishots as it offense rebound. I think the Tulsa goes out there after it's been a little bit on cold for them in American play. It's a job done willing to lay the points here with the golden hurricane. How many years in a row would it have to take from Memphis to not play defense for the brass at Memphis to say that's enough of Penny Artaway. It's probably like 20 years, right? They're not going to get rid of him ever. They should have like, I mean, if you compare heat to Josh Paster, Josh Paster is actually a better, better coach at Memphis and Penny Artaway should already be gone, but for some reason he's not. So I am not sure. Okay. West Virginia, Arizona state. I am in on West Virginia here on the money line and I took a shot on the under with Arizona state.

43:08He's in there 39th of the country in terms of points per possession away from home. Shoot over 38 percent from three away from home at home that goes down to 27.7 percent about 230th and points per possession when they're at home and you've got a West Virginia team that likes to slow down three and 51st in terms of total possession's brain. Some footer Harlan O'Bianna should allow them to be able to win the battle on the board is really dictate the tempo of this game. So I like here West Virginia on the money line and I'm going to be in on that total under. You also like the under in the Virginia Tech Syracuse game, I believe. Yes, sir. I am in on this under. You've got a Virginia Tech team that has been a little bit mediocre on the glass and mediocre on defense. But now you've got to be the wall back, averaging nine rebounds per game. Donnie Freeman really does elevate the Syracuse scene, but also keep it my own Syracuse. If this is a tight spot on a 365 version one teams, there are bottom five free throw shooting team. Nation bus in 63% at the free fill line as a committee. They have had a relatively mid tempo team. So I feel like the total above 150, especially

44:10with Syracuse being a top three defense, turns points a lot on a pervazesh basis is too high. So in on that under. All right. Nebraska's in action. Miami, Ohio won again last night and overtime to go 20 and 0. So we still have three undefeated air zone. Miami, Ohio, one of the Mac. And of course, Nebraska was taken on UW tonight. How are you playing this? I'm going to be playing the under because Nebraska dares you to shoot from three. opponents say 50.1% of their shots from three orange. Guess what Washington doesn't do well. Shoot the three. They were shooting 30.7% from three orange. That goes down below 30% away from them. Now they're without Desmond Claw due to an injury as well. So I think they get a little bit of a low scoring game and a game where now the team really gives themselves second at third chances on glass. So in on that under. There you go. Greg always a pleasure, man. Thank you so much. Always appreciate you guys. Thank you. Greg Peterson, everybody had G unit underscore 81. C in a job standing by. We'll talk some American Express golf and some NFL with him next on a numbers game.