A Numbers Game | March 2, 2026 | Hour 2

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1:26We get tweet-speed in the book. This is from Michael Burns that are profit boosts. He added to the thunder and the lakers and the calves yesterday with the clippers. So he got feisty with it as well. Frisky, I should say. Rob Bell. Great thing to actually you, I don't know if you were saying profit boosts just because he added another team or actually used a profit boost. But if you have any shops that give you that type of stuff, this is great for those. He did. It was a 25% profit boost. Rob Bell, why do you think no on Mike? Is the love is blind question, Kelly. Why do you think no on Mike? It really looked like Emma was trending the right way on kids. And she already says yes at the altar. I was thinking about buying yes, but not as seasoned as you. Oh, there's no being seasoned on love is blind. I'm just reading, I'm reading the tea leaves. I think he doesn't buy into her being the maternal type in the end. That she's just doing it to appease him. So I think it's a no. I think he's going to say no. Wait, what is that? Plus, I think he's a little too, he's a he's a little too.

2:31He's one of these guys that like she doesn't pick up stuff on the floor and he's like a real neat freak. Like, I just don't trust him to say yes. Like what kind of things on the floor? No, she's just messy. Okay. And he's like, he really made a big issue with that early on. But I don't think he's going to use that. I think it's going to be the her being ambivalent about having kids. The king of shoes or everywhere. Shoes are everywhere in my place. Well, he wouldn't marry you either. So is that how the show ends? Like it's they do their whole they go to the altar. Someone and I don't know how to end with marriage. Like I didn't know that was the pale. That's the whole market and Calci is about marriage. Oh man. Why can't people just be in love without getting married? That's not the point of the show. Love is like I said, like I said last week. The name of the show is love is blind and all the show does prove is that love is not blind. But they desperately try to edit it to show that love is blind. If you if love is not blind to you, you're a horrible human being. That's the show. That's my interpretation. Chance copper. I didn't know these were all yes. No bets on them. Just marriage. I thought it was just like I got ending up together. Didn't mean that. No, man.

3:31No, you got to get married. They got to both say yes. Chance copper pot. I would like to take a victory lap as Fesik has learned how to mute a channel and discord shout out to all the real ones who at my back, you know who you are. Fesik my work here is done. Yeah. Fesik finally figured it out. Good job. Good job, Chance. We shamed him all Friday. Chance was just more the victim. He wasn't necessarily. I don't know if he actually helped Steve figure that out. We just peer pressure. See, he changed just got just caught straits about it on Friday. No chance was was angry at something because like Fesik didn't Fesik. Oh, I don't know. Maybe you're right. No, Steve just used him as the example of the guy who wouldn't stop using, he wouldn't stop discord for the actual reason to use disc. He caught a stray. Yeah. Yeah. Um, mortal cap or another amazing segment from Peter bread. He said seriously, fantastic stuff and hoping for more throughout the season from Joe. Um, dangerously, you two, you two, you guys should have heard this conversation off air. Joe was like, I think, I think it was 2013 and we were getting plus 156 of like, you

4:32think you think? Yeah. I know you were. I know that's what you guys got. We were very picked at night. Yeah. Uh, Danny Bermett. Oh, he says 11 a.m. Pacific time. Monday. Hockey ladies. First of all, I resemble that one more. But secondly, I, there is a game today between the red wings and the predators that starts right now. In fact, if they haven't faced off already. And if you're wondering as I was, why are we playing early hockey in Nashville? The national hockey league announced this is five days ago that the, that the start time of this game was going to be moved up. It will allow the NHL's top stars to be showcased in prime time to passionate hockey fans across Europe, continuing the excitement, the 2025 NHL global series, Sweden, and NHL player participation in the Olympic winter games in Milano Cortina. So for the European fans, they moved this game up. They just moved it five days ago though. That's well, five days ago is when I see the red wings, it might have been rescheduled

5:34earlier. But I think five days ago is when the announcement came, I actually do think that so like this is just a complete reactionary move to hockey being popular at the Olympics. I guess. Wow. I mean, like, I don't know. We're complaining about the NBA finals being set in stone like eight months in advance. Good on the NHL for like having the flexibility to do something like this. Can we take a look at Kelly's most fascinating stories and sports sports betting to try? I keep updating this. Yeah. The chalkboard. It's like a Brady Munch chalkboard. You know, I'm going to have a kitchen. Kelly keeps erasing and putting it up. That's right. Alice gets really mad when he does it, but he still does it. I want to talk about a couple here. One. No, number one. Let's go to number two. Number two with a bullet here. This wasn't even on the list. I just, this is why I recent the graphic and this is incredible. Tyler Reddick becomes the first driver to start NASCAR season with three straight wins. I had to ask NASCAR experts. I say if I'm wrinkle and why a Tom check to weigh in here because you know, I'm not the biggest NASCAR guy motor sports guy, but really three, three races to begin the season.

6:34It's amazing. He's won all three. Another three feet from Michael Jordan, by the way, because he's the owner. Right. But the three races to start the season are very unique races. You have Daytona and Atlanta, which are just massive core wrecks. Like basically if you survive the race, it's an accomplishment, much less win the thing. So we did that both in Daytona and Atlanta. And then this past weekend is a road course. Remember, they started the road courses because we all made fun of them just making left hand turns every time. Now they're going both ways and there's like a king of the road courses and Reddick like cotton and didn't have like a bumper offender or something. These guys were just telling me it's amazing three wins. I don't even really care. I'm breaking down. I'm breaking down the tracks. Just three wins in a row in that sport seems like really, really, really impressive, especially to start the season. Right. How about if you're Joe Gibbs and or Michael Jordan and you're like, yeah, it's just a hobby for us. Just a hobby. Yeah. I say, I say it was very adamant that they need to look at his car more.

7:38So which I think that makes it even more fascinating to meeting their submission and again. Yeah. Maybe some shenanigans going on. Interesting. Which to me, it just makes it more interesting. And number five real quick, the saga of Miami of Ohio, Miami of Ohio had a big scare Friday. Big scare against Western Michigan. And they win. Yeah. They didn't lose over the weekend, right? They did not. They did not check this. They barely got by at Western Michigan. This one kid just took over had like a three point play than a four, a three, a three pointer than a four point play late to really catapult Miami of Ohio into the lead late. They win it. They've got two more games left. Two. That's it. Tuesday and Friday, Tuesday and Thursday, Tuesday and Friday. I can't remember. But if it's fascinating because if they go undefeated, and it's still enough, because I don't know about that last game at Ohio. But if they can go undefeated, 31 and 0, then it becomes fascinating because then I'm actively, I'm actively rude. I'll just tell you in advance. I'm actively rooting for them to win their last two games and then lose in like the first

8:40game of the Mac tournament because I just want to see what the tournament committee's going to be. Oh, I mean, I totally want to tell you know, I'm with you on that anything that's pure chaos. Like that would be I'm always all for, but yeah, shut them out breaking news in the national football league. This from Diana Rucini. The Houston Texans are trading for lions running back David Montgomery. This is tell the athletic is interesting because there was, I don't know, two seasons ago, where it was a two headed monster in the lion's backfield, right? Montgomery and Gibbs and Jamir Gibbs really became the guy last year for sure. And so the lions thought to themselves, well, we could trade David Montgomery here. They did. I believe I saw it yesterday that he had requested a trade. Yeah. Coming off of that, the Texans, you had Joe Mixen hurt all last year compensation. If you're wondering from Tom Pellicero, Texans are sending offensive line and juice scrugs. This was what we're referring to earlier, a fourth rounder and a seventh rounder to Detroit

9:41for Montgomery, another offensive line, Texans, they don't need an offensive line, especially when you're getting a running back, CJ Stroud looks so good and late last year. What do we care? Besides that, I think that's a fourth rounder was a little rich that I thought we were going to see for David Montgomery offensive line in a fourth and a seventh. Yeah, that feels like a little hefty, but I'm always amazed by NFL trades because there's some of them I'm like, oh, yeah, that seems right. And then it just depending on the team, I'm always amazed at what some teams like if Tauy Roseman versus like past Washington, GM's, the amazing things that the Eagles get and that's all we got and they got that for that. No, I don't know. Now from a betting standpoint, I doubt there's many shops with props up or anything, but the Jameer Gibbs role becomes much more clear, right? Yeah. There's no shared backfield anymore. He's the guy. Kind of wasn't last year. Yeah. I wasn't already. Yeah. Anyway, that's the latest. You want to do a little country level with cognizant here?

10:42Yes. Are we overselling it with an intro? Sure. Let's do it. Yeah. Never want to oversell it. You want to underpromise it. Close this. Full effect out there. What do you want to do? There you go. There you go. There you go. So maybe the only person I didn't see his face and it does not look that enthused about it. Looks like you just have to do it. He's just going through the motions. He's just going through the motions. Just going through the motions. Close sticks motion. Did you see the end of this golf tournament yesterday? Well, we did get a tweet from hold on. This is from. Back my Honda classic. This is why this tournament is so great. Jesse Welts says Kelly, I can't believe we've made it this far into the show without a full on Shane Lowry implosion break day. It was crazy. This is so Lowry, who I did have pretty good positions on top 10 and top 20 on. He was cruising through the final round yesterday. Gill, I think he got out to like a three, four shot lead at the turn, looking good.

11:42Doing a whole piece on the broadcast about how they talked to his wife and it's the first time his daughter's been to the course. No. No. Yes. Jigsie. No, this is it. In the first time she was going to see her dad and her dad was going to win. And he gets up to whole 16 and it's called the bear trap, whole 15, 16, 17, watered in play on each one of them. Gill, it is one of the toughest three whole stretches on the PGA tour ranks every year in the top 10 of top three whole stretches, toughest on the tour. Shane Lowry in the water on 16 cannot recover double bogies that goes to 17 par three hits it so far. Right. Joe Pita was discussing off air. It was like homeless was out of the water. He hit it so far. Right. Shane Lowry. I feel so bad for you, man. I'm glad about the honesty after the round though. He said after he hit the first one of the water, he couldn't even feel his club anymore. He was just playing like his arms were like basically like Jello out there. He collectivariate well deserved win though. He's been a stud player young up in commerce gets his third win already on the PGA tour

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13:49Right now, new fan dual customers can get up to $300 back in bonus bets every day for 10 days. Place a tournament bet using the token and if it doesn't win, you'll get up to $300 back in bonus bets every single day for 10 days straight. You can even mix things up with same game parlays for a shot at a bigger payout, fan dual. It's time to dance. 21 plus in present and select seats, bonus bets are nonwithdrawable and expire seven days after receive tokens are received in increments of one per day restrictions apply. Any terms at sportsbook.fandal.com, gambling problem called 1-800-Gambler. A numbers game on FESET, the sports betting network. Tomorrow, 1 p.m. Eastern, 10 a.m. Pacific, it is our 2026 MLB futures draft, man, oh man, this is going to be awesome. Marcus Mines, one room for the 2026 VC and MLB futures draft. So I'm a former MLB GM Steve Phillips. He's in there. He's got the number one pick, big league arms, Lance Lynn and our own Jensen Lewis going

14:53to be there as well. Plus from Vecin, myself, Matt humans, Jeff Erickson, and more drafting division winners, penance, the World Series champs and season awards as the 2026 VC and MLB futures draft. Tomorrow, 1 p.m. Eastern on Vecin, the sports betting network, Adam Burke has the second pick in the draft. There you see the draft order right there, 10 picks, 11 categories, snake style, so Jensen gets 10 and 11. I'm telling you right now, that guy on the 9th hole right there, bass winner, Mark Bortr, that's the guy to watch out for. That's the sneaky freaky brother sneaking in from the rear. A.I. Lair Bear, can we go back to the other graphic? You know what I just noticed this time around. How do you feel about not being one of the headliners? There's three clear headliners on the first graphic and then there's the role of the rest of you guys. I shouldn't be there. We shouldn't be that one. Those guys, those guys played the game and GM to the game. Now, now just, I love reading into this stuff. Clearly that was done on purpose. Do you think you're, you're first on the bottom line?

15:56Do you think that's a big deal? No. I was going to say, I was going to say it was alphabetical order, but it's not, I guess. It's not. I checked that this time. No, it's not. I checked that before I got burned again. No, but don't, when you look at the bottom, don't you think humans is most prominently featured right in the middle? Oh, that's, it does feel that way, but I think everything goes left to right. Hmm. Okay. Fantasy guys in there, Bender and Ericsson, it's going to be competitive. So here at the desk, so I'm, I'm doing the show here, obviously with you, right when this show ends, burky, you know what I'm burky, and Matt Brown will jump in on the desk with me. So the three of us will be here. Oh, by the way, we've never said it's hosted, right? By Nick Whalen from Propoints, so Nick Whalen is going to host it from his layer wherever he is. Yeah. And then the 10 of us will go by his direction, which I think makes a lot of sense. Remember, we got the tweet was it on Friday or something, I'm like, why does Kelly go to the back like sometimes because sometimes it's really awkward looking when someone tries to host something up here with three people sitting on the desk. So Nick from afar with you guys all able to answer things independently and have individual

17:01cameras will be good. That's right. I don't know. Maybe Matt Adam and I will devolve into a fist fight. You never know. You never know what could happen. That'd be cool. Yeah. Uh, we get tweet speed in the book. Montreal, Max, hope you sprinkled something on Texas Longhorn, a lump, Peyton Stern's winning or Austin turn to this weekend, uh, boy, not only did I not sprinkle anything on her. I faded her in the semi's and the finals. I faded her in the semi's where I was up a break in the third set. And the fourth game up to the one, the fourth game in that set must have lasted like 12 to 15 minutes. And Peyton Stern's broke back and I knew at that point it was done and there was Peyton McKenzie Sterns. That really is a Texas name right there for you. And then the finals had Taylor Towns and Taylor Towns and at two set points, gacked those. Peyton Sterns made all the big points. Not sure I would have betted differently in either case, by the way, but she, she got it done. Um, Los Vegas 514. Yeah. Okay. So I started the petition for Greg Peterson. I've decided not to start the petition for one young Kelly Bidlett.

18:01I do not think he believes love is blind marriage is the grand prize. There is no rush and joy or youth and shoes all over the place. He says to you. Yeah. I was wondering, uh, people were going to read into that segment, but yeah, yes. I do, I do not believe love is blind. I don't know about marriage being a final prize. Amor, Noah Siego, ladies and gentlemen, NBA MVP race. We have updating this on a daily basis. Everybody's playing now. Everybody, all of them, all the candidates are playing. Here's the latest in terms of how many games these guys can afford to lose what the current prices are, Shay, Gilges, Alexander, back in the lineup for the thunder this past Friday night. Um, thunder, have 20 games left. He can afford to miss six of them, and he's minus 260 at Fandall. That's the shortest, but I just did Fandall and draft games here. So he's the shortest of his prices between those two books is a Fandall, at least the beginning of this show. Then Nicola Yokech, you can only afford to miss one more of Denver's remaining 21 games. He's at plus 475 at draft Kings, Cade Cunningham falls to 10 to one at both, or excuse me,

19:04at Fandall, he can, he can miss a bunch of games. He's, he doesn't have a problem in terms of the, uh, the minimum 65 went by Yama remains at 25 to one. He can miss four of the spurs remaining 22. Jalen Brown falls to 65 to one. And that's the best price where that's the longest one. Um, and then Luca, Luca falls all the way down to 100 to one at both Fandall and draft Kings. He ain't winning it. There's no way. So there you go. That's the latest in this MVP race, where at this point, the inability to play moving forward by injuries that we can't anticipate might be the biggest single remaining factor if it's not going to be, yeah, Shay or Yokech. The, um, always good time of year, in my opinion, to really, really start, especially when it comes to things like coach of the year and stuff like this, this is where I really start, um, consuming way more of the national media and kind of NBA guys and stuff that might not help me on a daily, daily basis or week to week basis with betting, right?

20:07But you can get some insight on awards, um, more to say, I guess about that with coach of the year was listening to, uh, Nate Duncan's dunk dunk basketball podcast, which I listened to all the time. I think it's one of the best NBA podcasts out there. They don't do as much with, with the betting odds. So, you know, there, there's that, but really get deep into the, uh, advanced analytics and stuff like that. I, amazing podcast. I listened to it all the time. I was listening on the way in today. They were doing a full awards, uh, show kind of going through it. Him, uh, him and Daniel ruins co, uh, co host, I do a great job. I was kind of surprised with their take on MVP and where we stand right now. They, they thought very clearly a tier one, tier two, tier three with three individual players and then a tier four, that's well below. And then that's the rest of the end of the conversation to them very clearly. This is Shay Gilgis, Alex Anders to lose Nicola Yokech is in that second tier, but a tier below the third tier, Victor, Wimba Niyama, and then Cade Cunningham in that fourth one.

21:13But basically, just if these guys don't qualify is Cade going to be the guy who wins it. They were. I mean, rest of these guys, not even in the conversation. That's why I made the Victor bet again when I did because I too agree with, I, I, I as well agree with the fact that if it came down to Victor versus Cade, I'm winning it with Victor. I do, but I do get the, the notion that Shay and Nicola Yokech have to eliminate themselves at this point. I would order it that way, Gil, one, two, three, four. I was a little shocked on how they, how convinced they were. It was that and it wasn't, there wasn't really up for debate to them. It's just strange. The Yokech's numbers are so good. Exactly. So, so the one that I feel like gets a little bit muddied here, especially if, if the thunder, thunder don't finish. Let's say the spurs finish with the one seed in the, in the last, what spurs finish one seed in the west and the pistons finish with the best record in the NBA. That doesn't hurt Shay's case a little bit, especially when you go up against Yokech then and compare things statistically where Yokech again is just having a bonkers, bonkers season.

22:17Yeah. But human beings convince themselves of stuff and then this is a group think thing that takes off and they don't re-analyze the numbers or anything, by the way, you haven't lived it. Who wins it in that scenario though, which spurs are one in the west. Yeah. Thunder to then. Okay. And the pistons have the best record in the NBA. I personally think when by Nyama should, but it won't be, it'll be Shay. Because these, these people are cheap, they've all decided it's Shay and I don't know I don't really quite agree with it. I think, I think they need the one seed in the west for Yokech not to beat out Shay. Or have they, by the way, maybe we're, the betting market may not reflect that. Oh, we have no idea. We have no idea. Well, anyway, one of my favorite things in the shot, many favorite things on the show, but one of my, my newly favorite ones is whenever I say something basketball oriented and before I could even get to the sentence, Kelly, Kelly does one up to the Yokech, exactly. Or you do what you did last week, which is, what was the one last week where I was, uh, which was, oh yeah, the, uh, when we went to rookie of the year, Kelly got super excited.

23:18Well, let's go to rookie of the year before I could even finish the sentence. He's like, turn in purple. Uh, this is the current, uh, rookie of the year numbers between Cooper flag and your guy, Khan Kinepple, lookie here, Khan Kinepple minus 175 Cooper flag plus 140. Now, do you let, let's just say you didn't have a Khan Kinepple take it right now. Yeah, sure. Do you feel like Cooper flagged plus 140 is a bet? No, you don't think it's an awful bet. Okay. I don't even know. I think, I don't even think Khan, I was expecting, as I said last week, I expected this to be minus 200 or more by the time I believe they played a moral because that was the big game that they were, uh, kid was asked about last week and he said, don't expect Cooper flag to be back for the meeting of the rookies. I said last week, I expected it to be minus 200 by that point. So I don't even think minus 175 is a bad price. I, you have to look, is Cooper flag completely out of this? No, like, no, there, there's a chance he comes back. Yeah, there's a lot of play left, um, but I just don't, you haven't gotten any indication

24:22whatsoever from the Dallas Mavericks. That's happening. No, but we also said last week and the reason I asked the question is because let's say he comes back, which we expect him to come back at some point at this point, right? And that's how you just drops a 45 point performance. All of a sudden this goes to me, goes back to even and then if he does it a second time, he's going to be a favorite again. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. We were talking about it. Like, I think there's a chance that this market sways too much into the way that I've been thinking. Absolutely. And if that occurs, yeah, all it's going to take is a couple games from Cooper flag to sway some voters back to it, because it's going to take one of those or two of those to be able to go, oh, he's just so much better than everybody. Stop it. Anyway, it's interesting. Kinepple. Good timing by you, by the way, on the Kinepple bed. Well done. Thank you. We'll come back, uh, Wes Reynolds will join us. How about that? We're going to play the troops. What are his thoughts on Arizona and Iowa State tonight? Also, Duke in action, his place, and more golf numbers game visa in the sports betting network. A numbers game on fee said, these sports betting network sharp plays.com and full effect

25:33mode. Don't forget to check them out. Scan the QR code for more there on the side, unmatched transparency with records, updated daily AI betting analysis, real time global betting information and alerts directly from the pros sharp plays.com. We get tweets, be to the book, Ben Handorf, not sure where he was before the trade, but I quickly checked after the trade alert hit my phone. And Jamir Gibbs is the short shot for offensive player of the year now at plus seven 50. Pretty sure he switched spots with B. John, but not 100% sure. That sounds like a switch spot thing to me. I don't think he was a short shop. There you go. I don't remember. We just hit that. We hit that on Friday last year. Jamir Gibbs. They were moving out there. Okay. She missed it for those who were wondering what do you talk about Jamir Gibbs for, but David Montgomery just traded from the lions to the Texans as the Texans apparently don't need enough. Next year. I have. Sean's Fox plays. Yo, how do we think the new ABS system will affect your taller hitters since their strike zone will be larger than everyday players would judge, cruises, et cetera. And will the network strike zone be the ABS strike zone or a fixed one to create controversy?

26:35Oh, these are great questions. By the way, have you been following the saga of the ABS system in preseason? No, it's bit. It's. Let me, let me synopsize the part that I've seen every time it's challenged, the player is correct. Okay. So can you, I know I stepped in this a few months ago. Can you explain it to how it's working again this year? So the, the batter that the, they can own the challenge can only come from the future certain players, right? Okay. So the player himself, or I believe it's the catcher and the pitcher, if I'm not mistaken, West might be able to correct me. I forget the, the, it can't come from everywhere, right? Can't come from just anybody. So the thing is these guys are so locked into the strikes on the catcher and the batter specifically. They know what a ball and strike is. Yeah. And they are so quick to just tap their helmet. And the review is very efficient, very quick. And it just reverts to what it was. But what it should be rather batter pitcher catcher, Danny tells me batter pitcher catcher,

27:38right? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So yeah, that's it. So it's a, I don't know, we'll see. I think what's, what's going to be more fascinating is how frisky certain teams are with it because there is a limit if you're wrong, right? So we'll see, we'll see how it goes. I don't know that it, I don't know that I buy into the tall hitter, short hitter thing at all, but I just think it's going to be a fascinating thing with, with the game. And it will really like the thing that it's done is it's almost comical when it keeps happening in one inning, right, where it's like, oh my god, this umpire, it's an embarrassment, you know, the batter just did it. Now the catcher's doing it. You were wrong both times. Oh, it's going to get out of control in some games. But hey, we all want it to be right. Right. Yeah, you just want it to be right. I mean, how many baseball bets have you had over the years? I can speak for myself where a ridiculous strike call on what was clearly a ball for with like the with runners on ruins your biggest chance to win the ball game in a high leverage situation.

28:39You know, so glad, glad this exists. West Reynolds joins us now courtesy progressive guest line. You can follow him on Twitter at West Reynolds one. That's the number one part of the glue that holds this whole operation together. West. Good morning to you, sir. Good morning, Gil. Are you looking forward to a baseball season with the ABS system? Honestly, no, because I think we kind of finally figured it out in baseball, right? With the pitch clock and all that. We actually got the games to be completed in a reasonable timeframe where you didn't get these, you know, five hour Red Sox Yankee games. And, you know, I understand it because look, what you were just saying earlier, I've had bets go against me where there's a bad ball for and I've had bets at one where I get a bad call my way, but you know, the last thing you want to do is slow the game down when you finally kind of shorten the game because that's been the debate over the years with baseball. It's like, okay, we got to get a new generation. And they're not going to want to sit through these marathons like we did grow enough

29:39as kids like where we're used to it. We're fine if these go games go forever, but a lot of people are not. So I'll be interested to see how much this, you know, slows the game down and what's the average time of a completed game because you know, they were getting them under three hours routinely with this. So be interesting and see how it works at my core, I'm not necessarily in favor of it. Yeah, just to refer for thoroughness is sake, because we might be wondering, ABS was the same. Automated ball strike challenge system allows again, pitcher, batter, catcher, pitcher, catcher on the defense, the battery and the batter himself challenged by tapping their helmet. All of Hawkeye cameras to track pitch location teams received two challenges per game, keeping them on successful appeals with a 15 second 2D zone review process. There you go. So as long as you get them right, you keep, you keep the challenges. It will officially debut opening night with a Giants Yankees game that Wednesday night March 25th, but it's all, it's being showcased right now in spring training.

30:43All right, to college basketball, Wes, got a big game tonight, well, I don't know how big it's going to be. Iowa State got their clock wrong. What's the, I don't want to mix metaphors. What was the Dexter Manly thing? He got his clock wrong. That's no, he said, yeah, he clean your clock or whatever Dexter Manly said at the time, with Joe Montana, Iowa State did by Texas Tech on Saturday. Now they travel to take on Arizona. They're eight point dogs. How do you feel about this game tonight? Yeah, I think the numbers about, right, Gil? I would initially lean to the clones because the clones like Arizona, you know, I know you talk about your formula that you've done with over the years with college basketball. In terms of my parameters, which is top 25 of offensive rating and defensive rating, both of these teams certainly fit into that Arizona, eight and three offense defense. Iowa State 18 and eight, irrespectively in their rankings, you know, bad performance for Iowa State at home at Elton Coliseum, which you really see.

31:45And now they go to Arizona, but Arizona has been beaten at home by Texas Tech. We all said, okay, there's seasons over now that topping is going to be out for the rest of the year. And they said, no, no, season's still going on. And they keep winning against these teams on the road. So credit to the red raiders for not packing it in when everybody else said they should. I'd lean Iowa State here at seven and a half or eight. I have not played that though yet. It's right at my number, Arizona is kind of one of those juggernauts. It's like, do you really want to get in front of them because I was having this conversation with Scott Seidenberg on his program last night. We were talking about Duke and NC State. It's like, man, do I really want to get in front of Duke right now? And there's a part of me saying when I'm feeling that, like when I'm feeling, okay, this team's invincible, I don't want to get in front of them. Sometimes it's better as you have to make like uncomfortable bets that you don't feel good about through the entire duration of the game. But those are sometimes when you want to make those bets. So like Duke and NC State, which is the first game of the double header tonight on ESPN.

32:47I would be leading Wolfpack here, even though Duke looks like an absolute juggernaut right now. Yeah. Duke, the only other top 25 team in action besides Iowa State and Arizona tonight. The only top, the only other formula team besides Iowa State and Arizona tonight. Duke and nine and a half point favorite Wolfpack catching nine and a half at home tonight. The first of the double header in college basketball. There is one conference tournament game tonight conference tournaments actually officially starting officially start tonight. It is a play in game, a play in game in, pardon me, in the horizon league. And it involves what was one of our early season favorites in terms of playing overs. Folks couldn't set the over high enough on IU Indy. What is your play here on this game? Yeah, and these two teams, by the way, did play twice in the regular season. They both split the series each team won at home. IU Indy, of course, we know the tempo. They're fourth in tempo. Now, they've kind of cooled off from what we saw in November and December when they were

33:49having these ridiculously high scoring games. They're still getting high scoring games, but eventually the market catches up, right? The odds makers catch up and they make the totals kind of right where they should be in like the low 160s, and you're seeing high 160s actually open 170 tonight. This is now, like you say, Gil, this is an elimination game. This is the two bottom seeds trying to advance into the main draw of the horizon league tournament. And my instinct would be that this is going to be maybe a lower scoring game because like now it's no tomorrow. Even though I think these teams have any aspersions or illusions, if you will, that they're going to win this horizon league tournament. But I would go team total under on IU Indy and I have 84 and a half on this Cleveland state of one and a half, two point favorite. I think maybe if this game is as close as we think it's going to be, it's where you see a fast tempo early and then kind of in that last five or six minutes, you see it dying. You see these teams working shot clocks for the best possible shot.

34:51And what does that do that slows the game to a slog? So IU Indy under 84 and a half team total points for me. The winner of this game will take on Green Bay. The number one seed in the horizon league tournament on Wednesday. That's how that will roll when a whole bunch more of these conference tournaments begin. Is there a small conference tournament long shot that you like at this point, Wes? Oh, for a long shot at because we have to be on track. It's out. Yeah, it doesn't have to be a long shot. But it's from a chalk perspective. I like, I like Navy and the Patriot and then that's a chalk. Now there's not a lot of value to bet a conference tournament future, but they've been the clear best team. That's been a changing of the guard now with Colgate having dominated so many years. And now you're getting Navy. So Navy is somebody I definitely think from a chalk perspective. In terms of maybe looking down the board in the Missouri Valley, I think Belmont's the best team. Northern Iowa is a team to watch for. You can get a good price on them. Navy minus 120 in the Patriot league.

35:51What was the last one you just said, Belmont? Northern Iowa, if you want to go long shot against the chalk Belmont, who has been the best team in the Valley this year. Okay. We'll get you a price on that as I scan here, see what's up at the current moment. Let me see if I can get the last five seconds here, Kelly. Can we do it? Northern Iowa is at plus 475 plus 475 in the Missouri Valley, more with Wes on the other side. Numbers game right here at Feeson. In 2024, a truck crashed into Canaw in Moresque, where I work. 146 of our dogs needed homes fast. We asked for help on Facebook. Our story spread through WhatsApp messages and Instagram reposts, immediately people stepped up. And just six hours later, every dog was fostered. I'll never forget how our community showed up for us. And however, 3.5 billion people connect to what matters with meta at meta.com slash community.

36:54Right now, new fan duel customers can get up to $300 back in bonus bets every day for 10 days. Place a tournament bet using the token, and if it doesn't win, you'll get up to $300 back in bonus bets every single day for 10 days straight. You can even mix things up with same game parlays for a shot at a bigger payout. Fan duel. It's time to dance. 21 plus in present and select seats. Those bets are non-withdrawable and expire seven days after receive. Tokens are received in increments of one per day, restrictions apply. See terms at sportsbook.fandal.com. Gamlin Problem Call 1-800-Gamler. Tim Eastern Live Indian Wells Podcast. And I am told by Montreal Max, it's start us book. He said several professional tennis players stranded in Dubai from the growing war in

37:56the Middle East. Players, coaches, journalists, organizers from the Dubai tennis championships are stuck in the UAE as Dubai airspace for being closed on Mondays. We'll see a developing story there as it relates to the tennis tour, obviously. Not the most important thing involved there, but in our little world, perhaps affected by it. I have a documentary recommendation for you, but also for everybody because West Reynolds is here and I know West will appreciate such things. West joins us. West Reynolds once again courtesy progressive guest line, man on the run, Paul McCartney, post Beatles, documentary on prime, outstanding, especially if you like his music with the wings. You would love it, West. That's for sure. Yeah. I look, I'm definitely going to have that on my playlist. And I do like wings. I think, you know, he kind of got a bad rap, it's like, okay, he's only recognized as a beetle. I liked a lot of his songs with wings. Well, my buddy, James Rosen, who's a bit of a Beatles scholar, always says he goes, you

38:57can only really judge Lennon versus McCartney on one thing objectively, which is their solo career's post Beatles. If you can't parse out the Beatles ears, and clearly McCartney's was better than Lennon's terms of solo career. So that's his differentiator anyway. You, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame voting just came out of the announcement, just came out. You had something to say about that. Well, the inductee, or they did the nominees last week, there are 17 of them. They're probably going to vote five to seven. We'll get in the class this year. So you have a wide array of artists, Black Crows, Jeff Buckley, Mariah Carey, Phil Collins, Melissa Effords, Lauren Hill, Billy Idol, and Excess Joy Division, Slash New Order, even though they're two separate bands, Iron Maiden, New Edition, Oasis, Pink, Shoday, Luther Vandros, Shakira, Wu Tang Clan. Tough call. Wow. I think to pick the best five to seven of all those nominees, and a lot of them are first timers. Now, there are some that have been nominated numerous times like Mariah Carey. This is her third year. I think this is finally when she gets in. And I don't know why she's not in already, personally, because Bill, you just mentioned,

40:02there's one artist in the history of music that have more Billboard number one Hot 100 hits than Mariah Carey. And it's the Beatles. Mariah Carey's still number two on that list with 19. And yet she hasn't been inducted to the Rock and Roll Hall fame. I think this is her year. So she probably will get in because the Rock Hall, by the way, they are very much into inclusivity, which I think is a good thing. So they always want to have a female artist in the class. They always want to have a hip-hop artist in the class too. And there's only two that are nominated this year, Wu Tang Clan and Lauren Hill. I think it's got to be Wu, right, Gil? I don't know about Lauren Hill. On the strength of one great album, is that enough for a Rock and Roll Hall fame career? These, by the way, are bettable on Kalshi, who will be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. I'm looking at it right now. Yeah, me too. But I saw zero dollars of liquidity in there. Zero dollars of liquidity at this moment. I'll wait for the Love Is Blind stuff to cash and then we'll move over to the Rock Roll Hall fame. I don't believe Lauren Hill should be in the Hall of Fame.

41:05One great spectacular album, right, Solo? And I'm going to say this and the Fuji's hate can wash over me. But everything the Fuji's did was derivative. I'm not sure that you get, I'm not sure you get in the Hall of Fame because of that. Not to mention she's always late for concerts and that's plagued her entire career sense. The biggest, to me, I'll go all up your Mariah Carey. You know who I think should be in there of that list? Shade. There is no, there's no Hall of Fame that should not include Shade. That she should absolutely. And I want them to get in anyway because I want them selfishly to tour one more time. Because I would love to see them one more time because it's not just her, it's her great band. Yes. That's with her as well. And I saw them 15 years ago. I believe a young up and coming songwriter named John Legend was the opener for them on their soldier of love arena tour. So yeah, I would like them to get in. I can say one thing that should almost be a virtual lock to get in. I think Phil Collins gets in this year.

42:07There's a lot of momentum he's in. He's in for Genesis, obviously. But Phil, as you know, has retired from performing. He's had some health issues. And I think it's like, induct somebody while they're here. Yes. Give them their flowers while they're here. And I think they did that with Ozzy Osborne a couple years ago where he got in solo, rock and roll Hall of Fame induction. And then I believe passed away the following year after he did his final shows there at Villa Park in Birmingham. So I think that's the same thing kind of with Phil Collins this year. Agreed. Don't do what baseball did to Pete Rose, where posthumously he'll probably get in. Don't do that. Rock and roll Hall of Fame. Give Phil Collins his solo induction as well. I think those two make a lot of sense. What about Oasis? I mean, he isn't like Oasis. I was about to move on. Kelly's like. Three time nominee. Three time nominee by the way. Oh, wow. Yes. And they're not at each other's throats and they had a very successful tour. So there might be a good chance for them because sometimes, you know, when you get on the

43:09ballot like every single year, you know, three or four years in a row, it's kind of like, okay, this is the time. So they've got a pretty solid shot, I think. Any idea when the announcement is made on this on the nominees? April. I believe the first week of April. You can still do, by the way, they have fan voting that you can do. I think for over the next couple of weeks, like Phil Collins, who I mentioned, he's going to win the fan vote. I think now that doesn't automatically guarantee you induction because fish won the fan vote last year and we're not inducted, not even re nominated this year. So, but more often than not, if you win the fan vote, you're going to get in. Ladies and gentlemen, the greatness of West Reynolds on full display. He has stats for rock and roll hall of fame inductees. God bless those. That's why we love you, West. God bless those hippies. Just keep, just keep voting fish and just keep voting fish and God bless those hippies. That's awesome. All right. We're contractually obligated to ask you about golf in our final three minutes, even though I'm sure you'd rather talk about the musical side of things.

44:10You did not have it's, etch of, uh, etch of aria here this past weekend, etch of aria. I did not. So I did not have to go through that pain for those that had a Shane Lowry. I've been there before plenty of times where that's happened, but, uh, uh, no, no runners there at the end, but, uh, uh, credit to Nico is starting to get a lot of win equity out on the PGA tour, where he's winning at least once a season. But man, Shane Lowry had that tournament and gave it away and, you know, stood up there and admitted it. And that's why I respect Shane Lowry so much is like, I gagged it away. I gave it away. He probably didn't want to talk to anybody. I certainly wouldn't want to after that, but, but he did. So Shane Lowry showed why he's a class act and why he's one of the more likable guys in the game. Who was, who was the announcer you talked about earlier, Kelly, that, that was sort of already like popping the champagne for him? Oh, they were doing, I, what, what do you have a three or, was it three shots or four shots at the turn, uh, Wes at lead and they were just, they were doing a nice story just about his daughter being out there for the first time and, you know, then they're making jokes in the booth about, well, she's going to have to be at every tournament clearly.

45:12Yeah. And she even talked about it post, uh, post game. This reminds me. Do you remember Wes that one baseball post season, the, uh, the Albert Poohol's home run off of Brad Lidge of the Astros when Poohol's was with St. Louis. And by the way, that ball still has not come down. This was like a Barry bonds versus the angels thing. But right before that pitch, Joe Buck was like waxing eloquently about the Astros, a franchise that started out in a hotel room 45 years ago, waxing about the Astros finally getting to the province later than Poohol's just launches it. Um, what about this week, obviously, long shots, you will get into it with Kelly and Matt later in the week. But what is your preliminary thoughts? Yeah. Bay Hill, uh, Arnold Palmer invitational down there in Orlando and it's a signature event. So all the big guns are here, Scotty Shaffler, by the way, is one two of the last four years here. Rory McElroy, a former winner, Russell Henley, the defending champion, but I had Rory last week where he finished runner up and wasn't right there at the end, but man, he struck

46:15the ball so beautifully and was watching a little bit of the TGL last night on Sunday night and then his team won an overtime. Don't ask me which team these guys are on. I just like to watch cool shots and Rory struck the ball very well. So you certainly would fancy his chances at least to win a big one over the next couple months. But Methods Patrick is certainly going to make the card for me of somebody a little bit down the board, kind of in that 25 to 30 to one range. Four top 10s here, including a runner up. So, you know, tough to go really deep in this field when you have, you know, so many elite guys at the top, but uh, uh, and Methods Patrick really didn't go in deep now that I look at the board. He's like the best choice. But probably we'll get ignored a little bit considering what you have at the top. So, uh, looking forward to this, uh, uh, tough golf course Bay Hill. So, you know, hopefully it plays top. It didn't last couple of years, but if the win blows, this is going to be one of the toughest events of the years for those guys. Last question for two thirds of the long shots crew.

47:16We'll throw you in here, Kelly. Sheffler's three to one, Rory's plus nine sixty, Fleetwood and Shoffley next, but they're further back. How many more tournaments for Sheffler not to win before we see this gap completely go away? Say through the master's probably still, probably, but great question. I think you still got a couple months, a couple months to put a number on it. When do we see Sheffler in a field like this be plus four fifty year longer, five to one? Five to one, let's say after the master, for sure after the master, I think yeah, I was going to say may like at the Wells Fargo before the PGA. That's that's how sticky his history has been that this is not going to go away any time soon. Wes, thank you and thank you for all the musical insights more than anything, Wes, thank you appreciate it. You back guys, thank you. Wes Reynolds, everybody. Talks about NFL on the other side, Adam Berkel joins us, Numbers Game Feast and these sports vetting ever. Few things are as uplifting as the greatest moments in sports and nothing brings us together

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