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VSiN Best Bets — Cashing Out | March 30, 2026 | Hour 1. Machine-transcribed; use the interactive transcript above to jump the player to any line.
I'm Dustin Sweetleson and I'll be with you all night long from the circus sports book in downtown Las Vegas. It is set. The final four. We finally know the teams will start breaking them down. Looking at these matchups recap what went down over the weekend as we've got a really interesting group of four remaining in college basketball at the biggest stage. We've got some live action during our show, which we love to see. We've got three games in the NBA. We've got four major league baseball. We have to talk about this rookie of the year race in both these leagues because one weekend and I think we're in for an epic showdown and there's still some value on the board when you look at both of those leagues right now. But the final four is the big story here on a Monday. And I think there's a sub story that may be hanging over one of these teams, a program
that I think is the best of the ones remaining. And that is Arizona. As Tommy Lloyd's name is being thrown about for the North Carolina head coach vacancy. Well, if Kasia missed it over the weekend, he didn't exactly dispel the rumors. He didn't put them to bed. He didn't say no. I'm going to stay here at Arizona. He kind of left things open ended and I'm curious. Does that become something that hangs over this team with more media spotlight as we get closer to their game on Saturday, where that becomes a situation where that team is no longer talking about themselves and they're talking about their head coaches future. We'll do more on that in one hour as we go to Tucson, ESPN radios, Justin Spears will be with us. We'll get his take the lay of the land for the wild cats as they're on the final four taken on Michigan, where if we're being fair, that's the national title game. That's the game we all came to see. And go ahead. You figure out who you think is going to win. Go ahead and tell me who you want to be the favorite. I'll say yes, because right now Michigan lay one and a half. It was if it was one and a half the other way, I wouldn't argue with you either way with
Arizona as the favorite. My new idea, though, when it comes to this game is I want to bring up, is there a world where Michigan and Arizona, whoever advances is so physically and emotionally taxed by the end of it in the short turn around to play on Monday in the title game where they don't give Illinois or Yukon their best. We're on that throughout the show, but let's get you updated. Where do we stand as far as the live action across the board and first in the NBA, fourth quarter, six, 26 to go Cleveland and Utah nodded up at 103 a piece. So Cleveland on the road at the jazz, unfortunately, 103 all in that game against Utah. Cleveland's laying four and a half in game. Your total is 241 and a hook. The thunder on a back to back are hosting the pistons, 57, 54, OK, see with the lead. They're laying 10 and a half in the third quarter with 913 to go to 05 and a hook is your in game total. And then finally, the Lakers are all over the wizards, not a shocker. 62 43 is your score as L.A. is a 23 and a half point in game favorite to 28 and a half is your total right now as far as that contest is concerned.
We are sweating out a few plays here. So we are on SAR under his points rebounds and assist for Washington. We're on Paul Reed over 24 and a half PRA as far as the NBA is concerned. I'll check those out in just a moment, get you updated where we stand with that because I'm very interested to see how we do because it has not been a good day as far as the NBA is concerned. So we've got Paul Reed with 98 and two in the thirds that puts him at 19 and then the other play were on SAR under against the Lakers. I want to see if he actually ended up shooting up in this game and it does not appear SAR is played. The Void bet for us there as far as that game goes in major league baseball six thinning giants on top of the Padres three nothing where San Francisco is a minus 640 favorite plus 399 the other way with the friars total in games five and a half. I don't love to see that because I went over on that game at eight because Landon Roup does not have good numbers at Peco Park against the Padres and Walker Bueller started for San Diego. Well, Walker Bueller did what I expected him to do, which is give up some hits and runs.
Unfortunately on the other side, we don't have anything going for San Diego playing at home still time to get over though six thinning three nothing is your score in that one. We're also on the over in the guardians and the Dodgers where Cleveland jumped out to a one nothing lead minus 108 they are on the money line. The Dodgers are still a slight favorite at minus a dollar 20 total in the contest is six and a half. We're on over in that game as well at eight and a half and that's because the Dodgers hit left these well, however, this is a spot where Rocky Sasaki was going to contribute as well to the total because he had a horrendous spring training thus far against a light hitting Cleveland lineup. Rocky Sasaki has been absolutely fine in the fourth inning. He's thrown three and a third three hits one and run four strikeouts and then the stories Parker messic on the other side. He is a lefty. He is someone that I think the analytics community is very high on this year and so far three innings. He has kept the Dodgers at bay. However, as I say that, oh, no, it's the Cleveland Cleveland has a runner on with one out here
in the fourth inning facing Sasaki and then our other late night games. We've got Arizona leading Detroit five nothing where there are minus 2800 here in the third inning on the money line. Detroit's plus nine 10. The total in game is 10 and a half and it's always the best you don't actually place. I kept staring at this game going hold on. Berlander another year, a little bit older, Soroka is a bit better than the numbers indicate. Should I take Soroka? Nope. Didn't take Mike Soroka and Arizona has a five nothing lead. I don't love the Diamondbacks bullpen. I'm not willing to get there and take the Tigers plus nine 10, but Tigers plus five and a half minus one 21. I don't hate the idea of that, but I'm not having a very good day as far as baseball is concerned right now. And then finally, the last game to update you on fifth inning Seattle leads the Yankees one nothing. We're on the Yankees at minus 105. We better than last night and this thing got all the way up to minus 125. So we got great CLV unfortunately the Yankees aren't doing their part as Seattle with the lead here in the fifth. And by the way, they're threatening they have to on in scoring position with one out in
the fifth. And it looks like Aaron Boone is coming out to make a pitching change here in a critical juncture of this contest. Ryan Weathers made his debut for the Yankees today and he was honestly very good and I anticipated him to be good. I think this is a really smart acquisition by them. It can be a back end rotation guy. He can be a swing man out of the bullpen. He's a lefty with really plus stuff that really hasn't found a home yet, originally with San Diego, mostly as a reliever in Miami for a year or two there and he was pretty good honestly. Looking at him tonight, four and a third, four hits one or run two walks seven strike outs. Like him to go deeper in the game, but seven punch outs on 77 pitches, let you know how good he really was and what his upside is as a starting picture on the other side for Seattle Luis Castillo, five innings, two hits, no runs, two walks, six strike outs. He's approaching 86 pitches though. As we head towards the top of the six inning, once this inning is over with. So I wonder how deep Castillo is going to go in this game. And while I love the back end of the Seattle bullpen, I'm I still like the Yankees lineup
to potentially do something here, but you need to stop the bleeding. You can't allow this thing to get up to two, three, nothing here. If you're the Yankees, so Boone making a pitching change. The Arizona Diamondbacks looking to continue to add to their lead in the third inning could tell Marta with a lead off double against Verlander in the third. And they have a chance to go up six, nothing if they can just loop one in there because Marta would score from second. Let's see in that game what Verlanders numbers look like. I have to imagine here in the third his pitch count is pretty high at this point. Two innings, five earned six hits, a walk for Verlander. He's at 46, 47 pitches through two or not even finished with, yeah, through two were in the third. So we'll see how this shakes out for Justin Verlander and the Detroit bullpen's not something I love either. So I'm going to stay away. Even though I initially like that plus five and a half as we hit the air here on catching out. I'm Dustin Sweetleson. I'll be with you all night long here at the circus sports book as we've got the final force set in case you missed it. Here are the odds.
Illinois is laying two and a half against Yukon, the total is 139 and a half. Michigan is a one and a half point favorite with a total of 157 and a hook facing Arizona. As the final four features, two big 10 teams, a big 12 team and a big East team remaining at the end of the college basketball season. So that's no ACC. That's no SEC, very disappointing year for the southeastern quadrant of the country. As Yukon gets here preseason 14 to one, they beat Furman UCLA Michigan state and Duke in their path in the tournament, Michigan was 20 to one that is a ticket we do have. They got through Howard St. Louis, Alabama, Tennessee, Illinois, 20 to one preseason. We bet them in, I want to say February at 16 to one, they beat VCU Houston, Iowa as they're now in the final four in the Arizona, who was 35 to one beat Long Island, Utah state, Arkansas and Purdue to wind up here in the final four. If you bet this thing in the preseason, you identified a long shot dog, you had a chance to cash in on a big ticket now, late in the year, as far as the final four is concerned.
We also have hypothetical lines of what the national championship might look like. We will break them down later on in the show coming into the final four. Arizona's 24 and 14 against the spread on the year. That's the best of the four remaining teams Illinois, 22 and 14 covering the number. Michigan just 18 and 20 against the spread this year, and that goes with expectations. That means as a favorite, they're not getting the job done as much as anticipated by the bookmakers. And then Yukon 15 and 23 against the spread this season for them. Those last two went under 500 on the year, the last champion to win it all in college basketball. That was under 500 against the spread 2012 Kentucky. And I don't need to go back and look at that roster for 2012 Kentucky, which featured Anthony Davis, Michael kid, Gilchrist and a loaded wildcat squad to tell you that I don't know if these teams are quite at that level. That is one of the best college basketball teams I've ever seen assembled here. But that is where we stand as far as the final four is concerned. A lot to get to over the course of the next three hours here on the show, we'll do our
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Now back to the show. Caching out rolls on from the circus sportsbook in downtown Las Vegas, Dustin, sweetle, sin here. You there. Thanks for making us a part of your night. However, you may be tuning in serious XM channel 158 YouTube TV, the Veecin Watch App and Radio affiliates cross United States of God bless America. The Yankees brought in crews. He got out of the jam. We moved to the top of the six Seattle one, New York, nothing as the Yankees had two and scoring for Seattle at two and scoring position and quite a jam with one out and we're able to work out of it. We'll talk about the Yankees a little bit later on here this hour. But I think they're being severely undervalued just from a numbers perspective in the betting market right now. More on that coming up later on in the program.
You can take the bombers at plus 222 or Seattle minus 306. Your in game total is three and a half as far as that game is concerned San Francisco and the seventh still on top San Diego three, nothing Cleveland with a one nothing lead at Dodger Stadium against the Dodgers and the Diamondbacks leading the Tigers five nothing in the fourth inning. More on baseball, more on the NBA as we weighed out a couple of late games to get finished here. Cleveland finally pulling away from the jazz 111 111. They're nine and a half point favorites now with just under a minute to go Oklahoma City with a seven point lead hosting the pistons 69 62 Thunder Lane 10 and a half total down to 207 and a hook and then the Lakers and the Wizards. Up 65 44 and a half time your half time spread is 24 and a half to 25 and a half is the total. I don't know what you're supposed to do with that information, but that is the information that is absolutely factual. We have a 24 and a half point favorite at half time. I don't know why you would pay money to go watch this game other than the fact that this
is a good chance to get a good ticket to see LeBron playing person before he retires as Lakers are at home and Washington. No one's paying top dollar to see them come to your town. So that is where we stand with all the live action. We'll look for some live betting angles throughout the program here on cashing out, but what we like to do on Mondays is look back on the weekend that was with a little thing we call like love and love. So first off, we'll begin with baseball. What I liked from the weekend, not just baseball returning, having it in our lives, really good background situation throughout the day, just have a game on here and there. I'm finding a lot of bets that I like. It doesn't mean the bets are necessarily hitting, but I do find it fun to find the creative angles to attack a baseball game because there are so many different ways to do it, whether it's the game total, the team totals, you could back the starting pitchers first fives, you can look for dogs like dogs are hitting every night. In fact, we may force ourselves here during the season to find a dog of the day to back going into each day just because I think you have to take that mindset when it comes to betting over the course of an entire season.
But the thing that jumped out to me from the start of the season this week is the rookies. And I think we're in for it as far as rookie of the year races are concerned and majorly baseball because a lot of guys are off the hot starts. First off, Cincinnati South, South Stewart, 700 average to begin the year, seven for ten a homer, three doubles, put in the ball and play, making extra bass hits happen. And that guy starting at first base to go in the middle of the order with Suarez and others where Cincinnati now has some offense to go with their pitching. He is currently your favorite to be your NL rookie of the year as he's gotten all the way as short as four to one. How about JJ Weatherhold, who's right behind him at plus four fifty, Weatherhold, four for thirteen, three or eight average to begin his season, a homer and four ribbies for the Cardinals. After that, you have no one McLean at five and a half to one from the Yanke from the Metz, who against Pittsburgh over the weekend, five innings to earned eight strikeouts. And that was a great performance by him. Oh, by the way, Owen Casey is thirteen to one. He had a walk off home or for Miami over the weekend. And then all the way up to eight to one is Connor Griffin, who is plus like two thirty
just about three weeks ago when people thought he was going to make the roster for the pirates. And by the way, he's hitting five for ten in double A right now. So it feels like he may be on the cusp of getting called up and making his major league debut because what is left for him to do down in AAA for the Pittsburgh Pirates. Then he go to the American League, Kevin McGonagall, the short stop for Detroit. He's hitting four seventeen with two doubles and four ribbies to begin his career. The second shot in the board has chased a lotter from Cleveland. He's got four home runs. He's hitting three fifty three Murakami from Japan is after them. And he has three home runs on the year already, commonly early struck out six against Cincinnati over the weekend. This is a very strong rookie class across the board. That is all I was trying to get across when it comes to that. Now what I loved from the weekend of action is the final four field. And I loved what we ended up getting out of these teams and these games we got the drama we were looking for. And I think in the end, we got a very interesting group of players here because our teams here
I should say because you got one from the big ten or two from the big ten one from the biggest one from the big twelve. You got Brad Underwood and Illinois very creative and navigating today's NIL world with the transfer portal and players coming over from Europe being way ahead of the situation with that. He's got Dusty May and Michigan doing more with resources than he ever had at FAU. But more importantly, taking a bunch of transfers and getting them on the same page and playing like they've known each other their entire lives Tommy Lloyd and Arizona getting them back to prominence looking to be the first team since 1997, which by the way was Arizona West of Texas to win a national championship. And he's gotten over the hump now getting to a final four. And then you have Dan Hurley the character of the entire group old school a bit different coming out of the big east bringing that physicality that grime and that attitude to the final four. And he's probably got the worst team of the group. But more importantly, he's got a team that has experience and a team that I think is going to throw a wrench at a lot of this as far as the final four is concerned.
I love the field. I love the different approaches. I love the unique coaches. Hurley would be the one that you trust the most. I'd say after that, it's Dusty May that it's Tommy Lloyd, then it's Brad Underwood. Unfortunately for me, I have a ticket on Underwood. But I do think his roster is the deepest potentially, at least from the offensive side of things of these teams left in the final four. Now with that comes what's going on in Arizona as Tommy Lloyd is part of our loath. Because the thing I loath from this whole situation is the rumors of Tommy Lloyd potentially bolting Arizona and going to North Carolina to be the next head coach of the Tar Heels, which one I don't agree with. At Arizona, you can do it your way. That's a fast food saying, isn't it? Is that Burger King? You can have it your way. Tommy Lloyd at Arizona, he could be the Burger King. He can do it his way. I don't know why you'd leave. The only reason why you allow these rumors to continue to go on is because you're looking for leverage and talking to some people from that area, there appears to be a power struggle going on between Lloyd and the AD maybe.
I think Lloyd's going to use this North Carolina opening as an opportunity to get more money to hit the transfer portal harder so he can keep this thing going for the wild cats because they're about to lose a bunch of players to the NBA and graduation and whatnot. But Tommy Lloyd had a chance to put these rumors to bed. He had a chance to say, no, no, I'm staying at Arizona and he was asked about it over the weekend. And here was his answer, you know, I love those guys and they've given me a better life because they helped build this program to what it is now and the legacy is so strong. And those guys have been so cool and so welcoming to me, you know, the sun may be shining on this team and me coaching it right now. But when it's shining on you, you got to fight like hell to protect it and build it. And so that's what I feel like my number one responsibility is is to fight to protect the program and fight to build it for those who came before me and for those that are going to follow after me because you know what, Arizona is going to have another good
coach after me. I promise you. I mean, the place is special. Hey, man, we all got to get our fiber in somehow. That was a word salad for Tommy Lloyd. There was a lot of statements being made. None of them were, I'm not interested in leaving this job to go to North Carolina. That is the unfortunate part. And I'm just concerned. And maybe I'm throwing fuel to the fire here by bringing it up altogether. I don't love the idea that he didn't just say I'm staying at Arizona where now this is going to become a thing. This will be a distraction as the media sends on Indianapolis. You can bet when there's availability for Tommy Lloyd, they're going to ask him about it. And more importantly, they're going to ask the Arizona players about it. All you have to do is say, no, I'm not interested. I'm about to win a national championship in Tucson. Why would I go to Chapel Hill? And if I'm him, I would stay at Arizona. Why would you go to Chapel Hill in today's landscape when you can win anywhere? Look at Kurt Zignetti. He gets to do it. He wants to do it because nobody in Bloomington knows how to win playing football. You go to Arizona. I understand the rich history with Luke Olson in the national championship.
Guys, that was a long time ago. He's gotten them back to prominence. And that is a crazy fan base. They better be happy with Tommy Lloyd. They better be kissing his feet, begging him to stay. And if he does this, if he wins a title at Arizona this year, he should be able to stay as long as he wants. And he should be able to continue to build that. Why would you go to North Carolina where there's so many old school boosters who think they know more than you are going to be in your business trying to show you how we do things when you get to stay at Arizona and do it Tommy Lloyd's way. I think it'd be a big mistake to go and take that job. But more importantly, it's a bigger mistake not to just come out and say, I don't want it. But even if you want to take the job, you should still come out and say, I don't want it. You should lie to everyone to keep your team singularly focused on the task at hand, which is winning the title and advancing here this weekend in the final four. We're down to the final stretch college groups and it's a great time to stay on top of every bet. With these in pro, you'll get daily best bets from every single show here. You get the betting splits, draft Kings and circa. We've also got AI powered prop tools matchup analysis 24, seven video.
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Back at it on cash and Adam Dustin, sweetle, sin, it's vason, these sports betting networks, some baseball scores to update you on, then we'll hit the final four with Ben Stevens here. Giants lead the Padres three, nothing in the eighth, the Mariners still leading the Yankees one, nothing in the seven, the Guardians in the fifth inning, one, nothing on top of the Dodgers on the road and the Diamondbacks, five, nothing on top of the Tigers currently in Arizona, two late night NBA games, the Lakers up 22 on the Wizards in the third quarter and then the Thunder 79 74 on top of the joy pistons were the lot of players resting in that game, that game currently in the fourth quarter. I'll update you on that throughout the night here on the program. But the story today, because one week from today, we'll be cutting down the nets with a national champion crown is what we have in the final four. But before we look forward, we have to look backwards and to help us do that, we're going out to the progressive guest line, welcoming in vason, host Ben Stevens, he is my co-host on live bet Saturday here on the network at Ben Scott Stevens on X and he joins us now in cashing out. And I think you know where I'm going to start with this, but as someone who's livelihood
is living and dying with every single second of March, badness here, you're watching Duke just decimate Yukon, they're up by 19, we're talking ourselves into John Shire, Kenny now, win a title quicker than coach K did at Duke. And all of a sudden, Yukon starts chipping away and it comes down to the final 10 seconds. The ball is tipped. It ends up in Karabhan's hands. He hands it to Mullins who drains the three. You're watching that game. What was your reaction jumping and screaming up into the air, truly screaming at the top of my lungs, not just because I had a Connecticut plus five and a half ticket that I gave out on live bet Sunday and believe that Yukon could keep close. And when that ticket felt like it had zero chance in the world to even have a thrill in the final five, six minutes or so for the Huskies to cover, let alone went outright, felt remarkable, dusted. But on top of that, my fiance, you know that we are getting married in just over a month, is the smartest handicapper in this household.
She is in a 12-leg NFL money line parlay about a year ago, a year prior to that. She won my college buddy's March Madness bracket challenge with about 55 people, and Dustin she is currently in first place with a bracket that ranks in the 2000s of 26.6 billion brackets ushered on ESPN. And she is in first place of that college buddy's bracket as I alluded to set to make somewhere between eight and nine hundred dollars. And she needed Yukon to reach the final four to really be in prime and pole position. So she was on a walk for most of the early portion of Yukon and Duke. I was detailing things for her while hosting live bet Sunday, this Huskies team sucks. The key match was going to be Yukon hitting the three at a higher clip than they had previously in their first three games in the big dance. They start the game one of 18 from three to only make four of their final five triples, including the shot from the logo courtesy of the freshman in Braylon Mullins.
So she got backdustin for probably the final five or six minutes of regulation. So we were freaking out jumping in the air and screaming together as Yukon won in miraculous fashion. That will be a moment. Remember the month of March for the entirety of the NCAA tournament and it seems as though we are closer to an ice early wedding gift, perhaps. Ben Stevens is our guest, Veecin host at Ben Scott Stevens on X want to go back to Saturday now because you know, I had some investment as far as Purdue is concerned. You have Purdue to win the title. So I'm sorry about that, but I had my hair on the line here and I'm recently engaged and I did not run it by my new fiance that I was willing to shave my head if Purdue made the final four. No one really asked me to make the bet. I just decided to place the bet and Purdue was leading Arizona at the half. Arizona King storming back they won 79 64. You and I have been on the air for a lot of Arizona games this year. How good is this Arizona team as they're going to face Michigan and Michigan is now the slight favorite at minus one and a half.
I know it's a short number, but do you think it's right that Michigan should be favorite over this Arizona team? No, and I'm a little bit surprised perhaps that Michigan is favorite. That's where the betting market is going right now. Latest updates in the Veecin Pro betting splits about 95% of the handle on circa backing the Wolverines. We were live yesterday on live that Sunday as we were watching Michigan, absolutely club Tennessee in the second half. So already paying attention to those potential hypothetical matchups of a game that you see here that every college basketball fan in 2025, 26 is dreamed of witnessing on the floor. By far the two most dominant and impressive teams, the entirety of this college basketball season, Arizona ranked the top the AP top 25 for the majority of this year. Michigan was the number one team in Kenpom for a good majority of this season in college hoops as well. So seeing what Arizona did to Purdue in the second half is what we have expected the cats to do all year long. They brought the physicality down low. They stopped caring about shooting the three and they absolutely routed the boiler makers
with one of the most efficient defenses in the sport pacing up Purdue, who of course wants to play at a much slower tempo. Dustin, when we were live on live that Sunday yesterday, myself in Femme of Ebife, we saw the Draft King's national championship odds even as Michigan was up 25, 30 points early in the second half against those volunteers. It was plus 194 Arizona, about 20 cents in front of Michigan and plus 210 to win a national championship. Well, if they had to go through each other to cut down the nets exactly one week from tonight in Indianapolis, we could assume that Arizona would be the betting favorite in that matchup against the Mason Blue and they opened as so the market has moved because of that belief in Michigan. I'm not necessarily buying in as strongly as the market is, it is a virtual coin toss in my estimation for the two best teams, the entirety of this college basketball season, but I think there are some advantages Arizona has that maybe the betting market is not taking under consideration at this very time. Yeah, Arizona with a lot of size, Arizona is really deep as a roster.
The problem is, Yoxel Lindenborg's going to be the best player on the floor. That is the problem for Arizona, we're chatting with Ben Stevens, Veecin host here, catch him live at Saturday live bet Sunday all over the network and on X at Ben Scott Stevens, also a great tick tock at Ben Scott Stevens. Talk to you about Illinois and Yukon, I've got Illinois 16 to one, I don't really love this matchup, but I like it better than having to see Duke here for my 16 to one ticket. The line I are laying two and a half, totals 139 and a half, how do you see these two teams going at it? Also some hefty handle already on Dan Hurley and his Huskies and who could fault that. They are 17 at one, both outright and against the number since the very beginning of the 23 NCAA tournament, including covering both as the underdogs in that four year span and the outright win in dramatic fashion against Duke just yesterday afternoon. It's an awesome game. I think it will be decided by a single possession. That's in the 16 to one ticket on the fighting a line. A few weeks ago, I would have said had no life, perhaps even a see this stage, perhaps maybe even a see the second weekend because of how poor the line I were playing defensively.
They are now playing like one of the best defenses in the sport and coupling that with the best offense that we have seen in the last two and a half, three decades, Illinois is a true national championship contender. Can the line I overwhelm a really stout and efficient, Connecticut defense from three? About 38.8% of the points that Illinois has produced this year from beyond that three point R, nearly 51% of the overall field goal tries for Brad Underwood and his club this year from beyond that three point R. Yukon loves to run you off the three point line. They do not make anything easy on the defensive side of the floor when they are facing that opposing offense. To me, if Illinois is great from three, or at least the volume is high enough that they can shoot around 35 to 36% which means 10, 11 or 12 triples, I think Illinois might play for a national championship for the first time since 2005. But the betting market does love the Huskies as the dog and I'm not necessarily sure I can blame them at this moment. This is a one possession game on Saturday that you and I will be teeing up and previewing
right before we get a tip in Indianapolis on live bet Saturday. I'm not entirely sure at this very moment why I'm going to pick to win one that said one possession game. No, it's coming down to the wire. How can you fade Dan Hurley this time of year? The irony is Yukon's longest shot in the board to win the title futures wise at five and half to one. They have the coach you trust the most. They have players who've played in big games, Alex Caravan has rings on his fingers. So they'll always have a chance. If I forced you right now, who is cutting down the nets this time a week from now on Monday? It has been the same team that we have both had since the start of this big dance. It is the Arizona Wildcats. I love what we have seen out of this cats team throughout the entirety of the NCAA tournament. All four wins by at least 12 points. That's the same story for Michigan. The key for Arizona in beating Michigan to play for a national championship. One week from now is going to be able to pace up Michigan when they are on the offensive side of the floor. Arizona wants to play fast, offensively.
So does Michigan. The Wolverines have one of the best defenses in college hoops this year because they like when you slow down and get into your half court sets. As we saw exemplified against Alabama in that second half, when Michigan became dominant once again. Arizona can play fast and get those good, clean looks on the offensive side against a really good Michigan defense that makes it difficult and slows you down because of guys like Gaxle and the board. And I'm all right. I'm a res Johnson junior down low. I give the advantage to Arizona and hopefully they can turn over Michigan just a little bit as well. I think Arizona wins that game in the final four. I think Arizona is playing for a national championship one week from right now and for the first time since 97, a West Coast team. That being the Arizona Wildcats wins a national championship. I agree with everything you said. That's why we work well together. He's Ben Stevens. Check him out on ex at Ben Scott Stevens all over the network on the weekends live bet Saturday live bet Sunday. Thanks as always for doing this. We will be together Saturday and I'm looking forward to the hype fest getting ready for
these two big games. Final four Saturday together. I could dream of nothing more. Oh, even better than your wedding night. Let's be real. All right. Why do we return here on cashing out? There's a baseball team that in the world series market. I actually think might be undervalued despite the hype. Back at it on cashing out. I'm Dustin Sweetleson. You're locked into V sin V sports betting network baseballs back in our lives every single night. It's a beautiful thing. Be better. We're winning all of our bets. Four and three so far to start the day. The Yankees while we're in commercial break did tie it back up with the Seattle Mariners. One one as we are now on the bottom of the seventh.
Thanks to an Ahmed Rosario sacrifice fly. Our bet on the Yankees and minus 105 where we got good CLV. We'd like to see it hang tough. How about Parker Messick for the guardians were in the sixth inning against the Dodgers and he is mowing these dudes down. So Parker Messick a lefty and this is the Dodgers lineup with pretty good splits a year ago against Southples. I mean, they hit everyone. So it's not surprising that they would do well against lefties, but five and a third for Messick. No earned five hits three K's. No walks as we're in the bottom of the sixth inning looking at the in game number. It is plus 102 with the Dodgers minus 133 with the guardians. The total is three and a half. Now one thing you have to factor in especially when you get late in these games, you're going to get a quality start out of Parker Messick is that the guardians didn't have to use the back end of their bullpen. Um, they didn't have to use the back end of their bullpen last game. They lost eight. Nothing. So that means that Kate Smith, their big closer, that means Sean Armstrong should be available as well. So I'm not willing to fade the Dodgers, okay, but the guardians are minus 163.
The Dodgers are plus a dollar 25 as Messick just struck Otani out with a great breaking ball. And Otani's helmet kind of flopped on his head. You don't see that happen often to the reigning MVP in the national league. There's two outs in the sixth. I, I think that the guardians, we might have missed our chance to bet them at a short price here as they're up one nothing. But now you start looking at a plus price with the Dodgers and you start doing the math. How often am I getting a plus price with the Dodgers, especially at home? But the problem is I do like the end of the guardians bullpen, specifically Kate Smith, though, maybe not the bridge with Armstrong up to him, because Gattis is out. So there could be a world is now I'm talking myself into the other side. By the way, we've got the diamond backs looking to attack on some more runs against the Tigers, fifth inning one out. And it looks like we just got a double from Arizona, which is going to make it second and third. That looks like Alec Thomas, the outfielder, drove one into the gap there in left center. And now it's second and third and one out for Arizona as they lead Detroit six to nothing
fifth inning in game totals 10 and a half. See, I consider an in game over 10 and a half in that game. So I'm not going to do it. I'm not going to do it because I'm only four and three on the day and not having a great day here with baseball. We're about to lose another bet on a total as the San Francisco Giants are up three nothing on the Padres. Somehow in this game, Landon Rupo has terrible numbers against a pet go against San Diego. He kept San Diego at bay today, three nothing San Francisco with the lead. They're minus 10,000 on the money line, 14 to one the other way with the Padres as they just popped out and it looks like we are going to go to the bottom of the ninth inning, looking for the Padres to extend this thing. We need three runs from San Diego. Can they give it to us if they only have two hits on the night against the Giants? My goodness. Hang on. Well, I need to see something here real quick. What was Landon Rupo's final line because as a guy, I was looking to fade here in this spot. Now, the top of the orders up for San Diego.
Do you want to have a little fun, Z's with me? Do we want to root for San Diego? As let's see, Rupo went six innings, two hits, no, earned seven strikeouts. And for San Francisco now, they're going to turn it over to the bullpen, looking for their first one of the year, Ryan Walker is their closer. I don't love Ryan Walker. I think he's fine. But Randy Rodriguez is the guy they prefer to be the closer, but he is injured. I don't hate the idea. When's the last time Ryan Walker? Well, he's the closer. He probably didn't pitch yet this year. He pitched on Saturday. Okay. Saturday against the Yankees. So do we feel spicy? Do we want to go plus 1580 with San Diego top of the order up against Ryan Walker? Let's see what Ryan Walker's numbers are against these hitters for the Padres because that it's not the end all be all, but it is a good way to monitor like if some guy see the ball well off of him. So for San Diego and 244 average, not great. So he'll see Cronin worth who's one for four with a double against him in two ribbies.
He's going to see Tatis who is four for eight with two doubles. And then I believe Machado is next, who's one for six lifetime against him. Yeah, Machado. Tatis is the key to the whole thing. If Tatis can, if Cronin worth can somehow get on, Tatis could do something with an extra base hit. We could be cooking there. It's a long shot. I'm not going to touch it, but just throw it out there into the atmosphere. Uh-oh. Cal Raleigh is at the plate. And we've got a situation brewing in Seattle. First and third for the Mariners, one one game, bottom seven, two to count to Raleigh. He drink on to pitch to him. I don't know who he drink is. That's why I hesitated. But after Raleigh, it'll be Julio Rodriguez in the lineup after him. And this is a good opportunity for Seattle to potentially take the lead. They are minus one eighty four on the money line, plus one forty with the yanks. Total in game is four and a hook in that game. So okay, Ryan Walker is on to close things out for the Giants now. He's coming in and last year, four eleven ERA for him and a little over 61 innings pitched.
And I imagine Cronenworth who's over three on the night as he gets started off with a ninety five mile an hour sinker. I have to imagine Cronenworth is going to be very selective to hopefully get on base with a walk at Dodger Stadium, an update coming here, a lead off single for the Cleveland Guardians. That is hedges. Is that Austin hedges? That is Austin hedges. How about that Austin hedges backup catcher, very light hitting guy, awesome personality. He gets a lead off hit for Cleveland. They're up one nothing. And now minus two seventeen on the money line, plus a dollar sixty three with the Dodgers. Total in game is three and a half. Roll left, Rob Leskies on the lefty for the Dodgers right now. And he's facing Angel Martinez who is pretty good splits against lefties with hedges on first base. I kind of want to go under three and a half runs in this game at three and a half, but it's a Dodger game. At any point in time, the Dodgers could go off here. So I'm staying away. I'm staying away from the live betting. I've had some bad calculations preflop so probably not going to jump in on some of these
games. I really love the angle. It looks like Krona worth got on San Diego is now plus eight ninety. See now this is what happens. I say I'm going to play it slow unless I really love something. I think I want a little San Diego here, just a little nibble, just a little fun here for between you and I couple friends. What are we doing? Or some bats trying to have some fun when some money here, seven to one, I can get on San Diego. Why not? It just went up to plus seven fifty. I don't love that, but I'm going to do it anyway because I said I wanted it. I want it. I need it. I got to have it. Machado's in the on deck circle for the friars. We're in at seven fifty on the Padres. It's a one one count now on Tati's. The tying run is on deck in Machado. And at Dodger Stadium, the Guardians keep hitting Angel Martinez with a single up the gut and it is two runners on. Nobody out for the Guardians against Robleski and the Dodgers, Cleveland with a chance to tack on here.
Their mind is three dollars as a favorite at Dodger Stadium, plus two seventeen with L.A. Four and a half is your total. As much hype as I can talk up the Guardians back into the bullpen with Cade Smith, here's a reality. This thing gets north of three to one on principle. Almost half the bet that Dodgers just because of the offense and their capabilities here. So we'll see how this shakes out as Robleski is in a lot of trouble with two on. He desperately needs a ground ball. He needs a double play to get out of this inning in the NBA, two late night games going on. The pistons have taken the lead on the thunder ninety seven ninety that has gone down on the last five or six minutes here as Fernando Tati's goes down on strikes for the pro Padres. But Detroit with four minutes to go leads OKC ninety seven ninety they're laying three and a half and the totals two oh seven and a half. We have an infield hit at Dodger Stadium. Oh baby. Oh baby, it's getting juicy. What are we getting now with the Dodgers?
It's plus three thirty nine Cleveland is minus five ten. The bases are loaded. It was a Bunt single. Was that Stephen Quon? It's Stephen Quon. Stephen Quon laid down a beauty of a Bunt single into no man's land. And that's one issue for the Dodgers max months. He's a bad defensive third baseman and he put it right in between him and a left handed pitcher who is on his glove side going to the ball and then asked to turn and throw to first and he was never able to crowd the baseball. We have two down it Petco Park as a ground out an infield ground out and now Walker is one out away from putting away the pro the Padres three nothing San Francisco with the lead nine thinning. So yeah, we had some fun. We tried to find seven to one. Maybe I talked myself into it too much. That's an issue. And then now let's go to Arizona again. We're the diamond backs in the fifth inning have the bases loaded and two out and O two counter could tell Marta and that is the last guy you want to see if you're the Tigers already losing seven nothing Arizona.
There's no money line for them. You want the Tigers? 28 to one to come back as Marta hits one and it looks like that's going to end the inning. Does it? Yep. It does. Force out at second. We will go to the top of the six inning diamond back still in the lead seven and nothing in that game. Are you tired of Capers line about their record juice real just dropped an update that makes that impossible. Connect your sports books directly to juice real and instantly get in depth analytics on your own betting plus access to what the very best bettors on the platform have their money on. The day of Capers faking their profits are over tail proven winners on juice real download it now that's juice like orange juice real R E E L juice real. Is the Tommy Lloyd North Carolina situation going to be a problem for Arizona? We'll discuss next.
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