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1:01We're live in downtown Vegas. Excuse me. There you go. From Circle Resort, I can see no good way to start the show. A big program lined up today, three hours here. Live here. Live here. Live here. Live here. Live here. Live here. Live here. Live here. Live here. Live here. Live here. Live here. Live here. Live here. Live here. Live here. Live as always. And obviously we have the sweet 16 coming up a little bit later on tonight. And the real opening day. Games ongoing and games coming up in about 10, 15 minutes, which we're going to get into. Brad Taylor on the program, Vs and Hosts on the weekends. We'll get his sweet 16 best bets on the show Aaron Renning, professional sports better on the NBA. I got to ask more. He has the Lakers power rating full season and over the last month or so. And the Godfather Brett Musburger. His thoughts on the sweet 16 and who he likes to win it all at this point. Coming up. That's at 630 Eastern. Paulie's back from a day off.

2:01How was the pizza convention? Lived up to the hype. Exceeded my expectations. I thought you're just going in and here's some pie and try it. But it was everything that can go in a pizza shop was there. How about that? Look at the dessert tray. When you say walk right in. Connolly. Mississippi mud. Cheesecake. Look at that spread. Right? What was the best thing you had? Dessert or was it actually pizza? It was a pizza. Yeah. You close with the connolly. But it's just. We'll show it later. You'll walk right in. There's these gals scantily clad. DJ hanging out here. Try some wings. And it just go right down the list. Hand them out food. I would say that's got to be like a bucket list type of thing to do. Yeah. The national pizza convention. The best stuff you're going to get in the country for the most part. And you can go there for a day and check it out and enjoy it. That'd be pretty awesome. Yeah. A couple people reached out immediately and said you got to find the prosciutto slicer, which will change your life, which I couldn't find. But I found a cold cut section. What they had.

3:01And it was just phenomenal with the POS systems ovens. Everyone looked, you know, she hears what we got here are the fancy toys. Cookoffs challenges. Who has the best pie rank them? You know, bread everything. Awesome. Very good. Very good. All right. So the games that are going on right now in Major League Baseball. What do you want to do with this pirate scheme against the Mets? Because the screens got yanked. Didn't even go a full inning. No way you can bet him to win this high young this year. But his defense was absolutely disgusting in that first inning. Yeah. Led by center field or only only a cruise who I actually I like, but defensively absolute disaster. And the Mets scored five in the first. They now lead 11 to five. Again, we could do. I don't want to overreact, but like every day in the Major League Baseball season until like June, I think. But the pirates were a very popular team in the off season. And that is probably. A little bit of schemes world baseball classic hangover. You think or am I just like reaching here for reasons why maybe the Mets were able to get him a little bit today.

4:04It was just a fluke. I don't know. You couldn't get out of the first inning. It was bizarre. You're right about how the defense let him down, but he had walks. He had a 10 pitch at bat to another guy. And he just didn't have it today. Sometimes it happens. It's shocking. But he was he was brutal. And that's just that's just how it goes. You know, the Cubs were big favorites. Skins blew up today. So I think you're going to see a lot of surprises and a lot of strange games as they play so many. And the other thing too. I know is always new listeners. Check it in. But and people have commented about this about how it's a little bit intimidating. When you look at the menu and now that it's opening day and bat baseball. Oh, you get lost. Oh, sure. You got run lines, money lines, totals, first five, everything. The micro betting. You can do it. Bad stuff. It's really wild. The betting menu overall. For the sport. You know, the Cubs again. I'm looking right now. They close its highs minus 230 to win the game today against the nationals. Nationals projected to be one of the worst teams in major league baseball. And they got to boy today. And boyd was really good for the Cubs.

5:04And I you know, I saw people saying this on X after a start to like. Oh, some some negative regression was coming. Well, I mean. Against the nationals and bumped up to a 230 favorite. Maybe you didn't see it coming today. But it certainly was there for him in the national offense for one day. Only looked really good. And I will point this out too. The brewers are now leading the white socks by score of eight to one top of the sixth. The white socks. A popular team again in the off season. And the brewers. You know, these numbers are always going to be different. I see right now at fan duels. They closed minus one eighty four draft Kings minus one ninety nine. So Jacob Mizorowski was the opening day starter today for the brewers. No surprise there. No more Freddie Peralta as he was on the bump today for the match. Eleven. Is it good? Is it good? Is it going to matter? 11 strikeouts through five. Yeah. So I just confirmed this because I do have three different bets and starting pictures to lead. All a major league baseball strikeouts this year. I did look at Mizorowski. I wanted to see what his number was going to be. And between Westgate and circa the numbers I saw were like around 58 60 to one. I mean, if he would have been an absolutely gigantic number.

6:06I'm talking triple digits or higher. I would have maybe plunked down a little bit on him. That's just because I don't think the innings are going to be there at the end of the year. Brewers are probably going to be careful with him a little bit. Yeah. But eleven. He had seven through three. I mean, just like five, I think through two. Eleven through five. And he threw. Ninety plus pitches. He's just blowing batters out of the water. And I'd reached out to the Westgate and circa today. Westgate had his highs eighty to one on the guy to lead the league and strikeouts. Now, I think there's one book that already moved from about a twelve to one. But I just I don't want to. I didn't bet him. I'm not going to bet him. Because I don't think like overall the brewers are going to allow him to have that much wear and tear on the arm. This young is by the way. Youngest opening day starter to have ten plus K's. Since King Felix did it back at 07 when King Felix was twenty years old. I think the Miz is twenty three. That's awesome. Well, they can they do this again. Again, they've gone over their wind total eight of the last nine years and they're trying to win the division four years in a restaurant. I say yes. It doesn't matter who they lose and who comes in and what happens with the pitching staff.

7:06They find a way to get it done, right? I was looking forward to the Dodger game tonight. Yamamoto Lane two seventy. That's a five thirty start. They own the division last year. Crushed it went thirty six and sixteen and gallon was bad at an ERA of almost five and had fifteen losses and the games going on right now. Please tell me you bet Tyler O'Neill they had a home run. Six straight opening days. He's gone deep. Can he do it again? Well, this is absolutely nuts. His six career homers on opening day are two away from the MLB record. Record for most on opening day. Can Griffey Jr. Frank Roberts and Adam Dunn eight a piece. And by the way, like the longest streak ever for most consecutive games throughout a regular season with a home run is eight. I think what Donnie baseball has that along with Griffey and maybe a couple of other guys as well. But that's just one of the most random things I've ever heard. I forgot I saw that I have it in my notes. I forgot to even look. Do you know what a number was on him?

8:06And right now that game is a scoreless in the bottom of the four. Because everyone it's trending. Everyone's aware of it and what happened. It came in last year and it keeps coming in, right? Also see this could this could be it for school. In Detroit trying to join Maddox. Wasn't Maddox today was Dave Stewart throwing out the first pitch but Maddox and the big unit. Three consecutive Saiyong award winners. He goes today and there are eight. Managers with new teams. Including Schumacher. He's popular and I think you can do a good job with Texas. And that's another good game with a solid pitching matchup coming up on the card with a vaulty going. Including the young buck who moved from Tennessee. The volunteers to the Giants. Yeah in his managerial debut last night. Youngest first guy to ever do that go from with no experience to go from college to the big league level. And I because I live there for a while. I work with some of these guys and I you know we follow each other on X still talk once in a while. Like the Bay Area media were like hey skip.

9:07I get it to first game. You're allowed to take Logan Web out doesn't have it tonight. Yes, right. You can go out there and read you have the ability to remove him from the game. But isn't that like why baseball. And we saw the tweets are ready today. One of the best lines ever in visa history in my opinion from Nick Bogdanovic long time Vegas odds maker who said you need a bottle of whiskey and a revolver to bet majorly baseball. Because the beats are just and the unpredictability. But so far it took like 15 hours. Logan Web at home has been a thing for a pretty much his entire career like you can bank on Logan Web to be reliable. Probably get you like six plus innings strike out a bunch of guys and allow the other team to not get many hits. And not get many runs across the plate. And last night he was just not great. And the Yankees got him right away. And that carried over into today with that post like it's Paul freaking schemes. That offending national league saw young. And he is removed two thirds of an inning into the regular season.

10:1011 5 still currently met on tie. It's just the randomness in this sport. You're going to hit your head against the wall over and over and over again. You brought up the boy thing for the Cubs. Washington had an ERA of 5.4 3 4 last year. Second worst at all. Major league baseball. The kid going today for the nationals. 27 years old 11 career big league starts. 10 came last season. And he was the net's fourth opening day starter in the last five years. 7 3 things are going cozy right now for the nationals in that game. Where you at with the Orioles. I like them. I don't love them. I like them. Right. Rogers got the ball. 9 and 3 with a 1 8 1 last year. Second best ERA and baseball. Fifth different opening day starter for the Orioles. You figure to get a win against the twins. And the in plate totals four and a half as they're scoreless in the fourth. Yeah. Well Joe Ryan is, you know, he had to be the opening day starter. Low passes out for the year, but that makes sense. Ryan's pretty damn good as well. I just think that the American league east is going to be a gauntlet this year.

11:12Yankees are going to be damn good. I expect the blue jays to be right there again this year. Red socks are going to be like a 500 team. They'll be a threat for sure. And I think for the first time in a long time you can say the raise are clearly the worst team on that division. MLB dot com right power rankings. Yankees fourth. Red socks seventh. Blue J second. Baltimore 10th. Pretty good. And by the way, I don't even disagree with the blue jays being number two. No, I don't. I think they're going to be phenomenal again. Yeah. This show is brought to you by profit X. And right now you can win a free trip worth up to $10,000 during March. Manus with King of March. Use the code V sin. M. M. But how about our buddy Matt Vescargian on the call last night in the Bay area. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And back at it today that ended at 11 o'clock Eastern time. He was on the first pitch today for NBC. At what was that one 15 Eastern time warrior.

12:12Absolutely. That's insane. Yeah. Good for him to be able to pull that off. So we're going to continue. We have five more games starting very soon on the real opening day. I will tell you we're going to go over some season long props and also tell you which starting picture has dominated today's opponent in the handful of games. After the past couple of seasons coming up on follow the money. It's V sin. The sports betting network. We're going to get your attention real quick podcast listeners. It's March. Which means the madness is officially upon us and the folks at V sin have gone crazy with this one. For 29.99 you get unlimited access to V sin pro through May 1st. I'm talking picks throughout the tournament. Public betting data for every single game. Sharp tools, projections, articles and more. Which means every day you wait is an opportunity missed.

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14:21This is follow the money on visa. Like some more games are either starting as we speak or they are about to have their first pitch. They claimed 10 after but sometimes these opening day ceremonies can take a little bit longer than anticipated and right now the red socks and the reds are underway. It is a good pitchy matchup overall. Crochet first of all on the mound today for the Boston Red Sox finished runner up saw young last year to scuba. He led all a major league baseball with 255 Ks AL best 205 plus eddies 18 wins as well at 2590. I remember I was making the post I thought he should have won last year because I think those numbers were actually better than scubals. But scuba had the narrative and his numbers were also very good. So he won it again. 26 years old very under the radar guy but again here's the thing with the reds right greens always hurt ladolo on the aisle to start the year I can't trust this team. Because of that I really want to but I can't. And he was the first time all star last year to wait seven with the ERA more than 166. And he's pitched our buddy Donnie who lives in the areas at the game right now and he said do this what you want wins are absolutely howling out today.

15:28But I didn't touch it even though he told me that because it is opening day and you got to go like crochet on the mound. So yep great season last year I know I'm a crochet fan. I'm with you 89 wins. We mentioned their power ratings MLB has them seventh so good game here. But I also like Abbott and I don't see a lot of runs in this game. I do like the Astros that has gone off by the way on O'Neill's four to one in play to go deep. If you think he can do it seven years in a row. But it's just more of a fate against the angels and Soriano here. I'm on the other side of that. Yeah, okay. I like the angels. Well, can you again these guys stay healthy trouts 34 now. And most people expect another down year for the Astros and didn't go well last season. But so we're over against each other there, but you're on the angels. Okay, I'll give you some numbers here. No, there's no opinion the lineup today for the Astros either. So they're missing a couple of guys, but Hunter Brown has been this guy was talking about before the break. Uh, four starts against the angels since it started the 2024 season.

16:28He's been brilliant to 1570 IRA four earned runs over 23 and he's pitched. And a 115 opposing batting average allowed nine for 78 overall. And the Astros have dominated the angels. 55 are their last 77 meetings. They have won since start of the 2021 season. That would equal a 109 win rate over 162 game season. However, sorry, like a game. Soriano is very good. And his last two starts. He has been equally impressive. If not better against this Astros lineup again down. A guy like opinion today in the lineup. He also led major, uh, all the major league baseball last year and ground ball percentage. And he's got that 97 mile an hour sinker as well. And he throws it a lot. I just. I think it's too high. Even though I don't not really high on the angels this year. But I also think the Astros can kind of be bad. And I just think that Laura is kind of a number with the Astros was too high to begin the day. You know, could have be a bad outfit at St. Louis. They're supposed to be top by bottom three.

17:28Second few was home runs last year. And a lot of key players gone. They could be awful this year when you look at it as well. And I will say is we have a new manager also in San Diego. This game coming up with the with the Padres. Mason Miller's become appointment viewing what this guy has done. And you go back to what he did in the playoffs against the Cubs. And how we finished the playoffs and the world baseball classic. 28 consecutive scoreless endings striking out 60 of the 97 batters faced with only four hits allowed. What this guy has turned into. I mean, he is, he is awesome. Yep. So much and I talked about this yesterday when you were out. And the numbers overall when you include the world baseball classic are just it's basically. The best you're ever going to see from a reliever like in the history of the game. And now his number is a hundred to one. And a reliever is not want to saw young since 2003 when Eric Gagne pulled it off of the Dodgers. We kicked that around. And our our buddy Weston. What would you need pointing that out to me? I never bet I did a hundred to one. I would take probably like 200 to 250 one because it's every single year.

18:30Yeah, yeah, I know you've done it before. Right. But when a reliever has like the best season we've had in 25 years. And yet they can't win the award. I was a T. See it in a couple of years ago for the Orioles and class A. Was probably better a couple of years ago for the Guardians. Nope, basically had no chance. So that's why I didn't bet it and Miller has a chance to be better than both of them. But also so much brought up the biggest point of all. And that is. A lot of people are down in the potteries this year. And if that's the case. They could easily pivot and decide to be sellers of the deadline. If they would happen to trade him to an American league team. You might be sitting on a guy with a sub one ERA. And I don't know 18 19 K's per nine around the trading deadline. And all of a sudden he goes to whatever team in the American league. That that's dead. And that would really not be a fun feeling. Mm hmm. But it's also like they have basically told us a reliever has little to no chance to win the award. Player props. I always like to fade the hot prospects coming in with a ton of hype. Just because it seems they press. It's a whole different ballgame forum.

19:30They have to get acclimated and adjusted. You know, Roman Anthony was awesome, but he struggled early on. And also I remember Chris Bryant going back when the cubby's brought him up. I think he had a golden sombrero in his first game. Yeah, that makes sense. So you're pressing your swing, you're expanding the strike zone. And I know you're high on this hot shot prospect for the Tigers. But I think I would look at his props under until he comes out and shows that he's going to dominate right off the bat. Well, in all ways, when you look at season long props and some books will leave this stuff up. We're pretty much the entire year. Other books will take it off now that we've had opening day. So that can be a little frustrating. However, again, we talked about this yesterday. There was there was an offshore book that offered the prop. Anybody hit 60 home runs this year. The number was plus 110. Caesars has plus 375. Yeah, that's what come on. Yeah, it's more in line with what it should be. So Cal Rally, he did it last year. He did it back in 2022. Those are the first two guys to do it.

20:30Since like that bonds, Sosa, Maguire era. I think we do have multiple guys though. If they stay healthy for the entire year, they have 60 plus home run power. Obviously, Rally does, but I don't think he could repeat last year. Judge could do it again. Otani could do it again. Schwarber could do it for the first time. And maybe a guy like Kurtz for the Ace could do it. Based on where he plays his games doesn't hurt either. But I think there's a chance a guy's going to push for 60 again this year. I would need more than plus 175 for a pitcher to win 20 games. Yeah, I'm not betting that number. That should be higher. I would like to be higher. I would think you can also bet individual players to get these milestones, right? You can bet individual pitchers to win 18 or 20 games. When it comes to 60 home runs, like I just ran down. Yeah. Otani is plus 450 Schwarber 11 to 1. Rally 13 and Kurtz 15. Judge was off the board because they played last night. And 50 plus home runs.

21:31A guy like Junior Caminero hit 45 last year. Got off the kind of a slow start. He's 7 to 1. And Alonzo is plus 5 50 playing in Baltimore now this year. Could Alonzo put together the kind of year that could actually push. That's aggressive. Judge to win the MVP. Yeah. I don't know. What numbers did humans get on Schlitler for Sai Young? What do you think of that? He got 300 on him. Okay. Because when he talked about it on the future draft here, DK had 50. And then he looked around, Westgate had 300. So that's a slight difference there. I think that's where it's some pizza money. Don't you? And a guy like him to maybe lead the league in case. You can do that. Okay. I'm scared of the young guys based on overall, you know, how many innings they're going to get. But. I haven't got out of it. By the way, Red Sox had two guys on and didn't get anybody across. So now that scoreless going to the black. I think the crochet was one, two, three maybe as well. So they're going to go to the top of the second scoreless. Maybe in that game. I looked at this up today.

22:32Caesar's also offers will we have any player hit a home run of 500 plus feet on the years plus 180. So from the research that I did. We have not had a guy do that in recent memory. But Adam Dunn did it twice. Richie Sexton. No, hit a 503 foot bomb. Many remeers did it. Mo Vaughan Jim Tommy McGuire can say go some others on the list as well. But basically the Adam Dunn Richie Sexons. Home runs were the most recent to happen, which I found a little surprising. We haven't had one since. That is surprising. Right. Yeah. You figured in Colorado. I don't know. The Yankees have played there before. Obviously being at the vision. But evidently, according to the stat tracker numbers, nobody has hit one in a long time. And Detroit all over Paveta. Are they still batting? It's for nothing. And they're still batting. Wow. Oh, man. This guy's got nothing today. So what school will now to win the game life?

23:32Yeah. That's the last thing he needs all that run support. A thousand minus a thousand. Now he did pitch, but it was briefly in the World Baseball Classic. Look what happened to Web. Look what happened to skeens. Right. That's a good observation. I know. I don't fall. The money brought to you by Profit X. If you're not on Profit X yet, now's the time. Sign up by April 6th. Purchase at least $25 and get a free 25th. Jump in the King of March contest. You go in free trips worth up to $5,000, even $10,000. Just use the code VSNMM. Make your first purchase. Then learn about the contest on their homepage and start playing. No entry fee required. At a thousand volume, you're entered for the 5K trip. Hit 10,000. You're in for the 10K trip. When 10 picks hit the volume. And every additional 10 wins get you another entry. Download Profit X code VSNMM. Make your first purchase and take your shot. Not becoming the King of March. Good luck. Get up there. Great. Overall time in the sports betting world, obviously. With what you got a golf tournament going on today.

24:32You have Major League Baseball with a slew of games on the real opening day. And then you have the sweet 16 games tonight as well. Which we're going to get a dive into coming up next from a betting perspective. Dogs in this range have been solid bets in the sweet 16 since 2017. We'll discuss that in best bets. With VSN weekend host Brad Taylor coming up on follow the money. It's VSN, the sports betting network. This is follow the money on VSN. All right. Great day again. As I was talking about, we get the sweet 16 games a little bit later on tonight as well. It'll hit those here with some best bets and analysis. As Brad Taylor joins the program now. He's a host here in VSN on the weekends. He does live at Saturdays with Will Hill. You do it from a surka.

25:32The sports book at the Mint and Kentucky. Yes. We do it live from the Mint. The Mint Gaming Hall and Franklin, Kentucky right above the surka sports book. And we have a good time. Will Hill and I. Yeah. My back hurts every Saturday night from carrying him those four hours. Sure. We have a good time with it. We try to cast some tickets. But that's what we're all trying to do here on VSN. Yep. So you're born and raised in Kentucky. Yes. And obviously you know John Calipari and his team's very well over the years. This feels like a very typical Cal team in Arkansas. Uber talented. Disappointed. I think maybe a little bit over the regular season. But here we are now against Arizona, who basically has a little bit of everything in my opinion. Might be the best team in the country. What are your thoughts on this game, Brad? John Calipari has, you know, when he left Lexington, the one thing that I was like is like, why are you not upset that he's gone? Because we knew when to bet against him. Bet against him with a cupcake games and bet against them in a tournament situation. Kind of like this one. Yeah, he's getting a lot of points here. But like we were talking about during the commercial break. Arizona might just be the best team in this thing right now.

26:32Arizona Michigan. They're right up there and the way the favorites have done. Yeah. I don't want to put my money on John Calipari. I don't care how many points they're getting. I don't want to put my money on Calipari to spot like this. Only because he's burned to be so many times in the past. Big guy from Lexington who's seen him crash and burn in a spot like this many, many times before. But what the favorites doing as well as they're doing. Yeah, I can't touch this game from a point spread type perspective here with Cal getting points here. So you think that continues the last two years. Sweet 16 and on favorites of six or more 51 and six straight up. Yeah, that's wild. How could we get? And we were talking about live that Saturday. Will Hill. I think he was about to fall into tears on Saturday night. He's like this tournament. It's just not what it was, Brad. All the favorites come through. What are we going to do? I'm like, come on, Nark. Get out of this. Let's just try to have some fun. There are some live dogs out there. We just got to find the live dogs. It's a lot harder than it used to be. But Cal, I don't think he's a live dog this weekend. OK, is this the end of the line for Texas going from first four to sweet 16?

27:33I don't know where they're getting this defense from. As they were 10th in the SEC and defense during the regular season. Does Purdue have too much offense here and cover the number? I think I would have to take Purdue here. Not one of my favorite plays. But when you look at the slow pace dogs, we love this time of year. Texas did come in as a slow pace dog. And are they Texas? Are they really a Cinderella? Because I mean, they are an SEC team with all the money. The money's coming out of everywhere, dad at Austin. Are they really a Cinderella with Sean Miller, especially? Tilly gets to the elite eight. Sean Miller is a great turn of a coach. The elite eight usually causes problems. Usually gets Wisconsin, as you guys remember, for back of the day. So yeah, I think Texas, the line might be up for them here tonight. Brad Taylor, a guest, a Veson weekend host here. As we're talking, sweet 16. Follow the money on Veson. These sports betting network. How about the Houston region tonight? I have heard opinions on both sides of the Illinois Houston game all week long. The numbers have been toggling back and forth between Cougars, two and a half, three and a half, and now back to two and a half in this game tonight. How much of this do you factor in with the maybe home court here for the Cougars?

28:35Beeson, betting guide right before this started. One of my favorite bets was three to one, the champion to come out of this South region. Not just because you had Florida who was at the time, the best team, but you had the best two seed in Houston and you had the best three seed in Illinois. And now you go into this game tonight. I wouldn't be shocked if I could find a prop on this. I've been looking for it. I haven't found it. The winner of this game, maybe to win the national championship. You can get some good odds on this one. These are two really good teams, but I'm going to take the chalk here with Houston. One of my favorite bets, Kelvin Samson in this spot and the defense. Illinois, the Ken Palm numbers. Love the Illinois offense, but they don't love the Illinois defense. Yeah, you see the slides two and a half. And we've seen this slide. It hasn't really moved a whole lot this week at all. Yeah, I'm going to lay the chalk with Houston here. Kelvin Samson, does he finally get it this year? I don't know, but I like him a lot tonight. If they can score like they did in the first two rounds, I forget. I mean, it's not fair. Absolutely. Because they're so good defensively. Now, history has not been kind to the situation that I was in.

29:36When you win a game to put you in the sweet 16 as a double digit dog, there's a seventh team to do that. And so two, two, three, the previous six lost. Can they come back now after the celebration? And oh, you beat Florida. Great job, guys. And neither rivalry game against Nebraska. What do you think Nebraska one and a half? And it was two and a half. So how come this line has come from two and a half to one and a half? You see a lot of the money coming in. The public money is on Nebraska here. Reverse line move. We see the money on one side, the line moving the other way. And this was the big 10. And Nebraska was a four seed. Iowa was the ninth seed. How come this line's only two and a half one and a half? If there's such a big difference between them and seeds, such a big difference between them and the conference, why is this number only what it is? It's like Iowa tonight straight up. I'll take the money line tonight, a little Iowa action here and this one. It's only one and a half, but still. Yeah, I'll take the Iowa Hawkeyes. Does that game qualify as your best bet on the card for tonight? Boy, tonight's games. Yeah, that's that's kind of the best one on the line tonight.

30:36Houston and Iowa. Those are my best two tonight. A couple of unders tomorrow night. I love the neutral court unders this time of year. Once we get out of regular season, because I'm usually I don't know about you guys. Conference road dogs love those during the regular season. But once we get to conference tournaments, it's neutral court unders because historically, those do a lot better in conference tournaments and the NCAA tournament, the unders. So yeah, St. John's under tomorrow night. In Iowa, state and Tennessee, we talk about two words. Rick Barnes. I'm going to play Chalky McChalkerson in that one. Take Iowa State tomorrow night against Rick Barnes. His tournament record, I guess the spread is terrible. And under in that one tomorrow night too. Yeah, those are my best bets. I don't know about you guys, but those are my best bets for the sweet 16. So you don't need to wait if to see if Joshua Jefferson's going to be back for the cyclones. You're good enough going in with him being questionable or maybe not even playing in that game to trust him to get it done. Outsmakers usually make this into the lines. You know, you guys know this better than I do. But we saw Iowa State against Kentucky over the weekend. They lost him.

31:36He wasn't playing against Kentucky over the weekend. And they dominated Kentucky. Not that that was a home or play for me because believe me. Go on the radio at Lex the Kentucky and say you're betting against the Wildcats and see what they come at you with pitchforks and torches all day long. But yeah, this is a good spot for me to lay the Chalk with Iowa State with that in mind and the Rick Barnes factor on the other side. That's okay. So you just like this guy. It's not going to continue. This guy is going to be the reason why they lose the game eventually in the tournament. Eventually yet always has been. But Iowa State is that good. I watched them against Kentucky. And even without Jefferson, they were that good. Yeah. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. How about Michigan State and Yukon? Well, that's a tough one. It is. That is a tough one. And that's one one and a half to pay to go where you shop. That's one. I don't. I just think I might just sit back and watch. You know, Lim Banker told us they play the national anthem all over the place. See it every all over the nation. Something. You don't have to play. You don't have to bet the board. We can stay away from some of those. I don't know what you guys. If you can help me with this, I'll be happy. But yeah, I'm going to stay away from that one right now. One half.

32:36Feels like maybe a live betting game. Absolutely. That's what I've been doing these tournaments, what the unders, especially set that number. And when that live bet finally hits over the number, that's when you try to hit the under. I'm sure you guys know this better than I do. One final SEC team. And again, you're from Kentucky. You do the show at the mint from circus sports there on Saturdays with Will Hill. So you know this conference inside and out. And that would be Alabama, who was blisterine hot in their previous gaming in Texas tech. That was a hell of a performance. Now they get a Michigan team that has been just dynamite so far in the tournament. And bam is catching a huge number. Is it big enough for you to actually go to war with them or what do you make of the game? Even before the incidents with the raid in the players house, we were saying all year, this is the most difficult team in college basketball handicap is Alabama. Because sometimes they could play out of their minds and cover and beat a good team. And then other teams they couldn't. And you know, you could talk about the odds being baked into these numbers. This is another game where, yeah, I don't know if I want to touch this game either. Because Alabama is so just unpredictable.

33:38And ups and downs and natives is another guy who does that over the years. So yeah, this is what I might just stay away from as well. But yeah, this Alabama could be anything right now. Final four to lose by 20. You mentioned under Duke St. John's any interest in taking the Johnny's plus of points as well? Have we heard anybody on Duke? Not many. That's what scares me about this game. Yeah, we're everybody's on St. John's getting points here. And we're still seeing it like you see it's seven right there. Why is it this line moved at all with you see all this action on St. John's? That's the only thing that scares me about this. But I think then again, when you have caliperi in Lexington, they're always steamingly wanting patino back in Lexington. So yeah, it's a kind of that six, seven thing there with those two guys. So yeah, we, I wouldn't bet against patino, but I don't think I want to lay the chalky. It looks like Caroline is going to do the right thing and go outside the family. Who is next coach of the Tariots? Your guess is good as mine. Is it Donovan? Is it Donovan? Well, he does Lexington three different times. Three different times thought they had. Go ahead.

34:38Is he still the favorite? He was at last check. Tommy Lloyd kind of on his heels. Three different times. We could talk. He had the coaching vacancies. They went after Billy Donovan and three times Billy Donovan said, nah, not right now. But it was always kind of accepted. Even the Billy Gillespie time. When they got caliperi, Donovan was always the front rider. And now to see him go to North Carolina. Oh, you talk about throwing down the gauntlet to the big blue nation. That would be what Billy Donovan does if he goes to North Carolina. Is Kentucky going to be open? From in my, from my money, I wish it would, but it won't because they're in this new money saving thing now. So we got to give Mark Pope another chance. But if you've seen how the locals in Lexington have been treating him and reacting to him, they're not happy. The natives are restless to say the least. And he's got one more year to prove it. And if he does it next year, he is gone. Thanks for coming in. Thank you, fellas. Good to meet you. You guys got me through COVID. And I've been a big fan of you guys for years. And good stuff.

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37:41For the Sixers, Hawks do it again. A Thriller in Detroit, they win an overtime. They've won 16 to their last 17. Boston beats the Thunder. Is Detroit going to hang on to the one seed? This is getting good. Will the Thunder hang on to the one seed? Well, I hope not. That'd be great. When he does it again, that's right. Tank Parley goes 7-0. That also came in last. We broke that down several times in the show yesterday last night until like a really good night to get involved with it. Yes. Judge, over three and a half strikeouts, 10-1. Miz, 9-plus case, plus 5-50. That cash is subscribed. Be part of the team. Veecin.com. Our radio and podcast friends. I always want to see these tweets and videos. Add Paulie does Vegas on Instagram. Send them in. You'll put you on the bucket list item. The pizza expo yesterday at the convention center. You'll leave the gun. Take the canoli. Mississippi mud, cheesecake. Deserts. Everything coming at you. You'll walk right in. You're greeted by Gal's dancing. DJ. Wings. Here's your Toronto with the bread.

38:42That section. Anything imaginable that can fit in a pizza shop is there. And that's, that is Balisi mole. Look at that spread. And that eclectic mix. From the pizzas. To the pies. Everything they offer. Here's the gal's right when you walk in. I mean, it's a size of three football fields. And it's just lined up with all food. And here's the girls. And not the wings. With a DJ. Incredible time. And good fun had by all. And I would say. 45 minutes and I was done. It just between Philly, cheesecake and everyone saying try this. Try that. You're going to explode. You can't do it. We said yesterday when we talked about you going over there, then you kind of have to pace yourself. Yeah. Because otherwise it's going to be over before you know it. Yeah. And. Or Mel was there. And Fontanini. They specialize in the best toppings in the industry. Yes. Who was there? Four guys from the meatball brothers.

39:43Who won Circa Survivor two years ago. They're part of that. Well, it makes sense. And we're hanging out. Absolutely. Yeah. Good. How about Will Hill? You got the family dog, the new puppy. Look at this guy. Good job. Will Hill. That's excellent. Little guy named Charlie. Okay. Yeah. You got to have some toys. Oh, that's excellent. Yeah. Kids absolutely love it so far. Nonstop playing. I always loved labs. I've never had one. Uh-huh. Either a yellow or a chocolate lab. I think would be such a great dog to own. Well said. Bam. Nailed it. Sick. Beats is always. How does this happen? This was historic. The rockets led the timber wolfs by 13 and over time. 15 to nothing run by Minnesota. Ended. How do you blow a 13 point lead and over? There's only a couple minutes left. They start off with a 13 nothing run and then lose the game. And Durant misses two free throw again.

40:43Unreliable late at the free throw line for one of the best free throw shooters like in modern. Also, there was a massive blow and lead late. Let the conspiracy theories begin. I watched Rob Perez break it all down on video today. It was an unbelievable job. Uh-huh. Scott Foster of course was involved. Yeah. And when you slow down, Nas Reed, the ejection, what he was mouthing over to. Uh, Scott Foster when he was called for a chart. It was a absolutely insane call to make that a flagrant. Nas Reed was telling him he's moving. That's what he said. And Scott Foster without even giving him a technical kicked him out of the game. At the end of the game, Julius Randall's pointing at him. And he goes that bleep is a you can't blink bring whatever he's. Yeah, basically saying it's all fishy what you were trying to do. But Scott Foster will keep roughing games for the next 10 years. Been a problem for a long time. Lakers. What? Up 23 in the fourth quarter, laying eight and a half. And then up 10.

41:43Topping shoots a three at the buzzer. Why? And it goes in puts it on seven. But why the Lakers score right before that? There was no need to lay it in. Yeah. Yeah. Many event there. They're posted up 23 Pacers scored. I think 45 points of a quarter. And for whatever reason, top and knocks down the three and then opening night. The total was eight Yankees, Giants, seven, nothing in the fifth. That's your final score. Vicious if you had the over founded in 2011. Chart plays just completed another dominant run, including a 2025 campaign that saw bank roles double. 15 straight years of winning all documented. Records and logs posted publicly at sharp plays dot com. when the sharp plays moves, books take notice. Advanced AI tools, trusted insider intelligence, identifying price value before the numbers shift, respected, watched, and feared. Start winning with them at sharp plays.com. So we had another move last night. At Draft Kings and Caesars, Wembee is down to eight, nine to one to win the MVP.

42:44They picked up another game on OKC. Obviously they have the tiebreaker beating them four out of five. I think they can win out. And the Thunder still have a, you have to go to Denver. They have to go to LA. They put back to back after the Lakers. They play the Clippers. Well, two games against the Lakers. This could get interesting. Now, I do agree with you. Why does he have to catch him? But because every night Wembee was putting up a six, six box score. I don't know why he would have to be with. So if they finish from a game out of Oklahoma City for the one seed, you're telling me he's not the MVP. That's just dumb. Yeah, what do we close him with like a 29 and one record then? Right. I mean, I'm not a big Dremon green fan. I like what he said after the game when he was asked about Wembee sitting in his case for the MVP. Dremons said, I loved it and I hated it. He was, first of all, I hate it that people said after Wembee came out and pointed out, look, defense is 50% of the game. Then people all over social media and like everywhere and actually like, yeah, you know what, he's right. And Dremons like, no kidding, he's right.

43:45No kidding. Why would it take Wembee to say that? Defends is such a big part of the game for you to say, oh, you know, he might be on to something here. Maybe we should look at that a little bit more. But he actually said that he loved it to, you know, to, to make that point overall. And Vontoba was talking about this too on money moves, where evidently, people who have votes and like national media members who tracked the stuff when Luke was ahead of Victor Wembee, Yama, right. And they were asked about the odds board. They just, they kind of laughed and said under no scenario. It was Luke ahead of Victor right now for the MVP. It's SGA then Victor and it's like Luca basically is not even close to Wembee right now. So it's going to be, it's going to come down to those two guys. It's going to come down to SGA and Victor Wembee, Yama. And I'm just, I'm intrigued. What if this spurs catch, if it's even Steven, right, with a couple of games to go? Does he turn into even money or like a plus one 10 to win the MVP? Continue to play at this rate? Or here's another thing I thought of. Will voters pull this out again and say,

44:46wow, he's going to win so many. I don't have to give it to him. I don't want to hear that. I don't want to hear that. That's why we got robbed with defensive player. Sure. And they gave it to go bear, right? There's also a huge game tonight in the NBA. For me specifically, and those of you who also have Charlotte Hornets, future tickets, but now the hedge got there last night. We were so close to the perfect scenario because we took the Hawks plus the three and a half. We wanted a pistons win by one, two or three points. How does Durin miss that put back at the buzzer and overtime? If that lands pistons one, I'm dancing in the street still. So I talked to Chris Missero about this. He said, I don't have to bet the next tonight. I think I do. And I don't think I'm going to take plus one and a half. I think I'm going to take a money line to win the game outright. The reason why he says I don't, he likes the Hornets to win the game. I don't really have an opinion on it. I just want to make sure I make money on these tickets that I have in the Hornets here. What would you do? I think I'd let it go because you're too back. They also have the Celtics coming up.

45:46Yeah, right. But I can't let it go. This, yeah, I can't let it go. Well, the schedule finally gets difficult for Atlanta. And of all teams to rip off a 16 and one run. I mean, this is crazy. I mean, what they're doing, but they are now the five. And you are, you caught Orlando. You're a half game behind Miami. I mean, you're right there to pass all these teams. Again, if you can go into OKC and Boston and bump both of them, there's not a game you can say, well, that's a lose there. That's a loss. That's going to be, but this is a big one tonight. They've been great defensively. Next are hot. But this is one that I think you can get. And then it gets interesting. If you can, I think because I looked at the schedule. I told you, yes, two days ago that they could close nine and two. At the eight, that's definitely pot. And that'll, that'll do it. It'll get it will get you. That should get you the division. That should move you up to succeed the territory as well. Well, let me ask you because you got play. You don't want to be in that playing. And I would also think worst case. Hopefully you're looking at the seven or the eight. See worst case. Does this come down to two teams?

46:48Does it come down to the Hornets and the Hawks? Yeah, Orlando's a master. I can, I'm drawn along to the, to the magic. Yeah, last six and a row. They he'd have the time to the one team that has a tiebreaker over the Hornets. Hmm. So what if I just bet the Hawks at like plus one 10 to win the division? Can they heat, do you let from me? And I lose all those bets? Yeah, that's possible. And for those of us who are on it, you have speaking for the entire audience who's on Charlotte here. Yeah. So don't do that. That's risky business. That's too risky. That's what I kind of think too. Yeah. I haven't done a deep dive in Miami schedule though. But there's a lot on the line here, even though we're down to nine games. This is, this is madness in the East. It's, I mean, you set, you two, two losses separating the five from the 10s. Yep. And oh, by the way, that. So the pistons, let's say they do get, it doesn't matter. They get to one of the two. If they can't have cutting him for the playoffs because of the long. That's speculating here. Didn't they want Charlotte? In the playoffs? Oh, wait. Not a chance. No way. We'll have to get live Betty Numbers and Major League Baseball coming up and discuss some bold predictions for the regular season on follow the money

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