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2:06Watch MLB opening night the New York Yankees versus the San Francisco Giants live on Netflix. Tonight at 8 p.m. Eastern 5 p.m. Pacific. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to the early edge brought to you by Bet MGM. Make it legendary. My name is seeing a job otherwise known as the counselor of cash. And I got to point out all the positivity going on in the chat. I see Danny Brasco in the chat. I see Chris Kish, Eric David, Jeremy Brooks, Rick Funkenen in here. Among others, please hit the like button. Absolutely love the positivity on a Monday morning. Let's see if our recap screen was positive. It was 10 and 7 and look at all the plus money plays. A marginal plus money. Brasco didn't have the best day, but he does hit that plus 140. I've got a plus number in front of mine. Buckets goes three for three, including that even money play. And we almost hit the plus 240 play from Tom Cassali.

3:08That one falls just short. Shout out to Mikey B who goes two for two again with a plus money play. And Chip Patterson, 10 and 7 is certainly a good day. And we're going to try to improve on this day with, I mean, this is a dream team. And then we also get Angelo Maglioka back, aka, a mags, a mags. I got to start with you. Of course, we have Mike McClure here. Larry Hartstein and Mikey B as well. And all of you in the chat, a mags, you're back. And when I say back, I mean, like you're back, back. It's MLB season. I know we're going to talk WBC a little bit today as well, but how you doing, buddy? Oh, yeah, it's definitely MLB season. I mean, my head is kind of spinning between trying to get the WBC game on. And then I still got the Yankee Spring training over here. And I'm trying to figure out what's going on in each spot. So it's been a lot of fun the last few days to have the WBC around. And the betting is really only heating up at this point. We're finally getting to these rivalry games now. Dominican Republic, Venezuela, USA, Mexico, where they're fighting for the top spot in the pool. So that'll be fun over the next couple of days.

4:09I can't wait. Hit the like button for AMax. Let's get to 200 while we're live. Maybe five, six hundred throughout the course of the day. Mike McClure, there's been some NFL news. I know we're going to talk basketball today. A lot of basketball, some baseball. I've got a PGA pick for everybody as well. But I mean, we just heard about Two Attack of Aloha being released by the Dolphins. Not a huge surprise. I think the most surprising news there is the dead cat money that the Dolphins have to endure. I believe it's 67 million this year and about 30 some million next year, which is record breaking, almost 100 million total. Max Crosby signed over the weekend with the Baltimore Ravens. Any quick reaction to the NFL news? Yeah, look, I like the move for Crosby. First of all, I think he's an incredibly talented player. Would the Raiders have been better off finding a way to keep him and make him happy? Yes, unfortunately, I think it is just one of those situations where they had to move on. They weren't going to repair that relationship, unfortunately. And then as far as two, yeah, 99 million in dead money is incredible. I used to say the best gig in the world was a fired SEC coach that gets a big buyout to go play golf.

5:15This is close to that, essentially, 99 and dead money is absolutely crazy. I support the move, though. I think that if you were to rank starting quarterbacks out there, I don't know where to go. We've documented some of the struggles and cold weather and everything as well. He was playing in a pretty good environment. He needs to go to a team that plays in a dome, in my opinion, if he's going to have any success in the NFL. And I personally don't think he will have any success in the NFL going forward. Well, he also needs to get rid of the ball in two and a half seconds or less. I mean, he can't really buy time because we know about the head injury issues. I think that was what was really limiting the Dolphins offense in a huge way. Larry, any reaction to NFL before we get to our picks? I think it was a great move for the Raiders even though they gave up so much because just seeing how Max Crosby, what he'll do with Jesse Mentor as his coach and the way that Jesse Mentor likes to play, which is he doesn't stack the box. He relies on that defensive front to stop the run and get pressure. Crosby is excellent against the run. He's not just a great pass rusher.

6:16So I think it's a bold move. I think it's a great move when you have a limited window to make that play. But see, something happened to me over the weekend. A guy ran into me, a buddy, and we were chatting. And he was really ticked off about Jake Napp getting withdrawn and costing him thousands in DFS. But then we moved on. And he said, is he a really a nice guy? And I had to hesitate. But no, I said yes. I confirmed it that you are indeed nice. But I thought that was an interesting question. Well, why did he italicize the question? Did he think this is like a front-on camera? I'm really somebody different off camera. I guess he just wanted to know, is it really true? Is he as nice as he seems, you know? That's a good, it's fair to question, I did. I quickly said yes. I appreciate that. And I appreciate whoever that friend is for watching the show. Mikey B, I want to get to some picks. First of all, you've been red hot. Let's see if we can keep it going. We already have some NBA questions, some NBA prop picks in the chat that we're going to want to get your response to.

7:18But you've got a couple of picks here on Kelly Ubrey and Brendan Pajemski. Yeah, of course, I always bring the biggest names to the table see it when I give out these picks. So first we'll do Kelly Ubrey, Jr. over 17 and a half points. He missed two games with an illness, but he came back Saturday, scored 24 points. He played 30, basically six minutes to what you like to see. He's now square at least 18 points. And Joe LNB are both out tonight for the 76ers. Those two combined to average 55.6 points and 40.1 shot attempts per game. So there's going to be a lot of minutes here, a lot of shot attempts for Ubrey. And I like him to go over 17 and a half points. And then I apologize. You know, I like to have you guys all watch these bad teams play each other. Warrior Jazz is going to be on your TV tonight. We're going to do Brandon Pajemski over 10 and a half rebounds and assists. With a warrior shorthand, he's average 34 minutes over the last eight games. In six of those, he combined for at least 11 rebounds

8:20and assists. The other two, he had 10 combined each. So he just missed this number, playing the jazz who ranked 24th and rebounds allowed per game. And 26 and assists allowed per game over the last 10 games. He faced them two times this season. The last two times he faced him. He had 14 and 15 combined. And he didn't play more than 28 minutes either of those games. You should easily play 30 minutes in this game. And I love him to go over 10 and a half rebounds and assists. All right. I'm looking at some NBA stuff, Mikey B. I mean, I have a golf outright to pick, a golf outright to give out. And I've got, I actually had a golf pick to give out, but they pulled it. I'll tell you more about that later. There's some NBA games that I'm actually curious about from a side standpoint, which I think I'm going to ask you about later in the show. I think it was Ray Garcia in the chat. He said, see you. Thank you for the check mark from Friday. Went in pretty heavy and we cashed. I mean, obviously, I do want to say always bet responsibly. Don't go heavier than what's going to affect you from a monetary standpoint, like in a significant way. I just want to put that out there. With all that said, we went 5.0 and 1 on our matchups.

9:20We had two matchups on the early wedge. We pushed one of them because Fitzpatrick kind of choked down the stretch. That push is totally OK. It was against the Decumat Ziyama. Our four round matchups, we hit all of those. And then our tournament matchup, which was over in Puerto Rico, Maddie Schmidt over SH Kim, that one hit as well. So we are rolling with the matchups. And I'll have more for you this week on the early edge and perhaps in the sports line discord. Mike McClure, it is conference championship season this week. And so we're looking at a lot of smaller schools, smaller games, if you will. One of them is Alcorn State. Small game for some big game for others here, Sia. But yes, I'm going to go back to the similar play we did last week. Same number. It's a first half team total under 31 and a half. Looking at a team that just is not a great team. You talk about Alcorn State. This team has lost 22 games so far this season. I'm going to fade their team total here in the first half. This is a team that has scored between 48 and 55 points in a full game many times this season.

10:22Now you're talking about early start time in this conference set up here. Look, Alabama State's not a great team. They're definitely the better team here, though. When you look at this particular matchup, I don't think Alcorn State's going to have any success in terms of generating second chance points. All comes down to whether or not they shoot efficiently here, but to me personally, I think this team is not good. I think that they're tracking to potentially only score 60 points in this game. I like the under 31 and a half. I thought the number is crazy as it is. It doesn't really get a lot lower than this. You might occasionally catch a 29 and a half. I like the under here, though. I think that it's going to be just like last week. I think you're looking at a team that's going to score between 25 and 30 points. I'm going to go under on this first half team total. I just think this Alcorn State team, there's not a ton to play for here. And I think it's a situation where they're just simply not going to get to the foul line, not going to have second chance points. So I will bet against them meaningfully outperforming their efficiency from the field

11:24in the first half of an early start time game. All right, Gus Dawson says, see it ends the show and turns into John Clayton listening to Slayer in his room. That is a great reference, first of all. Shout out to Reston Peace to John Clayton. And we didn't acknowledge Lou Holt's late last week. So Reston Peace to Lou Holt's as well. I'm going to give out my golf outright. Mike, I don't know if you have anything to say about this. This is a lot of me repeating last week. I actually think when it comes to the players, I think we're looking at similar fits than what we were looking at at Bay Hill last week. And that's why I'm going back to Colin Moore Cowell. If you followed me last week, we hit the top 20 on Colin Moore Cowell. We hit three different round matchups on Colin Moore Cowell. We had him as a one and done, we had him as an outright. He was in the conversation on Sunday, but just ultimately came up short as the putter cooled off a little bit from day one. He honestly, he would have been the first round leader if not for for Daniel Berger on Thursday. With all that said, and we'll get into this more on the early wedge, I like Colin Moore Cowell plus 2,500.

12:26The ball striking is tremendous. Two of the last three years here, he's been basically top five in the field, ball striking, top five in the field on approach as well. 2024, he didn't have a good year, but 2025, 2023, he was great. He's never gained with the putter at TPC Sawgrass, which is certainly problematic over five turns here. He's never gained with the putter. But we have seen him make improvements with the putter in a short sample size over the last few weeks. And I think if he can be a neutral putter, which he's shown he can be, I think he could absolutely win this tournament. So give me Colin Moore Cowell plus 2,500 to win the players championship. I will tell you, the pick I was going to give out that got pulled. It was so juicy, but I loved it so much. It was over at DK, and this might come back on MGM or Fandool or DK or the book you make your golf bets at. It was Seewoo Kim Top Korean. Who was against Seewoo Kim Top Korean? It was SH Kim and it was SungJM, who's coming back from injury. It wasn't good last week. Probably won't be good for a little bit. SH Kim, terrible course fit.

13:27Not nearly to the town of Seewoo Kim. And oh, by the way, Seewoo Kim might be an outright for me as well. We'll see on the early wedge. He is really good here. He's coming in with great form. This number was really juicy. It was minus 156. I gather that they pulled it because it got hit. In spite of the juice, I gather that people were looking at that number and willing to pay the juice because that is an absolute mismatch. If it comes back, I will be betting that, even though it's super juicy, but I wanted to put that on your radar. Maybe another book has it at a better number. I'm not sure. It's just not out right now. Speaking of golf, I want to talk to you about some bet MGM promos before we get to some baseball, before we get to Larry's College basketball pick. Bet MGM players will be eligible to receive their stake back in cash as a second chance refund on any pre-tornament straight or golf tournament wagers. This means if the player you bet on does not win the golf tournament, but does finish second, you get your money back. I don't know. Maybe you want to consider Conmore Cowah there. Maybe Scotty Shepler wins and you get your stake back in cash. This promotion will be available pre-tornament for all applicable golf events on Mondays

14:28through Wednesdays only at Bet MGM. Michael, let's give out golf later. Mikey, be all ask you about some of the NBA questions in the chat. We got to get to A-Max picks. We got to get to Larry's. We're going to do that right after this message from our partners. My day kicks off with the refreshing Celsius energy drink then straight to the gym. Pre-get pick up, back home to meal prep. Time for my fire session shift. One more Celsius gotta keep the lights on. When the three alarm hits, I'm ready. Celsius, live, fit, go. Grab a cold refreshing Celsius at your local retailer or locate now at Celsius.com. New Year, new me, cute. But how about new year, new money? With experience, you can actually take control of your finances. Check your FICO score, find ways to save and get matched with credit card offers. Giving you time to power through those new year's goals, you know you're going to crush. Start the year off right. Download the experience app. Based on FICO's core eight model, offers an approval not guaranteed, eligibility requirements in terms of why. Subject to credit check, which may impact your credit scores, offers not available in all states.

15:28See experience.com for details. Experience. We're back on the early edge, brought to you by Bet MGM, A-Max. We've got baseball, we've got WBC, and we've got futures to consider an MLB talk to me. Yeah, and I'm actually sitting here trying to just continue to look at the lines for the WBC. It's been tough how late they've been given us some of these lines on these games. And I understand that there's a lot of variables from the book standpoint. There's a lot of international players who have never seen MLB talent. And, you know, from each of the leagues around the world, how those stack up against each other. So I'm sitting here trying to just keep looking to see if stuff is becoming available. So make sure you do that as well, because I would love to have a pick for you here on the USA. But I will have an article about the game tonight, USA vs. Mexico. So at least look out for that one in CBS Sports. But I've got to play for you here on the Noontime game. Noon Eastern time. We get the Dominican Republic coming right back to it. And look, as I'm looking at the spread here on the Dominican Republic, you can get seven and a half at Draft Kings.

16:29It was right at even money. It's starting to move a little bit down into negative territory. But if you don't want to take the spread, maybe ride with me here on the team total. Look, this Dominican Republic team has scored 24 runs in two games. They have been obliterating the ball. I had somebody in the discord, say to me last night. The Dominican Republic lineup is a 99 overall. And it really kind of is, you start to look up and down the lineup. They are littered with all stars and studs in junior Caminero, Vlad Guerrero, junior one, Soto for Nando Tatees, Catel Marte. I mean, you look at some of the guys that are actually going to be in the lineup in this game. They put on Neil Cruz in the lineup. They put Geraldo Predomo in the lineup. I still think they can get the 10 runs. And the thing is, being the away team here, even if they were to end the game early, if you look at it, you'd have to win by 15 or 10 runs. So you're going to get to that team total in either of those cases. So then you start to look at it and you really would have to get into that ninth inning with all of these full complement of that bats for this team. I just think that when you're guaranteed pretty much

17:31to either end the game early by this many runs or get to the end of the game, you know, the pitchers on every side, it really doesn't matter truthfully. I'm actually, I know it's Israel, but I'm looking at some of the other teams that they've faced too. The pitching just not great. And you have these all-star studs that are just, you know, behemoths of the game on the other side. I just don't think that the depth of any pitching staff, besides maybe the US or their own, the Dominican team, would be able to stop this lineup. So for nine and a half runs here, I think they at least get to double digits again. If they get stifled, hey, so be it, but I think at that point, the spread would be in danger as well. Secondly, I wasn't gonna come here without at least a little bit of MLB action. I had to throw on the pirates hat here because a guy that they put into the lineup today for the Dominican Republic is a guy that I'm taking for a season long home run bet in O'Neal Cruz. And when you look at some of his numbers from last year, especially against lefties, he was abysmal. He only had one home run against left-handed pitching all of last year. He hit a paltry 102 with a 400 OPS.

18:36That's not just the slugging percentage there. That's the entire OPS at 400 is just truly mind-boggling. So I think that there's at minimum a bit of regression that we see there for him. Positive regression, of course, but you get back to maybe four, five, even six home runs against lefties. He's been working in the off season, hitting against the left-handed pitching coach, specifically trying to work on that. So we've already seen him hit a home run in the tournament in the first game here for the Dominican Republic. I think he's gonna have a much better season, especially in that revamped pirates lineup. So give me over 20 and a half home runs for the season for O'Neal Cruz. When you look the last two years, he's right around that number anyways. I think this is much closer to the low end for him. He's a 30-30 candidate every year and I think he gets much closer to that this year if not hits it. So O'Neal Cruz, Dominican Republic, all the good Dominican Republic vibes here today on the show. Lara, I know you've got something on the Sun Belt Championship along with your pick, but A-Max, I want to go right back to you.

19:36Do you know how tall O'Neal Cruz is? It's tall, six, seven, two, 48 on a baseball survive. Yeah, I walked you right into that one. Do you know who O'Neal Cruz is named after? It's a Yankee. Oh, it's Paul O'Neal, right? They spelt it differently in his first name. Sure. But yeah, Raphael Cruz, a minor league player. Paul O'Neal was his favorite player, so he was named after Paul O'Neal. I found that out 10 minutes ago when I did some O'Neal Cruz research. Larry, we might have some baseball questions. We got a lot of questions we're going to get to, but Larry, can you talk to me about the Sun Belt Championship real quick tonight? Well, something crazy is going on because George's Southern is playing their sixth game in six days. They have just become the third team along with NC State in 24 and Kenba Walker's Yukon team in 2011, that won five straight, but those teams already won the tournament. They now are in the final. Sixth game, there's a kid named Spud Webb.

20:37He's not related to the original Spud Webb. Maybe it was named after him, I don't know, but Spud Webb has played 34 or more minutes on five straight days. And now they have game six tonight against Troy, the number one seed who got a buy to the semis. I mean, this is one of the all time stories. If they can keep it going and somehow pull the upset, they only lost by five in the regular season meeting. So I am pulling for George's Southern tonight. They have never won this conference and they are on the verge of doing something historic because that bracket is crazy the way the Sun Belt does it. You could actually have a team win seven games if they were even lower than the 10 seed, which is George's Southern, but I'm going to play a Horizon League semi-final more of a standard tournament. And I'm going to take Wright State the number one seed and they're a dog. They're a two-point dog to Northern Kentucky. This is the old, can you beat a team three times? They've already beaten him twice. The first time they beat him at home by eight, but then on the road, the regular season finale,

21:39this was a classic game, 92 to 91. Wright State was down 18 at the half. They come storming back and then they win it on a tip in at the buzzer. They're just so balanced offensively. They're so efficient offensively. The best shooting team in the conference. They're excellent from the three-point line. Northern Kentucky is also loaded with offensive talent. This game will be in the 80s. It's going to be back and forth, but I just think this should be a pick them. I don't think Wright State should be getting two full points against Northern Kentucky. A team they've already beaten twice and they are more rested in terms of Northern Kentucky. I'm going to play yesterday in Wright State has been off since beating Cleveland State. So I'm going to play Wright State plus the two. This is a horizon semi, the first one of the night. I was just doing some research on Spud Web. You would think there'd be some relation or I don't know that the parent was a big fan. I didn't find that out. They're not related at all. And the younger Spud Web at Georgia Southern, I believe it is, spells it with 2Ds.

22:39So I don't know. It's Tavaris Spud Web. Go ahead, Mike. Yeah, and he's like six four in the original Spud Web. We're talking five six. So I don't know. What are we doing? Man. Get that out of here. Get that out of here. I guess they wouldn't have known how tall he was going to be when they named him. But still, like Michael Jordan, it's not like their name is Jordan. Last name is Jordan, they put Michael on it. You know, that's more common. But Spud Web, come on. That's too unique. Get that out of here. I mean, if you're the name in your kid apple or come quad or something, but it's not right. I don't like it. Yeah, yeah, that's fair. Or yeah, River, I don't know. River's kind of cool, I guess. Josh Clemente, Clemente, excuse me, says Grimes over eight and a half rebounds and assists Mikey B. Any thoughts there? Yeah, I'd rather play the over on his points. He should play a lot. Vijay Edgecomb's questionable tonight. So that's important because that could soak up a lot of minutes. But Grimes is, they need his points. I mean, like I talked about how many points and shot attempts that Maxi and MB'd average. So that's really big. I would say if Edgecomb is out, I like that over a lot more, but I like the points for Grimes over regardless.

23:40And there's people asking about Pajemski, 11 and a half rebounds and assists. If they're getting that at around even money, do you like that? Would you go with that? I do. Yep, I like that. I mean, I think he could blow past 10 and a half, blow past 11 and a half. Like it's the last two times he had 14 and 15. And he didn't even play 30 minutes either of those games. The jazz are terrible. He's gonna play a lot. So yeah, I like that too. By the way, do you think the jazz, just like the Wizards and some of these tanking teams, they do come out in and sometimes shine in like quarter one, quarter two. Could you see a scenario where that's close? Cause I was thinking of like a first quarter bet on the jazz, maybe County George gets hot and they're like actually trying for a little bit. Does that ever, is that ever on your radar with the tanking team? No, I don't know what I'm gonna do with those. I'd much, now the only, the one thing I would say is, if a tanking team gets out to an early lead, like if the bulls ever have a lead in a game, I usually take the other team cause they're gonna blow it. So it's one of those kinds of things. That's the only way I would play those is if they get out to a lead early then I would take the other team to come back.

24:41But the jazz just don't play any defense. So it's like points over. So those are the kind of things you want. First quarter over was something I was thinking of. There as well. I don't know what the number is. So it's probably, it's probably really high. Hey, Max, there's a question from Rick Von Cannon on anybody going the yard for the Dominican Republic today. But before we get there, Mike McClure, from a golf standpoint, players championship, have you looked at anything? Are there any outrights you're already considering? Yeah, first one's the same one you've got in. It's Colin, the 25 to one, I would be stunned if we don't see that number close at 20 or below. I think he's clearly the third best player right now. I think it's Scotty Rory and Colin. And what's happening in the betting market? And I do expect Zander to come back at some point essentially and really, really compete. But it's just, we've kind of, the market is price Zander is a clear three always still. And I just don't think that's true. So I think a lot of the source of the value on Colin's coming from the number on Zander. So I'll be playing him first.

25:42I also like C. Woo Kim. As you mentioned, and just all the good approach players, the longer the better on some of those iron shots, but Colin, we've talked about it across all the shows. If Colin is just average to the field putting, he is so close to where Rory and Scotty are right now, in my opinion, that there's going to be extreme value there. And I continue to bet him every week. Yeah, and the ball striking at TPC Salgrass has been so good for him. Last question, because I know when Buckets rolled the dice and he landed on Ludwig, you were like, actually, you know, we're playing the game theory game with the dice. But when that popped up, you were like, I'm putting Ludwig in a lot of my high-end DFS lineups. He's a guy that's going to be somewhat popular this week after what people saw last week. Cam Young also perhaps going to be popular in that same ilk of player. Are Ludwig or Cam Young on your radars at all? Ludwig is, I'm going to be likely off of Cam Young for right now, may potentially look to play live,

26:43just at the number and where everything's kind of shaken out. I do like Ludwig, though. I think he's got, we all kind of know this if you watch him play. He's got the skill set. It's just a matter of form. And I like the form a lot right now. I think it's really, really close. So Ludwig, yes, Cam Young, I will probably only have exposure in terms of finishing position. And last thing here, Chuck has $100 free wager. He's actually considering putting it on like a hole in one wager, which I think is no offense, ridiculous, please don't do that. Mike, in a case like this, would you put it on an outright? Like something where the return is going to be high? Like, how would you handle $100 free wager? Yeah, these are always fun questions because the answer truly is unique to your own personal situation. Like, you know, what's the bankroll look like? How significant would it be to, you know, for some people just simply returning the $100 that free wager end to $100 would be a meaningful win, right?

27:44So if that is the case, then I would look for, you know, a finishing position on someone's CL likes, whatever it may be. Actually, what I would do is I would take one of CL's first round leaders and back them on their first round round score under. You can't be a first round leader without caching your round score under. CL has got a knack for picking those. That's probably where I would go. But it's not significantly meaningful when you'd like to really make a meaningful bet. And yes, for me, it would be an outright or a top five potentially on someone a little further down the board that we show a little value on. So what that may look like, you know, you mentioned CW, you're catching his top five at plus 610. And the reason I would like that is there's still room for Scotty Rory Colin to have great weeks. So that's how I would handle it. But I wish that there was a blanket correct answer there. Unfortunately, isn't it really depends on what your own personal situation looks like? All right, hey, Max, any thoughts on somebody

28:45to go the yard for the Dominican Republic tonight? Or today, I should say, sorry. So I did mention it. But Junior Camero's got a home run in both of the games. I mean, Vlad Guerrero Jr. has looked solid. We saw Juan Soto end the game last night by Mercy Rule with a home run. So it's kind of like anyone. But my thought here is when you're betting these home run props in these games, try to look down the, you know, down the odds board a little bit. So the plus 200s, I'd rather not take Camero plus 200. You know, maybe you do look down the board and see what on Neil Cruz. I was honestly looking for on Neil Cruz to see if I could get his odds. Some of the books don't even have it listed. But maybe look for someone in that like plus 350 to plus 450. You know, that's, that's, I guess, my only thought with betting some of those lower numbers. Real quick, too, though, we had another question about the MLB Future Show. I think I don't know for sure, but I think we're getting an MLB Future Show at some point. So yeah, Ben, do we have an image in that? We, thanks for reminding me, Amax.

29:45Do, I know we have a graphic for some of the upcoming shows and I can't remember. So here we are, March, oh, so these are the March madness YouTube streams and it looks like we've got one this Friday at 1 p.m. with some live betting involved, Sunday at 7.30. Okay, so this one, what we'll get to MLB in a second because Ben's going to pipe in here. But Sunday, March 15th, this is really cool. As soon as the brackets are released, we're going to be doing a show breaking down first round games, first round bets against the spread and just like the bracket itself at 7.30. So remember that that bracket show is 6 to 7. At 7.30, we're going to be on this YouTube channel, basically breaking the bracket down and first round games. Again, 7.30 this Sunday and then Wednesday, March 25th, sweet 16 betting stream at 4 p.m. So make sure you have your notifications turned on but Ben, as it relates to MLB futures, can you speak to that? Yeah, so we're going to set up an MLB future show, probably for the end of March before obviously opening day. And then we're also going to have a day baseball stream

30:45right after opening day on the 26th, I believe, that's a Thursday. So we're going to get those together. So yeah, day baseball live streams are coming back and I tried to do those at least once a month and we'll have an MLB future show coming up in the next week or so. I absolutely love that. Amax, thanks for the reminder there. Larry Hartstein, was there anything in the chat college basketball or otherwise that you needed to respond to? No, I just the only other game I was looking at today, the Monmouth Hawks getting a point and a half against Campbell or pick them basically, I would take Monmouth. They had one of their best players, if not their best player, who was ineligible pretty much the whole season looking into a rules violation, not sure what the situation was, but then they cleared them and he's played the last nine games and he's been absolutely awesome, McLean, the point guard and they've gone seven and two and only lost to the top two teams in the conference but Campbell just knocked off the top seed. So it's going to be a good one, but I like Monmouth on that one. Anytime somebody says McLean, I think of John McLean from Die Hard. I just, it just not going to not think about that.

31:48Mike, you had something and then I'll, yeah, I just, funny timing and that as Larry started typing or talking, I was typing. Someone asked for some additional leans in college basketball. I like Larry's right state play and then I started mentioning the Campbell and Monmouth game as Larry was talking. So I actually, I did play under 153 and a half in that one. It has moved down to 151 and a half now but the spread on the game has moved. It's at minus one and a half for Monmouth now. I do not agree with that movement. I made that number four. So I would support a play on the side of Monmouth now at this point. Amax, it looked like you had something as well. James Rainwater piping in, who I believe is a former Marine, if I read the chat correctly. So thank you for your service, James. He says Die Hard is a Christmas movie. I know we do this at least once a year. Ladies, gentlemen, it's not a Christmas movie. Amax, go ahead. I can't weigh in on that, but I will say we had a couple of questions and we mentioned Day Baseball.

32:49There's a bunch of great games today and someone actually asked about the great Britain game. So great Britain against Brazil really quick. That's going to be loser is going to have to go to the qualifying stage. So there's a pretty good deal of impact in that game. If you want to watch it, that's at one o'clock. Dominican Republic against Israel. I think that that, in my opinion, should be a good game at least from the Dominican side. But we'll see how that Israel pitching staff does. They did hold Nicaragua at a zero runs two hits yesterday but it's obviously a much different lineup. And that was also, hey, hats off to Dean Kramer. So you want to watch that Dominican Republic game then at one o'clock you have Brazil and Great Britain and then at eight o'clock you have USA and Mexico. So there's a bunch going on today for baseball if you want to watch it. Mikey B, I want to see if there's any questions you need to answer here. But James Warren water says it's at Christmas time. It's not. It didn't come out at Christmas time. I don't believe in. By the way, Die Hard 2, they leaned so much into that Christmas theme that they opened Die Hard 2 in July. So let's like, I mean, come on guys, I can debunk. We can go an hour and I can debunk every little argument here.

33:51But it definitely is not a Christmas time movie as evidenced by its sequel. Mikey B, anything NBA-wise you needed to lean into. Yeah, there's a question here. What do you think about Cam Spencer over five and a half assists at plus 100? It looks like Ty Jerome, Scotty Pippin and Cedric Coward are all doubtful. So that would probably mean a lot of minutes for Cam Spencer. You're getting even money there. I don't mind that over any at all. God, Larry, you haven't seen Die Hard. Like, I'm not going to make fun of you. Like, it is timeless. Go watch it. It's not like we're not aged out of it. We're not like timed out of it. It is really a really good movie. Mikey B, before we get to the recap screen, really quick. The NBA game, I kind of liked. I kind of liked the Clippers at home, plus 1 and a half, plus 2 and a half. Any thoughts there, Nick's on a back-to-back. They didn't have to travel. They played the Lakers. I just think the Clippers, I mean, they barely beat Memphis, but they almost beat the Spurs. They won a few games prior to that. They look like they're playing decent basketball. Yeah, they tend to play up or down to their competition lately. So, yeah, I do like that. The Nick's have been a little inconsistent right now.

34:54This road trip's not been great for them. So, yeah, I like the Clippers there, too. Yeah, I know it's Christmas time in the movie. I know what people are saying there. I'm just saying that if it was a Christmas movie, it might have opened during the holidays. Nick's plus 2 and a half courtesy of Ben MGM. All right, and let's hand up if I missed anything, but let's get to the recap screen before we get out of here. Players championship is my first outright. And again, I'm generally coming without rights on Mondays, some picks as well, but it's partly because I think these numbers could move a little bit. The Conmore Cow is a number already has moved, but I think it might like Mike suggested. I think we might see 22, 20 to 1 before these guys tee off on Thursday morning. Kelly, who break junior over 17 and a half points, minus 128, that one from Mikey B. Also likes Brenda Pajewski. Excuse me, Brandon Pajewski, over 10 and a half rebounds and assists at minus 138. We discuss taking those lines at like 11 and a half at even money. Alcorn State first half team total under 31 and a half minus 112 from Mike McClure, right state plus two, minus 110 from Larry Hartstein and then a max back on the show.

35:55We'll see Matt Snyder here soon too as well. Dominican Republic over nine and a half runs, minus 125 and O'Neill Cruz, six seven over 20 and a half home runs at minus 120. All right, what a show. I didn't realize we went 33 minutes. This is longer than I anticipated, but that's what happens when we have this type of crew and all of you in the chat, Mike McClure, Larry Hartstein, a max, Mikey B. Thank you very much, Ben on the ones in twos and threes and fours and also in front of the camera. What a show. Let's have a great Monday. Let's have a great week. We'll see you tomorrow. We'll do the same thing tomorrow at 10 o'clock. Until then, we rest our case. The Bleacher Report app is your destination for sports. Right now, the NBA's heating up, March Bannis is here, and MLB is almost back. Every day, there's a new headline, a new highlight, a new moment you've got to see for yourself.

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