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Join Sia Nejad, Amags,Calvin Wetzel, Matt Snyder, and Buckets as they dish out their picks in MLB, Soccer, WNBA and MORE!
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(2:09) Free Sportsline MLB Bets
(4:47) Amags' MLB Picks
(8:05) Buckets' Soccer Bets
(15:02) Calvin's WNBA Bet
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(22:05) Sia's Thursday Night Football Early Bet
(24:23) Snyper's MLB Picks
(26:30) Rapid Fire MLB and Soccer Bets
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A pretty uneven day. We always want to be five and four instead of four and five, or maybe a little bit better than that. Let's start things off two and a half. How about some sports line picks before we bring in the stars of the show? We've got the Orioles. And Monday line minus one, 20. That one from Adam Thompson, Chris Bassett on the mound against Max Scherzer. And then Mackenzie Gore over one and a half earned runs, minus one, 30. That one courtesy of Prop Bet Guy. All right, we'll speak in a prop, speaking of plays. Let's bring in the stars of the show as I say hello to Chris Bin in the chat, Edgar in the chat. I say hello to Calvin Wetzel, buckets, Matt Snyder and A-Max Calvin. I want to start with you. We got the WNBA back in full swing. We got five games tonight. I assume you have a play for today. I do, yeah. It was a really fun world cup. So we had a couple of weeks off, but WNBA is back for basically this week of regular season, Thursday is the last day. And then playoff start this weekend. So things are really heating up. Some teams not playing for anything. So it's going to be difficult to cap some of those games, but some games have a lot to play for this weekend
in terms of seeding and things like that home court. So five games late tonight, a lot going on. I do have a pick. All right, bucket. It's set up the soccer day for us. What's going on today? Bit of a tricky upcoming three weeks in world football as we enter not only an international break, but our longest international break. They have changed how they're doing breaks this season. So we've got three weeks of no top flight European footy, but that has never stopped me from betting for us. See, I got plenty of looks for us. All right. And sniper in A-mags, A-mags, I'm actually going to have you, we'll have buckets kick things off. And then we add a lot of baseball picks. Sniper set things up for us because we're down the stretch of the season. And there are a lot of implications from a playoff and a jockeying for position standpoint. Are they're not? Yeah, there are. I'm just closing my eye for a second in honor of Alex Breggman and hoping that swelling goes down a little bit. Cubs really need him. So we've got a lot of jockeying to be done. And then Ashley Wildcard, the Cubs and Podries are tied for the top spot. The Phillies are only one game back there. The American League Central race going down to the wire. White socks are one game behind the Guardians.
White socks have a tie breaker there. So we could look at this as kind of a tie right now. And then I guess I have to mention the pathetic American League West with the Rangers being 500 and sitting in first place. And the Astros one game back despite being two games under. One of these teams has to make the playoffs, unfortunately. And they're going to get a host of series. They're going to get to be the 3C. That's ridiculous. But that's where we are. All right, I'll tell you what, A-mags, instead of doing an intro for you, how about you intro us to some picks from this show? How about a couple of MLB picks from you? You mentioned the White socks, Sniper. Does anybody like the White socks on the Moneyline today? Because that was if I was looking at a play, it would be backing Anthony K today. We can talk about that later. A-mags talked to me about Junior Caminero and the Philadelphia Phillies. Yeah, to your point there, Si, I think maybe I like the over in that game more than anything. You can get seven and a half out there. And I think K is liable to give up some runs as well as on the other side there. So got that game. Well, we got a couple other games here. As Sniper mentioned, the Phillies still a lot to play for
for the Phillies. And as long as they don't go six and oh, in the last six games here, we will cash under 91 and a half wins. But it's getting a little bit sweaty. Got to admit. And I mentioned the motivation here for a team that is right there in the thick of the wild card race. It does look like they have obviously now the East is out of it, but they still have a lot to play for. So I like sending Zach Wheeler to the mound. Not once, but twice in these last six games for them. They got the win with Christopher Sanchez on Sunday. And I'm going to Phillies Moneyline. Look, Dustin May on the other side of this game couldn't even last three innings last time out, around 70 pitches, really labored and struggled. I think in this spot coming back on just three days rest, they're really only asking him for a few innings to begin the game and they're going to kind of piece it together. But the thing is that the Brewers really kind of have nothing left to play for. They are jockeying for position there with the Dodgers for the overall number one seed in the NL. But they are basically guaranteed there
to get the one or the two. So for them, they've got to buy. It's just a matter of if they would host a playoff series against the Dodgers or not. So there's a little bit to play for. But there's so much on the other side here for the Phillies that I think they would be the ones really trying to go all out here. And I think there is just a massive discrepancy in the starting pictures between Zach Wheeler and a 0.90 ERA in September through three starts. But he's been great for about a month now. Really just a clunker that was in about a month and a half actually of really strong starts. So I'll kind of draw a line through that one bad start for him. He's been great. I think he continues here tonight. And at this price, I'm happy to take the Phillies to get it done. And then secondly, yes, Junior Cam and Arrow. I know I'm betting against my Yankees a little bit here. But in a double header game, just the way that this sets up for Cam and Arrow, I kind of don't really understand the price of plus 100 here for over 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 of the double header. I wouldn't mind playing it in both games.
Honestly, he'll face a lefty in each of those games. Carlos Rodón, game one, Max Fried, game two. He's a great hit against lefty this year, but it's an OPS over 900. And I think that just probably continues. Even though I have to at least give some credits of Carlos Rodón, he has held right handed batters under 200 averages this year. You get Junior Cam and Arrow near the top of the order for the away team in a day game in Yankee Stadium against the better side of his platoon split. I think at that point, the discussion kind of stops, and you look at the price and it's plus 100 and you've just got to play it. So I like the set up for Cam and Arrow, I like the price, and I'm happy to take that one. Not only in game one, but we'll see for game two there against lefty again, similar price. I wouldn't mind playing it at all. Get your questions in the chat because we do have a pretty busy MLB slate, whether they be NFL, MLB, WNBA, or soccer and buckets, we're gonna move to soccer. You got a couple of picks for us today. I do, a couple of housekeeping things real quick here. Most importantly, starting today is Fat Bear Week
in Catmine National Park, Alaska. So go ahead and make sure you're voting for your favorite, Fat Bear as they prep for hibernation. A big contest, I personally a big fan of, good news, no spoilers actually, I'll let you guys make your own decisions. Two bets though, here this afternoon to start off international break. And I know that this is a tough time for us footy batters, but I promise you, there are not only so many great teams still playing, but great leagues as well. We have women's champions like this afternoon, as well as Brazil, Siri B, which is where we're gonna start, as we have Kri Siuma, taking on Aparario, and we're going with both teams to score at plus 105. And I know what you're thinking, Cia, buckets. Thank you for picking such easy to pronounce names. I got you, buddy, you know I've always got your back and more importantly than that, Cia. You also agree with this bet because Kri Siuma, bit of a frustrating team, they're averaging less than one goal conceded in just one goal score per game. So not a game that you think about when you're betting on high scoring encounters, but this is a team that did really, really well for the majority of the season. And they're falling apart as they get to the finish line. They've only won one of their last six matches with five losses over those six.
This is a team defensively, they're just falling apart, but they're playing at home and they have good enough goal scorers to get through at Aparario Defense, who has been very lacklustrid the season. This was, we were seeing Kri Siuma on the road. I win it, take this, but at home, I've got to take it at plus money, especially with Aparario's defense, conceding goals, but also scoring, coming off the back of a three-three draw against Nautico, and they've now seen both teams of score hit in three of their last four. I think it's just good value, especially when we're getting plus money. And bet number two, Bayern Munich's women's team taking on Manchester City, this is a game we're gonna have a lot of fun with because you can kind of close your eyes, bet on the over and just be happy because the women's team for Munich plays the exact same way as the men's team. This is a team that scores so many goals and has so many good goal scores. It doesn't matter if they concede goals. Their last couple matches, five to win, over Cole and three to win, over Levarcusen, four one win, over Freiburg. They have so many good goal scores with Gilles, with Imade, with Tanikawa, and Bún.
This is a fantastic club playing a man city team who is dominating the women's league game right now. They're first in the women's super league table with 11 goal scored in three games. I'm going with both teams of score, parlaid with Bayern over one and a half team total. Sorry, I got a bit lost there. We're getting that at plus 100, even money again. I think Bayern Munich win this game three, one, maybe three, two, if we get crazy for it. But this is a way where you can get a same game parlay, get the juice down without just taking a direct over three and a half and still have some fun with it. Danny Brasco having some fun with me in the chat. He says, I demand that CEO pronounces those names on the recap screen. Please and thank you, buckets. You will be appearing on the recap screen. Also, Calvin, people are talking about your shirt. I thought there was a save by the bell, reference. That can't be anything that related to your shirt, is it? I don't know. I'm not honestly familiar enough. Let's save on the bell to know that reference. But I just... Is that too young for that sniper? I think there's a shot. I think that it was like, that's something like Zach Morris would wear. I see. I think that's the ballpark we're looking at. Okay, I guess that's something Zach Morris would wear.
That's fair. We've already talked about Zach Wheeler. Let's get somebody put your Zach rankings in the chat. Zach Wheeler, Zach Morris, who are you some of your other favorite Zachs? Can you, Sniper, can you think of a Zach off the top of your head here? Not right now. I'm drawing a blank, honestly, other than Zach Johnson. Buckets, go ahead. Did that have to be Z-H or can it be C or K? Can you see? It can be a K at the end. Yeah. The high school musical, dude. I don't follow. Sorry. I don't remember his last name. I'm saying Zach is not going to be helpful here, so there's just nevermind. You know what is helpful, though? You know what is helpful? Bed MGM. Bed MGM players will get a parlay boost for any sport on Bed MGM today. Just make a parlay in any sport you choose and activate the boost token. If you win your wager that was made with the token, you will receive extra winnings. I trust everybody is Googling Zachs right now. Let's Google splash sports, Dan. That's right. You have this huge contest. Zach Efron. OK, yeah, that's a good one. Zach Efron's a pretty...
Galphinec is somebody put in... Ooh, there you go. Obviously. Zach Simony, whoops. OK, see now I feel really bad. Zach Simony's number one in the rankings. Hey, Ben, show the splash sports rankings because these are pretty impressive. Hard to read here if you're watching on screen, but we've got our top five listed here. Again, I can't really see this, but a long story short, if you zoom in here, you'll be able to see who's in the top five. I will say this. Even if you're like 500th or 700th or something like that, that probably only means you're like three or four points behind and you can get two points for each of those wins, singular wins that you pick each week. I mean, this thing is super tight. If you had a bad two weeks, don't worry. There's plenty of time to go. And that'll be the case for probably half the season where you're not playing yourself out of it. Oh, here's a much better view of the top five. Shout out to Jared, to Michael, to Ace, to William, to Jed, and to Jeff G. They are in the top five, actually top three with some ties. So Vegas Richie in there too. I remember Vegas Richie from some of our FFTDFS shows as well.
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for that first round home court. And links still need one more win to clinch home court throughout to clinch that once. They had a chance to wrap up the one seed back on August 24th before the World Cup break when they faced the Valkary's who are in the two-spire right now. They lost, then they lost the next two games as well. They finally beat Connecticut last time by 12, but that was as 18 and a half point favorites. So doesn't really inspire confidence that they've snapped this streak here or into this slump and they're clearly looking more beatable now than they were earlier in the season. And now you have Olivia Miles questionable for the links, that's the headliner for me. If she doesn't play, she has that linger in calf injury. She's been the engine for them all season. And you're going on the road to maybe the toughest place to play, it's either Indiana or Golden State. So one of the two toughest plays to play in the league in this one. They play back-to-back regular season finale. They have a rematch in a couple days in Minnesota. I do think that the links end up getting that one and securing the one seed, but I think the fever get tonight.
I think they split with the home team taking each one this week. And you look at the links offense in particular over this slump, that three-game losing streak. They've been very shaky. Under one point per possession in all three of those games after before that 20 straight games, over one point per possession. And against the fever, statistically the best offense ever in terms of ratings points per game anyway, you want to measure it. You know the fever are going to be in the 90s, if not at 100. So your offense has to be clicking when you play them. You have to score with them because you can't really slow them down. So I think this is a spot. The fever, it's basically picking right now. A little better actually, minus 105 out there. You could get a plus one and a half as well. But I just like taking on the money line. So minus 105, some places are at pickup at minus 110. I would still play that as well. Or even out to minus 115 or minus 120. If it moves to fever minus one and a half on the spread, I would play it out to that point as well. I think this is a spot where the fever stay in the hunt
for home court and the links continue their slump, especially if the Olivia Miles doesn't play. But even if she does, I think that this should be a little bit more towards the fever side. If Olivia Miles has ruled out, you could go further than that one and a half, maybe two and a half or three and a half. But either way, I like the fever in this one. Let's get to some questions before we get to more picks. Night, but I'm going to bring in, bring you in here. Let's go to Cincinnati at Lanna, under nine and a half runs from Caden Jordan. Any thoughts on that one? In Atlanta, Williamson, under, well, it's because nine and a half is so high. You're liable to see either one of these offenses blow up, especially on the brave side against Williamson there. I could see both sides of that. So if you like it, do it. How about Red Sox Guardians under seven and a half from Glen Polyvice, sniper? Where is that one? That's Peyton Tully. And yeah, that against Parker Messick in Peyton Tully.
Yeah, you can see why it's a low total. But I more would want to lean toward just playing the Red Sox on that one in some way. I know that Messick's been very, very good this season, but the Guardians just don't score that much. And with Tully on the mound, I really like the Red Sox side on that one. A-Max, any thoughts on that Red Sox game? Yeah, so this one, you got the total at six and a half now, but a juice body over. So I had mentioned, look, I'll take the under at seven. It is two good bullpenes. You do have two very solid starters. I wouldn't go to six and a half. I mean, if you can get seven and a half out there, I think that I'd be fine with that as well, right? But I wouldn't want to be at the six and a half. So I would pass on under there, but it does make sense that it's going down. The other one, see it real quick. I do like the Reds actually in terms of scoring runs tonight. So I wouldn't mind taking the overnight in that game. I actually, I didn't want to come with multiple plays
from that same lineup, but South Stewart and Ellie De La Cruz both project really well on the hits runs and RBI's at some really solid prices there for today as well. Bucket's a question from Latte Larry. Any, I mean, this is kind of a random question. He says so himself. Any random FA Cup qualification or EFL trophy bets you like, not a fan of international breaks, he says. Yeah, neither am I. They're terrible. Players need to rest and stay healthy. Oh, how annoying is that? But FA Cup is very tricky, especially for the matches like today. We've got Wingate and Finchley taking on Hemel Hemsted. When you start getting into teams that aren't actually professional teams anymore, I have a very hard time betting on them and trusting them with money. Because we're now betting on people that are working and nine to five and then are going and playing games on the weekend kind of thing. So I've got no bets for it. I kind of personally very aggressively avoid these early games. So sorry, I just appointed Latte Larry, but I'm going to have to be a lot down here until I know bets. I don't want to forget to ask this question. And I am going to go to you because I think you have a play in this game.
I know and we don't have to force it. I know it's the front end of a double header. But Yankees first game is an afternoon game and we don't usually get that on a Tuesday. So I think people will be intrigued by that. Maybe you want to bet on it again. Bet responsibly. We don't have to bet on everything just because it's in the afternoon. But A-Mex, do you have a take on a side or a total in that first game with the Yankees? Yeah, Yankees, money line first game, I think, is the right side to be on. I really don't mind Carlos Rodón. Like I said, both sides of the play are under 200 against him this year. Like he's kept offence is off the board. The main thing with my Cam and Arrow prop is that on the other side that you go and get a really good price on him being on the away team and all that. It's more the setup for him than Rodón being really bad. So I would side with the Yankees that think Martinez is probably still due for some more regression. Two things. Oh, by the way, Snipe, I want to get your opinion on game one of that double header. I agree with A-Mex. I, when I first glanced at it, I thought, oh, maybe I'll take a look at the raise, but I dug in on Rodón and I thought everything looks pretty good. So I kind of leaned toward the Yankees there. Two things from the chat. Zach Randolph was another Zach that was mentioned.
I happen to think Zach Randolph is a very underappreciated player. Like one of those players that we kind of forget about, we don't talk about anymore. So in the chat or in the YouTube comments, put an underappreciated NBA player. Like an underrated guy that was like very good, but we just, he just doesn't come up in modern day conversations. I think Zach Randolph would be like a tailor fit for something like that. Simmons has seen any presidents cupped top points longer shots. We have our presidents' cup show from the early wedge tonight at seven o'clock on this sports line YouTube channel. Make sure you're subscribed and make sure you show up at seven o'clock. We'll have picks for the presidents' cup later on tonight. I have a pick for speaking at tonight for Thursday night football. We're going early here on Christian Watson because this line is going to start to spike. I put this in after the Monday night football game last night. I wanted to look at Christian Watson right away because I figured this line was going to start to creep up and it already has. Now, I have them over 64 and a half receiving yards. You can still get this at 64 and a half at a couple of books. It's 65 and a half in some places
and a lot of major books have this at 67 and a half. If you're a member of sports line, you already saw my write up and you saw that I would play this up to 67 and a half. At that point, I might just slow down because the reality is like you've got time. You've got time to lock in this 67 and a half right now. So go ahead and lock it in. If you like this play and I certainly like it because there's a lot of things going for Christian Watson. I mean, he does look like the guy that the Green Bay Packers drafted a few years ago. Obviously, he's had to shake off a lot of injuries, but he is a primary target for Jordan Love. Obviously, Matthew Golden gets into the mix as well. Both of those guys are getting about a 30% target share, both about a 30% area yard share. And if you look at the targets for Christian Watson, 19 targets through two games, very efficient and weak one, not very efficient in week two. But the bottom line is with, especially with Jaden Reed now out, you're going to see a lot of Christian Watson, you're going to see a lot of Matthew Golden, you're probably going to see an increase with Tucker Kraft as well as he works his way back from injury. But I think Christian Watson is the primary receiver in this offense. He's also the primary downfield threat with the larger A-Dop.
And with all that said, the Packers have some issues. They can't run the ball and they've got a really shaky offensive line because of the injuries that they recently sustained just a few days ago. But there are some injuries on the Falcon side that I think balance things out, especially with some of their edge rushers and, oh, by the way, with AJ Torell, who pulled up with an injury on Sunday. I don't think he's going to play on a short week. Even if he does, I still like this play, but I don't think AJ Torell is going to play. I think the Falcons are going to be competitive because Michael Pentax is going to be back. That's going to require the Green Bay Packers to throw the ball downfield. The only thing they're good at right now. So Christian Watson, their primary target, he's going to get a lot of the looks from Jordan Love, give me over 64 and a half receiving yards. Again, I'd play this up to 67 and a half, but I expect him to get to 70 plus in this matchup. All right, that's an NFL pick for you for Thursday. Again, I'm giving it out now because this line is going to start creeping up like it already has. But sniper, let's get back to Tuesday. You've got a couple of official plays for us. Yes. So we'll start in Pittsburgh. Jared Jones coming off Tommy John's surgery this year.
It took him a little bit to get going as it does when guys are coming off that surgery. He's always had good strikeout stuff. And now it's starting to kind of come to fruition as he gets to looking more like his old self. 44 strikeouts in his last 31 and 2 thirds innings. And that's in six starts now in his three September starts. 989. We only need over five and a half here. So we're going to go over five and a half in late just a little bit of juice there. Cardinals do have a low strikeout rate, but it has risen in the second half. So we're looking for six strikeouts from Jones. And I think we're going to get there rather comfortably. I'm not necessarily saying latter it, but I don't think that we're going to have to sweat this one out. Also going to go to Riggly PCA. We're going to go hits walks and stolen bases. I was going to go over one and a half, but the juice was like minus one 51. We can go up to three plus for plus 195. So we're going to run with that one again. He could go one for four with a walk and a stolen base. And that gets us home because we've got our three.
We've got one walk one hit and one stolen base. So we'll see some of the factors that play. The wind is blowing in relatively hard so the Cubs might have to play a little small ball here. Alex Breggman is definitely going to be out after the whole right side of his face is swollen. Again, maybe that means a little more small ball. The other thing about PCA is he'll go through these mini funks where he looks really, really bad. For example, Friday and Saturday, he was over 10 with four strikeouts and a small village left on the base paths. But then he always breaks out with huge games. One day, three for five with a double home run to our BI and a stolen base. So we're looking for, I believe he's going to stay in a groove in this one. Jansen Junk on the mound for the Marlins against left. He's this year, 293 allowed batting average, 344 slugging for on base percentage and 432 slugging. So a good spot for Pete to maybe draw a lock steal a base and then get a hit later in the game, something like that. All right. We got PCA three plus it plus 195 and Jared Jones over five in F case.
So I want to question to get to A mags from Ramo thoughts on Marta and Joe Adele two plus bases. I don't mind that one. I don't really want to get to into betting a lot of hitter props in that Cleveland game. Just got to think the starting pictures are really good. But I guess I don't mind that one. Can I really quick say to snipers point there on PCA? He is two stolen bases away from 40. Two stolen bases here today who we likely get Augustine Ramirez behind the plate. He's only thrown out three of 18 guys this year. If you have run out to today, that's plus 1040 on draft King. So I threw a little bit on it. I think if he steals one, you probably rather motivated to go get number 40. And not according to him. I was in the Cubs clubhouse on Friday and I asked him about it and he claims he's not looking at the stats at all. He's just trying to win games. Yeah. Well, he's I didn't want to argue with him and say I don't believe you, but yeah, he's like, no, no, I'm not doing that. Calvin was that the biggest flex of all flexes from that snider just subtly throwing that
in there. It was a context somehow. Don't say, yeah, don't say humble brag because it wasn't trying to. It wasn't a humble brag at all. It was just like, oh, by the way, I talked to PCA the other day. Calvin, that's amazing. Yeah, my guy PCA, you know, me and him were just texting just, you know, casually. We're boys. It's funny. You should bring that up because I was literally just talking to him yesterday and he said that he wasn't going for that. 100% lying. As a last thinking he is lying. He is lying. Truth about everyone. What I asked him about is, I don't know if anybody was watching, but last Wednesday, he drew a lead off walk and did not steal. And that's when I asked him about it. It was like, when you got on, did you think, okay, hey, it might be time for 38 and he goes, no, I'm not thinking about that anyway, but it's because I just got walked. I thought maybe the pictures have a little trouble in the strike zone. So I was going to give Sayah a chance to work the at bat. I mean, that's amazing stuff. Calvin, real quick question before we just go around the Horn and get to some more questions, buckets. I'm going to go to you to see if you see any soccer in the chat. But Calvin, I'm looking at the odds to win. I know we're on the doorstep of the WNBA playoffs. Obviously the links are the favorite minus 110.
But if you took the links out of it, is there another team that you'd like to play? Like the Aces are plus 650. The Valkyries who we talked about when they were plus 1000 are now plus 700. Atlanta dream plus 750. The fever plus 950 and go all the way down to the mystics and the wings at 70 to one or longer. If you couldn't take the links, who would you take? I think it's got to be the Aces just because they still have the best player in the world in Asia Wilson. They won three of the last four with basically this same core. It's the classic team that turns it on in the playoffs and they're probably going to get the three seed. You'd have to go on the road in the semi's and the finals. But they've done that before and we've seen them win this before. So plus 600 is a pretty long number for them if you're going to take someone other than the links. Before we get to buckets, maybe a bit of a rapid fire if we have soccer questions. John Starks was in the chat Gerald Wilkins, Mookie Blaylock, all very Ronnie's cycling. We're going old school, West Unseld, some good Brian Shaw, Jason Williams. I guess there were a couple of Jason. Lookie Blaylock, by the way, is the original name of Pearl Jam.
Oh, that's right. I remember hearing that story. Buckets, do you know who Pearl Jam is and do you have anything in the chat that we need to respond to? No. I don't know who Pearl Jam is. I didn't even knew I was going to know. And now you're making me look like a jerk because I assume it's some famous celebrity or team that everyone loves. But a couple of questions in the chat that we can address. A couple people asked me about Pearl Jam. Okay. One second. Go ahead, Buckets. Go ahead. Pearl Jam. An American rock band formed before I was born sick. Yeah, don't know who they are. Okay. Questions in the chat. Questions in the chat. People, 7-0's, 93, ask about Man United Women's versus Munchen. The game that we already have at Beton. Both teams score in the first half is plus 180. And then out of time, sports has buckets. I know I might be mad. But what about both teams score in both halves of that same match at plus 600? Could be very tempting. So two questions. Same ish Bet on the same game. I really like goals here. I think when I'm looking at all of the women's champions, the games today, this is my favorite outright to just closing my eyes and betting on overs.
So if you were going to go for something mad or crazy. This is the game you got to do it on. Be responsible, but have fun with it because this is the only game where realistically I could see that happening. If you're also looking at goals, I don't hate the Real Madrid versus PSG Women's Match both teams score over 3.5 kind of look as well. But ultimately, Byron, you're nixed the only one I'm trusting with my money. A lot of 3.5's here. Sniper, Chris Bassett over 3.5 K's minus 118. Such a low volume strikeout guy now. That's tough to net one's tough. Okay, Faradah. So that's a stay away. And another 3.5 Jeff Van Deys is Cincinnati minus 3.5 over the Steelers. Anybody in the chat? I know Larry and Brasco are in there. Let us know your thoughts. But I can tell you, we did a show on CBS Sports Network yesterday and Ben can tell you in the chat whether that shows on the Sports Line YouTube channel already. It certainly will be if not already. And there were opinions on that game. And if I remember correctly, Mike McClure, maybe a couple of others liked Cincinnati in that one. So don't quote me, just go watch it because we put all that content on the Sports Line
YouTube channel. So just stay tuned for that and the taking the points show tomorrow at 3 o'clock. A-Mags Matt Olson over 1.5 hits runs RBI's is minus 140. This is from Big Cheesy. And he also says that landed a score first plus 125. Yeah, I like the Olson one a little bit better. Like I said, I do think I like some of those reds players near the top of the order for them anyways. But yeah, Olson in the left on left matchup. I mean, one of the lefties that we go to him, Belinger, guys like that who are consistently good against lefties as a left handed batter. I don't mind that one at all. Romeo Dobstan must be new to the show. I mean, I know I've seen him. He's a big fan of the show. I see you far as out here as well. But he says, wait, Buckets doesn't know Pearl Jam. That is not breaking news to anybody. Romeo Dobstan. Buckets says. Honestly, I was surprised. I mean, they did. What's their most famous song? That's tough. There's so many up there. Just check out like a live or even flow. Yeah, okay.
Well, this is not this is not breaking news. This is after the show. Let's see. Vegas Richie says Watson over 65 and a half. The Christian Watson play is still over at bed MGM. I absolutely love that because I think most of the other books like like draft Kings and Fandall, they're going to have that at 67 and a half now. But yeah, six as far as the major books are concerned or the major books we talk about 65 and a half might be your best bet right now. So Vegas Richie, thanks for throwing that in the chat. And also good job being inside the top five, I think, in the contest. Get your picks in in that contest, by the way. Do not forget. Hand up if I missed anything before we get to the recap screen, everybody. Go ahead and see it real quick. I'd like to give a little love to my favorite most unknown player, Nick Collison. I don't know if anybody is a good one. Nick Collison fan. Of course. I was seeing those OKC teams that parted in Westbrook and Durant and Collison was a big part of those, but nobody really remembers him. So shout out Nick Collison. Go ahead, Calvin. I do want to say why we're on the underrated NBA guys.
As soon as you ask that question, I had a name come to mind and I thought to myself, Ben is going to like this one. He's going to agree with me. And then within 10 seconds, I saw Ben comment the exact name I was thinking of. No, her kind right in the chat. So shout out to Ben. Great minds. Think alike. Big Captain Kirk guy. Matt, go ahead. He's going to go really fast. Some from the start of the chat toward the show, Taj Bradley over six and a half strike outs against the Giants and plus money. Really, really like that one. Shota, Emanaga over 17 and a half outs and regularly against the Marlins. Shota gives up a ton of home runs because he's an extreme fly ball pitcher, but the wind is blowing in in the teens tonight. So that's a good bet as well for him to get deep in the game. The Cubs do not want to trust their bullpen at all. So I really like both of those. Air Davis has current player most underrated Derek White. See the thing is, I don't know that he's underrated. I mean, he was on the Olympic team, but it may be by fan standpoint, he probably is underrated. A lot of Nick Rick Smith is a really good answer. That is a good one. I put him in immediately when you when you when you really. Oh, did you really? Yeah.
All right. Well, I trust Tyler Hansbro says Danny Braske. I don't know if Tyler Hansbro was actually like good though. He was just like high motor like, I don't know. He wasn't. He wasn't great. Um, good. The Jackson's a good answer. Let's put let's like let's get the YouTube comments going with this because I think this is really good subject matter. I know we've already put it in the chat, but go to the YouTube comments. Let us know who your player is because there's so many errors you could go through. All right. We got to we got to get you out of here. Let's get to the recap screen. And you know what? Real quick actually because we didn't cover home runs. We don't have the home run chart back yet. I'm sure we'll have it. But sniper A max hand up the conditions aren't ripe right now for home runs, right? I was going to I was going to say let's hold out hope for one more Mike Trout home run this year. And Sacramento facing a lefty. Maybe we get to see Trout go deep. I love that because I was actually going to go to the same game, right? Around this time of the year, I was looking at the weather. I mean, every single stadium pretty much is like negative for home run projections in terms of like bumping it down.
So I would think that your home run parlay is in time and do all that is kind of coming to an end, right? But same game, Shayling Lear is against a lefty and you say Kakuji. I think he could do some damage tonight. So that is probably one of the games you're looking for some home runs. Deathlift Shremp, Sasha Vuyuchich. I mean, these are all we're digging deep. I love this page of story, I can't bitch. I know we're just going to European draws in Petrovich. What are we doing? This is great. I absolutely love this and I can actually pronounce these names, buckets. You're going to make an appearance on this recap screen. Ben, let's get back to that because I've got a an early look at a prop for Thursday night football. It's the Falcons. It's the Packers. We're going to talk about that. I'm really deep dive that Thursday morning on this show. But Christian Watson over 64 and a half receiving yards. I'd play it up to 67 and a half. The BDM GM has it right now at 65 and a half. So go ahead and take that. A-Max, Philly's Moneyline minus 139. And Junior Caminero over one and a half hits runs RBI's at even money in game one. A-Max, if I didn't make that, it is game one, right?
For this Junior Caminero play? Yes, sir. Game one. I wouldn't mind playing it in game two as well, but a game one plus a hundred against Carlos Rodon. Buckets you're up. Could you see Uma taking on up a radio? We're going with both teams to score at plus 105 then Byron Munich taking on Man City. This is the women's UCL. Both teams to score parlayed with Byron over one and a half team total at even money. Oh, God. Both teams to score odds are wrong. It's plus 105 not minus 120. I switched plays before the show and those are the old odds. So just to heads up, you'll get better odds at home. So two plus money. One's actually even money and the other one is plus 105 not minus 120 for that first play. Jared Jones over five and a half K's minus 124. Piqua Armstrong three three plus hits walks stolen bases plus 195 fever money line minus 105. That one from Calvin Wetzel. That should be a great game. And then we have sports line picks as well. And those are. Okay. The Orioles money line minus 120. That one from Adam Thompson and prop it guy likes McKenzie Gore over one and a half earned
runs that one minus 130. Money to ref. Wow. We are this is you guys at the you guys and girls are the absolute best. These are great obscure names. Good answers. I feel like now Matt were like going for more obscurity than we are like actual like Zach Randolph type good players. But either way, I think this is with a lot of debots is a good one from Liddy. Go ahead, sniper. I didn't have anything else, but I was going to say I almost disagreed with you. I thought there were two mainstream for a while. I wanted to give a little more obscure. I was going to say don't make me dip into my 1980s pastors and break out Clint Richardson or John Long and stump everybody. Wow. Wow. John Long Pearl Jam. We don't know any of these. All right. Sniper, A mags, Bucking, Cowboys. Not quite the same. Not quite the same. Thanks, everybody. Big, big thank you to bed on the ones and twos and threes and fours. Everybody enjoy your Tuesday. Let's do it again tomorrow at 10 o'clock. And don't forget the early Wedge Presidents Cup show tonight at seven o'clock on this sports line YouTube channel. Make sure you subscribe to the channel. We'll see you next time on the early edge. We rest our case.
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