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1:02the eSports vetting network. [♪ OUTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪ Top of the hour at his Vsyn by the books day for us right here at the Midgaming Hall. And frankly, Kentucky here's our closer Gents Lewis back home. In Cleveland, Ohio, we've got a lot to get to here in this final hour. Woof and a carer is going to join the program. We're going to talk more baseball here with the daily diamond, of course, get to our best bets. Not only in golf, UFC as well, in college basketball, but we do have an update from the players' championship. The second round is well underway, and we had to wait almost an extra, what, 12 hours or so to figure out who the first round leader was. Austin Svotherman missed his birdie put on the 9th hole, his 18th hole of the day. That means he gets in for par five-way chop up at the top at five under par to officially conclude round number one, Gentson. And by the way, that's where we stand right now. Nobody has moved. Still five under is the leader out there. Five-way tie, a top-to-weeter board here at the TPC.

2:03So we'll update that as the show goes. We love breaking out baseball here, Gentson, and discussing what we think might happen this year. And after what happened last year, it's still painful for yours truly. Oh, so close to Toronto getting it done. That's where we'll begin today's edition of the Daily Diamond. Good choice today to break them down since we got Canada taking on U.S. of A here in the WBC. Dodgers get it done at the expense of the Blue Jays down three, nothing in game seven. An absolute classic. If you had no money invested in it, it might be the best game you've ever seen in the World Series. For me, it was a painful one to watch the way that that thing ended having a 22-to-1 ticket on Toronto. But Gentson, I don't know if it was fluke, a team got hot at the right time down the stretch. It feels like even though they've lost Bobo's shed here at Free A&C to the Mets this year, are they a better baseball team this year

3:04from the one that won 94 games a year ago? I don't know. And that's always the hard part is when you handicap a team that loses in the fall classic. Traditionally, there is regression that following season. And obviously one of their big key cogs, not only down the stretch, but also in the second half. And even earlier before the All-Star break, you know, Bobo's shed in bloody junior were the two guys that were helping along with the Renaissance man, George Springer. It was that three-headed monster that really had to carry an offense that was absolutely awful in April and May. They didn't really hit their stride until after the All-Star break. And I think the rotation reinforcements too would tray a savage coming in in September. And of course, a post-season to remember for that rookie as well as the back end of a bullpen that if you recall, there was a lot of people north of the border calling for Jeff Hoffman to be removed from the Closer's role. It was Yari El Rodriguez, who they wanted.

4:04It was off through a great start. He ended up locking it in there towards the end of the season and through the post-season. But now as we kind of do the look ahead into 2026, the team that tied with the Yankees in the last day of the regular season, but winning the season series tiebreaker ultimately gave them the division title and more notably, Dave, the buy from the wild card round. So home-built advantage and allowed them to be able to find that path through Roger Center and through into the fall classic. As we take a look at where some of the additions of subtractions, you mentioned Boba-Shet. That'll be a big loss. And Kazakamoto, who actually is going to be, I think, as good a buy for the agency-wise coming over from the NPB, there's a lot of people in baseball circles and we had Steve Phillips on for Emily Visin futures draft. He actually is very, very high on Kazakamoto and what he could be not only as a third baseman defensively but offensively to lengthen that lineup.

5:07That to me is where I start with this team, Dave. The top four, I think, are going to be okay. George Springer, Dalton Varsho, Vladimir Guerrero Jr., Addison Barger. Even the top five, I'll include Alejandro Kirk, who has swung the bat really well through the end of the year and also to get him started with the World Baseball Classic with Team Mexico. Anthony Santander, remember, they signed him to be that bat in the middle. Dave, he's going to be lost already for at least the first four and a half the five months of the season. So you don't even get to bank on a guy coming back who you signed as a free agent last year to be a key cog for you. See, he's out. Jesus Sanchez was a trade piece that they got from the Marlins. So we just talked about in July. And Ernie Clement was a guy that no one expected to have the offensive campaign that he did last year. So what do you get from the back half of the lineup? That's question number one. I'll throw it to you on question two. The rotation is going to be good. That's the big, the big asset that they got.

6:07It's Dylan Seas coming over and signing from the Padres. Massive deal, massive one, two punch with him and Kevin Gosman. Jose Barillo actually looks a bit better in camp. Trey Asavage is going to be in there. And then Cody Ponce is a free agent from the KBO that has drawn rave reviews for the people involved with Toronto. And then your old boy, Max Schurzer, decided, let's give it another go. Could be a six man rotation right out of the shoot. And I don't think that's a bad thing, Dave, for where the Blue Jays want a monitor, young Trey Asavage trying to kind of baby him through April and maybe a little bit of May. Pitching is going to be what has to carry them early because I have a lot of questions about the back half of their lineup. We've talked a lot about this division. Obviously we talked about the Red Sox yesterday. We talked about the Orioles. It does feel like if you're looking at one division top to bottom that could be very competitive. It does look like this is that division that there's no real easy out anywhere, right? So when I look at the win total for a team like Toronto

7:09that did win 94 games a year ago and it's down to 88 and a half, it's still a pretty high win total for a really competitive division. Gents and I have no play on this team this year so far. I would look to that under and then AO East at plus 250. I don't know that that's long enough for me to get involved for them to go back to back as divisional champs here. Certainly not going to play 15 to 1 or plus 650 to win the pennant here. I don't want to say it's a full fade team for me north of the border, but I think that that is a little bit lofty concerning what they've lost in the off season. As you mentioned with the injuries already here, how do you see it in the betting market? Because, and I certainly don't want to lay two dollars for this team to make the postseason when we could think that maybe one through five in the division is going to be really, really tough. Yeah, this is a hold for me right now and if their offensive issues continue as they did at the beginning of last year, you are going to get not only way better to make the postseason price. I could see that dropping,

8:10I'm not going to say $1.50, $1.25. I could see that if they get off to a pedestrian start offensively and they're kind of middling and you get maybe a rabbit in the red socks. So the Yankees start off high. The Orioles are going to be a force. I think the ALEIS is the best division baseball. I don't think there's any argument there. It's going to be hard to find another division that has the depth and the continuity and just not a lot of daylight between first place and last place. I would also look at adjusted win totals here once we get underway during the season day. If they are kind of a 500 team, then you might be able to get an 85 and a half. You might be able to steal a couple of wins there early and you're also going to see them drift in the American League pennant market. Almost a Scotty Sheffler rule here. If the Blue Jays drift to 10 to one in the American League, then I think you can hop on them just because this organization already showed you at the deadline last year, they were willing to go and get the pieces they needed.

9:11They already did it to bolster the pitching staff and I think they have the American League solved on one front. You better have depth in the starting rotation or you got no chance in October. And we found it so crucial last year between Seattle and Toronto, how much the buy benefited those teams that had the horses and then you force those wild card winners to have to start game one with your game three starter or their third or four starter. That to me is where you look at Toronto. I would hold, but I would also look live at the end of April. Let's see where those playoff markets are, the adjusted win total markets if they are there and then perhaps if they're upwards of double digits to win the American League pennant, that might be the time to strike for the Blue Jays. You mentioned that they were in play by the way for Kyle Tucker before he went to the Dodgers. They were trying to bring back Boba Shet before he went and looked like Philadelphia then he ended up with the Mets.

10:12So they were trying to get some of those bigger tickets out there, Jensen. When you see that knowing that that's how active they were even though they failed to get some of those guys that I'm talking about here, you don't have issues that at the break if it's not going the way they wanted to early because it wasn't going their way early last year and they held it together and then go out there and get a shame beaver at the deadline. That proved to be very beneficial. Of course, you bring up tray of savage. Before it applies that rotation, nobody really saw that coming. Do you think that they would make more of those pushes in as long as they're maintaining contact like they did a year ago? It would make sense just knowing we've got the lockout looming and they feel like they're in wind now mode. I am anxious to see what happens with shame beaver. The forearm fatigue, as we talked about before camp started, a little bit of a red flag, actually not a little red flag, that's kind of a big red flag. What will the continuity of the back end of the bullpen look like? Tyler Rogers is a nice addition.

11:12You remember seeing him from his short tenure there with the New York meds after the trade deadline. He comes over as a nice set up man. Louis Varlin and Brendan Little were so key for them down the stretch. It really is the offense for me, Dave. And you're looking at a team that was the best image league baseball as far as team average, as far as team on base percentage. They were fourth and run scored. They were only 11th in home runs and I don't see them really vaulting past that this year, but it really is that six through nine. What can they do to try and turn that line up over day and in day out in what is a beast of the East there in the American League? I still have that 22 to one ticket at circa. I have not thrown it away yet. It's kind of like when you break up with a girlfriend and you keep some of the stuff that nostalgia around. At some point you just gotta get it out. So I don't know when I'm gonna throw that ticket away, but I haven't done so just yet. You can download the free upside app and when you do that, you're gonna get real cash back every time you buy gas. You can download the upside app today. Start earning on everyday Phillips. Use that promo code books title of this show.

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14:16Call, visit us online, or drop into an Atlantic Union Bank branch today. Atlantic Union Bank. Anyway, you bank. You're tuned in to Feeson by the Books, right here on Feeson. We continue to be seeing by the books of course, the show is sponsored by Upside. You can download the free Upside app, you can earn real cash back every time you fill up at the pump. So use the promo code Books, you will get 25 cents back per gallon on your very first fill up checkout upside.com for all of the details. It is that simple to do. I've done it. It's on my phone. It should be on yours as well. Always love catching up with the great Lou Finicero. You can give a follow on ex at Gambleew. There's a great job here at Feeson breaking down the fights and also the sneak-teap podcast and the bout business podcast. You can check those out weekly here that Lou puts out

15:19before those big UFC fights. Before we get to that fight card, Lou, I am perplexed as what's going on here in the WBC because I know you like Japan and they've drifted in the market. And yet here they are in the knockout stage. What's not to like now? Would you consider re-betting Japan at plus 450? Gentlemen, good morning. Thanks for having me in. This world baseball classic tournament is just awesome. And yes, I would consider betting them again. And that's because their price now at plus 450 is better than their price early months before the tournament. They were plus 250. They started the tournament anywhere from plus 330 to 390, depending where you're shopping. And it's interesting because the original formatting showed me that the Japanese were going to have to go through the Dominican Venezuela bracket to get to the championship. Now that I get to the updated bracket,

16:21I found out I was incorrect. Japan sidesteps. It's the Dominicans and the US that'll have to eventually face it. Japan now faces Venezuela. A team not to be taken lightly, make no mistake about it. However, this Japan thing is about team. It's about practicing together. And it's the advantage they have over all the other teams besides great talent. And I do think Japan's getting overlooked here. And I think they're a tremendous opportunity. Boy, going to be a fun to see what happens. It'll be Yoshi Yamamoto, Ranger Suarez, and what a dandy of a pitching matchup that will be. Lou, we've got a dandy and even maybe more under the radar for hardcore UFC fans, but still a good fight night. Top of the main card for you, Emmett Vahos. I know it's a big price to lay on the favorite. Accurately price for you or are there ways to monetize in this main card, top of the card? This fight here, to me, seems dynamically mispriced.

17:28Listen, nothing against Vahos, the Argentine fighter coming in, plenty of power, quickness, explosivity, the whole bit, he's got it. However, this is his fourth UFC fight. He's fighting a guy in Josh Emmett that has faced the absolute elite of that division for years now. And yes, if you look at his recent record, it shows that he's lost three of four, and he shows himself to be susceptible to the submission. The good news here is Vahos doesn't even know how to spell submission. He's going to go to claim the center of the octagon, stand wide, and start hurling. This is the perfect fight for Emmett to show well in. And I promised myself at the beginning of the year I was going to bail out on older fighters. Let's not overlook the fact that Emmett's 41 in Vahos is 24. So 17 years here, and that's a huge difference. But based on who Emmett's been in with

18:30and how he's competed against that set of world-class elite fighter, I have to take Emmett on principle alone. It'll be a half-unit bet for me. But if I can take a half-unit when 205, I'm all about it, and I just think this is a great opportunity for Emmett, who, oh, by the way, fought Yulia Tupuria, the champion to a decision. Amen to that. I see it the same way that I cannot believe where this price has gone here again. You can get Emmett right now plus $4 plus $4.10 out there in the betting market. We get the age discrepancy as you pointed out, Will. I do wonder though, I look at the total at three and a half. And it tells me the books are kind of confused on this one. Minus the dollar, 15 is what I'm seeing here. Juiced evenly, $1.15 either way at three and a half. I don't know that Emmett can win a decision. I kind of look at it and I go, somebody's going to get knocked out here. Would you book to the under? Do you think we're going to get, as you mentioned, if the A-host is not going to be looking to get this fight

19:31down to the ground, standing right in front of Josh Emmett, seems like a bad idea here to me. Do we think that somebody's going to get knocked out as the under employee? Great question and I go back and forth Dave. So excuse my wishy-washy answer, but Valleios is got plenty of power too. I definitely see this fight not going the distance. Somebody's getting iced. The three and a half makes it too difficult for me to try and predict when and where, but these two guys got profuse power and they're going to be using it. Lou, anywhere else in the main card, some value stand out to you and always intrigue to see when you get some of these bigger favorites and hard to do it. I know I ask you about maybe part-laying some of the favorites and just trying to make some money that way. Any other value of these main card belts that really sticks out to you? Yeah, if we go down to that bottom fight card, this is going to be a really excellent visual fight

20:34because Vita Patrino looks like he's been shizzled out of marble. The guy is an absolute specimen, shoulders, biceps, triceps, quadriceps. He's got every set you can possibly have and he is a powerful striker-based fighter, but he runs out of juice because he gets all swole up with all those muscles. He's fighting guy. He used to walk around at 500 pounds, Steve Ashwin. When you look at him, I say this with respect. He looks like a circus act. The skin is falling off him. He looks like a sheet's been thrown over a coat hanger and everything. He has no physique. He's big, he's huge, but he believes. He has profuse power and he has great cardio. If he can withstand the first round from Patrino and we hear the bell for round two, this is Steve Ashwin plus 205. I'm high on him. I think he's totally unrecognized

21:34and no one really understands who or what he is in the UFC just yet, but I think he's gonna make that pronouncement in the first fight of this main card tomorrow. Well, I love that. I think it's one of the stories of the year in MMA to see where Steve Ashwin has come personally to where he is now to be on a main card in a UFC event, Louis. I think you detailed it perfectly. And I think that's the right look to the dog side there to begin this fight night. I'm looking at the co-main event. I have a lot of respect for these women and man on Lamosha against Jillian Robertson. You know, I like Jillian the way her tenacity is, especially she gets a fight down to the ground. It's vicious intent to finish a fight. She doesn't look to go down there and hold you down and roll out to a decision victory. We know how tough Lamosha is. And she's been in there with all the top of the division as well. Should she be over $1.60 betting on her dog in this co-main event? I think when you look at how people have, how ladies have finished Lamosha or beaten her,

22:37it's all based on submissions. What's Robertson? She's a submission specialist. She does have hands. Now, she has no intention of fighting this fight on her feet against Lamos or she's gonna get starved. So in this one, while I'm willing to take Emmett at 17 years older than Vallejo's, I'm not willing to take Lamosha eight years older than Robertson. I like Robertson in her prime at 30 fighting for everything against a gallon Lamosha that is powerful and tough, but maybe a little bit long in the tooth and past her prime. All right, Lou, one final baseball question for me. We get into conference play now in the SEC and the ACC cannot wait to see it. We've got a uniqueness though. UCLA, big 10 team. Number one in college baseball and boy, did they look the part on it? It's the one outlier in our SEC, ACC kind of conglomerate. Just your overall thoughts of what you thought of the college baseball season thus far.

23:41Well, it now is when I really start to watch because I want to see steel, sharp and steel, but UCLA is one of my future bets from the beginning of the season based on tentacles from last year. They've got to shore up a little bit of pitching, but their pitching is tough. Their hitting is good. And UCLA absolutely belongs there. That said, I'm surely not going to be shy when it comes to teams like Texas, Florida, LSU, when it comes to my portfolio on the SEC. Lou, I think a lot of people in the football world might have been surprised that Calamari went to Minnesota. I know you don't like to bet these totals this far out until you're going to wait until summertime, see the roster, see the injuries. Would you look to fade, Minnesota? If you don't like that pairing there with the quarterback and again, people aren't really thrilled about JJ McCarthy. How do you look at what's happened so far in the offseason, the NFL? Yeah, I'm stunned that the coach for Minnesota would bring Murray in.

24:41I told you guys off air a week or two ago, it wasn't going to be Minnesota. I'm stunned by this. And I think that Minnesota just compounded their McCarthy air with a Kyler Murray air. And now I have questions about that coach. Now, I'm a guy that thought Kade McNown was going to break records for the Chicago Bears. So please take my quarterback opinions with a little bit of a grain of salt. I thought Hashim to beat the second pick of the NBA draft a decade ago or so was going to be in a Hall of Fame. He couldn't even make it in the NBA. So Lou, I'm right there with you. It's some big time misses as well. Great stuff. We love it. Check out the bout business podcast. Check out SleepTP is the best. I'll look into Carol at Gamble. Talkin' more basketball and update the golf. That's next right here. I'm Veece and Butterbooks. You're too dimmed up, Veece, and by the books. Right here on Veece.

25:44We continue Veece and Butterbooks this show. He is sponsored by Upside, earned real cash back at the bump with the free upside app. He's from a code of books, get 25 cents back for a gallon. On your very first fill up at the bump, it's easy to do. Jensen and I have it downloaded on our phones. You should have it as well. Goodupside.com for all the details. I love the conversation with Lou Finicero in the last segment. And again, his picks will be up if you're a Veece and Butterbooks subscriber. We do see, we're in Unison and a lot of those fights. He also mentioned the action man, Chris Curtis, against picked by Oralbond in the Freeland fights that he also likes the action man. I'm right there with him here at over $2 betting underdog. Jensen, I think some dogs will be barking here this weekend. Mom texted me when she saw Lou. It said how good Lou looks. Always love it when mom gets to see Lou on the program as well. Mom get better. I love you. I can't wait to see you next month when I'm home on vacation as well. We've got two golfers, Jensen, up atop the leaderboard here at the players championship. One of these golfers was not waking up at the lead. Remember Austin's mother and did come back.

26:46He missed his birdie putt on 18. So we closed technically if you had those first round leader bets with a cut of five golfers at 500 par. Two guys have reached six. Sep Stracca, who by the way, made everything on the green yesterday. He was amazing. He is one under through three. So he's at 600 par with Alex Smolley, who was not an overnight leader. Smolley is making a big run. He is four under through five holes. Alex Smolley out of nowhere is now 600 par. So two tied atop the leaderboard here. Hideki Matsuyama is making a small run here. He's two under through two at 400 par, two off the lead. And the X-man, Zander Shoffley, is one under through two. So he's two off the pace. Normally Jensen at a tournament like this, the cream starts to rise to the top. We're seeing that. If we want to count Sep Stracca, I do as a bonafide. Really good player in this tour. Certainly Hideki Matsuyama and Zander Shoffley. I'll be curious if people are still willing

27:47to bet Scotty Sheffler starting off the day now, six shots off the lead at even par. Very excited about my Corey Conner's top 20 play right now. That was at plus 265 Corey Conner's tied for seventh, just two off the lead, minus four for the tournament, already one under through one today. Again, for anyone that tailed one of my, make the cut par lays, Zander Shoffley, Scotty Sheffler, Akshay Betia, Minwule, that one's still alive here at plus $1.43. The one leg right now, Minwule is one over through one. And as you mentioned, that projected cut line is at one over par at this point. So I'm hoping not to have to sweat it. Two guys off right now, Shoffley and Minwule, and then in the afternoon, Scotty Sheffler, Akshay Betia. So we will know our fate on that big plus money par lay to make the cut here at this afternoon. And just like that, we have a new leader.

28:48And we have Scotty Sheffler's now seven shots off the pace of one, Sep Strakka, who is the new betting favorite in real time to win this tournament. Sep with another birdie. He is the seven under par and Sep Strakka. Now the tournament favorite at plus seven, 10 to win. Cameron Young, I've got a ticket on cam. He is nine to one, the second betting choice right now. Scotty Sheffler, by the way, we talk about this all the time and golf betting, Jensen, because he hasn't teed off. And he's further falling further behind. You can now get him at 11 to one. And he has not even teed off as of yet. So keep waiting as long as you can hold. You'll get a better number in Scotty as the day goes. Maverick McNeely, really like his chances as well. Plus 12, 25 live. Let's talk a little bit about some of these college basketball tournaments that we have already broken down as the show is going on. You can go back and listen on your own time here to be some of the books like and subscribe. I mentioned here at Thomas Gable in hour number one, the 810. And whether or not VCU, my alma mater, is really on the bubble. They are technically on the bubble.

29:49Thomas doesn't think they're in danger of missing the tournament. They're eight and that point favorites against Duquesne today. Jensen, where are you in some of these corner quotes? Smaller conferences like we just saw with the WCC. Whether or not we believe Santa Clara will now make that a three big league with St. Mary's and of course with Gonzaga who won it. Could the ATA 10 be a bid stealer here out there? For some of these other quote unquote, bubble schools. We'll see that Duquesne VCU game if I'm leaning anywhere under that total down from one 51 and a half to 149 and a half. That would be at least in that contest. I am focused on a couple of big boys mentioned off the top of the show. If you're just joining us, my alma mater Vanderbilt up against their archival in Tennessee in the SEC quarter finals today. I did play the money line minus a dollar 20 on Vanderbilt to win. This has usually been a scheduling spot here for SEC teams that have the buy. According to Steve McAnon, when you have that buy, they have been 37 and eight

30:50straight up, even as a seven point favor more. But the buy has proven important just as of late for rested teams, 38 and 14 straight up, 30 and 22 ATS. So that specific trend will apply to that Vanderbilt game. So again, I will play the Commodore's minus a dollar 20 on the money line. The other one is one that I think people with big blue nation and your neck of the woods will not only have a keen eye on as Kentucky has won their first two games of the SEC tournament. But this will now be their third in three days and they go up against the number one seed in the Florida Gators. Let me mention this Steve McAnon trend day because it applies here in this particular matchup with Kentucky and Florida. First off, seven point or higher favorites have been 37 and eight straight up in this spot, but 27, 16 and two against the number. Okay, that's about a 63% cover percentage where I went here is the second part

31:52of this trend. So favorites of at least seven points or more in the SEC tournament. They have gone under the total at a 30, 14 and one clip entering the tournament. So a little over 68%. That got me Dave to the window on the under in the Florida and Kentucky matchup going to play the under 161 and a half at minus a dollar 25. So got up a little bit over where the initial total was. I'll get a little breathing room here. As we've seen, you know, the old fouling issues there in the second half. That's it time is early Dave, one PM Eastern time at Bridgestone 12 o'clock local where you are will fatigue being issue for Kentucky and offensively will they have enough gas in the tank to try and stay within that 10 point range? Man, I would not want to play the spread. If you leaned it, I would lean Florida, of course, but I will stay away from that more so I will play the under 161 and a half. I want to ask you about another team, a bubble team in the SEC in one second,

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34:56How do you break down this one today at Bridgestone? I don't think I would want any piece of Oklahoma. Just feel that John Calipari and crew it's going to be too much. It'll be a stay away spot for me, but I do think Arkansas will take care of business in that matchup. One other spot in and tournament breakdown. I wanted to give you because I do have two bets on it. The SWAT conference. Okay. So we're into the semifinals here at the Gateway Center in College Park, Georgia. If you have not watched some of these games and you are just getting into some of those mid majors, this has actually been a unique spot for the semifinal matchups. Favorites, 18 and three straight up. Dave, 14, 6 and 1, ATS, but the under has been where you go. Of the 30 games entering the tournament with totals of 134 or more, the under is on a 12 and four surge, 75% and guess what? Ball semifinals are going to be in a unique spot here of where they are over

36:02those totals of 134 or more under in Prairie View, Alabama, A&M. Under in Southern New and Florida, A&M, book it, we'll see you in the SWAT conference. More basketball talk when we come back. Some changing numbers there. A lot of changing numbers in the golf at real time. Second round update coming up from the players championship next right here. Be some other ones. Freight rail does more than move goods. It drives America's economy. Every dollar invested generates another $2.50 in economic activity spurring growth from farms to factories. And here's the best part. Freight railroads fund their own infrastructure, saving taxpayers billions while powering the economy forward from reducing highway congestion to delivering goods safely and efficiently. Freight rail keeps America moving. Learn more at AAR.org slash America's engine.

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39:06It's not Collins fault that he heard his back. So let's let's back off Colin there. But this is a well bet golf tournament out there. Just short of the four majors that will get the biggest volume. And handle on each and every year. Stepstrakas now in the lead by himself at 700 par here. Lee Hodges and Alex Smalley right now are at 600 par. Cam Young as up to five under along with saw hit the gala. Austin Smotherman who has started his second round. And Hadecki Matsuyama, Xander, Xander Shalfay at 400 par here. As some of the bigger names starting to make a move. I mentioned the Scotty chef were effect. That now because he hasn't played and begun his second round yet. He's drafted north of 11 to one in the betting markets. Remember, he's now seven shots off the lead at even par. And the cut line is at one. So clearly he's much closer to the cut line than he is to the top of the leaderboard. Do we just start to assume that Scotty's got to figure this thing out. Whatever has been going on the last couple of weeks. And then at that price point, it's too good to pass up.

40:07I won't be in on it. And I think the interesting part is where we are from some of the other bigger names that are moving up. You know, Ludwig is a guy that you and I backed here. Not only for top 20 for me, plus $1.25, but also a top 10 at plus $2.55. And I think that would be the name that you and I are kind of focused on. Anxious to see what Justin Thomas does in the afternoon wave of the leaders right now. Or at least the guys that are in the hunt. Matt McNeely going off at 142 along with Justin Thomas. Russell Henley at the beginning of the morning was one of the shortest shots to win this tournament. And if there was anyone that I was going to jump on, that would be him. If you were looking for an outright. So of course, get off the Tommy Fleetwood. He ends up showing up this week. So zig and zag. It can never get him right. But again, interested to see how this will transpire as the weather event that we had yesterday. Will that rear its ugly head again today in round number two.

41:10And again, as you know, I've been looking at a couple golfers here. Ludwig is one of those I hadn't pocket the only out right there. Before I added Cameron Young yesterday before the second round. But Ludwig at 28 to one. He's now 17 to one waiting to get his second round underway. So if you don't have anything in pocket, I think that's a fair number at 300 par four off the lead. The sweat for me is going to be little Danny McCarthy. He got me excited. Jensen. He was three under through four. He's now given two shots back here. That's a made cut prop that I gave out at minus a dollar 25. So he's two back of the cut line here with the back nine to play one under for the day. But at plus three overall. So you've got some of those make the cut props. That looks like that cut lines going to be at one. I hope selfishly it moves to two. But right now that is going to be the sweat and it is real. Danny McCarthy. Let's get on that high horse here in that back nine here and make us some money. Let's go back to college basketball here. Obviously people betting these conference tournaments. Does it change your opinion? What happens in these conference tournaments?

42:11Because Thomas Gabel told us in the betting market. Probably not going to change a whole lot for the big boys. No matter what happens this weekend. No, we'll start to look at the slate here today. And again, in the first game of the day is going to be in the Atlantic 10. And it's a high total here. Between George Washington and the top seed in the Billikins of St. Louis. One of the trends in the eight ten is that totals of one forty four or higher. Have been a seed back in and puts it predictably high scoring. Entering this tournament going twenty two in ten. Over the total almost a sixty nine percent over percentage. And that goes all the way back to twenty fourteen, including a perfect four and oh mark when totals were one forty four or higher. Just a season ago. This number started at one sixty two. It came down to right around one sixty one. And then it's right back up. Seeing some more market pushing back at one sixty one and a half. So I'm wondering if that's the floor Dave.

43:12Boy, that feels it feels very high for for that amount. You know, but I don't know if I'll be jumping on it just yet again early tip time here. At eleven thirty a.m. Eastern Ohio State and Michigan in this part of the country. Dave Ohio State yesterday. A pretty convincing win in their opening round of the tournament. Now Michigan will play with the double buy. I would say if you were looking for an over. This might be the one at high noon from the United Center. Obviously two rivals here and the number opened at one fifty three. It has been bet up in some places already to a one fifty six. I'm seeing a one fifty five and a halves at Fandall and draft Kings. But if I'm looking for an early total. That one in the early slated games. Dave, that would be where I would go. And just a reminder for people tuning in. I did play the under in the Kentucky and Florida. Opener of the SEC quarter finals today.

44:13One p.m. tip time Eastern 12 o'clock local where you are under one sixty one and a half. It opened at one sixteen and a half. I just bought up a little bit. The price was nice on the hard rock app in that sportsbooks. So that the early feel for me. If I were going to give you like a best bet or one that I feel very convinced on. I mentioned the Swack. Okay, and they're into the semifinals of that conference tournament. A really, really notable trend here that I think is very actionable. Of the last four Swack tournaments. Dave, they've been generally lower scoring according to Steve McAnon. Nineteen of the thirty games going under of those thirty games. Those with totals of one thirty four or more on a twelve and four undersurge. That's a seventy five percent under percentage. And so both these games meet the criteria today, Dave. You have Prairie View A&M and Alabama A&M. I played the under one forty five and a half at minus a dollar forty. And I played Southern you and Florida A&M at under one forty six and a half at minus a dollar thirty five.

45:18So again, always love to kind of cross reference. What are our great colleagues at visa.com have done in these conference writeups. With the actual data is a visa and pro subscribers. So those are two notable under trends active in both semifinal games of the Swack conference tournament today. Yeah, that's why Steve McAnon's numbers are fantastic. And you need to be a visa and pro subscriber to have access to those. Jensen various stupe fine there. I'll ask this in context of we know the three number one seeds of dude Michigan Arizona. Kind of a fight maybe for that four number one seed the odds market would say it's Florida. But I have a ticket already on Yukon at sixteen one you need a better number now it's eighteen to one. I do wonder if Florida and Yukon do not win their conference tournaments. And Houston does win the big twelve which is regarded as the best regular season conference basketball conference. Could we make a case for Houston to get that fourth number one.

46:18And then if that were to happen at twelve to one potentially is a number one seed. I feel like that's a fair number and a good number for a defense that we know traditionally. It's not their best defense that Calvin Samson has that feels like a pretty good number to potentially have in pocket. If there was was a team to change in the betting market after this weekend. I'm looking at the cougs as maybe it's somebody that could move up ever so slightly. Boy not as far as our friends at cvb analytics dot com when you look at adjusted offensive rating versus adjusted defensive rating. Houston is nipping at the heels of Florida overall so it may not matter to me Dave if they are a one or two. It might be advantageous before they play today against Kansas if you don't come in. Probably by right now because you would imagine they could at least dip to the not tend to one. As your your kind of idea would would hold it should they go on to win that pack twelve and they were to beat Arizona. Yeah you would imagine they could get into single digits as well.

47:21Feels like if you just want to play a numbers point that's a numbers play to take Houston at twelve to one while it's still available. And I think right after I stop sweating Denny McCarthy I'll be taking a little bite here of the Houston apple here as we get closer to March. Matt is jets and great stuff as always my man. What do you got cooking for the weekend? You're going to put the heels up and watch little golf or what are you going to be doing here in the colder weather? What did we do without the four box for the ESPN app if you're watching on YouTube TV. Make sure one of those screens is always on Vsyn as we'll have you have you covered all the way through. Cannot wait for the bracket reveal we will have the answer key coming up. Yes we will. Potentially Monday or Tuesday before the first four. It's has to get away for that my man again if you want more Vsyn right now you've been watching on Fando Sports Network Vsyn.com Vsyn.com Vsyn.com Vsyn.com Vsyn.com we've got a numbers game with Gil Alexander and Kelly Biddon. They've got the bear Christmas week on the program today. And of course your favorite professional best better Steve Fesik is on the program. That's next right here on Vsyn. Bada Bada.

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