VSiN By The Books | March 31, 2026 | Hour 2

0:00This is Vsyn by the books on Vsyn, these sports betting network. Top of the hour, it is Vsyn, Bob DeVos, right here at the mint gaming hall. Frankly, Kentucky, our closer Jetsville is back home and Cleveland, Ohio, Greg Hoops, Peterson. Gonna join us a little bit later on. This hour, it is thoughts on the final four and beyond right there from Las Vegas. Jetsville, as we begin this second hour of the program today, a lot of it does stem right there in the city that you're in in Cleveland, Ohio. That's where we begin our highlights in headlines. Help your bottom line with today's highlights and headlines. We love the games. We can't get enough of the games. The NFL is our national drug when it comes to sports. There's no denying, right? So the annual week meetings are underway here in Phoenix. We talk about it.

1:00I do a lot about the competition committee might be the most powerful committee that we never see. Well, second of that is the owners, right? When they get maybe first is the owners and second would be competition committee for being honest, Jetsyn. When they get underway and they're going to continue here in Phoenix, and it's basically a big powwow for the most powerful men in the NFL. When they sit around those tables, Jetsyn, and they try to iron out the future of this week. Now, with it, we saw that the 18 game schedule looks like it's first and foremost. And potentially every team, if we're going to go with what Robert Kraft says, might be soon playing a game international. So it does feel like what the NFL wants is the NFL gets, which means world domination on the global scale. This does feel like to me a formality to you. How do you see this? I think we're getting 18 games and we're probably going to get every team overseas at least once a year. Yeah, I don't know where and without being privy to the players association for the NFL

2:03PA and their talking points and what they hold dear hard to kind of go hard and fast on on where they would want to be if I am in that room and I'm advising, I am an absolute no on international games every single week. Just think about what the nutrition has been already in just a 17 game schedule with how late? What were we into week 13 or 14 off the top of my head? I maybe was week 12, but it felt very much past the midpoint of the season. And if we're going to do that into week 17, I mean, imagine a week 18 game where you're going to play overseas, then you got to come back and be ready for a potential wildcard game. This feels like when you say it out loud, I don't know how people on the owner side don't kind of like think if you're an owner of that team that is fighting like you need to win in week 18, you have to win it to get into the postseason and you have to win it playing

3:07in London or in Munich. And then you got to come back and let's say you got to go to the west coast and that's where your wildcard game. I'm thinking of all of those scenarios and you have got to be kidding me. Who would in their right mind from the players association side say, oh, yeah, we're cool with that. Yeah, let's do it. No, that's that to me would be a non starter. But again, this is why when we compare where MLB has been with our players in as the strongest in the entire country, the NFL PA has little to no power. And so you're right. It's basically how the owners want to see it where they want it. And what ultimately Roderick Adele sides is the way it's going to be. Yeah. And again, I don't think it's out of the realm of possibility somewhere down the road. They've actually already kicked it around. The idea of playing a Super Bowl, say in London. I mean, I think those those possibilities would start off as a novelty with one or two games being overseas to grow the game as they always say is now, as you see, this is exactly the fruits of that labor. They're going to try to get it feels like a game every week, which is bizarre, but it's

4:10on the table right now. What is off the table right now is the Browns did withdraw their proposal to allow trading up to five years worth of draft picks. Yes, that was Cleveland's submission. We theorized about that months ago here in the program. And then we found out it was Cleveland and we're like, wow, it seems oddly specific. That one, they get up to five years. What they have cooking for a potential Joe Barrow trade. It feels like, but no, that's not going to be the case here. And the leaks is none of them. We're not going to be the NBA. We're not going to give away all those future number ones. Art of the appeal, I think of the NFL fan bases, when we go to the April draft, you know, coming up here in the very short order that we have the opportunity with those draft picks to turn our fortunes around. If you sell off five of those, which the Browns proposed, I think it would take away from that. And I think the leaks and then we're not going to be the NBA model. Give it to the Browns to offer up something incredibly idiotic. It is par for the course for this group. And you know, when you and I heard that it was something that was going to be talked

5:13about or brought forward, I just thought about it. And, you know, be great to get Mark Dominick's thought and maybe, you know, when we ultimately get back into after our draft and training camp and where some certain GMs would be just getting different perspectives of how GMs would even attack that. How do you draw up a proposal and sit there and look at it and say, okay, for five years, we're not picking in the first, like our own five, we get one each year. For a half decade, we're not picking among some of the best players in college football at that. Just wow. I don't know. Even, can you imagine asking Marty Herney about the, you know, you know, would you know what you trade five number ones for any play for any player? Would you trade five number ones? It just doesn't even compute in my mind. Very quickly to that end. Could I interest you in the Browns wind total over six and a half?

6:14It is just to the under, by the way, as you can get some plus money for this seven wind football team, because the owner, Jimmy Haselma said, according to Mary Kate Calbot, on on X and Mary Kate Calbot says that Jimmy Haselma believes it's possible for the Sean Watson to go from quote, a swing and a miss to a home run in baseball terminology. If he starts the, if he starts this year, Jensen, what are you making this? Deshaun Watson's guy. They just won't go away. Speaking of international series, what is that game in Paris potentially going to look like if it's Saints Browns, oh my, and whatever that line might be. So your opponents here for the Browns, you got to go to New York to play the Giants in the Jets, you've got to go to Tennessee, you got to go to Tampa, you got to go to Jackson ville. You're going overseas. And obviously you're on the road, the division, the under is the only play for me. And it might be an alternate under wind total to be quite honest. I don't give a damn if it's your door. If it's Deshaun, if it's you back there, buddy, they are not winning seven games this

7:16year. If it's me back there, they're not winning two games, maybe not one. The Thunder got their 60's win of the year last night in the association along with the Hawks heat and Lakers headlining their Monday night wins. Just what's your biggest takeaway from this? Is it that OKC looks like they are back to being fully staffed Oklahoma City? Man, we nearly pulled the plus 550 on the Piston's money line last night. They fall four points short, a really competitive game. Five playoff spots now punched to OKC and San Antonio were already in Detroit and Boston were as well. The New York Knicks now are that fifth team in and they will try to stay ahead of the Cleveland Cavaliers who kind of play with their food a little bit last night with the Utah Jazz. Knicks one game ahead of the Cavaliers beginning play tonight spurs just two and a half back of the Thunder as San Antonio's one nine and a row. Now the Thunder up three or at least three in a row. I should say one thing to take away from last night speaking of playoff positioning. The 76ers were taking on the heats in Miami and Miami has kind of had that sense of urgency

8:22here. They were able to win and some to keep in mind here down the stretch. The sixers are 17 and 30 against teams with winning records this year. They're 24 and four against those with sub five hundred records. I bring that up because Dave the difference between the number six spots of the automatic qualifier top six in the Eastern conference. That's the Hawks. They're a game and a half ahead of the sixers, all right. But the sixers are just two games ahead of the Charlotte Hornets for the ten seed. So these last, you know, handful of weeks here. Yeah, five teams that are basically within three and a half games which are we're going to have a lot of seed battles here for the play in and also for that final guaranteed spot. The top six in the Eastern conference. I'm going to talk about it with the G unit, Greg Peterson here in the next segment, the final four, some changing numbers there. Illinois up to two and a half point favorite one and a half holding here for Michigan against Arizona. But all the chalk gets through for the women's final four, Jensen. He had a perfect bracket on the women's side.

9:22Chalky, but it got home. It did. And again, this was pretty, pretty much no contest for all the one seeds. I believe that they all in every game they played into the final four, all won by at least double digits. That was kind of my field, Mike Paul and the Maestro talked about it. You know, it's one of those things in the women's tournament where mostly the high seeds or at least, you know, the top seeds will find their way through. So congratulations. It's two do'sies on Friday night, though. If you're looking for some entertainment value, Yukon, South Carolina, Yukon trying to complete the undefeated season and then UCLA, who's been one of the prohibitive favorites all year long against Texas, Texas looked amazing in their blowout of Michigan. So you get power on power as far as these one seeds excited to see what Phoenix will look like on Friday night. I'll tell you what I'll be looking at after the National Championship game on Monday night for the men's side. They will post the futures where every school next year at certain books and I do believe

10:24Circa right behind me will have those numbers up. I'll be looking at that Syracuse number. Why? Jerry McNamara is now the new head coach of his alma mater, of course, helped lead them to a championship back in 2003. Let's see your GMAC at his intro press conference yesterday. Anybody that knows me knows why I'm here. I'm here to win. It's who I am and it's who I will always be. Let's get this thing going. Oh, let's run through a wall, baby. I love Jetson leaning in the mic. It's who I am and who I'll always be sometimes you got natural born leaders and winners. He is one of those guys, Jetson. I can't wait to see the number site on scene. If that's triple digits next year, I will be making a bet on Syracuse basketball because

11:26I'll tell you this. I am money. It's going through the roof up there. It's central New York. I know GMAC's laughing on the other side, but it's thoughts on that as well. It's all coming up next. Final four, Cuses, in this year, we know the big boys at R will get those numbers coming up with G unit right here. I'll be some other folks. So you're listening to this podcast because you want an edge, but what if I told you you're only halfway there? You've got the mindset. Now it's time to get the toolkit to match it. Here's the thing. Pro betters, they spend thousands on data and tools. But what they don't know and don't want you to know is that you can get the same edge for a fraction of the cause with Vsyn Pro. With Vsyn Pro, you're going to get access to expert picks, public betting data, prop projections, powerful tools, analytics, and so much more. Just tap the link in the description and see why thousands of betters are already using Vsyn Pro to cash more bets.

12:53We're going to get to the final four numbers here in a second, but are you ready to run into the window to bet Syracuse basketball after you heard that introductory press conference from Jerry McNamara? Are you not inspired that Cuse basketball is back? I think that they're going to be much better than they have been the last few seasons. I think Jerry McNamara is going to be great at Syracuse. I would say slow the role on a championship in year number one. I don't know if I can quite get there. Keep in mind that when Danny Hurley took the job at Yukon, I remember taking them to the final four a few years ago, the year before they busted through, and the year before

13:58they busted through, they lost to Mexico State in the first round of the NCAA tournament. I had them in the final four, felt like a complete war on, so I would say let them get a little bit of a sea legs under them first, let them be able to get a few recruiting classes, then start to put it in there the futures. All right. GP speaking of, yeah, getting our feet under us, that's what I've tried to preach to people. Patience is a virtue, especially for baseball fans and betters alike in April. The nationals have been feisty. David, I talked about us. It'd be very careful. Be wary going its teams that we would believe would not have good seasons overall, but everyone zero and zero to start the year. So they could have that little adrenaline kick. Do we find a bounce back spot here after a real outstanding offensive showing? From Washington, can Philly, after getting booed for what feels like every single game this far from their home faithful? Do they finally get back on the right side of things? Yeah. And what it comes to this Washington Nationals bunch, I don't know if it was a great offensive

15:00effort from them or it was just bad, bad pitching by table walker like man, that is exciting. That is not worked out for the Philadelphia Phillies to say the least. And Andrew Painter, making his debut for the Phillies, he was rough in AAA last year, I like right son spring training was posting up about a 231 ERA swing and miss self looked relatively solid and it's PJ Poole and apparently he's going to be getting the start side show up in for the Washington Nationals. It's not a place where you want to be. That is a both MPs for them. Looks like it's going to be a wholesale approach because they were unsure if it was going to be Zach Latella for was going to be someone else. It looks like they're going door number two of someone else, not great for Washington Nation. Seen that at North of a five five VRA last season in the bullpen. That was 30 if out of 30 teams for the Phillies, they were top five offense in terms of recreation at home last year, recognize that's not the same team, you lose to Cassianos, but it's a lot of pieces intact. I think that at some point Bryce Harper is going to be able to get in line and I think

16:01that this is a very good get right spot here for the Philadelphia Phillies. You're catching plus money on that road line. I took a shot there with being able to give much of you watching in Nationals bullpen total of nine also in on the over love that play do like the over a lot in that one. And anytime I watch game shows as a kid Greg, I would always root for the contestants to pick door number two. The Marlins yesterday lost for the first time. I thought they were going to one 162 and so that dream has come to an end against the white socks today could runs being a premium in this one down in South Beach. I do think so. Now Eric Fettie, it was not a good year from last year. Yeah, and I believe it was 5.3 strikeouts to a little bit over four walks per nine earnings posted up in ERA well above five. But now he's back to where he had the magic in 2024, 2024. He makes 21 starts for the Chicago White Sox 312 BRA after he came back from the KBO and it'll really look like he had reborn his career. Meanwhile, Jansen Junk, he is hoping to not live up to his name in this one.

17:05And he was relatively self wise here in terms of not beating himself, but since 0.8 home runs a lot of per nine earnings just here above a lock a lot of per nine earnings. Now he did post up in ERA right around a 417, but that feeling independent was about a full point lower. So that feeling independent in that neighbor about 315 320 right now I'm finding the Marlins at about a minus 140 minus 145 and I don't want to lay much more on that money line. But I'm going to be willing to do so. I do think that you see a little bit of a bounce back with this total to the under because White Sox really lit it up in that game on Monday, but I think that there's a little bit of upside with the more trustworthy pieces of the Miami Marlins bullpen guys like Anthony Bender, Calvin Foshay, they're relatively solid in that bullpen. And we'll say for the White Sox, they do look much better with their lineup this year last year. They were averaging fewer than four runs per game, bottom 10 team in the big leagues. Come Mircotta, hopefully I got that last time Greg comes over from overseas already got three home runs for the White Sox. So he's really got it rolling, but I do think that with this picture friendly ballpark,

18:09you are able to get the under so like the under eight and a half and the Marlins on the money line. Yeah, it might have been a day early on the under there Miguel Vargas Grand Slam last night, one of two Grand Slam's by the White Sox as they pace the Marlins to hand in their first defeat. Yesterday was a great, a little match up at Great American Ballpark here, Greg, between two young hurlers, Braxton, Ashcraft and Chase Burns, gave out the Reds minus one and alternate run line. They win it to nothing. Get another dandy here above a channel or one of the top pitching prospects and all the baseball from last year, he will get the the nod today against Brandon Williamson who's pressing a duty because of some injuries to the Reds rotation. Red legs win another series with a win today. I think so and for Williamson, his first start since the 2024 season, miss pretty much off 2025 due to injury and I do think that he's going to be able to find just sort of his bearings here when he was up at the big league level and like 2023, 2024 wasn't much of a strikeout guy. Seven half strikeouts, her nine earnings, but he gets a face off against the Pittsburgh

19:11Pirates line up that I need to see it to believe it from last year. They were 30th out of 30 teams that turned some runs for game at 3.6. Now they made some nice additions. I liked Ryan or her. Her and was a guy that last year with the Orioles and the Padres was giving you about a three 50 or so on base functional power Marcel Zuna is a pretty rock saw guy who comes over from the Atlanta Braves, but it's self a lot of question marks with that lineup, additionally for the Pittsburgh Pirates, have some question marks with that bullpen as well. So right now we're finding plus money on the money line of the Reds going to be willing to take a shot here. Bubba Chandler, you mentioned him yet a ERA that was right around about a four last season, but the only dependent closer to 265 got a little bit unlucky, really didn't give up the deep ball. He's got some good swing and missed up, but that was a really small sample size. He pitched fewer than 35 innings at the big league level, want to see a little bit more for them before I can make them a road favorite on the Pittsburgh Pirates. So I'm going to be willing to take the plus one a year with the Reds on the money line. Let's go with a couple teams certainly in middle America here and that would be the Cubs

20:13and they are going to be hosting the Angels with James and Ty on on the month today. Detroit is going out to the desert here continuing their series and you like the motor city kitties on the road tonight starting off with the Cubs. What do you like about Ty on in the spot that's a good to get you to the window against the Angels? Really had a nice second half of the season last year, struggle prior to the all star break. I believe they spent a little bit of time on the Injolus because he went like a month and a half, two months without starts and then he comes back like late August, early September, final seven stars post up a 175 VRA or below in that time span. He really did a great job keeping them on the yard and his friend right now is the wind and the fact that it is going to be blowing in in this game now. It's going to be blowing out during the day and then it switches, switches to blowing in during the game during first pitch. So that's something that you want to be taking note of because the wind that ringly field it is bigger than any other ballpark in the big leagues and I will say on the flip side

21:14for the Angels, Jose Toriano, really good on the road last year, tonight he won a array on the road 0.4 homeruns allowed for nine and here's the issue that he got with him. He does give up a lot of walks about four walks per nine and then he's like a season, Ty on really good with his command for the two walks per nine and that means that the cups of bullpen is a little bit more preserved and the Angels bullpen, here's a shocker, not great to say the least last year in the bottom five of the big leagues in terms of the VRA. They managed to be able to get some longer leaf out of shot Anderson yesterday after their guy got absolutely destroyed. I believe that was Mr Johnson making his first start and that was not good to say at least, but I just don't have any faith in the Angels bullpen. I think that these starters shall we say cancel each other out. Cubs get it done with their bullpen and they're better off and so do like the Cubs here on the money line and right now I'm seeing seven and a half out there. If you can still grab a seven and a half, I do like the under at seven gets a little bit more dicey. All right, last 30 seconds, Greg, any early thoughts, any plays, angles that really popped to you now that our final four matchups are set?

22:18I like both underdogs. I'm going to be taking the money line of Arizona was seeing that right around about plus one of five. I just feel like they've been the more consistent team. Now, I think that their peak Michigan is a little bit better than Arizona, but Arizona is just found way to be able to get the job done. It feels like they're a little bit more multiple dimensional with regards to their style. And then in that Illinois versus Yukon game, Yukon down to two and a half in some spots. I don't need the points. I like Yukon on the money line. I feel like Danny Hurley is the best coach remaining on these four coaches with Yukon. They have been finding a way all season long and Terrace Reed. He out rebounded firm and by himself in the first round of the NCAA tournament. Think that both of these seems find a way to get the job done. So taking Yukon on the money line and Arizona on the money line. I love it. All new participants in the final four this year from a year ago, which means Syracuse will be in the final four next year. G unit check about G unit underscore 81 and again, two podcasts for your pleasure out there. Listen to Yukon. Listen to decent coast coast. Who's podcast and the baseball betting show.

23:20G unit. You're the best. We appreciate your Greg here on this Tuesday morning. What's talk a little bit more about show Hey making his first start of the year. That's next right here. Peace and bottle. You're too dend a piece and buy the books right here on visa. We can send you these and buy the most great conversation with Greg Luke Spears in the last segment and go back. Take a listen to your time when you like and subscribe to the Veece and Bottle Books podcast. We appreciate that. Thanks for everybody listening out there on Series XM channel 158 and watching on Fandall Sports Network across the country. This morning, I think a lot of people would stay up late tonight. Maybe on the East Coast and watch if you want to. You love baseball. You want to see Shohei Otani. Make that first start of the year on the diamond on the bump here. And they're going to take on the Guardians. They lose their first game of the year to Cleveland last night. And it is a conversation we have with Matt humans earlier in the program. And one that you and I had last week and I theorized last week

24:24for the start of the year that if you wanted to get nostalgic. And I thought you you brought up a great point with Justin Verlander. The last guy to win MVP in Saiyong. Right. And as you pointed out and really hadn't taken some may be. He's maybe had some a little bit as a picture. But not as a regular player. The infatuation of Shohei. I don't think it's it's unjust by any stretch. I think there's a real reason to be infatuated with this guy and everything that he does. But would it almost give him an unfair advantage making that first start tonight. He looks spectacular because it's Shohei that we want to give it more gravitas and say, yeah, you know what? Yeah, maybe he didn't have 30 stars or he didn't have the number that a regular starter is going to have. But he also hits. So it's like he kind of gets the benefit on both the MVP. And I wonder if that could work to his advantage for Saiyong. It's 25 to one now in the odds market here, Jensen. Well, that reason because again, the defense always is, well, nobody else does what he does. And that is true.

25:25But again, yeah, that's the the other part of it when you're looking at how these award markets are judged. It is not in apples to apples. And so because the Justin Verlander is what it is, he was only primarily a pitcher yet. He won MVP that year. And I mean, he made 34 stars. He pitched 251 innings. That's that's not going to happen again. As long as you and I are alive, unless robots are part of the game moving forward. I mean, it just the way that starters are curtailed innings wise. I mean, if you get to 175 innings these days for a starting pitcher, that that feels like the new 200, even though we'll probably have maybe a handful of guys that get there or maybe tip over the edge of 200 plus innings. As it pertains to the game tonight, Dave, I would lean the under eight here. Otani getting the star. Tanner Bible did get named the starter yesterday. He had to exit his first start on opening night due to some shoulder inflammation.

26:25Let's kind of monitor that. Even with the Guardians and Parker Messick was outstanding by the way yesterday. They're young lefty. Let's monitor kind of the workload. I would envision if you want to play an ounce recorded. I'll see if Draft Kings has an advantageous number there. But I would imagine that Stephen vote manager for the Guardians is going to have a watchful eye here for Tanner Bible. And so I've not seen on Draft Kings yet, Dave. Any of those outs recorded for either Otani or Bobby, but it would be an underplay there just knowing that you want to get him healthy through this start and make sure he feels good about himself. I don't know if these guys, excuse me, will be there at the end when it comes to Sy Young and the American League. But good start for Max Fried, that's for sure here. Going up against Logan Gilbert tonight for the Mariners. You can pick anybody off that Mariners staff in the rotation and say, yeah, I'll make a case for them for Sy Young at the end of the year. That's how good they look at the top of this rotation. What do you make of this match up tonight in the Pacific Northwest?

27:26And it would feel on the surface that you go, I want to play an under with these two starters. Is there danger in that when you look at a really low total like you have tonight? I would agree. Yeah, you kind of went where I went if I'm going to play it. And I don't think I will at the moment. This one open at six and a half. They've already been bit up to seven. So people are kind of going the way that that your mind led you to. I would say I'd lean towards Logan Gilbert and the Mariners at home. If you can find a plus money price as you do at circuit plus a dollar one, that'd be the side that I would go to at the moment. Pictures park here, Gilbert and Fried elite swing and miss stuff. How will the Mariners handle the big curve ball from Fried and can Logan Gilbert generate a fair amount of swing and miss early? So the Mariners getting that walkoff. As you talked about for people just joining us, Cal Raleigh was not the starting lineup. He really, really difficult start for him statistically, but comes off the bench and gets the game winning RBI there to walk off

28:29the Mariners for their wins. So I lean the Mariners money line in this side. No official play just yet. We'll see what lineups look like tonight. But a dandy of a pitching matchup. No doubt about it. Yeah, I think Joe Frieza. I can't believe this our steam producer just said he's going to have that part stricken from the rebroadcast of this program. Anti Yankee slander. I found it back in 2011. The sharp plays just complete another dominant run, including a 2025 campaign. Jensen that saw bankrolls double 15 straight years of winning. All of its documented records and logs posted publicly at sharp plays.com for full performance auditing. Something that separates sharp plays from most in the betting industry. So when the sharp plays moves, sportsbooks take notice. They've got advanced AI tools and trusted insider intelligence. Identifying price value before the number shift. That's why they are respected watched in fear. Check them out. Sharp plays and start winning today with sharp plays.com. Let's get to the association tonight here. Cavaliers and Lakers. Interesting game. When you look down the board, obviously in the west, you'll see the Lakers there.

29:29Lucas getting some recognition. I don't think he's, you know, a dark horse for MVP or anything like that. But certainly his play is elevated this year. And it didn't look like that at the beginning of the year. The Cavaliers kind of been that enigma all year. I know sometimes you get on them for their lack of toughness here. What do you make of this one? Small number here. Pointing that favorite for the Lakers tonight out there in LA. I'd like the Lakers side here. And probably just forego the spread and just take the $1.25 there at Cirque on the money line, seeing a $1.30 in some places here. I believe Fandals, the most expensive price at the moment, minus $1.36. I would say the over. I'd say we get some points tonight too. I don't know if the Lakers interested in playing some front court defense here. You got some great guard play. We're going to get with Luca coming back off the suspension. If you are interested in some potential defense tonight, I would say that you'd see it in the Knicks and the Rockets game. That would be an official play for me, Dave, under 218 and a half

30:30and kind of looking more towards the standings. We talked about motivational spots, you know, the Rockets are two and a half games ahead of the Phoenix Suns who got a big win last night. They'll be on a back-to-back tonight. I actually do like the Suns on the money line as well to keep pace with Houston. But that Knicks and Rockets under here. When you kind of look at where positioning is, the motivational spot here for the Knicks just a game ahead of the Cavaliers for that number three spot in the standings. Knicks already have punched their playoff spot. Cavaliers have played with their food a little bit out West. And they will have the attention of the national audience later on tonight. But one official play, actually two official plays for me with that under and the Knicks and Rockets, 218 and a half got that at minus $1.15. And then I do like the Suns plus $1.14 at the Magic. I wanted to bring this up to you because I think it is a unique trend. When you look at Phoenix overall and just in back-to-back games, you know, when you're looking at just money line prices here,

31:32as sometimes, you know, it can be deceiving. Phoenix is six and eight on the money line in back-to-back games. When you look at them as far as the back-to-backs on from an ATS perspective, it's the same spot here. But I'm also looking at where the Magic are, period. And three and seven in their last 10 and there have been times, Dave. It is looked really, really bad. So Phoenix, everything to play for, Magic kind of stuck in that battle in the play-in tournament, the Eastern Conference side. So Phoenix on the money line to win it outright tonight. You know, very quickly, again, back to Houston and New York. When you look at Houston, they are right now the six seed out west or game behind or only a half game behind, actually. Minnesota for that five seed. And it's not out of the realm of possibility here. I don't know if they can run down Denver here, wait for that four. But the point I'm getting at is when you look at the odds market here for, say, the Nix, who currently right now hold the three seed in the east. But neither one of these teams, obviously, they're going to be, they're not going to have to play in the play-in 7 through 10.

32:33The Rockets are 75 to 1. 75 to 1 to win the title. Nix are 15 to 1. And I'm looking at that Houston team. If you've told me before the year that you're going to give me Houston 75 to 1 to win the NBA title, just that I would have bit on that, bookline and sinker. It is amazing to me, at least, in the odds market. You look at the T-wolves. Again, a half game ahead of them in the standings. They're 45 to 1. A half game later is 75 to 1. The betting market is telling us there is no faith in the Rockets. Would that intrigue you at all to take a flyer on Kevin Durant to turn back the hands of time in a second season? Oh, I think it's an indictment on pretty much anyone outside of the thunder and the spurs. There's not a lot of faith in any of those teams. The only team you can entice me on is Denver, because I get arguably the best player in the league in Yokech. And if they have any semblance of health,

33:35we had said it. We're just a couple of years removed from that OKC, actually just this year ago. Remember you and I said, Denver wins that series. We're not talking about a thunder dynasty. We're talking about a nugget's dynasty, potentially in the making. Crazy. And so I think that's the one team. If you're asking me for a future outside of the thunder and spurs, Denver's the only place I can go. Yeah, you're right. I do think it's an indictment on everybody else out there. I just never thought you'd see numbers like that with a guy like Kevin Durant still playing for Houston. All right, when we come back, this is going to be interesting, because you and I have talked about maybe some in the final four. And we talked about this in the lead eight as well. Coach, as we really trust Dustin Sweetles. If you listen to what he has to say in cash, yeah, he's got a lot to say. I like people with a lot to say. He's going to give us his list as who he has the confidence betting meter. That's next right here on Visa Mother Books.

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35:41You're going to be here on the set with me next week here in Franklin, Kentucky. On Thursday and Friday, those will be rounds one and two of Augusta National. And what I love about the final four, and there's a cadence in a rhythm, obviously, to the sports here, Jensen is, I think at the NFL Playoffs, you start to see that first advertisement for Augusta. And they do it really kind of sneaky. They show you Magnolia Lane. And that means I know that March madness is getting closer. And I know right when we get to Monday night and we get our national champion, we really do turn the page to Augusta week, right? It's a perfect rhythm as we're going to have our champion in college basketball and then get to arguably the most, the biggest major of the year potentially. Well, before we get to Augusta, we've got to crown that national champion. And you and I talk a lot about coaches we trust in the betting market. And now that we're down to the final four and the patinos are not there anymore. And the cal parries are gone. And the tea to the

36:44Dan Hurley or is it Brad Underwood? A little different in the final four now. Dustin Sweetleson does a great job in cashing out here on the network. I gave his confidence meter, Jensen. Let's take a listen to Dustin's list and see if we can curve. We're looking at a one and a half point spread in both games in the final four. So if we're just going to power rank the coaches here, I'd say one to four, the ones you trust the most to least or least to most, the one that you trust the least is probably Brad Underwood. And I like Brad Underwood. I can't believe I'm saying bad things about him here this hour, but that's just the reality in the situation. Number three, you'd, you trust Tommy Lloyd the least. Number two, it'd be Dusty May. And number one, the coach you trust the most is Dan Hurley. He's won rings. He's been here before. And after all the way his team was so composed down the stretch to pull off the upset against Duke earlier, you have to believe because they believe. And he just finds a way. So the irony is the coach that you trust the most is the team from the two

37:46seed on the other side. And we don't know if his team's going to be in the national title game. And then you've got Tommy Lloyd who unfortunately you probably trust the least here just because he's come up short before. Okay, so that's very interesting. And I don't think I disagree at all with the list. But if I, if I were just to make a case, you can't make a case against Dan Hurley. I mean, I just don't think that that's logical. He's got to be number one. Right. But if I wanted to make a case for Dusty May, I think I could do it. And here's how I would begin that conversation, Jensen. I would say, of course, he isn't one in national championship. But it took FAU to a final four, FAU to a final four. And then in the two years since he left FAU for Michigan, he took over a program that was Dad and the Water. Sorry, Johan Howard. But when you left it, it was in shambles. And in two short years, he took the Mason Blue to a sweet 16 and to a final four.

38:52Okay, that's, that's pretty impressive in and of itself. Two final fours, one with a Reclamation project that was Michigan. And I would get to flip it around. But he's got to do a sweet 16 to a final four and FAU to a final four. It's not better than Dan Hurley. But I think you can make a strong case. And it's not like he's done anything that you'd say, who I got to count off for that. Everything Dusty May has done so far at Michigan. And I think this is why you and C if we're being honest, would love him more than Tommy Wood, maybe even more than Donovan. But I don't know if they're just going to leave Michigan. I think Dusty May could make a case to say, I'm not one, but I'm clearly one A in this scenario. I, he was a big reason why I picked Michigan to win it all. And I think you also look at, you know, how he, I, if I agree with Dustin on one thing, I agree that, you know, the, the proven track record for Dan Hurley. You've already won it. You already know what it takes to get to the mountaintop. You've done it with a couple of different types of rosters.

39:55So he's the most well-rounded, most experienced as far as not only playing in this environment, but winning in this environment. Dusty May gives me that, that calmness, like it, man, you could not, if eventually Monday night, it's Yukon and Michigan. You could not have a starker contrast of sideline personality. Dave, like when I'm watching Dusty May, Dusty May reminds me of one of my old pitching coaches in Scott Redinsky. And I've told you the story about Rad coming out to the mount in AA. I'd just given up a home run and he didn't tell me anything in the first minute about anything baseball. He said, hey, look over the dugout. Check out this really good looking girl that's over the dugout. And it just got my mind like, okay, I'm fine. All right, I got a laugh. We're good to go. Dusty May gives me vibes of that duck on the pond. You'd never know if things are going wrong. You'd never know the feet are going a million miles an hour. Everything feels like it's going to be fine.

40:58He gives me that, but also endorse that Tommy Lloyd. As we even said when the bracket reveal happened, we had a problem where we had some angst punching Arizona into the sweet 16 and beyond because of what's happened before. Should Arizona trail in this game by, I don't know, six, eight points late in the second half? You're going to hear as much as people want to say John Shire is a choke artist. Where are we at with Tommy Lloyd? This is his best team. I mean, even with the freshmen, as young as they are, this is his best team since he's been there. And I would be interested if anyone wants to argue that because of not only what they have, but how they got here too. I just think they're up against it, not only from a coaching perspective, but maybe from an experience in athletic perspective. You got some veterans there for Michigan that are going to know what it's like. If they get punched in the face or they get punched in the gut, I don't see Michigan just kind of rolling over.

41:59Think back on how many games where you're like, Michigan really was never in it. Maybe one or two this year where you're like, yeah. Okay, they were kind of overmatched. This is also a Michigan team that blew the doors of a lot of teams by 15, 20 points. You know, Dave, there's something to say about that. That's also coaching. That's being detailed oriented oriented. That's having you ready for every situation. And that's why I would put Dusty May agreeing with you. If Dan Erlie's 1A, Dusty May has got to be 1B for me. Yeah, they're right. They're right there and Dan Hurley clearly. I love the way you put that juxtaposition of watching Dan Hurley and Dusty May in a national championship scale on a Monday night. Oh, that would be theater for days right now. I love the duck and the pond analogy too. I'm stealing that. I will copyright and put out my material by the way. Michigan and Arizona are co favorites now. Plus $1.75 to win this. Remember, Michigan is about plus $1.80. So that market is corrected a little bit to basically same price for both teams here.

43:00Illinois is 4 to 1 and Yukon is plus $5.50. I do think there's a fallacy a little bit here that it's all Dan Hurley and they're not the least talented out of the final four teams. I don't know that I buy that to be true at all. I think it's great trick that you can play at all. We're kind of that window engine that could and you know, maybe we don't really belong. I mean, let's make known bones about it. Yukon is a blue blood. Yukon is every bit bit as talented as these big boys that we're talking about. Now, I'm not saying more talented, but I think there is a fallacy out there that this is just Dan Hurley, you know, smoking mirrors figuring out a way. Dan Hurley is great at what he does. Conversely, Brad Underwood, you know, he's, and Tommy Wood, because Tommy Wood's kind of the father of this, going over to Europe and really kind of getting the European flavor, bringing them back stateside. Look at Illinois. I mean, they got Pages Kids, Toy Ackovich, plays nothing like his dad, plays completely differently from his dad, who I thought was one of the best pure shooters we've seen in the NBA in a long, long time.

44:03Brad Underwood's got a lot of talent there at Illinois. And I think the disclaimer is kind of the Dustin's point that we trust him the least with that talent is that fair. I don't know that it is. I think what Brad Underwood's done with this group that's coming from overseas this year is rather impressive, actually. What's fascinating, Dave, our friends over at cvbanalytics.com. If you go through the matchup percentages in this final four, cvbanalytics.com gives Illinois a 62% chance to advance to the national title game and a 25% chance to win it all for clarity. It has Michigan as 35% to reach the national title game and win it in Arizona at 28%. So if you want any vindication of why Illinois not only deserves to be here, but they have every chance to win and cut down the nets. They're one of the most efficient offenses. Even still to this point, UConn's going to have their hands full up and down this court.

45:04Hey, man, and I'll say this. I know we're all kind of thinking it, right? Oh, the winter bears on a Michigan just locked them in Monday night. The quote Lee Corso. Not so fast, my friends. Those are the two teams who play pretty darn good as well. Chaos, we love it. We need it. We're going to get it in our lives next right here. Top of the hour.