Speaker 1: But this is way you talk today. I am your host,
Andy Lang. It is Friday.
Speaker 2: We got a huge weekend ahead of US MLB, w NBA.
NFL preseason kicked off last night, and of course we're
going to talk UFC with Andrew Babikidas from the Westgate.
Johnny's gonna get a starter with the Steam Report. Teddy
Covers is gonna join us. We're gonna talk a little
NFL preseason, some tips, how to bet and what to
look for, and then he's gonna break down at the
Rangers and Mariners. Ronald Kabang is going to join us
to talk a little w NBA, and of course Andrew
Babaktas from the Westgate will join us to talk to UFC.
And at the end, Dan and I will break down
the titans five and a half season win total. Let
us know what you think about the vaunted Tennessee Titans.
Some great quotes from cam Ward.
Speaker 1: He's becoming my.
Speaker 2: Favorite quotable NFL player at this particular moment.
Speaker 1: He's got some gems. Let's get started. Let's bring in Johnny.
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Good morning, Johnny. Oh, by the way, how's the staycation, going.
Speaker 3: Good, good, actually leaving right after I do this today,
we're out of here. I got everything ready to go,
just doing this segment and then heading back home, back
back to real life, back to you know, the grind.
Speaker 1: Yep, yep. All right, Well let's get into it Steam report.
Speaker 4: Man.
Speaker 1: Look at all these totals in WNBA. My gosh, I mean,
I mean I'm seeing like some eight point moves on totals,
uh through. What is going on here?
Speaker 3: Yeah, That's why I don't even share those I don't
even discuss it, because I mean, it's the numbers are
going like you know, I mean obviously anybody could click
the on screen and see a number was one, sixty
four and a half, sixty five went to sixty eight,
sixty nine, seventy one, seventy two. You know, the money's
all on the over. You don't need me to tell
you that. The Only question is, well, it'll be work,
you know from the people that got down early, and
if you like the under, you're probably getting a better number.
But that that shows you those smaller markets, you know
that they you could make those numbers move significantly, and
then if a player's out, it even gets even bigger
than that, So you gotta be really cautious if you're
betting late, you know what I mean. A lot of
the moves are strictly information based, players not playing players injured,
and you see those huge, huge moves in WNBA actually
released a four percent play to subscribers today early today.
I saw a little confirmation there. It wasn't one of
those lines that got away from us. Still actually available
in some places, but a couple that are did get
hit that didn't move too to significantly in WNBA Phoenix,
Phoenix at on the Road at Atlanta, they got bet
at minus two, got bet at two and a half,
got bet at minus three as well. That's why you're
looking as high as four across the board on Phoenix now.
And also the under in the Golden State and Chicago
that's starting to creep down from one fifty seven down
the under one fifty six day hit as well. That's
why you're looking at about one fifty four right now.
Those didn't swing five six seven points. Those legit moves
Shore Phoenix and the under in Golden State Chicago. Uh,
those other big you know, line moves in the totals.
Like I said, if you don't get out ahead of them.
The only thing you'll possibly do is go opposite. And uh,
you know, think that was the market?
Speaker 4: Was the opener?
Speaker 3: Really that off? You know what I mean, where they're
gonna let the market found them six seven, eight points later.
So you know a lot of times I tend to
be with the book makers in those situation.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, you're gonna you're you're gonna be a good
spot if you're always on the side of the bookmaker. Yeah,
we had an insanely low total yesterday at w NBA
and it still came in on the under. And yeah
the under in Chicago that Angel Reese is out, Atkins
is still out, and then they got three more.
Speaker 1: Game time decisions. So you got a ton of injuries
in that one. What are we looking at baseball?
Speaker 4: All right?
Speaker 3: Early games Cincinnati, you got the public and the sharps
on Cincinnati, and that's why they pushed that from a
low of one twenty twenty five, although we have the
one thirty five one in some of the square shops.
Cincinnati also got bet right before first pitch yesterday to
win that series, and they lost Game one. So you
have the starms come right back with them in Game two,
you know, hoping that they can even this one out.
I think it's a four game series with Atlanta, and
they laid minus one fifteen on the home Cincinnati Reds
in that series, also taking them today. Like I said, uh,
nine fifty six over seven and a half up to
minus one thirty on San Francisco and the Mets nine
fifty eight Colorado plus one twenty five NB over the
eleven and a half nine to sixty San Diego got
slammed from one sixty one sixty five San Diego sharp
multiple groups on San Diego. We got who else nine
to seventy Seattle minus one seventy and one seventy five,
A couple totals nine to seventy one under seven and
a half Baltimore Cubs nine seventy four under eight, Detroit,
Philadelphia all the way to minus one twenty and then
LA Dodgers and Tampa Bay under nine at minus one ten.
So a couple signs, a couple totals early today. But
like I said, that early game is really one sided
with the public and the sharps on the same home
team Cincinnati Reds over Atlanta.
Speaker 2: Yeah all right, yeah, Well any surprises in there. I guess, boy,
Colorado taking money. I mean the pitchwork Colorado has been awful.
Sends it tell the guys four and fourteen with a
six point six eight eer a, Yeah, that's a curious
that's a curious play.
Speaker 3: Yeah, home home dog there with Colorado. Yeah, not not
the the most trustworthy team even at home. I mean,
you know what, what's there to get excited about with Colorado?
I mean, this is a game, that's how that team,
that's how many games on their five hundred now like
fifty two below five hundred. Yeah, it's it's tough to
find reasons to bet a team like Colorado. With that said,
what are they four and six over to their last
ten and if you're getting plus one fifty per game,
you know what I mean, it's hard again to argue
why they're betting them. Know if if they're able to
win four out of ten games, three out of ten
games even and you're getting two to one every time.
Speaker 5: That's why this is hard to click.
Speaker 1: It's hard to click on that button. Ten to the
Colorado Rockies. It's really really hard, uh really really hard.
Speaker 3: To set Cleveland. Look against Cleveland, they won one out
of three games and you made money. They were like
the game that they won, they were like plus two forty.
So it's the you know, Cleveland wins two out of
three games, and if you bet them, you actually lost
money betting Cleveland every single game, and you actually made
money betting them. And they did that almost right before
that with Baltimore. If they could win one out of
the three games in a series, you're probably gonna break
even or lose a little bit at the.
Speaker 5: Worst, you know what I mean. Or you're gonna make
a little bit.
Speaker 3: But that's what if you're betting Colorado, you gotta look
at the series. And I think that's how you gotta
approach it. Can they win one game? If they could
win one game, got nothing to lose there, straight betano.
That's why I think the argument the line. Now this
time of year, there's not all that much. All the
attention is going to start being in football. And keep
in mind, people parlay these baseball with football once football
gets here, and what are they going to be doing
parlaying the big money lines. And that's why I'm telling
you August, August, dogs are good in baseball, but you're
being forced, You're gonna be forced to bet the worst teams.
Like if you're not comfortable throwing out two out of
three tickets and still being profitable, you're probably not gonna
have fun betting baseball in August, because if you're betting
the favorites, I'm telling you're gonna get buried. Those must
win teams to make the playoffs. They make them so
expensive that it's almost impossible to profit with them even
if they win seven out of ten games, like they're
those games. Those must win teams are the worst come
August and September in baseball. You're better off with like
we talked about before, with those bad teams that are
at least bringing you thoup with a reason to play.
Speaker 2: Question uh from Johnny one Time? Here he says, Johnny
one time, can you explain the advantages of disadvantages of
betting round totals or over under rounds in MMA versus
just a straight money line bet. I don't think there's
much difference. It's it just depends on what your read is.
I mean, if you've got two guys that you think
are gonna cause a car crash, you're not sure who's
gonna win.
Speaker 1: Take the under.
Speaker 2: If you if you got a good edge on breaking
down a fighter or a good line, then you're taking
the money. I don't think there's an advantage or disadvantage
one way or the other.
Speaker 1: What do you think?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I agree again, it's just another betting option at
least like with football. You know, some people bet the sign,
some people bet the total. Last night, you bet the over.
You made money, you know. Yeah, you don't care who wins.
You just want to see points, either to or both
teams to score, or one team to just light it
up like San Diego did.
Speaker 4: So.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's just a different option, and I think it
all depends on the handicapper. You know, a lot of
MMA fans are are don't bet all their sports. Also,
I've noticed that some of them are just die hard
MMA fans and they're like gamers that don't watch other sports,
but they do bet MMA for whatever reason. And they
usually do stick to sides or some of those props
and stuff like that. But I think there's always a
ton of value in those totals. I really do. I've
got a lot of totals, a lot of props as well.
You know, it's hard to bet, it's hard to beat
sides long term, it really.
Speaker 1: Is, and any steam on the Red.
Speaker 3: Sox or they're getting money. I saw that they're getting
love public and Sharp there. H Yeah, that was one
of those teams that actually stuck out a little bit
that that I did see Sharp money. The reason I
didn't use them here is because I saw a lot
of public money on Boston today already, so some of
that line move may be public money related as well.
The Overnight Mighty got hit by Sharp on Boston, but
since then it's been all public on uh Boston at
you know, plus money at home, and I think, like
I think that it's going to continue. So if you
like Boston, I wouldn't wait on take it now because
I'm seeing like eight out of every ten bets are
coming in in that matchup.
Speaker 2: Lastly, before we let you go, I mean, anything to
do in UFC, I I got hardly nothing. I haven't
seen any huge lt It's just a block card. Sometimes
there's not much you can do with it.
Speaker 5: It is.
Speaker 3: I fired one bet so far. I'm gonna obviously I'm
leaving now. I'm gonna work on the car all through
tonight and tomorrow. I still got to watch all the
weigh ins and everything. So there's still plenty of time,
and I get a lot of you know, the originators,
I work with some of them. Wait till Saturday to bet,
so we'll get some more plays between now and then
hopefully last call tomorrow. I could share some mm A
but right now, like I said, I haven't fired. I
gave out one four percent of subscribers and that was it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I have one UFC play, one PFL play, and
that's gonna be it for for MMA. It's just two
really really bad cards. So yeah, all right, what do
you have up.
Speaker 1: For clients up at wage you're talking about?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'll have the baseball up today because baseball start
coming in when in the next forty five minutes. Like
I said, guys up in North DA, wait till about
ten am. So I'll definitely have the baseball out. NFL
college football season package is still up with futures. A
couple more will go in between now and Week one,
but there's a five percent already. Season win totals nine
of those College and NFL. It's one package. The MMA
package is up with the UFC. More plays will be
in there as well, and of course baseball steam rooms
tomorrow ten am Pacific, one pm Eastern. I'm excited about that.
We'll cover all the preseason football, get you prepared on
how we're going to approach it. Talk some college football
as well, and of course we'll have MLB, UFC and
all that smaller market stuff hopefully coming in for some
live bets. So make sure you join us for tomorrows
steam room. Thank you, brother, have a good weekend.
Speaker 1: Thanks Johnny, have a good one. Can't wait to see again.
Speaker 2: On Monday, Duffell Andy had our cricket play do cricket
play lost last night? Sadly they couldn't get anything going
on offense. Their bowling and defense was pretty good, but
once they got up to bat, the bats were just cold.
Speaker 1: They really couldn't get much going.
Speaker 2: We had a couple of wickets there in the middle
and uh yeah, they just they were stuck in the mud.
Speaker 1: So sadly we dropped that one. So well, our next play.
Speaker 2: Won't be till next week, I'm guessing so, but we
do have the Caribbean Series I believe starts up pretty soon.
So excited about that. All right, let's bring in Teddy covers.
Let's talk some NFL preseason. Let's talk some Rangers and Mariners.
Speaker 1: Teddy the Hall of Fame game. Did you watch it?
Speaker 4: I had kicking on it. It was a game I
was I was very very interested in start to finish it.
I mean, I can't say it was the right side,
but it broke very very right, you know, with the
turnovers and where the turnover the curd and leaving short
fields and it really wasn't must of a sweat with
the over. We catched it by the end of the
third quarter.
Speaker 1: Nice. Nice, I mean, well, you know what, let's do this.
Speaker 2: Let's talk a little NFL preseason. Let's talk some of
your tips and everything, and then we can get to MLB.
Speaker 1: It's a football season. We gotta talk. We gotta talk preseason.
Speaker 2: Here, so all right, so give us some tips that
you've learned over the course of your career, things that
you're looking at when you're breaking down some of these games.
Speaker 4: So I was struggling to come up with too. I
was struggling to reduce my list to the top three
preseason betty tips, because I can go on and on
about preseason betting tips. But let's talk my top three
NFL preseason betting tips. And this one is probably the
single most important. Bet facts not opinions. We all have
opinions about these teams. Your opinions will matter at some
point in the regular season. In the preseason, doesn't care
if it's the best team in the league the worst
team in the league. Irrelevant information is key. Player rotations
are key, Coaching quotes are key. How good the teams
are going to be a month or two months or
three months from now basically a non factor. So bet
fact not opinions. Number two, you're looking for a bet
against factor. My number one bet against factor in the
preseason is cluster injuries, and that's cluster injuries at any
position off the line, defensive line, cornerback, wide, receiver. Doesn't matter.
Be aware when a team is facing significant injury concerns
at one position, because coaches will do anything, including changing
their game plan completely, to avoid more injuries at those positions,
and that definitely affects the way they're gonna play. So
teams that are injured at any one given position multiple guys,
many many guys. Those are bet against teams in August.
And it's also worth noting one bet on thing. Teams
working on their blitz packages are bet on. When you
get that defensive coordinat quote that says we're going to
test out some blitz package this week, that's bet on.
It's not an underquote because teams will turn the ball
over when they're facing blitzes. In August, backup off of
the Lions can't stop the blitz at this time of
the year. The third preseason betting tip that I would
say that's the most important is you're gonna hear so
much about quarterback battles. Quarterback battles. The most important quarterback
battles are not starting QB battles. They're not even backup
QB battles. When the poinstspreads get decided, they get decided
after halftime. Who's gonna be in after halftime? The third stringers,
the fourth stringers. I love a good battle for the
third string QB position. I love a team that maybe
they're gonna keep two, maybe they're gonna keep three, and
those third string qbs are giving everything they got with
every opportunity. Those quarterback battles for the backups and the
third strings far more important for August betting success than
quarterback battles for starting positions. And again, This is just
the tip of the iceberg when it comes to key
factors for preseason. It's a completely different style and type
of handicap than anything you're gonna do from Week one
through the Super Bowl.
Speaker 2: So was what was what of these facts, opinions, cluster injuries?
Speaker 1: Back up? What made you pick the over in last
night's game?
Speaker 4: So it wasn't anything to do with cluster injuries, all right,
it wasn't. But it was a situation where when you're digging,
and of course preseason is about betting facts, not opinions.
So what do you do you're digging? Harbo wants to
run the football. Well, no he doesn't, not in this game.
In this game, he wants to give Trey Lance an
opportunity to show what he can do. All right, we
look at the offensive line, all right, Oh, there's issues
for the offensive line for the Chargers. Oh well, look
here's this quote that says how good their depth has
been so far here in August, and the backup linemen
are going to be just fine. And that was very
much the case for the Chargers. For the Lions piece
of the equation, we had two quarterbacks who were getting
rave reviews, and I know they didn't neither want to
played that well last night. Hooker didn't get much of
a chance last night. But the backup QB battle in
Detroit questioned how many quarterbacks are going to keep on roster.
But I was just talking about two versus three and
who's going to get that number two spot. And the
reports that at a camp were like, both these qbs
come in with familiarity with the offense and they're lighting
it up right now. So even though the Lions tend
up turned the ball over five times, didn't score a
whole lot of points going into the game, the quotes
were very clear from Detroit's locker room, these are qbs
you want to be betting on, not qb' you want
to betting again. So you put those two factors together
with the low total with that, so I mean I
got thirty two and a half, you know which, and
one more factor which we're maybe excited about it. You
know again, it was a you know, I don't put
out a lot of big tickets, you know, I really don't.
I'm number one all time at wager talk in NFL
five percent big tickets because I don't put out a
ton of big tickets, and because I really isolate the
games that I'm looking for in the situation that I'm
looking for, I don't see it. I never force it.
Put One of the most important factors in that game
was the fact that the Hall of Fame game was
an auto under beet for twenty years, just a Hall
of Fame games, better under, better under, better under. And
that hasn't been the case in recent years, and the
markets haven't necessarily caught up with that yet. So you know,
we've seen now the last four Hall of Fame games
go over the total. And again we're not talking about crazy.
You know, we're not seeing scores in the fifties and sixties,
but we're seeing scores in the upper thirties and low forties,
which cash is over thirty two and a half over
thirty three tickets what the Hall of Fame game tends
to be priced at.
Speaker 1: Love it. Let's move to MLB real quick. Let's get
your thoughts on Rangers and Mariners.
Speaker 2: And then I got to bring up some of these
some of these stats your NFL Week one and things
like that. But let's get your thoughts on Rangers and Mariners.
You got lighter going for Texas got Gilbert going for Mariners.
Mariners big win yesterday, six zero. How do you break
down the game today, big.
Speaker 4: Gamer break down. Let's talk about Seattle and Texas. And
right now, looking at the Odds Logic Live Odds screen,
I'm seeing Seattle minus one eighty, minus one eighty five,
minus one nineties out there total in this game, sitting
at seven and a half. And by the way, that
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in August for preseason. Yeah, it's not a bad thing
to have in your repertoire. But we've seen a fair
bit of Seattle money already open as low as minus
one seventy last night, And like I said, we're seeing
minus one eighty five, minus one ninety right now. I
don't love this spot for Seattle at all. All right,
huge game for them yesterday obviously, and then you know,
you just picked up Suarez from Arizona. In fact, the
plane sat on the tarmac for an hour wait for
him to get there. So that he could fly home
with the team to Seattle four last night's game, of course,
they get the six to nothing victory against the Rangers,
shut them out, and now we have Seattle with the
one game in this very tight you know, for second
place in the Al West, but certainly for wild cards
standings and all of that. This is a huge series
for both of these two teams. That being said, so
you have the huge you know, you have this big trade.
Oh we're buyers, and you have the big win, and
you stay up late the one night and waiting for
your guy, and now it's Friday. Now it's the next day.
And plus you got Gilbert on the hill. And Gilbert's
an ace, you know, but his last start wasn't great.
He lost against the Angels. In fact, is coming off
the ale in mid June. Gilbert has one quality start
in eight tries. All right, He's not pitching at an
elite level. Right now, we look at Texas and again,
this team went sixteen and eight in July, as hot
as any team in baseball. All Right, they're off a
loss ten and four off a loss since mid June.
Nary a three game skit during that entire span. All right,
Jack Lighter again. He doesn't have the name that Logan
Gilbert does, but guess what he's won. His last three
starts dominated Atlanta. Last time out, Atlanta scored twelve runs
last night. We know that lineup could hit. Lighters shut
him down last time. I shut down the A's before that,
the A's can hit. I know he shut down Seattle
and his last start against the Mariners in June six
innings a one run ball, So I think the spot
is right. The Rangers sure look like live dogs to
this better. It's Texas at the plus price or pass
for me tonight, And boy, I really appreciate those likes,
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Speaker 2: I mentioned you've done very well in NFL Week one,
and I don't think that's a coincidence. I love playing
props in week one because I think the lines are
kind of vanilla, and I don't think the books are
have very strong opinions. And if you can come out
of the gate, you know, with strong opinions and strong
takes and good reads, I think you're gonna get soft
lines for the first week or so.
Speaker 1: Does that how you see NFL Week one? I mean,
what are you hitting?
Speaker 2: Like seventy three percent of your Week one plays in NFL.
It's it's not an accident.
Speaker 4: Sure, I mean, look, I do a lot of NFL
work over the summer. I pay a lot of attention
in the NFL in August. You put those two factors
together with the experience. Again, I've been doing this since
nineteen ninety eight full time. You know, every a every year,
and you learn, you know, over the course of time,
you do learn things, things, you pick up stuff. Hey,
I'm gonna pay more attention to this. You see trends change.
But I'm thirty and eleven in NFL Week one. We've
got a best bet up right now, five bucks, you know,
just to see what I'm talking about. But the majority
of the card won't come obviously until much closer to
kick off. But this is one that just stood out
to me. I'm like, this line can't hold it are
It's already moving, you know from where I got it at.
So the only reason I bet now for Week one
is if you see something around key numbers where the
line's gonna we expect the line to move, but I
expect to win it. I expect to win every week.
Week one in particular, when you do your homework, you know,
the September NFL has been really good for me over
the years, and Week one obviously thirty and eleven over
a decade. It's a pretty good track record.
Speaker 1: I expect to win every Week two. Let's do it seventeen.
Speaker 2: Let's get eighteen profitable weeks this season, Teddy, let's do it.
Speaker 4: You and me. Let's go.
Speaker 5: Brother.
Speaker 2: You've got that n FO Week one playoff? What else
do you have up for clients?
Speaker 4: At way? Did you talk? We have the NFL Season
Win Report. If you haven't gotten it, you know, some
years the numbers get pounded. This hasn't been that year,
all right. You can get pretty much every line released
in that report within ten cents of where it was
right now. You know you're not gonna get the very
best of it, but you're not gonna be far off.
And I don't know that's gonna be that way a
week or two from now. I really don't. Once the
preseason starts, these lines start to jump around. So if
you're interested, get on board with the season win packets.
That's another one that's got an incredible record long term,
sixty six percent since two thousand and one, so you
know we've made a lot of money with that. And
of course you've got baseball up for today. We've got NFL,
as you mentioned, the one fight hour play available and
we will post more preseason. We have numbers just just
just came up for week one that I'm excited to
dive into today and we'll see what if we can
find anything early. A lot of times preseason stuff you
can't bet it until you can't bet any opinions. Not
about betting opinions, it's about betting info. So when the
info comes, you have to be ready to fire. So
we'll think around today, see what we can find. Love it.
Speaker 2: Teddy Covers best in the business, Thanks so much for
joining us. Have a great weekend and continued success in
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Speaker 1: Ronald.
Speaker 2: We had some just some crazy lines that we talked
about earlier, like eight. You don't really see eight, nine
to ten point moves in many sports, but you could
certainly see it in WNBA. I do want to talk
some Sparks and Storm, and then we'll talk a little
bit more about a couple of other NBA teams. So,
Sparks had their five game winning streak broken. The Storm
have alternated wins and losses the last nine games. They
cannot get going on a streak. It's just win one,
lose one. How do you break this game down tonight,
Sparks in the Storm.
Speaker 6: Yeah, this one's pretty interesting. I think you mentioned the
Sparks were on a five game winning streak prior to
losing to the Aces on Tuesday. It was sort of
a flat spot for them. They played their first game
home after three straight road games, and they also flew
through multiple time zone. They were coming from New York
and then playing in LA. And with that said, the
Storm are pretty much in the exact same position for
this game. They just finished a three game East Coast
road trip. They're coming from Connecticut. I believe this is
their first game home flew through multiple time zone, So
to me, I mean this. We talked about this in
the NBA too. This is really a sort of a
flat spot and I'm expecting that from the Storm today.
And if you look at them from a like just
a trend perspective, three and seven ats as home favorites,
they're averaging just seventy nine point seven per game. The
last four instances they stayed or sorry, last three instances
they stayed under seventy points. If you look at recent
form as well, the last five games post All Star Break,
Storm dead last and offensive rating, playing with the fourth
slowest pace in the league, averaging just seventy one point
six per game. Their team total, I believe is eighty
six and a half. So that's a big, big jump.
And obviously the Sparks defense isn't that great, but they
did bring back Cameron Brink. This will be her second
game back. She did play thirteen minutes. She had a
block and to steal a few rebounds. He played pretty
well during her time on the court against the Aces.
For me, I'm assuming there's gonna slowly ramp up per minutes,
but as she continues to play more, she's going to
be an impact player on the boards end on defense.
For me, I think, you know, a lot of things
were pointing towards the storm kind of struggling offensively or
continuing to struggle offensively, So I would look towards the
sparks plus the points or the team total under eighty
six and a half. The only reason why I this
didn't make my card. I just want to hear more
about Cameron Brinks game status, if she's going to be
on a minist restriction or anything like that. But depending
on that, I might actually end up adding it to
my car tonight.
Speaker 2: One of the revelations this year to me is that
Angel Reese, it turns out, is really really good for
the offense, which I think many people would say, yeah,
she's she's out again. They got their team total seventy
four and a half. I'm going under on the Chicago Sky.
Look at all those injuries that they're dealing with. I
don't know what's your thoughts on Angel reesing the Sky
because I mean, you know, her offense and shooting was
kind of you know, a laughing point, and now the
numbers don't lie. When she's not in there, they cannot score.
What's your take on this situation?
Speaker 6: Yeah, her, I mean her game has really evolved as
far as being able to help facilitate the offense too,
So not only second chance opportunities, whether she's making the
layups or not, she's getting the team second chance opportunities.
She's getting She's she's getting able, she's being able to,
like I said, facilitate the offense. She was playing more
of a point forward roll a little bit towards the
last like you know, five six games before she got hurt.
And then you have Aeria Atkins too. She I mean,
people forget she was on She's on the USA T
She's not some Trump or whatever. So missing her is
also you know, losing out on a lot of offense
and leadership on that court. So that's a lot of offense.
And you've seen i think three of the four games
where both of them were out, they failed to score
like sixty five points or something like that. They did
kind of go off in the last one they played.
I don't know who they played exactly by Washington. Washington
was actually in a bad spot in that situation. So
I think both teams like went way over their team
total in that game. So I don't know. To me,
I think she is just a big part of the
offense in general, like you know, from the beginning of
the season till now, and missing missing her offense, missing
her second you know, second chance opportunity and hustle is
definitely showing.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 2: You mentioned to me right before we got going, you
got season tickets to the Seahawks.
Speaker 6: Huh Yeah, got season tickets to the Seahawks. Yeah. I'm
gonna miss the first week though, just because I'll be
in the Philippines. But I'm excited for it. I think
that our defense is going to be a lot better
than what people expect. It's it's our offense that I
feel like We're going to have to see how that goes.
But I have high hopes for the Seahawks.
Speaker 2: See how it goes. Not exactly a big vote of confidence.
Speaker 6: Then, yeah, I like our defense not an offense. That's
that's as as easy as it goes.
Speaker 1: All right, what do you have for up for everyone
at wage you're talking?
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Speaker 2: All right, thanks Ronald, I hope you have a safe trip.
Love those Seahawks tickets, have a lot of fun and
continued success. All right, we had a topic of conversation yesterday.
The chat was bringing up dipping pizza rolls into catch up,
so we asked for you guys to give us some
of your weirdest food combos, and you all did not disappoint.
So Mark says he got drunk a few weeks ago
and destroyed a big bag of talkies with a tray
of cinnamon rolls, washed it down with cranberry juice and tequila.
That's your winner, Mark, Mark.
Speaker 1: That is that is next level spaghetti with honey.
Speaker 2: Frank says it's it's actually quite good. I don't know
about that. Favorite is as he puts seafood seasoning on everything.
Dan just seafood seasoning on on everything apparently, but seafood.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 1: And then Brian fry your pizza roles in bacon. Greece
stole that from King of Queens. Next level.
Speaker 2: Wrap each frozen pizza roll in half a strip of bacon,
then fry. Okay, now you got me. That sounds better
than the than the the spaghetti with honey. So a
great job in the comment section about the about.
Speaker 1: Some of these these these food These guys, are y'all
are nasty?
Speaker 4: Y'all?
Speaker 1: Are y'all need Jesus? You're eating some some of that stuff? Man?
Speaker 2: All right, let's bring in Andrew babequts. We got to
talk this UFC card, Andrew and those sound appetizing to you.
Speaker 1: No, you're gonna pass.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean I'm not sure about any of those combinations.
Speaker 2: Well, great segue, speaking of combinations. We're gonna see a
lot of one two combinations on Saturday.
Speaker 1: That was lame.
Speaker 2: But now let's talk this UFC card. I don't know
what's the handle?
Speaker 6: Like?
Speaker 1: Just does it?
Speaker 2: Just every UFC better is gonna bet the card no
matter what, or because this seems like one of the
worst cards of the year since we lost the main
event and there's not a lot of big names on here,
it's kind of a lull. So what's your what's your
take and handle on this this event?
Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean definitely the handle is a little down
for this card compared to some of the I mean definitely.
The last two were pretty good handle cards, even though
last week's was in the morning, but we ended up
getting a next.
Speaker 4: Week's card up, which is not a great card either.
Speaker 7: But three nineteen we're we got those lines up as well,
so we have early action or early lines for all
those fights, trying to give them some shelf life. So
we're trying to get as much UFC out there for
the customers.
Speaker 4: I know we got three back back back.
Speaker 7: Cards, so yeah, just trying to keep as many fights
available as possible. But yeah, you're definitely right this this
week is a little low and handled to this point
for sure.
Speaker 2: Any sharp action on any of these fights. I'm looking
at some of the lines. I'm not seeing a ton
of movement on a lot of things, but taking any
really sharp action on anything.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I could just comment on some of the larger
spots that actions come in on. We did right when
we put up the Austin Bashie lineup. We did get
hit pretty pretty heavily. It looks like we didn't open
up that price long enough. We opened at minus six dollars.
We got hit right away pretty pretty heavily at minus
six hundred. There's been some resistance on the main event.
Park is actually getting some some handle. There's been some
bites on on the dog in that fight. I know
that's a short notice fight. The Albasi fight got canceled,
but it's nice to see some dog plays early there. Yeah, man,
the action is is pretty low. Chris Duncan. There's been
a couple of dog shots on Chris Duncan and Treyson Gore,
but nothing, nothing too heavy, some good action on totals,
but those are probably the most notable fights so far.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I like the I like the Treyson Gore look
as well. Rudolfo Verroo puts absolutely no faith in me whatsoever.
There's a guy that said he doesn't like fighting, which
is tough because you're a fighter. Like if I if
I said that, okay, and he doesn't like fighting, I
guess that's why he's on camera for a living. I
always do a violence parlay for you. I got nothing.
I can't find two fights that I absolutely love, so
I'm gonna do a peaceful parlay for you. And I
actually like that Rudolfo Vieira fight over one and a half.
That's minus one forty five, and then I'm gonna put
that with the Ribavich and Bread to go over one
and a half. Ribevich is all about the volume. He's
not necessarily about the power. He's not a big time finisher.
Brenner's tough, He'll eat a bunch of punches. There's a
chance Brenner gets involved in the wrestling, and then Viera
and Gore, but these guys are good on the ground.
That's all Viera's game. I don't see a knockout. Neither
of these guys are big punches. I like both of
them to go over one and a half.
Speaker 7: What's your take, Yeah, that's the Ribaviks Brenner fight is
one that we got hit on early on the over,
so that line's kind of moved for us over at
the super book. We opened it at one point fifteen
at two and a half. Right away we got hit
pretty heavily on the over. Not too much action on
the Gore total. I know that one's sitting at a
one and a half line over minus one forty, but
not too much handle on that one.
Speaker 1: All right, what's your favorite play on this card?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean I'm also with you.
Speaker 7: I think I like Gore as well, just based off
of the price and not being able to trust Vieira.
But uh, I'll give a different play since you kind
of already said that one. I I kind of like
uh Kaitlyn Soza and Uh in that fight. I think
that fight might play out a little bit closer than
what the line is showing right now. You can almost
get two to one on on Sosa. I know she
had a disappointing last outing, but maybe a good get
right spot and a fight that will probably play out
a little bit closer than what the line is indicating.
Speaker 2: I agree, went over that one yesterday and her opponent's
a cheater.
Speaker 1: Opponents headbutts other other people.
Speaker 2: And it's a sport where the winner is the most
violent person, and she got dq'ed for being too violent.
So we'll just leave it at that, all right, Andrew,
what do you guys have going on over Westgate these days?
Speaker 7: Yeah, we're all we're all hands on deck getting ready
for the NFL season again, So we're trying to get
as much content out for the NFL. If you guys
are looking for a book to add in your Vegas repertoire,
this is definitely a book that I'd say is pretty competitive,
especially with the pricing. We got very very fair splits
on major markets NFL spreads, We're gonna have the most
fair splits that you're going to be able to find.
And like I said, with the UFC content, I'm trying
to get as much out there for for you guys
as as possible, either sharing information on on X or
getting cards out early, you know, future fights out early,
and if you have any questions about that, feel free to.
Speaker 4: Hit me up on on X and yeah, I'd love.
Speaker 7: To get those early fights out as always, thanks for
having me on. We'll have more information on these upcoming
cards with a little bit better fights and a little
bit better handle.
Speaker 4: But uh yeah, yeah, I'll talk to you.
Speaker 2: Actually, we we got a quick question for you in
the comments section if you don't mind, question for Andrew in.
Speaker 1: The w n B A.
Speaker 2: Why do we have such big swings in w NBA
over unders. I mean, we've seen some lines that swung
seven eight points.
Speaker 1: How oft can they be?
Speaker 4: So?
Speaker 2: Yeah, what what's the explanation for those huge swings?
Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean I would definitely say there's a lot
that goes into it. I know, obviously the injury stuff.
People are just keeping up with those all the time,
and those have a big those swing the market's pretty big,
But I mean the sharp action that comes in on
w n B A, the markets are a lot softer,
so the lines are obviously gonna move a lot more
until you know, maybe the market gets a little bit
more solid and there's a lot more sharp handle. But yeah,
limits are lower. Lines are softer, so if some sharp
guy comes in and that's a big number on a total.
We're gonna move it much more aggressively, trying to you know,
win on his side and write some money on the
other side.
Speaker 1: Love it, Love it.
Speaker 2: Andrew Babekidas over at Westgate. Buckle up, Andrew. You're not
gonna get much sleep here here shortly, so thanks for
joining us. Man, have a great weekend.
Speaker 4: Thank you.
Speaker 1: All right, let's do all around the world.
Speaker 2: And then we're gonna break down the Titans over under
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Speaker 1: All right, all around the world.
Speaker 2: We got a few baseball games, and then we got
a prop in WNBA.
Speaker 1: We'll go to the Pirates at the Rocky.
Speaker 2: As we mentioned this one earlier, Drew Martin lakes the
over and a half two bad Pitchers sends a tell
A six point six eight era a heiny four point
seven ERA and an eight point seven to nine ERA
the last six starts, also perfect weather, hot and there's
ten mile an hour blowing out.
Speaker 1: So good situation there.
Speaker 2: We're going to the fever at the wings. We're going
to Leah Boston over eight and a half rebounds. The
last four games without Caitlin Clark in the lineup, she's
allowed twelve, ten, eleven and twelve. Sorry, she's had twelve, ten,
eleven and twelve rebounds last five games. Dallas ninth worst
allowing opponent rebounds. So Leah Boston over the rebounds. Then
Dodgers and Ray is looking at another over here, hot
weather win blowing out again. Kershaw's not made it out
of the fourth inning the last two starts, and the
opposing pitcher gave up eight runs and four innings.
Speaker 1: The last start.
Speaker 2: So we've got three overs there for you. All right,
speaking of over see, if Dan and I liked over
on the Tennessee Titans at five and a half, Dan,
let's see fourteenth that break on the segment, don't forget
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Speaker 1: We'll see.
Speaker 5: Thanks, have a good wee, all right, they're three and
fourteen last year.
Speaker 2: Last year their twenty fifth and defense eighteenth in offense.
They did sign their left tackle, that was their big signing,
so they do have help to protect cam Ward.
Speaker 1: They signed a.
Speaker 2: Safety, a guard, d lineman, detackle, you know, kind of
those things. I'm loving cam Ward's comments in some of.
Speaker 1: These, uh, some of these situations.
Speaker 2: So they asked cam Ward to comment on will Levis
being out for the season, and instead of saying like, oh,
he'll come back stronger than ever. We're pulling for him,
great teammate, he just said, I didn't have a reaction.
I'm focused on cam Ward, which is just I mean,
it's honest, but I'm guessing the marketing depart it didn't
write that for him. Then they asked him to comment
on the Titans offense, and he says, I just think
we're very mid.
Speaker 5: It's great's trying to sell low, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2: I'm all in on the cam Ward experience here, all right.
PFF rankings twentieth for running backs, thirtieth for wide receivers, yikes,
twenty fourth, offensive line fourteenth, defensive line thirty second, in
linebackers twenty first, and secondary. There is not a lot
to like about this Titans team on paper. At Broncos, Rams,
Colts at Texans, at Cardinals at Raiders, Patriots at Colts, Chargers.
Then the bye week Texans, Seahawks, Jags at Brown's. Here
you go at forty nine Ers, Chiefs, Saints. There you
go at Jaggs. I'm guessing you're going under on this
Titans team.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean so top ten, easy schedule, you kind
of laid it out right there. So let's start with
the positives for this Tennessee Titans team. Super young, right,
this is also a team who the best years are
ahead of the Tennessee Titans. Excitement you get the first
you know, overall pick who somehow, whenever he's dropping quotes,
you could just replace his name with Booby Miles from
Friday Night Lights like it. Like it feels like if
you asked him, Hey, you know, how'd you do in school?
You would say I got straight a's And they would
say in what classes? You would say football, that's the
only class. I'm an athlete, like Booby Miles would.
Speaker 4: Right.
Speaker 5: The thing for me is, though, man, I just I
don't see where maybe the consistency comes in for this team. Yes,
they have an easy schedule, but it's never like there's
this stretch that goes, oh, this is where they build
their confidence. There's always these little tough matchups for them
sprinkled in there. Five and a half is low. But
Andy people talk about, you know, the Jets, the Jags,
They talk about all these teams being the worst team
in the NFL. For me, I think the worst team
with the lowest win total is going to come in
as this Tennessee Titans team. Sure they play some of
those teams, like the Saints, you know, but I think
it's gonna be Titans versus Saints for the race to
the bottom, for the race to the first pick. If
you're the Tennessee Titans this year, you don't have aspirations
right This year is a wait and see year. What's
a better thing to do in a wait and see year? Then,
you know, be competitive in games? Could they cover some spreads?
Speaker 4: Sure?
Speaker 5: You know, they should have won a lot of games.
If Will Levis wasn't coughing the ball all over the
turf last year, you know, it wasn't stumbling in every
single game, wasn't a turnover machine, they would have won
a lot of games they should have lost. You know,
their defense is exciting but as far as playmakers, I
just don't quite see it. Five and a half wins. Again,
it feels low. If it's four and a half, all right,
maybe I have a little bit of pause. But I
see this team coming in with around three four wins.
It's a pretty strong play towards the under for me
on the Tennessee Titans, and based on the eyes when
I said that, I think this could be the worst
team Andy, And maybe you're a little bit more bullish
on this squad than I am. What's your thoughts outside
of cam Ward going to give us gold in the
quote department all year long.
Speaker 2: I think this version of the NFL in twenty twenty
five it lends itself where we've seen rookie quarterbacks have
success right off the bat. Now, obviously this situation needs
to be good, but I just I don't remember these
rookie quarterbacks coming in and just immediately playing well and
getting wins.
Speaker 1: But a lot of them are doing it, so I
don't want to rule that out.
Speaker 2: And also, yeah, someone brought it up in the chat.
This division I think could potentially really stink. So I
think the Saints are gonna be I think it's the
Saints and the Giants battling it out for the worst
for the for the worst team in the league.
Speaker 1: I would lean Saints. I can't go over those.
Speaker 5: Saints have the better head coach between the two teams, though,
I mean not just because you know I'm I'm an
Eagles fan. Oh yeah, Look what they're bringing in, like
Callahan doesn't do it for me personally, you know, I
just I don't see it. I think your mic went there, Andy,
I think your mic is out. I believe good sir.
I'm sure what you're saying is that, yeah, you're back, now,
You're back, now, okay, all right, now I'm back. How
dare you cough in the middle of a segment?
Speaker 4: Andy?
Speaker 5: You know?
Speaker 1: Sorry? Sorry, I'm going under with you as well. They're
gonna be They got a lot of things to try
and get better at.
Speaker 2: I mean, you can't point the one thing that they
do good, like not even well but good.
Speaker 5: And yes and yes, their division is bad, Andy, but
their division is also bad because they are in it,
you know what I mean, Like like like you can't
you can't discount. But this is also going to be
one of the worst teams in their division, which arguably
is one of the worst divisions in football outside of
what you know with the Texans. So so yeah, four
and a half should be the number. I think you're
getting a full point of value here.
Speaker 4: All right.
Speaker 2: And uh before before we get out of here, Dan
as an Eagles fan or you just it's like, man,
the Giants are gonna stink. The Cowboys are just gonna
go full on Cowboys, and you're like, I gotta worry
about the Commanders. And now Terry McLaurin demands a trade.
Are you just laughing? As an as an Eagles fan?
Speaker 5: I mean, why do these other teams? This is where
you know, I am just so thankful for the man,
the myth, the legend, Howie Roseman, because he is the
guy who he extends the guys two years before they
need to get extended, so these contract issues don't come
up for the Philadelphia Eagles. And sure you could say, well,
it's guys, they're in the super Bowl, you know, because
they're winning, you know, not taking care of Terry McLaurin. Yes,
he's aging, but he does way more for you than
just catching balls. He's the pregame speech guy, he's the
pump up guy. He's one of those just glue guys
that a huge part of what you did last year
was because you had the leadership of Terry McLaurin Evan.
Everyone tow the line behind the rookie, so you know,
you just don't want that kind of turmoil when you're
on the come up. This is a huge reason why
I said the Washington Commanders, it's not like the bottom's
gonna fall out, but they're gonna come back from the pack.
You cannot over exceed expectations the way that you did
and not underperform the next year. So this is just
another feather in the cap making me feel good that
my read on the Commander's coming into the year is strong.
And we would be remiss to talk about drama in
the NFC East if you didn't mention Michah Parsons and
the Cowboys have never been further away. Like there's like
rumbles that Micah Parsons is going to say, I want
to trade. I don't want to be on this team anymore.
What are they doing screwing up with these players? Andy,
It's not hard. The salary cap is the salary cap.
If you want to keep guys, you can keep guys
I don't know what the rest of the nfcast is thinking,
but we like you, Andy, We like you very much.
Speaker 1: The reason it's the same, like couple teams at the end.
Speaker 2: Of the year, it's just this the Chiefs, it's the Eagles,
it's like and then you have the Bengals, who you
can't feel the competent deem.
Speaker 5: I'm starting to regret going head to head versus you
on the Eagles season win total. Me going under and
you going over.
Speaker 1: What was the stunner? That was the stunner?
Speaker 2: So all right, great work this week everyone, Thank you
so much for joining us. We're gonna get out of here.
Uh yeah, here's the updated charts. We got the Titans.
Uh well, we got a few more. We got the Steelers,
we got the Bucks, and we got the Bears. We're
saving the Bears last because we're gonna bring on John Hogland.
Speaker 5: In our video team meeting yesterday, Andy said, Jalen Hurt
Caleb Williams has a bigger ceiling than Jalen Hurts. It
should be it should be a good time to uh to.
Speaker 1: Have them the guy that just won the Super Bowl.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 5: And Andy, quick before we sign off, I do just
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Speaker 2: Absolutely, absolutely, thanks so much. Now I don't have to
read it. Now, I don't have to read the inside.
Speaker 5: I gotcha, right, do such a good job. I'll show
long Andy, I'll put on my promo cap for you.
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