Speaker 1: If you guys want to make some money, stay with us.
This is the best betting show ever. I'm Lawrence Presban.
We got a jam packed show today. Three guests, Art
the Caesar live from the West Gate, the single most
important guest on the show, Joe Ranary not so much.
And Steve Merrill, he pays to be here. Welcome everybody.
That was so Gutfeldt. Don't you think I kind of
had like a little opening for each of you.
Speaker 2: No, tremendous.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I remind myself that Guttfeldt. I don't know if Steve Merrill,
I mean, I don't know if you watch Greg, but
don't you see me and him?
Speaker 4: You're like a Canadian version of gutfeld And as normal,
you know that the American version is usually the and
the Canadian version is kind of the b version, okay version.
I want people to know that I am definitely not
paid to be on this show. So just making that
very clear.
Speaker 1: You don't pay to be on the show.
Speaker 3: That one. I think we're good.
Speaker 4: I would Art, I would say I would pay on
to be on today's show. That with Art.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Art's like our Tyrus. He's the former n w
A Chap Art Disease are Live from the West Gate Art.
I gave out almost every single NHL not NHL hockey game.
I called almost everyone right yesterday in the men's and
women's hockey. Uh, I want to know you're taking bets
in the Olympics. I want to know what type of
moves we need to take advantage of in college hoops today.
And I hear you might have some baseball for us.
The three of us will just kick back and be
regaled by your brilliance.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean as far as the Olympics.
Speaker 5: As you know, as I mentioned a couple of days ago,
it's really just on the men's and women's hockey when
USA is playing, if we get anything. Sometimes they're too
big of favorites to even see any action on these
type of games. I mean, you know, you want to
lay four and a half goals with the women or
you know, do something like that. It's really going to
come down to when we get the big matchups of
USA VERSUS Canada and both the men and women, then
we will see some action on those.
Speaker 2: Yeah. You know, I think last week it was.
Speaker 5: Friday, Friday of the Super Bowl, I had mentioned some
MLB win totals which we had put out that Tuesday.
So we obviously continue to see more money rolling in
on that market. Still seeing Dodger money. You know, we
opened one hundred and a half, we're now one oh two,
and that really seems to be public money. It's just
we're accumulating money on the Dodgers over. I had mentioned
that the Sharps took over eighty two and a half
with the Rangers. They've now also taken over eighty three
and a half with the Rangers, so we're now eighty
four and a half on the Rangers. Sharps also took
under sixty eight and a half on the NATS Washington
Nationals now sixty seven on that. It took over seventy
one and a half with the Twins. We're now looking
at a seventy three on Minnesota.
Speaker 3: There's joke.
Speaker 6: So we've already starting to see some win total money
coming in there. And how much do you I mean,
does it start to increases spring training games start to
go on here are or is it? I mean you
got some guys coming in real early at this point.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean always, like I said, when we get
our early action where there are plenty of people who
are gonna look for metals, try to find the best
of you know, the number on each side.
Speaker 2: We get plenty of that.
Speaker 5: And listen, I told you we have plenty of teams
that we're booking towards. You know, we're booking towards the
Atlanta over, We're booking towards the Washington or the Chicago
White Sox over. So we don't mind to take a
little bit of under money initially if we're a little
bit ahead of the market.
Speaker 2: And listen, we'll take enough for them.
Speaker 5: We finally do move the number, probably to market, but
we don't mind early on the teams that we feel
good about maybe going over there win totals. Those two
I mentioned Pittsburgh, we feel pretty good about going over
their win total, so we don't mind taking some under money. No, please,
seventy eight and a half, oh on Pittsburgh.
Speaker 6: Are you getting any of the those like the cy
Young Markets or MB any of those at all as well?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 5: You know those, Actually we're gonna start putting up this week,
Joe so the yeah, the MVP, the cy Young Rookie
of the Year, We're gonna start putting up all those.
And then I think next week too, we're gonna start
doing a lot of the over unders as far as
home run totals, you know, like Aaron Judge forty eight
and a half, fifty and a half, whatever the number is,
we're gonna put up. So we'll start putting up a
lot of the individual player props win totals for pitchers,
so we'll start to do that. We just like I said,
when it was Super Bowl, we really felt it was
important for us to have as much baseball as we could,
and especially to have those win totals because not a
ton of people have the win totals out, so we
felt good about having those up early.
Speaker 1: L Y, go ahead, kel Rawley, what do you want
to know about it?
Speaker 3: Under whatever his home run prop is?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm not going to say Joe. I mean that
was my first thought too, is I mean, you couldn't
possibly not play him to regress maybe, although you know
he didn't regress even after winning the home run derby,
which most guys do, so he was pretty amazing, all right.
I was thinking preseason, baseball, exhibition, baseball, spring training, whatever
you want to call it. What's the actually going to
be like on that? Do you guys worry about sharp
action there. It's not something I've dabbled with over the years,
but I know some people. Do you take it?
Speaker 2: Well, we do.
Speaker 5: I want to say there are games next Saturday, Yes,
well I want I want to Yeah, I want to say,
we have spring training baseball next Saturday. Yes, of course
we take it. Of course, the limits are very tiny.
Speaker 2: Most of those.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 5: I mean, you know, general public players can come and
get a nickel on that. This is how it goes.
Spring training Baseball goes up obviously day of. You don't
have overnights for spring training, so you always have day of.
Sometimes those lines might only go up two hours before
game time. I mean, it's just so crazy with how
that market is, and you know, you just try to
be as small as you can as far as what
you're offering, you know, limits wise, because it's only sharp mark,
it's only sharp players who've bet spring training.
Speaker 2: I mean, there's no general public people. There's just not guys.
Speaker 1: If you've never watched this show, Art the Caesar works
at the Westgate super Book. This is one of the sharpest,
most prestigious sports books in the world. This is a
market setting sports book and every day we have him on.
He tells us where the money is going, what's their
risk ratio on particular games. This is probably the most
important information out there. It's what makes this show the
best betting show ever, what makes this show different to
all other shows. Art, we can't thank you enough for
doing this. Dude, Please send your dollar, asked to Steve Merrill.
He'll take care of you.
Speaker 4: I'm certain to think Art pays to be on here.
After that little spiel there, goodness, Yeah, I get love
like that. I will start paying. It'll be in Canadian dollars.
It might be a platinum if it keeps falling press.
But yeah, I'll consider do this.
Speaker 1: Let's do this live on air. Boys Kelly, our great
partner in crime over at wagertalk dot com Kelly and Vegas.
Kelly Stewart asked me yesterday, pres what's going on with
the show in the summertime? So I'll ask all our
listeners what's going on with the show in the summertime.
I can tell you on equivocally there will not be
five days of shows in the summertime. That I can
say flat out. I am suggesting one day a week
in the summer. Any thoughts.
Speaker 4: You must have a fun summer plan. That's my first thought.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, you must be in the things.
Speaker 4: Talking about baseball.
Speaker 3: I was gonna say seven days a week in the
base We're talking.
Speaker 6: Five days in the Don't expect to see him in
the summer, is what he's telling us.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yes, I'm betting show. Ever, we might do one
episode a week.
Speaker 3: Twenty minutes.
Speaker 1: There we go, everybody, I reverse engineered this to get
that to do five shows a week.
Speaker 4: That is, I can't afford to pay to be on
the five shows a week. I cannot afford to do
that during the baseball season. It's too expensive, your favorite
sport in the world, to do that.
Speaker 3: We're just gonna work.
Speaker 1: I am Kelly saying we will be doing a daily
show in the summertimes.
Speaker 4: While you type al. You know, we talked about this
last week. I said, why do you all do win totals?
I thought it was an excellent answer. You're talking about
having all the Super Bowl money coming in, you want
to have them up, but the fact that you get
almost nothing but sharp action on spring training betting. I mean,
I guess the answer to be, you guys want to
be the one of the biggest, boldest books out there.
You putting lines and everything, but why would you even
bother to waste the time to put lines up on
something you're hoping just to break even on.
Speaker 2: Really, you just can't.
Speaker 5: You can't sit there, you know, on a Tuesday, when
you know there's twelve spring training games and you don't have.
Speaker 2: Lines on it. That's why you keep the limits very low.
You know. Sure you might.
Speaker 5: Have a couple of people who put twenty bucks fifty
bucks down on it, but we're not going to sit
there with a blank MLB screen when there's plenty of
spring training games to book. So we just feel like
it's one of those things that you have to have
the content. You keep the limits low, and like you said,
if you break even, you break even.
Speaker 2: It's not the end of the world.
Speaker 1: Lots of show still to come. We got our sharp bets,
our parlay of the day. Rumor has it's Steve Merrill
wrecked it the last time he was on this show.
We got a predictive market segment. Steve, you'll enjoy it.
Speaker 4: It was a week ago. Joe A dare press to
tell me right now what my last parlay pick was,
because I sure don't know.
Speaker 1: It was in the NFL.
Speaker 4: It would have been a Super Bowl prop.
Speaker 1: New England. It was New England first half.
Speaker 4: Plush That dude was the first half here on the show,
plus the three that did not win. By the way,
Art Art, you and I were the kiss of death
on Kenneth Kenneth Walker, by the way, because I went on,
I got on my soapboxter and my fade the public
video about how there's absolutely no value at seven one
even if he wins it. So I did say, if
he wins and there's still no value, sure, but I went, yeah,
I went down that rabbit hole. But and Art, now
we're talking about running backs never win anymore since nineteen
ninety eight is when Treell Davis had won it. And
I saw him at seven to one, like the third
favor for the Seahawks, and I was telling people that
is a fad, the public one right there, and of
course that was all it took for him to win.
Thought the kicker might get in, by the way, you
didn't you talk about getting some sharp money Art on
the kicking on the kickers for MVP, because I said
that would be one of the worst Super Bowls ever.
I thought we were seeing that for a while when
it was twelve nothing that would be here.
Speaker 5: They zoned in on one kicker, and this year it
was Seattle kicker.
Speaker 4: For you guys, Oh, of course kicker. That would have
been even with all the other ones, all the other bets,
you still would have been hurts.
Speaker 1: There was no reason why he shouldn't have won it,
like Ken Wilker had a great day.
Speaker 4: But I meant, I meant to look this up when
they flashed on the screen. I forgot when we were
talking that there's a fan element. Now I think, is
it like twenty five percent? I don't. I doubt fans
were voting for Myers. Is my thought is otherwise I
wonder if he could have won it. And here's the
other thing I'll throw out to you guys. In the
sixty Super Bowls, this had to be the only time
ever that the offensive MVP was an offensive player that
did not account for a point. And I said count
because I put on Twitter, did not score? Someone's like,
what about a quarterback throwing three touchdos? Yeah, he's accounting
for some points when he wins it before.
Speaker 3: I guess maybe.
Speaker 2: Offensive guys have won with scoring a touchdown.
Speaker 4: Wow, non quarterbacks.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you name it. No name it, becuse I'm a
trivia master. Name it. Throw the name it.
Speaker 5: One didn't throw a touchdown. Dion Branch, Julian Edelman, and
Fred Blitnikoff all receivers.
Speaker 4: Oh well, that's suppressed now I know that. See I
just assumed that the game.
Speaker 2: Was like and the three.
Speaker 3: That's correct, that's correct.
Speaker 4: I did not take it.
Speaker 2: Yeah he did.
Speaker 3: Impressive.
Speaker 1: The show moving art got some sharp bets for today.
Speaker 2: Sure, absolutely, college basketball, of course, that's really all we have.
They took a bunch of totals under.
Speaker 5: They took the Iona total under one thirty eight and
a half, the Rider total one under one forty and
a half. They took Over in the Akron game one
forty one fifty nine and a half. Those have all
moved two points. They took Manhattan plus two and a
half it's now one and a half.
Speaker 2: Couple of games in the IVY League. They laid nine
with Yale and took nine with Brown. That's all your
sharp college basketball stuff.
Speaker 3: Oh, there we go.
Speaker 1: Before we get into our parlay of the day, I
want to just make a quick mention to the three
of you. The two of you, not Joe. So I
was on wager Talk Today yesterday, and that's a flagship
show over at wager Talk TV. It's live every day
at noon. Andy and Dan host the show. It's a
really really good show, tons of phenomenal information. But they
had a vote on who in wager Talk has the
best hair. Joe Ranieri was voted number one. Art How
do you feel about that?
Speaker 2: Listen?
Speaker 5: I am a team player. If Joe's going to be one,
let's say Dan two and I'll be three.
Speaker 2: That's fine with it.
Speaker 1: I'm one, No, I am fifty six years old.
Speaker 4: How does that hat on every show? Hairs too gorgeous
for TV?
Speaker 1: How?
Speaker 2: Wait? You you want to win the award because you
still have your hair? That?
Speaker 1: My hair is incredible, Joe hair, real hair.
Speaker 6: If I if I auditioning for Back to the Future
the musical, you'd be great.
Speaker 3: For the Doctor, that'd be great. You'd be great to
do that. Yeah, you'd be great.
Speaker 4: Lloyd?
Speaker 1: Is that what for Hitler?
Speaker 4: What's the producers.
Speaker 3: For Hitler or whatever? Mel Brook?
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, I don't know if like from my perspective,
only because you put a factory of gel in your hair,
doesn't you have great hair, Steven, I guess.
Speaker 6: It's been a month hard since he's since he has
to get fixed.
Speaker 2: That.
Speaker 4: If you want to be the Canadian gut felt, you
cannot be.
Speaker 6: We'll give you the troll. It's all yours. As your
hair is amazing.
Speaker 4: You can't contain. You need to clip that like mine.
That is where's my hair photo? Has Art seen my
hair photo?
Speaker 3: Yes? I think have Has he not? And I know
you've got that with yeah, yeah, he's got.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 3: That's what happened there. Damn it.
Speaker 4: That's what you get, Okay, Joe. That was when ar
gave that Super Bowl trivia. That was my reaction. I'm
impressed by that. Political cough? How did you know political
won an m v P. I'm pretty good.
Speaker 1: One handle bar? When are we getting the handlebar?
Speaker 3: Here? Parlay of today? So you can go away? Please,
thank you. I'm sorry you had to be.
Speaker 5: I'm gonna give you over in the Michigan State Wisconsin
game over one Mi Wow.
Speaker 4: Well, I will look at the board and I don't
even know what Melo and Austin and Vince and t
mac means. I used to love to take the sophomores
over the freshman and they took that away from me
a couple decades ago. But I will rely on a
little bit of an early money move on Team Mellow
open four and a half's gone to five and a
half in some spots, but still four and a half
at other's team Mellow minus four and a half. If
you want some action tonight and whatever they're calling this
NBA weekend, I will go.
Speaker 1: I will go with a game tomorrow. I'm gonna take
Slovakia plus two and a half goals at plus money
against Sweden. That's Slovakia. By the way, my wife is Slovakian,
so I do Slovak all the time.
Speaker 3: Oh Slovakian, I love it all right. I am going
to go, Oh my.
Speaker 6: Undefeated boys, Air of Miami of Ohio. Let's go the
Miami of Ohio Red Hawks to keep it rolling tonight
against Ohio, I'll lay the ten hard has that come on?
Speaker 1: Okay?
Speaker 4: So what's the NBA actually gonna be like this weekend?
Now that nobody even understands how these formats work with
four different all star teams.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's not gonna be great.
Speaker 5: It's not gonna be great, but I'll say this, we
will get good action on the three point contest.
Speaker 4: That'll be the one three point contest.
Speaker 2: Yeah that that always sees good action.
Speaker 3: All right, arm Pal, get out of your art. Damn it.
Thanks art to Caesar.
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We'll figure out what that is. Joe, let's get to
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Speaker 3: Oh no way, hold on. The only I got ready
is right? Look at that face?
Speaker 4: How does he hide that hair? Why does he Why
does he teases? Now he's teasing us?
Speaker 1: Why does he hide that hair? I hide that hair
to give all of you guys hope.
Speaker 4: Okay, what does he teases?
Speaker 1: Shut up, Steve, it's time for some business. Why don't
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Speaker 1: There we go, guys, we're moving into our predictive market section. Joe,
you run this, the mic is yours well.
Speaker 6: Basically here Meryl a predictive markets. In fact, I just
I just read a big article on how plshe crossed
just about the one billion dollar in trade volume on
the Super Bowl. So it's now between Calshi and poly market.
The amount of money that's coming in and being traded
there is over the top. So if you guys have
not dabbled in it yet, we talked about it the
other day, Steve. The predictive markets. I wouldn't ever bet
a future with a sports book again, if I'm looking
at future bets, win totals, those types of things, I
am heading to the predictive markets there because you're not
tied in until the actual event comes to fruition one
way or the other. You can cash in at any time.
But the one that the present I love is and
the press nailed the other day when we were on
the show, was what is bitcoin's price going to be
here before it is all said and done? Now, to
give a perspective, pres what is bitcoin right now?
Speaker 1: It is sick sixty nine yes three two two.
Speaker 6: Sixty nine three two two. So the question is you
ready for this here, Meryl? By five o'clock eastern tonight,
will it be over sixty nine thousand or will it
be under sixty nine thousand.
Speaker 3: When it's all said and done, here.
Speaker 4: I'll pull up my chart right now here. I'm gonna
use my phone for this. I do my mother mother
livelihood on my phone.
Speaker 6: Twenty one twenty one cents to the yes, over sixty
nine eighteen cents to the under sixty nine.
Speaker 4: Yes, I got a ton of bitcoin charts. I think
this is the actual cash mark I got now it's
sixty nine thousand and two oh four. Is that what
you guys said about right there?
Speaker 3: That's about right? Yep?
Speaker 4: So yesterday, yes, yeah, So this is the hyats. It's
been all week, basically since the open on Monday. It
was allas low as sixty six yesterday. The trend is
up today. It's been straight up all day long. What
is the final price for going over on sixty nine?
I think it pulls back a little bit. It's basically
been straight up all day. So I'll say under, yeah,
not above sixty nine.
Speaker 1: A yeah, you think it's over, I'm gonna go with over.
We're up three thousand in the last twenty four hours
or twenty hours. I do think it is going to
go over, but my long term projection will still remain
that it will be under what did we do under
fifty again? I hope I'm wrong.
Speaker 6: Yeah, fifty nine by the way, on how low it
will get this year, fifty nine cents under fifty thousand.
Speaker 4: I think we'll have a pull back to the mid
seventies at some point, because I'm looking here. It had
a hard spike down. It had a hard spike down
in one day last week from seventy six to seventy
all the way down to like sixty after that, and
then I think that's probably the near turn bottom. So yeah,
it's kind of in a hover range. By the way,
Silver Platinum, like I said a week ago, they've just
been sideways ever since that big Friday two weeks ago,
and I think Bitcoin is gonna start getting that sideway
range as well. It's dropped, it's dropped almost half. It's
down almost fifty percent over the last seven it was
like it was like one twenty at one point. So
but I.
Speaker 1: Will I will say this in regards to crypto, I
think we're gonna see a regression and then I think
we're gonna see pure boredom for a for like months
from months and months.
Speaker 4: Yes, yeah, it's called a consolidation period and that's what
all the medals are in now. That's why everyone's like,
do I buy now or is it too late to sell?
It doesn't matter, it's gonna be sideways. Like you've missed
all the momentum in the metals markets, and you've probably
have missed a lot of the momentum here. Although this,
I'll tell you where the big gap is looking at
it now was down at the ninety eighty five ninety
and it just the floor fell out about two weeks
ago from that down to the sixties. So the high
side resistance would be like ninety again if it ever
gets back up that high.
Speaker 1: Steve, let me let me ask you a question. I
know this is not Kelsha related, or maybe it is Teslau.
You think Tesla is a buy? This is a company
that I feel like is going to transition heavily into
the robotic space, uh and the AI space. I think
they might be an interesting buy.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so I will. I will pull up Tesla because
it's not one that I look at individually.
Speaker 6: On from calcis well Elon Musk be out as Tesla
CEO before twenty twenty seven, No.
Speaker 4: No, before twenty twenty seven. I'd say No, also eighty six.
Speaker 6: That he will or won't, that he won't be out
before twenty Yeah, well I would agree with that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so you'll say go ahead, Steve.
Speaker 4: No, I was gonna say, I have a Model X
and I'd love it. I just talked to another guy
had one like two days ago, and he just said
that they announced they're not making the X or US anymore,
which i'd heard starting this second quarter. The S was
the original call, and they're the two bigger cars, so
they're going to the smaller cars like the three and
the Y. I see everywhere, so it's not a surprise,
but something he said. Also, some of these folcusing more
in robotics.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's why I haven't.
Speaker 4: Looked into it. Yeah, So, I mean my guess would
be if he's looking at anything with Tesla like new
like robotics, he'll be there for a while. He's not
going to just cut run. So I think that's a yeah.
But eighty some sense is like minus five hundred, so
you know that's probably priced a little low, but not
a lot of value. People have to learn to convert
these odds. By the way, right, we're so used to
money lines, you got to get used to the eighty
seven thirteen is like minus six hundred or whatever, and
eighty like don't see that expensive. But then you realize
I'd be like laying minus six hundred, which you would
think twice about.
Speaker 6: That's one hundred dollars bet that he won't be out
by twenty twenty seven.
Speaker 3: Well we'll net you one hundred and fifteen back.
Speaker 1: So yeah, yeah, that's he's staying right. And yeah, Steve,
there is a lot of talk that Tesla's gonna get
heavy into robotics and you know you're ready is involved
in AI. I listen, Elon Musk.
Speaker 3: Is one it will buy a major sports team by
the end of this year.
Speaker 4: No this year, No no, no, no, no, no, no no.
Speaker 1: Let him in the club. They just won't let him, won't.
Speaker 4: Yeah right, Yeah, I mean, Joe, that's got to be
like five cents.
Speaker 3: That's ninety two cents, Dave. But that's my point. That's
free money. I mean, that's that one.
Speaker 2: I like that one.
Speaker 4: I would I would risk the.
Speaker 1: What is the definition of a can he buy a
lacrosse team? Will that count?
Speaker 4: Yeah? That we have to be that's where you have
to be careful.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I'll give you exact Elon buys a major sports
team before January first one seven, one of the Big
four n b A, NFL, NHL, MLB, MLS and E
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Speaker 4: No, hell no, I've never even seen him talk about sports.
But you bring up a great point about the Insider Club.
I didn't even think about that. That makes me like
it even more. I like it regardless of that, because
I don't think that's his focus. I mean, he's kind
of a gek guy's hot sports guy. But you're right
about them letting them in. I don't think they would anyway.
He's a little he's a lot toxic right now that
in the you know, fifty fifty they would love them.
Speaker 1: Wouldn't let Jim Bowlsley in from BlackBerry, even in the
middle of BlackBerry's heyday. So yeah, yeah, that that to
me is a great break. So what's the number? If
I lay one hundred dollars on no, I make one
hundred and one, what is the number? Oh Jesus, I'm
just sat. I mean, the market is something doggy brou.
Speaker 6: If you're looking for long shots. Yah, I'm just saying.
I mean Elon Barker, I mean.
Speaker 4: But you know, Joe, you do have to start doing
the cost of them holding your money for eleven months
to cash set. Probably's not probably not much better than
just putting it in a four percent in a CD
or something with no risks.
Speaker 6: Give you if I'm not mistaken on cash about three
and a half interest on the money, whether it's yeah, ass.
Speaker 4: Give it, Yeah, that's not a bad deal then yeah.
Speaker 1: Okay, So let's keep moving boys. I love this Calche
segment Today's best Bets. So what I'm going to do
here is I'm going to give you a bet on
every single hockey game, and then I'm going to race through. Uh,
I'm going to race through a bet on the Wisconsin
Michigan state game. France is winning three to two right now.
No opportunity. We're in game betting because nobody's watching the
show live. But wow, check was up to nothing and
they were a sleeper. Okay, let's go boys. Canada minus
two and a half against Switzerland, I think they win
the game by four goals. We saw them play some
incredible hockey yesterday and Switzerland coming off of a four
to one win themselves, I think Canada demolishes them. Germany,
we bet them minus one and a half. Yesterday they
won three to one. We're betting them minus one and
a half again. Today they're playing a lot Via. They
win this game three to one, four to one. Slovakia
plus two and a half against Sweden. Sweden lost yesterday
against Finland. They're definitely in a bounced back spot. But
the Slovakia team is much better than everybody thinks. The
Finland Italy game, I would go with under the total
of six and a half, and I think USA demolishes Denmark.
Take them minus three and a half. Joe, I'll just
keep going bottom line. I like Wisconsin plus one and
a half against Michigan State. Rather than getting into a
whole lot of reasons why, I'll hand the mic over
to you. Take Wisconsin. I'll put this up as a
repick where I explain everything. Check it out at my page, Joe.
Speaker 3: I'm going to ask you this.
Speaker 6: Then Prez here and Meryl will bust out the avocates
here and tell you now, we've only got one about
ten days left in the in thes right, So who
wins the gold.
Speaker 3: Medal in ice hockey Canada? Fifty one cents?
Speaker 6: Right? Actually, yeah, fifty one cents right now that Canada
wins thirty seven, that the United States wins. But here's
the interesting part. Pres United States is also about a
forty cents bet to win the silver.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but if they win the gold, then it's not
silver or better.
Speaker 3: No, it's not. So basically Canada and the United States
that bet. That's one on two, right.
Speaker 1: I don't love that bet.
Speaker 6: Joe just Swedens finish third, who gets the bronze, because
that's where.
Speaker 3: The money is. Sweden, but that's okay, that's eight cents.
Speaker 1: But they could get the silver. I do not think
this American team is as good as everybody I think.
I think this is not the best American team that
they have sent. And I think the Canadian team is
freaking lights out.
Speaker 6: For one hundred dollars bed for Sweden to get the bronze, Meryl,
and you only got to wait ten days.
Speaker 4: Prays, I gotta ask you. I turned it on briefly
a few nights ago, and I saw the US was up.
The women were up for nothing on Canada. Are they
that much better than everybody else? I would have thought
that was like two teams and it will be.
Speaker 1: Listen, Steve, we've seen this a million times, brother. I
mean you go in a seven game series, the Earth
team wins six nothing and then they lose every game
after that. Do I think women's American team is better
than the women's Canadian team without Canada's best star Mary Poulan?
Speaker 3: Yes, I do.
Speaker 1: I think America I should win the gold. I think
if we do get our superstar back, it'll be a
much closer game. But even at full health, I think
the American women's team wins the gold medal.
Speaker 3: So what Canada second? Or do you think Canada drops?
Speaker 1: Oh dude, there are only two tames in this competition.
Everything else is just made up to make a tournament.
Speaker 6: Okay, Well, then the bronze medal is really where. That's
the market where the money's actors. Finland, Who's always correct
me if I'm wrong? You presidents in Finland always the
women's hockey like they are, they're like the best of
the rest, kind of situation outside of the US and Canada. Yeah,
they're thirty three cents right now to get it done
and to get the bronze medal over everybody else.
Speaker 3: So pretty good price.
Speaker 1: That I would go. So let's go with a Sweden.
Sweden parlay or bronze medals and the men and the
women's right, yeah, what's that going to pay us?
Speaker 6: So Sweden to get it is actually a little bit better.
So that's thirty five cents right now. So yeah, so
under bucks there for the women, it's much where it's
eight cents for the men to get the bronze. So
that's actually you know, one hundred bucks will bring you
back about eleven hundred bucks there if the men, if
Sweden get the bronze in the Olympic in the Olympic Games,
I know you're telling me Sweden's got a shot for
the men to get the bronze.
Speaker 3: That's an eight cent bet right now.
Speaker 1: I listen, it's Sweden or Finland. And if check loses
today to France, that bet. But what I'm saying time,
yeah it it becomes unbelievable if that happens. Okay, So
there you go. So Wisconsin plus one and a half
plus two and a half, you can get two and
a Half's out there, guys, Joe and Steve, you guys
have best bets each and then Merrill, you'll handle the rundown.
Speaker 6: Oh love it all right, Meryl? You want me to
go or you got you want to go with the
best bet here.
Speaker 4: There you go ahead, you're in the middle. There you
go ahead.
Speaker 6: I Am going to go here, and I'm gonna keep
it simple, guys. I'm gonna go shocker to college. And
if you haven't had a chance to watch the Saint
Louis Billigans play basketball, guys, tonight, it's an opportunity to
do it, because this is a fun group. As much
as I have loved Miami of Ohio and their run
to an undefeated season here, which they are likely going
to do, I think this Billigans team is the mid
major darling that could actually be somewhat of a Cinderella
come March.
Speaker 3: This team is that good.
Speaker 6: They are laying eighteen and a half here tonight against
Loyola Chicago.
Speaker 3: Who boy, oh boy.
Speaker 6: They what a difference a couple of years makes. Yeah,
they are going to get blown out. But when I
tell you a fun brand of basketball, they're gonna have
the national spotlight on them here tonight for a mid major.
They'll be the ESPN game. Check this team out. They've
lost one game all year, and I'm telling you this
is a team I don't think any buddy's gonna want
to play come March, and you'll see why tonight.
Speaker 3: Check them out.
Speaker 6: Give me the Billigans and lay it tonight. Merrill there
against Loyola.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm gonna talk about them in a moment in
my college basketball Rundown. I agree with you, Joe. A
very exciting team and a legit team. Another team. I
think that's a mid major that we'll talk about more
as we get closer to is. Belmont did a video
on them yesterday against Northern Northern Iowa. Coming off of loss.
Here is still twenty two and four. I think Belmont
and Saint Louis obviously MINDI of Ohio will be in
that mix as well. But those are some teams that
can make some noise. But you know, the committee doesn't
want these teams to make any noise. And we saw
that last year when fourteen of the sixteen SEC teams
got in. We see the twelve five games or both
mid majors. We see the mid majors get eight nine seeds,
so they have to play a one seed the next round.
Like they've done stuff over the last decade or so
to like prevent these Cinderella stories. Everyone thinks the NCAA
wants Cinderella stories. They want them for the first two
days only. They don't want them from the Sweet sixteen on.
So yes, Saint louis a really good team, but they'll
be up against it. Don't forget last year the Atlantic
ten got only one team in all season into the tournament,
so we'll see if anything changes there. I'll go for
a free play on another Atlantic ten team. We'll look
at George Mason's see a little bit of money coming
on them today, gone from three down to two. I
think they're a live dog against GW two decent teams
in the Atlantic Ten. I think that one goes down
to the wires. I'll take George Mason plus two is
my free play for the show here on Friday Night.
There we go.
Speaker 1: Okay, Steve Merrill, your CBB rundown, let's get to it.
Speaker 4: Gonna look at two national TV games for Friday night
college hoops or there might not be in n Eba,
but there's a big college basketball car tonight on Friday.
I'm gonna give you two of the national TV games
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a Lake game in a moment UNLB Boys on Fox
Sports one. But let's start the earlier game at eight
point thirty Eastern Saint Louis and Loyola on ESPN two,
and Saint Louis is coming in ranked eighteenth. That might
seem like a nice season, but they're probably even better
than that. This is a really dangerous mid major team
that is solid at both ends of the court. First
of all, you look at the record this year. They're
for real. They've only lost one game all season twenty
three and one. They now stand eleven to zero conference.
By the way, the only loss was by one point
against Stanford way back in late November, and that was
the second of back to back neutral court games after
a one point win against a good Santa Clara team.
So Saint Louis is for real, And you look at
the statistics as I mentioned solid at both ends of
the court. They are a top ten two point offense
a top ten two point defense. But what really is
impressive is they're the second best three point offense and
defense in the country three hundred and sixty five teams.
They have the second best shooting percentage and second lowess allowed,
both from three point rans. So that's why they're gonna
be so dangerous come tournament time. But let's look at
this game specifically tonight. It's a big number to lay
eighteen and a half or nineteen, but I'm not getting
in front of this Billigan bandwagon, this Billigan steamroller, I
should say. And if you're gonna play it, I would
lay it with Saint Louis against a Loyola team that's
really a bad team at both ends of the court.
Turnover problems. They don't force turnovers, they turn the ball over,
and they also have a terrible three point defense and
a terrible three point offense, which means it's unlikely they're
going to catch lightning in the bottle and hit a
bunch of threes. And by the way, Loyola gives up
a ton of three point shots as well, so you
can definitely play it. If you're gonna play it, I
would lay it with Saint Louis. But something else I
recommend doing when we're playing these big favorites in college basketball,
if you have access to team totals, take a look
at their over team total. For them to cover and
win by twenty or more, they're gonna probably have to
score some points. I'm seeing their team total around the
eighty six and a half to eighty seven and a half,
So team total over eighty seven for Saint Louis, or
you could just play the minus eighteen and a half
to minus nineteen. Not a team I'm looking to get
in front of anytime soon, as the Billickins are for
real this year in college hoops, all right, your late
night games should be a little bit more competitive. This
is your late game at ten o'clock Eastern. Also a
national TV game for UNLV at Boise State. Thin air
and altitude for the Broncos. Currently about a ten point
favor we see some nine and hands out there mostly tens.
Total though has come down a bit overall from the
openers opened as high as one fifty six, one fifty
sevens down to one fifty three, So we have seen
some sharp money on the under in this UNLV Boise
State game, and I agree with that move. This is
a rematch from a high scoring overtime game a month ago,
exactly a month ago on January thirteenth, and now we're
here on Friday, February thirteenth through the rematch, and if
you look at the end of regulation, I believe that
game was tied up around low seventies, like one to
fifty two to one to fifty three mark heading into overtime.
We obviously now fifty three. I think it was either
one to fifty two or one to fifty four if
I recall so it was right around with this total
would have been at the end of regulation, but then
they got a lot of higher scoring obviously because of
the extra five minutes. One thing that jumps out to
is UNLV plays fast, and they did push the tempo
at home in that first meeting, but now they're on
the road, it gets a slow down half court Boise
State team that prefers a slower tempo, and the fact
that Boise lost the first game in overtime means this
is also a revenge spot for them as well. And
then as I mentioned, earlier. The thin air and altitude
is an issue for desert teams and West Coast teams
like UNLV that are not used to the altitude, so
I think they also could fatigue a little bit the
second half, which could hurt their offense. And as far
as the matchup in this game, I think that points
spreads pretty much where it should be at nine and
a half ten. But there is one edge Boise State
has and this is why they almost won the game
out right on the road when they played last month.
Both teams get to the free throw line a lot.
They get a lot of points at the free throw line.
UNLV does a good job, I'm sorry, Boise does a
good job and not allowing their opponents to get there
up a lot of free throw points. That is a
concern when you're playing an under. But both of these
teams are pretty mediocre offensively otherwise, and both teams do
not give up many three points shots, so I still
like the under here. I would lean Boise State minus
the nine and a half as well with the revenge
at home with the favorable matchup, so Boise minus nine
and a half and then that under as well under
one fifty three fifty three and a half and we've
definitely seen some sharp money on the under in that
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A great stuff, man, Steve, thanks for doing this brother. Uh,
we'll get you in next week as well. You're obviously
a semi regular to the show. Uh, and you'll be
doing some hosting during March, uh and Joe.
Speaker 4: But you're gonna say this summer job's like I'm not
hosting the four out of the five days of President
doing the show. You and I.
Speaker 1: You and I are going to rotate hosting duties this summer, Dude, Like, I'm.
Speaker 4: Actually fine with the one show a week because I'll
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are looking like I'm like a college professor in the summer.
I have limited office hours, as do you.
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