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Happy Monday and welcome to the early edge.

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Make it legendary.

I mean, speaking of legendary, the confluence of things that happened last weekend

where I should say just in the last couple of days with March madness and

baseball season starting.

We got women's college basketball games as well.

There's just a lot going on, of course, including the NBA.

Let's see how we did with our picks.

We go eight and six.

Now, if we kind of factor in all the juice here,

we got a lot of plus money with buckets in particular.

We probably won you a few cents here, but eight and six.

I mean, we will absolutely take that.

Sports line picks go three out of four.

I miss my pick.

Mike misses his pick.

Tom Cassali goes two and a half buckets again.

Goes two and a half.

You love to see that.

We want to do a little bit better than eight and six.

Then when ladies and gentlemen,

we're going to do it with the stars of the show right here on a Monday.

And oh, looky here.

Yeah, we have Larry.

Yeah, we have Mikey B.

We have Calvin.

That's fine.

But we've got Matt Snyder, the sniper back in action on the early edge for.

Oh, I don't know the rest of the baseball season.

Matt, how you doing, buddy?

I'm doing pretty good.

I haven't seen everybody since before one of the World Series games,

probably four game one, actually.

And so to all the people in the chat that had been hating on me for loving IU

all season, I just wanted to say,

oh, hey, what's up, everybody?

How you doing?

How you doing?

You know, sniper, you got a lot of scores to settle.

That's for sure.

How you feeling about this MLB season?

Oh, I'm happy that it's back.

I was just thinking yesterday,

like, I just want it to be back to the normal grind.

You know, like, it's always a little weird and opening week.

Like, we had the game on Wednesday,

then the Yankees and Giants had the day off the next day.

Then several teams didn't even play Sunday,

which is really weird.

Usually you have everybody in action.

So looking forward to just being the grind.

It's a marathon of a regular season, but I love it.

Larry, do you know who did play on Sunday?

Do you con your reaction?

One of the greatest games, one of the greatest moments I've ever seen

and I'm sure everyone is still on a high

unless you are a Duke fan or unless, you know,

you had some bets on Duke.

I had you come plus the points.

But I mean, John Shire, you know, not only this year,

but last year, blowing a 14-point lead with not only the rookie of the year,

but the number two player in the rookie of the year race.

You have the top two guys in the NBA rookie of the year.

You can't hold a 14-point lead three years ago.

Losing the lead eight as a seven-point favorite to an 11-seat NC State.

You just get the talent, but you can't get it done.

But incredible comeback.

I love watching all the angles,

the reaction to that shot.

Watch it with my son, which was such a thrill.

We both went nuts.

Yeah, it was an unbelievable moment, Calvin.

I know you're here with Women's College basketball,

which you absolutely smashed last Monday when you were on.

But when you think, and I want the chat to weigh in here,

and maybe you're listening to the to the podcast later,

you can weigh in on the YouTube comments.

But Calvin, when you think of like the best shots in, you know,

at least on the men's side in March Madness history,

this has got to be at least up there, maybe not number one,

but maybe inside the top five.

Yeah, I mean, it's hard to talk Chris Jenkins,

just because it was for a national championship.

And this was for a spot in the final four.

But when you think about shots like that, or Jalen Suggs, Christian Laitner,

on the women's side, you could talk about Aureka Gumbawale,

hitting back-to-back, basically game winners,

and the final four in the championship.

And this is right in the conversation with all of those.

This is one of those that 50 years from now,

they're going to be playing it still in highlights,

and everyone is going to be talking about it.

Yeah, you know what really stunned me?

The entire time in the last minute,

as it did look like Yukon was still going to lose,

and we'll get to picks in just a second.

But Dan Hurley was so composed on the sideline.

It almost felt like he knew he was going to have

like a game-winning shot at it.

Even when everybody watching was like,

oh, now they're really in trouble.

You know, when they missed the front end of the free throws,

it just seemed like Dan Hurley knew he was going to

have it figured out somehow, and that's what happened.

Mikey B, you always have it figured out.

You're here with some NBA picks.

How many games do we have left in the season?

Just a handful, right? Maybe eight?

Yeah, season's almost over.

We only got about a couple of weeks left here.

So we're down to the grind.

There's still lots left to play for,

especially at the bottom of the Eastern Conference.

There's a lot of seeding, jockeying going on.

So we still got some fun storylines here.

I mean, I know it's not as exciting as

buzzer-beater college hoops and then all the baseball stuff.

But don't worry, I've got bull spurs for you tonight.

I don't know how you couldn't be excited.

Well, by the way, when the NBA playoffs start,

the intensity ramps up quite a bit.

So I'm very much looking forward to that.

Mikey B, we're going to get to Europe picks in just a second,

but Sniper wouldn't be right if we didn't start off with you

and a baseball pick.

I actually even have a baseball pick today and Matt,

when I get to that, I'm going to want your opinion

and more importantly, the chat's going to want your opinion

on that one as well.

But talk to me about the Oakland Sacramento Vegas A's.

I'm not really sure.

They're just the athletics.

They're just the A's.

Well, first of all, I wanted to contribute to the best buzzer-beater.

I wanted to go with Keith Smart from 1987

when I was in second grade Indiana.

Yeah, of course.

I mean, of course, I'm going to talk about IU.

But anyway, yes, the athletics, not the Sacramento A's,

not yet the Las Vegas A's, formerly, I believe,

Philadelphia, Kansas City, and now Oakland A's.

They had a really rough weekend in Toronto.

They got their butt kicked by the Blue Jays.

They lost all three games.

They struck out 49 times and three games.

But that was a small sample.

They were playing one of the best teams in baseball.

I still believe in this offense.

And even if you didn't, you get Bryce Elver

of the Braves tonight in a very good hitting environment.

So I'm going to go with over four and a half runs

here for the A's offense on the team total.

They only scored two runs in the first game.

They only scored two runs in the third game.

They're due for a bounce back.

Like I said, I still believe they've got a lot of power

bats in there with Shay Languilier's Nick Kurtz,

Brent Rooker, Tyler Soderstrom.

Again, very good hitters Park, Bryce Elver,

5.59 ERA in the last two seasons combined.

He did shut them down last year, but they've seen him.

So they have some familiarity there.

I like the familiarity.

So I'm going to go with the A's bats to wake up tonight

and on plus money score at least five runs.

All right, we got the A's team total over four and a half

at plus 105.

I see Kipper's picks in the chat talking about some UFL plays.

I actually had UFL on yesterday.

I might, you know, now that it's on,

I guess maybe ESPN is hearing it on Sunday nights.

Now that it's a little bit more accessible perhaps,

and it's at a good time.

Maybe I'm going to start looking at those games as well.

But Kipper's picks, thank you for that.

Let's get to some more picks.

And we're going to get to your questions.

If you have women's college, men's college,

NBA, MLB, whatever you got, baseball questions,

get them in the chat.

Mikey B, you've got two picks like you normally do.

You don't have to have two picks, but you do.

And you've been so incredibly hot over the last couple of months.

Talk to me about your plays today.

So first we're going to go to the 76ers' heat game.

We're going to take Tyrese Maxi over 26 and a half points.

Now he recently missed 10 straight games,

but that was with a finger injury.

So it didn't really affect his conditioning.

He came back Saturday against the Hornets.

He played 43 minutes.

So no restrictions there.

Had 26 points.

That's really impressive because the Hornets have

the six best defensive rating in the league

over their last 10 games or those same 10 games.

The heat ranked 23rd in defensive rating.

They play at the fastest pace in the league.

He's had success against them this season.

27 and 28 points in two meetings.

This game is very important for seeding for both teams.

So I think Maxi plays a lot and goes over 26 and a half points.

And we're going to run out of chances here

to bet on Bulls games since they're not making the play

internment.

So let's do one more.

Bulls spurs.

You've got to all circle on your calendar.

Trey Jones of the Bulls over 18 and a half points and assists.

Now he continues to start for the Bulls down the stretch.

Over the last 14 games.

He's averaging 16.8 points and 5.1 assists

with regards to this prop.

He had at least 19 points and assists in 11 of those 14 games.

Now he played some tough matchups during that span too.

The thunder, the rockets, the clippers, the suns.

So he's not just beating up on bad teams.

When these two teams face in November,

he had 20 points and seven assists.

I think this line's been set too low.

So I like Trey Jones to go over 18 and a half points and assists.

All right, we like Trey Jones.

We like Tyrese Maxi.

In Larry Hartstein before we get some more picks.

We also like when sports line adds to

I don't even know how to say this.

Like adds adds to the team,

but just the portfolio of what our experts can do.

It has really grown just over the last few days.

Can you talk more on that?

Yeah, welcoming three new experts this week.

You already know about this.

If you've been in the discord,

they've been dropping plays not only in golf,

not only in soccer, college basketball,

baseball, college baseball.

All of that has been in the discord.

But if you're not in there,

you don't know about it.

Brad Thomas, David Bierman,

Adam Thompson, all starting.

All have their profiles up on the site.

You can look at him right now.

David Bierman, a long time figure with ESPN.

You probably know him.

If you've been around the industry,

Brad Thomas, Lord BLT,

very good in soccer and golf,

among other things.

And then Adam Thompson,

this is an OG.

If you've been with sports line for a while,

you remember Adam Thompson.

He had a, we lost him.

And now seven years later,

we got him back.

Very excited to get Adam back.

Love his approach.

He goes by the ATM and,

you know, I have to say his results do justify that.

That's fair.

I haven't had the pleasure of working with him,

but I have worked actually quite a bit

with David Bierman and Lord BLT,

of course, Brad Thomas.

And what I love about,

you know, I can speak to them specifically

how versatile they are.

They cover a lot of sports in depth,

very analytical.

You saw on the golf discord,

if you're in there,

they were just throwing out picks left and right

over the weekend.

That, that, that channel is really popping,

but those guys cover it all.

Baseball, college baseball,

college football NFL.

So we just got,

we just got just a lot,

a lot better speaking of golf, though.

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Back on the early edge in Calvin,

before we get to you,

let me give out the sports line pick.

This one courtesy of the very, very sharp Todd Ferman.

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You would have already gotten this pick.

Blues sharks under six and a half at minus 120.

Again, that's courtesy of Todd Ferman.

Calvin Wetzel, you were absolutely on fire last week.

I mean, every question that you answered

and including the afternoon game that we had at 12 o'clock,

how to play Yukon in terms of first half or second half,

like just everything was on point.

You've got two picks for us today.

I do, and we're going to start with the player prop

on Fandwell, Olivia Miles,

for TCU under seven and a half assists.

Now she's over this in all three of her tournament games,

but last two games, exactly eight.

And one of those came in over time.

None of those defenses were anything close

to the South Carolina defense that she's going to face,

which is not only just an elite defense,

but also built to take away assists.

They don't overhelp.

They're not going to leave corner shooters.

I think Raven Johnson's going to spend a lot of time

on Olivia Miles and they're basically going to say,

hey, if you can beat this one on one, go for it.

And we've seen them do that to other great point guards

in the past, most notably,

Caitlin Clark a couple years ago in the final four

went over her points line under her assist line.

That's how this defense is built.

And before those three tournament games,

Miles was only over this line in nine of 34 games.

Now she's going to play more minutes tonight

with everything that's on the line.

She's almost certainly going to go all 40 minutes,

but she's averting seven and a half assists

per 40 minutes on the season.

And now that you get a defense

like the South Carolina defense,

I think you have to take the under on that average.

Even if she does play all 40 minutes,

if she sits a minute or two, that's only going to help us.

And then for a more widely available pick,

if you can't get the player props,

I'm going to the other game, Michigan, Texas,

taking the under 139 and a half,

couple of factors here.

First off, if you kind of follow the news around this tournament,

you've maybe seen Juno Oriama,

some of these other coaches talk about

some of the weirdness going on

with maybe unusual shoot around times,

overinflated balls, the rims that are off,

especially at this site in Fort Worth.

And we've seen all five games here go under.

So there might be some truth to it.

Between the sweet 16 and elite eight,

the unders are five and O here.

Even if there's not,

either or even if there was it and they fix the balls,

they fix the rims, whatever.

You still have the way that Texas plays,

talked about it last week.

They don't shoot threes.

They have the lowest three point rate in the country.

They pound it in, they crash the offensive glass.

When they play inferior opponents,

that size in physicality just overwhelms them

and they run up the score.

They tend to go over.

But when they play other top quality teams,

they tend to just turn it into a grinder, a rock fight,

and then it goes under.

So against top 30 competition in terms of her hoop stats,

rating over the last six seasons.

So this is since head coach Big Shafer got there,

they are 51 and 17 to the under against top 30 teams.

So with the final four spot on the line,

against the Michigan team,

who's also been playing well defensively,

I don't think this gets to 140.

So I'm taking the under at 139.5.

Calvin follow up from Mike B, but not Mikey B.

Mike B 19 in the chat says Calvin,

what do you think about Texas minus nine and a half?

I saw someone earlier ask about Michigan

making it a final four sweep.

And someone else asking about Texas,

I leaned the Texas side of that.

I think Texas is going to win

and I lean the minus nine and a half as well.

The SEC has been really playing well

in this tournament and covering quite a bit.

Yeah, it was Eric David who asks you, Calvin,

whether Michigan's going to make to the final four

and whether the Michigan hockey team

is going to make it to the frozen four.

You don't do college hockey, do you, Calvin?

I don't.

I have no thoughts on Michigan hockey.

Eric, I'm pretty sure is a graduate of Michigan.

So he's just going to fit in those Michigan questions.

Much like Matt, you would fit in anything in Deanna related.

I actually respect it from Eric David.

I also respect your opinion, Matt.

So I'll listen, I'm not here to get support for my pick.

So maybe your analysis for this might be on the other side

or maybe isolating something else in this game.

What I'm going to isolate for my MLB pick

is the Royals first five minus a half.

So that would be the first five run line at minus 115.

Well, why am I, listen, I don't like laying the half run after five,

but the money line on this first five play

is like minus at this point.

I think it opened around minus 150,

but it's in that minus 160 minus 170 range.

I'm just not going to give that out.

I really like this pitching match up.

Boobitch over Simian Woods Richardson.

Woods Richardson, not the best of pitchers,

gives up a lot of home runs, gives up a lot of hard contact.

And with, Matt, you can correct me if I'm wrong here,

but with offenses being brought in in right and left,

I do think that might hurt a fly ball pitcher.

And also, I think the weather is really conducive

to some deep balls here, which is part of the reason

I think you see the total here at nine and a half,

first five total is five and a half juiced slightly to the under.

So I just like the pitching match up here.

Boobitch is at a pretty good spring training.

Was very good last year before getting hurt.

I just think it's a mismatch with the pitchers.

And that's where that's the whole reason I play first fives

for the most part is when I see a mismatch.

Unfortunately, the price on the money line is too expensive.

So I'm going to lay the half run

because I think there are going to be runs scored,

particularly on the royal side.

First five minus a half minus one 15 sniper,

your thoughts on this game?

Yeah, you said you didn't necessarily want support,

but I'm going to give it to you anyway.

I totally agree.

I've totally backed this play.

I'm on it.

Yeah, like you said,

Boobitch, much better pitcher than Simian Woods Richardson.

I also like that the royals are coming home for the home opener.

Gonna have a juiced up crowd.

They'll be a little bit extra oomph in their step.

And they lost two or three of the braids

and they probably should have won two or three.

They had a ninth inning meltdown.

So you look for a little bit of evening out here

with the extra stuff,

what's going for the home opener.

So I like everything about it.

All right.

We got support from Matt Snyder,

which I always love.

Let's get to some NBA Larry

before we get to some of the questions in the chat.

Please put your questions in the chat

so we can get to him before we get out of here.

But Larry, you like this is interesting.

The hawks are playing the Celtics tonight, right?

And you like the hawks?

Yeah, the hawks lost 109-102 in Boston just a few days ago.

This is a quick revenge spot.

And it's unclear who will be there for the Celtics.

I jumped on the hawks minus 110.

You could see that overnight at sports line

up to 115 and a lot of spaces.

Excuse me.

I think it could only go up

unless everyone's gonna play for Boston.

But Jason Tatum, this is the second night of a back-to-back.

He looked incredible yesterday

in taking apart the Hornets.

32 points, Ada says.

He looked like the old Jason Tatum.

The Jalen Bratt has missed two straight.

Derek White did not play yesterday.

So we're waiting.

They have not submitted any injury report.

The hawks did.

There's no one on it.

They are 100% healthy,

a Kongwood, Dyson Daniels,

coming everybody is back for the hawks.

Over the last 20 games, the hawks

have the number three net rating in basketball.

Boston is at number four.

The hawks have won 12 straight home games.

I just love the way this sets up

with all the uncertainty around the Celtics.

I don't think you're gonna get Tatum Brown

and White all playing.

Maybe one, maybe two.

Give me the hawks to stay red-hot at home.

Mikey, be a couple of questions for you

and be a related.

And of course, Larry, you can jump in if you have a take here.

Do you like the Spurs minus 17 and a half

at minus 115?

Ask's cool chuck chill out.

Yeah, that's too big of a number.

I know the Bulls were 19 and a half point

underdogs against the Thunder.

They almost made it to the game

and then I think they lost by 19.

It was very close.

That number is too big.

If you won another one from that game,

I put this on the site earlier.

I didn't bring it to the show

because I was afraid it was gonna change

because I was only found in one spot.

I did Stefan Castle over 23 and a half points and assists.

I found that on one book.

Everywhere else, it was 24 and a half,

which I don't mind, but I got it at 23 and a half.

That's another one.

I know we're all excited for Bulls first tonight.

So that's just another one

if you're looking at that in that game.

I love watching Stefan Castle play.

He's unbelievable.

And the Bulls don't have anybody that can guard him.

No one.

I mean, Colin Sexton's in there.

His main goal is to jack up his many shots

in 25 minutes as he can.

He's not playing defense.

He yells at himself when he misses free throws.

They don't have anybody there

that's gonna play any defense.

So yeah, I like Stefan Castle tonight.

Let's, so we have some baseball questions

notably from Katie Taylor,

who was like the home run guru.

And so I'm gonna bounce this off you, Matt.

But Jen has a question NBA related Mikey B trade Jones.

Your trade Jones line was 18 and half points and assists.

If it's moved to 19 and a half, do you still like it there?

Yeah, I do still like it.

He's a for a guard.

He's a very efficient shooter.

He shoots right around 54% from the field.

Doesn't take a ton of threes.

I know you have Wimbanyama guarding the paint,

but he had that good performance against the Sproze

the last time and Wimbanyama played in that game.

So Jones is just an efficient,

and he's doing all this recently.

He's not playing 35, 40 minutes a game.

He's playing around 28, 29.

So if this game does get out of hand in the fourth quarter,

as long as he's already played or somewhere around there,

he's gonna have a good chance hitting that over.

All right, let's go to baseball.

So a couple of questions here.

First of all, Tori Beager says,

Hey, Vinnie Pasquantino home run today,

which of course on bias.

So I'm gonna say I love that.

And then Brandon, I believe it's LOW home run

looks juicy today at plus 450 says Katie Taylor.

Correct.

And he already has three this year,

though he might as well ride the wave,

but yes, in great American ballpark,

that's a very good home run park.

So if you're gonna go with a player who's hot

at hitting for power and he's in GABP, absolutely.

Okay, and did you answer the other one as well?

Chase Burns, somebody asked about Chase Burns

over seven and a half strikeouts.

He is a high volume strikeout pitcher

and the pirates will strike out a decent amount.

But I just went and looked his last spring outing

through 68 pitches.

He's a youngster.

He just got his feet wet last season.

And I believe he's still rookie this year.

I'm not sure if he's gonna be able to be efficient enough

to get eight strikeouts before the reds take him out

due to pitch count.

So I would probably avoid that one.

Mikey B, big road he wants to know,

or maybe he's just playing this,

but I want to know.

James Harden over 33 and a half points rebounds assists.

So this is a tricky one because they're playing the jazz.

Who we all know stink.

So if he played his normal allotment of minutes,

he would probably blow by this number.

The question is, will he?

There's a lot of other things on the slate.

So if I had to pick a side, I would lean over,

but I would prefer just to avoid it possible.

All right, let's just go around the horn here

and make sure we didn't miss anything.

Calvin, was there anything that you saw on the chat

that was basketball related?

I haven't seen any other questions.

No, obviously if you haven't hit me up in the discord.

Okay, yeah, that's a really good call.

Later, anything from you?

Nothing for me.

I was just wondering out loud if we're doing a bracket challenge

for the college basketball crown,

which starts Wednesday, another tournament.

So you don't have to wait all week for more college basketball.

You got that Wednesday, you got the NIT semis on Thursday,

and I love what they're doing.

The NIT Championship will be Sunday

to get you from the final four to the championship game.

That Sunday was always a tough Sunday,

but now at least we got the NIT final.

Wait, so what, I feel stupid.

What's the college basketball crown again?

Well, they invited, they invited eight teams to Vegas.

I'm looking at it right now.

You've got Colorado, Oklahoma, West Virginia,

teams like that, big schools for the most part

that aren't very good going to Las Vegas for 18 tournament.

Oh, wow, okay, did they do this for the first time last year?

I'm vaguely remembering it.

Oh, yeah.

All right, let's close here because we can't,

we can't have a show, Mikey B, where the bulls are playing,

where either you don't bring up Josh Gidey

or somebody in the chat doesn't bring up Josh Gidey.

So we got to do this.

Mikey B, Josh Gidey, over 17 and a half rebounds

and assists minus one away.

Man, I've been playing the over on his rebounds

and assists line a lot lately.

I sure was tempted that number.

I played it at over 19 and a half the other day,

and it hit 17 and a half feels almost too good to be true,

but it is disperse.

It might be a little tougher to get rebounds

when me I'm in there.

I would lean over, but I wasn't super excited about

so I didn't make it an official play.

All right, Rick Von Cannon says smash that like button.

That's very good advice.

Usually when you get in here,

smashing the like button helps the show a lot,

but if you're watching it after the fact,

FYI, smashing the like button helps there as well.

So really appreciate people calling that out.

All right, I think we got to get to the recap screen

at this point.

Royals first five minus a half minus one 15,

Hawks money line, by the way, that Royals game

is at four o'clock today, I think four 10 technically,

but that would be the only late afternoon game of the slate.

So, you know, get that in early if you like the play again,

that's Royals first five minus a half minus one 15,

Hawks money line minus one 15 from Larry Hartstein,

Tyrese Maxie, over 26 and a half points minus one 14,

along with Trey Jones over 18 and a half points

and assists minus one 10, that two back is from Mikey B.

Then we go to Matt Snyder who was back

on the early edge A's team total over four and a half

at plus 105 and we go to women's college basketball

with Calvin Watson Olivia Miles from TCU under seven

and a half assists at minus 122 and Michigan,

Texas under 139 and a half at minus 110.

We have one sports line pick.

It is Blues Sharks under six and a half minus 120.

That one courtesy of Todd Furman.

What a show.

Ladies and gentlemen, so happy to have Matt back.

Always happy to have Calvin on this show Mikey B.

Larry Hartstein, of course,

Ben on the ones and twos and threes and fours.

Before we get out of here, Matt,

could you remind me who won the college football championship?

That would be the Indiana Hoosers.

That's what we all knew heading into last year, right?

That would be that the Indiana Hoosers

and the Indiana got their coach from what university?

James Madison.

And by the way, you can't just make up a random name

and put it on a school.

I didn't really remember that.

New CEO would remember that.

I can't wait for Matt in buckets to be back on a show together.

And I was like, you know, he was a president, right?

Oh, never mind.

Like, all right.

Yeah, if you're new to the early edge,

thanks for being here.

Make sure you subscribe to sports line.

That is one of the all time moments where buckets didn't realize

that James Madison was actually named after someone

let alone a president of the United States.

I don't even know.

Great stuff.

Matt, bring it back.

Good memories.

Some good memories with Matt, the rest of the way

this baseball season along with this entire crew.

Thanks everybody for being in here.

Eric Davids has great show.

We really appreciate you, Eric, and everybody else in the chat.

Have a great Monday, everybody.

Let's have another positive recap screen.

Let's have a positive day, regardless.

We'll see you next time.

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