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Good morning, everyone, and welcome to the early edge.

We are brought to you by betmgm, make it legendary.

We had a legendary show for you yesterday.

It was the March Madness first round picks show.

Make sure you go back and watch that or listen to it in your podcast feed on Apple

or Spotify.

More on that show later on.

Let's see how we did on this show on Friday.

Ladies and gentlemen, cover your eyes for the right side of the screen.

We didn't have a great day as you can see.

Four and 12 is not where we want to be.

Buckets, Brasco and Brady sports line picks.

Those don't come through.

Chip Patterson goes two for four.

Mike hits his ludic play extremely easily.

I lost my golf matchup, but I did hit that Mac winner on Akron minus 115.

Thanks to a last second three pointer from Akron.

What a game that was.

All right, ladies and gentlemen, I don't know what to say other than we got a bounce back.

And we're going to do that with the stars of the show.

We got a great Monday coming your way with buckets.

With Mike McClure with Larry Hearthstein and with Mikey B.

Buckets cover what were you doing there?

Were you for the audio listeners?

You were shading the right side of the screen, right?

Yeah, if you only look at the left side of the recap screen,

that's not bad for Friday, but not bad.

Take that away.

It's a little different.

Yeah, not bad at all.

Mike McClure, we had a great show yesterday.

You, me, Larry, Chip Patterson, stop by.

We had Bob, Tom Cassali going over all the first round matchups.

We actually filled out a bracket altogether.

So everyone, that's in your feed.

Mike, what'd you think of that show?

Oh, it was great.

Highly, I think you could still go back and watch a lot of it.

Again, big takeaways.

If you're here and you're not a sports line member,

you should be because you must be in the Discord server.

Figure out a way to get in there if you're not.

I know many of Ben members for a while,

but certainly haven't joined the Discord server.

I would highly, highly recommend it this time of year.

And you know, Mikey B.

You're sometimes in the Discord server.

You're over at SportsLine as we have this show

put up thanks to Ben here.

This first round early bet show.

Mikey B. John K.

Four I is giving you your flowers.

He says you're 10 and one in your last 11 prop picks over at SportsLine.

Is that true?

It is true.

Yeah, I'm on a bit of a heater here.

I appreciate that and I'll try to stay hot.

All right.

We're going to try to stay hot.

Larry, how are you feeling today?

We're going to get right into picks.

But what's at the forefront of your mind?

Is it filling out brackets?

Is it first round bets?

Is it world's baseball classic?

Well, we got the NBA kind of rolling into playoff season.

By the way, I'm going to the Wizards Warriors game tonight.

So FYI, not not not super exciting to most.

But I have a bet for you.

See it for the game.

So we're good to go.

It's going to be fun.

Larry, how you feeling, buddy?

I mean, all of the above I'm excited for.

I'm excited for you to see the Warriors scrubs.

They almost took down the nicks.

I mean, that was an incredible performance

by like the bottom seven guys on the roster,

including a guy who was my student at Bradley University

was in the starting lineup yesterday.

Malavie Leon's, I hope I'm pronouncing his name right,

was a good kid.

And it's exciting to see him in the box scores now.

But yeah, the nicks came back and got it done,

but didn't come close to covering that number.

I'm excited for everything.

The expert brackets are starting to populate on the site.

Tom's is up all that already.

You can check it out on sports line.

And everybody here, well, maybe not including buckets

and barn or we'll have expert brackets up on the site.

Yeah, I'll have mine up as well.

Richard Pierce says enjoy.

I'm going to Brooklyn Nets for Portland.

There's other people like Jason Reyes saying,

see why referring to the game I'm going to tonight.

Larry, real quick, what did you teach

that Golden State Warrior player?

Can you give us a little bit more context?

Yeah, it was, of course, called the business of sports betting

for the communication school.

Yeah, probably shouldn't have asked buckets.

Let's get to some picks.

You've got a soccer pick for us.

We've got NHL picks for Mike.

We've got college basketball picks.

Again, we have that separate show,

but we're going to bring a sports line pick to the show.

Got a lot going on, including a golf out right

that I'm about to give out.

And of course, NBA picks buckets.

Go ahead.

There's a lot of good games today this afternoon

in the footballing slash soccer world,

but there's a lot of very tough to bet on matches.

You've got teams like Wolves playing.

You've got teams like Levant playing in La Liga.

Fiorentina playing in Syria.

A lot of teams that if you like betting on goals,

you maybe don't want to have too much out there on soccer.

So I had to kind of narrow this down to just find a single bet

for us taking place in the English championship.

So you know, Jeff Steinberg's going to be happy about this

as Port Smith are taking on Derby County.

And we are reaching the point in the European seasons

where we have to add an extra layer to a research here

because now we're at the point where some teams no longer

care about the remainder of the season.

They aren't going to get promoted.

They aren't going to get relegated.

The motivation is going to die off slowly

in the upcoming weeks for a few clubs.

So we just had to remember that moving forward.

These two teams are both still highly motivated.

Derby County are currently sitting eighth on the table

and they are just six points out of the promotion playoff zone.

Meanwhile, Port Smith are 20th on the table

and are just one point ahead of the relegation zone.

So I found a match where we have two highly motivated team

and also two teams with horrendous defenses right now.

Derby County have scored 54 goals so far this season

but they've conceded 48 along the way

while Port Smith is not the best scoring side

but they're still averaging a goal a game

while conceding over that goal a game with 47 allowed.

I'm going with both teams to score here

at the classic at plus 100 for two teams

that are consistently hitting both teams to score of the season

and their head-to-head history reflects that as well.

I don't know if there's enough to differentiate these sides

and might end in that one one draw

but I love the fact that we're getting even money

for this first wager.

All right, we're getting even money for Port Smith

versus Derby again, both teams to score plus 100.

Mike, I'm going to transition to you.

I think a lot of people are expecting.

Hey, Mike's probably going to have a college basketball pick

because he had so many on yesterday's show.

Well, good news. They can get all those picks from yesterday's show

but also the sports line discord

whereas soon as the lines came out

you posted a bunch of picks in the sports line discord.

However, we're not doing college basketball today.

We'll probably answer some questions

if you have college basketball questions everybody

but you've got an NHL pick.

I do, yes. College basketball coming.

I'll have some futures later in the week

but still before the tournament starts.

Today, we are on the ice, Sia.

Here in Kansas City, it was negative 10 win show this morning.

Got me feeling a little like hockey season

after being 80 two days ago here.

How about a first period under?

You guys know I love a first period under in the NHL.

Typically more reserved for the Stanley Cup playoffs

but I like it in this one as well.

We're talking Kings Rangers.

The Kings have been on their little New York road trip

if you will, they basically had the series with the Devils,

the series with the Islanders.

Now they're gonna play the Rangers here

so we're talking very limited travel

like him to be locked in defensively.

They've been one of the best first period under teams

in the NHL.

While the Rangers haven't been good,

I am expecting Igor in that again tonight

and that certainly is a plus here

but for me, see it's mostly the price point.

Under one and a half always going to be the price point.

The juice is what's going to change.

At minus 105, I would expect this game

to be closer to minus 117 minus 118 on this under

when you've got a game total of five and a half.

So a five and a half at the current pricing

typically would map to at least a minus 115 on this.

Again, just a lot of fun.

A lot of entertainment value in these first periods

fading a second goal, a Rangers team,

again, not a great offensive team this season.

The Kings, one of the better first period under teams.

We should get Igor in that for the Rangers,

which will help.

I'm going to go first period under one and a half goals.

All right, first period under one and a half goals

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and Larry's pick.

St. Mary's minus 2 1 1 1 1 2.

That one from Jeff Hockman.

We actually spent a decent amount of time

on that particular game ladies and gentlemen.

So go back to the show.

We did last night go get some discussion on that game

and every single other first round game.

Again, Jeff Hockman like St. Mary's minus 2 1 1 1 1 2.

Then we go to the World Baseball Classic.

I want to qualify this one because my understanding

is this is a half unit play from A Mags.

It's Mikhail Garcia, two plus total bases

at plus 145.

Again, Garcia, two plus total bases plus 145.

This appears to be a half unit play courtesy of A Mags.

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Mike, real quick, before we get to NBA and golf,

there is a question from Ray Garcia

and you might not have an edge here either way,

but King's money line,

since you have a play on that first period under,

was that something that you looked at at all in terms of a side?

I looked at it, I have a slight, slight ranger sling.

So no, I would not be on the King's money line personally.

All right, let's get to some NBA, Mikey B.

Patrick Fleming has a question,

are we riding the Garland over points?

But I know you're not as far as your official picks are concerned

because you've got a play on Santos and Buzellas.

Yeah, so quickly I'll address the Garland thing.

The line has gone up quite a bit,

that's because Kauai Leonard is doubtful,

but they're playing the spurs.

I don't bet guards over against Stefan Castle

and Dillon Harper because they can lock down anybody.

So that's an ignore for me.

So now we'll get into our picks.

First, of course, bulls, grizzlies,

the game that you all have circled on your calendar for tonight.

We're gonna do modest Buzellas over five and a half rebounds

at minus 125.

He's averaging 5.6 rebounds per game for the season,

but he's averaged 6.6 rebounds over 15 games

since the trade line.

In 12 of those games, he had at least six rebounds.

He's been playing more average 31 minutes

over those 15 games.

The bulls and the grizzlies, two great teams,

both rank inside the top 10 to league and pace of play.

The grizzlies have allowed the fifth most rebounds

per game over their last 10 games.

They have basically no size up front.

They ruled Santiago Dama out for the season.

So with at least 30 minutes coming his way,

I like Buzellas to get at least six rebounds.

And then I didn't realize C was going to the game,

but now he's got something to root for,

and no see it's not someone on the wizards.

Guy Santos over 14 and a half points.

He had 20 points in that game against the mix on Sunday.

That's the 14th time over his last 19 games

that he scored at least 15 points.

In his last six games, he's averaged 36 minutes.

The words that lean on him pretty heavily.

During that stretch, he averaged 15 shot attempts

and 3.3 free throws a game.

The wizards play at the sixth fastest pace.

They have the second worst defensive rating in the league.

So I like Santos to get at least 15 points.

The wizard's not good on defense.

Mike, you be, are you sure?

Do you need to go back and check your work on that?

There's some guy from the heat who scored a lot of points against them.

I don't really remember because it wasn't really in the headlines,

but I think that happened recently.

They have out of bio with 83 wizards can't guard.

Yeah, wizards can't guard any big men, says big cheesy.

Larry, did you have something there?

Yeah, we don't have college hoops tonight,

but we have a lot of great NBA matchups,

you know, the Lakers are red hot playing at Houston

an important game.

The hawks going for their 10th straight win against the magic

who are also coming in on a heater.

The sun's in Boston, which is an interesting matchup.

So it's a pretty good NBA slate.

Yeah, if you have questions, get them in the chat on this NBA slate.

We'll get to send you a questions later.

I know you have a pick in the NBA on a side,

a side that we actually just addressed a couple of minutes ago.

Let me get my golf pick out of the way though,

because I think it was Zach Kassenky before the show started.

We usually have a group of people that are in the chat,

already kind of asking questions or just like getting the vibes going

with a lot of just happiness, positivity, whatever the case may be.

And it was, yeah, there we go.

Thank you, Ben.

Zach Kassenky says, see, what do you think about Austin Smotherman?

In early pick for Valsbar, he has proven he's a baller

and no stage is too big, totally agree.

I mean, if you all recall,

I haven't done great on outright so far this year,

but I did hit Austin Smotherman first round leader three weeks ago

at 110 to one, along with Jason Sobel from the early wedge.

With all that said, Austin Smotherman hasn't just been

our first round guy.

He's been a really consistent force throughout this entire 2026 season.

I like him what I'm going to do though.

And by the way, he's played here.

He's played pretty well two and three years ago.

He played pretty well.

And that was an Austin Smotherman that is not the Smotherman we see now.

He's obviously an improved player, a lot more consistent,

especially with the ball striking.

I'm going to play him at 54 to one.

His true number, I think, is around 67, 70 to one.

I'm going to take the hit here because in the without market,

I don't have to worry about Matt Fitzpatrick,

who very easily could have won last week.

That was one of my outrights, one of my three or four outrights

that I had.

Shoffley, Havland, Thomas, and Okshay Betia.

So I'm going to do the without those five market Austin Smotherman

at 54 to one.

The putter is usually what catches up to Austin Smotherman,

at least as of late.

He has popped with the putter.

I mean, it doesn't happen often, but he has done it.

And I do think team No Putt can actually survive this particular track

at the Valspar.

So long story short, I don't want to contend with those big guns

because I think one of those five very well could win it.

My outrights for the early wedge probably will also be

in that without market.

I think this number is pretty good though at 54 to one.

So give me Austin Smotherman without Fitzpatrick,

Shoffley, Havland, Thomas, and Okshay Betia.

Mike, I do want to get your opinion on golf

if you have won this early.

But before we do that, Larry, let's get a pick from you.

All right, well, I'm going to maybe the best team in the NBA.

Certainly the hottest team in the NBA over the last 20,

talking about the Spurs, specifically 19 games.

They've won 17 of them.

They've only failed to cover five times.

And in that span, those were losses to the nuggets and the nicks.

And one of those games they didn't cover

was against these same clippers.

They got down huge.

They were down 25 in the second half

and came back to beat the clippers.

That was game Kauai had 30 and nine.

Well, Kauai is doubtful.

He rolled his ankle last time out.

And I know that this game is on the road,

but the Spurs have actually been a better cover team on the road.

They have the third best ATS margin on the road.

They've won seven of their last eight road games.

And they're just playing at another level right now.

They have all the motivation in the world.

And I think we saw the clippers have an incredible stretch

after the trade of Harden and Kauai was playing great.

And they were playing great defense.

And then it fell apart last time out.

Now they don't have their main guy or likely

won't have their main guy.

And even if he tries to play, I don't think

he's going to be vintage Kauai lenders.

So when you the Spurs at a reasonable number of minus nine,

you look at some of the games they didn't cover in that stretch.

One of them was an 18 and a half point spread

where they won by 17.

So this is a reasonable number.

They should cover on the road against a banged up clippers team.

Yeah, you might want to catch that there might be some eight and a halfs out there

as well on this Spurs game.

This one's at 1010.

So we're all staying up pretty late tonight.

I'm going to look at some questions.

Now, Bill leave is saying, CMAC, what do you think?

I love that you addressed me by my full name, by the way.

What do you think about Austin Smotherman top 20 plus 240?

So a couple of things on the finishing position market.

While I do, I don't mind because the numbers are good in my opinion,

putting out and out right early.

When it comes to the finishing position market,

which for the record, everybody knows that that follows me.

I only put a half a unit on these finishing position ones

because I don't like them quite as much as matchups.

I kind of want to wait to see what the weather is going to do.

So I don't want to put somebody in a top 20 market

and then find out they're on the wrong side of a perceived weather wave.

So while I'm okay doing that without rights here and there,

I don't think I'm ready to fire on a finishing position bet

on a Monday morning, especially at a track

where wind could be an issue.

Mike, before we get some questions in the chat,

any golf that you're already considering

for the Valsport Championship?

Yeah, actually, like Smotherman,

I will play him more in a finishing position, though.

I've been playing a lot of finishing positions,

but not top 10, top 20, top 30, actual finishing position.

Yeah.

And over under on a finishing position there,

his will be in the 40s somewhere this week.

I would, I'll be going under on that.

I was impressed with Zander.

Zander looked to be back essentially last week.

So I think he's a deserving favorite.

Others right now,

Okshay is playing really well.

And I think that he's going to be up there and contend,

but yeah, I see in the chat there,

yeah, the finishing positions,

like it's only one book is offering that market right now.

Yeah, but the simulations that I put up on Sportsline there

just have absolutely crushed on those markets,

which makes sense, right?

Because you're talking about a normal top 20,

you're catching that guy typically 29.

It's like this week, for example,

I played and learned this last week.

Ludwig was the play I gave there under 32 and a half

was his finishing position.

Yeah.

Ludwig could finish 30 second,

and we cash that ticket at even money.

You know, I made a mistake

because I'm so comfortable doing the finishing positions

last week.

Instead of taking, so I took Min Mouli,

I think it was plus one 10 top 30.

He ended up finishing 30 seconds,

so of course I lost that bet,

but I think his over under finishing position

was like 34 or 36 and a half.

And I saw it and I didn't bet it.

Yeah, so I saw it and I just didn't bet it for some reason.

So again, a lot of these books are offering different markets

that are just a lot more appealing.

So it's just something to consider.

And it is the beauty of golf betting to some degree.

Not not all books offer it and that's the frustration,

but the beauty of golf betting,

it's the portfolio is so diverse

by in terms of the things you can potentially bet.

Mike, anybody else that you have your eye on

before we get to questions?

Yeah, the same guy as last week Bridgeman.

So if you guys followed on Sportsline,

I had Bridgeman Sim in the top 10 last week.

And his over underscore was 44 and a half.

We bet that just an easy, easy cash again last week on it.

He's moved up a little bit in this,

but to tell you, his odds in terms of like position rank

this week are lower than I had him last week

in last week's field.

So I still like Bridgeman again.

He's one of the outright I'm considering.

The troubling thing for me is

he's getting so much respect, Mike,

that the outright number now in the with market

and the everybody is included market is about 23 to one.

I will tell everybody in that without big five market,

it's 19 to one, which again,

I think is a pretty fair number,

but Bridgeman is just a great golfer and birdie maker

at this point.

Let's get to some more questions.

Buckets will bring you back in here.

I am standing once to know,

Brentford both teams a score and plus two and a half

is plus money.

Any thoughts we could see goals in that game?

I personally wouldn't take it

because this Brentford team and this Wolf teams

are two of the hardest to predict teams

in the entirety of the Premier League right now.

If you look at the last month of Brentford playing,

they've had matches where they beat Burnley 3-4,

Drew West Ham 2-2, beat Newcastle 3-2,

these high scoring electric matches,

but in between those same games,

Nill Nill to Bournemouth,

one Nill to Macklesfield,

two Nill to Brighton,

it's just a team where consistently finding goals

is not something they're doing.

And this Wolf's team is even harder to predict.

So this is the kind of match I'm personally staying away

from because it could end 3-3, it could end 0-0

and I don't know which way it's going to go.

Mikey B, let me bring you in on a few questions here.

Ray Garcia wants to know if you like Austin Reeves

over 25 points for a plus money.

Shout out to Austin Reeves who missed the free throw

on purpose, got his own rebound against the Nuggets,

made it, and then of course,

Luca hits it in overtime after clearly pushing off,

but apparently that's acceptable in the NBA now.

Mikey B, your thoughts on Reeves over 25 points?

I mean, I don't like it.

They're playing the rocket,

so obviously you've got Amen Thompson

as the leader of their defense there.

They can shut down just about anybody.

I prefer to avoid that one.

And how about there's a question from I believe Ben,

our producer?

Apparently the bulls are favored by six and a half

over the Grizzlies, what are your thoughts?

So this is one of those who wants the lost more.

And the bulls are actually trying to win,

which is baffles my mind,

but the Grizzlies are not GG Jackson and Ty Jerome

who have been kind of their two tanking stars

are both doubtful for tonight.

So they're really going into it.

Look for Javan Small props if they ever get released.

We want those.

I mean, I would probably lean towards the bulls covering that.

Am I betting it?

This guy Ben asked, no, I'm not, but they could definitely go.

And how about Dyson Daniels over six and a half rebounds

from Big Road, any thoughts there?

I would rather play the Daniels over rebounds and assists.

That's a line that I play a lot regularly.

I believe that number is at 11 and a half.

I would rather play the over on that than the rebounds,

but I don't mind either.

All right, Larry, go ahead.

Yeah, well, somebody asked this in the discord

and I thought I would bring it to the table

because it's a good question.

Jalen Green, look at his last five, 34, 36, 25, 24,

25 points in Boston tonight.

You're getting even money to go over 19 and a half.

What do you think, Mike?

I mean, if it's even money, I don't mind taking the wrist,

but man, if he'd dare quite locks him up,

that could be trouble.

But they might put white on Devon Booker.

You could do that.

I wouldn't play it personally,

but if you want to, I'd even money it, go for it.

All right, I think people are finding out

that CMAC is my full name.

For the first time, I'm seeing some comments in the chat.

Oh, really?

Yeah.

I mean, did you guys know,

but it's actually CMAC?

Yeah, it used to be CMAC daddy,

but he dropped it.

He dropped it.

That was, okay, so full disclosure,

because Mike knows this.

That was my AOL screen name.

So my first name, my full name is S-I-A-M-A-K, CMAC.

My AOL screen name back in the day, unfortunately.

I hate to admit it was CMAC daddy, one word.

Don't be embarrassed about that.

That's how you pull the ladies in high school.

I mean, that's master class right there.

Yeah, yeah, definitely, that definitely worked.

Let's see, how do you spell it?

My full name is CMAC, S-I-A-M-A-K.

Oh, not with Larry, I didn't.

All right, cool.

Jen says it's been discussed in the past,

maybe on a different show, maybe also on this show,

who knows?

Let's AOL for life, says Big Brody and Big Cheesy.

Do we have any follow-up?

Okay, before we get to the recap screen, real quick.

Larry, from the show yesterday,

was there a pick, first round pick or a team

that advanced in the bracket that you like,

or that you wanted to advance in the bracket

that you feel like is a bit of a dark horse,

or maybe just the first round matchup

that you really like?

Yeah, that's a good question.

I was talking about Hawaii that I really liked.

I'm seeing a lot of people thinking,

Kentucky is gonna go down early.

I'm not sure I agree with that.

There's a lot of popular dogs as usual.

I'm getting, we talked about it early

about Northern Iowa,

and the more I look at that matchup,

the more I am going with Northern Iowa

to keep that close against St. John's.

And Mike, is there a team that jumps out to you?

I know we talked about futures,

and how there was some value I believe

there was still some, I mean, the books are changing

by the hour, right?

So I don't know if the value still exists,

but I seem to recall like I was state being a team

that if you're looking at value was,

and that might not have been the words out of your mouth,

it might have been somebody else discussing it.

Purdue was another team that was in like that 30 to one range.

Any futures play, was there a first round bet

that you kind of really leaned into

or a team you really leaned into?

Yeah, I thought there was a little value

on Purdue on a long shot.

I would be more interested still

in backing them to get to the final four

than to win it all, but at 30 to one,

I think is a decent look still.

Iowa State was a team that had their odds changed

the most from pre-bracket release to bracket release.

I think they've got a really good draw on a good path.

So I like them, I'll be interested to see

because I think that the big 12 is just so strong

and those teams are so battle tested.

We'll see if it's true, right?

We talk about it all the time in college football,

how awesome and great the SEC is

and then get to the playoff format

and they don't necessarily always dominate.

So the consensus is that the big 12

is really, really strong with Arizona and Iowa State

in Houston, but we'll see.

But I like the path for Iowa State.

Buckets, my understanding is that you've already

filled out your bracket.

Do you have it accessible where you could tell us

what your final four is and who your champion is?

I filled it out over on CBS.

So give me two seconds and I'll get that pulled up for you, Celia.

Okay, and while you're doing that,

Mikey B, the game I'm going to, this Santos play,

if it's 15 and a half at close to even money, minus 106,

are you willing to play that?

Yeah, I would.

And also someone asked about Deandre 8 and over half

assist at minus 110.

I talk about a guy who doesn't get the touch of the ball

when his line is half and assist.

He's averaging 0.9 assists for a game for this season.

That's disgusting.

I don't think I'd want to touch that one.

There's plenty of other options.

Let's not worry about Deandre 8 passing the ball one time.

Yeah, that's that one's tough.

Go ahead, Buckets.

On the left side of the bracket,

I have Yukon and Illinois in my final four.

And on the right side, I have Miami and Virginia.

And then I've got Yukon beating Virginia in the final.

I mean, it can happen.

Virginia, the four to Miami, not the Ohio Miami.

Yeah, we figured.

OK, that's my amy ball.

I'm not sure if Buckets to stick to golf.

Yeah, I really want his outlandish as I thought he was going to be.

Yeah, it's not it's not terrible.

I might swap out Miami, but otherwise, I think it's,

it's a nice contrarian final four, right, Mike?

It is a contrarian final four.

There are paths.

I would prefer to maybe have one of those four making it,

not all four of those four, making it.

But yeah, it's it's certainly unique in contrarian to get that.

Oh, this it sounds like the Southern equivalent when a lady's like,

bless your heart.

Yeah, that sounds nice.

But you're going to win a lot of pools if that comes through all the pools.

They'll win all the pools literally.

All right, let's get you all to the recap screen and get to get everyone out of here.

The basketball outright.

It's an early one for me, Austin Smotherman in the without market at 54 to one.

Port Smith versus Derby.

Both teams to score plus 100.

Of course, that one from Buckets.

Mikey B.

Puzzellus over five and a half rebounds at minus 125 and Santos over 14 and a half points

at minus 126.

We stick with the NBA with Larry Hartstein spurs minus nine at minus 110.

And then Mike McClure Kings Rangers first period under one and a half goals minus 105.

Let's get to some sports line picks.

We got St. Mary's minus two and a half minus 102.

That's obviously for later on in the week when the NCAA tournament starts that one courtesy

of Jeff Hockman.

So many more picks in our sports line discord and of course up at sports line.

So make sure if you're not already a member, you get a sportsline.com slash join and

be a part of the experience world baseball classic, McClure Garcia, two plus total bases

plus one 45.

That one courtesy of a max.

Jeff Stenberg says it always says good luck today, everyone and cheers.

Let's see.

Anything else in the chat?

No, appreciate the show guys says Ron Moore Larry, you're smiling at something in the chat

before we get out of here.

What is it?

But if somebody wanted to know what your middle name is or or and I pondered what fact will

I learn about you that I haven't known all this time, you know, during our next show.

Yeah, well cliffhanger.

We'll see middle names and social security numbers for tomorrow.

Buckets, thank you.

Mikey B.

Thank you.

Mike McClure.

Larry, thank you as well.

Yeah.

I'll give out my middle name tomorrow.

That's the cliffhanger.

Everyone's in 2s and 3s and 4s.

Thank you very much.

What a great show.

Let's stay positive.

Let's get a bounce back winning recap screen tomorrow.

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