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Speaker 1 (00:10):
All right, well, the draft is over this week. This
time last week we were knee deep into the NFL
Draft and the should or Sanders saga.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
We'll get into that more maybe later.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
Coming up here in about fifteen minutes, we're gonna visit
with Richard on Yell, who's the track announcer right at
ATMA Park. You just heard Rodriguez, one of the horses
in the Kentucky Derby scratch for tomorrow, so only nineteen
we'll run.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Now, what a horse name? Man?
Speaker 3 (00:32):
Rod Give me something like lightning or thunder or speed
like Rodriguez.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Like do you like sovereignty? No, I don't like sovereignty.
Do you like Sandman?
Speaker 3 (00:43):
That's not bad, it's not terrible, but it's not like journalism.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
No. We talked about that one yesterday.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
That one was just those are your three favorites right there, Journalisms, sovereignty,
and Sandman.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
We'll talk about that with Richard coming up in a second.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
Give me one like Buttercup, something like that, or I
don't know, sparkles or Sunshine.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
The best of all time though, way before your time
was Secretariat.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
No, I remember Secretariat. I remember that? You know remember it?
You remember the video? I remember the name. I've seen
that half the movie that horse.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
I remember actually watching the Belmont with my dad in
nineteen seventy three, and for that horse to win by
thirty one links was the most dominant sporting event you've
ever seen. Yeah, that was that was the biggest. And
those other horses, you know, weren't going to the farm soon.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
They were. They were really good horses.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
I would like to see a horse that's like that,
looks like that has like a cow pattern that's like
black and white polka dots, and I want that cow
to be or I want that horse to be named Mumu.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
There you go, there you go.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
All right, all right, let's talk about the what we
were going to get into. The Boys in the Desert
have the Super Bowl odds post draft?
Speaker 2 (01:55):
Oh all right, now, I.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
Don't know how much things different than the Super odds
pre draft, because the teams that they have in the
top five would be the top five teams that I
would have picked before the draft started. Okay, so number
one's Philadelphia. I guess you're gonna Super Bowl champion, champion,
Bowl champions.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
There's going to be money on them to repeat. I
don't think they're going to do that.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
I don't even know that they're going to win the
division because I think Washington is so that's number. Two
teams are a tie. Oh, by the way, I think
Philadelphia is what plus five hundred.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
Or something like that.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
I think it was plus six fifty six fifty. All right,
they tie at plus seven hundred. That means you have
to bet I guess one hundred and ten dollars to
win seven hundred. Buffalo and Baltimore, Okay, I can and
again before the draft, I would have picked Buffalo and
Baltimore as the top two teams in the ASC. I
would have picked other teams other than the Philadelphia to
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to have to be the favorite just because they're the
Super Bowl chap that's super. They're super. I just don't think.
I don't think Philadelphia. I think it's hard to repeat anything.
I think it's especially hard to repeat in football, and
I I think it's going to be hard for them
to even win the division with Washington going to get
better than they were, and Washington was really good last year. Okay,
the Chiefs that are four at plus seven fifty and
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the Lions are next, I don't have a thought to me,
those are the now, I don't.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
I didn't ask you where Washington was. Did you still
have that up or not? I'll have to go grab it.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
But anyway, here's some other things. If you are a
diehard Cowboy fan, the Cowboys are the twenty first best
opportunity and best odds to win the Super Bowl at
plus seven thousand, and if you are just want to
throw your money away because neither one of these teams
have any chance, but you can get odds at plus
twenty five thousand. So if my math is correct, you
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bet one hundred and ten on either the Browns or
the Saints, and if either won wins, you win twenty
five grand.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
Okay, so the Lions would have been or Washington would
have been right behind the Lions at plus sixteen hundred.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
I don't bet on sports because I don't have time
and I don't want to research it, and I think
there's a method to it. But I think Washington is
gonna is gonna be in the NFC Championship Game again
next year. Well, and I think that whoever they play,
they're gonna they could potentially win it.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
They they added some some good pieces, you know, they
got Deebo Samuels from San Francisco. They got Houston Texans
offensive lineman Laromy Tunsel.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
But we do know that the sophomore slump is a
real thing, barring injury.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
I mean, look at CJ. Shroud the Houston Texans.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
You and I we were drinking the juice saying, along
with everybody else, Hey, the Texans could be a Super
Bowl champion or a Super Bowl contender, but they had
a lot of injuries, and especially an injury and the
big and the big and the injuries were to their
offense with their wide receivers in Joe Mixon, yep, and you.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
Need Joe, I don't care.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
I know it's Mark Vandermeer's job to push up every
player on the team. But Joe Mixon is running back one,
and the rest of the running backs are running back seventeen.
They're not running back too, and they wouldn't start for
an anybody else in the league. And I think Antonio
Pierce was that one of them. I got the right
name for Pierce, I don't remember. I think he's the backup,
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the backup running back. If he were not the backup,
somewhere there he Waymian Piers, Damian Pierce. Yes, he would
not have been a starter for most of the teams.
Or now he might have beat out Rico Daddell, but
that wouldn't have been hard to do anyway.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
Wow, so you hate Rico Daddles, So he would not
He only had forty carries for.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
That's because he was playing behind Nixon. But that's my point.
He wasn't that good. Uh, And so that's why the Saints,
why why the Texans struggled like they did.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
But once they got.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
Everybody healthy other than tang Dell, they were pretty good
in the playoffs and they were a couple of calls
away from beating Kansas City. Yeah, so that was that's
something to look at. Dallas is so Houston's at plus
four thousand, Dallas is at plus seven thousand. I understand
that we live in a world where everybody likes to gamble,
not everybody, well you and I do. That's why the
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NFL is what the NFL is. And it is amazing
to me that Pete Rosel made ABC fire Alex Karras
from the Monday Night Football Booth because he had ties
to Paul Hornick and gambling. And then we had the
Pete Rose stuff in baseball. And I understand that as
a player or a coach or someone affiliated with the
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game what you're allowed to do and not do when
it comes to gambling. But now we have announcers going
on the air and saying, here's here's the funny part
about the NFL and about the NBA. If you bet
on the sport, you're banned from from it, from life.
In the NFL, if you're an employee of any NFL team,
you can't bet on any sports, not just football. You
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can go into a casino and play slots or or
car table games, but you can't bet on any sport
if you're the concessionaire at at in RG Stadium for
the Texans or Jerry World. And yet the announcer who
you employ can read a card that says, here's the
online bet.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
Here, here's the going rate right now.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
From we were plus ten thousand, now where minus one thousand.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
Yeah, here's the spread.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
At the start of the game, it was the Texans
by by three and a half, and now it's the
Texans by ten and a half or some Just NFL
is not getting my money like that. Andy, I'm just saying.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
Well, there's there's something that when you when you do gambling,
there's those who do it, not even the experts don't
win all the time. But here's the way I look
at it. Experts, Well, there's people in Vegas that make
a living on gambling on sports. They just do yeah,
I mean, and they don't care. If they're down twenty
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thousand a day, they'll be up two hundred thousand tomorrow.
And they they their life fluctuates, and you know, they're
it's it's the old line from trading places. You know,
one minute you're up two hundred million dollars and the
next day they repossessed your Bentley.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
It's it's just it's.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
A volatile life style and they love it and that's
what they do. But they're professionals at it, and they
wouldn't live in the lap of luxury that they do
if they were wrong. But it does take a lot
of research, and it does take a lot of work.
And I think, you know, you can't predict what's going
to happen in a game, which you can do some
analytics on it and have a chance. It's like the
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racing form in a horse race is really hard to
read if you don't know what you're reading. But if
you want to take the time to understand it, most
horse people will tell you that at some point in
time you can figure it out and you can handicap
races and have some semblance of success. That doesn't mean
that the horse is going to have a bad day
and pull up on the on the back on the
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on the back stretch. But statistically speaking, you're going to
do that. But if you're just kind of winging it,
that's a good, good sure way to just lose all
your money. There's nobody that's winging it when it you
might as well go buy a lottery ticket. You've got
the same chance. And so I there's a number of
reasons why I don't bet on sports.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
But the biggest problem is is that I don't have time.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
And about ten twelve years ago, I was in a
fantasy league with Peter Burns and I quit doing it
because I didn't have time to fill out my roster.
And about four o'clock one Sunday afternoon, I went, I
wonder if I'm winning.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
Well I wasn't.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
Because I had six guys inactive, and so yeah, well
they were by week or they whatever. I didn't even
by the time I got around to doing it, it
was not a priority enough for me. And that's when
I texted him and said, I'm forfeiting the rest of
my games. I'm done. And I did never play it.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
Play it. I just you have to.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
If you're going to do something well, you have to
make it a priority. And I think if you're somebody
that gambles on sports for fun and you have a
limited budget, be your if that's your past time, do it.
You know, hopefully you're doing it legally. I'm sure most
of you are not in this state. But nonetheless, if
that's what you like to do, then go do it.
But if you think you're going to make a living
at it, you better make it better be the only
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thing you do other than be because your chances of
survival aren't very good. There's the phil ives that play
poker and they're really good at it because they've been studying.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
Poker for forty years.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
But if you just show up at the poker house
down the street and say I've never played before, guess what,
You're the guy that everybody's looking to take. You're the
one that's giving it your money away. There's the old saying,
there's a patsy in every poker game, and if you
don't know who it is, at you and most of
the time at you. So anyway, I understand why we
do this, But we are five months away from I
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guess four months away from the first game being played,
and now we're telling the world that Philadelphia is the
betting favorite because all of those places in Vegas are
thriving on people who are betting on sports based on
what happened in the draft, and I find it kind
of fascinating that they've chosen to do that.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
I hate the Eagles even more.
Speaker 3 (10:52):
They drafted one of my long horns, one of my
favorite long horns because of his name. They drafted Andrew
mccobaugh second d He was good, He was very good.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
He was the guy. He was the he was the.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
Player that got the game clinching interception against Asu.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
I told you that they were gonna draft worthy to
the Chiefs last year, and you were cringing. And then
on draft night, I said, we knew who it was.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
Before we knew who it was, I just sat there.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
I was as soon as Matthew Golden got passed up
by the Cowboys, I really had the text ready to go,
and I'm like, he's gonna Golden's gonna go to the
damn Chiefs Bay.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
Yeah, but this is bad. But I was like, oh,
don't do this to me again.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
But all right, coming up next, we're gonna talk Kentucky Derby.
And speaking of gambling, you get to bet on a
horse and hopefully the horse is in a good mood
on Saturday afternoon about six o'clock. We'll discuss that. Next,
it's the Andy Everage Show on the ticket