The numbers told the story they always do. It's one of those idiots who believe in analytics. This is a numbers game with Gil Alexander gone Veson. Good Tuesday morning to you. It is a numbers game at Veson. The sports betting network, Veson.com, Game Plus, Ihard Radio, YouTube TV. And of course, Siri sex up channel 158. It's Gil Alexander. To my left, to your right. Danny Higgins. Not Kelly Bittling. temporarily in for Kelly

Bill. sex up channel 158 it's gill alexander to my left to your right danny higgins not kelly billin

temporarily in for kelly biddle temporarily how you doing danny you good been pretty good yeah and would

you like to tell us why you're in this chair for the first segment uh let's just say Kelly might

have slept a little too long today slept a little too long yeah yep yeah uh didn't hear from this morning, which sometimes happens. And then by 6.15, I was like, all right, what's going on? Send him a text. Yeah. Nothing. Start calling his phone. Nothing. You're worried that something terrible happened to him? Yeah. I went downstairs just to see if, you know, he was doing Hardaway handicappers,

and he wasn't down there. No, I'm not doing that either. So Rob Moreno and Johnny Campbell down there. I was like, you guys seen Kelly? They're like, nope. I go, all right. Here we go. Well, a much deserved sleep for Kelly Bedlin, because Lord knows, what a weekend he had with all of guests from out of town.

Oh, yeah.

Was that this weekend?

Oh, is his dad this week?

His dad this weekend, yes.

Listen, I've done this for, I've done this show for nine plus years. The first year I missed a segment, one segment from oversleeping, 2017. Then if you remember last summer, summer of 2025, I missed one morning. I i missed two segments i do remember that if you

do this enough it will happen that doesn't that's like to stop us from giving them all kinds

of guff this morning about it galley bidlin will be here when he gets here yes next segment the

segment after that we don't know on the show today drew dinsic will join us uh as he always does

talk NBA playoffs with us and of course the, the Kentucky Derby, the run for the roses on Saturday, the first Saturday in May. We'll get Drew's final takes on this. As we'll talk Derby all week, we're going to have Felica and Four in a Talon later this week to discuss the Kentucky Derby as well. But Drew's final take on this, where Renegade is the short shot right now. If he has any Claycourt tennis, we'll get that from Drew as well. Mark Bortchard on baseball. Jake Hahn this hour on the Stanley Cup playoffs, which has just been awesome. We'll get his take, by the way, VGK, the Golden Knights golden knights oh what a game that was i think i mean

i don't know how that series is two to two but it somehow it's two to two golden nights just

get off the door uh the dormant last night when they looked they look like they're going to run away

with that game and then just gacked a lead and then made it happen in overtime. So two to two in that series. We'll talk to Jake about all series of the six that remain in the first round of the Stanley Cup playoffs. Paul Carr on the Champions League. We'll tuck some NBA props later as well. We start with the NBA last night. I mean, there's so much to get to because we also have to bring up Mason Miller with Mark Bortchard.

Mason Miller finally had a terrible night last night. It felt like it was coming. Like his strikeout performances were starting to wane. He didn't say it could last out and he didn't have any, he didn't even have a strikeout his last out of. Yeah. And then last night, so we'll talk to Mark Bortchard about that as well. NBA playoffs yesterday, and we will talk about this rookie of the year vote coming up as well,

where Cooper Flagg wins rookie of the year over Khan Kneppel in a vote that they say is the second closest

that has existed since this point system came into play.

But was it really that close when it came to first place votes?

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