A Numbers Game | May 21, 2026 | Hour 1
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🗓️ 21 May 2026
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| 0:00.0 | 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 VISA. Good Thursday morning to you. It is a numbers game. and VISA, the SportsBetting Network, visa.com, game, plus iHeartRadio, YouTube TV, Sirius XM Channel 158. So many ways to take us in. We appreciate that you choose any of them. One is all required. It's Gil Alexander. It's Kelly Bidlin. Hey, what up? Not a moocho. Not a moocho, my friend. OKC, dots up the Western Conference Finals. Best of 7 at 1 apiece. We'll get to that momentarily on the show today. |
| 0:38.2 | Matt Grissom on college baseball conference tournaments in full effect. |
| 0:42.4 | Zach Cohen will join us as part of the Zach and Crack comedy duo today. |
| 0:45.7 | Talk NBA with us. |
| 0:47.3 | Tennis. |
| 0:48.1 | Maybe he's got some Clay Court tennis left for today by the time he gets here. |
| 0:52.1 | And of course we'll get preliminary thoughts because right now, literally right before the show, the French Open draw came out. I'm looking at it for the first time. So in between segments, during the breaks, I'm going to have to sort of sketch out what I think, who got the best of it, who got the worst of it, men's and women's. Zach will have his thoughts on that as well coming up. And then, of course, Zach, Drew and I will do the entire French Open podcast, The Beating of the Book, betting podcast, French Open style. A little after this show today. So we look forward to that. Joe Sheehan on baseball. I did mention Zach and Crack. Crack, unscripted, back in the fold of day looking forward to that i think is the the sack and crack |
| 1:29.4 | comedy duo should be like improv it should be i i was how much money would you pay to go see are you |
| 1:35.1 | kidding me like that would be in all-timer in all time he's spectacular can i give you the |
| 1:41.3 | can i give you the potential novac draw real quick of who. Who he could face each? This is pretty brutal. So round one, Parachard, right? That's what he's name? Paracard? He'll beat him. Okay. And then round two, Royer slash Q. I don't know what that is. In Roy A. Okay, thank you. He'll beat him. And then Fonseca, round three. Uh-oh rude. Uh-oh. That's a big, uh-oh. Quarterfinals would be Rublev, uh, Demonauer, Mensik, Etcheveri, semifinals, Veriv, Fritz, Hachinov, Lahek. You're talking about options here. People are going to be like, what do you mean? |
| 2:17.9 | He's playing all those people in the cellis. |
| 2:19.2 | Corrified semis. |
| 2:20.2 | And then finals, it would be sitter obvious. |
| 2:21.8 | I'm going to tell you, when you got to Fonse. Here's the thing. Novak Djokovic can make us all look stupid. There's always that possibility. but I don't think he's beating rude, |
| 2:31.9 | even if he gets by Fonseca. |
| 2:34.5 | Casper Rude's clay numbers are off the charts. I mean, and that's not even, I mean, Perricard, like, that's not like a joke opener either, right? Well, on clay, it is. It is on, okay. Yeah, his serve gets minimized on the slow red clay of Roland Garros. I can't wait to talk it on the pod today. |
| 2:51.8 | More random tennis players potential paths throughout the show from Kelly Bidlin. |
| 2:56.0 | As I butcher names. |
| 2:58.8 | We'll get Kelly do the language of it, too. |
| 3:00.8 | He can play either of these guys. |
| 3:04.3 | Also, I think I need to spend 90 seconds in tribute to the Vegas Golden Knights at some point on the show today. |
| 3:10.8 | Because Vegas Golden Knights taking one to nothing lead over the Colorado Avalanche, best of seven Western Conference final in the NHL with a 4-2 win yesterday. |
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