⚾️🏈 Best Bets in Baseball for Friday - MLB Predictions and Picks (8/27)
The Early Edge: A Daily Sports Betting Podcast
CBS Sports, Sports Betting, Sports Gambling, Picks
4.5 • 778 Ratings
🗓️ 27 August 2021
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
The Coach, Jonathan Coachman, is joined by Allie O’Neill, Mike McClure and Larry Hartstein to dish out Friday’s best bets.
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ABOUT THE SHOW: Looking for the best picks against the spread and prop plays you can take straight to the pay window? Join Jonathan Coachman on The Early Edge as he speaks with SportsLine's top handicappers to analyze the day's biggest games. From primetime showdowns to off-the-radar action, Early Edge gives you best bets in a quick, informative and easy-to-digest podcast. We promise to keep it short, sweet and to the point as SportsLine's featured experts come together to put some green in your pocket.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | What's good, everybody. |
| 0:10.6 | It is Friday, August 27. |
| 0:12.5 | This is your daily sports betting show of record. |
| 0:14.9 | We like to call it the early as we are powered by the almighty sports line. |
| 0:18.7 | I am the coach. |
| 0:20.6 | And I tell you what, when Jay smooth gets backed |
| 0:22.9 | into a corner, he comes out fighting. He goes two and oh last night, two and oh last night as we |
| 0:28.9 | show our recap right now. And thanks goodness for Alabama. She hits the Dodgers late. A nice way to |
| 0:35.7 | end the night for us. By the way, if you notice, |
| 0:38.2 | Philly's not on the recap because we tell you all the time. |
| 0:40.9 | Our baseball picks, |
| 0:41.9 | it's conditional on pitchers. |
| 0:43.9 | You have to pay attention. |
| 0:45.4 | Their starter came off. |
| 0:46.5 | That game came off the board. |
| 0:47.9 | So if you played it, |
| 0:48.9 | you played it at your own risk. |
| 0:50.7 | All right. |
| 0:51.0 | With that being said, let's bring in the stars of the show because we have some very serious business to take care of here. |
| 0:58.2 | I don't like doing it. It doesn't make me feel good. But M squared when somebody named Alabama goes directly against you, looks you in the eyes, says, uh-uh, Mikey, I don't like that pick. And then you |
| 1:12.3 | have to slam dunk her on your first day. Please talk to me. I had to, you know, I, uh, it's my first |
| 1:20.5 | show with her. I've been on vacation for so long. It's, you know, she feels like she's been a part of |
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