Friday's BEST BETS: Kentucky Derby + NBA + MLB + UFC
The Early Edge: A Daily Sports Betting Podcast
CBS Sports, Sports Betting, Sports Gambling, Picks
4.5 • 778 Ratings
🗓️ 1 May 2026
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Happy BPE Friday! Our crew of Sia Nejad, Buckets, Mike Barner, Chip Patterson, and Danny Brasco dish out their picks for the NBA and NHL playoffs, MLB, UFC Fight Night, and MORE!
(0:00) Intro
(1:37) Recap Screen
(2:50) AIM Screen Names
(5:30) Chip's Golf Pick
(9:45) Buckets' Rapid Fire 60 Seconds Picks
(17:27) Danny's UFC Fight Night Picks
(21:36) Sportsline MLB, Kentucky Derby Picks
(22:21) Mikey B's NBA Props
(26:51) Sia's Golf Pick
(28:56) Bonus MLB, NBA, Golf Bets
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Good morning, everyone. |
| 0:10.0 | Welcome to the Early Edge. |
| 0:11.5 | A very happy Friday and happy May to everyone. |
| 0:15.4 | You're going to see the Justin Timberlake Jiff for at least the next 24 hours. |
| 0:20.0 | So brace yourself for that. But let's see if we need to brace ourselves for the recap screen. Of course, this show brought to you by BetMGM. Make it legendary. Nice recap screen. We wanted a bounce back and we got the bounce back. Larry continues the heater. Amags hits. The sports line picks hit. Tom Casale goes one for two and that that college lacrosse pick, just like he said, was tied down the stretch, but they end up losing by two instead of one, so we don't cover that one. Ladies and gentlemen, we will take seven and three every single time. Want to say hi to T.J. Harrop in here, Big Rody, John Cholak. We've got so Eric David, Jen is in here already. |
| 0:55.4 | Hit the like button if you could. Not for me. Not for the 7 and 3 recap screen. |
| 1:01.3 | Hit the like for BPE Friday. |
| 1:10.1 | Let's go. We got Mikey. We got buckets. We got Danny Brasco. And ladies and gentlemen, we've got your chip me up with Chip Patterson. |
| 1:21.6 | Good morning, see you. Good morning. Mikey. Good morning. Daddy. Good morning, Holy Edge, fam, and hap, hop, hop, happy anniversary to AOL Instant Messenger. |
| 1:34.4 | Launched on this day back in 1997, Early Edge Fam. |
| 1:39.9 | Fill up the chat with your favorite AIM away message as we celebrate those of us of a certain generation. |
| 1:45.8 | Let's go and see ya. |
| 1:47.4 | I happen to know I wasn't on the show, but I happen to know that your AOL instant messenger name is of quite some fame. |
| 1:55.7 | It is of quite some fame. |
| 1:57.5 | Okay, the away's message thing is fantastic. |
| 1:59.7 | Mikey B, I know you have something to add to |
| 2:01.4 | this because i believe you are of a certain age danny brasco maybe you as well i think people famously know |
| 2:06.3 | that i have the just cheesiest no offense big cheesy uh aOL screen name of a i am screen name of |
| 2:13.3 | all time it was cia mac daddy all one word yes i embarrassed about it, but it's a story I have to tell. |
| 2:18.5 | Mikey B, what was your AOL screen name? First of all, I just want to say, as we all know, I still |
| 2:23.8 | use my AOL email, so this is a momentous day for me in terms of anniversary-wise. |
| 2:29.5 | My screen name, now, I was a farmer. I didn didn't have cows but my screen name was N1 |
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