Friday's BEST BETS: NBA Playoff Picks + MLB Props + Soccer + UFC
The Early Edge: A Daily Sports Betting Podcast
CBS Sports, Sports Betting, Sports Gambling, Picks
4.5 • 778 Ratings
🗓️ 17 April 2026
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
It's BPE Friday! Join Sia Nejad, Buckets, Chip Patterson, Mike Barner, and Danny Brasco as they give out their BEST BETS for the NBA Playoffs, UFC Fight Night, MLB, and MORE!
(0:00) Intro
(5:55) Buckets' Soccer Picks
(9:23) Chip's Golf Pick
(13:15) Sia's Golf Pick
(14:50) Free Sportsline NBA, MLB Picks
(17:25) Danny's UFC Fight Night Bets
(22:09) Mikey B's NBA Props
(25:45) Soccer Rapid Fire Bets
(28:38) Model HR Picks + Bonus Sportsline Bet
(31:45) EPL Thoughts and Board Game Arguments
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Good morning, everyone. Welcome to the Early Edge, brought to you by BetMGM, make it legendary. We've got a great show for you lined up. Happy Friday to everyone in the chat.ason here ryan cofter james rainwater john cholican |
| 0:22.4 | here caper taylor thanks for being in here hit the like button we're gonna drop an extra pick |
| 0:26.5 | when we get to 150 likes so let's just go ahead and do that right away let's look at the recap screen |
| 0:31.3 | before we bring in the stars of the show we had a pretty bad day yesterday pretty bad day today |
| 0:36.4 | again it's been a good three or four weeks, but two bad days in a row. |
| 0:40.5 | No working around it. |
| 0:41.4 | I go one for two. |
| 0:42.2 | The sports line picks go one for two, but we've got X's across the board for a two and six. |
| 0:47.6 | So, ladies and gentlemen, all we can do is bounce back from this. |
| 0:50.9 | And we're going to bounce back with some vibes with some picks and some winners on |
| 0:54.6 | BPE Friday. |
| 1:00.2 | Let's go. |
| 1:03.2 | We got Biky Pee. |
| 1:05.0 | We got buckets. |
| 1:06.7 | We got Brasco. |
| 1:08.2 | We got Chip. |
| 1:09.6 | I don't know what fuckets. What's going on with buckets? I don't know. |
| 1:13.8 | You know what? You do that. You do the chip me up. You bring that nonsense. I got to hear more. Come on. Let's go. Oh, you didn't know what you stepped into today, Bucket. Oh, let's go. Come on. |
| 1:22.6 | I was trying to put on my serious face because we need to. Good morning. Jim Patterson. Good morning. Mike Börner. Good morning. See a good morning. Danny Brasco. Good morning. Good morning. Early edge, fam. You got that. Buh, bo bo bo bo bo bo bo bo bo bo bo bo bo bo bo bo bo bo bo bo bo bo b bannardardard afternoon. You might notice that the shelves are empty. What's going on? What's happening? Nothing's changing. It's all the same damn thing every Friday, baby. We're here to bring you winners. Let's go. Wow. That was pretty good, Jim. Like, do you also have a chip me up or are we just going with buckets today good |
| 2:01.8 | good morning buckets go morning daddy go morning bench good morning hurley hedge fam to take you behind |
| 2:09.3 | the curtain i'm gonna let you know that buckets is going to be moving i'm gonna let you know |
| 2:12.8 | that bin's going to be moving and you know what you need to have that strong all up on high. We're talking about strength to a hundred plus and that's what you need to bring to your Friday. That's what you need to bring to your weekend. Let's go. Wow. Danny Brascoe, the only person that could possibly follow that is you. What do you have to say? Good morning. No way. Katie Taylor said, I think all of you should just do one at this point. But that would be outrageous. I'm fired up. Double chit me up. Yeah, the empty shelves from buckets through me. But moving day, it looks like for both of you guys. Moving on up, I hope. I mean, good stuff, y'all. Big changes and big Friday energy here. I'm ready to rock. UFC Winnipeg this weekend. See the Canadian cards, lokey always banners. |
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