Friday's BEST BETS: Sweet 16 Picks + MLB + UFC
The Early Edge: A Daily Sports Betting Podcast
CBS Sports, Sports Betting, Sports Gambling, Picks
4.5 • 778 Ratings
🗓️ 27 March 2026
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
It's BPE Friday! Join Sia Nejad, Danny Brasco, Mike McClure, Buckets, and Tom Casale as they give out their plays for the Sweet 16, MLB, and MORE!
(0:00) Intro
(5:43) Buckets' Soccer Picks
(9:33) Tom's Sweet 16 Bet
(14:27) Free Sportsline CBB, MLB Picks
(16:39) Danny's UFC Fight Night Picks
(21:00) Michigan State-UConn Picks
(23:31) Mike's Sweet 16 Bet
(26:12) Sia's Golf Pick
(27:50) Bonus MLB, CBB Picks
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Good morning, Early Edge family. |
| 0:11.4 | Welcome to the Early Edge. |
| 0:13.1 | We are brought to you by BetMGM, Make It Legendary. |
| 0:16.5 | We've got a great show lined up for you today. |
| 0:19.3 | I want to say, happy Friday. |
| 0:20.8 | Let's have a great weekend. And let's see if we had a great show lined up for you today. I want to say, happy Friday. Let's have a great weekend. |
| 0:22.3 | And let's see if we had a great recap screen. |
| 0:25.7 | I'll tell you what, it's been a winning recap screen every single day this week. |
| 0:30.3 | And that includes our Thursday recap eight, four and one. |
| 0:33.9 | Look at Chip Patterson. |
| 0:35.4 | Tom Casale, nailing Arizona with with chip larry hartstein two for two |
| 0:39.4 | amazes his baseball play sports line picks go two for three we will absolutely take eight four and one |
| 0:46.9 | and ladies and gentlemen i mean what a week we've got we've got such a like sports equinox thing |
| 0:52.7 | going on with so many things colliding right now. |
| 0:55.4 | I see you tailored winnings. |
| 0:56.4 | I see Augustaulson. |
| 0:57.4 | I see you, Jen, Swiss B. |
| 0:59.6 | Ron Moore. |
| 1:00.3 | Thanks for being in here. |
| 1:01.3 | And welcome to BPE Friday. |
| 1:09.8 | Let's go. We got buckets. We got Danny Brasco. We got Mike on the road. We got, be careful buckets. I don't, we got Tom Casale. We don't have Chip Patterson because he's courtside somewhere watching these March Madness games. But I don't know. Let's pick a name out of a hat. Buckets. Lead us off. It's just impossible. You can't match that. I can't be the chip cappuccino in your back pocket. I can't be that bubba, bu, but, but battery getting you hyped up here on the BPE Friday. I have to do my own thing because I am my own person here, see us. So I'm going to bring it down a notch. I'm going to bring you all down to my level. And we're going to have a good, profitable, relaxing, quiet BPE Friday, mixing up a bit, little ASMR style. And I'm excited to be here with all of you today, Sia. Let's just get after it. That was better than I thought it was going to be. I got to be honest. |
| 2:01.5 | Danny Brasco, your thoughts? That was fantastic. He really switched the vibe up on him, Buckets. Always be yourself. It'll always work out, man. Yo, we had Israel Adasanya headlining a UFC fight night. I'm fired up to be back. I missed you guys. I was in Mexico last weekend on a Bachelor party. so I'm very happy to say that all 20 of us survived. |
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