Friday's BEST BETS: Thunder vs. Spurs Gm 3 Picks + MLB + Soccer
The Early Edge: A Daily Sports Betting Podcast
CBS Sports, Sports Betting, Sports Gambling, Picks
4.5 • 778 Ratings
🗓️ 22 May 2026
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Happy BPE Friday! Join Sia Nejad, Buckets, Chip Patterson, Amags, and Mike Barner as they dish out their picks for Spurs vs. Thunder, Soccer, MLB, and MORE!
(0:00) Intro
(2:43) Positive Recap Screen
(4:15) How Bad is Sam Merrill?
(6:43) Amags' Dodgers Bet
(8:45) Astros-Cubs Picks
(11:31) Buckets' Soccer Bets
(16:40) Chip's Golf Pick
(20:38) Free Sportsline NBA Prop
(22:27) Mikey B's Thunder-Spurs Props
(26:18) Bonus NBA, MLB Picks
(32:38) Sia's Golf Pick
(36:42) Rapid Fire Soccer Bets
(39:09) HR Chart Picks
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Good morning, everyone. Happy Friday and welcome to the Early Edge, brought to you by BedMGM, Make It Legendary. |
| 0:14.7 | Another great show lined up for you today. We've got a lot of picks, a lot of personalities, and a lot of fun. |
| 0:19.4 | I see a bunch in the chat already from Ryan and Dweesey and Jerry. Joe Newenfeldt in here, Steve Fulker, it's Big Cheezy. Hit the like button if you could. Let's see if we like the recap screen as we turn to 5.3 and 1. Not bad. I go 2 and 0, including some plus money in there. A max hitss hits his play. Mike's a push. Mikey B. one for two. Almost two for two there. And we got to talk to Mikey B. about that Sam Meryl play because it felt like that one should have come in as well. And ladies and gentlemen, we get a chance to talk to Mikey B on BPE Friday. |
| 1:01.5 | Let's go. |
| 1:03.9 | We got serious buckets. |
| 1:05.2 | We got Mikey B. |
| 1:06.4 | We got A-Mags. |
| 1:09.6 | And we've got Chip Patterson for your Friday. |
| 1:10.6 | Chip me up. |
| 1:15.3 | Good morning, see, good morning, bucket, scum, on it, bucky, go, morning, Hey, Max, go, morning, head, fam. |
| 1:19.0 | And I got to tell you, oh, it hurt. |
| 1:22.5 | I got a whooping last night, courtesy of the Montreal Canadians. |
| 1:26.6 | Oh, buddy. You know, sometimes when you get old like this and you've been in the playoffs for eight straight seasons, you know, too much time off ain't a good thing, but we're bouncing back, see ya. We got golf winners for you. And I'm fired up to hear what everyone's got. Let's go. I've got a on the canadians to win the east that i didn't |
| 1:46.2 | advertise i i stole when i was hosting a cbs sports hq uh primetime pregame uh hour and uh it was |
| 1:53.9 | somebody who said hey montreal's got a chance and so i'm holding on to this ticket i got a nice |
| 1:58.0 | cash out option but i'm going to ride it i think carolina's going to come back and win. Mikey B. Let's go to the NBA. We're going to get to Picks in just a |
| 2:03.8 | second. So somebody in the chat said, hey, Sam Merrill is trash. And I'm thinking to myself, boy, that prop of yours, you went one for two, you had a good day, you had an okay day. But like that Sam Merrill prop, 0 for 7 from 3, I mean, that's the volume you want on a play like that. |
| 2:19.9 | Yeah, exactly. He looked like... but like that Sam Merrill prop, 0 for seven from three, I mean, that's the volume you want on a play like that. |
| 2:19.9 | Yeah, exactly. |
| 2:20.8 | He looked like he was shook. |
| 2:23.1 | I mean, that one rimmed out at the end of the fourth quarter there. |
| 2:26.5 | And then yesterday, his first couple shots didn't go in. |
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