This is You Better You Bet with Nick Costos, Femi Abeefay, and the crew, presented by BetMGM.

All right, all our bets for tonight coming up 20 minutes from now to close the show.

Let's be honest.

The main event to Major League Baseball happened already today, and he's on my screen right now.

Oh, baby.

He's not that handsome, but to me right now he's Brad Pitt David Bednar

Triple B people think that stands for big baller brands now big balls bednar striking out

Adolese Garcia Yankees win the Yankees win the Yankees are back. It was a rough stretch, but I feel like some momentum going into the Astros weekend series. I think the Yankees are back until they lose to the Astros like they always do. And then we can have a different conversation coming up on Monday. Joining us right now to talk Major League Baseball, the National Football League, and more. NBC sports batting analyst, our good friend, Jay Croucher, on Twitter at Croucher, J.D., my friend, welcome back to the show. What's going on? Yeah, good to see, Nick. I'm glad for your health that the Yankees won that game. I'm glad that they've extricated themselves from this Shakespearean farce that they've been in

for a week, just inventing new ways to lose games. I'm also glad they didn't lose that one in

particular because your man, BBB, Big Balls Bedner, he got called Strike 3 on Corey Seagrin

and they didn't call it and it was a walk. So I'm glad that he was able

to move past that. And I'm glad that Aaron Boone left him out there to throw 85 pitches.

Hopefully his arm doesn't fall off before they come home to play Houston.

Listen, you know, Aaron Boone's been getting so much criticism. He figured, you know,

let me take a page out of a really successful Yankee manager playbook with Joe Torrey, who tried to kill all his relievers, most notably, of course, Scott Proctor back in the day. 41 pitches for David Bednar to close the game out in the ninth inning today against the Texas Rangers, but the Yankees absolutely needed to win. Let's start in Major League Baseball, Jay. And this can be, you give us like a playoff, the Auto World Series thought if you have it, but you're so good with awards. And I was curious, do you have a Major League Baseball Awards bet right now for our listeners and viewers, and selfishly, for Femmy and myself? Yeah, so the bet that I would make on the board at the moment, and it's not the most

appetizing because it's a minus money price, but I think that Aaron Judge will just win MVP

so long as he stays healthy and the Yankees don't completely implode.

And if they do completely implode, but he maintains being Aaron Judge and doing

Aaron Judge things for the next seven weeks, then I think that he would win anyway.

So I think that that is a reasonable parley leg, Judge MVP.

I think that people have perhaps lost track of just how significant the gap is,

statistically, between Aaron Judge and Cal Rale, who has really kind of fallen off

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