⚾️ MLB PLAYOFF FUTURES: World Series Predictions + Wild Card Game Picks From Baseball Expert
The Early Edge: A Daily Sports Betting Podcast
CBS Sports, Sports Betting, Sports Gambling, Picks
4.5 • 778 Ratings
🗓️ 4 October 2021
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
The Coach, Jonathan Coachman, is joined by John Bollman to preview the 2021 MLB postseason. “The Executive” goes though his Wild Card game picks and his favorite World Series futures + Division Series plays.
1:30 - Wild Card Game Picks
4:00 - Astros-White Sox Series Pick
5:45 - World Series Predictions
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| 0:00.0 | What's good, everybody. I am the coach and welcome into the Major League Baseball playoff preview edition of the early at your daily sports betting show of record. |
| 0:19.4 | We are powered by the almighty sports line, the best value inured daily sports betting show of record. We are powered by the almighty sports line, |
| 0:22.0 | the best value in all of sports betting. And I got to tell you, if you don't follow my star on |
| 0:29.6 | Twitter and follow his baseball picks of sports line, I don't know what you're doing. Because |
| 0:33.7 | John Bowman is up over $5,000 in his last 275 picks. |
| 0:40.2 | That's right. |
| 0:40.6 | For $100 better, you would have won over $5,000 if you followed this man's picks. |
| 0:44.4 | He is fully transparent all the time on Twitter. |
| 0:46.6 | I encourage you to follow him. |
| 0:48.2 | But right here, right now, he is all about this year's playoffs. |
| 0:51.7 | Let's bring in the star of the show. |
| 0:53.0 | And there he is, Mr. |
| 0:55.9 | Analytics, the smartest guy in the room. John Bolman, welcome to the early edge, sir. |
| 1:01.2 | And glad to be back, coach. It's great to have you back. We saw you. It's hard to believe. |
| 1:06.1 | It's been like six months as we did the preview pods. But that's over now. |
| 1:11.2 | That's over now. |
| 1:12.1 | We got to look forward to the playoffs. |
| 1:13.5 | I know you're locked and loaded. |
| 1:14.6 | So let's go ahead and show everybody what the playoffs look like this year. |
| 1:17.8 | Couldn't have any better matchups in the wild card games. |
| 1:21.1 | The Yankees traveling to Boston take on the Red Sox on Tuesday. |
| 1:24.3 | Then the Cardinals traveling to L.A. |
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