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The Early Edge: A Daily Sports Betting Podcast

Monday's BEST BETS: College Basketball Picks + MLB Futures

The Early Edge: A Daily Sports Betting Podcast

CBS Sports, Sports Betting, Sports Gambling, Picks

Football, Sports

4.5778 Ratings

🗓️ 16 February 2026

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

MONDAY's BEST BETS with Sia Nejad, Mike McClure, Larry Hartstein, and Amags as they hand out their plays for college basketball, MLB Futures, and MORE!


(0:00) Intro

(6:30) Mike's Iowa State-Houston Bet

(8:42) Amags' MLB Futures

(16:43) SportsLine's Iowa State-Houston Pick

(20:30) Larry's College Basketball Bet

(21:50) MLB Futures Picks


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Transcript

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0:00.0

Happy Monday, everyone.

0:10.4

Welcome to the Early Edge brought to you by BedMGM.

0:14.4

Make it legendary.

0:16.2

We've got a legendary cast on the show today.

0:18.3

Honestly, this is an amazing cast with a little bit of a

0:21.2

surprise for you, Major League Baseball surprise. But we got to look at the recap screen first. And I got

0:26.5

to own this. This is really on me in buckets. Shout out to Chip for hitting that over pretty

0:30.3

easily on Friday night. My golf plays just did not work out. Of course, one of those picks

0:35.9

was from earlier in the week.

0:42.8

Two of these were plus money, but that's really not telling you anything. I lost them either way.

0:47.5

Losing three out of four is not very good. Buckets loses his two picks. We got to bounce back,

0:54.8

and we have the crew to do it. Let's talk about Mike McClure, Larry Hartstein, and A-Mags is back on the show.

0:56.7

Of course, you popped in last week, Amags.

1:00.7

This must mean we are really close to Major League Baseball season.

1:04.3

Oh, yeah, this is kind of starting to get to the stretch run.

1:12.2

You get the WBC starting at the beginning of March, but you get spring training this Friday kicking off the first games on the 20th of February here. So I'm stoked, man. Amags, the WBC is, does that open up a

1:18.9

betting opportunity for you? I'm just curious. Is that something where you would actually bet on

1:22.5

or is that really entertainment value only? It's more entertainment. I will say, sometimes

1:26.7

you can find like a little sleeper team here, there. This year it's a little bit different with some of these guys either not playing for the teams that are not the USA. I mean, besides Mike Trout, or, you know, you have some kind of like, I guess you would say two years ago or three years ago whenever it was, we took Cuba. They were kind of a sleeper. I don't really see a team like that this year. I think the U.S. is pretty stacked. And then besides that, you have some international players not playing on their team. So I think it's more entertainment for me, but you may be able to find a sleeper every now and again with that tournament. Mike, I know you have follow-ups. So I want to go to you here before we get into our picks, but I also want to ask you, Jen's question. She says, should we be careful about MLB future overs because of a potential lockout? Now, those bets would just be void, right, Mike? I would assume they would be void. Definitely read the house rules wherever you're at. There may or may not even be a clause in there.

2:18.2

But in today's world, if you're betting those at like say, bet MGM, things like that,

2:24.0

I would be very stunned if the bets were not voided if the season didn't have a game's threshold.

2:30.6

So check the market.

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