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The Early Edge: A Daily Sports Betting Podcast

Monday's BEST BETS: NBA Playoff Picks + NHL Playoffs + MLB

The Early Edge: A Daily Sports Betting Podcast

CBS Sports, Sports Betting, Sports Gambling, Picks

Football, Sports

4.5778 Ratings

🗓️ 20 April 2026

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Join our expert handicappers Sia Nejad, Mike Barner, Amags, Mike McClure, and Jeff Hochman as they dish out their picks for the NBA and NHL playoffs, MLB, and MORE!


(0:00) Intro

(4:21) Amags' MLB Pick

(5:52) Sia's MLB Pick

(8:01) Mike's NHL Pick

(11:14) Free Sportsline NBA Prop

(14:57) Mikey B's NBA Props

(18:10) Bonus MLB Props

(19:44) Jeff's NHL Pick

(21:37) Bonus NBA, MLB Bets

(25:13) Model HR Picks

(26:11) More NBA Props and Picks


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Transcript

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0:00.0

Good morning, everyone,

0:10.2

happy Monday, and welcome to the Early Edge, brought to you by BetMGM, Make

0:14.9

It Legendary.

0:16.1

We've got a great Monday show for you today, but I do want to tell everybody, a quick programming note, if you're not already in our sports line discord and you didn't see this, we don't only have the 10 o'clock early edge. At 5.30, we've got an NBA playoff show to throw out you. It's going to be Prop Stars, Leigh Hartstein, and Adam A.T.M. Thompson, again, at 5.30 on this Sportsline YouTube channel, we're bringing your NBA playoff props and picks. Speaking of picks, let's look at the recap screen before we bring in the stars of the show. We needed a bounce back end. Oh, look at this. Nine, three, and one. A lot of things to talk about here. Sportsline picks go three and no. Propy hits. Chip Patterson, aka Lynx Patterson, hits. I hit my golf pick. Brady Cannon with the Akshay Batia top 20. He finishes

0:59.5

T-16. You love to see if Buckets goes one for two. Brascoe 1-0-1 and Mikey B. But he has been

1:07.5

hot all season. And speaking of Mikey B. Let's bring in the stars of the show because we don't only have Mike Barner, but we've got Mike McClure, we've got A-Mags, we've got Jeff Hockman. Mikey B, I'm going to start with you. We got the playoffs tonight. I know you've got some NBA playoff prop picks. I know you can't make the show at 530 night. How you doing, buddy? I'm good.

1:27.6

Yeah, sorry, I can't make the show.

1:29.3

My wife is traveling this week, so I am on full dad duty. You got two activities for the kids tonight, but I will hopefully have them in bed by like 9, 930, so I can watch most of that NBA action. Jeff Hockman, you were, I don't know if you know this or not, but your sports line picks in the MLB were utilized last week quite a bit, and you hit all of them. Talk to me about whether you're coming with MLB or NHL today. Yeah, we're coming with NHL today. It's the playoff, so I thought I'd bring an NHL selection that I really like at Plus Money as well. Mike McClure, talk to me about the RBC Heritage. I had Scotty Shepler in One and Done. I know our guy Buckets had Tommy Fleetwood. How did you do with the RBC? And what did you come with today? Hockey, baseball, NBA. What is it? Not a good week at RBC for me. Just missed on a lot. The only bright spot was Scotty being top five.

2:19.6

Bringing some NHL here today.

2:22.1

We'll dive into MLB, like my real first jump in with volume for the season starting

2:29.1

tomorrow in Major League Baseball.

2:31.5

So look out for that on Discord on the site.

2:33.9

But today, NHL playoffs, if you know me, you probably know where I'm going. You just may not know which game I'm going to. That's exactly right. I feel like we're headed to a first period under. I see Liddy in the chat. Danny Brasco dropping cricket picks. Joe Nguyenfeldt is in the check. Amags, you're in the chat as well. we've got a pretty good MLB slate. And honestly, I'd like to get right in it because I'm cheating. I'm looking at the rundown right now. And it looks like you and I have some synergy, which is really cool for two reasons. One is because I always like to be on a similar side as you. The other is the game we have synergy on starts in an hour and five

3:09.8

minutes. Talk to me about the Tigers. Oh, yeah. This is the one you look forward to every year that

3:15.9

you get the 11 a.m. a nice early morning baseball. So I'm excited about the Patriots Day game here,

3:22.1

but maybe not for the reason that the Red Sox fans would hope.

3:25.5

I think there's going to be a lot of juice in this building here today, Fenway Park.

3:28.7

But I'm going to go with the Tigers in the first five on their team total over one and a half,

3:34.8

honestly projecting to go a good bit over two here. And you're going to go up against Sunny Gray,

3:40.1

who maybe at face value when you see the name, you think, you know, kind of ace pitcher and that former guy. But this is, this number is over in three of his four starts so far this year. And some of the underlying stuff when you look at the expected Wobah and some of his pitches here, it's just not really a lot to like. So I'm going to stick with the tigers who

3:58.1

have been rolling. They now have kind of flipped their season. They started off losing 9 of 11 had a

4:05.3

really, really tough run, but they have just been winning and winning and winning now. So I think

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