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We had a legendary show for you yesterday.

It was the March Madness First Round Picks show. Make sure you go back and watch that or listen to it in your podcast feed on Apple or Spotify. More on that show later on. Let's see how we did on this show on Friday. Ladies and gentlemen, cover your eyes for the right side of the screen. We didn't have a great day. As you can see, 4 and 12 is not where we want to be. Bucket, Sprasco and Brady, sports line picks. Those don't come through. Chip Patterson goes two for four. Mike hits his Ludwig play extremely easily. I lost my golf matchup, but I did hit that Mac winner on Akron minus 115. Thanks to a last second three-pointer from Akron. What a game that was. All right, ladies and gentlemen, I don't know what to say other than we got to bounce back. And we're going to do that with the stars of the show. We got a great Monday coming your way with buckets, with Mike McClure, with Larry Hartstein, and with Mikey B. Buckets cover a, what were you doing there?? Were you for the audio listeners, you were shading the right side of the screen, right? Yeah, if you only look at the left side of the recap screen, that's not bad for a Friday, but it's not bad. Take that away. It's a little different. Yeah, not bad at all. Mike McClure, we had a great show yesterday. You, me, Larry, Chip Patterson stopped by. We had Bob,

Tom Casale, going over all the first round matchups. We actually filled out a bracket all together. So everyone, that's in your feed. Mike, what did you think of that show? Oh, it was great. Highly, I think you could still go back and watch a lot of it. Again, big takeaways. If you're here and you're not a sports line member, you should be because you must be in the Discord server.

Figure out a way to get in. Again, big takeaways. If you're here and you're not a sportsline member, you should be because you must be in the Discord server.

Figure out a way to get in there if you're not.

I know many have been members for a while, but certainly haven't joined the Discord server.

I would highly recommend it this time of year.

And you know, Mikey B, you're sometimes in the Discord server.

You're over at Sportsline as we have this show put up, thanks to Ben here, this first round early Betts show. Mikey B, John K4I is giving you your flowers. He says you're 10 and 1 in your last 11 prop picks over at Sportsline. Is that true? It is true. Yeah, I'm on a bit of a heater here. I appreciate that and I'll try to stay hot. All right. We're going to try to stay hot. Larry, how are you feeling today? We're going to get right into picks, but what's at the forefront of your mind? Is it filling out brackets? Is it first round bets? Is it world baseball classic? We got the NBA kind of rolling into playoff season. And by the way, I'm going to the Wizards Warriors game tonight.

So, FYI. Not super exciting to most, but FI. I have a bet for you, see it for the game. So we're good to go. It's going to be fun. Larry, how you feeling, buddy? I mean, all of the above I'm excited for. I'm excited for you to see the Warriors scrubs. They almost took down the Knicks. I mean, that was an incredible performance by like the bottom seven guys on the roster,

including a guy who was my student at Bradley University was in the starting lineup yesterday, Malaville, Leon's.

I hope I'm pronouncing his name right.

It was a good kid and it's exciting to see him in the box scores now.

But yeah, the Knicks came back and got it done but didn't come close to covering that number.

I'm excited for everything.

The expert brackets are starting to populate on the site.

Tom's is up already.

You can check it out on Sportsline and everybody here, maybe not including buckets and barner will have expert brackets up on the site yeah i'll have mine up as well

richard pierre says enjoy i'm going to brooklyn nets versus portland there's other people like

jason ray is saying see ya why referring to the game i'm going to tonight. Larry, real quick, what did you teach that Golden State Warrior player? Can you give us a little bit more context? It was, of course, called the business of sports betting for their communication school. Yeah. Probably shouldn't have asked. Buckets, let's get to some picks. You've got a soccer pick for us. We've got NHL picks for Mike. We've got college basketball picks. Again, we have that separate show, but we're going to bring a sports line pick to the show. We've got a lot going on, including a golf outright that I'm about to give out. And, of course, NBA picks. Puckets, go ahead. There's a lot of good games today this afternoon in the footballing slash soccer world, but there's a lot of very tough to bet on matches. You've got teams like Wolves playing. You've got teams like Levant playing in La Liga, Fiorentina playing in Syria, a lot of teams that if you like betting on goals, you maybe don't want to have too much out there on soccer. So I had to kind of narrow this down to just find a single bet for us taking place in the English championship. So you know Jeff Steinberg's going to be happy about this as Portsmouth are taking on Derby County. And we are reaching the point in the European seasons where we have to add an extra layer to a research here. Because now we're at the point where some teams no longer care about the remainder of the season. They aren't going to get promoted. They aren't going to get relegated. The motivation is going to die off slowly in the upcoming weeks for a few clubs. So we just have to remember that moving forward. These two teams are both still highly motivated. Derby County are currently sitting eighth on the table and they are just six points out of the promotion playoff zone. Meanwhile, Portsmouth are 20th on the table and are just one point ahead of the relegation zone.

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