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right two things, but let's do a couple of things first. First of all, again, happy Monday. Let's keep it positive with a World Cup game tonight that everybody's going to be watching. Let's look at the recap screen before we bring in the stars of the show. We go eight and six. I go two out of three on my plays. Mike McClure hits his play. Brad Thomas, one for two. Sports line picks two out of three.

We see Amags one for two there as well, buckets one for two. Not bad. Eight and six we will take, but I think we can improve upon that. We're going to do that with a sports line pick. Let's start off the show with some baseball. Freddie Freeman over one and a half total bases minus 105. that one courtesy of Jeff Hockman.

Now, ladies and gentlemen, I did mention we got to get right to it.

So let's go ahead and bring in the stars of the show on an early edge Monday. We've got Brad Thomas. We've got buckets. We've got A-Mags for baseball. Calvin Wetzel, a couple WNBA picks from him. But buckets, we got to start with you because you're big time yes now you got a lot of

stuff going on galato network in about 10 15 minutes so here's what we're going to do we're going to

get your soccer picks and then we're going to answer some questions before you get out of here so

before introductions you go buckets i see you hi Hi. Can you hear me? Yes.

Okay, awesome. Yeah, I've got Galapowitz, but I'm also back on something with you and Brad at noon, so that's good, too. Two bets for everyone. Sorry, I'm so tired. We're going to start with the Spain versus Portugal match, and this is the one I'm the most excited about. I know USA are playing today. I'm not going to get into any of the balligan stuff.

I will let Brad handle that exclusively because I am keeping my hands clean of this one. But Spain and Portugal, money to be had because Portugal is just not a good team. I'm looking around to make sure that nobody here hears me say that with Ronaldo and all that. I get it. But Spain is the better team in Portugal, this team with this God tier midfield, this midfield that was going to cruise to the finals, we're going to beat everyone. They're just not playing together. They're playing for themselves. The team playing very selfish football. And there's no in that midfield. And if you don't have synergy against Spain, you're in for a brutal time here. Spain over one and a half team total at minus 110s. Feels like the way to make money on this game because I wouldn't be shocked is Spain to end up really popping off today and finding three goals. O'Yarthobal has been amazing. Laminia Mall is back in the starting lineup. Nico Williams is finally looking fit to get some serious playtime. I'm expecting Spain to take care of business, which is why my second bet is also on the Spain game. Mikhail or Yarthobal to score or assist. I know that everyone wants to take Lamin Amal to score assist. He's minus 150 or Yarthabal, the guy who has five goal contributions in four games, he's minus 120. I'm going for the better look here. I'm going for that guy in the nine spot and I'm going to go for the guy that will be hopefully linking up with Yamal as well. I expect Spain to win this one. Let's go 3-1 Spain. They probably do concede their first goal, but Spain has not lost a competitive gain in regulation in 34 matches now. Spain taking care of this is here. All right. Let's get to a couple of questions,

because I know you've got to get out of here in about five minutes. Who takes more shots? Your Yalthabal or Yomal? I'm going to go with Oriartha Ball to get more shots. That's not to say that Lameen won't have any shots, but he, I think he'll be more of an assist role here. He'll be the creator rather than the goal score.

By the way, Ben, can you put that comment back up that I neglected to read? I know we're short on time, but I actually have to read this comment. I think this is from Bet It All Saul. My mom called me this morning just to ask if Buckets was on the early edge. And for the record, I 100% believe that comment. Buckets, how does it feel to be the biggest superstar on the early edge, but maybe in all of CBS right now? I hate it. I don't like it. The attention is a lot for me. Last night, we ended up staying here till past midnight in the studio, and they're like, Buck, it's like, what's the plan now? And I said, I'm going to bed. I just want to sleep at this point. But thank you for all the

love and all the sport. It's been a wild ride. And I am glad to be a part of it. It's just a lot. Well, we're all glad to be a part of it as well. Amags Calvin. We're just kind of onlookers to what Brad, Martin Green, and Buckets are doing.

And Buckets, again, before we let you go, a couple more questions.

And Brad, I'm going to have you respond to this one as well.

But Buckets first.

Spain is plus 600 to win the World Cup. Is that worth the bet buckets? And then, Brad, you're going to go after that. I think in terms of value, that's really the only place you can look right now because France is probably minus 125 at this point. if you missed out on France, anything passed plus 300 or more, I wouldn't play it at this point. Spain's not a bad shout. I think there's storylines to be had here. Like people want to bet Norway to win it all. They've done an incredible job. This is not a team good enough to win the World Cup. It's just a team to make some upsets and get a deep run. So I like the value at plus

600, but I still think France are going to end up rolling this. Brad, your thoughts? Yeah, I agree with buckets, right? Like Spain went off at plus 450 to win this tournament. And the only thing that changed for Spain was they have to run into Portugal in this round. But if you think Spain get past Portugal, then there's so much value on this. France is still my pick. But if we're just talking from a value perspective, plus 600 is a very good price. Buckets, I know you said you didn't want to get involved in the USA match, and we have picks on that match later on in the show from Brad Thomas. And again, we'll be on CBS Sports Network from 12 to 1 to really lean into that match. So you're definitely going to want to catch that. But Balligan, to score a goal buckets. I'm going to have you respond to this. And then Brad will get your thoughts as well. It's plus 140 for an anytime goal from Glenn Kalibis. Yeah. So without getting into the balligan controversy, because again, I'm going to let Brad take the

brunt force, blunt force, whatever it is of this one, I think there's value to be had just in the narrative. Like, I know he's playing amazing, he's our best goal score right now, but just in the narrative of going from suspended to unsuspended to scoring, that's just fun. Like, even if you don't care about USA winning or regardless of what you think that's a fun narrative to have because

if he scores or even if you don't care about USA winning or regardless of what you think, that's a fun

narrative to have because if he scores or even if he scores or assists a plus one honey, plus

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