This is You Better You Bet Countdown to Kickoff with Nick Costos and Sam Paniottovich, presented by BetMGM. Make it legendary.

All right. So thank you, Sitala. Before we wrap up the show with all our best bets for today.

Our executive producer, Tyler Morales, our engineer, Grant Leader, also doubling us our weatherman.

Our video producer is Max Sheedy.

And a special thank you as well goes to my co-host, Sam Paniadovich.

Unfortunately, this is our last, you better you bet, countdown to kick off together.

And Sam and I talked before the show about, you know,

we're going to say something at the end of the show and Sam asked me to make it quick,

which is not always my strong suit.

I will try to do this as quickly as possible.

I don't know how many people know this,

but Sam and I have been friends for a long time.

Dates back well before our time together on this network working

together, been friends for about a decade. And, you know, without getting into details, I had a time

in my life where I was not really happy professionally with stuff. Things were not going my way.

And Sam, like, tossed me a lifeline that like

i will never forget and sam i think comes across as a really good dude on the air and i can tell you

from personal experience that beyond a shadow of a doubt like that is true uh a hundred percent and

i say this off air and i'll say it on on air and I promise I'll be really fast here.

And I think our audience agrees with this.

And I think Sam knows this.

If he doesn't, he should, when it comes to melding knowledge of this space with contacts

...