Hey spittin' checklets listeners, you can find every episode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or YouTube.

Prime members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music.

Hello everybody, welcome to episode 455.

Spittin' checklets presented by Pink Whitney from our friends at New Amps, Dan Vodka,

here in the Boston Sports Podcast family, how's everybody doing? Hopefully enjoying you a summer,

and we have a little special summer guest right now. He just got back to Sweden,

a buddy Matt Merleys. Merleys, what's going on? How's your summer going, my man?

What's up fellas? It's going well. I had a heck of a time. This is my first time back since game

1 against Vegas. Oh my god, Mer. Oh my god, feels like a century ago.

Yes, it's crazy to be back here after that long. I couldn't believe it, but yeah, I had a great summer

starting with that, the Nashville trip, and then the last few weeks I've been up in Albany,

and well documented Saratoga, my favorite place in the world, so I got up there for a few trips,

and we're back in Sweden. How'd you hit the ponies? Didn't do great.

Nine days, it was open for nine days. I made it to five of them, so those are pretty good

numbers. I like that. The gambling was kind of up and down. It wasn't bad, it wasn't great,

and it went fine. One disappointing thing is I missed Mr. Ice this year, because I was planning

on seeing him last weekend, but then Dave's horse got scratched because of the weather. So they

ended up flying up to Toronto together the day I was there, so they missed that day, and that was

it. It wasn't as fun as last year when I got to see Mr. Ice in the syndicate put on a beating,

but it was a great trip. The Vegas insider, Meg's made it out for a weekend, so we had a good time

there. I got to ask, like, what is one piece of advice I told you? I've never been to Saratoga

before, very disappointed that you're back in Sweden. I was hoping my first time in Saratoga would

...