Thursday's BEST BETS: Cavs/Pistons + Lakers/Thunder + MLB + UFC 328
The Early Edge: A Daily Sports Betting Podcast
CBS Sports, Sports Betting, Sports Gambling, Picks
4.5 • 778 Ratings
🗓️ 7 May 2026
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Join Sia Nejad, Larry Hartstein, Tom Casale, Matt Snyder, and Danny Brasco as they dish out their picks for the Cavs vs. Pistons, Lakers vs. Thunder, the NHL playoffs, MLB, and MORE!
(0:00) Intro
(1:40) Recap Screen
(1:55) NBA Prop Show Recap
(2:35) EE Meetup Final Details
(4:27) Snyper's MLB Bet and HR Picks
(8:45) UFC 328 Main Event Thoughts
(10:08) Larry's NBA Props
(15:08) Danny's UFC 328 Plays
(18:36) Sia's Golf Bet
(20:07) Tom's MLB Bet
(22:43) Bonus MLB, NBA, NHL Bets
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Good morning, everyone. Welcome to the early edge, brought to you by BetMGM, Make It Legendary. We've got a great show for you today. There's a lot going on in golf, NBA, NHL, MLB, soccer, you name it. It's going on, and we are going to cover it. Let's take a look at how we did yesterday before I bring in the stars of the show. Four and four, a little disappointing. I lose my first five in the bottom of the fifth. Propy loses Deeran Fox because that game got completely out of control in the third quarter. I do want to turn the page also to our NBA picks. Four and four, certainly not bad props to the sports line picks. We go three and four here. And again, the blowout did catch Deerone Fox props here as well. So could have been a much better day. But we will, this is okay. We kind of like, we didn't break even. We lost you a little bit. but we're going to win it back today. But we will, we won't, this is okay. We kind of like, |
| 1:13.4 | we didn't break even. We lost you a little bit, but we're going to win it back today. Ladies and gentlemen, let's bring in the stars of the show. As I look at Elijah in here, Jeff Stenberg, James Rainwater, we got Larry, we got Tom, we got the sniper looking extra special in his Cubs shirt. We got Danny Brasco, who will be on that UFC show tomorrow. |
| 1:13.3 | More details on that UFC show tomorrow. |
| 1:14.4 | More details on that. |
| 1:19.7 | Larry, speaking of details, we got this July 1st thing that there's a big buzz. |
| 1:20.2 | Talk to me. |
| 1:31.1 | Yeah, and I'm adjusting my hat because this is part of the swag package that the early entries will get if they purchase the tickets to July 1st at Wrigley Field. Here's what you have to do. You've got to email me, Larry.hardstein |
| 1:36.9 | at paramount.com. It is that simple. I'm going to hook you up. The group rate is $56. |
| 1:42.8 | We have a block of tickets. I have a block of tickets. I don't know what those noises are. Maybe |
| 1:49.8 | the people are already getting excited about this event, but you got to email me. You got to have |
| 1:54.6 | the MLB Ballpark app. The $57 group rate is good for our block of tickets. It comes with the swag pack while supplies last. I absolutely love it. Sniper, I trust that you will be there, right? Are you going? Yeah, the plan right now is to be there. Yes. Danny Brascoe, will you be there? I don't know if I'm going to be able to make it to Wrigley. The Yankee game meetup was |
| 2:17.5 | fantastic. I had so much been with all you guys. My wedding schedule is just unacceptable right now. |
| 2:22.4 | I'm very frustrated with my friends. I won't be able to make that trip, but I will be jealous. |
| 2:26.3 | Tom, we're going to put you in the I've got a wedding category as well, right? I wouldn't go to a |
| 2:33.0 | wedding at my age if you paid me. Those days are long gone. My problem isn't the wedding. My problem is the kids. I'll see what I can do, though. All right. Well, it would be great to have you, Tom. The good news is we do have a lot of people from the early edge of universe already committing to go. We're going to have a graphic for you tomorrow just to make it easy on. You might have something in the YouTube description. But again, July 1st, it's that game against the Padres at Wrigley Field. I know people are already booking hotel rooms and flights and things of that nature. So very exciting, but let's get to some exciting picks. And Sniper, you're wearing the Cubs shirt. So I feel like, well, you're a Cubs fan, but maybe also you're tipping things off to what your pick is today. Maybe. So I did want to say, it's interesting, over the years, I've heard so many people complain about fair weather fans and everything. And no, I don't like fair weather fans either, but I think that they're truly depriving themselves of the good moments. |
| 3:25.7 | And what I've gone through in the past 13 months or so between the Pacers last year, making that run to the finals with all those comebacks, the Bears with all those comebacks in the NFL, IU football of all teams winning the national championship. |
| 3:37.4 | Now the Cubs have won 18 and 21 with all these wins. |
| 3:40.0 | If you're a fair weather fan, you don't get to truly experience the lows that doesn't give you an appreciation for these types of highs. It truly does not. Anyway, I guess I'll get to my play now. Hey, that's a really cool way to say that because a lot of people check out when things are going poorly. And honestly, that that's not the way to do it. If you're a true fan, we all know this. If you're a true fan, you're going to be there during all of the times. And I just think from an emotional standpoint, those highs to your point, much higher when you get stuff like yesterday or just the Cubs in general lately. 100%. And you know what? |
| 4:14.2 | Let's get another high here. |
| 4:15.5 | I'm going to go Cubs over four and a half runs today on the team total. |
| 4:19.7 | Wind looks to be blowing out to dead center field in Wrigley. |
| 4:23.4 | Ret louder on the mound for the Reds 5.09 ERA. |
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